Loyal Volunteer, Gloucester Street, Cirencester
The Loyal Volunteer was just inside the entrance to Gloucester Street from Dollar Street. It was listed at 182 Gloucester Street in the 1919 directory. The Loyal Volunteer was originally a theatre with a licensed refreshment room. The theatre, at the rear of the premises, was built by John Boles and opened in 1799. Visitors […]
Kings Head, King Street, Gloucester
Kings Head Inn King Street Gloucester E.J. Wilkes Dealer in Foreign Wines & spirits Home Brewed Beer Well Aired Beds The above advertisement dates from 1873. In 1885 John William Sherwood is the occupying landlord.
Kings Head Hotel, 24 Market Place, Cirencester
The Kings Head, dominating the south side of the Market Place, had a substantial annual rateable value of £200.0s.0d. in 1891 and 1903. Some of the building is said to date from the late fifteenth century. Two Posting Houses or inns are listed in the Court Rolls of Edward VI, presumably the Ram and the […]
Kings Arms, Castle Street, Cirencester
80 Castle Street in the 1919 directory. The Kings Arms was next door to the Black Horse Inn. Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Cirencester Brewery Rateable Value in 1891: £16.0s.0d. Type of license in 1891: Alehouse Owner in 1903: Cirencester Brewery Rateable Value in 1903: £16.0s.0d. Type of license in 1903: Alehouse Closing time in […]
Horse & Drill, Watermoor Road, Cirencester
The Horse & Drill was previously called the Drillmans Arms. Numbered 2 Siddington Road in 1939. The pub was once on the main road from Gloucester to Swindon. The Horse and Drill closed in 1974 because the new dual carriageway linking the northern and southern bypasses was scheduled to be constructed on the site of […]
Hope Inn, Querns Lane, Cirencester
The Cirencester Brewery Company purchased the ‘Hope Inn beer house and garden in Querns Lane’ on 24th December 1904. The building is now in use as ‘Sydney Free Saddlers and Country Clothing’- a shop by the pedestrian crossing in Querns Lane. A modern wooden sign on the building obscures the wording of an original wall […]
Woodlands Guest House, 64 St Whites Road, Cinderford
Horse & Groom Inn, Upper Leazes, Stroud
The Stroud News & Journal’ reported on 12th February 1904: Stroud Police Licensing Session. James Boulton Biggs, Superintendant: “I have called the attention of the Stroud Brewery Company to the dilapidated condition of the Horse and Groom and the Globe beerhouses, situate at the Lower Leazes, Stroud, which I visited on 15th Jan. 1904. These […]
Kingsholm Inn, 8 Kingsholm Road, Gloucester
8 Kingsholm Road in 1919 Kellys directory and present day address. The Kingsholm Inn may have once brewed its own beer as there is an 1863 reference to the Kingsholm Brewery. It later became a tied house of Godsell & Sons, Salmon Springs, Stroud. At that time (c1925) it was the headquarters for St Marks […]
Kings Arms, Hare Lane, Gloucester
The following is reproduced with permission from Darrel Kirby’s ‘The Story of Gloucester Pubs’ (The History Press 2010): The King’s Arms was at no 3 Hare Lane, referred to in some places as Tewkesbury Street. It was just off Northgate Street on the west side of the road. The first reference that I have found […]
