The Porto-Bello on Bridge Street one of our lost pubs.
William Gardner family bought the Red Lion (now Bridge House) in about 1827 and built a new pub, the Porto-Bello, next door in 1853 and converting the Red Lion into his family home. The name comes from the Battle of Portobello in 1739 between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement of Portobello in Panama, from Spain. Meetings of Little Coggeshall parish council were always held in the pub.
The Brewery and its seven pubs were leased to Greene King in 1941. The brewery was mothballed ready to come back in use if wartime bomb damage put the main Greene King brewery out of action but it never brewed again and closed in 1943, the pubs continuing under Greene King.
The Porto-Bello had a very strong Petanque team in its later years with a court laid out over the road alongside the pub car park.
The pub closed in 1994-95.
Date; 1950's
Ref; 102/04Det
William Gardner family bought the Red Lion (now Bridge House) in about 1827 and built a new pub, the Porto-Bello, next door in 1853 and converting the Red Lion into his family home. The name comes from the Battle of Portobello in 1739 between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement of Portobello in Panama, from Spain. Meetings of Little Coggeshall parish council were always held in the pub.
The Brewery and its seven pubs were leased to Greene King in 1941. The brewery was mothballed ready to come back in use if wartime bomb damage put the main Greene King brewery out of action but it never brewed again and closed in 1943, the pubs continuing under Greene King.
The Porto-Bello had a very strong Petanque team in its later years with a court laid out over the road alongside the pub car park.
The pub closed in 1994-95.
Date; 1950's
Ref; 102/04Det
Also in: Bridge Street
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