Bristol’s Lost Pubs
Easton, Eastville & Baptist Mills
Ale & Porter Stores Easton Road (Off license)
Albion Wellington Place, Easton Road
ALma House Stapleton Road
1893. – 1906. Mary Dickinson / 1909. Sarah Bowden / 1914. Rachael Rees / 1917. Florence Davis
1921. C. Burnell / 1925 – 37. Eleanor Wood
Alma Tavern Stapleton Road
Armoury Tavern Stapleton Road
Artizan Cornwallis Place
1865 – 69. Edwin Naish / 1871 – 72. John Wilkey / 1874 – 87. John Wilcox / 1888. Thomas Clohesy
1889. Henry Byford / 1891 – 92. Francis Tripp / 1896. David Turner / 1899. Frederick Hicks / 1901 – 28. John Davis
1931 – 38. William Ewart Smith / 1940. Doreen Lilian Bralant / 1941 to 1951. Rose Sarah Hawkings
1951 to 1953. Samuel Dufty / 1953. Henry John Lapham
Beaufort Arms Beaufort Street
Beaufort Arms Fishponds Road (Off license)
Beaufort Tavern Stapleton Road
Beaumount Hotel Goodhind Street
Beer Cask Pennywell Road
Berkeley Arms Baptist Street (Waverley Street)
1861 – 74. Elbert Bedwell Daw / 1879 – 81. John Frost / 1889. Alfred Davis / 1891. William Feltham
1891 to 1895. Frederick Harper / 1896 – 1911. William Cooper / 1914. Emily Keeffe
1917 – 21. Marie Louisa Thomas / 1925 – 31. Lucy Gingell / 1935 – 37. Jessie Rimand / 1942. Edward Rudman
1950 – 56. Thomas Clements
Edward Rudman’s tenancy commenced on the 15th December 1942, the rent was £24 per annum and the landlord was The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited
Berkeley Arms Albert Street
1866 – 67. J. Peglar / 1869. C. Burridge / 1871. Thomas Stoyel
Black Swan Stapleton Road
Bloy Stores Bloy Street off license
Brickmakers’ Arms Easton Parade
The Brickmakers’ Arms was later named the Talbot
1840. Sarah Pullin / 1842. William Ball / 1844 – 57. James Vowles / 1860 – 74. Samuel Smith
Bridge Inn Lower Ashley Road
Bull Churchill Place, Easton Road
1853 – 57. Thomas Gingell
Bunch Of Grapes Bean Street (Off license)
Cheese Nelson Place, Stapleton Road
1853. Sarah Sheppard
Claremont Tavern Claremont Street
Clarence House Chelsea Road
Clifton House Clifton Place (Off license)
1870. John P. Murray / 1871. Robert Brown / 1873 – 87. Thomas Manby Knevett / 1890 – 1901. Martha Knevett
1905 – 09. Elione Luther Higgins / 1913 – 36. Bessie Hopkins / 1937. Kate Melhuish / 1943. Laura Lilian Yandell
1949. Alfred John Watkins / 1956. Ernest Onions
Clifton Tavern Clifton Street
1871 – 72. Henry Boulton / 1874 – 76. Emily Wren / 1878. John Clark / 1879. Alfred Reeves
1882 – 83. William Crinks / 1886. Thomas Smith / 1887. William Calway / 1889. John Atwell
1891. Frederick Baskerville / 1892 – 93. James Taylor / 1899. Henry Stephens / 1900. Isabella Hall
1904 – 06. William Brown
Clock House (Tavern) The Avenue / Redding Road (Off license)
1887 – 1903. John George Adams / 1905 – 11. Elizabeth Sprackman / 1913. Percy Robert Vicary
1920. Isabel Bertram / 1924. Kate Harding / 1927. Kate Adeline Blower / 1930. Elizabeth Sprackman
1934 – 49. William G. Moore / 1956. Ernest G. Stevens
Colliery (Colliers’) Tavern Twinnell Road
1853. M. Griffiths / 1861 – 65. John Deverell / 1871 – 99. Edward Strange / 1904 – 06. Frank Britton
1909. Charles Shepstone / 1914. Eleanor Downton / 1917. Elsie Elizabeth Maton
