Bristol’s Lost Pubs

(Old) Castle Inn Castle Mill Street

1879. Charles Collins
1881 – 82. George Sharpham
1883. John Lund
1885. Robert Drysdale
1886. A. Collins
1887. W. Ensoll
1888. ? Trood
1891 – 93. Charles Holmes
1896. Jane Pitt
1899. T. J. Corcoran
1901 – 04. John Tucker
1906. John Bateman

Prior to becoming a pub in the late 1870s this building was home to an eating house and refreshment rooms. Not a very good picture but it shows the pub (left) around 1900 shortly before the street was rebuilt. Bombed in the second world war this is part of the site now occupied by the Galleries shopping centre.

Census 1881.

George Sharpham 40, head married, publican, Brixham Devon
Mary Jane Sharpham 38, wife married, Brixham Devon
Mary Ann Harry 14, domestic servant, Bristol

Census 1891.

Charles Holmes 55, head married, licensed victualler, Devon Morebath
Martha Holmes 57, wife married, Somerset West Buckland
Sidney C. A. Holmes 6, grandson, Wales Cardiff

Census 1901.

John Tucker 63, head married, publican, Somerset South Petherton
Edith Mary Tucker 53, wife married, Monmouthshire Chepstow
Benjamin W. Tucker 20, son single, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Leonard C. Tucker 13, son, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Albert E. Tucker 11, son, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Emma Beard 32, daughter married, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Thomas Beard 36, boarder married, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Gertrude M. Beard 7, boarder, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Margaret A. Beard 3, boarder, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Thomas F. Beard 8 months, boarder, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Maggie Tucker 21, boarder married, South Wales Rhonda Valley
John W. Tucker 1, boarder, South Wales Rhonda Valley
Samuel Clark 30, boarder single, stoker, Bristol