Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Kent Arms Frogmore Street

1839 – 58 John Kent / 1863 – 65 Henry Rea / 1871 Thomas Rea / 1872 Eliza A. Rea / 1874 – 76 Mary Rea
1882 M. Chambers / 1885 – 86 Raymond Dike / 1887 George Jones / 1887 George Offer / 1888 – 89 Henry Arscott
1891 George Hobbs / 1892 – 94 Frederick Savory / 1896 Charles Backhouse

King Charles King Square Avenue
Previously the King Square Avenue Wine & Spirit Vaults

1975 T. C. Stacey

King David Upper Maudlin Street

King George Tavern Canons’ marsh

1800 Elizabeth Bevan / 1816 John Bevan / 1820 John England / 1822 – 23 George King / 1826 – 31 John Bryant
1832 – 34 Ann Thorne / 1837 – 53 William Luens / 1854 – 67 William Winter / 1868 – 72 Charles Lea
1874 – 78 Thomas Bowyer / 1879 – 89 Ellen Godfrey / 1891 – 97 Richard Hancock / 1899 Eliza Hancock
1901 Elizabeth Nichols
John England also traded as a tiler and plasterer, in Rosemary Street

King George Philadelphia Street

1823 – 37 Samuel Smith / 1839 – 52 Mary Smith / 1853 to 1857 Thomas Thristle / 1858 to 1860 James Boulton
1861 George Bawn / 1863 Joseph Fish / 1867 – 69 Charles Good / 1871 – 81 William Simons / 1882 Artemus Stock
1885 – 89 Henry Sparks / 1891 Albert Burfitt / 1894 – 1901 James Withall / 1904 Walter Onion
1906 Thomas Corcoran / 1909 – 21 Robert Free / 1925 – 28 Beatrice May James

King George III Broadmead

1764 Thomas Mundy

King Of Prussia Alderskey Lane

1775 Elinor Davis / 1800 William Webb (capt.) / 1806 Ann Webb / 1816 Henry Williams / 1820 Charles Fear
1822 – 23 Edward Jones / 1826 William Morgan / 1831 – 32 Thomas Wood / 1833 William Davey
1834 Henry Sims / 1837 William Long / 1839 – 44 Michael Wycherley / 1847 – 52 Henry Beale
1853 to 1854 Jane Beale / 1855 J. Ryan / 1856 William Park / 1857 Edmund Keynes / 1858 – 59 John O’Connell
1860 M. Rowe / 1861 Frederick Stokes / 1861 John Low / 1863 Thomas Barnett / 1865 – 66 James Horsington

King Square Avenue Wine & Spirit Vaults King Square Avenue

1861 Frederick Corfield / 1863 – 76 George Henry Tovey / 1877 Annie Bennett / 1879 – 86 Thomas Challenger
1888 Mary Garland Ransom / 1891 Mary Townsend / 1892 – 93 William Helier Williams / 1896 Fred Barker
1897 William Mackey / 1901 – 09 William Stanford / 1917 Albert Mundy / 1921 Matilda Mundy
1925 – 44 Ernest Brewer / 1944 – 53 John Bezer
The tenancy of John Bezer commenced on the 18th May 1944, the rent was £38 per annum and the landlords were The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited. This pub was later named the King Charles

King Square Stores Dighton Street

1869 Elizabeth Cole

King William Philadelphia Street

1863 – 69 William Smith / 1871 Henry Hewitt / 1872 Thomas Downs / 1874 – 77 James O’Brien
1878 E. Leeworthy / 1881 Artemus Stock

King’s Arms All Saints’ Street

1837 Adam Barton

King’s Arms Baldwin Street

1752 John Wright / 1754 E. Wright / 1755 Isobell Wright / 1762 Sibella Wright / 1775 William Nichols
1794 Susannah Witherley / 1800 Thomas Jones / 1806 Edward Seager / 1816 Charles Hayes
1820 – 23 James Rugg / 1826 – 28 James Brown / 1830 – 32 Elizabeth Brown / 1833 – 34 Joseph Miller
1837 Thomas Gregory / 1839 T. Andrews jnr. / 1840 Thomas Coward / 1841 – 58 Henry Merry
1863 Alice Williams / 1865 Henry Govier / 1866 to 1867 William Tapp / 1868 Walter Stephens
1869 to 1871 Walter Greenland / 1872 to 1875 Joseph Bye / 1876 to 1877 Walter Greenland / 1878 Eliza Gaves
1879 to 1882 Henry Huxtable / 1883 Philip Huxtable
James Brown was a maltster & Burton manufacturer (strong beer) with a malt house in Clark st. St.Paul’s

