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Lost pub · Rickergate

Alma Inn

1858 to about 1869

Built
Unknown
Gone
Gone from the directories under this name by 1861; a pub database gives 1869 as the closing year
There now
Unknown
Where exactly
Placed on Rickergate from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

On Rickergate, trading under several names for this same regimental sign before it became the Alma. In local directories to 1855 as the Hare and Hounds -- also recorded as the Hound and Hare and the Greyhound and Hare -- with a Carlisle Journal notice of 25 February 1804 recording the death of its innkeeper William Clarke, and another on 18 May 1839 advertising the "Hound and Hare Public House" for sale.

It carried the Greyhound & Hare name into the directories under the Alma name only between 1858 and 1861. The 1861 census gives Mary Wren, victualler, aged 45, born Workington. A pub database gives 1869 as its closing year, eight years past this entry's last directory citation, which is not itself a conflict -- a pub can outlive its last-found mention -- but is worth noting. The nearby Bay Horse at 29 Rickergate (1864-1937), where one exists on this site, was built on this pub's own site a few years after its last record here.

Sources

Location from geograph.org.uk. Placed on the right street, not the exact spot.

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