Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Ale & Porter Stores Easton Road (Off license)

Albion Wellington Place, Easton Road

ALma House Stapleton Road

1893. – 1906. Mary Dickinson / 1909. Sarah Bowden / 1914. Rachael Rees / 1917. Florence Davis
1921. C. Burnell / 1925 – 37. Eleanor Wood

Alma Tavern Stapleton Road

Armoury Tavern Stapleton Road

Artizan Cornwallis Place

1865 – 69. Edwin Naish / 1871 – 72. John Wilkey / 1874 – 87. John Wilcox / 1888. Thomas Clohesy
1889. Henry Byford / 1891 – 92. Francis Tripp / 1896. David Turner / 1899. Frederick Hicks / 1901 – 28. John Davis
1931 – 38. William Ewart Smith / 1940. Doreen Lilian Bralant / 1941 to 1951. Rose Sarah Hawkings
1951 to 1953. Samuel Dufty / 1953. Henry John Lapham

Beaufort Arms Beaufort Street

Beaufort Arms Fishponds Road (Off license)

Beaufort Tavern Stapleton Road

Beaumount Hotel Goodhind Street

Beer Cask Pennywell Road

Berkeley Arms Baptist Street (Waverley Street)

1861 – 74. Elbert Bedwell Daw / 1879 – 81. John Frost / 1889. Alfred Davis / 1891. William Feltham
1891 to 1895. Frederick Harper / 1896 – 1911. William Cooper / 1914. Emily Keeffe
1917 – 21. Marie Louisa Thomas / 1925 – 31. Lucy Gingell / 1935 – 37. Jessie Rimand / 1942. Edward Rudman
1950 – 56. Thomas Clements
Edward Rudman’s tenancy commenced on the 15th December 1942, the rent was £24 per annum and the landlord was The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited

Berkeley Arms Albert Street

1866 – 67. J. Peglar / 1869. C. Burridge / 1871. Thomas Stoyel

Black Swan Stapleton Road

Bloy Stores Bloy Street off license

Brickmakers’ Arms Easton Parade
The Brickmakers’ Arms was later named the Talbot

1840. Sarah Pullin / 1842. William Ball / 1844 – 57. James Vowles / 1860 – 74. Samuel Smith

Bridge Inn Lower Ashley Road

Bull Churchill Place, Easton Road

1853 – 57. Thomas Gingell

Bunch Of Grapes Bean Street (Off license)

Cheese Nelson Place, Stapleton Road

1853. Sarah Sheppard

Claremont Tavern Claremont Street

Clarence House Chelsea Road

Clifton House Clifton Place (Off license)

1870. John P. Murray / 1871. Robert Brown / 1873 – 87. Thomas Manby Knevett / 1890 – 1901. Martha Knevett
1905 – 09. Elione Luther Higgins / 1913 – 36. Bessie Hopkins / 1937. Kate Melhuish / 1943. Laura Lilian Yandell
1949. Alfred John Watkins / 1956. Ernest Onions

Clifton Tavern Clifton Street

1871 – 72. Henry Boulton / 1874 – 76. Emily Wren / 1878. John Clark / 1879. Alfred Reeves
1882 – 83. William Crinks / 1886. Thomas Smith / 1887. William Calway / 1889. John Atwell
1891. Frederick Baskerville / 1892 – 93. James Taylor / 1899. Henry Stephens / 1900. Isabella Hall
1904 – 06. William Brown

Clock House (Tavern) The Avenue / Redding Road (Off license)

1887 – 1903. John George Adams / 1905 – 11. Elizabeth Sprackman / 1913. Percy Robert Vicary
1920. Isabel Bertram / 1924. Kate Harding / 1927. Kate Adeline Blower / 1930. Elizabeth Sprackman
1934 – 49. William G. Moore / 1956. Ernest G. Stevens

Colliery (Colliers’) Tavern Twinnell Road

1853. M. Griffiths / 1861 – 65. John Deverell / 1871 – 99. Edward Strange / 1904 – 06. Frank Britton
1909. Charles Shepstone / 1914. Eleanor Downton / 1917. Elsie Elizabeth Maton
The 1861 census lists John Deverell as a horse breaker. Edward Strange was a newsagent and publican. In early directories Twinnell Road is listed as Gloucester Street

Colston Arms Pennywell Road

Cornish Mount Pennywell Road

1851. Mary Little / 1853. James Little / 1857 – 60. Francis Lock / 1863 – 79. Thomas Little / 1882 – 83. John Cole
1885 – 89. George Britton / 1891 – 99. Robert Hicks / 1901 – 28. Henry Fussell / 1931 – 37. Robert Gibbs
1938. Elizabeth Gibbs / 1944 – 60. Joseph S. Bready

Cornwallis Inn Cornwallis Place, Lower Ashley Road

Cross Hands White Street

1853. Thomas Harper / 1861 – 83. Henry Bawn / 1885 – 86. William Northcote / 1887 to 1891. Matthew Smith
1892 – 93. Josia Petherbridge / 1899 – 1906. George Bailey / 1909. Charles Tomkis / 1914 – 21. Herbert Spackman

Dolphin Upper Easton

Dove Gladstone Street

1866 – 76. William Bull / 1877. William Matthews / 1878. T. W. Evans / 1879. John Hellin / 1882. Thomas Brodribb
1883. William Griffin / 1885. Daniel Steark / 1886. T. Turner / 1887. Mary James / 1889. Catherine Smith
1891 – 92. Sarah Emily James / 1893. Henry James / 1896. Owen Williams / 1899. Arthur Cook
1901. Thomas Slocombe

Duke Of Cambridge Lower Ashley Road

Dunbar Castle Berkeley Street, Eastville (Off license)

1881 – 82. George Batten / 1884 – 85. Hester Haskins / 1887 – 91. Joseph George Haskins
1892 – 1901. Florence Haskins / 1903 – 14. Alice M. Scarpi / 1920 – 31. William Thomas Creasy
1934 – 49. Elsie Miles Guy / 1955. Elsie Miles Ashman

Eagle Tavern Eagle Street

1874 to 1891. George Coombs / 1891 – 99. Eliza Ann Hill / 1901 – 04. George Garrett / 1909. Charles McGovern
1914. Alfred George Brain / 1921. Constance Porter / 1928 – 31. Charles William Clark

Earlsmead Beer Stores Pennywell Road (Off license)

Fair Oak Easton Road

1855. William White / 1856. A. Bennett / 1857 – 66. Jane Elliott

Foresters’ Arms Warwick Road

1875. R. Snook / 1876 – 78. William Endicott / 1881 – 82. John Wilkey / 1883. B. Court / 1885 – 87. Jane Greening
1889. Charles Sillary / 1891 – 94. Elizabeth Ann Ray / 1895 – 1904. Sarah Elms

Foundryman’s Arms Beaufort Place

1848. E. Goodrope

Fountain Head Pennywell Road (Wine & spirit dealer)

1871 – 83. Jane House (Henry Bishop manager) / 1885 – 86. Robert Turnbull / 1889. Ridgway Giles
1891. Tom Gibbons / 1892 – 1894. Thomas Allen jnr / 1896. Henry Manning / 1899 – 1904. Job Lacey
1909. Frederick Chandler / 1914. James Skuse / 1917 – 31. William Thomas
Jane House set up business in Pennywell Road when her shop in Temple Street was demolished to make way for the construction of Victoria Street. Although the licensee, Jane House did not live on the premises

Frome House No. 526 Stapleton Road

1901 – 06. James Beane / 1909. Ellen Britton / 1914 – 28. Charlotte Sarney / 1931 – 35. William Kendall
1937 – 44. Florence Jenkins

Gardeners’ Arms No. 161 Fishponds Road (Greengrocery & off license)

1891 – 1904. Thomas Perdue / 1906. Thomas George Walker / 1917. William John Pring / 1925. Blanche Rogers
1928. Sidney Rogers / 1931 – 37. Blanche Rogers / 1937. Sidney Rogers / 1944 – 50. Blanche Irene Burrough
1956. Laura L. Yandell
In 1937 the rent paid by tenant Sidney Rogers was £32 per annum, the landlord was the Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited.

George Inn Stapleton Road

1854 – 55. M. Gale / 1856. John Rogers / 1863 – 65. George Tyler / 1866. H. Hulbert / 1867. William Goulding
1868 – 69. T. Ubank / 1871 – 75. Charlotte James / 1876 – 77. David Jones

Glenside Porter Stores No. 569 Stapleton Road (Off license)

1900. Henry Rudd / 1901. Mary Rudd / 1903. Gertrude Rudd / 1905 – 09. Albert Edward Butt
1911. Clementine Rose Burrows / 1913 – 43. Alfred Harris / 1949. Mary Ann Harris / 1956. Rachel Apps

Gladstone Arms Gladstone Street

1865. ? Harper / 1871. Emma Maggs / 1871 – 72. George Davis / 1874. Angelina Nichols
1875. Benjamin Matthews / 1876. Thomas Patrick / 1877. Henry Quick / 1878. J. Barnidge
1879 to 1885. Charles Naas / 1886 – 87. H. Winter / 1889. John Dicker / 1891 – 93. Alfred Griffin
1896. Frederick Chapple / 1899 – 1901. Caroline Chapple / 1904 – 06. Frank Boulton / 1909. William Stacey
1914 – 17. Arthur Tucker / 1921 – 31. Sidney Scott

Grape Vine Pennywell Road

1871 – 89. William Slee / 1891. Thomas Clohesy / 1892 – 93. Albert Ann / 1896 – 99. Helen Ann
1901 – 04. Albert Ann / 1906. George Gay / 1909. Samuel Mills / 1914 – 28. William Hazell / 1931. Thomas Puddy

Greenbank Hotel Belle Vue Road

Harleston Arms Harleston Street

Hit Or Miss Upper Easton, Easton Road

Hope & Anchor Clifton Place

1854. John Toy / 1861. William Johnson / 1863. Jane Johnson / 1865 – 75. John Risdon
1876 to 1878. Henry W. Hulbert / 1879 – 1906. George Liddon / 1909. Alice Rose Ellen Durston
1914 – 17. Clementina Rose Burrows / 1921. Reginald Rawlings / 1925 – 38. Albert Price
1943 – 44. Alice Edith Price / 1949 – 50. Eric Carr Millard / 1953. John Bezer / 1956. William George Willmott
In 1943 Alice Price paid rent of £36 per annum. The tenancy of Eric Millard commenced on the 11th April 1949, the rent was still £36. When the tenancy of John Bezer commenced on the 13th April 1953, the rent had not increased, the landlord was The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited.

King’s Arms Devon Road

King William IV Stapleton Road

1842 – 72. Thomas Cox (snr) / 1874 – 91. Stephen Davage / 1892 – 93. William Sainsbury / 1896. Mrs. M. M. Smith

Lebeck Stapleton Road

Lion Lion Street

Live & Let Live Fishponds Road

1893. Robert Baber / 1899 – 1906. Fanny Cole / 1914. Jessie Down / 1921 – 25. Elizabeth Palmer
1928 – 31. Jane Leigh / 1935. William Onion

Lord Chancellor Easton Road

Lord Raglan Stapleton Road

1871 – 76. Joseph Viney / 1877. H. Williams / 1878 to 1885. George Pullin / 1886 – 87. Mrs. Pullin
1889 – 93. Samuel Phipps / 1896. Edward Gimblett / 1899. Henry Hales / 1901 – 04. George Carraway
1906 – 09. Mercy Hankins / 1914 – 53. Albert Stephens / 1956. Ernest F. Dawes
Joseph Viney was also a plumber

Marlborough Easton Road

Marlborough Stree Off Licence (Eastville)

Masons’ Arms Freeland Buildings (Fishponds Road)

1841 – 71. John Green / 1876 – 83. George Martin
The information on this pub was kindly provided by John Pidgeon

Merchants’ Arms Stapleton Road

1944. George Williams / 1950 – 53. Ada Violet Williams / 1956. Stanley A. Stone / 1960. Syd Boulton
1975. I. Walker

New Inn Easton Road

New Inn Leadhouse Lane (Piccadilly)

