Old House at Home, King Street, Gloucester
King Street ran from Eastgate Street to St. Aldate Street. The site is now occupied by the Kings Walk shopping precinct. There is a reference in Bennetts Directory of 1908 to the Old Folk at Home. The license of the Old House at Home was referred to compensation authority in 1934. It closed its doors […]
Old Dial Inn, 150 Westgate Street, Gloucester
There are references to the Old Dial Inn at 92 Westgate Street in the 1879 Gloucester Directory and 93 Westgate Street in 1919. Upon renumbering the address was 150 Westgate Street. The Old Dial Inn was on the western corner of Westgate Street and Swan Lane. The White Swan was on the eastern corner of […]
Old Crown Inn, 81-85 Westgate Street, Gloucester
The Old Crown is on the junction with Westgate Street and Upper Quay Street opposite St. Nicholas Church. The Old Crown is named after a medieval ale house that closed in 1758 on the same site. It was formerly the meeting place of the Royalists during the Civil War in the 1640’s. In the 1970’s […]
Old Bell, Southgate Street, Gloucester
A Jacobean style Grade 1 17th Century listed building near the Cross. Costa Coffee now occupies the ground floor and the Old Bell Inn is upstairs. It is said that the building was constructed with parts of the ‘Mayflower’, the famous vessel that transported the Pilgrim Fathers on their legendary voyage to America in 1620. […]
Old Bear, Westgate Street, Gloucester
73 Westgate Street in a 1927 reference. The inn was on the site of the present day Shire Hall between Berkeley Street and Upper Quay Street. The Old Bear was once tied to Gardner & Branch Crown Brewery of St. Marys Street. It later became an Arnold Perrett & Co. of Wickwar tied house. The […]
Old Bank, (O£d Bank), 61-63 Eastgate Street, Gloucester
See also Spoofers, Water Poet & Zebra The Old Bank opened on 16th September 1997 in the premises of the old TSB bank in Eastgate Street. London based Regent Inns spent £3.5 million on the conversion, which took four months to complete. The bar was aimed at attracting ‘smart, but casual customers’. Manager Robert Lewis […]
Oddfellows Arms, Mitre Street or Oxbody Lane, Gloucester
Gloucester Journal – September 18th, 1880: A Stabbing Affray – On Saturday night, about 10 o’clock, a young man named James Philpotts, aged 21, a labourer working for Messrs Price & Co., timber merchants, Gloucester, was admitted to the infirmary suffering from a knife stab in the left side. It appears that Philpotts was at […]
Oak Inn, 350 Barton Street, Gloucester
The address of the Oak Inn is given as 350 Barton Street in 1936 and 1957. The Oak was situated opposite Hatfield Road near the junction with Hatherley Road. Gloucestershire Chronicle, Saturday 19th April 1902 – Alleged Assault: George Williams, of the Oak Inn, Lower Barton Street, Arthur Dance, Barton Street, and William Escourt, Salisbury […]
Oddfellows Arms, Chester Street, Cirencester
The Oddfellows Arms is listed as a free house in the 1891 and 1903 books of licensed premises in Gloucestershire. However, the Stroud Brewery Company later acquired the pub. A Stroud Brewery Company etched glass window was a rare survivor, although it was not in the best of condition. In February 2005 I was told […]
New House Inn / Target Inn, Bisley Road, Stroud
Even when the name of the pub was the New House it was often known unofficially as the Target Inn. The 1891 census refers to a Coneygre Inn in Bisley Road where Albert Hogg was proprietor. In 1934 the name was officially changed. The Target took its name from the shooting range in the Horns […]
