London Ale & Porter Stores, 325 Lower High Street, Cheltenham

Numbered 184 High Street and latterly 325 the London Ale & Porter Stores was on the western corner of the St. Pauls Street South junction (North side of the High Street). In recent years it has been G.T.V. radio and television spares shop. There is no evidence to suggest that it was ever a licensed property.

Mrs Wheeler was the owner of the London Ale & Porter Stores in 1891 and 1903. Licensed as a beer house the property had an annual rateable value of £21.5s.0d. in 1891, increasing by one pound and ten shillings to £22.15s.0d. in 1903. Mrs Wheeler leased the London Ale & Porter Stores to the Cheltenham Original Brewery.

RE: London Ale & Porter Stores, 325 (184) Lower High Street, Cheltenham

Geoff,

Not a huge one this, but in respect of the London Ale & Porter Stores on the corner of the junction of Lower High Street and St. Paul’s Street South, I did come across “Beer Retailers” listed at this address as follows:

1850 Edward’s Directory W. Degue and 1852 Edward’s Directory G. Dixon (listed as a “beerhouse”).

It isn’t marked as a public house or beer house on the 1855-7 Old Town Survey map. Although, located a little way behind it (where the first building on the west side of St. Paul’s Street South is now) the “Town’s Weghing Machine” was located (presumably for weighing road cargo using the Back Road / Swindon Road turnpike or toll road). This would probably have made the junction quite a busy one.

Alan Jones

Landlords at the London Ale & Porter Stores include:

1870,1878 Thomas Dollery

1883 Mrs Mary Stanbridge

1891 Thomas George Barker

1896 G.P. Tapp

1903 William Armstrong

1906 Mrs F.G. Oliver

1926 Elizabeth Miller – beer retailer

1939 Thomas Griffiths

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