Pub history

The Kingswood Colliers

Opened in March 2000, this pub was purpose built on the site of Kingswood Market. It is named after the ‘Great Number of Under Ground Workmen’ who lived and laboured in this area. In 1739, the great Methodist preacher John Wesley wrote: “Few persons in the West of England have not heard of the colliers of Kingswood.” The city of Bristol was wholly dependent on the miners of Kingswood Chase for its coal supplies.