Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Alma Tavern Alma Vale Road

Wholesale wine & spirit merchants
1878 – 96. Daniel Bartlett
1900 – 43. Horace F. Turner
1949. Wine Vaults (Clifton) Limited. Wine & spirit Merchants
1955. Alma Tavern

5 Alma Vale Road until 1883 when it changed to number 20. In 1949 the shop occupied numbers 18 & 20.
It was a fully licensed public house when this photograph was taken in the 1960s

Census 1881.
No.5 Alma Vale Road

Daniel Bartlett 45, head married, wholesale wine merchant, Gloucestershire Bristol
Constance Bartlett 49, Glamorganshire Swansea
Louisa Bartlett 19, daughter unmarried, Somerset Burnham
Harry Bartlett 9, son scholar, Somerset Bath
Arthur Bartlett 6, son scholar, Somerset Bath
Emily Mould 15, servant, general servant, Gloucestershire Bristol

Census 1891.
No.14 Oakfield Grove, Clifton (the Bartletts did not live in Alma Vale Road)

Daniel Bartlett 55, head married, wholesale wine merchant, Bristol
Constance Bartlett 59, wife married, South Wales Swansea
Dora E. Bartlett 22, daughter single, school governess, Somerset Bath
Jesse K. Bartlett 21, daughter single, school governess, Somerset Bath
Arthur G. D. Bartlett 16, son single, scholar, Somerset Bath
Mary Ann Brett 68, boarder widow, living on private means, Bristol
Agnesse Brett 31, boarder single, living on private means, Clifton Bristol

Census 1901.
No.20 Alma Vale Road

Horace F. Turner 38, head married, wine & spirit merchant, Bristol Gloucestershire
Elizabeth E. Turner 34, wife married, Bristol Gloucestershire
Winifred E. Turner 12, daughter, Bristol Gloucestershire
Elsie S. Turner 10, daughter, Bristol Gloucestershire
Mabel G. Turner 8, daughter, Bristol Gloucestershire
Horace R. Turner 1, son, Bristol Gloucestershire

Census 1911.
No.20 Alma Vale Road

Horace Frederick Turner 49, head married, wine & spirit Merchant, Gloucestershire Bristol
Elizabeth Emily Turner 44, wife married, Gloucestershire Bristol
Elsie Grace Turner 20, daughter single, Gloucestershire Bristol
Mabel Gertrude Turner 18, daughter single, Gloucestershire Bristol
Horace Reginald Turner 11, son school, Gloucestershire Bristol