Robin Hood (Bedminster)
| Locality | |
|---|---|
| Coordinate | Near 51.4452, -2.5948 |
| Adm. div. | Gloucestershire |
| Vicinity | N end of parking lot between Coronation Road, New Charlotte Street, Regent Road, and St John's Road; Bedminster, Bristol |
| Type | Public house |
| Interest | Robin Hood name |
| Status | Defunct |
| First Record | 1869 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.
The now lost Robin Hood in Bedminster, Bristol, was in existence by 1869 and until 1919 or later.
The pub was at 18 Queen Street. While there are currently several Queen streets in Bristol, that in Bedminster no longer exists. It ran roughly parallel to Coronation Road, from New Charlotte Street, in the east, to Union Road in the west. The latter is more or less identical, in present terms, with the stretch of St John's Road running from Coronation Road to Southville Place. Superimposed on a modern map of Bristol, Queen Street would be seen to traverse, along a west-east axis, the north end of the parking lot occupying the area between Coronation Road, New Charlotte Street, Regent Road, and St John's Road. It would cut across the parking lot eight or ten metres south of the Asda petrol station. Wright's Directory for Bristol (1919) notes that the street was intersected by Regent Road and Farley Square.[1] As the former was included on contemporary maps, this helps identify the street, but it is unfortunate that Farley Square cannot be pinpointed, for it is listed as intersecting Queen Street immediately after the Robin Hood. It would have helped us fix the location of the pub. As it is, the pub could have been near either end of Queen Street. There seem to be more features that could reasonably be described as a square towards the west end of the street, i.e. closer to St John's Road than the coordinates listed in the infobox and indicated on the interative map. They simply represent an attempt to hit the centre point of the street.
The Pub Wiki lists publican information for the year 1914 only. The 1919 Wright's Diretory referred to above lists the Robin Hood with Mrs Emma Griffey as 'b.r.' (beer retailer).[2] The Bristol Information website lists information on publicans for 1869 and 1877 as well as on an alleged crime committed there in 1869 and refusal of an application for licence in 1883.[3]
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Sources
- Bristol Information: Landlords and other information for Bristol Pub: Robin Hood, Queen Street, Bedminster
- Pub Wiki: Robin Hood, 18 Queen street, Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Wright's Directory for Bristol (1919), page 00269 (243), at the Genealogist (£).
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV.4 (1886; surveyed 1883)
- 25" O.S. map Somerset VI.2 (1896; surveyed 1881–82)
- 25" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV.4 (1903; rev. 1902). No copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV.4 (1903; rev. 1902) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Somerset VI.2 (1904; rev. 1901–02)
- 25" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV.4 (1918; rev. 1913)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV.NE (1887; surveyed 1881–83)
- 6" O.S. map Somerset VI.NW (1905; rev. 1901–02) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Somerset VI.NW (1905; rev. 1901–02)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV.NE (1905; rev. 1902)
- 6" O.S. map Somerset VI (1921; rev. 1912–13)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV (1921; rev. 1913)
- 6" O.S. map Somerset VI.NW (1921; rev. 1913)
- 6" O.S. map Somerset VI.NW (1933; rev. 1930)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV (c. 1944; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Somerset VI.NW (c. 1945; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire LXXV (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Somerset VI.NW (c. 1947; rev. 1938).
Also see
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