Vauxhall Brewery Inn, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham

The Vauxhall Brewery Inn, on the corner of Tewkesbury Road and Malvern Street, originally brewed its own beer.

The Cheltenham Original Brewery were the owners of the Vauxhall Brewery Inn in 1891 and 1903. It was licensed as a beer house and had an annual rateable value of £15.5s.0d. in 1891 increasing by three pounds and five shillings to £18.10s.0d. in 1903.

The pub was rebuilt in the late 1950’s / early 1960’s by West Country Breweries and took the name of the Vauxhall Inn.

The Sportsman. Courtesy Michael Williams.

It was renamed the Last Drop in the mid 1980’s, perhaps in an attempt to rejuvenate the image of the pub. It changed name again to the Sportsman in the 1990’s but it was eventually closed and was demolished in May 1997.

Thank you to Alan Jones for the following information:

The Vauxhall Brewery Inn at the original junction of Tewkesbury Road and Malvern Street (then Malvern Place) is clearly marked on the 1855-7 Old Town Survey map. Using a modern map overlay, this would have put it in the extreme west corner of the car park for the new Mobility shop and the Sue Ryder charity shop. The Sue Ryder charity shop site – a little further back was the site where the new Vauxhall (later Sportsman and Last Drop) was later rebuilt.

The Bridge Inn was a little further west and using a modern map overlay, was located near the end of the garden that is on Tewkesbury Road now, in front of the set back block of flats. In his list of Lower Dockem pubs published on the Days gone by in Cheltenham Facebook Group, Martin Edwards says the Bridge Inn was formerly called the Gate Inn.

Landlords at the Vauxhall Brewery Inn include:

1844,1870 John Walker

1878 George Smith

1883 Richard Cox (Vauxhall Arms)

1891 Robert Smith

1903 Edwin Teale

1939 Alfred H.J. Morgan (Vauxhall Inn)

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