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<\/a>Robert Raikes’ House pub.<\/p><\/div>\n
The building dates from the mid 1500s and was the home of Robert Raikes who inherited a publishing business from his father. \u00a0He is known as a philanthropist and for starting the free Sunday School movement as a means of educating poor children away from poverty and temptations of vice.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The upper section remains from a pub called The Fleece which covered a large area in the vicinity. The council has restoration plans.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Cross Keys Inn is said to be the smallest in Gloucester and dates from the 1600s. A pub run by some Vick relatives in the mid 1800s was supposed to be in the same lane but is\u00a0gone.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The Old Crown Inn<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Information sign<\/p><\/div>\n
The remains of the priory mentioned above is near the docks and canal and photos appear in the post on the Gloucester docks.<\/p>\n
I visited the Folk Museum and the sign below comes from there about the events mentioned above.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Comment on siege warfare and a children’s rhyme. The original had a line drawing of Humpty on a wall but it’s inclusion made the writing too indistinct to read.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Line drawing of Humpty Dumpty<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The Dick Whittington front and side entrance with an 18th century facade.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The side of The Dick Whittington showing the Tudor overhangs. \u00a0The building was built for a relative of a different Dick Whittington of\u00a0nursery rhyme fame. \u00a0Queen Elizabeth 1 is supposed to have stayed in it in 1754.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Information from the Folk Museum about Dick Whittington. Dick Whittington and his cat are popular motifs around Gloucester<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Information from the Folk Museum about the real Dick Whittington<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/p>\n The New Inn<\/p><\/div>\n I had considered staying at this pub. \u00a0However, it’s reviews indicated some problems and given the 3 of us stayed at the Station Hotel for the first night \u00a0I decided to remain \u00a0as while its reviews weren’t really any better, it was more convenient and I couldn’t be bothered lugging my luggage around town.<\/p>\n Left hand corner of the building<\/p><\/div>\n From the side alley with the walls showing the Tudor overhang<\/p><\/div>\n History \u00a0Its rather hard to read but basically it’s really, really old being built in the mid 1400s for the\u00a0\u00a0monks \u00a0to house pilgrims visiting the tomb of King Edward 11 (photo in Cathedral post), has connections with Lady Jane Grey, strolling minstrels, maybe Shakespeare and benefited from the stagecoach trade.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>