King’s Arms King Street

1775 John Preece / 1792 Thomas Harwell / 1794 Jane Vigors / 1806 John Hayes

King’s Arms Milk Street

1794 John Baker

King’s Arms Narrow Wine Street

1822 Samuel Williams / 1823 Samuel Warner / 1826 James Harding / 1828 Anthony Amatt
1830 – 32 John Frankham / 1833 Henry McParland / 1834 Thomas Watson / 1837 A. Parkes
1839 – 40 Elizabeth Parkes / 1842 – 44 Edward Davies / 1851 Thomas Gibbs / 1856 T. Allen / 1863 – 65 Philip Perry
1866 – 69 George Thayer / 1871 John Thayer / 1872 to 1875 James Warren / 1876 Ann Short / 1877 C. Broome
1878 – 79 Jane Wellington / 1881 Francis Long / 1882 T. W. Long / 1883 to 1885 George Marshfield
1886 – 94 William Blackmore / 1896 F. Whittard / 1897 – 99 William Burton

King’s Arms St.James’s Back

1800 Sarah Read / 1806 – 20 James Amos / 1820 – 28 James Betts / 1830 – 31 James Pester
1832 to 1852 James Rew / 1853 to 1854 William Hanson / 1855 – 59 James Maggs / 1868 – 77 Alfred Stinchcombe
James Amos was also a brightsmith

King’s Head Baldwin Street

1830 Elizabeth Beer / 1831 to 1848 Joseph Gates / 1849 Eliza Lee / 1851 – 56 Joseph Gates

King’s Head Philadelphia Street

1794 Thomas Richards / 1822 – 34 Samuel Smith / 1844 Mary Jones

King’s Head Rosemary Street

1794 John Morgan / 1800 John Withey

King’s Head Back Street

King’s Head King’s Head Court, Wine Street

1794 – 1800 Henry Walters / 1806 Isaac Jones / 1816 – 28 Isaac Huntley / 1830 – 37 Thomas Hill
1839 – 42 Sarah Hill / 1844 Charles Haydon / 1847 to 1857 John Harris (jnr) / 1858 William Rees

Labourers’ Arms St. James’s Back

1853 Edward Riley / 1854 George Gregory

Lamb Broadmead

1752 Ann Havet / 1755 James Wimble / 1775 Francis Sawyer / 1792 – 94 John Brown / 1800 James Anderson

Lamb Mary-Le-Port Street

1830 – 39 Daniel Crawley / 1844 Jane Crawley / 1848 John Collis / 1853 – 54 W. Angleis
1856 – 61 William S. Loveridge / 1863 Sidney Bennett / 1866 George Hawkins / 1868 – 72 Richard Cowderoy
1874 John Salter / 1875 William Page

Lamb Milk Street

1764 John Uncles

Lamb No.24 Welsh Back

1831 – 34 Richard Nelmes
Next door to the Golden Bottle, after 1834 the Lamb is listed as an eating house, although in 1853, Ann Cumberpatch of the Lamb eating house is also listed as a beer retailer, the building was bombed in the war (see the Golden Bottle for picture)

Lamb & Anchor Marsh Street

1751 – 55 John Backhouse / 1762 Richard Horsley / 1766 Edward Grumley / 1775 John Lewis

Lamb & Anchor Milk Street

Lamb & Anchor New Market Passage

1775 Robert Hart

Lamb & Flag Broadmead

1764 Samuel Winkle

Lamb & Flag Eugene Street

1755 Joseph Bowgin

Lamb (& Flag) Frogmore Street

1775 Margaret Conden / 1794 Samuel Pritchard / 1800 John Sandbrook / 1806 – 16 William Culverwell
1820. George Hanley / 1822 – 23 Richard Thomas / 1826 – 32 Joshua Frost / 1833 George Eckley
1834 – 37 Joshua Frost / 1839 – 44 Samuel Evans / 1847 – 66 Robert Hole / 1867 John Turner
1868 – 69 Phœbe Dillon / 1871 – 75 Thomas Barber / 1876 Edward Lyons / 1877 Edwin Crinks Tombs

