Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Albion Boyce’s Buildings

Ale & Porter Stores No.9 Bindon Place, Whiteladies Road
1853 – 61. George White / 1863 – 65. Harriet White / 1866 – 76. Charles Trotman

Alma Tavern Alma Vale Road

Ambra (Gate) House Ambra Vale (off license)
1878 – 90. Edward Bellchamber / 1891 – 1911. Alfred Townsend / 1914. Robert Doutch
1921 – 27. Adelaide Reeves

Bath Arms Jacob’s Wells Road
1853. Edwin Rowland / 1854 to 1855. William Hurford / 1856 to 1860. Edward Evans / 1861 – 63. Ann Evans
1865 – 72. George Milton / 1874 – 75. Alfred Crayford / 1876. Harriett Peters / 1877 – 79. Mary Ann Langdon
1882 – 87. John Williams / 1888 – 94. Christine Bray / 1896 – 1909. George Norman / 1914 – 17. Harry Thomas
1921. Frank Cox / 1925 – 28. Thomas Herbert / 1931 – 38. Margaret Herbert

Bath Hotel Tap Sion Mews
1806. William Thomas / 1816. Robert Wall / 1820. Richard Russell / 1823. Elizabeth Russell
1826 – 39. John Hurley / 1840 – 42. William Jenkins / 1844. Evan Davis

Beaufort Hotel (House) High Street

Belle Vue House Belle Vue Crescent (grocery and off license beer house)

Berkeley Castle Berkeley Place
1794. James Gurner / 1806. Mephibosheth Langbridge / 1816 – 30. Jenkin Evans / 1832 – 33. Richard Burton
1834 – 37. Francis Tippett / 1839 – 42. Morgan Howell / 1844 – 68. William Russell
1869 – 79. Richard William Bellamy / 1882 – 83. Mary Ann Bellamy / 1885 – 89. Henry Bryant
1891 – 94. Frederick Holmes / 1896 – 99. Sidney Rice / 1901 – 04. Lucy Breley / 1909. Ena Barrow
1914. Lilian Allen / 1917 – 25. William Tucker / 1928 – 34. Charles Gore / 1935 – 38. Emma Hannah Colston
1944 – 50. Gilbert Price / 1953 – 56. Arthur Jefferies / 1960. P. M. Lloyd
Jenkin Evans is listed as a Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and British Spirits, Wines, &c.

Black Boy Inn Durdham Down (Whiteladies Road)

Black Horse Durdham Down
1848 – 51. George Williams

Boar’s Head Waterloo Place
1861 – 74. Richard Clarke / 1874 to 1886. Alonzo Matthews / 1887 – 96. William Godby
1899 – 1906. Fanny Godby / 1909. William Pyne

Bruton House No.4 Bruton Place (off license)
1868 – 82. Thomas Fisher / 1884 – 85. William John Thatcher / 1887. Henry Cridland / 1888 – 97. Sidney Court
1900 – 11. William Miller / 1924 – 30. Harry Alfred Blandford / 1934 – 38. James Patrick Duggan
1943 – 56. Francis Walter Anglin

Bunch Of Grapes Prince’s Place
1853 – 55. George Palmer / 1857 – 61. A. Symes

Cambridge Arms Coldharbour Road

Cannon Jacob’s Wells
1775. Charles Gregory

Carriers’ Rest Berkeley Place
1892. William Edwards / 1896. William Bartram / 1901. Benjamin Neate / 1904. John Way / 1906. William Heiron
1909. Herbert Spackman

Clifton Rock Tavern No.2 Lower Clifton Hill, top of Constitution Hill
1816 – 32. John Charles / 1833 – 40. Mrs. Charles / 1849 – 51. ? Sherris / 1853. William Silk
1854 – 55. Henry Benmore / 1856 – 59. George Palmer / 1861 – 69. Lewis Brown
1869 – 72. Thomas Manley Knevett / 1874 – 77. George Gwinnett / 1878. J. Whitmore / 1879. V. Down
1882. W. Pidgeon / 1883 to 1886. Arthur Baker / 1887. Robert Wilson / 1888 – 89. William H. England
1891. Charles Giles / 1892. John Stone / 1894. Edwin Rogers / 1896. G. Newport / 1897. Sarah Langdon
John Charles also traded as a grocer at this address

