6 Bristol Road in 1936 directory.
Gloucester Journal: September 1888: On Wednesday Messrs Bruton Knowles & Co, instructed by the trustees of the will of the late Mr. E. Brindley, sold by auction at the Railway Inn, Bristol Road, Gloucester, four houses in Theresa Street. No 10 was bought by Mr Wood for £113, No 12 by the same proprietor for £113.10s. No 22 by Mr Baldwin for £112.10s. and No 24 by Mr Avery at £115.10s. Each of the houses were rented at £11.4s per annum.
The Railway Inn was by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company works. The Railway Inn was situated very near to the present day St Anns Way, at the entrance to the Peel Centres.
The Railway Inn would have been popular with workers from the ‘Wagon Works’, Feilding & Platt and Morelands Match Factory. The pub had a successful skittle team. The Railway Inn was demolished in the early 1980’s to make way for the Inner Ring Road.
Winget offices and the offices of the Gloucester Wagon works in Bristol Road were demolished in Feb/March 1989.
Landlords at the Railway Inn include:
1859 Lewis Pearce
1879 A. Pearce
1885,1902 Mrs Adelaide Pearce
1893 G. Welshman
1906 Charles John Hall
1910 George Welshman
1912 J. Welshman
1912, 1919 Charles Gibbons
1927 Ernest Bound
1936 Alfred May
1939 Alfred Sydney May
1957 Edgar J. Brain
