George Harwood was the owner of the Queens Head in 1891. It was a free house and had an annual rateable of £22.10s.0d. In 1903 the Gloucestershire licensing book states that the Queens Head beer house was owned by Charles Garton & Co., who were brewers based in Lawrence Hill, Bristol. This must have been a mistake by the enumerator as Garton & Co. had been acquired by the Somerset based Anglo-Bavarian Brewery five years earlier in 1898. The Queens Head probably sold the ‘Famous Anglo-Bavarian Amber Ale’, which was light in colour and had the characteristics of a lager style beer – a forerunner of today’s popular ‘Golden Ales’.

The Queens Head was referred for compensation without any objection at the principal meeting of the Compensation Authority for the County of Gloucester held at Shire Hall, Gloucester, on Thursday 24th June 1926.

The Queens Head closed on 20th April 1927 – by that time the beers were probably supplied from the Cheltenham Original Brewery Company.

The current property having the addess of 112 High Street in Cinderford is in a row of terraced houses set off from the road, backing onto Elmdean. It is directly opposite Albion Road, near the Applegreen petrol station.


Landlords at the Queens Head include:

1891 Leonard Jones

1901,1902 Samuel Simmons (beer retailer in 1902)

? Fred Brain (Note: see GRO ref: D2308 1/5)

1903 Samuel Simmonds

1915 Henry Wintle

? John S. Wintle

1927 Raymond Smith

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