Lost pubs
Some were shut by the government within months of it taking over. Some lasted another fifty years and went for a ring road or a car park. Here's what stood where.
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Further back: Carlisle's inns in 1794, with the old town plan over today's map
Traded from at least 1822 as the Founders Arms, became the Moulders Arms in 1828 and the Albert in 1852, styled the Albert Family and Commercial Hotel by 1855. It was an Iredale's Brewery house.
Not a scheme casualty at all. It appears in Carlisle directories from 1876, at 12 Botchergate, and the magistrates refused its licence in October 1893, more than twenty years before the government arrived.
A Botchergate house with three names: the Broom from about 1822, the Jovial Butcher, or Jolly Butcher, from 1829, and Deakin's Vaults, or Deakin's Spirit Vaults, the name the local directories give it from 1880; one…
Another lost name rather than a lost building. The Albion opened in February 1859, purpose-built, with its door round the corner on Portland Place because two shops occupied the Botchergate frontage.
Botchergate has lost two Earl Greys.
For a while this was the biggest night out in Carlisle, in a building that had started as the city's Co-operative headquarters.
A separate business from Rouge next door, and the two were open at the same time: neighbours rather than predecessor and successor, which is easy to get the wrong way round.
A bingo club with a members' bar, in the same new plaza as Rouge, Ballers and the Las Vegas Strip.
One of the older pub buildings left in Carlisle, and one of the emptiest.
Seven years, start to finish.
Unit 8 of Englishgate Plaza has been three things and the smallest of them is what is there now.
On Botchergate from 1804, and sometimes written the Hound and Hares.
On the corner of King Street and Botchergate, at the London Road end, and a pub with two names in use at once for most of its life: the Queen Adelaide on paper and in parliamentary evidence, the Queen Inn, or the…
A dance hall with three names in thirty years, upstairs at 79 Botchergate.
On Botchergate by 1822 and in the local directory for 1829, the last year it appears. A separate pub from the Robin Hood at Kirklinton, now a tearoom and antique shop.
In the Botchergate directories between 1855 and 1893 or 1894, having traded earlier as the Founders Arms, from at least 1822, and then as the Moulders Arms, from 1828. It was an Iredale's Brewery house.
At 21 Botchergate, and older than any of its better-known names: it was the Indian King before 1821. Records of the 1840s give Isaac Newton both as a name for the house, from 1844, and as its publican in 1847.
Trading on Botchergate from around 1778 and called the Stagewagon in 1837. A Carlisle Patriot notice of December 1825 put it up for sale, then occupied by a Mrs Beck.
A beerhouse called the Dog and Partridge from 1837, renamed in 1850. It appears as Northumberland House from then until 1877, and later as the Northumberland Arms, at 76 Botchergate.
John Wallace was innkeeper of a Railway Hotel on Botchergate in 1891.
At 19 Botchergate, trading before 1829 and in the local directories from 1834 to 1837.
An ex-servicemen's social club.
The Joiners Arms from at least 1779. Mary Nelson occupied it in 1814, though Daniel Wilson owned it.
An inn from about 1700, first as the George, then as the George and Dragon from 1779, and as the String of Horses from 1807. Edward Wilson had it in 1809, John Carruthers in 1821 and Abraham Barker in 1861.
The White Lion was trading before 1777.
A hotel and posting house, trading by 1840 and in the directories between 1844 and 1858, with Thomas Elsworth as hotelkeeper from 1847.
Trading before 1777, and kept by Thomas Scarrow from at least 1805 to 1814; his innkeeper's licence of 1812 survives.
At 55 English Street, between the String of Horses and the Grey Goat, and trading before 1777.
Trading before 1776, and sometimes written as the Gray Coat. Mrs Robinson had it in 1810, John Walton by 1829 and John Robinson by 1861. It appears in the directories up to 1884, and one record carries it on to 1893.
First mentioned in 1713 and in the directories up to 1884, near the head of Kings Arms Lane, which still carries the name.
One of the oldest houses in the city: Walter Brand stayed at the Angel in 1634.
Stood at 37 English Street, near the corner of Devonshire Street and virtually opposite the Gaol Tap, and was tied to the wine and spirit firm of T & J Minns.
Fronted on English Street, White Horse Lane and Blackfriars Street all at once, which tells you how these plots ran; one address for it is 2 White Horse Lane. It was trading by 1822.
One of the oldest inn names in Carlisle, with a long and well-documented run of landlords.
Trading from 1850 by one record, and a late one to go: it went at its largest. The Victoria stood on English Street and had already extended back into Citadel Row when it was sold in 1891.
In the Lowther Arcade, the covered way that runs from English Street through to Lowther Street, in premises that had been the Citadel Tavern's; records give the address as 77-79…
Carlisle's LGBTQ+ venue, a cabaret bar with drag nights and a Thursday cheap night, and by its own description the only recognised LGBTQ-friendly bar in the city; CAMRA's shorter version was a gay bar, all welcome.
Kept by Joseph Peascod, a butcher as well as an innkeeper, and on the English Street list in the Jollie directory of 1811. Nothing else is recorded under this name: no number, no closing date, no building.
The Gaol Tap, so called because it stood next to the gaol, at 41-42 English Street. The gaol had once kept a tap of its own.
One pub out of two.
Mary Davidson was innkeeper in 1811, one of several women keeping English Street houses that year.
On the scheme's 1920 roll of Carlisle pubs under English Street, with no opening date, no closing date, no photograph and no recorded reason for going.
One of the old market inns of English Street, trading before 1754, on the east side of the street at the head of the lane named after it, Pack Horse Lane, between King's Arms Lane and Lowthian's Lane.
A freehold public house on the west side of English Street, fronting east towards the Market Place and running back "a considerable distance" to a second opening on St Cuthbert's Lane.
Stood on the corner of Rickergate and Warwick Road, at number 36, in a building said to date from 1683; there may have been a pub on the spot that early.
