Running Horse, 12 Queens Buildings, Cheltenham

Queens Buildings ran between the High Street and Albion Street, along the eastern side of Wellington Passage where the Wellington Vaults were located. The Wellington was at no 3 Queens Buildings and the Running Horse at No.12. The 1872-3 Royal Directory gives reference to the Running Horse which was owned by the Coome Family. To […]

Crown Inn, Gretton, Winchcombe

Cheltenham Chronicle, Saturday 9th December 1905: Monday, before Mr E Adlard (in the chair at Winchcombe Magistrates) and Col. Fairfax Rhodes. James Green, 40, a navvy, was brought up on remand charged with stealing two live fowls, value 5s., the property of Mrs Sarah Cull, Crown Inn, Gretton on November 30th. George Harris, carpenter, lodging […]

Saw Pit, Littleworth, Greet, Winchcombe

Gloucestershire Echo, Saturday 29th January 1916: Castle & Bloss are instructed to sell by auction, at the White Hart Hotel, Winchcombe, on Saturday 5th February 1916, at 6 o’clock in the evening – the valuable Freehold of the old-established beerhouse, known as The Sawpits, Littleworth, Greet, with Yard, Garden, Orchard etc. Fixtures and Fittings at […]

Mazeppa, East End Road, Charlton Kings

Martin Edwards, fellow pub historian, has identifed a long-lost beerhouse on the corner of East End Road and London Road which was called the Mazeppa. This is the site of the present petrol station. Only one reference in 1844 when the landlord was John Mountjoy. There was another Mazeppa beerhouse in Tewkesbury Road at this […]

Blue Boys Inn, Wotton-under-Edge

Gloucestershire Echo, Monday 30th May 1910 – Meeting of creditors: A meeting of the creditors of William Gazzard, beerhouse keeper, formerly grocer, of the Blue Boys Inn, Wotton-under-Edge, was called on Saturday at the office of the Official Receiver, Gloucester, but only debtor attended, and the affairs remain in the hands of the Official Receiver.

Bell Inn, Pillowell

Gloucester Citizen, Thursday 20th June 1907 – Gloucestershire Licensing Committee, Coleford District: The Bell, Pillowell, West Dean, an ante-1869 beerhouse (owners Thomas Hill James, licensee Thomas Guest) was first considered.. Mr Stamford Hutton represented the Coleford Licensing Authority, and called Supt. Griffin, who said the house was in the open forest and was very difficult […]