Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Crown & Cushion Milk Street

On the corner with St.James’s Square Avenue, the Crown & Cushion was pulled down in 1958. When the door numbers in Milk street ran consecutively the Crown & Cushion was at number 15. Around 1877-78 the system of alternate numbering was introduced, and the Crown & Cushion became number 23.

1794. Jane Jones
1806. Thomas Arscott
1816 – 23. Joseph Racey
1826 – 37. Richard Crook
1839 – 40. Joseph Hicks
1841 – 42. Benjamin Lewis
1844 to 1847. Mary Pester
1848 to 1852. Thomas Richards
1853 to 1859. Robert Canter
1860 to 1863. Sophia Canter
1864 to 1865. James Huckman
1866 to 1867. Joseph Drew
1868 to 1870. John Williams
1871 to 1872. Charles Stooke
1874 – 79. John Ferris
1881. Ellen Ferris
1882 to 1888. John Crick
1889 – 94. Frederick Morris
1896 – 1904. Thomas Britton
1906. Emma Jane Britton
1909 – 11. Nellie Rawson
1914. Augustus O’Callaghan
1917 – 21. Annie Wainwright
1925 – 31. George Wainwright
1935. George Ripley
1937. Percival Frost
1938 – 44. Frederick Pillinger
1950. George Powell

Census 1841.

Benjamin Lewis 36, inn keeper, born in county
Diana Lewis 34, not born in England
Martha Fiford 12, not born in England
Sarah Dance 20, servant, not born in England
Charlotte Rolls 30, servant, not born in England

Census 1851.

Thomas Richards 45, licensed victualler, Whitechapel Middlesex
Mary Richards 42, Shoreditch
Thomas Richards 15, clerk, Tewkesbury
William Richards 9, scholar Chetlenham
Maria Richards 4, Cheltenham
Amelia Game 15, servant, Stoke Newington, Middlesex

Census 1861.

Sophia Canter 60, widow, licensed victualler, Gloucestershire
George Maskell 58, brewer married, brewer, Essex
Jane Sherriff 15, house servant, Dartmouth Devon

Census 1871.

Charles Stooke 32, head married, licensed victualler, Bristol
Jane Stooke 33, wife married, Bristol
Charles Thomas Stooke 9, son, Bristol
Clara Jane Stooke 7, daughter, Bristol
Sophia Ann Stooke 5, daughter, Bristol
Mary Leyton 14, servant, general servant

Census 1881.

Ellen Ferris 37, head widow, licensed victualler, Bristol
Frederick Gazzard 22, brother unmarried, boot clicker unemployed, Bristol
Martha Langley 22, servant unmarried, domestic servant, Frampton Cottrell

Census 1891.

Frederick Charles Morris 39, head married, brewer, Bristol
Minnie Ch. Morris 24, wife married, Bristol
Fred George Morris 2, son, Bristol
David Sidney Morris 8 months, son, Bristol

Census 1901.

Thomas Britton 36, head widower, licensed victualler, Bristol
Florence Britton 5, daughter, Bristol
Kate Morgan 22, niece single, Bristol

Census 1911.

Nellie Rawson 30, head married, licensed victualler, Bristol
John Rawson 44, husband married, meat salesman, Middlesex London
Nellie Dunk 20, servant single, servant in licensed house, Bristol