Cheltenham Original Brewery were the owners of the Berkeley Arms in 1891 and 1903. The annual rateable value of the licensed ale house was £27.0s.0d.
The Berkeley Arms closed in March 1986. I am grateful to Al Stone who told me that the closure of the pub was sudden and unexpected. He said that his friends were drinking with him in the Berkeley Arms on a Saturday lunchtime in March, but when they returned later that evening the pub had been boarded up.
The site of the Berkeley Arms is now a multi-storey car park.
Landlords at the Berkeley Arms include: (additional information Alan Jones)
1830 Joseph Rone (Pigots Directory)
1838 Annuaire – William Allen listed as a “victualler, Albion street”
1839 – 1846 Annuaires – W. Allen listed for Berkeley Arms Inn
1847 Hunt & C0. – W. Allen Berkeley Arms in “Inns & Public Houses” – also in 1848 Edwards
1849 Annuaire – G. Packer Berkeley Arms Inn
1850 Edwards – T. Packer Berkeley Arms in “Inns & Public Houses” – 1851 recorded as G. Packer in Annuaire as 1849, but as T. Packer in Edwards as 1850
1852 Edwards – T. Packer as above, but in Annuaire – J. Ballinger Berkeley Arms Inn (probably a changeover between when each collected/collated data)
1853 Annuaire – J. Ballinger as above
1854 – 1859 Annuaires – W. Poulson Berkeley Arms Inn
1856,1859 William Poulson
1860 & 1861 Annuaires – S. Millett
1862 Annuaire – Mrs. Leach
1863 Annuaire – W. Salisbury (presumably William Salisbury of the Salisbury Arms 2 Rotunda Terrace, Montpellier Street)
1870 E. Holbrook
1871 Maria Williams
1872-3, 1876 and 1878 Royal – Frederick or Fred. Ransome (1872-3) / Ransom – also 1880-1 & 1883-4 Post Office Directories
1878,1883 Frederick Ransom
1885 Mrs Ann Ransom
1891-2 Post Office – William Henry Browning
1900 – 1903 Annuaires – Mr. T. Ryland
1902 Thomas Ryland
1903,1906 Philip Henry Davis
1904 Built-Leonard – P.H. Davis – also various Annuaires/Built-Leonards to 1912 – and 1913 – 1915 Looker-On
1916 Looker-On – Mrs. Davis
1919 Mrs Selina Mary Davis
1920 Percival Philip Davis
1922, 1924 & 1925 Built-Leonard – H. Morrell – also 1926 – 1931 Kelly’s
1926,1927 Henry Morrell
1932 Kelly’s -Mrs. Morrall [sic]
1933 – 1939 Kelly’s – Earl Cecil Woodman
1940 Kelly’s – Mrs. L. Lindsey
1941 Kelly’s – William Charles Cook
1942, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1950 & 1952 Kelly’s Bernard J. Baxter