Why Not Inn, Alstone Road, Rowanfield, Cheltenham
An 1872 reference describes Alstone Road as running parallel with the Gloucester Road. This would tend to suggest that the location of the Why Not Inn was to the east of Alstone Road/Lane rather than to the west where the Gloucester Road is roughly on a north-south orientation. There is no reference to the pub […]
Whole Hog, Montpellier Walk, Cheltenham
See also All Bar One The Whole Hog, which had scrubbed wooden floors and sold five real ales, closed down in June 1999. £325,000 was spent by owners Whitbread transforming the bar into Casa, which offered food and drink in a Mediterranean atmosphere. The premises became the Residence Bar, and then Ha! Ha! Bar and […]
White Swan / Butterman’s Arms, Burton Street, Cheltenham
39 Burton Street in an 1870 reference and also in the 1939 Kellys directory. The Gloucestershire Echo described the White Swan Inn as having ‘a very fair trade and had recently been decorated and electrically lighted’. (10th March 1927). 39 Burton Street is now an ordinary terraced house with nothing to indicate that it was […]
White Horse Inn (previously the Mazeppa beer-house), Townsend Place, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham
In a list of 1844 beerhouses (the research of Martin Edwards), the Mazeppa beerhouse is situated at 9 and 10 Townsend Place. The premises later became the White Horse Inn. Townsend Place was located on the northern side of Tewkesbury Road. An Old Town Survey map of 1855-7 shows seven houses in adjacent terraces between […]
White Horse Inn, Regent Place, Swindon Road, Cheltenham
Regent Place was on the northern side of Swindon Road between Dunalley Street and the LIdl’s store. On an 1820 map Regent Place is shown to be off Orchard Place. Positioned only a few yards away from the Cheltenham Original Brewery it is interesting to note that the White Horse was once owned by two […]
Whitesmiths Arms / The Junction, 14-16 Gloucester Road, Cheltenham
William Green is recorded as the owner of the Whitesmith Arms in 1891 and 1903. It seems that he ran the pub as a free house in late Victorian times, but the lease of the property had been taken by Showell & Co. in 1903. The Whitesmith Arms was a licensed beer house, having an […]
Wheatsheaf Inn, (217), 399 Lower High Street, Cheltenham
The Wheatsheaf Inn was numbered 217 in 1870 which equates to 399 today. Chikenzos Piri Piri now has the address of 399 High Street, which is the building directly opposite the Shamrock (ex-Shakespeare) pub. Mary Ann Kear was the owner of the Wheatsheaf Inn in 1891 with Mrs Sarah Kear in residence as landlady. The […]
White Hart Inn, Lower High Street, Cheltenham
The White Hart was at the far west of the High Street on the southern side. It was part of the Dobell’s Warehouse complex which was extensively damaged in an air raid (together with Stoneville Street) in 1941. The White Hart probably never reopened after the bombing. The nearby Bakers Arms also suffered damage from […]
Wheatsheaf Inn, Old Bath Road, Cheltenham
D.J. Crump is listed as a brewer at the Wheatsheaf in 1856. Cheltenham Original Brewery were the owners of the Wheatsheaf Inn in 1891 and 1903. It was licensed as an ale house and had an annual rateable value throughout those twelve years of £18.15.0d. Like the Malvern Inn, the Wheatsheaf Inn had a role […]
West End Porter Stores, High Street, Cheltenham
Numbered 317 (and a half!) in the original numbering sequence. The West End Porter Stores would have been situated by the bowling green opposite St. Georges Street. It is not listed in the 1891 petty sessional divisional licensing records. Martin Brothers were a wine and spirit merchants / off-licence operating at this site. Landlords: 1870 […]
