Hanmer’s Buildings down the left of Museum Avenue, as seen from Park Street before
1870. The tavern (with gas lamp) can be seen half way down. The building to the right
is now the Masonic Hall but was once the museum from which the pub took its name.
The pub went in 1936 when St.George’s Road was extended into Park Street.
CENSUS 1871.
John
Plant 43, head married, beer house keeper, Northamptonshire Grafton
Jane Plant 38,
wife married, Bristol
Augusta Cook 66, widow, charwoman, Bristol
CENSUS 1881.
Eliza
Bridges 22, head wife married, publican, Bristol St George (Husband at Lydney)
Minnie
A. Bridges 1, daughter, Bristol St George
at the time of the census John Henry Bridges,
a 22 year old engine fitter from Bristol, was lodging with William and Jane Lewis
at Factory Lane, Lydney
CENSUS 1891.
William Folland 36, head married, hotel proprietor,
Devon Dolton
Mary A. Folland 36, wife married, Buckinghamshire Aylesbury
CENSUS 1901.
William
Folland 45, head married, licensed victualler, Devon
Mary A. Folland 45, wife married,
Aylesbury
MUSEUM TAVERN Museum Avenue
1867 -
1869. John Loosemore
1871. James
Gahan
1871 to 1872 John Plant
1872 to 1874. ? Mayer
1874 to 1876. John Jacob Good
1877
to 1878. James Passmore
1879 to 1880. Sarah Wagner
1881. Eliza Bridges
1882. John Henry
Bridges
1883 -
1909. Mary Ann Folland
1914 -
1921.
Phoebe Ann Rose
1925 -
1935. Frederick Barber
