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, 2018-01-06.

Robin Hood's Retreat was until recently the name of a pub, later pub/restaurant, at 197 Gloucester Road in Bristol. After a change of owners the place reincarnated in 2014 as The Grace. The pub existed at least as early as 1890.

Trade registers list the following publicans: 1890-1900: John Harris; 1910-14: George Garraway; 1921-39: Henry Lewis Tripp; 1950: Robert Charles Powles. The pub is listed in Kelly's Street Directory for 1962 and 1970 'Robin Hood's Retreat' may sound fancy and modern, but in fact the pub was known under that name throughout its recorded history.

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