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Lost pub · Scotch Street

Amos's Spirit Stores

Gone 1916

Gone
Licence taken away by the Control Board, October 1916
There now
Not established
Address
Rickergate Brow
Where exactly
At the Rickergate Brow end of Scotch Street. The exact building isn't known, so the pin marks the top of the street, not the shop. The position is approximate.

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. Robert Amos became a partner about 1868 and later bought it outright; after his death in about 1877 his widow, Jane, ran it with their sons. From the early 1870s the firm held a six-day wine and spirit merchant's licence for sale on and off the premises, and by Mrs Amos's obituary it was unique in the district: the only grocer's licence under which small quantities of spirits could be sold for drinking in the shop.

The Control Board ended it, as it ended the joint sale of groceries and drink everywhere in the city. The Cumberland News of 21 October 1916 lists Mr Amos's licence, Scotch Street, among three grocers' licences taken away that week, and the Board's report of 1 November lists 'Spirit Stores (Amos), Scotch Street' among the Carlisle licensed premises it had closed. Jane Amos died in March 1918, aged 75, the daughter of a farmer at Newby East.

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