Stood at 29 Rickergate, between Durham Ox Lane and Bay Horse Lane, the second of which is named after it, so the pub outlived itself in the street plan. It was two blocks south of the Fox & Hounds.
Trading on Rickergate before 1774, at number 19, and a Maryport Brewery house by the end.
At 30 Rickergate, and trading before 1780. The scheme acquired it in October 1916 and closed it on the 11th of that month. No period photograph of it is known, and the building had been demolished by 1972.
Stood at 13 Rickergate, at the junction with Laughran's Lane, and was trading before 1770. It was a Maryport Brewery house.
At 10 Rickergate. Edward Forster held it in the 1829 directory, and when the Carlisle Journal put it up for sale in July 1832 it noted that Forster had by then been tenant for very nearly forty years.
A substantial brick-built two-storey end-terrace at the far north of what is now the Civic Centre site, opposite Corporation Road.
The one that got away. Rickergate had at least fourteen pubs at the end of the nineteenth century and this is the only building left standing from any of them.
A narrow three-storey brick building with a single-storey annex to the south, at 25 Rickergate, opposite the Scotch Arms.
Renamed once and back again. It was trading at 9 Rickergate by 1793. Joseph Barton is named at the sign in the 1829 directory, p164, and the Carlisle Journal advertised it to let on 23 November 1839.
On Rickergate, trading roughly from 1807 to its licence expiring in February 1907, with the building itself demolished around 1929 to make way for the new labour exchange.
On Rickergate from 1787, under a run of names for the same sign: the Hare and Hounds, also recorded as the Hound and Hare and the Greyhound and Hare.
Trading before 1785 at 35 Rickergate, and also recorded as the Barley Mow. It gave its name to the surviving Barley Stack Lane off Rickergate. Thomas Kilvington is named as innkeeper in 1828.
A lost Crown and Thistle on Rickergate, and a different house from the Crown and Thistle still trading on Church Street, Stanwix.
At 41 Rickergate, trading from 1780, and traceable through more than a century of named licensees: Mary Carrick in 1801, Lawrence Benson by 1804, Andrew Mallinson by 1861, Thomas Taylor by 1891 and John Thompson by 1901.
A short life under two names. James Clemetson is named as innkeeper in the Carlisle Journal of 24 March 1804, and John Nicholson had it by 27 May 1809, when the Journal advertised it for sale.
The second and last name of the Fortune of War, which became the Prince Regent around 1816, while the future George IV was ruling as regent for his father.
At 11 Rickergate, and trading from 1820. Its licence was formally terminated in February 1907, one of the Rickergate houses to go in the run-up to the First World War rather than under the State Management Scheme itself.
At 15 Rickergate, and trading from before 1789. It was also known as the Three Ships and the Maltman between 1820 and 1822, before it settled on the plain Ship.
A spirit shop on Rickergate with a six-day licence and early closing, and in its last years the property of J. Walker and Sons, the Kilmarnock whisky distillers, who bought it in 1896 for ÂŁ4,000.
An eighteenth-century coaching inn at 76 Scotch Street, and none of the district's other Blue Bells: not the Rickergate one the state shut in 1917, not the Carleton one, not the Brampton…
At 59 Scotch Street, on the corner of Globe Lane, and trading before 1793.
The older of Carlisle's two lost Duke's Heads, dated by a striking eighteenth-century citation: Baron Clarke's Notebook of 1746, p36, records 'Adam Elliot at ye Duke's Head in Carlisle', the same year and the same…
On Scotch Street from about 1800, and demolished in 1829 by one record; another has an Old Turks Head on Scotch Street until 1834.
A Scotch Street inn, trading before 1784, that gave up its own name in 1847, when a Carlisle Journal advertisement noted it had become the Joiners Arms Inn.
One of Carlisle's oldest recorded inns, trading before 1775, kept by a Mrs Pringle by the 1790s and trading continuously through the nineteenth century under a run of named licensees: Benjamin Holmes from around…
At 31 Scotch Street from 1811 to 1917: a full century's trading, ended in the same wave of State Management closures that took most of the street's other pubs.
Traded as the Ordnance Arms from before 1801, becoming the Jolly Butcher in 1827 and finally the Three Cannons from about 1840.
Traded as the Grey Horse from 1822 before taking the Plume of Feathers name, and in the local directories to 1869; its exact position off Scotch Street, in the little court that took its name, is shown on the…
At 45 Scotch Street, trading before 1790 and in the local directories until 1861.
Named for G. Ismay, a Scotch Street wine and spirit merchant, and trading by the Market before 1829.
A Scotch Street house of the New Brewery, taken by the scheme in August 1916 and shut as a pub in April 1917.
A grocer's shop with a spirit licence. R. Amos and Sons, grocers and provision merchants on Rickergate Brow, were best known for home-produced Cumberland hams and bacon, in a business almost a century old by 1918.
A pub down Captain Cook's Lane, which ran off the west side of Scotch Street just north of what is now the main entrance to the Covered Market.
On Fisher Street, and named for the market cross of 1682 that still stands a short walk away. It appears in the local directories for 1847 and 1848, and one record has it trading from 1844 to 1851.
Almost opposite the Kings Head, at 58-60 Fisher Street, and much older than its name.
The venue the Brickyard replaced, more or less, and the only Carlisle club with its own Wikipedia article.
Formerly the Carlisle Working Men's Club & Institute, the classic CIU working men's club, the most common club type in twentieth-century Britain and the one type Carlisle has lost.
The club that followed the Front Page into 6-8 Fisher Street after 2004, a door or two from the Brickyard.
Carlisle's LGBT nightclub, and the only one the city has had that came with an information centre above it.
One of the short-lived ones, and recent enough that the paperwork is the best record of it.
A single line in the 1891 census lists a pub at 56 Fisher Street under this name, with the property standing unoccupied that year. That is the only record of it: no opening, no closing, not a single named licensee.
