John Apperley & Co

John Apperley & Co, Laburnum Brewery, Ryecroft Street/ 2 Tredworth High Street, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.

Recorded in 1898.

That year Arnold Perrett valued the brewery.

Mike Squires writes:

Founded in 1841. The pub on the same or adjacent site was also called Laburnum Brewery, in the 1897 directory there were two public houses, Laburnum Brewery and Laburnum Inn. John Apperley’s sons William & Charles both appear to have been working in the family business. John Apperley died early in 1899. The old brewery buildings were taken down in 1911.

The pub name changed from Laburnum Brewery to Laburnum Hotel, the earliest mention of this new name can be found in newspapers in 1900. William Matthews was the landlord 1899-1905 (1899 reference just says Laburnum). Other landlords noted 1908 to 1909, but no reference found to the Apperley family being landlords of the pub after 1898. A Charles Apperley though appears as a landlord of several other local pubs during the period.

A 1910 licensing report does mention the pub name as the Laburnum Brewery showing that the previous name was still in use locally even 10 years after it changed to the Laburnum Hotel.