Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Rabbit Warren Temple Street

Railway & Steam Packet Tavern Guinea Street

1853 – 54. Joseph Sweet / 1855 – 58. Edward Johnson / 1860 – 66. John Farnsworth / 1867. Elizabeth Williams

Railway House Pipe Lane

1853. James Coat (haulier & beer retailer)

Railway Tavern Avon Street

1847 – 49. Joseph Crinks / 1853 – 54. Richard Sharp / 1855 – 57. S. Blackmore

Railway Tavern Temple Street

1851 – 63. Ann Challenger / 1871 – 74. Albert Deacon / 1875 to 1878. William Taylor / 1879. Thomas Sweet
1882. William Turner / 1883 to 1886. Alfred Hall / 1887. Thomas Zelley / 1889 – 96. Thomas Gove
1897 – 1906. Sydney Bryant / 1909. Henry Hickory / 1914. Alice Remnant / 1921. Kate Sparks
1925 – 28. John Potter / 1931 – 38. Henry Ripley / 1944 – 53. Mary Ann Russell

Rainbow Tavern Temple Street

1841 – 53. James Hailstone / 1856. Mary Anne Hailstone / 1860 – 72. Margaret Farmer / 1874 – 91. Ann Price
1892 – 96. George Hobbs / 1901. Ellen Barry

Redcliff Tavern Guinea Street

1861 – 67. Richard Preston / 1868. Emma Preston

Red Horse Colston Street

1842. Robert Watson / 1847 – 53 Lydia Watson / 1855 – 57. Charles Smith / 1858. John Stevens
1860 – 61. George Bird / 1863. James Bailey / 1865. James Barter / 1866. Ann Barter / 1867 to 1868. John Allen
1869 to 1875. William Little / 1876 to 1891. John Prewett / 1892 – 99. Robert Giles / 1901. Amy Giles
1906. Rose Bennett / 1909 – 21. Tom Bond / 1925 – 31. Daniel Sixsmith

Red Lion Avon Street

1867. Joseph Summers / 1868. William Summerly / 1869. W. Baker / 1871 – 72. James Woodman
1874 – 76. Charles Woodman / 1876 to 1877. William Toghill / 1877 to 1882. William Dodge / 1883. John Dodge
1886 – 87. Mary Dodge / 1889 – 91. John Stafford / 1892 – 93. Alfred Hunt / 1896. James Buffin
1897. Jane Tucker / 1899. William Hall / 1901. William Ford / 1904 – 06. Tom Biddle

Red Lion Redcliff Street

Red Lion Temple Back

1832. John Gillett

Ring Bell Temple Street

1775. Sarah Dyer

Ring Of Bells Thomas Street

1764. Richard Murford / 1775. Samuel Speir / 1792. James Taylor / 1794. James Chappel / 1800. Philip Tanswell
1806. William Rawle / 1816. James Stone / 1820 – 32. James Stone jnr / 1837 – 40. John Pollard
1842 – 44. John Richards / 1847 – 49. R. Huxtable / 1851 – 52. William Wilson / 1853 to 1855. John James Parker
1856. John Thomas / 1861. Samuel Longman / 1865. Daniel Dyer / 1866. William Pearce / 1867 – 68. ? Patch
1871 – 82. William Nippers / 1883. George Brown / 1886 – 87. Mary Wallis / 1889 – 1901. Mary Ann Henley
1904. G. T. Ball

Rising Sun Cathay

Rising Sun Pipe Lane / Temple Back

1839 – 66. John Hodgeson / 1867 – 69. Ann Hodgeson / 1871 – 77. Richard Tovey / 1879 – 91. Frank John Clifford
1892 – 96. Farnham Padfield / 1899. Julia Derrick / 1901. Caroline Macey / 1901. Charles Macey
1904 – 06. Harriett Hucker / 1909. Hannah Underdown / 1911 – 25. Mary Ann Withy

Rising Sun Bath Parade

1851. Herman Hitt / 1853. Charlotte Hitt / 1855. J. Dinham / 1856 to 1876. Jane Jones
1877 to 1886. William Carter / 1887 – 89. Ellen Adams / 1891. William Hooper / 1892. Daniel Wiltshire
1896. John Coombes / 1899 – 1906. Thomas Fox / 1909. Henry Partridge / 1914. William Davis
1917. Frederick Biggs / 1921 – 38. Charles Scragg

