Bristol’s Lost Pubs

Malt Shovel Jacob Street

1794. William Weaver

Masons’ Arms Great Western Street

1849. John Morrish / 1853. William Hill / 1853. Henry Power / 1872 – 91. William Colburn / 1892. Jesse Patten
1899 – 1904. George Patey / 1906. Charles Woolfries

Masons’ Arms Stanhope Street (off license)

Mechanics’ Arms Great Western Street

Mechanic’s Arms Sussex Street

Melbourne Tavern Melbourne Terrace

1871 – 87. James Longstone / 1888 to 1891. Charles Young / 1892. Thomas Stephings
1899 – 1901. James Randell / 1904. J. B. Murray / 1906. Francis Elliott / 1914 – 25. John Hill
1928. Frederick Skrine

Midland Inn Midland Road

Midland Railway Inn Waterloo Road

1861. James Bees / 1866 – 96. Robert Honey / 1897 – 1904. George Gale / 1906 – 37. James Bushnell

Millwrights’ Arms Barrow Road

1871. Francis Crago / 1876 – 79. James Wilkins / 1883 – 85. Richard Crew / 1887 – 89. Charles Crew
1891. Joseph Jones / 1892. Thomas Bengough / 1896. Henry Walters / 1899. Thomas Woodman
1901 – 31. Joseph Maggs / 1935 – 53. George Brookes

Morley Tavern Lawrence Hill

1871 – 74. James Hobbs / 1876 – 89. Martha Hobbs / 1891. Emma Callaway / 1892 – 96. George Trowbridge
1899. Mrs S. A. Davis / 1901. S. Scuse / 1904. H. J. Bruton / 1906 – 09. Charles Cridge / 1914 – 35. Albert Moore

Morton House Ducie Road

New Inn Barton Road

New Inn Henry Street

1876 – 77. Robert Fry / 1878 – 83. Louisa Fry / 1885 – 87. John Fry / 1888. Thomas Lyne / 1889. Isaac Davidge
1891. Mary Ann Clarke / 1892 – 96. Alice Willis / 1899. William Barnes

Newtown Tavern Regent Street

Noon Tender Lawrence Hill

1800. Charles Chalacom

North Somerset Railway Arms St.Philip’s Marsh

1866. Nathaniel Ramsden

Odd Fellows’ Arms Lawrence Hill

1847. William Rogers / 1848. Thomas Hiscocks / 1851 – 54. John Crates

Odd Fellows’ Arms Tower Hill

1848 – 49. William Price / 1855 – 60. Maria Price / 1863 – 77. Griffith Morris / 1879 – 87. Richard Lawrence
1888. Ellen Harris / 1889 – 1909. William Harris / 1914 – 21. Edwin Tanner

Odd Fellows’ Arms No.86 Twinnell Road (off license)

1882. William Cullam / 1884 – 86. Sidney Harris / 1887 – 92. Ellen Harris / 1893 – 95. Charles Wills
1896 – 1901. Martha Ann Warren / 1903 – 38. Benjamin Warren
The Odd Fellows’ Arms was bombed in March 1941

Old Golden Heart Passage Street

Old Salutation St.Philip’s Plain (Narrow Plain)

1794. Thomas Leakey / 1800. William Arthur / 1806. Joseph Tudgey / 1816. John Boulter
1820 – 23. William Forse / 1826. R. Stone / 1830. John Kelly / 1831. Samuel Smith / 1832. William Clatworthy
1833. Thomas Jefferies / 1834. J. Shillibier / 1837 – 39. William Owen / 1840. William Cottle
1847 – 48. Israel Solomon / 1849. Mark Cullimore / 1851 – 57. Samuel Osborne / 1858 – 61. Mary Harper
1863. Charlotte Harper / 1866. Thomas Chittenden / 1867. Paole Suich / 1868. J. Salter / 1869. S. F. Trenchard
1871. Edward Higgs / 1872. Henry Fripp / 1874. John King / 1877. J. Leworthy / 1879. Elon Townley
1882. Samuel Cowlin
To be sold by auction at the White Hart Inn, in Old Market street on Thursday the 31st day of October 1822, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon precisely: Lot 1 … An old established free public house, called or known by the name of the Salutation, with the appurtenances, situate in Strait street, otherwise St.Philip’s plain, now in the occupation of William Forse, victualler, as yearly tenant. The property comprised in this lot presents a very eligible subject for investment, to a person possessed of a small capital, desirous of entering the public line, there being a good brew house; and every convenience for brewing attached to the dwelling house;and it will confer on the purchaser a right to vote at elections of members of parliament for the County of Gloucester and the City of Bristol. These premises are subject to an annual fee farm rent of £1 10s. This from the Bristol Mirror, Saturday, October the 5th, 1822.

