Upcoming

A Ghost Pub Pilgrimage through Stroud and the Five Valleys Raising funds for the Trussell Trust in September

Walk and/or bicycle your way through this list of pubs. Tick them off. Keep a diary or a record if you wish. Take photos for the archive.

Let these pub names and addresses Come alive again (‘Have another?’ ‘I don’t mind if I do.’) And help us all out in these hard times; Let’s find them and toast them with imaginary pints On a series of Ghost Pub Pilgrimages on foot or on bicycle, And if you know of any other ghost pubs or inns, Please send them in …

Do the list in any order. On your own and/or in a group. And raise funds in any way you wish for the Trussell Trust.

Perhaps you have personal or family memories Of old times spent in some of these inns: Got stories to tell? Please send them in. Perhaps draw pub sign for these lost gathering places, Or perhaps write a poem about the pub name, Or have a group rendition of The Listeners by Walter de la Mere.

With thanks to Geoff Sandles and his invaluable and necessary Stroud Valley Pubs Through Time And his wonderful website https://www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk/ And Pubs of the Old Stroud Brewery, By Wilfred Merrett

Painswick Adam & Eve, Paradise, (formerly The Plough Inn), A46 The Bell, (bombed 1941) Bell Street Bunch of Grapes, Cheltenham Road Cross Hands, Stammages Lane Fleece Inn, Bisley Street Golden Heart, Tibbiwell Street New Inn, St Mary’s Street Red Lion Star Inn, Gloucester Street White Horse, Vicarage Street