1871. Isaac Britton / 1876 – 91. Isaac Shellard / 1891 – 93. Caroline Shellard / 1896 – 99. Sidney Hicks
1901. William Gregory / 1904. Mrs. S. Barrow / 1906. Mrs. S. Hill / 1914 – 17. Daniel Channing
1921. Albert Watkins / 1925 – 28. Ivy Watkins / 1931. Egbert Britten / 1935 – 38. Edward Plenty
1944. Ivy May Stubbins / 1950 – 56. May Tucker

Neptune Thrissell Street

1847. W. Baker / 1848 – 49. William Pearce

North View Inn Fox Road

1874 – 77. Eleanor Harris / 1881 – 87. Joseph Brunt / 1889. Thomas Burfoot / 1891 – 99. Isaac Brewer
1901 – 14. Alice Plumley / 1917 – 35. Edward Colston Plumley / 1937 – 38. Frank Morris / 1944. Lucy Worlock
1950 – 56. Lucy Rotherham

No. 25 Stapleton Road (Grocery / off license)

1870 – 82. James H. Allen / 1884. H. C. Thomas / 1885 – 1901. Sarah A. Mann / 1903. Eliza Bunn
1905. John Thomas Cawdron / 1908. Sarah A. Mann / 1913. George Arthur Brown / 1920. Florence Brooks
1924. Ambrose Bennett / 1927. Harold Tudor

Old Fox Fox Road
The Old Fox closed 15th May 2004

1837. Samuel Stocker / 1839 – 43. William Watkins / 1844 to 1855. John Harris snr / 1861. Joseph Reynolds
1865. William Thomas / 1867 – 69. William Thomas (jnr) / 1879. George Pomphrey / 1881 – 96. Francis Pomphrey
1899 – 1909. Walter Nott / 1914 – 17. William Grindell / 1921 – 44. Tilly Adams / 1950. Victor Cue
1953 – 56. Frederick W. Slater / 1960. R. C. Gill

Old Porter Stores Bouverie Street (Off license)

Old Ship Matilda Place, Lower Ashley Road

1841 – 63. William Martin / 1867 – 77. Sarah Martin / 1888 – 91. Edwin Green / 1892. Mary Ann Green
1896. Thomas Woodman / 1899 – 1901. James Dore / 1901 – 17. Mary Joll

Park House No. 31 St.Mark’s Road (Off license)

1882 – 88. John Moles / 1890 – 1900. Elizabeth Moles / 1901 – 09. George Hayward / 1911 – 20. Harriett Hayward
1924 – 44. Harold Ernest Cole

Paxton Arms Easton Road

Piccadilly Tavern Park Row

1861. Thomas Collings

Pilgrim Pennywell Road

Pine Apple Pennywell Road

1853. Robert Fewing / 1854. Mary Fewing / 1861 – 66. James Webber / 1867 – 79. Mary Jenkins
1883 – 1904. William Whitaker / 1909 – 21. Charles Tristram / 1925 – 38. Henry Castle / 1944 – 56. Edith Holbrook
James Webber was a publican, and potato dealer

Plough Easton Road

Post Office Tavern Stapleton Road

Potters’ Arms Augustus Place, Baptist Street

1848 – 53. Gowin Murray / 1855. P. Pincombe / 1857 – 60. Henry Bessell / 1863 – 65. Henry Ballard
1871 – 74. Henry Capel / 1875 – 76. Harriet Hughes / 1879. Charles Gardner / 1881 – 82. Joseph Nipper
1882. Luke Barnes / 1883. Henry Gamlin

Prince Albert No. 1a Croydon Street (Off license)

Prospect House No. 130 Pennywell Road (Off license)

1884 – 90. James Brewer / 1891. Louisa Jane Rawlings / 1893. William Wood / 1895 – 1901. Thomas Buswell
1903. Alfred Milsted / 1905. Louisa Pera / 1908 – 13. Emily Elizabeth Webber / 1920 – 27. Jesse Sleaman Down
1930. Annie Pomphrey / 1934 – 49. Charles James