The Half Moon stood at 15 Fisher Street, on the east side, 'adjoining the Butcher Shambles', and was trading by 1785.
On Fisher Street from before 1820, and in the local directories under this name until 1837.
A John Street beerhouse from about 1845, with three names: the Weavers Arms until 1863, the Sportsman's Arms from 1864, and the Bricklayers Arms from about 1880.
Stood just beyond what is now the traffic island, where the access into Sainsbury's runs, with the Royal Oak a little further along.
A slow ending rather than a sudden one. The Royal Oak was trading on Bridge Street before 1821.
Originally a row of three late eighteenth-century houses at 29 Church Street.
Trading from 1787 at 6 Bridge Street, and originally the tap for the old Carlisle Brewery.
Known from a single line in the Carlisle Journal of 8 September 1810, which mentions Jacob Jefferson, who keeps the Rodney Inn, Caldewgate. Named presumably for Admiral Rodney.
On Church Street in Caldewgate, at number 50, from before 1809, and known at first simply as the Queens Head. Three successive innkeepers are named between 1804 and 1809: Mrs Armstrong, Miss Ann Johnstone and Mrs Cowen.
Not the Bush that stood on English Street in Carlisle; this one is Longtown's, on Bridge Street, and it is Grade II listed. It was trading before 1829.
One of Longtown's coaching-era hotels, trading from around 1790, and closed by the Liquor Control Board in 1917 (the Cumberland News of 19 May 1917 lists it among three houses closed in the previous month), the year…
A Longtown hotel from around 1790, closed by the Liquor Control Board in 1917 along with the White Swan, while the town was dry under the scheme's outright prohibition. No photograph of it as a hotel is known.
A Longtown hotel that opened around 1790.
Longtown's oldest recorded inn, with a first reference as early as 1732, so older than the planned town the Grahams of Netherby laid out round it.
One of Longtown's old inns, trading before 1829 by the Solway CAMRA directory of the district's pubs, which calls it the Marquis de Granby.
Longtown's spirit vaults, a six-day house that shut on Sundays, and by 1909 in the Monkhouse family for eighty years.
At 5 St Cuthbert's Lane, a beerhouse called the Prince of Wales Feathers from about 1823.
At 3 St Cuthbert's Lane, in the same short lane as the Fish and Dolphin.
A beerhouse and free house at 9 St Cuthbert's Lane, trading from about 1849, and one that ran a cowshed alongside the bar.
At 2 St Cuthbert's Lane, and older than its best-known name.
At 7 St Cuthbert's Lane, trading before 1829 and in the local directories to 1861. A Carlisle Journal notice of 25 October 1828 advertised it for sale, Mrs Shepherd, by then deceased, named as its innkeeper.
A wine bar on St Cuthbert's Lane, trading as Korky's from around 1980 before becoming the Town Crier.
A Maryport Brewery house at 12 St Cuthbert's Lane, in the local directories from about 1811, and closed on 21 December 1915 per the city's own minutes: one of the earliest closures, ahead of the state takeover the…
Known earlier as the Steam Engine, a beerhouse at Halfway Houses on London Road recorded from 1837, before it took the Samson name around 1850.
A pub built for a station, which outlived the station by 142 years. It went up in 1837 to serve the London Road Station of the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, directly opposite.
Converted from the South End Conservative Club, which the builder David Thomson had put up at his own expense, and opened as a pub on 17 November 1916. It was sold to Greenall Whitley on 2 April 1973.
Named after a firm that had already gone. Cowans, Sheldon & Co made cranes on London Road from the 1840s and their works stood opposite until demolition in 1989; the pub took the Cranemakers name in 1990, the year after.
Started out as the Lancer Public House, also the Lancer Inn, on Gallows Hill, Harraby: trading before 1829 and in the local directories until 1848. A Carlisle Journal notice of January 1844 offered the Lancer Inn to let.
The name the Bowling Green Hotel's site carried before it.
One of the first four pubs the scheme took over in July 1916, alongside the Apple Tree, the Malt Shovel and the Board Inn, and number four on its 1920 roll.
An underground club, literally: it was below stairs at 10-14 Lowther Street, under the pavements, in the cellars of an old Victorian building, and by common account had one of the strangest layouts of any club in the…
The first pub the state opened itself. It had already bought existing pubs at Enfield that January; this was the first it made. The building had gone up in 1863 as Carlisle's main post office, to a design by J.
Opened in December 1985 as the Lanes Vaults, on Lowther Street.
Bought by the scheme on 23 August 1916 and shut almost immediately, but not because it was a bad pub. The Board wanted a large house here and it already had the Saracen's Head next door, bought three weeks earlier.
The first half of a merger. The Saracen's Head was trading on Annetwell Street by 1800 and was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme bought it on 4 August 1916.
The scheme's 'super pub', created by knocking down the wall between the Saracen's Head and the Black Bull Vaults.
On Annetwell Street from 1834, first as the Fox and Grapes and from 1869 as the Wrestlers Arms. It was advertised for sale as 'an old established inn' in 1895.
At 23 Annetwell Street, on the south side, beside the Hound and Otter Lane that ran back to Annet Square, and for forty years the place in Carlisle where wrestlers and runners lodged, trained and left their stake money.
In the directories from 1848 to 1858, at 1 Corporation Road. The 1861 census shows Stephen Sharp, born at Castle Sowerby, as innkeeper there.
There were at least five Golden Fleeces around Carlisle, and this is the one on Corporation Road, near Solway Street: not the St Nicholas Street house that the South End Constitutional Club was built over, nor the…
At 8 Corporation Road, and in the local directories from 1869 to 1902 or 1903; one record has it trading from 1858 to 1904.
In the local directories from 1855. Bernard Roner, 53, is recorded as innkeeper at number 5 Corporation Road in the 1861 census; other records give the address as number 10.