The 1861 census lists John Deverell as a horse breaker. Edward Strange was a newsagent and publican. In early directories Twinnell Road is listed as Gloucester Street
Colston Arms Pennywell Road
Cornish Mount Pennywell Road
1851. Mary Little / 1853. James Little / 1857 – 60. Francis Lock / 1863 – 79. Thomas Little / 1882 – 83. John Cole
1885 – 89. George Britton / 1891 – 99. Robert Hicks / 1901 – 28. Henry Fussell / 1931 – 37. Robert Gibbs
1938. Elizabeth Gibbs / 1944 – 60. Joseph S. Bready
Cornwallis Inn Cornwallis Place, Lower Ashley Road
Cross Hands White Street
1853. Thomas Harper / 1861 – 83. Henry Bawn / 1885 – 86. William Northcote / 1887 to 1891. Matthew Smith
1892 – 93. Josia Petherbridge / 1899 – 1906. George Bailey / 1909. Charles Tomkis / 1914 – 21. Herbert Spackman
Dolphin Upper Easton
Dove Gladstone Street
1866 – 76. William Bull / 1877. William Matthews / 1878. T. W. Evans / 1879. John Hellin / 1882. Thomas Brodribb
1883. William Griffin / 1885. Daniel Steark / 1886. T. Turner / 1887. Mary James / 1889. Catherine Smith
1891 – 92. Sarah Emily James / 1893. Henry James / 1896. Owen Williams / 1899. Arthur Cook
1901. Thomas Slocombe
Duke Of Cambridge Lower Ashley Road
Dunbar Castle Berkeley Street, Eastville (Off license)
1881 – 82. George Batten / 1884 – 85. Hester Haskins / 1887 – 91. Joseph George Haskins
1892 – 1901. Florence Haskins / 1903 – 14. Alice M. Scarpi / 1920 – 31. William Thomas Creasy
1934 – 49. Elsie Miles Guy / 1955. Elsie Miles Ashman
Eagle Tavern Eagle Street
1874 to 1891. George Coombs / 1891 – 99. Eliza Ann Hill / 1901 – 04. George Garrett / 1909. Charles McGovern
1914. Alfred George Brain / 1921. Constance Porter / 1928 – 31. Charles William Clark
Earlsmead Beer Stores Pennywell Road (Off license)
Fair Oak Easton Road
1855. William White / 1856. A. Bennett / 1857 – 66. Jane Elliott
Foresters’ Arms Warwick Road
1875. R. Snook / 1876 – 78. William Endicott / 1881 – 82. John Wilkey / 1883. B. Court / 1885 – 87. Jane Greening
1889. Charles Sillary / 1891 – 94. Elizabeth Ann Ray / 1895 – 1904. Sarah Elms
Foundryman’s Arms Beaufort Place
1848. E. Goodrope
Fountain Head Pennywell Road (Wine & spirit dealer)
1871 – 83. Jane House (Henry Bishop manager) / 1885 – 86. Robert Turnbull / 1889. Ridgway Giles
1891. Tom Gibbons / 1892 – 1894. Thomas Allen jnr / 1896. Henry Manning / 1899 – 1904. Job Lacey
1909. Frederick Chandler / 1914. James Skuse / 1917 – 31. William Thomas
Jane House set up business in Pennywell Road when her shop in Temple Street was demolished to make way for the construction of Victoria Street. Although the licensee, Jane House did not live on the premises
Frome House No. 526 Stapleton Road
1901 – 06. James Beane / 1909. Ellen Britton / 1914 – 28. Charlotte Sarney / 1931 – 35. William Kendall
1937 – 44. Florence Jenkins
Gardeners’ Arms No. 161 Fishponds Road (Greengrocery & off license)
1891 – 1904. Thomas Perdue / 1906. Thomas George Walker / 1917. William John Pring / 1925. Blanche Rogers
1928. Sidney Rogers / 1931 – 37. Blanche Rogers / 1937. Sidney Rogers / 1944 – 50. Blanche Irene Burrough
1956. Laura L. Yandell
In 1937 the rent paid by tenant Sidney Rogers was £32 per annum, the landlord was the Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited.
