The Oxford, 428 High Street, Cheltenham (now 46 High Street)
The above information has kindly been supplied by Martin Edwards, Cheltenham Pub Historian. The building is directly opposite the Vine Inn, which was once the Coopers Arms.
Pelican Inn (became the Cavalier) Twyning Road, Upper Strensham, Worcestershire
Strensham is known today for the motorway service station on the M5. Before the motorway was built Strensham village was a quiet backwater just outside the Gloucestershire County boundary in Worcestershire. The Pelican, in later years The Cavalier, is included on the website just to include the excellent colour photographs taken by Michael Wilkes back […]
Roving Jockey, Broadwell (Forest of Dean)
Gloucester Journal, 18th September 1852 – Coleford Lane End, near Coleford: To be sold by auction by Mr James Karn at the Kings Head Inn, Coleford, on the 20th day of September 1852, at four o’clock in the afternoon. All that messuage or dwelling house now used as a beer house, and called the ROVING […]
Bridge Inn, Chesterton Lane, Cirencester
From the notes of John Tiffney THE BRIDGE INN Up Querns Hill, over the dual carriage way bridge and turn right into Cotswold Avenue. The large building on the corner is Bridge House the site of – THE BRIDGE INN Mentioned in an 1878 Directory. In the 1881 census, George Hulbert from Ewen was a […]
Henry’s / Harry Hares / Graze, Gosditch Street Cirencester
From the notes of John Tiffney HENRY’S In the 1800 list [of Cirencester licensed premises] this was the site of the “GEORGE” a beerhouse,( and before that, the “HARTS HEAD”) The name may have come from the George family of whom Rebecca Powell (Powell’s School) was a member,but by 1790 it had become the warehouse […]
Woodbine Cottage, 39 Querns Lane, Cirencester
From the notes of John Tiffney WOODBINE COTTAGE A public house of this name is listed under “Taverns and Public Houses” in the Gloucestershire Directory of 1820 (published at the Herald Office, Westgate) licensee, Elizabeth Tovey of Queen’s (Querns?) Lane. No other record has been found.The name Woodbine was transferred to Chesterton Lane. (A Mrs […]
Ye Olde Bell, Querns Lane, Cirencester
From the notes of John Tiffney YE OLDE BELL ALEHOUSE, Querns Lane Across the road from the Hope Inn, where Anton Piller’s premises are now, was the site, until 1839, of “Ye OLDE BELL ALEHOUSE”. It is shown on an 1827 map at the start of the Cirencester to Wotton Bassett Turnpike. It was demolished […]
Bathurst Arms, Querns Lane, Cirencester
From the notes of John Tiffney BATHURST ARMS Thomas Lediard had an entry in the 1820 “Gloucestershire Directory – printed and published at the Herald office at Westgate, Gloucester” as a beer retailer at the Bathurst Arms in Querns Lane. Possibly the former name of the “Hope Inn”? No other information has become available.
Horse and Jockey, Sheep Street, Cirencester
From the notes of John Tiffney HORSE & JOCKEY “William Newcombe, Beer Retailer”, gets an entry in Moore’s 1847 Almanac. It may have been in the row of six cottages opposite the Marlborough Arms,that were pulled down in 1973 to widen Sheep Street and to provide spaces for the Old Town Station car park.
1 Park Street, Cirencester (off licence or grocers shop)
From the notes of John Tiffney Opposite the foot of Cecily Hill tucked away in a corner at No 1 Park Street, there was a small shop that was run in 1894 by “Frederick Jobbins, Beer retailer at 28 Park Street”, later to be a Grocers and Off license of “EA Jackson, Licensed retailer of […]