A beerhouse on Corporation Road from 1855. The 1861 census gives Mary Kelly, aged 66 and born in Ireland, as beerhouse keeper.
On Irishgate Brow, and advertised to let as a public house in April 1846; it drops out of the directories after 1848. Irishgate Brow ran down towards the Irish Gate, at the west end of the city walls.
On Irishgate Brow, the steep road down from the castle to the Irish Gate, from the early 1840s, first as the Oddfellows' Arms and later as the Union Inn, and trading until 1876.
Traded as the Ship from before 1784, becoming the Victoria Steam Packet around 1840 and finally the Royal Victoria from about 1854. It is gone from the directories by 1873 and was demolished the following year.
On Irishgate Brow, trading from about 1840 and in the local directory for 1844.
Known in its early years as the Old Ship, trading before 1829, and named on the 1865 fifty-inch Ordnance Survey map simply as the Ship. The directories have it gone by 1869; another record keeps it trading until 1880.
Closed for its own conduct, which is rarer among lost pubs than closure by demolition or decline.
Number thirty-eight on the 1920 roll, which gives its address as Denton Crescent rather than Denton Street.
It burnt on Christmas Eve, and it did not matter, which is the saddest thing about it.
A short-lived adult-entertainment venue at the Atlas Works in Denton Holme.
On Warwick Road from 1855.
The pub Redfern's most extravagant building was built to replace. It had stood at the corner of Warwick Road and Henry Street since 1837, and was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme acquired it in August 1916.
Cumbria's only gin bar, by its own description: well over a hundred gins alongside draught beer, wine and prosecco, live music on some Saturdays, and coffee and cake added to the offer from August 2019.
At 2-4 Warwick Road, at the English Street end. Ba-Lo-Go traded here from 2002; it became Suede on 1 July 2005, and Suede closed on 24 November 2008.
Remembered as the most popular club in the city through the nineties and into the two thousands, and off the main strip: Lonsdale Street, not Botchergate.
A soul club, and by every account a good one.
A late-1990s bistro and nightspot in the Kennedy Centre, opened in 1997 and, by 1999, explicitly marketing itself as aiming to be 'the best nightspot in town' rather than simply somewhere to eat.
A members' club that reopened, after refurbishment, in December 1978.
A 'well accustomed' public house at Kingstown, with a barn, stable and garden, known from two sale notices nine months apart.
A beerhouse at the north end of Kingstown, 'about 2 miles from Carlisle, at the Junction of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Turnpike Roads'.
The village inn at Kingstown, and one building under four signs.
A beerhouse at Beech House, Kingstown, and not the older Botchergate house of the same name, which became Deakin's Vaults.
On the square at Dalston, in the building that is now the Post Office, and also known as the African's Head. It closed in 1918. The beerhouse next door, in what is now the bakery, was the Dalston beerhouse.
Next door to the Blue Bell on the square at Dalston, in the building now occupied by the Country Kitchen.
On the square at Dalston, in the building now partly occupied by Dalston Butchers. It opened on 18 September 1822, an unusually exact date for a village inn, and closed as a pub around 1883. A White Swan stood nearby.
A late eighteenth-century house on the Square at Dalston, closed by the Board in 1918.
The rare case of the Board opening a pub rather than shutting one.
Rockcliffe's Ship, on the Eden near where it meets the Solway, closed by the Board in December 1916. The Board later opened the Mounsey Arms in a former reading room nearby.
A beerhouse at Rockcliffe, at the junction of three roads, built about 1846 by the father-in-law of its last owner, Sarah Sinclair, and a beerhouse all its life.
A beerhouse at Rockcliffe, owned by W. T.
The best name among Carlisle's lost pubs, on one of the thinnest records. It appears in the local directories from 1844 to 1848, and the records disagree on where it stood.
The Gleaner is known from what replaced it. In November 1875 a temperance society opened the British Workman Institute in the former Gleaner public house.
Known from one story, and a good one.
By some distance the roughest of Carlisle's lost pubs, and it has the record to prove it. A Green Dragon was trading at 82 Newtown Road before 1780.
Stood on Newtown Road at the corner of Bright Street. Its early years are recorded two ways.
At 3 Colin Street, Newtown Road, and trading before 1788. Matthew Armstrong, born at Holme Low, was innkeeper in 1861, aged 27. It is in the directories until about 1870, and another record carries it to 1879.
The only one of Harry Redfern's new-build pubs that has been demolished.
On St Ninian's Road, Upperby, from 1822. It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme acquired it on 16 August 1916, and it appears in the local directories as late as 1925.
A Maryport Brewery house on Upperby Road, taken and refitted by the scheme in August 1916 and closed by 1930.
A Brampton inn and a tied house of the Brampton Old Brewery.
A Front Street house with three names in turn. It was the Board from the middle of the eighteenth century until 1834, then the Jolly Butchers, and from 1881 the Spirit Vaults, until it closed around 1911.
In the centre of Brampton, on Front Street, trading before 1818.
Out at Carleton, on the Penrith road side of the city.
Number 76 on the scheme's roll of 1920, and in the directories from 1847. The scheme acquired it in March 1917 and closed it in 1920 or 1921, one of the houses the Board shut soon after taking over.
Carleton's third pub, in the directories from before 1829. The scheme took it in 1917 and closed it, one of the houses the Board judged surplus in its first years, though one list ends it in 1914.
At 5 Castle Street, trading before 1802, and an Iredale's house by the end. It was closed on 12 July 1916, in the scheme's first week.
An ancient and well-accustomed inn, by its own advertiser's description when it was put up to let in November 1819, and trading at 57 Castle Street from about 1754.
The Quarter of Mutton was a small, old-fashioned house in Brown's Lane, the narrow lane from Castle Street through to Fisher Street: a kitchen with a little bar in one corner, a smoke room sixteen feet by six, and…
One of the last things Harry Redfern built, and the third house to carry the name. The first Cumberland Wrestlers stood on Water Street and is in local directories from 1848.
