Station Master, (previously the Maypole Inn and Station Hotel) High Street, Warmley, Bristol BS15 4NF
Renamed the Station Master in April 1976 by Courage Brewery as they claimed that its previous identity of the Station Hotel was in contravention of the Trade Discription Act as the public house did not offer accomodation. At the end of the 19th century the licensed property was called the Maypole Inn. The Bristol to […]
Olivers Bar, Gloucester Docks
Above image: Chris Amies
Junction Inn, Grange Court, Westbury on Severn GL14 1PL
The railway junction is where the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway left the South Wales Main Line (Gloucester – Chepstow). A station was built on the South Wales Railway, which opened for passengers on 19th September 1851. The branch line to Hereford, via Ross-on-Wye, opened on 2nd June 1855 with adjustments on the main at […]
Horsepools Inn, Horespools Hill, Edge, nr Painswick.
The Horsepools Inn was located at the top of Horsepools Hill at the junction with Severnleaze lane. Today a property called Little Horsepools House, on the A4173, is situated on or near the site of the Horsepool Inn. It is not to be confused with the Gloucester House Inn (now the Edgemoor Inn) which is […]
Eagle Social Tap, 102-104 High Street, Cheltenham
Above image: Chris Amies
Old Comfort Hotel / The Pegglesworth Restaurant, nr Andoversford (A436) GL54 4LS
Gloucestershire Echo, Tuesday 12th June 1990: Advertisement Old Comfort Hotel and Luigi’s Italian Restaurant. Set high on the Cotswold Hills, in magnificient countryside on the A346, between Seven Springs and Andoversford, the Old Comfort Hotel and restaurant, is just the place for an evening meal or a weekend stay. Whether you choose to stay just […]
Great Western (beerhouse), Moreton Street, Gloucester
Gloucester Journal, Saturday 18th September 1869: Rebecca Edwards of the Great Western Inn, Moreton Street, was refused a licence on account of insufficiency of trading.
Wagon and Horses, Stockwell Lane, Woodmancote, Nr Bishops Cleeve
Cheltenham Chronicle, Saturday 29th March 1890 – Permitting Drunkeness: Ambrose Surman, of the Wagon and Horses, Woodmancote, was summoned for permitting drunkeness on his licensed premises on the 23rd inst P.C. Harvey said he saw a man called Gilder, whom he had previously observed sleeping on the premises, leave the Wagon and Horses in an intoxicated […]
Royal Oak, Longford, Gloucester
Gloucester Journal, 16th April 1842: Yesterday, a man, named James Hooper, of notoriously bad character, was brought before the Gloucester magistrates, under the following circumstances: —On Thursday evening he went to the shop of Mr. Lowe, silversmith, in Westgate-street, and offered for sale a bar of silver weighing about 2 ¾ ounces. He gave a […]
Cock Tavern, High Street, Cheltenham
Thank you to Martin Edwards for ‘discovering’ this long-forgotten Cheltenham pub.