There were once two pubs near the River Severn at Broadoak – the White Hart and the Broadoak Inn. The Broadoak Inn is recorded as being the meeting place of a Friendly Society in 1783. It appears to have closed around 1870 when an auction was held. ‘All that messuage, tenement or dwelling house (formerly two houses), containing five rooms on the ground floor, and five rooms above, with the court, piggeries, vault, cider mill house, and cider press, loft, gardens, and pieces of land adjoining called the Logger.’
From the Gloucestershire Chronicle, 10th August 1850:
This was another interpleader cause under circumstances very similar to the last, the transfer in this instance having been made by a brother to a sister. Mr Thomas and Mr Macnamara for the plaintiff, and Mr Whately, Q.C, for the defendant. The plaintiff, Susannah Jackson the younger, was a sister of Richard Jackson, formerly landlord of the Broad Oak Inn at Newnham, and the defendant, Mr Organ was a maltster and general dealer. The plaintiff’s brother Richard owed Mr Organ a sum of £13. 5s. upon a four times renewed bill of exchange for goods sold and delivered. Organ commenced an action to recover the amount, and judgment going by default a writ of fieri facias was issued, and the sheriff proceeded to the Broad Oak Inn and made a seizure. Thereupon the present plaintiff set up a claim to all the goods there, with the exception of a table, three or four chairs, and a few other articles. The goods she said had been transferred to her upon a valuation made by an appraiser, in satisfaction of a claim which she had upon her brother for arrears of wages at £8 a year, she having engaged to assist him in his household at that remuneration. To prove the transfer Richard Jackson was called. He stated that the agreement between him and his sister was a verbal one, and that on transferring the furniture to his sister the licence also was transferred, and he left the Broad Oak inn altogether, and was now living elsewhere, the business of the inn being carried on by his sister, the plaintiff. This case also ended in a verdict for the defendant.
The above information and research courtesy Dr Martyn Beaufort
There is no reference to the Broadoak Inn in the 1891 licensing book.
In April 2000 I had an email from Gordon Hunt from Derbyshire who told me that his 4X great grandfather, John Hunt, was landlord at the Broadoak Inn when he died in October 1830. He said that the inn was taken over by Richard Jackson, the brother of Edward Jackson who ran the Trumpet Inn in Southgate Street, Gloucester. “Edward’s wife was a granddaughter of the above John Hunt and from their first three children being baptised at Westbury on Severn between 1828 and 1832 I would guess they were at the Broadoak Inn until they moved to the Trumpet Inn.”
The Broadoak Inn was located on the banks of the Severn a little further upstream to the White Hart. Heading out of the village in the Gloucester direction there is a railway bridge over the A48. Just before the bridge on the right is Quay Lane. The pub was at the end of the lane and the building is now a private house.
Landlords at the Broad Oak include:
1830 John Hunt (died in October 1890)
1841 Richard Jackson
1856 George Rudge
1863 William Butler (also listed as a fruitier)
1876 William Butler, jnr. (also listed as a farmer at Rodley Court)
1880 John Perks