The Avenue is a large hotel built on the northern corner of Bristol Road and Tuffley Avenue possibly for the Stroud Brewery Company. It was valued at £3,275 in 1900. The proprietor in the 1930’s was Wymes Scanlan and at that time the Avenue Hotel was the Head Quarters of Gloucester Old Boys and offered ‘billiards and a fine bowling alley’. It is now simply known as the Avenue and is a tied house of Banks’s of Wolverhampton. (Marston’s Brewing Co.) It was purchased from Whitbread in the early 1990’s.
Landlords at the Avenue include:
1893 J.J. Widdowson
1902 Mrs Mary Anna Sibley
1906 Walter Alexander
1919 Ernest Fowke Scanlan
1927, 1936 Wymes Scanlan
1957 Mrs. E. Scanlan
1990 Sue Black
1997, 1999 Mike and Vicky Taylor