Clifton Hotel Tap Sion Mews (Place)
1823. Laban Tyler / 1826 – 32. Edward Austin / 1833 – 34. William Francis Morris / 1837. Evan Davis
1839 – 40. ? Rowley / 1867 – 69. George Collins / 1871 – 75. Richard Clarke / 1876 – 83. Elizabeth Clarke
1885. Charles Ackland / 1886. Charles Barton / 1887 – 89. Isabella Bullock / 1891 – 96. Frank Bowden
1897 – 1909. William Thatcher / 1914 – 21. Edwin Curtis / 1928 – 31. Bernard Hunt / 1935 – 37. Geoffrey Quick
1938 – 44. Amy Elizabeth Quick / 1950 – 56. Robert Yeandle

Clifton Wood Wine & Spirit Vaults Nos.5 & 6 Thorn’s Buildings (Nos. 10 & 12 Church Lane)

Clyde Arms Hampton Road
1883 – 87. Samuel Symes / 1889. Frederick Hale / 1891. William Furze / 1892 – 1909. Cordelia Furze
1914. Rosina Herridge / 1917 – 35. Roselie Cordelia Cann Herridge / 1937 – 38. Edwin Long
1944 – 56. John Percy Hartley / 1960. G. A. Brown / 1975. J. C. Jones

Coach & Horses No.23 Berkeley Place
1832 – 37. Morgan Howell

Coach & Horses Highland Square

Commercial (Inn) Hotel Portland Street

Coopers’ Arms Berkeley Place
1857. James Clark / 1863 – 72. Elizabeth Clark / 1875 – 1901. William Clark / 1904. Emily Clark
1906. William Weekes / 1909 – 14. Henry Knill / 1917. Charles Moody

Coronation Tap Sion Mews

Crescent Inn Belle Vue Crescent (off license)
1871. Frank Heddon / 1872 – 76. William Bennett / 1883 – 85. John Brewer / 1888. Charlotte Marchant
1892. Elizabeth Gray Miller Storrie

Crown Jacob’s Wells Road
1832 – 33. Henry Matthews

Crown & Dove Princess Victoria Street
1871 – 79. George Davis / 1882. Ann Davis / 1883. Fanny Wise / 1885 – 89. Thomas Speed
1891 – 1906. Amelia Speed / 1909. Mrs. Frances Shears / 1914. William Shears / 1917 – 28. Ernest Williams
1931 – 35. William Thorne

Crystal Palace No.6 Eldon Place

Down Porter House York Street
the Down Porter House was later named the Port of Call

Duke Of Beaufort Lower Berkeley Place
1840 – 48. Thomas Wootton / 1849. ? Wilmot / 1851 – 57. Elias Stockham / 1858. C. Holdsworth / 1860. Ann Baker
1863 – 65. Robert Purtill / 1867 – 69. Henry Maggs / 1871. John Beer / 1874. A. Turner / 1875 – 79. John Bell
1882 – 94. Alfred Williams / 1896. H. W. Darbey / 1899. John Dean / 1901. Mrs. L. Ford / 1904 – 06. Edwin Martin
1909. Francis Bannister / 1914. Eliza Salter

Eldon House No.6 Eldon Place

Elephant & Castle Bindon Place, Whiteladies Road
1865. Edward Boaden / 1866 – 68. Edwin Clark / 1871 – 92. Mary Evered / 1896. John Sharpe
1897 – 99. George Webber / 1901 – 04. Elizabeth Edwards-Green / 1906 – 21. Frederick Bosisto
1925. Elliott Crouch / 1925 – 53. Hannah Maria Crouch / 1956. Lily A. Hammersley / 1960. Jimmie Moore
1975. D. Smart
The tenancy of Hannah Crouch commenced on the 29th of March 1925, the rent was £120 per annum and the landlord was The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Ltd. The Elephant & Castle is now known as the Black Boy Inn