George Inn Stapleton Road
1854 – 55. M. Gale / 1856. John Rogers / 1863 – 65. George Tyler / 1866. H. Hulbert / 1867. William Goulding
1868 – 69. T. Ubank / 1871 – 75. Charlotte James / 1876 – 77. David Jones
Glenside Porter Stores No. 569 Stapleton Road (Off license)
1900. Henry Rudd / 1901. Mary Rudd / 1903. Gertrude Rudd / 1905 – 09. Albert Edward Butt
1911. Clementine Rose Burrows / 1913 – 43. Alfred Harris / 1949. Mary Ann Harris / 1956. Rachel Apps
Gladstone Arms Gladstone Street
1865. ? Harper / 1871. Emma Maggs / 1871 – 72. George Davis / 1874. Angelina Nichols
1875. Benjamin Matthews / 1876. Thomas Patrick / 1877. Henry Quick / 1878. J. Barnidge
1879 to 1885. Charles Naas / 1886 – 87. H. Winter / 1889. John Dicker / 1891 – 93. Alfred Griffin
1896. Frederick Chapple / 1899 – 1901. Caroline Chapple / 1904 – 06. Frank Boulton / 1909. William Stacey
1914 – 17. Arthur Tucker / 1921 – 31. Sidney Scott
Grape Vine Pennywell Road
1871 – 89. William Slee / 1891. Thomas Clohesy / 1892 – 93. Albert Ann / 1896 – 99. Helen Ann
1901 – 04. Albert Ann / 1906. George Gay / 1909. Samuel Mills / 1914 – 28. William Hazell / 1931. Thomas Puddy
Greenbank Hotel Belle Vue Road
Harleston Arms Harleston Street
Hit Or Miss Upper Easton, Easton Road
Hope & Anchor Clifton Place
1854. John Toy / 1861. William Johnson / 1863. Jane Johnson / 1865 – 75. John Risdon
1876 to 1878. Henry W. Hulbert / 1879 – 1906. George Liddon / 1909. Alice Rose Ellen Durston
1914 – 17. Clementina Rose Burrows / 1921. Reginald Rawlings / 1925 – 38. Albert Price
1943 – 44. Alice Edith Price / 1949 – 50. Eric Carr Millard / 1953. John Bezer / 1956. William George Willmott
In 1943 Alice Price paid rent of £36 per annum. The tenancy of Eric Millard commenced on the 11th April 1949, the rent was still £36. When the tenancy of John Bezer commenced on the 13th April 1953, the rent had not increased, the landlord was The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited.
King’s Arms Devon Road
King William IV Stapleton Road
1842 – 72. Thomas Cox (snr) / 1874 – 91. Stephen Davage / 1892 – 93. William Sainsbury / 1896. Mrs. M. M. Smith
Lebeck Stapleton Road
Lion Lion Street
Live & Let Live Fishponds Road
1893. Robert Baber / 1899 – 1906. Fanny Cole / 1914. Jessie Down / 1921 – 25. Elizabeth Palmer
1928 – 31. Jane Leigh / 1935. William Onion
Lord Chancellor Easton Road
Lord Raglan Stapleton Road
1871 – 76. Joseph Viney / 1877. H. Williams / 1878 to 1885. George Pullin / 1886 – 87. Mrs. Pullin
1889 – 93. Samuel Phipps / 1896. Edward Gimblett / 1899. Henry Hales / 1901 – 04. George Carraway
1906 – 09. Mercy Hankins / 1914 – 53. Albert Stephens / 1956. Ernest F. Dawes
Joseph Viney was also a plumber
Marlborough Easton Road
Marlborough Stree Off Licence (Eastville)
Masons’ Arms Freeland Buildings (Fishponds Road)
1841 – 71. John Green / 1876 – 83. George Martin
The information on this pub was kindly provided by John Pidgeon
Merchants’ Arms Stapleton Road
1944. George Williams / 1950 – 53. Ada Violet Williams / 1956. Stanley A. Stone / 1960. Syd Boulton
