Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Victoria Tavern Guinea Street
Later named the Golden Guinea

Guinea Street Ale & Porter Stores
1861. George Ellis
1863 – 65. Elizabeth Richards
1866 to 1870. Richard Wakefield

Victoria Tavern
1871 to 1886. Richard Wakefield
1887 to 1888. Elizabeth Wakefield
1889. Richard Jenkins
1891 – 96. Frederick Ballenger
1897 – 1909. Joseph Job Tanswell
1911 – 14. Alice M. Tanswell
1917 – 38. Alice Martha Reeves
1944 – 58. Olive Bray
1975. W. G. Edgeworthy

Census 1861.
Beer shop & eating house

George Ellis 65, head married, shipwright, Devon Monkleigh
Jane Ellis 55, wife married, shipwright’s wife, Devon Silverton
Captain Parsons 35, boarde married, master mariner, Combwich
Edwin Parkhouse 23, lodger unmarried, printer, Bristol

Census 1871.

Richard Wakefield 38, head married, general builder, Bedminster Somerset
Elizabeth Wakefield 35, wife married, Pensford Somerset
Sarah J. Wakefield 14, daughter scholar, Churchill Somerset
Henry Carpenter 32, boarder widower, floor cloth maker, Pensford Somerset
Eliza Jane Brunt 12, domestic servant, St.Mary Redcliffe Bristol

Census 1881.
Victoria Tavern

Richard Wakefield 48, head married, beer retailer, Bristol
Elizabeth Wakefield 46, wife married, Somerset Pensford
Alfred Perry 29, plasterer’s labourer, Bristol
Kate Davis 11, visitor, Nottinghamshire Worksop

Census 1891.

Frederick Bellendger (sic) 57, head married, publican, Herefordshire Whitchurch
Ann Bellendger 50, wife married, Bristol
George Parker 23, nephew married, carter, Bristol
Alice Parker 24, niece married, Bristol
Frederick Parker 2, nephew, Bristol
Alfred Sage 37, lodger married, book binder, London

Census 1901.

Joseph Tanswell 31, head married, beer house keeper, Yeovil Somerset
Alice M. Tanswell 32, wife married, Bristol
Alice H. Tanswell 6, daughter, Bristol
Florence M. Tanswell 4, daughter, Bristol

Census 1911.

Alice Martha Tanswell 44, head married, beer retailer, Bristol
Alice H. Tanswell 16, daughter single, Bristol
Florence Tanswell 14, daughter, Bristol