Rising Sun Temple Street

1764 – 94. James Hill / 1800 – 06. William Timberman / 1816. William Parsley / 1822. T. Morris

Rising Sun Redcliff street

1775. John Perrins

Robin Hood & Little John Redcliff Street

1853. James B. Frail / 1854. John Longdon

Rose Temple Street

1755 – 64. Richard Sloper / 1800 – 20. John Sloper / 1822. Henry Sloper / 1823 – 32. Ann Sloper
1834 – 40. Henry Sloper / 1842 – 44. James Griffiths / 1847. Ann Tucker / 1848 to 1852. John Price
1853 to 1855. Thomas Frewing / 1856 – 63. William Green / 1865. Charles Haper / 1866 – 69. Frederick Green

Rose Thomas Street (No. 49)

1775. Ann Sloper

Rose Thomas Street (No. 81)

1775. John Gillard

Rose & Crown Pipe Lane

1832. William Ellis / 1855 – 57. William Claxton / 1857. Luke Dash / 1858. D. Phelps / 1865 – 66. William Shaw
1866 to 1868. John Stephenson / 1869. Thomas Young

Rose & Crown Counterslip

1753. John Bones / 1754. Catherine Lawrence / 1764. Catherine Jones / 1775. Francis Smith

Rose & Thistle Hillsbridge

1848. Thomas Webb

Royal Ann Wapping, Bathurst Basin

1794 John Wilkins / 1806. William Andrews / 1816 – 23. John Poor / 1826 Henry Cothay / 1828 – 56 John Allen
1858 Joseph Bryant / 1860 – 76 Joseph Brunt

Royal Arms Wapping

1792 George Wilkins

Royal Arms Tavern Pipe Lane

1848 – 53. George Derrett / 1853. William Derrett / 1854 to 1856. John Clatworthy / 1857. Charles Good
1857 to 1865. George Castle / 1866 to 1878. Sarah Castle / 1879 – 83. Mary Ann Penny
1885 – 86. Thomas Vickery / 1887 to 1888. Mark Rodburn / 1889. Henry Powell / 1891 – 1901. John Butler
1904. S. Rowe / 1906. Louisa Ciley

Royal Oak Avon Street

1871 – 72. Charles Barker / 1874. George Hunt / 1875 – 83. Henry Jones / 1886. S. Gamlin

Royal Oak Redcliff Street

1752. John Harrell / 1794. Elizabeth Lewis / 1800. Thomas Justice

Royal Oak Somerset Street

1853 – 63. John Slee / 1865 – 66. L. Payne & Elizabeth Gillings / 1867 – 74. Elizabeth Gillings
1876 – 78. Martha H. Gillings / 1879 – 89. William Gillings / 1891. William Edwards / 1892 – 96. Thomas Hall
1899. Thomas Hookway

Royal Oak Thomas Street

1860 – 72. George Gardener / 1874 – 75. Charles Truman / 1876 to 1878. Edwin Holloway / 1879. George Brain
1881 – 83. John Lewis / 1886 – 89. Thomas Read / 1891. James Tayor / 1892 – 94. William Wall / 1896. D. C. Salter
1899. Alfred Buckler / 1901. George Fay

Royal Standard Mitchell Lane

1840. Robert Bright

Sailor’s Return Guinea Street

1840 – 47. Sarah Dibble

Sailor’s Return Long Row

1816. John Harvey

Sailor’s Return Redcliff Hill

1800. William Wilkinson

Sailor’s Return Temple Street

1839 – 42. P. Barry / 1847 – 49. Augusta Cook / 1853. Joseph Jones

Salutation Redcliff Hill

1800. Samuel Stanmore / 1806. John Sheridan

Saracen’s Head Temple Gate

Seven Stars Thomas Lane

Shakespeare Temple Street (Victoria Street)

Shepherd & Shepherdess Water Lane

1792 – 1800. William Wine

Shepherds’ Rest No. 29½ Redcliff Hill (later No. 113)