1975. I. Walker
New Inn Easton Road
New Inn Leadhouse Lane (Piccadilly)
1871. Isaac Britton / 1876 – 91. Isaac Shellard / 1891 – 93. Caroline Shellard / 1896 – 99. Sidney Hicks
1901. William Gregory / 1904. Mrs. S. Barrow / 1906. Mrs. S. Hill / 1914 – 17. Daniel Channing
1921. Albert Watkins / 1925 – 28. Ivy Watkins / 1931. Egbert Britten / 1935 – 38. Edward Plenty
1944. Ivy May Stubbins / 1950 – 56. May Tucker
Neptune Thrissell Street
1847. W. Baker / 1848 – 49. William Pearce
North View Inn Fox Road
1874 – 77. Eleanor Harris / 1881 – 87. Joseph Brunt / 1889. Thomas Burfoot / 1891 – 99. Isaac Brewer
1901 – 14. Alice Plumley / 1917 – 35. Edward Colston Plumley / 1937 – 38. Frank Morris / 1944. Lucy Worlock
1950 – 56. Lucy Rotherham
No. 25 Stapleton Road (Grocery / off license)
1870 – 82. James H. Allen / 1884. H. C. Thomas / 1885 – 1901. Sarah A. Mann / 1903. Eliza Bunn
1905. John Thomas Cawdron / 1908. Sarah A. Mann / 1913. George Arthur Brown / 1920. Florence Brooks
1924. Ambrose Bennett / 1927. Harold Tudor
Old Fox Fox Road
The Old Fox closed 15th May 2004
1837. Samuel Stocker / 1839 – 43. William Watkins / 1844 to 1855. John Harris snr / 1861. Joseph Reynolds
1865. William Thomas / 1867 – 69. William Thomas (jnr) / 1879. George Pomphrey / 1881 – 96. Francis Pomphrey
1899 – 1909. Walter Nott / 1914 – 17. William Grindell / 1921 – 44. Tilly Adams / 1950. Victor Cue
1953 – 56. Frederick W. Slater / 1960. R. C. Gill
Old Porter Stores Bouverie Street (Off license)
Old Ship Matilda Place, Lower Ashley Road
1841 – 63. William Martin / 1867 – 77. Sarah Martin / 1888 – 91. Edwin Green / 1892. Mary Ann Green
1896. Thomas Woodman / 1899 – 1901. James Dore / 1901 – 17. Mary Joll
Park House No. 31 St.Mark’s Road (Off license)
1882 – 88. John Moles / 1890 – 1900. Elizabeth Moles / 1901 – 09. George Hayward / 1911 – 20. Harriett Hayward
1924 – 44. Harold Ernest Cole
Paxton Arms Easton Road
Piccadilly Tavern Park Row
1861. Thomas Collings
Pilgrim Pennywell Road
Pine Apple Pennywell Road
1853. Robert Fewing / 1854. Mary Fewing / 1861 – 66. James Webber / 1867 – 79. Mary Jenkins
1883 – 1904. William Whitaker / 1909 – 21. Charles Tristram / 1925 – 38. Henry Castle / 1944 – 56. Edith Holbrook
James Webber was a publican, and potato dealer
Plough Easton Road
Post Office Tavern Stapleton Road
Potters’ Arms Augustus Place, Baptist Street
1848 – 53. Gowin Murray / 1855. P. Pincombe / 1857 – 60. Henry Bessell / 1863 – 65. Henry Ballard
1871 – 74. Henry Capel / 1875 – 76. Harriet Hughes / 1879. Charles Gardner / 1881 – 82. Joseph Nipper
1882. Luke Barnes / 1883. Henry Gamlin
Prince Albert No. 1a Croydon Street (Off license)
Prospect House No. 130 Pennywell Road (Off license)
1884 – 90. James Brewer / 1891. Louisa Jane Rawlings / 1893. William Wood / 1895 – 1901. Thomas Buswell
1903. Alfred Milsted / 1905. Louisa Pera / 1908 – 13. Emily Elizabeth Webber / 1920 – 27. Jesse Sleaman Down
1930. Annie Pomphrey / 1934 – 49. Charles James
Prospect Tavern Leadhouse Lane
