The Berkeley Hunt was near to St. Mary de Crypt Church in Southgate Street. The original street number of the pub was 132 Southgate Street (in 1906) and was re-numbered to 37 Southgate Street (in 1936).
The Gloucester Citizen reported on 3rd January 1867 that the licensee was summoned for serving after permitted hours. ‘Supplying beer to four men who helped after closing time cost Southgate Street landlord a total of £52 when he appeared in Gloucester City Magistrates Court yesterday. The four men were each fined £5 and one guinea cost for consuming intoxicating liquor on licensed premises during the non permitted hours. Frederick Savage of the Berkeley Hunt inn pleaded not guilty to four charges of supplying intoxicating liquor during non permitted hours and not guilty to four charges of aiding and abetting another person to consume intoxicating liquors during non permitted hours. The magistrates found the case proved and ordered him to pay the advocates fee of 12 guineas.’
Gloucester Journal, Saturday 21st December 1878: NOTICE – Any person having any claim upon the estate of Charles Bullock, deceased, late of the Berkeley Hunt, beerhouse keeper, Southgate Street, Gloucester, are requirrd to send particulars therof on or before31st January 1879, to Susan Oseland Bullock and James Powell (Executors of the deceased Charles Bullock), Lower Geoge Inn, Gloucester.
Gloucester Citizen, Wednesday 16th October 1895: James William Thomas, Deceased – All persons having any claim or demand against the estate of James William Thomas, late of the Berkeley Hunt, Southgate Street, Gloucester, are hereby requested to send particulars thereof forthwith to Miss Mary Ann Thomas, of the Berkeley Hunt Inn aforesaid, the Sole Executrix of the Will of the deceased, to the undersigned BRETHERTON, SON & BOUGHTON, Bell Lane, Gloucester.
G Cummings provided materials to the Berkeley Hunt for Home Brewed Beer at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Berkeley Hunt was demolished in January 1973.
Gloucester Journal: Saturday, December 16th 1972 – From Pub to Office Block: The fate of the old Gloucester public house, the Berkeley Hunt in Southgate Street, has at last been settled by the planning committee. After months of delay over their decision, the committee has given the go-ahead to a company who want to redevelop the pub’s site as another office block. The company’s plans for the site, which is a stone’s throw from St. Mary de Crypt, were considered in June, August and September, and again in October, before final permission was granted to Copthall Holdings for a four-storey office block giving a total of18,000 square feet of space. The design will be similar in design to the office block on the corner of Park Road and Brunswick Road, the planning department says.
Gloucester Citizen, Wednesday 21st December 1983 – Ex-City licensee dies: Mrs Ivy Florence Newman who was licensee at the Berkeley Hunt pub in Southgate Street, Gloucester, died on Sunday, aged 77. With her husband Frank, who had been invalided out of the Gloucestershire Constabularly after losing a leg in an accident, Mrs Newman kept the Berkeley Hunt from 1936-1961. Mrs Newwan, who came originally from the Forest of Dean, had no children. The funeral service will be held in Gloucester on Wednesday.
Landlords at the Berkeley Hunt include:
1859 George Hughes
1867 Frederick Savage
1878 Charles Bullock
1879 J. Salverton
1893 G.H. Smith
1895 James William Thomas
1905,1906 H.S. Lane
Gloucestershire Chronicle, 26th Augut 1905. ‘On 24th August, at the Berkeley Hunt, Southgate Street, the wife of A.S. Lane, a son.’
1936 G. Brain
1957 Francis G. Newman
1936-1961 Florence (and Frank) Newman