1867 – 68. Thomas Thomas / 1870 – 75. William Sage / 1876 – 79. Charles K. Parker / 1881 – 83. Joseph Sidaway
1886. Mrs. Sidaway / 1887. S. Hatherly / 1889. Walter Jones / 1891 – 96. Samuel Hale
1899 – 1904. Betsy Browning / 1906 – 09. James Taylor

Sherwood Tavern Clarence Road (corner of Somerset Street)

1866. S. Gibson / 1867 to 1871. James Fifoot / 1872 to 1874. Ann Maria Old / 1875. Elizabeth Haesler
1876. Ann Maria Old / 1877. F. Moon / 1879. Henry Gillings / 1881 – 82. Augustus Tyson / 1883. Val. McEnright
1885 – 89. William Grimsby / 1891 – 92. Elizabeth Langford / 1892 – 94. Elizabeth Rose / 1896. J. Sheppard
1899. Frederick Simmons / 1901 – 14. George Smith / 1915. Frederick Henry William Pidgeon
1917 – 38. Alice Mary Stenner / 1940 – 44. John Hares / 1950. Gordon Malpas / 1953 -56. Charles F. Hardy
1975. W. E. Durbin
The tenancy of John Hares commenced on the 10th September 1940, the rent was £36 per annum and the landlord was the Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited. Information on Frederick Pidgeon was kindly provided by his great grandson John Pidgeon

Ship Avon Street

1806. Philip Tanswell / 1816 – 30. Joseph Bright / 1832 – 39. Philip Marks / 1842 – 49. John Gotley
1851 – 52. James Gotely / 1855 – 60. Charles Vowles / 1863. William Bush / 1865 – 77. John Hole

Ship Inn Cathay

Ship Pile Street
1837. Samuel Bayley / 1839 – 40. Ann Bayley

Ship Redcliff Hill

Ship & Castle Pile Street

1800 – 06. James Jennings / 1816 – 20. James Farthing / 1822 – 23. Richard Wheeler / 1832. Catherine Day
1853 – 89. Emanuel Hibbs / 1891. F. Thomas / 1892. James Witcombe / 1896. John Edwards

Ship On Launch Wapping

1858 – 67 Thomas Brinton Lonnen / 1868 – 71 William Lloyd
The 1861 census lists this pub as the ‘Alligator’. William Lloyd was a master ship builder and publican

Shipwrights’ Arms Redcliff Square

1794. Sarah Taylor

Shipwrights’ Arms Redcliff Street

1867. Martha North

Somerset House No. 1 Langton Street (Off license)

1851 – 54. Elizabeth (Betsy) Roy / 1855 – 65. Thomas Spurl / 1870 – 1872. George Cornwall
1873 – 79. George Miller / 1881 – 85. James Wright / 1885 to 1888. Arthur Deverell / 1889. John Edwin Stibbs
1890. William Clark / 1891 – 1914. Robert Wills / 1916 – 37. Annie Elizabeth Wheeler / 1938. Isaac William Hutton
1943 – 50. Harriett Ann Gay / 1956. Frederick Box
Thomas Spurl was also a ship rigger and haberdasher

Somerset House Redcliff Street

1775. Thomas Reeves

Sportsman’s Arms Pipe Lane

1832. Joseph Hillman / 1839 – 40. William Kingston / 1855 – 60. Richard Horsington / 1865 – 69. Mary Horsington

Star Redcliff Hill

Star Tower Street

1837 – 39. Thomas Hobbins

Steam Packet Tavern Bathurst Parade

Sugar Loaf Redcliff Street

1844. William Deeble / 1853. Susan Galley

Sugar Loaf Tucker Street

1775. Charles Wright

Swan Temple Street

1806 – 32. James Stone / 1834 – 40. John Scudamore / 1841 to 1865. Francis Hilliar / 1866 to 1868. William Cates
1869. Richard Adams / 1871. Charles Doble / 1872 – 82. William Norris

Swindon Tavern Phippen Street

1851. Sarah Dowling / 1852. Isaac Dowling / 1853 – 55. J. Morrish / 1860. Thomas Baker
1863 – 68. Samuel Potter / 1869 to 1875. George Francis / 1876 – 79. James Atkins / 1881. Jane Atkins
1883 – 91. Mark Radford / 1892. Betsy Browning / 1896 – 1909. Harry Peet / 1914. George Winmill