Old Steam Engine Cook’s Road, Gas Lane (back of gas works)

1856 – 57. Edwin Porter / 1858 – 76. Henry Curtis / 1879 – 1907. William Hunt / 1908 to 1914. John Coles
1915 – 17. Alfred Daniells / 1919. Mabel Ann Cole / 1921. John Sills Cole / 1923 – 31. Eliza Shill

Old Three Tuns Lawrence Hill

1806. Samuel Jones / 1816. William Smith / 1820. Mrs. Herepath / 1822 – 28. William Sweet
1830. Henry England / 1840. R. Turner / 1842 – 63. John Jones

Old Tower Tower Hill

1816. William Harwell (dealer in spirits, undertaker and sworn measurer)

Pack Horse Lawrence Hill

1792. Thomas Crisp / 1800 – 16. William Herapath / 1822. S.Taylor / 1823. Samuel Kendall / 1828. Thomas Cooper
1830 – 32. Thomas Spiring / 1833. William Jenks / 1834 to 1840. T. L. Goss / 1841 to 1860. James Knill
1861. Elizabeth Always / 1863. Charles Welsh / 1865 – 66. William Sargeant / 1871 – 87. Richard Andrews
1888 – 94. Herbert Thomas / 1896 – 1901 James Isaac / 1904 – 09. Samuel Collett / 1914 – 17. E. Jackson
1921 – 28. William Ricketts / 1931 – 35. Herbert Winstone / 1937 – 38. Edwin Parker / 1944 – 50. Stanley Wall
1953. Henry Head / 1960. W. R. Jefferies

Pear Tree Kingsland Place, Albert Street

1866 – 68. Thomas Moss / 1869. John Bird / 1871. Henry Symes / 1872 to 1877. John Roach / 1878. Henry Symes
1885. Samuel Kinsey / 1886. A. Morrell / 1887 to 1888. William Ransome / 1889. Seth Creed
1892 – 1901. James Langford / 1904. Elizabeth Richards / 1906. Jasper Scaplehorn / 1909. Albert Bryant

Perseverance Feeder Road

Pilgrim New Thomas Street

1871 – 89. Philip Hope / 1891. Charles Johnson / 1892 – 94. Edward Smith / 1896. William Phillips
1897. Charles Norman / 1899. Charlotte Norman / 1901. L. Luscombe / 1904 – 06. George Brassington
1909 – 17. Richard Grant

Pilgrim Straight Street

1866 – 77. Hester Randall

Pipemakers’ Arms Albert Road

Plough Lawrence Hill

1800. William Waters

Potters’ Arms No.1 Brougham Street (off license)

1887 – 88. Fanny Sealy / 1890. Albert John Eccleston / 1891. Joseph A. Orchard / 1893. Mary Wilks
1895. Thomas Charles Headford / 1896. William John Knight / 1900 – 01. Frank Cotter / 1903. Mary Anne Selway

Pride Of The Forest Unity Street / New Thomas Street

Prince Of Wales Tower Hill

Prince Of Wales Trinity Street

1866. William Grove / 1867. Charles Hembrow / 1868 – 69. Eliza Hembrow / 1871. Edwin Crinks
1872 to 1874. Alfred Bennett / 1875. Isaac Smith / 1876. Job Rawlins / 1877 – 79. W. Mealing
1882 – 83. Eliza Phillips / 1885 – 89. George Garraway / 1891 – 92. Edward Roe / 1899. Charles Macey

