Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Bay Horse Wellington Road

Holly Branch Tavern
1871 – 74. Isaac Cuff
1876 – 77. William Bellamy
1878. Henry Slade
1879. Lucretia Jane Alford
1881 – 82. George Tilling
1883. T. J. Abbott
1885. Emma Sarah Davis
1886 to 1887. Henry Brittain
1888 to 1890. Henry William Pymm

Bay Horse
1890 to 1891. Thomas Liddle
1892. James Joyce
1894. Miss Jessie Small
1896. Charles Macey
1897 – 1904. Jane Macey
1906 – 44. Joseph Lynes
1950. Albert Kingston
1953 – 56. Frederick John Taylor

Originally named the Holly Branch Tavern, the Bay Horse was on the corner of Wellington Road and Elton Street. The pub is pictured here in the early 1950s, when it was owned by Bristol United Breweries Ltd.

Census 1871.

Isaac Cuff 44, head married, coal merchant, Evercreech Somerset
Mary E. Cuff 38, wife married, Evercreech Somerset
Henry Cuff 15, son, Evercreech Somerset
Isaac Cuff 12, son scholar, Bishop’s Wood Somerset

Census 1881.

George Tilling 42, head married, publican, Gloucestershire
Elizabeth Tilling 38, wife married, Bristol
Thomas Frederick Tilling 18, collar maker, Bristol
Annie Tilling 16, dress maker, Bristol
George James Tilling 14, errand boy, Bristol

Census 1891.

Tom Liddle 27, head married, beer house keeper and general labourer, Durham Bishop Auckland
Emily Liddle 28, wife married, Somerset Nempnett
Bessie Liddle 6, daughter scholar, Durham Bishop Auckland
Tom Liddle 4, son, Somerset Butcombe

Census 1901.

Thomas Macey 38, head married, beer retailer, Bristol
Jane Macey 38, wife married, Bristol
Thomas Macey 13, son, Bristol
Jane Macey 11, daughter, Bristol
Birt Macey 9, son, Bristol
Grace Macey 6, daughter, Bristol
George Macey 1 month, son, Bristol

Census 1911.

Joseph Lynes 34, head married, beer house keeper, St.Jude’s Bristol
Sarah Ann Lynes 37, wife married, St.Jude’s Bristol
Violet Lynes 7, daughter
William Lynes 3, son