Queen’s Head Easton Road
Queen’s Head Fishponds Road
1861. Edwin Browning / 1876 – 87. George Howe / 1893 – 1906. William Lloyd / 1909. John Barclay
1921. James Barclay / 1925. Lionel Popkiss / 1928 – 50. Harry Baker / 1953 – 60. Henry W. Burrow
1975. A. S. Pearce
Raglan Castle Park Street
1858 – 63. William Coombs / 1865 – 68. John Evered / 1879. William Jones / 1888 – 89. Mary Small
1891 – 93. Edwin Jaques / 1896. M. Thomas / 1899 – 1901. William Knight / 1904. Thomas Parker
1906 – 09. Elizabeth Parker / 1914. Bessie Burchill / 1917. Mary Fox / 1918 to 1924. George Francis
1924 – 31. Florence Maria Francis
Railway Inn Stapleton Road
Rising Sun Drummond Place, later No. 306 Fishponds Road (Grocery & off license)
1894 – 1906. Mrs Annie Wood / 1911 – 25. Hannah Martin / 1928 – 31. Miss Nellie Martin
1935 – 37. Mrs Lavinia Monks / 1944. Mrs Louisa Allen / 1950. Alex Allen junior
The 1901 census lists George and Anne Wood at this address, George’s occupation was chemist, employer working at home, so it seems 306 Fishponds Road was a chemist shop as well as a grocery store / off license. Information on Hannah Martin was kindly provided by Fred Boulton
Rising Sun John Street
1874. James Johnson / 1878 – 93. Samuel Iles / 1899. William Sainsbury / 1904 – 35. Frederick Iles
1937 – 50. Harold Perry / 1953. William Tudgell / 1956. George Batt
Rose Tavern Berkeley Street (Off license)
Royal Oak Easton Road
Royal Oak Pennywell Road
Saddlers’ Arms Stapleton Road
Sceptre Stapleton Road
Sea Horse Stapleton Road
Shepherds’ Rest Chaplin Road (Off license)
Skinners’ Arms Pennywell Road
1853 – 55. John Sanger / 1858 – 60. J. Bailey / 1863 – 74. William Watts / 1875 to 1876. James Coombs
1877 – 79. Louisa Coombs / 1881. Frederick Orchard / 1882 – 83. J. W. Voyce / 1885 – 86. Abraham Morris
1887. Charles Perry / 1889. James Reed / 1891 – 93. Alfred Williams / 1896 – 99. James Shephard
1901. William Brown / 1901 – 17. Edward Strange / 1921. Louisa McTavish / 1925 – 38. Edward Rogers
1944. Mary Jane Rogers / 1950 – 56. William James White
Edward Strange was a publican and engine fitter
South Wales Railway Hotel Belmont Street
Spotted Cow Augustus Place, Baptist Street
1881 – 83. William Colston / 1885 – 88.. Elbert Daw / 1889 – 91. Joseph Addison / 1892 – 96. Henry Osborne
1899 – 1914. Maurice Gould / 1917. Amy Couch
William Colston was also a plasterer and slater
Stapleton Road Tavern Stapleton Road
Sugar Loaf St.Mark’s Road
1816. Richard Dunn / 1820 – 44. Thomas Smith / 1847 – 55. Edward Green / 1856 – 61. Thomas Hobbs jun
1865 – 79. James Bone / 1882 – 86. T. Naish / 1893 – 96. Charles Tripp / 1899. Jesse Patten
1904 – 09. John Parker / 1914 – 17. Joseph Rennolds / 1921 – 35. Alfred Still / 1937 – 44. Arthur Stone
1950 – 56. Charles C. F. Townsend / 1958 to 1965. Ada F. Gardner / 1975. R. A. Perry
Talbot Easton Road
The Talbot was previously known as the Brickmakers’ Arms
1875 – 78. Luke Bartlett / 1882 – 86. Henry Heaven / 1887 – 89. Annie Heaven / 1891. William Greenwood