Prince Of Wales Dings, York Street

1847. Edward Cole / 1848. S. Cole / 1849. ? James / 1851 – 55. Edward Cole / 1857. J. Young / 1858. William Prior
1863. Harry Bryant / 1866 – 69. W. Lampard / 1871 – 75. James Lampard / 1876 – 78. J. M. Franklin
1881 – 83. James Love / 1886. Samuel Jones / 1887 to 1888. William Poole / 1889 – 96. Mark Rodbourn
1899 – 1901. Mrs. Rodbourn / 1904 – 14. Mark Rodbourn
In 1851, Edward Cole was a potter and beer house keeper

Queen Adelaide Bread Street

1832 to 1834. William Nicholls / 1835 to 1840. Daniel Scrase / 1841 to 1852. Harriet Scrase
1853 – 63. William Bond / 1865 – 68. William Smith / 1869. Richard Purnell / 1871. H. Bowm
1872 to 1875. G. Carpenter / 1876. Robert Deacon / 1877. Charles Howell / 1878. G. C. Backs
William Bond was also an engineer and iron & brass founder at the Tower Hill Foundry, St.Philip’s. The Queen Adelaide was previously named the Queen’s Head

Queen’s Arms Unity Street

1847. William Skull / 1848. H. Capner / 1849 – 54. William Blackmore / 1857. J. Hains

Queen’s Arms No.83 Queen Ann Road (off license)

1881 – 88. Richard Cornish / 1890 – 1908. Mark Rex snr / 1913. William Whittington / 1920. Arthur M. Axford
1924 – 30. Rowland Howes / 1934. John William Blanning / 1936. Lydia Ingersent
1943 – 56. William Albert Davidge

Queen’s Head Bread Street

1794. William Webb / 1800 – 16. Thomas Howe / 1822 – 30. John Sanders / 1832. William Nicholls
Thomas Howe was also a carpenter, The Queen’s Head was later named the Queen Adelaide

Queen’s Head Queen Street

1775. William Simmons

Queen’s Head Broad Plain

Railroad Tavern Barton Road

Railroad Tavern Union Road

1839. James Grey

Railway Tavern Duffett’s Buildings, St.Philip’s Marsh

1865 – 71. William Pennington / 1872. Uriah Sheppard / 1874. Hannah Whitehead / 1876. William Ellesmere

Railway Tavern Edward Street

1854. William Mason / 1855. Henry Cousins / 1858. J. Williams / 1866 – 69. W. Thomas / 1871 – 88. James Jones
1889. Thomas Williams / 1891 – 96. Henry Bessell / 1899. George Morris / 1901 – 04. Elizabeth Arnold
1906 – 31. Alice Amelia Bennett

Red Cow Bread Street

1861 – 69. Samuel Heskins
Samuel Heskins was a beerhouse keeper and butcher

Red Lion Clarence Road

1794. Robert Packer / 1800. Henry Millett / 1806 – 16. William Hitchcock / 1820. William Sheering
1822. William Rossiter / 1823 to 1852. George White / 1853 – 55. John Spiller / 1857 – 66. John White
1867. Charles Welch / 1868 to 1871. Charles Stooke / 1872 to 1878. Benjamin Sargeant
1879 – 94. Samuel Mountain / 1896 – 1901. Harrison Leggott / 1904 – 09. James Hole / 1914 – 31. John Jackson
1934 – 38. James Alfred Jackson / 1944. George Ashdown / 1950 – 53. Mary A. Ashdown
In 1934 the rent paid by James Jackson was £60 per annum, the landlord was The Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Limited

Regent Tavern Regent Street

1861 – 63. John Doust / 1870 to 1887. Sarah Ann Doust / 1888. A. Knight / 1889. Edward Butson
1891. Robert Wilson / 1892 – 96. Charles Sadler / 1899. George Amberley / 1901. Thomas Scott
1904. George Walters / 1906. Alfred Milsted / 1914 – 17. Daniel Bailey / 1921. Cecilia Bailey
1925 – 53. Cecilia Britton

Rhubarb Tavern Queen Ann Road

Richmond Inn Upper Richmond Terrace

1871 – 74. Thomas Derman / 1876 – 78. Elizabeth Derman / 1879. Frederick Watts / 1882 – 83. J. Chivers
1885. William Shinner / 1888 – 94. George Bates Ody / 1899. George Rogers / 1901. Mark Rex jnr
1906. Walter Winson / 1909. Edward Davison / 1914 – 35. Albert Turner / 1937 – 38. Ivy May James

