Miners Arms, Chepstow Road, Sling
Perhaps the earliest mention of the Miners Arms at Sling dates from 1841. John Willis was the owner of the Miners Arms in 1891 and 1903, a licensed beer house that was free from brewery tie with an annual rateable value of £12.0s.0d. Closing time was at 10 pm. The Citizen: Saturday, June 22nd, 1991 […]
New Inn, Ross Road, Shortstanding
George Tomlins was the owner of the New Inn in 1891 and 1903. Although he ran it as a free house in 1891, he had leased the pub to John Arnold & Sons of Wickwar in 1903. The annual rateable value of the New Inn was £12.0s.0d. and it was a licensed alehouse, closing time […]
Sedbury Park Hotel, Sedbury, nr. Chepstow
Sedbury Park was formerly the seat of Percival Marling VC. Mr and Mrs Herbert Talbot converted the building to a luxury hotel in 1921. Chepstow Golf Club was located within its grounds. According to an advertisement in 1929 there was even a ‘landing ground for aeroplanes’. The Sedbury Park Hotel became an approved school in […]
Hope & Anchor Inn, Sedbury, nr. Chepstow
The Hope and Anchor was also known as the Old Bonny Thatch. It had closed before the 1891 licensing renumerations and details have proven elusive. Landlords: 1830 -1846 John Kitchen 1846 -1860 Matthew Baker (aged 68 in 1851) 1860 -1871 Sarah Baker (Sarah Baker was 84 when she died in 1871) 1876 Martha Allen
Fisherman’s Arms / Village Inn, Sedbury nr. Chepstow
The Fisherman, now the Village Inn, is a modern pub that was built in the 1960’s. In April 2007 Forest of Dean MP Mark Harper reopened the Enterprise Inns owned pub after a £200,000 extension and refurbishment. The Fisherman was doubled in size and had a new kitchen, dining area and a sports bar equipped […]
Butchers Arms, Parliament Street, Stroud
53 Parliament Street in 1939 directory. The ‘Citizen’ reported on 5th March 1926 that “there were seven other pubs within 158 yards and that the public house was a live one with a growing trade and the premises were well suited for business.” The Butchers Arms was still open in the mid 1960’s. Licensing Details: […]
Butchers Arms, 42 Acre Street, Stroud
42 Acre Street in 1939 directory. There was another Butchers Arms, a Godsell’s house, just over a hundred yards away in Parliament Street. An old photograph of the Acre Street Butchers Arms shows a simple stone building on a pronounced slope with a wooden board fixed just below the upper floor windows: ‘William Watts. Licensed […]
British Oak / Bowbridge Arms, London Road, Stroud GL5 2AY
The Eagle Brewery was once located immediately behind the British Oak. (Alan Neame, Eagle Brewery). The Nailsworth Brewery acquired the Eagle Brewery in 1897. The old brewery buildings were used for many years for prestige caravan manufacturing – Safari Caravans. The brewery buildings were demolished and flats now occupy the site. The British Oak and […]
Bricklayers Arms, Russell Street, Stroud
The licence for the Bricklayers Arms was refused on 29th May 1909. There is no reference to the pub in the 1891 petty sessional records. Is it possible that the Bricklayers Arms was only trading for six years or so? Licensing Details: Owner in 1903: Stroud Brewery Rateable value in 1903: £17.0s.0d. Type of licence […]
Sandford Park Ale House (was Club EXS), 20 High Street, Cheltenham
In January 2012 Club EXS, the only gay nightclub / bar in Cheltenham, closed. In October 2012 the new owners, Mainly Beers Ltd, applied to Cheltenham Borough Council for permission to turn it into a traditional drinking house specialising in real ale. They claimed the building was in a very poor state of repair with […]