Prospect Tavern Leadhouse Lane

Queen’s Head Easton Road

Queen’s Head Fishponds Road

1861. Edwin Browning / 1876 – 87. George Howe / 1893 – 1906. William Lloyd / 1909. John Barclay
1921. James Barclay / 1925. Lionel Popkiss / 1928 – 50. Harry Baker / 1953 – 60. Henry W. Burrow
1975. A. S. Pearce

Raglan Castle Park Street

1858 – 63. William Coombs / 1865 – 68. John Evered / 1879. William Jones / 1888 – 89. Mary Small
1891 – 93. Edwin Jaques / 1896. M. Thomas / 1899 – 1901. William Knight / 1904. Thomas Parker
1906 – 09. Elizabeth Parker / 1914. Bessie Burchill / 1917. Mary Fox / 1918 to 1924. George Francis
1924 – 31. Florence Maria Francis

Railway Inn Stapleton Road

Rising Sun Drummond Place, later No. 306 Fishponds Road (Grocery & off license)

1894 – 1906. Mrs Annie Wood / 1911 – 25. Hannah Martin / 1928 – 31. Miss Nellie Martin
1935 – 37. Mrs Lavinia Monks / 1944. Mrs Louisa Allen / 1950. Alex Allen junior
The 1901 census lists George and Anne Wood at this address, George’s occupation was chemist, employer working at home, so it seems 306 Fishponds Road was a chemist shop as well as a grocery store / off license. Information on Hannah Martin was kindly provided by Fred Boulton

Rising Sun John Street

1874. James Johnson / 1878 – 93. Samuel Iles / 1899. William Sainsbury / 1904 – 35. Frederick Iles
1937 – 50. Harold Perry / 1953. William Tudgell / 1956. George Batt

Rose Tavern Berkeley Street (Off license)

Royal Oak Easton Road

Royal Oak Pennywell Road

Saddlers’ Arms Stapleton Road

Sceptre Stapleton Road

Sea Horse Stapleton Road

Shepherds’ Rest Chaplin Road (Off license)

Skinners’ Arms Pennywell Road

1853 – 55. John Sanger / 1858 – 60. J. Bailey / 1863 – 74. William Watts / 1875 to 1876. James Coombs
1877 – 79. Louisa Coombs / 1881. Frederick Orchard / 1882 – 83. J. W. Voyce / 1885 – 86. Abraham Morris
1887. Charles Perry / 1889. James Reed / 1891 – 93. Alfred Williams / 1896 – 99. James Shephard
1901. William Brown / 1901 – 17. Edward Strange / 1921. Louisa McTavish / 1925 – 38. Edward Rogers
1944. Mary Jane Rogers / 1950 – 56. William James White
Edward Strange was a publican and engine fitter

South Wales Railway Hotel Belmont Street

Spotted Cow Augustus Place, Baptist Street

1881 – 83. William Colston / 1885 – 88.. Elbert Daw / 1889 – 91. Joseph Addison / 1892 – 96. Henry Osborne
1899 – 1914. Maurice Gould / 1917. Amy Couch
William Colston was also a plasterer and slater

Stapleton Road Tavern Stapleton Road

Sugar Loaf St.Mark’s Road

1816. Richard Dunn / 1820 – 44. Thomas Smith / 1847 – 55. Edward Green / 1856 – 61. Thomas Hobbs jun
1865 – 79. James Bone / 1882 – 86. T. Naish / 1893 – 96. Charles Tripp / 1899. Jesse Patten
1904 – 09. John Parker / 1914 – 17. Joseph Rennolds / 1921 – 35. Alfred Still / 1937 – 44. Arthur Stone
1950 – 56. Charles C. F. Townsend / 1958 to 1965. Ada F. Gardner / 1975. R. A. Perry

