Robin Hood's Retreat (Bristol)

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The Grace, formerly Robin Hood's Retreat.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robin Hood's Retreat / 'harrysworld', on or before 30 Jun. 2009, Panoramio.]]

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 pub, later pub/restaurant, in Bristol. After a change of owners the place reincarnated in 2014 as The Grace.

Between them 'The Gloucester Road Story' and 'UK Pub History Research and London Historical Street Directory' list the following information from trade directories for this pub:

• 1890. Publican: John Harris.
• 1900. Publican: John Harris.
• 1910. Publican: George Garraway.
• 1914. Publican: George Garraway.
• 1921. Publican: Henry Lewis Tripp.
• 1931. Publican: Henry Lewis Tripp.
• 1938. Henry Louis Tripp.
• 1939. Publican: Henry Lewis Tripp.
• 1950. Publican: Rt. Chas. Powles.
• 1962.
• 1970.

'Robin Hood's Retreat' may sound fancy and modern, but in fact the pub was known under that name from at least as early as 1890.

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
• The Gloucester Road Story: 197 Gloucester Road, Bristol
• UK Pub History Research and London Historical Street Directory: Robin Hoods Retreat, 197 Gloucester road, Bishopston, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Background

• The Grace.

Notes