The Dog Inn was situated on the western side of Victoria Street, not far from the Nags Head. In the 1891 and 1903 licensing books it is listed as a free house owned by William Jones. The annual rateable value was set at £25.0s.0d. ‘Last orders’ were called at 11 pm each night. The Dog Inn had passed into the ownership of the voracious Wickwar Brewery (Arnold, Perrett & Co. Ltd.) by 1904.
The landlord of the Dog Inn, George Morgan, was convicted and fined 20/- plus costs for being drunk on his own premises on April 4th 1904. He had been in trouble a year before for ‘selling beer to an under 14-year old in an inadequately sealed bottle’, although he was acquitted on that occasion.
Gloucester Citizen, Tuesday, 25th September 1900 – Mr. Alfred E. Dykins has received instructions to conduct the following sales:- Wednesday, September 26th 1900, at Bell Hotel Gloucester. Travellers Rest Inn, Blakeney, also the Dog Inn, Victoria Street, Cinderford and The Lamb Inn, Gloucester Road, Coleford.
The Dog Inn closed in 1926.
Landlords at the Dog Inn include:
1869-1887 William Jones
1889-1894 Luke Newman
1897,1902,1903 Daniel Prosser (listed as a beer retailer in 1902)
1903,1904 George Morgan
1910-1912 Ernest Byett
1915 (30th April) James Prosser to Richard White