Ellenborough Porter Stores No.13 Ellenborough Place / Buildings, Clifton Wood (off license)
1878 – 82. Charles Emery / 1884. James Thomas / 1885 to 1887. Henry Lapper / 1888 – 98. Sarah Lapper
1900 – 01. Alfred H. Emery / 1903 – 08. William J. Walders / 1913 – 37. Robert S. Hawley
Bombed in January 1941

Foresters’ Arms Whiteladies Road
1849. W. Bridgeman / 1851. George Evans / 1857 – 66. Thomas Selby / 1867 – 78. George Giles
1879. Frederick Bennett
Just above the corner with Worrall Road

Gaping Goose Wellington Terrace

Glass House Hotwell Road
1806. Elizabeth Williams

Gloster House No.6 Bindon Place, Whiteladies Road
1857. Edward Tedder / 1861. Mrs Emblin Woolf / 1863. William Almond / 1871 – 76. Enoch Park

Goldney Arms Ambra Vale East
1879 – 1901. Alfred Matravis / 1904. W.H. Mitchell / 1909. Edith Dayman

Greyhound Inn Princess Victoria Street

Highland Tavern Highland Square
1871. Thomas Selby / 1872 to 1874. William George Rogers / 1875 – 79. Richard Challice / 1882. Mary Matthews
1883 – 89. George Mapstone / 1891. George White / 1892 – 1901. George Tyler / 1904. George Porter
1906. Kate Simmons

Jacomelli’s No.12 Bindon Place, 185 Whiteladies Road
1876 – 88. Charles Jacomelli / 1892. Frederick Moore
This was a confectionery shop and fully licensed beer house

Kensington Arms Stanley Road (Woolcott Park)
1891 – 92. Francis Walker / 1894 – 1921. Alfred Pocock / 1925 – 31. Oliver Joy / 1935. Beatrice Joy
1937 – 38. Frank Edwards / 1944 – 50. Gladys Evelyn Edwards / 1953. Charles Walters / 1956. William H. Weston
1975. J. Farrell

Kensington House Kensington Place
1885 – 99. William Blinman Allen / 1904 – 06. Richard Ball

King’s Arms Whiteladies Road

King’s Arms Berkeley Place
1832. George Jones

King’s Arms Hotel Clifton Place, Clifton Road
1856 – 63. Frederick Smith / 1869. S. Palmer / 1871 – 74. S. Badcock / 1875 to 1876. Charles Millard
1877. Lewis Samuels / 1878. R. Bizley / 1882. T. Baker / 1883. G. Bowden / 1885. Henry Anthony
1886. E. K. Everett / 1887. George Lewin / 1889. Emily Hilton / 1891 – 94. John Dodd / 1896. Miss. E. Sheppard
1897. Henry Wiseman / 1899. Charles Collins / 1901. Muriel Collins / 1904 – 06. Frederick Tichbon
1909. Charles Spencer

Lansdown Hotel Clifton Place

Lark Jacob’s Wells Road
1833 – 34. Jeremiah Fear

Lary O’Graff Jacob’s Wells Road
1837. William Bagnall

Lion Tavern Church Lane, Clifton Wood

Live & Let Live No.6 Worrall Road
1867 – 68. George Rogers / 1869 – 71. Henry Hughes / 1872. Harriet Hughes / 1875 – 79. James Dare
1885. Mary Matthews / 1886 – 87. James Kepple / 1889 – 1901. Edwin Webb / 1904. George Payne
1906. Frank Mundy
Later a fish & chip restaurant, on the corner with Highland Square

Nelson House Princess Victoria Street
1853 – 65. William Jarvis / 1866 – 69. Henry Snook / 1871. John Cruwys / 1872. George Briggs
1874 – 89. Alfred Pidgeon / 1891. William Furber / 1892 – 94. John George / 1896. Edwin Lentell
1897. Charlotte Pain / 1899. E. G. Dutfield / 1901. H. J. Moore / 1904. Octavius Hares / 1906. Henry Mordy
1909. William Hughes
Still standing but now a private House

