Salmon Inn, Elmore Back GL2 3ST
Elmore Back is on the southern bank of the River Severn opposite Minsterworth church. It is about two miles from Elmore. The Salmon closed in 1941. Vera Smith of Elmore Back, the stepdaughter of Mr Wellington (who kept the inn as tenant until closure), remembered that the Salmon had a sitting room, a bar and […]
Hatherley Manor Hotel, Down Hatherley GL2 9QA
Citizen: Monday, March 5th, 1984 – Advertisement Feature: The New Hatherley Manor Hotel – The county’s newest hotel and banqueting centre is also the oldest! The reason for this strange state of affairs? Hatherley Manor Hotel, which officially opens next week, is a moated manor house with a history back into antiquity. The real age […]
Hare & Hounds, 162 Cheltenham Road East, Churchdown GL3 1AL
The Hare & Hounds, on the B4063 Cheltenham Road East, is located on the eastern side of the junction with Parton Road and Innsworth Lane. The Hare and Hounds once sold beer from Arnold Perretts Wickwar Brewery and one of their landlords, Alfred Thomas Rose Baldaro was summonsed in 1898 for violently ejecting a customer, […]
Old House at Home, Brookfield Road, Churchdown
The Old House at Home was a picturesque 17th century half-timbered traditional beerhouse. A photograph of the black and white building with its immaculately kept front garden is the epitomy of the classic English pub. A reference to the Old House at Home (1873) documents the pub as being ‘near the tithe barn’. The premises […]
Bat & Ball / Old Elm, Church Road, Churchdown GL3 2ER
The Olde Elm was originally housed in a small row of ex terraced houses in Church Road opposite Chapel Hay Lane. There were bow windows to the front of the property and a sign on the end wall read: ‘Ye Olde Elm. Flower &Sons Ales & Stout in Cask and Bottle.’ In the 1930’s a […]
Chosen Hotel, Station Road, Churchdown GL3 2HE
The Chosen Hotel, on the junction of Station Road and Albermarle Road, was located near to Churchdown Railway Station. It was originally built in 1897 as a temperance hotel but obtained a licence by 1903. It had a six day licence as late as 1936. The pub began its decline when the railway station was […]
White Lion, Bristol Road, Cambridge GL2 7BD
Truck Meet: A meeting of Lister Autotrucks owners will be held on September 18th and 19th at the White Lion, Cambridge. Trucks and their owners have been promised from Yorkshire, mid-Wales and Devon but more local owners and their trucks are invited to what is believed to be the first gathering of its kind. The […]
George Inn, Bristol Road, Cambridge GL2 7AL
The George Inn was purchased by the Stroud Brewery from the Berkeley Estate in January 1945. However, Stroud Ales had been served at the George for many years before that under a leasing agreement. The landlord in the early 1960’s, Cyril Tom Cooper, was a very talented pianist who ran the Dixie Cooper dance band. […]
Drovers Arms, Bristol Road, Cambridge GL2 7AN
Stroud Brewery acquired the Drovers Arms in 1888. The annual rateable value of the Drovers Arms in 1891 is given as £22.10s.0d which included four acres, three roods and thirty seven poles! The inn was still trading in 1959 when a motorist was threatened with court action for failing to pay damages of £6.10s.0d. after hitting […]
Bell Inn, Bristol Road, Cambridge GL2 7BB / GL2 7BD
There is some confusion on where the Bell Inn was located in Cambridge. In c.1910 the Bell was trading in the centre of the village in the building that now trades as Bell House Antiques (GL2 7BD). However, an earlier photograph shows the inn sign of the Bell at at the property now called Bells […]