Lamb & Flag Lewin’s Mead

1752 – 55 James Dunston

Lamb & Flag Marsh Street

1762 Richard Sherlow / 1775 John Somerville

Lamb & Flag Quay

1762 William Glover

Lamb & Flag St.James’s Street

1775 William Goff

Leek Milk Street

1754 – 55 Thomas Williams

Leg Of Mutton Lewin’s Mead

1752 – 55 Mary Wroth (Wrath)

Leg Of Mutton Marsh Street

1762 Mary Hollyday

Leg Of Mutton Nicholas Street

1754 – 55 Jeffrey Bedford

Legg Of Mutton & Cauliflower Old King Street

1755 Thomas Tasker

Legg Of Mutton & Colliflour Lewin’s Mead

1764 George Kingstone

Leopard Frogmore Street

Lion Barton Street

1866 – 78 Thomas Clark / 1879 Ann Clark / 1882 – 89 Henry Rich / 1891 Ann Rich / 1892 – 97 Thomas Cook
1899 – 1901 William Thyer

Little Ship Currant Lane

1816. Mary Bevan / 1820. Thomas Johnson

Little Tower Broad Quay

1775 Thomas Hobbs / 1794 John Rossiter / 1800 John Godfrey / 1806 Elizabeth Blakely / 1816 Mary Swift
1820 – 28 Ambrose Marshall

Little Western Frogmore Street

1852 – 60 George Bishop / 1861 – 68 Martha Merrick / 1871 – 77 Thomas Hodges / 1878 Catherine Hodges
1881 – 83 Mary Smith / 1885 – 86 John Luke

Live & Let Live Stoney Hill

1889 Mary Clements / 1891 Walter Hines

Llandoger Trow King Street

London Inn Lewin’s Mead

1853 John Eddles

London Porter House Castle Mill Street

1861 James Taylor

London Porter House Pipe Lane

1861 Thomas Bull / 1863 Thomas Jeffery / 1869 – 77 William Radford

London Tavern Alderskey Lane

1800 Mary Harris / 1806 William Radford / 1816 Elizabeth Williams

Lord Clyde Castle Street

1871 – 72 T. B. Reeves / 1876 – 91 Elizabeth Graham / 1892 – 93 William Richardson / 1897 – 1901 Henry King

Lord John Russell Trenchard Street

1847 Robert Todd

Lord Nelson Cherry Lane

1842 John Harris

Lord Nelson Earl Street

1871 John Scullin / 1872 to 1874 Albert Scullen / 1875 to 1878 Alfred Bennett / 1879 Emma Bennett
1882 George Grey

Lord Nelson Lower Maudlin Street

1816 Thomas Webb / 1820 Robert Wall

Lord Raglan Cider House Passage

1859. T. B. Elliott

Lord Rodney Thunderbolt Street

1863 – 66 John Sturt

Lower Park Row Off License Lower Park Row

Mail Coach Bond Street

1975 V. C. Iles
Demolished 2006

Mail Coach Merchant Street

1839 – 44 John White / 1847 – 57 Henry Hill / 1858 – 62 Thomas Tuckfield / 1862 to 1872 Frederick Jones
1872 to 1873 John Leach / 1874 to 1875 Alfred Barnett / 1876 Emma Barnett / 1877 J. Vickers
1878 – 79 Henry Jones / 1882 Sarah Graves / 1883 George Old / 1885 – 87 Charles Hooper / 1888 William Cornish
1889 James Dart / 1891 – 99 Charles Brock / 1901 T. J. Donovan / 1904 – 11 Kate Lane / 1914 George Cox
1917 – 21 Edwin Shortman / 1925 – 31 J. W. Turner / 1935 Joseph Haberfield / 1937 – 44 Harry Robbins
1950 – 53 William Durbin
John White was a coachman and victualler. The Mail Coach closed in the early fifties, the building was taken over in 1955 by Salansons Photographics and was demolished a couple of years later