Newport & South Wales Tavern Jacob’s Wells Road
1865 – 66. Owen Owen / 1867 – 69. James Vivian

New Inn Princess Victoria Street
1861 – 72. Solomon Munday / 1875. William Frost / 1876 – 79. Eliza Frost / 1882 – 83. Robert Richardson
1885 – 86. Charles Wilkie / 1887. Henry Cuff / 1889. William Cole / 1891. Charles Crook / 1892. Alfred Hood
1896. William Beckley / 1897 – 99. John Bell / 1901. R. Dilling

No. 11 Lower Redland Road off license

Old Oak Tree Highland Square, Back of Blackboy (this is a reference to the Black Boy Inn)
1857 – 59. William Masters / 1860 to 1861. Eliza Masters / 1861 to 1862. Henry Lumber / 1863 – 78. William Spray
In the 1841 census a William Spray aged 20 is recorded as servant at the Black Boy Inn. Henry Lumber was a dairyman, beerhouse & shop keeper

Old Malt Shovel Jacob’s Wells
1851 – 53. John Long

Old Manor House Clifton Road
1861 – 63. Henry Myers / 1871 – 72. Charles Boniface / 1874 – 76. John Hayward / 1877 to 1882. Richard Churchill
1883. Mrs. Penny / 1885 – 89. William Miller / 1891 – 97. Thomas Wildgust / 1899. John Blair / 1901. Miss. Lewis
1904. George Wagstaff / 1906. Richard Down / 1909 – 14. Elizabeth Alice Stock / 1917. Elizabeth Sarah Hext

Ostrich Durdham Down
1794. Lewis Rotely

Oxford Castle Prince’s Place
1839. George Marling, grocer and beer retailer

Park Stores Whiteladies Road (Brighton Park)
1861. Elizabeth Morgan

Park Tavern Whiteladies Road
1834 – 53. James Embley / 1854 to 1856. Mrs. H. Embley / 1857 to 1858. William George Hopkins
1859. Elizabeth Hopkins / 1860 – 68. John Down
On a stretch of Whiteladies Road known as Brighton Park, now the home of the Territorial Army

Peeler Sion Place
1975. D. C. Southgate

Port Of Call York Street

Portcullis Wellington Place (Terrace)
1826 – 28. John Evans / 1830 – 32. Isaac Knight / 1833 – 42. John Manning / 1844 – 48. Jane Manning
1849 – 72. Edmund Rudman / 1875 – 77. J. Vincent / 1878. Mrs. Vincent / 1879. George Sanders
1882 – 83. James Barefoot / 1885 – 86. William Pester / 1887 – 92. Walter Sheppard / 1894. John Rugman
1896. James Alvis / 1897 Clement Emery / 1899. Jeffrey Alcock / 1901 – 04. G. Fear / 1906. J. Williams
1909. James Bridge / 1914. Stephen Downer / 1917. Emma Tichbon / 1921. Frederick Sweeting
1925 – 38. George Pearce / 1941 to 1949. Charlotte Elizabeth Williams / 1950 – 56. Herbert Caine / 1975. G. Hance

Portland Cottage Portland Place
1833 – 53. Thomas Kayes

Portland Wine Vaults Portland Street

Quadrant Wine Vaults Princess Victoria Street

1862. Charles Tovey junior
1862. Charles Tovey senior
1866 – 86. Charles Tovey & Co.
1889 – 92. John Boone & Co.
1893 – 1906. Giblett & Boone
1914 – 21. Boone & Pullen
1928 – 56. Quadrant Wine Co. (branch of Moran’s)

Queen Jacob’s Wells
1844 – 58. Richard Lewis / 1863 – 65. Jane Edwards

Queen’s Arms Whiteladies Road
1842. George Rogers / 1847 – 49. John Davies / 1857 – 79. Nicholas Cummins Hetherington
1881 to 1898. Robert Edwards
The Queen’s Arms was on the corner of York Street opposite the King’s Arms

