The Hope Inn was located at 62 Barton Street according to the listing in the 1957 Gloucester directory. The Hope Inn was originally called the Hope & Anchor. The Hope Inn was situated on the south side of Barton Street, a few yards from the junction of Kings Barton Street in the direction of Barton Gates. The Hope Inn was listed at 62 Barton Street in a Gloucester Street Directory of 1974. The length of Barton Street between Clarence Street / Brunswick Road to the Bruton Way junction is now part of Eastgate Street.
Citizen: 10th February 1977: Former landlady of the old Hope Inn, Barton Street. Mrs Dorothy Kate Brint, has died in hospital, aged 80. Mrs Brint spent 77 years in two Gloucester pubs, and her duties behind the bar kept her so busy that for 30 years she went without a holiday. She was born at the Windmill Inn, Windmill Parade and a pub was her home until she retired in September 1973. She was at the Windmill – her mother, Mrs Kate Abbott, was there for 37 years – and she lived at the Hope Inn for 40 years. Mrs Brint became licensee of the Hope Inn when her mother died about 32 years ago. Her husband died soon after her mother and she was helped at the pub by her nephew, Mr John Davis, her son Rolf, and her daughter Joyce. After her retirement, she spent some time in Australia visiting her grandchild. She leaves a son and five grandchildren.
Landlords at the Hope Inn include:
1856 O. Clutterbuck
1859 Thomas Brewer
1879 M.A. Kendall
1885 Richard Henry Sidlington
1893 J. Marriot
1902 Frederick Burgwin
1906 Joseph Margrett
1919 Frederick James Griffin
1927 William J. Gough
1930 Miss E.F. Moody (manageress)
1936,1939 Mrs Kate K. Abbott
1957 Mrs Dorothy Kate Brint