Mail Coach Narrow Wine Street

1806. Mary Hemmings / 1816 Francis Smith

Manx Arms Marsh Street

1762 William Blatchley

Marquis Of Granby Baldwin Street

1775 Ann Cooper / 1794 Sarah Gregory

Marquis Of Granby St.James’s Back

1806 – 16 George Cooper / 1820 – 23 John Godfrey / 1828 Thomas Gadd / 1830 John Williams

Masons’ Arms Barrs Lane

1755 George Barnes / 1764 Francis Jefferis

Masons’ Arms Lower Montague Street

1806 Joseph Hughes / 1816 Elizabeth Hughes / 1822 Joseph Churcher / 1823 – 72 John Davis
1874 James Endicott / 1875 to 1878 Frederick Orchard / 1879 Thomas Orchard / 1881 – 82 James Lacey
1883 – 86 Wadham Clark / 1887 William Hall / 1888 – 91 Sidney Daw / 1892 C. Griggle

Masons’ Arms Trenchard Street

1839 – 47 Joshua Frost / 1851 – 58 John Quin

Masonic Tavern Thunderbolt Street

Melbourne Tavern Limekiln Lane (St.George’s Road)

1858 George Bailey / 1871 – 77 Henry Bennett

Merchants’ Arms Merchant Street

1844 – 56 J. G. Perry / 1858 – 59 Richard Hillier / 1860 William Grant / 1861. Thomas Baker / 1863 James David
1865 Henry Barber / 1866 Henry Coombs / 1867 Edmund Jobbins / 1868 John Toms / 1869 James Bowsher
1871 – 72 James Burcher / 1874 – 83 Charles Hooper / 1885 – 87 Alex Cameron / 1888 John Newton
1889 Elizabeth Rogers / 1891 – 93 Joseph Kelly / 1896 – 99 Edwin Bailey / 1901 Arthur Jordan
1904 – 09 Charles Holley / 1914 Alexander Miller / 1917 – 28 Eli Courtney Holley / 1931 Lilian Bicker
1935 – 44 John Sprackling / 1950 Reginald Porter / 1951 – 53 Harry Edward Salisbury

Merchants’ Arms Prince Street

Mermaid Lewin’s Mead

1752 Ann Davis / 1755 Anny Stout / 1764 Ann Stout / 1775 Morris Palmer / 1794 John Vaughan
1800 – 06 James Godwin / 1820 – 30 Jacob Senter / 1831 to 1833 Samuel Cousens / 1834 William Sharyar
1837 ? Speed / 1839 – 60 Richard Smith / 1861 – 83 James Lockley / 1885 – 87 John Morse / 1888 Mary Ann Morse
1889 to 1893 Walter Ellis / 1894 Executors of Walter Ellis / 1896 Eleanor Offer / 1897 – 99 John Hart
1901 Mrs. A. Matthews / 1904 E. J. Bryan / 1906 James Emmet / 1909 William Wills

Mermaid Back (Welsh Back)

1752 William Beynon / 1754 Thomas Bynon / 1754 William Howes / 1755 Thomas Bynon

Milford Tavern Quay

1823 Mary Corcoran

Millwrights’ Arms Welsh Back

1853 Elizabeth Bull / 1853 – 57 William Bush / 1861 Elizabeth Graves / 1863 – 67 Mrs. E. Bull / 1868 – 69 E. Grimes
1871 F. Graffunder / 1872 – 77 W. Underhill

Montague Arms Lower Montague Street

1869 – 71 G. W. Bartlett / 1872 Edmund Jancey / 1874 – 76 Henry Tripp / 1877 – 78 R. Clake / 1883 Selina Wilshire
1885 – 86 James Cooper

Moon & Stars Broadmead

1754 Widow Thomas / 1755 John Bell

Moon & Stars Lewin’s Mead

1752 John Shelston / 1755 Matthew Dunn

Morning Star Back Street

1861 – 65 Dennis Meehan / 1866 to 1868 R. Coombs / 1869 Jane Boles / 1871 – 72 Alexander Fraser
1874 Peter Groves / 1875 Richard Turner / 1876 to 1877 George Gardner / 1878 Frederick Ham

Morning Star Broad Weir

1857 Harriett Stephens / 1858 William Denton / 1860 – 61 John Shorland

Morning Star (Of Gwent) Trenchard Street

Morning Star Woodwell Crescent
Was later named the Wheatsheaf

1861 – 63 John Hook

Mulberry Tree Broad Street

1792 – 94 Joseph Williams / 1806 Thomas Mead / 1816 William Meredith / 1822 William Ogborne