Queen’s Head Jacob’s Wells
1832. William Reynolds / 1833. Nicholas Reynolds

Quinton House Park Place

Red Lion Worrall Road
1861 – 76. John Hamer / 1877 to 1888. Mary Ann Hamer / 1889 to 1891. Frank Hamer
1892 – 1914. Edwin Egland / 1917. Joseph Andrews / 1921. Richard Andrews / 1925. William Bowyer
1928 – 29. Harry Webb / 1930 – 31. Eldred Weston White / 1933 – 38. John Nation / 1944 – 56. Charles Wilkins
1975. M. J. Elliott

Retreat Whiteladies Road

Richmond House Hotel Grosvenor Place
The Richmond House was later named the Richmond Spring (Gordon Road)

Richmond Spring Gordon Road

Rock House Highland Road
1866 – 69. George Challenger

Rose Tavern Worrall Road

Royal Oak Jacob’s Wells
1853. Susan Fry / 1857 – 74. Edwin Rowland

Royal Oak Portland Place
The Royal Oak was previously named the St.Vincent’s Rocks Inn, Portland Place is now the Mall

Royal Mail Lower Nelson Place
1834 – 37. Robert Male

Royal Hotel Shades Waterloo Place
1861. William Coles / 1863. Richard Hooper / 1871. William Pomeroy / 1872. Isabella Butler
1874 – 78. Thomas Brown / 1879. Frederick Tassiker / 1882 – 91. George Pople / 1892. Mary Jane Townsend
1892 – 97. Anna Salter / 1899. Sarah Cox / 1901. Ellen Moyes / 1904. Edwin Dutfield / 1906. Henry Collins

St. Vincent’s Rocks Inn Portland Place
This pub was later named the Royal Oak

Salutation Waterloo Place
1832 – 39. Philip Mears / 1840. Hannah Mears / 1842. Thomas Hambley / 1844 – 49. Hannah Hambley
1851 – 63. James Bassett / 1867 – 74. Aaron Long / 1875 – 79. Richard Thomas / 1882 – 83. Charles Goodman
1885. James Brown / 1886 – 87. R. Deane / 1889 – 94. Charlie Pfeiffer / 1896. John Pearsall / 1899. George Lewin

Sedan Chair House Waterloo Place
1833. James Bryant

Shakespeare Lower Redland Road
1867 – 75. Thomas Skyrme / 1876 – 83. Emma Skyrme / 1885 – 92. Jane Marie Tavener
1894 – 1928. Jane Marie Rowe / 1931 – 35. John Pullen / 1937 – 50. William Hardwell
1953 – 56. Lily Rose Hardwell / 1975. A. T. H. Bryant
Jane Marie Tavener/Rowe was the niece of Thomas and Emma Skyrme

Ship Blackboy Hill
1868 – 77. Thomas Painter

Shovel Jacob’s Wells
1775. John Smith

Silver Key High Street
1876 – 83. William Rogers / 1885 – 91. Walter Whitmarsh / 1892 – 94. Mark Hill / 1896. Joseph Crane
1901 – 04. William Cosway / 1906. Frederick Martin / 1909 – 21. Charles South / 1925. George Wasp
1928 – 31. Nicholas Day

Sion Spring House Sion Hill
1869. Joseph Halse / 1871 – 72. Thomas Hunt

Somerset Arms Berkeley Place
1871 – 91. Frederick Taylor / 1892 – 96. John Van Houtrive / 1899 – 1901. Sarah Knight
1904 – 06. Matthew Stevens / 1909 – 28. Alfred Bacon / 1931 – 43. Elizabeth Bacon
1943 – 50. Frances Ellen Arnold / 1953. James Chater / 1956. Ivor C. G. Pratt
The tenancy of Frances Arnold commenced on the 6th of December 1943, the rent was £38 per annum and the landlord was The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited

