Robin Hood's Retreat (Bristol)

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The Grace, formerly Robin Hood's Retreat.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-23.

Robin Hood's Retreat was until recently the name of a restaurant in Bristol. After a change of owners the place reincarnated as The Grace in 2014.

The website 'UK Pub History Research and London Historical Street Directory' lists the following information from trade directories for this pub:

• 1914. Publican: George Garraway.
• 1938. Henry Louis Tripp.

Presumably the pub was then named the 'Robin Hood', 'Robin Hood & Little John', the 'Robin Hood Inn' etc. 'Robin Hood's Retreat' sounds fancy, fanciful and modern.

Gazetteers

• Anonymous, compil. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pub Names (Wordsworth Reference Series) (Ware, Hertfordshire, ©2006), pp. 327-28, s.n. 'Robin Hood'.

Sources

• Bristol Bites: The Grace: new venue for Gloucester Road from the Zazu’s team
• UK Pub History Research and London Historical Street Directory: Robin Hoods Retreat, 197 Gloucester road, Bishopston, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Background

• The Grace.

Notes