1892 – 93. Walter Fouracre / 1896. Alfred Lacey / 1899. Arthur Broom / 1901. Frank Baker
1904 – 14. Harry Morgan / 1917 – 21. Thomas Pollinger / 1925 – 28. Robert Hargrave / 1931. Marie Patten
1935 – 47. Rose Elizabeth Trott / 1950. William Trott / 1953. Walter Darnley / 1956. Ernest G. Coles
Three Blackbirds Stapleton Road
Three Tuns Easton Road
Thrissell Street Stores Thrissell Street (Off license)
Twinnell Arms Twinnell Street (Off license)
Union Tavern Easton Road
Victoria Tavern Oxford Place
1866. John Routley / 1871 – 72. Elizabeth Naish / 1874. Matthew F. Evans / 1875 to 1878. John Thomas
1879. Elizabeth Thomas / 1881. Samuel Smith / 1882 – 1917. John Thomas / 1921 – 28. Harold Thomas
1931. Samuel Rogers / 1935. Emily Rogers / 1937 – 53. William Bray
Victoria Tavern Victoria Street (Stapleton Road)
1871 – 86. John Davis / 1887. Emma Davis / 1889 – 93. Sarah Jane Martin / 1899. E. Gardner
1904 – 06. Sarah Barrett / 1914 – 28. Alice Evans
Waggon & Horses Stapleton Road
Warwick Arms Warwick Road
1872 – 74. John James / 1876. George Hill / 1877 – 83. Edward Dunn / 1885. George Dunn
1886 – 88. Joshua Thomas / 1889. John Preen / 1891 – 93. James Warren / 1896 – 1901. Matthew Hughes
1904. Thomas Rogers / 1906 – 09. Walter Britton / 1914. Mrs. A. M. Britton / 1917 – 35. Robert Webber
1937. James Rogers / 1938. Florence Hix / 1944. Rose Rogers / 1950 – 56. Clifford Samuel Rogers
Edward Dunn was a leather dresser and retailer of beer
Waterlook House No. 2 Waterloo Place / No. 25 Stapleton Road (Off license)
1878 – 82. James H. Allen / 1884. H. C. Thomas / 1885 – 1908. Sarah A. Mann / 1911 – 13. George Arthur Brown
1920. Florence Brooks / 1924. Ambrose Bennett
Wellington Tavern Baptist Mills
1820 – 28. Anthony Johnson
Public Pleasure Gardens, and excellent accommodations for bathing (Mathews’ Directory)
West Of England Tavern Millpond Street
1871 – 72. Jesse Slade / 1881. J. Taylor / 1881 – 83. Edward V. Bateman / 1885 – 91. Sarah Webber
1892 – 96. Sarah Bull / 1899 – 1901. William Andrews
Wheatsheaf Saffron Street
1904 – 09. Thomas Barratt / 1914 – 25. William Stacey / 1928 – 31. Frederick Little / 1935. Beatrice Little
1937. Elizabeth Matthews / 1938. Ernest Mogg / 1944. Martin Gillard / 1950. Kenneth Shaw
1953 – 56. Charles F. G. Webb / 1960. C. Body
White Lion Fishponds Road
White Lion Millpond Street / Lower Ashley Road
1841. Henry Harvey / 1853. John Clark / 1871 – 72. Harriett Pascoe / 1874 – 76. Isaac Newton Clark
1883 – 85. Alfred Godwin / 1885 to 1888. George Strange / 1889. Frederick Osborne / 1891. Thomas West
1892 – 1904. Frederick Osborne / 1928. Harry Godwin / 1931. Frank Baker / 1935. Leonard Storey
1937 – 38. Albert Selway / 1944. Timothy Breen / 1950. Albert Edward Smith / 1953 – 56. Royston William Webb
1960. M. Rowland
White Swan Fishponds Road / Robertson Road
White Swan Pennywell Road
1863 – 1917. Frederick Bonner / 1921. Ernest Grindrod / 1925. Harry Rex / 1928 – 31. Albert Blackmore
1935 – 44. Michael Sanders / 1950 – 56. Alfred Gladstone Button
Whitehall Tavern Devon Road