Museum Tavern Museum Avenue

Myrtle Tree Horsefair

1806 Samuel Woodhouse

Myrtle Tree Woodwell Crescent, St.George’s Road

1868 – 69 J. Hickey / 1871 Francis Martin / 1872 – 79 William Bowles / 1882 – 94 Robert Wilkins
1896 William Carlile / 1897 Eliza Carlile / 1899 – 1917 George Carew / 1921 – 38 Ethel Amelia Skinner
1944 Charles Skinner / 1950 Alfred Cross / 1953 Frank Chard / 1975 C. R. Smith
The Myrtle Tree is still trading

Nag’s Head Canons’ Marsh (Butts)

1752 Thomas Mathews / 1755 – 57 John Mathews / 1764 Michael Connor / 1775 Unity Connor / 1792 Mary Cull

Nags’s Head King Street

1767 John King / 1792 Samuel Ashford / 1794 Elizabeth Ashford / 1806 Mary Bowther / 1816 Philip Harris
1820 Morgan Morgans / 1822 John Drew

Nag’ Head & Key Horsefair

1754 – 55 Francis Ducket

Naked Boy Broad Street

1752 Charles Spake

(Royal) Naval Volunteer King Street

Nelson Christmas Street

1816 – 20. Thomas Edwards / 1823 – 44 George Butt / 1847 – 48 Charles Bright / 1849 Ann Bright
1851 B. J. Janes / 1852 John Douglas

Nelson Tavern Head of Quay

1806 – 11 James Cross / 1816 – 20 Sarah Cross

Neptune College Street

1820 – 33 Thomas Napton / 1834 Henry Stone Wait / 1837 Ann Wait / 1839 – 44 Richard Smith
1847 William Frost / 1849 ? Smale / 1852 – 55 John Harris / 1856 to 1858 Mrs. J. Harris / 1859 Thomas Frewin
1863 James Wooten / 1865 Valentine Beaumont / 1866 John Waldren / 1867 Henry Slade
The Neptune was at No.52 College Street, Thomas Napton was also a grocer & tea dealer at No.51

New Globe Christmas Street

1752 Mr. Price / 1753 Thomas Price / 1764 ? Price / 1775 – 94 Thomas Price / 1800 Eleanor Price
1806 – 22 William Pike / 1823 – 26 Joseph Bridges / 1828 – 31 James Evans / 1832 – 40 William Lancaster
1842 – 56 George Wadge / 1857 Richard Wadge
George Wadge was also a ship and house joiner employing 4 men and 1 boy at premises in Bell Avenue

New Inn Back Street

1752 John White / 1754 – 55 William White / 1755 Christian Scanfield

New Inn Host Street

1794 Thomas Edwards

New Inn No.14 Rosemary Street

1832 – 34 Thomas Croker

New Market Tavern Horsefair

1844 Thomas West

New Quay Inn St.George’s Road

New Ship Inn Deanery Road

1879 Enos Selling

Newport Boat Back Street

1752 – 55 William Perry / 1755 – 62 Daniel Leary / 1775 Thomas Jones

Nightingale Inn Broad Quay

1867 Alfred West

Noah’s Ark Back Street

1752 – 1762 David Young

Noah’s Ark Welsh Back

1752 – 55 Anthony Oliver / 1762 James Henning / 1775 Christian Davis

Oak Inn Penn Street

1853 – 55 James Coleman

Oakhill Porter Stores St.Nicholas Street

1863 John Millard / 1871 – 75 Charles Gregory / 1876 – 78 George Gallop

Odd Fellows’ Arms College Place

1868 J. Wallbridge / 1871 – 72 John Leakey / 1874 – 75 E. M. Coles / 1876 – 79 William Marshall
1881 John Rocket / 1882 – 83 Edward Phelan / 1885 John Rockett / 1886 H. Lambert / 1887 George Osborne
1888 Thomas Bebbington

Odd Fellows’ Arms Little King Street (corner of Welsh Back)
Previously known as the Sailors’ Return

1859 – 68 James Westall / 1869 Thomas E. Wookey / 1870 to 1871 William Bass / 1872 – 79 Jane Bass
1882 – 99 Tom Rudman