Richmond Hotel Barrow Road

1896 – 1906. William Naish / 1909 – 21. Charles Griffiths / 1925 – 31. Alfred Griffiths / 1935 – 44. Sarah Pavey
1950 – 53. Arthur Cox

Ring Of Bells Oxford Place

1840 – 42. Robert Stacey

Rising Sun Avon Street (Marsh Bridge)

Rising Sun Broad Plain

1857 – 83. Mary Ann Holbrook

Rose & Crown Jacob Street

1821 to 1826. H. MacMutter / 1827 to 1831. Elizabeth MacMutter / 1831 to 1837. Thomas Kidman
1837 to 1864. William Long

Rose & Crown Kingsland Road

1839 – 49. Thomas Kidman / 1851 – 53. Hannah Kidman / 1854. ? Pattenhall / 1861 – 63. Charlotte Dickenson
1865 – 69. William Dickenson / 1869. Charles Allmon / 1874. James Hampson / 1875 – 79. James Duddridge
1881. John Bootyman / 1882. John Clarke / 1883. William Gallop / 1885 – 86. George Offer
1887 – 99. Thomas Emery / 1901. John Snook / 1904. W.G. Dunford / 1906. Christiana Kimmins
1909. Reginald Loveless / 1914 – 31. Rose Sumner
The Rose & Crown was sold in 1876 for the sum of £608.18s.0d

(Old) Rose & Crown Narrow Plain

1800. Elias Pallin / 1806. Samuel Davis / 1816. William Jenkins / 1820 – 22. John Arundell / 1823. John Marshall
1826 – 47. Hugh Tawton / 1848. Sarah Tawton / 1849 – 58. Thomas Knight / 1860. Hannah Davis
1863. John Hole / 1866. John Longdon / 1867. Sidney Price / 1868. T. Jeanes / 1869. James Properjohn
1871. Joseph Ballard / 1872. John Jeanes / 1874 – 82. James Davis
William Jenkins was also a tailor. John Arundell was also a ship’s handscrew maker

Royal Ann Duffett’s Buildings, St.Philip’s Marsh

1861 – 63. Thomas Bennett

Royal Exchange Marsh Lane, Kingsland Road

1866 – 67. Thomas Woolf / 1868 to 1869. Joseph Gazzard / 1870. Henry Wookey / 1871. Samuel Hutchings
1872. Joseph Stokes / 1874 – 79. Robert Nutt / 1885 – 91. James Dobbs / 1892 – 14. Walter Hill
1917 – 21. Eliza Hill / 1925 – 31. Walter Hill / 1935. James Peters

Royal Exchange Lawrence Hill

1879. William Kendall / 1882. John Harding / 1883. Thomas Crouch / 1885. Richard Dennis / 1887. John Long
1888. Thomas Bowers / 1892. Henry Wyatt / 1899. Edwin Willis

Royal Mail (Mail Coach) Kingsland Road

1831 – 37. John Jones / 1839 – 42. Joseph Earl / 1847 – 52. George Knight / 1853 – 69. Joseph Knight
1871 – 74. Thomas Watkins / 1875 – 78. Charles Knight / 1879. Mary Knight / 1881 – 85. Joseph Knight
1888 – 94. William Edwin Bone / 1896 – 1904. Joseph Weeks / 1906. Henry Webb / 1909 – 14. George Norris
1921. Lily Dobson / 1925. David Griffiths

Royal Oak Kingsland Road

1834. W. Cummer / 1837 – 39. William Griffiths / 1851 – 53. John Dickinson / 1861 – 63. Charlotte Dickinson
1868 – 1901. Thomas Griffiths / 1904. H. R. Adams / 1906 – 09. Edith Ellen Merrick / 1914 – 21. Bertram Brown
1925 – 28. William Morgan

Royal Steam Engine Gas Lane (back of gas works)

1851 – 58. John Dascombe / 1861 – 69. Howard Tripp / 1870 to 1887. Reuben Dascombe
1888 to 1891. Walter Dascombe / 1892 to 1901. George Southcombe / 1902 – 04. Mary Southcombe
1906 – 25. Richard Foxwell
On the 1851 census, John Dascombe’s occupation is recorded as maltster.