Talbot Easton Road
The Talbot was previously known as the Brickmakers’ Arms

1875 – 78. Luke Bartlett / 1882 – 86. Henry Heaven / 1887 – 89. Annie Heaven / 1891. William Greenwood
1892 – 93. Walter Fouracre / 1896. Alfred Lacey / 1899. Arthur Broom / 1901. Frank Baker
1904 – 14. Harry Morgan / 1917 – 21. Thomas Pollinger / 1925 – 28. Robert Hargrave / 1931. Marie Patten
1935 – 47. Rose Elizabeth Trott / 1950. William Trott / 1953. Walter Darnley / 1956. Ernest G. Coles

Three Blackbirds Stapleton Road

Three Tuns Easton Road

Thrissell Street Stores Thrissell Street (Off license)

Twinnell Arms Twinnell Street (Off license)

Union Tavern Easton Road

Victoria Tavern Oxford Place

1866. John Routley / 1871 – 72. Elizabeth Naish / 1874. Matthew F. Evans / 1875 to 1878. John Thomas
1879. Elizabeth Thomas / 1881. Samuel Smith / 1882 – 1917. John Thomas / 1921 – 28. Harold Thomas
1931. Samuel Rogers / 1935. Emily Rogers / 1937 – 53. William Bray

Victoria Tavern Victoria Street (Stapleton Road)

1871 – 86. John Davis / 1887. Emma Davis / 1889 – 93. Sarah Jane Martin / 1899. E. Gardner
1904 – 06. Sarah Barrett / 1914 – 28. Alice Evans

Waggon & Horses Stapleton Road

Warwick Arms Warwick Road

1872 – 74. John James / 1876. George Hill / 1877 – 83. Edward Dunn / 1885. George Dunn
1886 – 88. Joshua Thomas / 1889. John Preen / 1891 – 93. James Warren / 1896 – 1901. Matthew Hughes
1904. Thomas Rogers / 1906 – 09. Walter Britton / 1914. Mrs. A. M. Britton / 1917 – 35. Robert Webber
1937. James Rogers / 1938. Florence Hix / 1944. Rose Rogers / 1950 – 56. Clifford Samuel Rogers
Edward Dunn was a leather dresser and retailer of beer

Waterlook House No. 2 Waterloo Place / No. 25 Stapleton Road (Off license)

1878 – 82. James H. Allen / 1884. H. C. Thomas / 1885 – 1908. Sarah A. Mann / 1911 – 13. George Arthur Brown
1920. Florence Brooks / 1924. Ambrose Bennett

Wellington Tavern Baptist Mills

1820 – 28. Anthony Johnson
Public Pleasure Gardens, and excellent accommodations for bathing (Mathews’ Directory)

West Of England Tavern Millpond Street

1871 – 72. Jesse Slade / 1881. J. Taylor / 1881 – 83. Edward V. Bateman / 1885 – 91. Sarah Webber
1892 – 96. Sarah Bull / 1899 – 1901. William Andrews

Wheatsheaf Saffron Street

1904 – 09. Thomas Barratt / 1914 – 25. William Stacey / 1928 – 31. Frederick Little / 1935. Beatrice Little
1937. Elizabeth Matthews / 1938. Ernest Mogg / 1944. Martin Gillard / 1950. Kenneth Shaw
1953 – 56. Charles F. G. Webb / 1960. C. Body

White Lion Fishponds Road

White Lion Millpond Street / Lower Ashley Road

1841. Henry Harvey / 1853. John Clark / 1871 – 72. Harriett Pascoe / 1874 – 76. Isaac Newton Clark
1883 – 85. Alfred Godwin / 1885 to 1888. George Strange / 1889. Frederick Osborne / 1891. Thomas West
1892 – 1904. Frederick Osborne / 1928. Harry Godwin / 1931. Frank Baker / 1935. Leonard Storey
1937 – 38. Albert Selway / 1944. Timothy Breen / 1950. Albert Edward Smith / 1953 – 56. Royston William Webb
1960. M. Rowland

White Swan Fishponds Road / Robertson Road

White Swan Pennywell Road

1863 – 1917. Frederick Bonner / 1921. Ernest Grindrod / 1925. Harry Rex / 1928 – 31. Albert Blackmore
1935 – 44. Michael Sanders / 1950 – 56. Alfred Gladstone Button

Whitehall Tavern Devon Road