Odd Fellows’ Hall Castle Green

1863 James Walker / 1866 Alfred Dyke / 1867 Alfred Osborne / 1868 to 1876 Henry Pethybridge / 1877 E. McGill
1879 – 86 Thomas Beavis / 1887 to 1888 Walter Burridge / 1889 Ellen Elizabeth Atkinson / 1891 Harrison Leggett
1892 – 1901 George Harris / 1904 – 06 George Derbey / 1909 Walter Hale
On the 25th March 1888 the Odd Fellows’ Hall was taken on a 14 year lease at a rent of £24 per annum by James Lockley, brewer of Lewin’s Mead. The lease was one of 22 sold by James Lockley to the Bristol United Breweries Limited on the 25th March 1892 for the total sum of £11,000.

Old Bell Back Street

1852 Mary Roberts / 1853 Thomas Stockholm / 1859 – 63 Mrs. Elizabeth Stockholm / 1866 – 74 George Stockholm
1875 to 1876 Elizabeth Stockholm / 1877 Walter Frost / 1878 Patrick Lucey

Old Britannia No.13 Lower Castle Street

1833 – 39 Aaron Bateman / 1853. James Benge

Old Castle Castle Street

Old Cider House Lower Maudlin Street

1831 – 47 William Fry / 1848 – 49 Ann Fry / 1853 – 65 John Pingstone / 1866 – 72 Ann Pingstone
1874 John Knight / 1875 to 1878 C. Street / 1879 John Lubin / 1881 – 82 Frank Burston / 1883 Henry Knight
1885 – 86 William Bendall / 1887 John Preen / 1888 James Martin / 1889 Charlotte Baker / 1891 George Hinks

Old Crow St.Augustine’s Back

1764 John Harding

Old Crown Broad Weir

Old Duke King Street

1800 George Long / 1806 Joseph Martin / 1816 Thomas Martin / 1828 Joseph Martin / 1831 – 32 Elizabeth Martin
1833 – 42 Joseph William Smith / 1844 Jane Smith / 1847 John Johns / 1847 to 1862 David Thomas
1862 Maria Thomas (executrix of David Thomas) / 1862 – 63 Christopher D. Peters / 1864 – 67 James Rexworthy
1868 Richard Bodley / 1871 Edwin Sellick / 1871 to 1888 Edmund Ball / 1889 Mary Ball / 1890 Emily Jane Cullen
1891 to 1892 Alfred Leach / 1892 to 1899 William Roberts / 1900 – 06 William Sainsbury
1909 – 17 Thomas Slocombe / 1921 – 38 William Slocombe / 1944 – 53 James Jones / 1960 T. A. Davies
1975 K. Aniol
Previously named the Duke’s Head, the Old Duke is still trading

Old England Tavern Prince Street
Was later named the Cardiff Castle

1863 – 65 John Williams / 1866 William Baker

Old Fox Frog Lane

1871 – 72 Edward Phelan / 1876 W. J. Robinson / 1877 William Bryant

Old Globe Christmas Street

Old Highlander Old King Street

1764 Robert Glissold

Old Port Tavern Narrow Quay

Old Porter House Narrow Wine Street

Old Queen Mary Quay

1794 Henry Stephens

Old Ship Tavern Limekiln Dock

1806 – 16 Thomas Smart / 1820 – 23 Joseph Smith / 1826 – 39 Mary Jones / 1840 – 47 John Stone
1848 – 56 Lewis Morgan / 1858 – 61 Jane Shipp / 1861 James Turner / 1863 – 65 Emma Findlater
1866 – 75 John Rich / 1876 Mrs J. Broad / 1877 – 91 William Russell / 1891. Mary E. Bryant (manageress)
1894 – 96 Granby Russell

Old Noah’s Ark Bristol Back

1775 William Morgan / 1800 Thomas Coulstring

Oliver Cronwell Lower College Green

1865 John Williams / 1866 to 1867 Edmund Weight / 1868 George Winstone / 1869 Richard Silk
1871 – 77 Augustus Bezzant

Osborne Wine Vaults North Street

Oyster Barrels Back Street

1752 – 55 Robert Hurn / 1762 Robert Hearn

Oxford Mary-Le-Port Street

1866 John McNeil / 1867 S. Davis / 1868 Annie Ray / 1869 – 77 John Down