Haus, 56 Westgate Street, Gloucester

See Also Lamprey Hotel The building was originally the Lamprey Hotel. After refurbishment into the Lamprey Café Bar the premises changed identity to Therapy (April 2002). In June 2003 the Haus opened as a coffee house, bar, restaurant and night spot. An advert read: ‘4 star treatment on the haus… award winning cappuccinos by day. […]

Hare & Hounds, St. Catherines Street, Gloucester

The Hare and Hounds is described as a beer house in the Gloucestershire Chronicle dated January 1st 1870. Ann Partridge was charged with stealing from the till a sum of ‘four florins, three shillings, a sixpence and some coppers’. The landlady told the court that her only desire was to get her money back and […]

Hauliers Arms / Baker Street, 230 Southgate Street, Gloucester

The Hauliers Arms was once tied to Mitchell & Butlers brewery in Birmingham, which became a subsidiary of the Bass Charrington Group – one of the infamous ‘Big 6’ brewery giants of the 1970’s.  For the last thirty years, or so, it has been known as Baker Street and the pub sign has a Sherlock […]

Foresters Arms, Russell Street, Stroud

4 Russell Street in 1939 directory. The Foresters Arms stood a few yards up from the Railway Hotel. The Foresters Arms closed in the early 1970’s. John Rogers emailed me in January 2008 and told me that the Foresters Arms was a “very rough pub, much favoured by Nailsworth lads coming into Stroud on Friday […]

Duke of York, 22 Nelson Street, Stroud

22 Nelson Street in 1906 & 1939 directories. The Duke of York is long term closed, probably permanently as there is an application in place for residential conversion. It is Grade II listed. “A clock with the figure of a negro-boy, with a bell before him on which he sounded the hours with a club […]

Crown Inn, High Street, Stroud

36 High Street in 1906 and 1939 directories. The Crown Inn overlooked the fountain at the top end of the High Street. The Citizen: October 1887 – Serious Fire Averted. On Thursday morning an alarm of fire was raised at the Crown Inn, The Cross, Stroud. The captain and a few members of the Volunteer […]