Bristol’s Lost Pubs
Grapes Hotel Exchange Avenue
West India Coffee House
1775. ? Edmons
1793. John Irish
1806. James Thomas
1816 – 23. Joseph Gellett
1826 – 28. R. Batterbury
1832 – 49. Charles King
1852. Harriet King
1853. William Davis
1855 – 61. William Adams
1861 – 65. Robert Adams
1869 – 77. Maria anne Adams
Grapes
1877 – 78. A. Baynton
1880. S. Leach
1881. Sarah Stokes (manageress)
1882 – 83. Alfred Marshall
1884 – 88. William Russell (jnr)
1891. Sarah Lovell (manageress)
1893 – 94. Alfred Marshall
1897. Alfred Adams
1899 – 1906. Thomas Bennett
1909 – 15. Herbert George Watjen
1916. Albert Forbes
Ye Grotto
1917. Albert Forbes
1919. William Whitehead
1921 – 27. Albert Forbes
1928 – 38. Walter P. Rutter
1940. R.Dyer
Below are two postcards showing the interior of ‘Ye Grotto’ at the Grapes Hotel in Exchange Avenue, I think Gracie Fields would have approved of the decor. At one time known as the West India Coffee House the Grapes Hotel was lost in the 1941 blitz. The card showing H. G. Watjen as proprietor was posted in March 1916.
Census 1841.
Charles King 55, inn keeper, not born in county
Harriett King 40, not born in county
Elizabeth B…? 20, servant, not born in county
Edward B…? 15, servant
Mary Bennett 20, servant
Census 1861.
Robert Adams 53, head married, inn keeper, Devonshire
Maria A. Adams 53, wife married, Devonshire
Caroline Adams 22, daughter unmarried, Gloucestershire
James Adams 9, son scholar, Bristol
Martha Fisher 27, servant unmarried, waitress, Somerset
Census 1871.
Head of family temporarily absent
George A. Adams 31, son unmarried, clerk, Somerset Brislington
Alfred H. Adams 26, son unmarried, clerk, Bristol
Caroline L. Adams 25, daughter unmarried, managing hotel, Gloucestershire Conham
Agnes Codrington 20, servant unmarried, domestic servant, Gloucestershire Almondsbury
Census 1881.
Sarah Stokes 36, servant unmarried, licensed victualler manageress, Somerset Nailsea
Harriet Davis 21, servant unmarried, domestic servant (cook), South Wales Abergavenny
Minnie Hartree 18, servant unmarried, domestic servant, Somerset Weston in Gordano
Census 1891.
Sarah Lovell 29, head single, manageress public house, Pucklechurch Gloucestershire
Alice A. Foreman 22, single, barmaid, Warminster Wiltshire
Emma Hill 18, servant single, domestic servant, Westbury Wiltshire
Census 1901.
Thomas T. Bennett 15, son scholar, Somerset Weston-Super-Mare
Robert O. Bennett 13, son scholar, Somerset Weston-Super-Mare
Florence Edwards 23, servant single, barmaid, Bristol
Maud Snelson 26, servant single, barmaid, Berkshire Windsor
Mabel M. Hubbard 20, servant single, barmaid Somerset Bridgwater
Carrick Farr 19, female servant single, general domestic servant, Bristol Clifton
Census 1911.
Herbert George Watjen 35, head married, licensed victualler, Germany
Mary Catherine Watjen 24, wife married, Bristol
Herbert Gerrard Watjen 9 months, Bristol
Juliana Kelly 24, servant single, barmaid, Bristol