A beerhouse by 1855 and in the directories as the Oddfellows Arms from 1858, at 48 Crown Street. Jane Hodgson, born at Gilsland, was innkeeper in 1861.
One of the first pubs the Board closed, in September 1916, on Currock Street next door to the Oddfellows Arms, which went the month after.
Number fourteen on the scheme's 1920 roll, at 48 Shaddongate, and trading from 1823: first listed without a name of its own, then as the Spirit Vaults from 1826 to 1891, before it took the Duke of York name.
On Shaddongate, in a building older than its name: it traded as the Minerva Inn from about 1820 and took the Anglers name in 1858.
Traded as the Weavers Arms from 1837 before being renamed the Lorne Arms in 1878. It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme acquired it in August 1916.
The bar at the foot of Stanwix, first over Eden Bridge on the road north, and one of the better rooms the city has had recently.
A 14-bed hotel on Scotland Road, for sale in October 2003 and sold to Martin and Rachel Perry by G. and E. Webster in November 2004.
A Stanwix pub, on the road the corporation was already planning to widen. It was trading before 1819.
On Brampton's Main Street, at number 87, and a house with three names: the Ship from about 1816, the Punchbowl from 1822 and the Coach and Horses from 1834.
On Brampton's Main Street from the early nineteenth century until 2014, when it stopped being a pub and became a guest house with a liquor licence.
A Brampton inn on Main Street going back to the middle of the eighteenth century, by Mike Tuer's records.
Known as the Woodman from around 1806 before being renamed the Rose and Castle in 1820, and trading under that sign at 34 Finkle Street, on the Castle Street corner, into the mid-1870s.
At 3 Finkle Street, trading from 1811, named on the 1865 Ordnance Survey map and run across the late nineteenth century by a series of named tenants: Mary Gilkerson from 1861, Christopher Little from the 1880s.
A beerhouse at 8 Finkle Street, trading from 1858 to 1863 and in the local directory for 1858.
Known as the White Horse Inn until J. W. Watt rebuilt it in 1891, when it reopened as the Bush Vaults, or Bush Tap.
At 44 Blackfriars Street, trading before 1827, and a separate, older pub from the Coach & Horses still trading out at Kingstown. Joseph Hall is named in the 1829 directory.
A pub of three names on the same site: the White Cow, or White Ox, from before 1820, the Masons Arms from 1837, and finally the Queen, only briefly, from about 1850-51 to 1855.
Also known locally as the 'Billy James', named for William James, the radical MP returned for Carlisle in 1820.
A Willowholme house recorded under two names, the Saddle and the Golden Fleece.
In the local directories from 1844 to 1848 under this name, before being renamed the Golden Fleece, which traded on into 1858; one record has the house trading from 1837.
The village pub at Cargo, on the Eden north-west of the city. It closed in 2013, and in 2018 a community bid to bring it back failed.
At Chapelhouse on the Cargo beck, north-west of the city, closed by the Board in 1917. The building is a house now, Chapel House.
An old inn at Cargo, by the Eden, open before 1787. The scheme closed it in 1918 by Historic England's gazetteer, 1916 by other records, and the site has had houses on it since the 1950s.
The main pub in Burgh by Sands from before 1829 until 1936, when it closed on the opening of the Greyhound, the manor house the scheme converted into the village's new pub.
One of three houses the scheme held at Burgh, taken and converted in 1917 and closed by 1930. It stood close to the Packhorse.
At Longburgh, a mile down the road from Burgh, in a building of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
The White Ox at Blackwell, on Durdar Road south of the city, and a pub from at least 1790.
This one matters more than most, because the look of the model pubs the scheme built afterwards starts here.
The first Carlisle pub bought by its own manager.
Trading from 1854, and in the local directories from 1858 to 1914. It took its name from the nearby Dixon's textile factory, the same firm the Milbourne Arms, a short walk away, also nods to.
The Victoria Viaduct's other lost hotel, alongside the Central Hotel, and never a drinking house.
Designed by the Carlisle architect Daniel Birkett, who also drew the 1874 extension on the Turf. It opened as the Great Central, became the Central Hotel and ended as the Central Plaza.
Number fifty-two on the 1920 roll. It traded as the Dixon's Arms from 1855 to 1869 before taking the Star name, and was also known as the White Star.
An old established beer shop in Botcherby, trading from 1828 as the Sun and renamed the Plough in 1854; it was advertised to let under its earlier name in April 1854, and is in the directories as the Plough Inn from…
On the Sands at Brampton. Mike Tuer's records have it starting as the Horse and Groom around 1829, becoming the Bay Horse and then, in 1847, the Ridge House Inn; it closed as a pub in 1876 and is now a large house.
On the Sands at Brampton. It started life early in the nineteenth century as the Three Lions but was soon the Sandhouse Inn, later the Sandhouse Hotel, and it closed in 2000.
An estate pub of the newest sort: it opened on 20 August 1975, at a cost of £185,000, which makes it younger than most of the houses around it, and it holds a small distinction of its own as Whitbread's first pub in…
Built for the parish of St Augustine, with a datestone of 11 November 1952.
The one with the tunnel, and a name that outlived itself twice over.
A vegan and veggie cocktail and gin bar and kitchen, cosy and industrial, in the cluster of bars that grew up on Devonshire Street from around 2010.
The biggest thing Carlisle nightlife has ever had, and it is entirely gone. The building went up as the Argyll Cinema in the mid 1950s.
One of Carlisle's five Golden Fleeces, and also known simply as the Harraby Inn. The Carlisle Journal advertised it to let on 16 September 1809, with a tea garden attached, William Salt named as innkeeper.
The third Graham Arms, and the oldest of them. It stands west of Gelt Bridge at Greenwell in Hayton parish, out past Brampton, and it is Grade II listed as list entry 1087552, listed on 28 March 1984.
Hayton's scheme pub, taken and refitted in August 1916 and closed in 1949 by Mike Tuer's records.
At Smithfield, near Kirklinton, known as the Robin Hood as early as 1784, and also recorded as the Red House. The scheme took it in October 1916 and sold it to its tenant in 1973 for ÂŁ8,500.
Near Kirklinton, and for most of its life one of the district's several Graham Arms, from the early nineteenth century until the 1970s, when it became the Cliff Inn.
On St Alban's Row, at number 2 by one record and number 8 by another, and number twenty-seven on the scheme's 1920 roll.
A spirit vaults on St Alban's Row, in an early to mid-eighteenth century building.
A fitting name for a wool and textile town. It stood at 36 St Nicholas Street, trading from 1856 by one record and first recorded as a pub in 1858.
A Maryport Brewery house on St Nicholas Street, taken by the scheme in August 1916.
Before any of that it was a school. The building went up in 1814 as the Central School, was taken over by the Fawcett School in 1883, and closed as a school on 31 August 1909.
On West Walls, trading as the Joiners Arms from 1841 before taking the Queens Arms name, and in the directories to 1873; one record carries it to 1875. A to-let advertisement ran in February 1856.
The pub on the A69 at Aglionby, recorded from 1858, and an Iredale's house.
An Iredale's house in the hamlet of Aglionby, on the Brampton road just east of the city, in the directories from 1855 to 1906.
The village pub at Warwick Bridge, and a State Management house: number 18 on the scheme's roll of 1920, sitting between the Friars Tavern on Devonshire Street and the Globe on Bridge Street.
A roadside inn on the main road through Warwick Bridge, in the Solway CAMRA directory of the district's pubs from 1834.
On Court Square, trading from 1834, and pulled down in 1848 to make way for the new railway station.
On Court Square, trading before 1829 and in the local directory for 1834; it drops out of the records after 1837.
On Harraby Hill, and a house with four names: the Golden Fleece from 1808, the Bald Faced Stag by 1811, the Apple Tree from about 1813, and the Lancer from 1829 until it drops out of the directories in 1849.
Known from a Carlisle Journal report of 27 July 1811, when the Horticultural Society met 'at the house of Mr Richard Sewell, sign of the Bald-faced Stag, Harraby Hill, near Carlisle' to judge a gooseberry competition.
At 7 English Damside, trading from 1838, and a separate pub from the Caledonian still trading on Botchergate: the two should not be conflated. R.
A beerhouse on Backhouse Walk from 1839 to 1846, then in the directories as the New Inn from 1847 to about 1902-03.
At 11 Henry Street, the older name for this stretch of what is now Warwick Road, and trading from 1830. Thomas Hilton, 60 and born at Kirkby Thore, is the innkeeper of the 1901 census.
At 10 Henry Street, the older name for this stretch of what is now Warwick Road, trading before 1829, in the local directory for 1837, and gone after 1840.
In Peascod's Lane, trading before 1777, and also recorded as the Bull and Dog and the Dog and Duck.
Traded as the Cross Keys from before 1782, took the Liddesdale Tavern name in 1854 or 1855, and was known as the Citadel, or Citadel Inn, from about 1858 until it drops out of the records in 1861.
At 1 Bridge Street, in the local directories from 1822 to 1914. The 1861 census gives James Dinwoodie as innkeeper. By 1916 it was a Jennings Brothers house.
At 39 Bridge Street, on the road from Caldew Bridge into Caldewgate, from before 1820 until 1901, when it was pulled down for the Caldewgate street improvement.
Founded, by its own account, in 1862, though it is not in the 1873 trade directory, so the date may be more tradition than fact.
One merger, and then a slow fade.
At 18 Caldcotes, a beerhouse before 1850, trading from 1844 by one record, and in the local directories from 1850 to 1914; it is shown on Asquith's 1853 map.
In the local directory for 1857 and gone within a year: one of the briefest-lived pubs on Caldcotes, a street that also kept the Plough Inn and still has [[jovial-sailor-caldcotes|the…
At Laversdale, near Irthington and the airport. It started life as the Dog & Gun in the early nineteenth century and swapped between that name and the Sportsman more than once, settling on the Sportsman for good in 1978.
A one-storey, thatched public house at Laversdale Lane End, owned by Thomas Ridley of Newtown, Irthington, with a ÂŁ230 mortgage held by J. Drummond.
A newer pub than most in the country round Carlisle.
An Iredale's house at Allenwood, by Heads Nook, closed by the Board in August 1916 when it took over Iredale's estate.
The most curious name in Crosby-on-Eden, which once had four pubs. It was the Duke of Wellington until the mid-1860s, then took the name of a local racehorse, Laughing Stock, which had come third in the Derby.
Just along the road from the Stag at Crosby-on-Eden, the white building beside it in Mike Tuer's photograph, and trading from around 1822.
Thursby's second pub, closed by the Board in 1918, leaving the village to the Ship, which stands almost next door. The Board closed another Horse and Farrier at Lingyclose Head the same year.
A wayside inn at Moorend, on the main road from Carlisle to Wigton just outside Thursby, and a Carlisle Old Brewery house by its last years. Isaac Fawkes passed the licence to John Cartner in November 1888.
At Bolton Fell End, north of Hethersgill, closed by the Board in 1917. It stood a few yards from the Pointer Dog, which the scheme kept.
The pub the scheme kept at Bolton Fell End, taken and refitted in 1917, the year it closed the Howard Arms nearby.
One entry each, on streets and in villages that don't otherwise get a section of their own. Listed by name.
The students' union bar at the University of Cumbria's Fusehill Street campus, with a beer garden, food and a stage. Skiddle listed it as a live venue and it ran open mic nights and gigs for years.
The biggest loss on this list, by membership.
A short-lived 1980s pub on the corner of Castleway and West Tower Street, close under the castle walls.
On Crosby Street, CA1 1DQ, a few minutes' walk from the station and from the Botchergate strip.
The pub gave its name to the lane, not the other way round.
In 1592 commissioners were said to have met at the sign of the Dragon Inn Coronet, described as 'a common Inn', per Henry Summerson's Medieval Carlisle, p564.
Known from a single citation: an 1861 advertisement for Morris, Harrison and Co gives the hotel as 'established 1853, Rennie late Duncan's', so it was set up under a Duncan in 1853 and had passed to a landlord named…
On Irish Damside, in the local directories in 1837 and again in 1858.
It opened as Fat Fingers and shortened itself to Fats, which is the name most people remember.
Not demolished, refurbished, and not the site's first rebuild either.
The clubhouse of Carlisle Council 60 of the Knights of St Columba, a Catholic men's fraternal order founded in Glasgow on 5 October 1919 around the principles of charity, unity and fraternity.
A nightclub in a piece of serious architecture.
Opened on Cecil Street on 14 December 1973, with the Cumberland News running an illustrated feature on the launch that same day.
At 19 Union Street, in the local directories from 1850 to 1869 as the Smith's Arms, and also called the Blacksmiths Arms. The house is older than those directories.
The old St Bede's school building, vacated when the new school on Wigton Road opened in 1962, reopened the following year as a licensed club run by the Carlisle Young Men's Society.
On the road to Dalston, halfway between the Cummersdale and Peter Lane junctions, and formerly the Drovers. It opened in the 1840s.
It began as a cinema.
At Town Foot in Brampton. It was the Barley Mow before 1817 and was already the Barley Stack by 1833, and it kept that name for more than a century and a half until it closed in 1998.
Not built as a pub at all.
A small house at Burnrigg, near Warwick Bridge, where the Board took only the lease, in August 1916.
At Hornsby Gate, out in the country south-east of the city near Cumwhitton, open before 1828 and closed around 1972, the year before the State Management Scheme was wound up.
A beerhouse at Allen Grove, near Warwick Bridge, on the corner where the road from Heads Nook station comes down to the lane, also known as the Boarding House.
On the Longtown road at Blackford, closed in July 1916, among the very first the Board shut. It stood long enough to appear on the Ordnance Survey map published in 1951; a bungalow is on the site now.
A large estate pub on Ashness Drive at Morton, opened on 6 August 1967, or the 16th by Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. It is sometimes put on Newlaithes Avenue.
A beerhouse rather than a full public house, on Solway Street from about 1855. It was advertised to let in January 1858, the one year the local directories carry it.
A roadside inn at Micklethwaite, on the Carlisle to Wigton road nine miles out and two short of Wigton, where a lane crosses at the hamlet.
The Bush Inn, or Bush Hotel, on Back Street in Brampton, trading before 1775. It was a Brampton Old Brewery house and later belonged to Glasson's Penrith Breweries. The records disagree about its end.
West of the city on the A595 at Cardewlees, and known for most of its life, from the early nineteenth century, as the New Inn.
The village pub at Walton, on Hadrian's Wall, and the only one the village had. Its records go back to 1781.
The village's second pub, a hundred yards or so from the Queen Inn and named for the viaduct beside it.
A separate Drove Inn from the Rickergate one, at Albert Place on Stanwix Bank, and trading before 1787.
On Ferguson's Lane, and a separate pub from the Duke of York on Shaddongate.
Known first from one sentence in a document about a different pub.
One family held it for most of a century.
A Wetheral inn that started out as the Letters before 1813 and became the Fish in 1838. An older house at the side of the village green traded from 1806 to 1875. In September 1901 its licence passed temporarily from T.
At Armathwaite, by the Eden, in Kelly's directory of 1914. The Home Office kept a file on it from 1917 to 1923. The village kept the Fox & Pheasant a few hundred yards away.
On Jollie's Lane off Scotch Street, the lane later renamed after the Crown and Anchor.
The George Hotel, earlier the George and Dragon: a coaching inn in Brampton that Mike Tuer's records take back before 1765, becoming the George in 1851. One record places it on the Market Place.
At 2 Old Grapes Lane, one of the pubs that stood in the Lanes, the tight network of alleys and courts behind Scotch Street that ran down towards the river before postwar clearance.
A State Management pub on Crown Street, in Carlisle directories from 1855 and by one record trading from 1850. It was a Maryport Brewery house from 1892, and the scheme acquired it in September 1916.
At 23 High Cross Street in Brampton, trading from about 1831 to 1853, and originally called the Plough. It was in the building occupied by Cumbrian Properties in Mike Tuer's photograph.
Not the Graham Arms at Longtown, and the difference matters. This was a second pub of almost the same name, four miles south at Westlinton on the Lyne.
At Thurstonfield, on the road west towards Kirkbampton, taken and refitted by the scheme in 1917 and closed by 1930.
An inn in Pack Horse Lane, one of the Lanes between English Street and Lowther Street, whose end can be dated to the month. J.
At Scaleby, north-east of the city, also known as the Fighting Cocks, and closed by the Board in 1917. The building is a house called Hillfield House.
Talkin's other inn, a few steps from the Blacksmiths Arms, with a history back to the eighteenth century. It was the Greyhound until 1861.
At Barclose, near Scaleby, north-east of the city.
The main pub in the hamlet of Todhills, north of the city on the old road to Scotland. It was built in 1824 and was a pub before 1829.
Aikton's second pub, taken and refitted in 1918 and closed the next year, leaving the village to the Joiners Arms, now the Aikton Arms.
A roadside house at Lingyclose Head, between the city and Dalston, closed by the Board in 1918.
Cumwhinton's other pub, closed by the Board in December 1916, in the first cull of country houses.
Named for the old Forest of Inglewood, said to have once run all the way from Carlisle to Penrith. A post-war state inn rather than a Redfern one.
At Wheelbarrow Hall, a hamlet on the Brampton road two and a half miles out of Carlisle, at the crossroads where the road to Scotby turns off.
