Evening Post Durty Nelly's

Uncredited apart from "from our archives" and undated, this photo appeared in this article on Hotwells in the Evening Post and made me want to re-create the same view today.

The pub had a few changes of name over time—in the Bristol Then and Now Facebook group people recall this being the Spring Gardens in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Someone remembers it turning into Durty Nelly's in 1995, but I swear it was back to being the Spring Gardens again by the time I moved to the area in 1999. Then it spent some time as La Demi Lune, which you can see on Street View in 2008, and then by 2009 it's back to The Spring Garden (without the "s").

So, from what I can work out, this snap was probably taken in the 1990s, most likely between 1995 and 1999.

This pub—which did good food, and had an extensive garden at the back, from what I remember, when it was the Spring Gardens in the early 2000s—is rather more bland in looks today, as we'll see in the next picture.

From wander: Oddities in Alleyways and a Lost Pub of the Hotwell Road
Taken: Sat 9 April 2022 12:17
Rating: ★★★

GPS Coordinates: 51.44990, -2.61616
Location: Cliftonwood

Evening Post Durty Nelly's
Uncredited apart from "from our archives" and undated, this photo appeared in this article on Hotwells in the Evening Post and made me want to re-c...