Abstrakt

Gone

Licence surrendered February 2024

There now

Not known

Address

6-8 Fisher Street

Where exactly

At 6-8 Fisher Street. Several clubs have used this building, and the pin marks it.

One of the short-lived ones, and recent enough that the paperwork is the best record of it. Abstrakt Gallery Bar opened on Fisher Street in March 2018, at 6-8 Fisher Street, the old Front Page premises, which had since been TC's, the Melting Pot and the Regency. It was a few doors down from the Brickyard and from the same people as Open Mind: an open gallery, entertainment venue and bar, by its own description. Art on the walls, a Belhaven range on draught, live local music, and Friday and Saturday nights rather than a seven-day operation. It was also known as the Black Box Institute.

The spelling is the part that causes trouble: it is Abstrakt with a k, which is how the venue wrote it and how CAMRA indexed it, while the licensing register has it as Abstract. The premises licence ran from 16 March 2018 and was surrendered with effect from 13 February 2024, and nothing has traded there since.

Also lost on Fisher Street

• The Carlisle Cross Inn
• The City Vaults
• The Front Page Club
• Fisher Street Social Club
• TC's
• The Regency
• The Klondyke
• The Half Moon Inn
• The Saddle Inn

47 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Brickyard

  City Centre
  20 maway

• Crown Lane Cellar

  City Centre
  70 maway

• Carlisle RAOB Club (the Buffs)

  City Centre
  90 maway

• The Boardroom

  City Centre
  120 maway