OXFORDSHIRE-L Archives

Archiver > OXFORDSHIRE > 1998-10 > 0907335285


From: "Bob Cowley" <>
Subject: Re: POWELL & Licenced premises, Gloucester R'd. Oxford
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:34:45 +0100


Chris,

I don't know of a "Gloucester Road" in Oxford, although there are
(clustered around Gloucester Green) Gloucester Street, Gloucester Place and
Gloucester Lane.

I believe the long-established pub known as "The Gloucester Arms" used to
give its address as Gloucester Place in the past (and no. 4 might be
reasonable), although these days it gives its address as Friars Entry.

The other long-established pub in the area is the one now known as "The
Fuggle and Firkin", previously "The Brewhouse", previously "The Bakery and
Brewhouse", but before the modern obsession for re-branding took over, "The
Red Lion". This is located at 14 Gloucester Street. Could your "4" be a
mistake for "14"? Or might the road names and numbers have changed?

You should be able to settle the matter either by reference to licensing
records (held at Oxford Archives) or by reference to any of the
contemporary trade directories.

Bob Cowley
The Idea Factory
Oxford
England
e-mail:
website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ideafac

----------
> From: Christine Ashley <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: POWELL & Licenced premises, Gloucester R'd. Oxford
> Date: 01 October 1998 16:23
>
> Re: POWELL, Thomas E.”licenced victualler” of a pub at 4 Gloucester
> Road, Oxford in the 1881 census. Does anyone know if his licence
> application would be on file somewhere and if this might indicate the
> names of his staff - wife and daughter I suspect - and whether or not he
> was the owner or lessee. Might this pub have been the extant “Gloucester
> Arms” or some lowly Irish gin house now demolished?
>
> Thomas E. POWELL was my gg grandfather - an Anglo-Irish Catholic born
> about 1828 somewhere in Ireland. He married a Scot called Elizabeth, had
> his first son James H. in Malta in 1858, his oldest daughter Elizabeth
> in Barbados, two more children somewhere in Ireland and apparently moved
> to Oxford about 1870. My only information is from the Census of Oxford;
> the Irish records must have been in the Dublin Record Office fire.
>
> My g grandfather James POWELL married into the PHIPPS family of
> Charlbury and I wonder if anyone knows the reason for existance of this
> town ?
>
> Thanks
> Chris Ashley
>
>
>
> ==== OXFORDSHIRE Mailing List ====
>
>

This thread: