In 1804, Sarah Rennison, widow of Thomas Rennison, advertised that she lately had the ladies' and gentlemen's cold baths, near Stokes Croft Turnpike, effectually cleaned. "These baths are supplied with water from a clear and ever-flowing spring, uncontaminated by anything whatever, as it flows from a clear and limpid stream from its source to the pipes in the baths." This turnpike, named the Stokes Croft Gate, stood on the turnpike way designated Horfield Road. The gate was erected across the lane leading from the said road to Rennison's Baths. Very soon after "Sarah's" announcement, this landmark of the old city was doomed to disappear, and the gate was removed from the top of the Croft to a site some four or five hundred yards further up the road, near to the present railway arch. An advertisement from the _Bristol Journal_, Saturday, July 14th, 1804, ran as follows:--"To be sold, the materials of the old Turnpike House at the top of Stoke's Croft. The purchaser to be at the expense of pulling down and carrying the same away. Also of pitching the site of the house by the 20th of August next. For further particulars apply to Messrs. John and Jere Osborne." [Illustration: OLD TURNPIKE HOUSE ON THE WICKWAR ROAD.] The tolls for the year ended the 29th September, 1823, realised the sum of £1,800. The notice respecting the letting of the tolls for the succeeding year, based on such takings, was signed by Osborne and Ward on the 14th of October, 1823: The following is a toll gate announcement, issued on July 13, 1826:-- "Notice is hereby given that the Tolls arising at the Toll Gates hereinafter particularly mentioned will be severally Let by Auction, to the best Bidders at the White Hart Inn, Brislington, on Wednesday, the 16th day of August next, between the hours of Eleven o'clock in the forenoon and One o'clock in the afternoon, in the manner directed by the Acts passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, 'for regulating Turnpike Roads'; which Tolls produced last year the several Sums, and will be Let in the several Parcels or Lots following--viz.:-- "Lot I.--The Tolls arising from the Arno's Vale Gate, on the Brislington Road. £2,405. "Lot II.--The Tolls arising at the Knowle Gate, on the Whitchurch Road. £660. "Lot III.--The Tolls arising at the Saltford Gate, on the Brislington Road. £2,355. "Lot IV.--The Tolls arising at the Whitchurch Gate, on the Whitchurch Road. £670. "And will be put up at those Sums respectively. "Whoever happens to be the best Bidder must, at the same time, pay one Month in advance (if required) of the Rent at which such Tolls may be respectively Let, and give security, with sufficient sureties to the satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Turnpike Roads, for payment of the rest of the money monthly. "OSBORNE and WARD, "Clerks to the Trustees of the said Turnpike Roads.