Royal Table Barton Hill Road

Russell Arms Ducie Road

Saxe Horn Narrow Plain

1871. G. Williams / 1872. Henry Elbury / 1874 – 81. Stephen Allen / 1882. John Neale / 1883. Albert Sidney
1884 to 1886. William St.Clair / 1887. Mary Henley / 1888. John Henry Hillier / 1889 – 99. George Taubman
1901. Richard Taubman

Seabright Arms No.19 Bridge Street (off license)

1887. James Milton / 1888. Arthur Deverell / 1890. Frederick Bonnie / 1891 – 97. George Smith

Shepherd’s Lodge Passage Street

1857. Charles Greenland / 1861. T. Gough

Ship & Dove John Street

1792. Mary Clark

South Wales Railway Inn Lawrence Hill

Somerset House Jacob Street

1877 – 86. Samuel Hosegood / 1887 – 99. Honor Hosegood / 1901 – 06. Henry Wright

Spotted Horse Feeder Road

1883 – 85. Arthur Stone also traded as a horse slaughterer

Spread Eagle St.Philip’s Plain (Narrow Plain)

Standard Lawrence Hill

1870. Abraham Hobbs / 1871 – 72. John Fugil / 1874 – 76. Charles Barker / 1879. John Barnes
1882 – 83. W. T. Ayres / 1885. Richard Tarr / 1887. James Leadbeater / 1888. Morgan Henry Poole
1889. Edward Hockey / 1891. Caroline Coles / 1892. George Delziel / 1896 – 1901. Harry Rexworthy
1904. W. Alexander / 1906. William Boulton / 1909. Charles Parsons / 1914. Daisy Norah Day
1917 – 25. Philip Fletcher / 1928 – 38. Frederick Marshall

Star Inn Sussex Street

Steam Packet St.Philip’s Marsh (near Totterdown lock)

1841. William Brice

Steam Packet Sydney Place

1831 – 47. Joshua Sydney

Sugar Loaf Jacob Street

1840 – 44. Elijah Ackery / 1860 – 65. William Watts / 1866 – 69. Mary Ann Watts

Swan New George Street

1853. Alfred Smart / 1861 – 75. Robert Culverwell / 1876 to 1888. James Bowrey / 1889 to 1891. John Bowrey
1892. Frederick Allen / 1894 – 97. John Winterburn / 1901 – 14. Charles Lingard / 1917 – 25. Walter Dudbridge
1928 – 31. Frank Osborne / 1935 – 44. Frances Sheppard

Swan Inn Morley Street

Swan Inn Midland Road

On the corner with Waterloo Road, this picture shows the Swan in the year 2000.

1909. Arthur Lloyd
1914. James Brewer
1917 – 21. Amy Elizabeth Tyler
1925 – 44. James Feltham
1950 – 53. Queenie F. M. McDonald
1975. A. F. Emery

Three Compasses Jacob Street

1792 – 94. William Haynes / 1800. Abraham Kepple / 1806. William Woodland / 1816. Matthew Joseph
1820 – 23. Richard Holt / 1828 – 34. Thomas Prosser / 1837 – 44. John Easterbrook / 1847 – 48. John Wyatt
1849. Eliza Wyatt / 1853 – 58. Samuel Curtis / 1860 – 63. Samuel Llewellin / 1863 to 1876. John Llewellin
1877 – 83. James Small / 1885. Alfred R. Bird / 1886. Thomas Taylors

Three Crowns John Street (off Jacob Street)

Three Stars Lawrence Hill

1832. John Thorne

Three Tuns Lawrence Hill

1794. William Hawkins / 1800. James Sheffield / 1806. Ann Walters / 1816. George Jefferies
1820 – 28. Thomas Francis / 1832 – 33. Miles Phelps / 1834 – 37. William Robbins / 1839 – 40. John Davey
1844 – 61. John Jones / 1863. William Davis / 1866. John Rogers / 1877 – 78. John Porter / 1879. Joseph Barlow
1882 – 83. Samuel Yates / 1885. Eustace Hill / 1886 to 1887. John Hill / 1888. Alfred Luke Ford
1889. Thomas Walkley / 1891. John Matthews / 1892. John Brett / 1894. Edgar Walters / 1896. Fred Downs
1897. Harry Freeman / 1899. George Kinsey / 1901. Sarah Knight / 1904. Walter Jones / 1906 – 09. Job Lacey
1914 – 25. Sidney Foster / 1928. Thomas Tyler / 1930 to 1962. James Henry Feven