Talbot Inn (And London Tavern) Bath Street

1806. Thomas Holloway / 1820 – 31. James Clifton / 1833 – 37. Nancy Clifton / 1839 – 40. Edward Thatcher
1842 – 48. Joanna Fry / 1851 – 61. Michael Batt (proprietor) / 1863 – 65. Henry Weaving
1868 – 69. Robert Comer / 1871 – 75. James Collins / 1877. Miss Linfield (manageress) / 1878. T. C. Stock
1881 – 96. James Reynolds / 1899 – 1917. Grenville Flower

Talbot Vaults Bath Street

1871. William Mattick

Talbot Redcliff Hill

1792. Lawrence Boucher / 1794. William Oldfield / 1800 – 06. Thomas James / 1816. William Sargeant
1820 – 34. Ann Pillinger / 1837 – 52. Ann Sinnett / 1853. George Sinnett / 1853. George Burgess
1854. George Crook / 1855 to 1874. John Crook / 1875 to 1877. Sarah A. Crook / 1878 to 1888. William Tudball
1889. James Nash / 1891. William Eades / 1891 – 94. Ellen Eades / 1896. Arthur Hulbert / 1897. Charles David
1899 – 1904. Sarah Cox David / 1909. Ellen Jane Gray

Talbot Tavern Redcliff Street

1794. James Sewell

Taliesin Tavern Commercial Road

1860. Elizabeth Rich / 1861 to 1865. George Parry / 1866 to 1871. Joseph Parry / 1872 to 1875. Robert Chubb
1876 to 1877. Jane Larkham / 1878. Francis Quartly / 1879 to 1881. George Fryer / 1882. J. Harding
1883. R. B. Baker

Tennis Court Redcliff Hill

1752. Mary Lukins / 1775. John Gamblin / 1792 – 94. John Ball / 1794. William Ball

Temple Hotel Temple Back

1879 – 94. Matthew Whiting / 1901. Alexander Higgs / 1904 – 09. Albert Seward / 1914. William Gillard
1917 – 38. William Collins / 1944 – 50. Albert Collins / 1953 – 56. William George Hooper
Previously known as the Bear Tavern. Alexander Higgs also worked as a glass beveller.

Temple Hotel Temple Gate

1874 – 75. Jane Lifely / 1876. Mary Ann Vickery / 1877 – 81. Thomas Gould

Terminus Hotel Bath Parade, Temple Gate

Terminus Tavern Bath Parade, Temple Gate

1847 – 48. John Folland
1849 – 51. Mary Folland
1854 – 63. William Francis Morris
1865 – 77. Catherine Jane Morris
1879. Elizabeth Clarke
1880. Lavinia E. Clarke
1881. Alice Backhouse
1885 – 88. Henry Robert Appleton
1889. Esther Lloyd Crosbie
1890. Charles Watkins
1891 – 94. Edward Miller
1896. Walter L. Jefferies
1897 – 99. William Charlston
1901 – 02. Alice Boughton
1904. A. H. Dudley
1906 – 09. Minnie Butcher

Pictured here in 1905, the Terminus Tavern was next door to the Victoria Hotel.

Three Blackbirds Temple Back

1755. John Gorton / 1764. Edward Day / 1775. ? Day / 1792 – 94. Robert Tayler / 1800. Thomas Lewis
1831 – 34. George Vernum / 1837 – 42. William Lonsdale

