Prince’s Plume, near Westgate Bridge, Gloucester
Gloucester Journal, 9th April 1853: SETTING FIRE TO A STACK OF WOOD. Henry Hiam, a cripple, with a crutch, was charged with having maliciously set fire to a certain stack of wood at Sandhurst, the property of James Murrell. Mr. F. Guise prosecuted; the prisoner defended himself. The particulars of this case we fully reported […]
Full Moon, Full Moon Street, Bristol
Gloucester Journal, 9th April 1853: From an uttering a forged note case. Witness said he wanted his property; that the prisoner had £4 6s of his good money. Prisoner said he was going to have a glass of beer, and asked witness if he would have one, but witness declined. Prisoner on finding him determined, […]
White Lion Tavern, Parish of St. Lawrence (Bristol City Centre)
The Parish of St Lawrence was in the centre of Bristol in the location of Baldwin Street. Gloucester Journal, 9th April 1853 – Burglary at Bristol: James Meany, 18, and Michael Dinen, aged 24, were indicted for burglariously breaking into the house of Michael Doyle and stealing a sum of money and a quantity of […]
White Lion Beer House, Barton Street, Gloucester
Gloucester Journal, 16th August 1851: THE MANSLAUGHTER IN BARTON STREET. Edmund Curtis, aged 29, was charged on the coroner’s inquisition with the manslaughter of his wife, Hester Curtis, in April last. Mr. Macnamara prosecuted; Mr. Cooke defended the prisoner. The facts of this melancholy case, our readers will remember, were briefly these :—On the evening […]
Cherry Tree Inn, Lower Meen, St. Briavels
There is a house called The Cherries in The Common (GL15 6SG). Could this have once been the Cherry Tree cider house? Wednesday 11th April 1860 – The Saint Briavel’s Murder: Joseph Webb was charged at Gloucester assizes with the wilful murder of an old man named John Hughes, under circumstances of extraordinary brutality, oh […]
Crown Inn, Thomas Street, Bristol City
Gloucester Journal, 5th April 1851 THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT BRISTOL Andrew Daly, aged 27, and John Macfarlane, aged 23, soldiers, were indicted on the coroner’s inquisition, with the wilful murder of John Pim, at Bristol, on the night of the 3d of May 1849. Mr Skinner appeared for the for prosecution, and […]
Rose Inn, Temple Street, Bristol City
Gloucester Journal, 12th April 1851: William Gray, aged 22, was charged with of having maliciously stabbed one Henry Church. The prisoner had been endeavouring to sell a cheese at the Rose public house, Temple Street, Bristol; the prisoner’s father was there; both men and father were quarrelling with a man named’ Ridler, but the prisoner […]
Old Wells Stores, 44 Tivoli Street, Cheltenham
Information and research by Martin Edwards
Cheltenham – Early Inns
Hi Geoff, Cheltenham has been a market town since it got its charter in 1226, so I expect there have been inns at least since then or then abouts. But just to give an idea on how many might have existed that we don’t know or aren’t sure about, here is a list of “Common […]
Cannon Inn, 180 Bath Road, Cheltenham
Hi Geoff, The landlord of the New Inn in Prestbury Road, John Edins, moved to take on two pubs in the Bath Road. In the 1844 Harper’s Directory he is listed at a beerhouse called the Brewer’s Arms, which would have been located where the Four Alls later Five Alls came to be. He also had a butchers shop next door. The […]