Somerset House Princess Victoria Street

Spotted Cow Berkeley Place
1837. Mary Burton / 1840 – 44. Richard Burton

Suspension Bridge House No.3 Prince’s Place (Princess Victoria Street)
1832 – 34. William Barber / 1848. Elizabeth Morgan / 1851. Edwin Bird / 1853. William Jordan
1859 – 72. Aaron Symes / 1874 – 76. Jane Symes / 1877 – 78. A. Burnett / 1881 – 82. Henry Richards
1882. James Richards / 1885 – 86. Ellen Radford / 1889. John Pickford / 1891. Mary Jane Baigent
1892 – 97. William Watts / 1899. Mrs. A. Tucker / 1904 – 06. Emma Podbury / 1909. Elizabeth Ann Wiseman
1914. Frederick Tichbon / 1917 – 31. George Keeler
Information on Henry and James Richards was kindly provided by Chris Ralph. Chris’s great great grandmother Elizabeth Richards (nee Yeandle) died at the Suspension Bridge House on 20th October 1881, she was staying at the time with her son Henry who died on 29th July 1882 aged 38, the license had been transfered to Chris’s
great grandfather James Richards in March that year. Chris also points out that Pigot’s 1830 directory lists William Barber at this address but listed under boarding / lodging houses.

Suspension Bridge Inn Sion Mews
1839 – 42. William Rowe / 1844 – 59. Elizabeth Rowe / 1866 – 72. Edward Tomlinson – Barrow / 1875. A. Long
1876 to 1877. John Williams / 1878. Mary Davis / 1879 to 1896. Jesse Lane / 1897. Marian Dobbyn
1899 – 1906. George Broackes / 1909. Charles May
Elizabeth Rowe was a grocery dealer and beer retailer

Union Jacob’s Wells Road
1833 – 37. George Eastaway

Victoria Inn Jacob’s Wells Road
1904. Elizabeth Brownston

Victoria Oakfield Place, Upper Park Street, Victoria Park, South Leigh Road

Vittoria Whiteladies Road
1871. Thomas Joyce / 1872 – 79. John Martin / 1882 – 89. Alfred Williams / 1890 to 1915. William Elkanah Wookey
1916 to 1930. Emma Hosken / 1931 – 50. Thomas Albert Wookey / 1953 – 56. Albert Bryant / 1960. Peter Walker
1975. K. L. Smith

Wellington Arms Wellington Park

Wellington Arms Wellington Terrace (Royal York Crescent)
1871 – 72. William Haines / 1874 – 79. George Hawkins / 1882 – 87. Miss P. Stanbury / 1889. William Hulbert
1891. Priscilla Hulbert / 1892 – 94. Hannah Nelson / 1899 – 1904. Jemima Ann Pople

White Horse Jacob’s Wells
1841 – 53. Mary Cooper

White Horse Cellar Waterloo Place
1840 – 44. Thomas Gay / 1847 – 60. Henry Hartgill / 1861 – 66. George Brown / 1871 – 72. George Mills
1874. George Pitman / 1875. Edwin McCullum / 1877. William Long / 1878 – 79. George Pople
1882 – 89. George Price / 1891. Hannah Nelson / 1892 – 94. James Miller / 1899 – 1901. Mrs. E. Bethell
1904. F. Bethell

William IV Jacob’s Wells
1832 – 34. William Dawe / 1837. Elizabeth Dawe / 1851. William Dolling / 1853. Elizabeth Dolling
1857 – 66. John Enwright / 1868 – 69. Charlotte Manley / 1871 – 72. Richard Hayden
Elizabeth Dolling was also the proprietor of the cold baths, Jacob’s Wells

Wine Vaults Whiteladies Road

Woolcott House Stanley Road off license

York House York Buildings, York Place
1853. James Kellaway / 1857. William Carter

Zoological Gardens Clifton Down (Bristol Zoo)
1889 – 91. John Cole / 1892. Frederick Collier / 1901 – 21. C. E. Gigg