Three Boars’ Heads Redcliff Street

1775. William Lendon

Three Cups (& Salmon) Tucker Street

1755. Robert Hicks / 1764. Elizabeth Appleby / 1775. James Seabourn

Three Cups & Salmon Redcliff Street / Lower Colston’s Parade

Three Horse Shoes Thomas Street

1800. Joseph Pratten / 1816. John Ricketts / 1820 Joseph Wall / 1822. Richard Wilks

Three Jolly Porters Temple Street

1755. Thomas Lively

Three Kings Thomas Street

Three Kings Bristol Bridge / Tucker Street

1752. Robert Allen / 1754 – 55. Hester Allen / 1764. Francis Earle / 1775. James Wood

Three Queens Thomas Street

1752. Thomas Vesey / 1775. Betty Powell / 1792 – 1806. Thomas Hodge / 1816 – 25. James Stallard
1826. Hugh Brine / 1828 – 32. John Hammans / 1834 – 37. James Stone / 1839 – 42. Thomas Stephens
1843. James Fuller / 1844. Samuel Fuller / 1848 – 49. M. Fuller / 1850. Barnabus Butters / 1851. Thomas Flower
1851. Maria Lott / 1853. Thomas Bennett / 1855 – 63. Robert Middleweek / 1865 – 83. Frederick Irwin
1886 – 87. M. Flower / 1889 – 94. Sarah Ann Hore / 1896 – 1921. John King / 1925 – 31. John Burnell
1935 – 38. Laura Lillian Wyatt
Thomas Stephens was also a horse dealer & mule purveyor, the Three Queens was bombed in the war

Three Sugar Loaves Redcliff Street

1822 – 32. John Clark / 1840. Robert Jesty / 1842 – 44. William Deeble / 1846 to 1847. W. E. Wookey
1848. Charlotte Birkmyre / 1849. Isaac Solomon / 1853 – 77. Henry Spencer Willett / 1879. James Holdin

Three Tuns Temple Street

1755. William Wilmot / 1764. Joseph Vidall / 1764. William Harrison / 1775. John Hayman

Three Tuns Temple Street

1853. Joseph Luckwell / 1854. William Luckwell / 1856. Simeon Pearce

Tiger Redcliff Street

1848 – 49. Mark Kelson

Two Anchors Guinea Street

1792. Edward Cridland / 1806 – 16. Richard Bounds / 1820. Thomas Young / 1822. Richard Brain
1823. James Warbutton / 1826. J. Allen / 1828 – 37. Richard Weaver / 1839 – 44. Thomas Price
1847 – 56. James Wall / 1857. ? Prewett / 1858 – 61. Thomas Bull / 1862. John Charles Stephens
1862 – 63. Edward Parrish / 1865 – 67. Charles Triggel / 1868. James Toombs / 1869 to 1878. Rees Miles
1879. John Daniel / 1881. William Mitchell / 1882. H. Mitchell / 1883. W. Baker / 1886. Richard Esell
1887 to 1888. Esther Newman / 1889. George Browning / 1891 – 94. Samuel Morris / 1897. George Harding

Two Anchors Redcliff Street

1775. Sampson Sutton

Two Blue Posts Temple Street

1792. John Gibbons / 1794. John Gibson

Union Brewery (Tavern) Union Place, Ship Lane

1831 – 37. James Oram / 1841. Thomas Bishop / 1851 – 53. John Staple / 1855. William Cann
1857 – 58. James Filer / 1860 – 65. James Freestone / 1865 to 1867. Mary Freestone / 1868 – 69. ? Spiller
1871 – 74. Eliza S. Spilling / 1876. Eliza Simmonds / 1882 – 88. George Britton Harris / 1889. Albert Daunton
1892. Charlotte Chappell / 1896. Henry Dent / 1899 – 1906. Rachael Edwards / 1909. Thomas George

Velindra Hotel Commercial Road

Victoria Hotel Bath Parade

1871 – 76. Sarah Jane Tongue
1881 – 88. Felix Bailey
1891. William H. Newport
1892. George Westacott
1901 – 04. Alfred J. Butcher

The Victoria Hotel was next door to the Terminus Tavern, Alfred Butcher’s name is displayed on the Victoria, and Minnie Butcher has her name on the Terminus Tavern.

