The address is given as 8 Suffolk Parade in the 1891 Cheltenham Post Office Directory.
George Richard Stibbs, of the Albion Steam Brewery in Albion Street, was the owner of the Suffolk Stores in 1891. It was licensed as a beer house but had a six-day licence, so it was presumably closed on Sundays. After take-over of Stibbs’s Steam Brewery in 1898, Cheltenham Original Brewery became the new owners of the Suffolk Stores. The annual rateable value of £25.10s.0d. in 1891 decreased slightly by three pounds and five shillings to £21.5s.0d. in 1903.
Landlords / Keepers of the Suffolk Stores include:
1878 George Stibbs
1891 Elizabeth Jones
1903 Dinah Thomas
Hi Geoff,
On the cheltenhamsouthtown.org website, in an entry researched by Stuart Manton and Jill Waller on the Suffolk Stores / Suffolk Inn, they say that the property was previously a greengrocers, but by 1855 became a Porter Stores run by Mr. W. Stantial. In 1870 it “was home to G.R. Stibbs Steam Brewery Retail Department.” As you know, George Stibbs owned the store in 1891, but after the Cheltenham Original Brewery took over Stibb’s Steam Brewery in 1898, they became owners. On the southtown website again, it says “it later became the Suffolk Ale & Porter Stores Inn, which finally closed on 31st December 1921.”
Here are the landlords I discovered:
1855 W. Stantial Porter Stores
1866 Samuel Owen – named in a press report as being charged with keeping his house open for the sale of ale after legal hours. Fined 5s. plus 8s. costs.
1870 G.R. Stibbs – also 1872-3, 1876 & 1878 Royal Directories as G.R. Stibbs Steam Brewery Retail Department and 1880-1 and 1883-4 Post Office Directories, the latter listed as Ale & Porter Stores
1890-1 Miss Jones – Post Office Directory Ale & Porter Stores
1900 – 1904 Mrs. [Dinah] Thomas in Annuaires and also in 1903 Built-Leonard listed as Ale Vaults
1905 Mr. H. Long – Annuaire
1906 Mrs. H. Clifford – Annuaire
1907 Mrs. A Yendall – Annuaire
1908 & 1909 Mrs. E.E. Dobbs – Annuaire
1910 – 1912 Mr. J. Dowdeswell – Annuaires…also 1913 – 1916 Looker-On
Cheers,
Alan Jones