Originally on Caldew Brow, trading from 1823 by one record and from 1847 by another, before a move to new premises on Wood Street in 1848; the old Caldew Brow building was demolished in 1852.
A nineteenth-century country house on the Longtown road, five minutes' walk from Brampton's market square, run for years as the Kirby Moor Country House Hotel with the Bella Vista restaurant attached and a bar open…
At 20 James Street, in Wapping, and recorded under Hewson Street too, which James Street meets there. It was named for the railway company whose line came into Citadel station.
The Beaumont pub, number 99 on the scheme's 1920 roll, and another of the Board's early closures: the directories run from before 1829 to 1917, the year the scheme took it, though one record queries whether it traded…
The village inn at Drumburgh, on the Solway on the line of Hadrian's Wall, a few yards along the road from the remains of Drumburgh Castle.
On John Street, trading from 1857 and in Carlisle directories from 1880.
On the Ivegill road towards Hutton Road End, trading before 1828 and through a run of trade names: the Horse & Farrier, the Horse & Blacksmith and the Smiths Arms, before the Marketgate Inn.
At 19 South John Street, off Botchergate, trading from 1840 and in Carlisle directories from 1847 through to 1907-08, then absent. It was a Carlisle New Brewery house from 1880.
At Chalkfoot, on the Chalk Beck west of Dalston, by Chalkfoot Bridge, where the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of about 1900 marks the Mason's Arms (P.H.) beside the road; it was closed by the Board in 1918.
At 12 St Albans Row, trading before 1785 and until 1902, when it drops out of the directories: well over a century. It was known at first simply as the Queens Head.
At 11 Drover's Lane, in the directories from 1870 and recorded under an earlier name, the Cumberland Wrestlers: a 'Cumberland Wrestlers, Drovers Lane' appears in the Carlisle directory for 1870 only.
On Water Street, trading before 1829. Robert Brown ran it in 1847.
An eighteenth-century inn at Greymoor Hill, north of Kingstown by what is now junction 44 of the M6, trading as the Plough until 1847.
Built as a cattle byre and made into an inn around 1850, in its own grounds off the road through the village, with views over the Bewcastle fells; one record has it trading from 1847.
On Hewson Street, where James Layden was innkeeper around 1901.
A much later and shorter-lived pub than the other Railway Tavern, at 21 Botchergate, better known as the Golden Quoit, which carried the Railway Tavern name from 1861 and closed in…
At Brisco, south of the city on the old road towards Durdar. It opened as a beerhouse around 1850, as the Red Fox Inn, and was later the Red Cat, and the Liquor Control Board closed it in 1917.
Cotehill's second pub, a beerhouse at the start, in Bulmer's directory of 1901.
At Cumrew, under the fells south of How Mill, closed by the Board in 1916. The name stayed on the building.
A roadside inn on the Penrith road, trading before 1829 and an Iredale's house when the state arrived.
The Kirkbampton pub, number 116 on the scheme's 1920 roll, and it lasted far longer than most of the village houses on that roll.
A Rose and Crown at Caldew Bridge, on the Carlisle Encyclopaedia's 'R2' page; another account places a Rose and Crown on Irishgate Brow instead.
On Lowthians Lane from before 1800. Its closure was reported at the local licensing session in February 1912, which recorded that the Rose and Crown had 'closed during the year', so the actual closure fell in 1911.
On Head's Lane, trading under this name only briefly, from about 1850 into the mid-1850s. It is very possibly not a separate lost pub at all.
A village inn at Gaitsgill, south of Dalston, probably of the early eighteenth century. The scheme took it in 1917 and ran it to the end, and it went to Greenall Whitley with Group 2 of the sale on 4 April 1973.
The village inn at Welton, in Sebergham parish south of Dalston, and for half a century the home of the Sebergham Agricultural Society.
A village local on the main street at High Hesket, just off the A6, and trading before 1829. Whether the state ran it is disputed.
A roadside inn at Wham, just west of Aiket Gate on the road from Armathwaite to Low Hesket, with two names in use at once: the Sportsman Inn on its sign and in some reports, the Wham Inn on the maps and in others.
Down a narrow lane of the same name between English Street and Castle Street, opening into a small yard.
One of Southwaite's three pubs on the scheme's 1920 roll, and named for the village's station on the main line, which opened with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway and closed to passengers in 1952.
Trading from 1834, and known as Nanson's Vaults and as the West Tower Street Spirit Vaults, the name under which the directories carry it from 1861 into the 1910s, before it was renamed the Tower Tavern.
In the local directories from 1850 as the Union Hotel, and recorded earlier, from 1837, as the British Field Place, which may be the British Field Piece under a…
The last pub at How Mill, and one the licensing register is the main record of.
Listed only as being on the A69, the Brampton road east out of the city, with no closing year and no nearer location.
Castle Carrock had two pubs on opposite sides of Geltsdale Road, and this was the one that did not survive.
On the village green at Scotby, where the village hall is now. It traded from 1864 until 1917, when the Liquor Control Board closed it. The Royal Oak is the pub Scotby kept.
At Rosley, the village south of Wigton that held one of the biggest horse and cattle fairs in the north. The scheme took and converted the Wheatsheaf, probably in 1917, the date on its file.
In the local directories from 1852 to 1858, on Cobden Street off Newtown Road.
The pub at the head of the Brampton Mile, and one that took a while to admit it had gone.
There were two White Quays, and this was the city one.
The one man who said no, and he was an Iredale tenant. The White Quey was trading at Stoneraise before 1847.
Set up by Ukrainians displaced by the Second World War rather than returned to Communist rule, many of whom had first been housed at a British labour camp at Smalstown Camp, Longtown.
Most of these pubs have a closing date and nothing else. If you remember one (the layout, the landlord, why it shut, what it was like) send it and it goes on the page with your name on it if you want.
The survivors are worth a look while they're still serving: 66 of the pubs on this site were part of the same scheme that closed the ones above.