Trout Cook’s Lane, Barton Road

1832 – 34. Thomas Nash / 1853 – 69. John Summers / 1871 – 83. William Shipp / 1885. Edward John Shipp
1886 – 87. Mary Reynolds / 1888 – 1901. William Shipp

Upper Three Tuns Lawrence Hill

1822 to 1845. Thomas Francis / 1846 to 1851. George E. Francis / 1851. Charlotte Francis
1853 – 67. William Davis / 1868 – 69. Thomas Dickenson / 1871 – 77. John Porter / 1878. J. S. Barlow

Victoria Victoria Terrace (St.Philip’s Marsh)

Victoria Tavern Kingsland Road

Victory Lawrence Hill
The Victory was previously named the Golden Boot

1892 – 93. Jane Elizabeth Bissicks / 1894. Martha Street / 1896. Henry King / 1897 – 1909. Richard Foskett
1914 – 28. Helen Foskett / 1931. Frederick Davies / 1935 – 38. Edward Bennett

Volunteer Lawrence Hill

1847 – 55. Charles Llewellin / 1860. Mary Ann Williams / 1861. Harriet Smith / 1866 – 67. John Pash

Volunteer Midland Road (The Batch)

1863. John Shorland / 1865. Joseph Mecham / 1867. S. Hosegood / 1869. Alfred Reeves
1871 – 72. George Morse / 1874 – 75. Peregrini Thomas / 1876 – 78. C. Woolridge / 1881 – 82. Edwin Hazell
1883. Charles Foxwell / 1885. Eleanor Foxwell / 1886 to 1891. Levi Wood / 1892. Albert Wakefield
1896. Frederick Dawes / 1899 – 1901. Edwin Jones / 1904. F. Holmes / 1906. Julia Gane
1909 – 14. Rosina Bartlett

Waterloo Inn Midland Road

1881 – 83. Henry Watts / 1885. William Tiley / 1886 to 1887. William Winter / 1888 – 89. Mary Davis
1892 – 96. Alfred Carter / 1899. John Bird / 1901 – 04. A. W. Harrison / 1909. Joseph Colenso

Waverley Vaults Lawrence Hill

Weavers’ Arms Maze Street

1851 – 53. James Skinner / 1861. Mary Skinner / 1871 – 77. Susannah Skinner / 1878 – 85. William Rogers
1887 – 99. John Mills / 1901 – 06. James Langford / 1909 – 21. Thomas Morgan / 1925 – 37. William Webb
1944 – 50. Edward Stone / 1953. Patrick Kinsley

Wellesley Arms Lawrence Hill

Western Hotel Barton Hill

1841. William Pitman

Weston Arms No.34 Weston Street (off license)

1884. James F. Tuckfield / 1885. Mark Hutchings / 1887. Frederick Hawkins / 1888. Jacob Molton
1890. Mary Jane Vine / 1891 – 97. George Bascombe

Wheel Of Fortune Tower Hill

1831 – 34. Thomas Counsell

White Hart St.Philip’s Plain

1775. Joel Pearce

White Horse Catharine Street

1866. George Haynes

William IV Bread Street

1831 – 34. George Godfrey

William IV Folly Lane
The same establishment as the Folly Tavern & Tea Gardens

1848 – 69. Edward Stretton / 1871 – 77. Henry Winter / 1878. J. Bawn / 1879. Thomas Forse
1881 – 82. Henry Goodyer / 1883. Thomas Cook / 1885. Richard Exell / 1886. William Rowland
1887. Charles Amos / 1888. William Thomas Griffiths / 1889 to 1891. William Walker / 1892. George Jefferies
1894. Thomas Plewes / 1897. Bertram Hooten / 1899 – 1901. George Adams