Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Sugar Loaf Milk Street

Just across the road from the Lamb & Anchor the Sugar Loaf was demolished in 1958.
When the door numbers in Milk street ran consecutively the Sugar Loaf was at No.25. Around 1877-78 the system of alternate numbering was introduced, and the Sugar Loaf became No.45.

1754 – 55. Widow Parker
1775. John Lewis
1794. Daniel Tripp
1800 – 06. Thomas Sayce
1816 – 22. John Williams
1823 – 26. Ann Williams
1828. E. Parrish
1830 – 34. William Allen
1837. Elizabeth Allen
1839 – 42. Thomas Jenkins
1843. James Allen
1844. James Masters
1847 – 48. George Withey
1851 – 52. Thomas Howard
1853. William Field
1853 to 1854. E. Miller
1855. William Monday
1856. Jessie Dunn
1857 to 1858. Edward Powell
1859 James Bowditch
1860. James Crinks
1861. Hannah Crinks
1863. Sarah Ann White
1865. Philip Hartland
1866 to 1869. Sarah Ann Wright
1870 to 1875. Edmond Weight
1876 to 1878. John J. Bartlett
1879. Tom Eyles
1881 – 83. Josiah Langley
1885. Elizabeth Hallford
1886. Charles Emery
1888 – 89. Thomas Beavis
1891 – 96. Henry Bingham
1897 – 1906. Frederick Cross
1909 – 31. William Smith
1935 – 53. Percy Onion

Census 1871.

Edmond Weight 42, head married, licensed victualler, Gloucestershire Frampton
Selina Weight 41, wife married, Bristol
Mary Jane Wookey 15, cousin, assistant, Bristol

Census 1881.

Josiah Langley 33, head married, publican and painter, Bristol
Annie E. Langley 32, wife married, dressmaker, Gloucester
Frederick Langley 1 month, son, Bristol
Martha Powell 15, servant unmarried, nurse, Dowlais Wales

Census 1891.

Henry Bingham 33, head married, publican, South Wheatley Nottinghamshire
Mary Bingham 28, wife married, Bideford Devon
Henry H. Bingham 2, son, Ilfracombe Devon
Lilian M. Jolley 15, sister in law, general servant, Bristol
Richard R. Thomas 31, boarder single, carpenter, Lostwithel Cornwall

Census 1901.

Frederick Cross 56, head married, tavern keeper, Tiverton Devon
Harriet Cross 55, wife married, Brixton London

Census 1911.

William Henry Smith 49, head married, licensee, Bristol
Lucy Hannah Smith 45, wife married, assisting in business, Bristol
Victor Edward A, Lockstone 13, nephew, at school, Bristol