Postcard, Bristol’s Lost Pubs collection

Victoria Hotel Bath Street

1844 – 51. John Giraud

Victoria Hotel Thomas Street

Victoria Tavern Guinea Street

Victoria Tavern Hillsbridge Parade (Clarence Road)

1866. Ellen Cable / 1867 – 69. William Felstead / 1871. Charles Seal / 1872 to 1875. William Jones
1876 to 1878. Thomas Powell / 1879. John Hilliery / 1881 – 1909. Robert Vicary / 1914. Henry Partridge
1917 – 21. William Rimand / 1925 – 28. James Sanders

Waggon & Horses Bath Street

Waggon & Horses Bottom of Thomas Street

1816. James Pearce

Waggon & Horses Redcliff Hill

Warwick Arms Pipe Lane

1851. Joseph Cox / 1853 – 54. Charles Cleves / 1858. Charles Good / 1863 – 77. Clement Padfield

Waterloo Arms Waterloo Place, Thomas Street

1853. Thomas Short Davis / 1857. Charles Gray / 1860. John Galliford / 1861 – 63. James Moss Tarsey
1865 – 72. George Charley / 1874. W. Arthur / 1876. Edward Field / 1877. R. Voisey / 1878. H. Mills
1879 – 83. George Mills

Weavers’ Arms Temple Street

1755. Richard Barrett / 1764. John Phillips / 1775. Edward Cuddeford / 1792. Samuel Lacy
1800. James Challenger / 1806. Edward Melsom / 1816 – 32. Warren Hopkins / 1834 – 48. John Thorne
1849. O. Southan / 1852. Sarah Meash / 1853. Henry Challenger / 1854. William Cutts / 1856 – 58. J. Hewitt
1861 – 63. James Carver / 1865 – 67. Richard Adams / 1868 – 69. Caroline Chapman
The Weavers’ Arms was lost in 1870 when Victoria Street was cut through Temple Street

Weavers’ Arms Tower Street

1842 – 48. William Ponsford

Western Tavern Bath Parade

1857. F. Carey / 1861 – 72. Charles Light

Wheatsheaf Thomas Street

White Bear Guinea Street

1775. John Howell

White Hart Avon Street

1816. Thomas Evans / 1820. John Cribb
Home of the Odd Fellows Lodge No. 4, meeting Tuesday evenings at 8 o’clock

White Hart Thomas Street

1851 – 54. Francis Horler / 1855. Job Hoddinett / 1857 – 61. George Bush / 1863. Frederick Butland
1865 & 1866. T. Harvey / 1865 & 1867. Thomas E. Wookey / 1868 to 1876. Thomas Vaughan
1877. George Plumley / 1878 – 79. John Boddy / 1881. William West / 1882 – 83. Thomas Foxwell
1886 – 87. Eliza Bigg / 1889. Charles Giles / 1891. William Cole / 1892 – 94. George Darrell / 1896. Arthur Hunt
1897. Charles Hend / 1899. Mrs. M. A. Fram / 1901. William Howe

White Hart Temple Street

1764. William Hone / 1775. William How / 1840. ? Parry / 1844. Henry Baker / 1847. J. W. Curren
1848. Henry Brownjohn / 1849. Henry Brown / 1851 – 56. Joseph Brown / 1858 – 75. James Pritchard

White Hart Redcliff Hill

1763 – 75. John Wright

White Horse Harford Street / Somerset Street

1837 – 44. Thomas Reed

White Horse Inn Redcliff Street

1775. Robert Powell

White House Redcliff Mead

1800 – 06. Christopher Phillips

White Lion Thomas Street (Victoria Street)

White Lion Temple Street

1792. – 94. Richard Gay / 1800. Grace Gay / 1820. Thomas John / 1822 – 23. Jacob Withey / 1828. E. M. Payne
1831 – 32. Robert Pippin / 1839 – 40. ? Bryant / 1842. Thomas Joyse / 1848 – 49. William Eames
1855. Henry Power / 1857. Caroline Green / 1858. William Dymond / 1863. Thomas Riddiford
1865 – 69. Henry Riddiford / 1871. Benjamin Rowe / 1872. J. Bright / 1874 – 77. Thomas Doble / 1878. E. Curry
1882 – 89. James Wood / 1891. James Druce / 1894. John Wich / 1896. John Davis / 1899 – 1904. Harry Wood

White Lion Tucker Street

1775. Edward Nail

William IV Temple Street

1832 – 34. Thomas Rees

Woolpack Pile Street

1866 – 69. John Stephens / 1870 to 1877. Mary Ann Stephens
The Woolpack was previously named the Jolly Nailers

Worm Tub Thomas Street

1764. William Wood

York House (And Railway) Tavern Phippen Street

Young Neptune Temple Street

1792. William Horn