Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Globe & Foresters Portwall Lane

The Globe & Foresters was on the corner of Portwall Lane and Canynge Street. The buildings on this corner were demolished around 1980 and replaced with a car showroom.

1832 – 39. William Greenway
1840 – 45. Thomas Carpenter
1847 – 49. John Pocock
1851 – 53. Nathan Margetts
1855. Charles Chamberlain
1856 – 58. Joseph Hawkins
1860 – 67. Mary Ann Hawkins
1868 to 1874. Henry Purnell
1875 to 1876. Daniel Smith
1877 – 79. John Hillier
1881 – 82. Thomas Wadham Clark
1885 – 99. Fred Carr
1901. Thomas Moses
1901 – 04. Georgina Moses
1906. Alice Peddie
1909. Eliza Ricketts
1911 – 17. Albert Dibble
1921 Charles Matthews
1925. John Palmer
1928. Florence Whitting
1931. Edward Cumner
1935 – 56. George Yeandel
1960. Frederick W. Francis

Census 1841.

Thomas Carpenter 30, carpenter, born in county
Phebe Carpenter 35, not born in county

Census 1851.

Nathan Margetts 37, head married, railway guard and beer seller, Warwick
Ann Margetts 34, wife married, Oxfordshire Weston
Nathan H. Margetts 9, son scholar, Birmingham
Alfred K. Margetts 7, son scholar, Birmingham
Samuel Margetts 1, Bristol
Alexandra Adams 20, visitor unmarried, miller, Scotland
Mary Carroll 20, servant unmarried, general servant, Bristol
Charlotte Bristow 55, visitor married, Devon Ottery St.Mary
David Richards 24, visitor unmarried, mason, South Wales

Census 1861.

Mary Ann Hawkins 43, head widow, beer house keeper, Gloucestershire Hawksbury Upton
Mary Ann Newton 12, servant, general servant, Somerset Bedminster
Thomas Aram 36, lodger unmarried, plane maker, Yorkshire York
Henry Muirch 25, lodger unmarried, plane maker, Yorkshire York

Census 1871.

Henry Purnell 28, head married, beer retailer, Gloucestershire Hawkeley
Mary J. Purnell 29, wife married, Gloucestershire Hawkeley
Sarah A. Purnell under 1 month, Bristol
Sarah Hopkins 52, mother in law widow, formerly grocer, Wiltshire Castle Comb
William Lloyd 21, boarder unmarried, baker, Gloucestershire Tetbury
Joseph Tozer 28, boarder widower, beer retailer, Devonshire

Census 1881.

Thomas Wadham Clark 31, head married, beer retailer, Somerset Bristol
Henrietta Selina Clark 30, wife married, Somerset Bristol
Frederick W. T. S. Clark 5, son scholar, Somerset Bristol

Census 1891.

Fred Carr 34, head married, beer retailer, Somerset Frome
Emma Carr 37, wife married, Somerset Midsomer Norton
William Buxton 58, lodger married, general labourer, Somerset Dulverton
Frank Bishop 27, lodger married, maltster, Wiltshire Devizes

Census 1901.

Georgina Moses 39, head widow, licensed victualler, Kent Woolwich
John Finney 34, boarder single, general labourer, Derbyshire Radbourne
William Kent 40, boarder, telegraph … ?, Glamorganshire Llandaff