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Lost pub · Shaddongate

Anglers

1858 to about 1924

Opened
1858
Gone
Closed October 1916, later reopened; closed for good around 1924
There now
Demolished; the building stood until at least 1940
Address
22 Shaddongate
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3948055790, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

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. A separate Minerva from the Minerva Inn on Court Square. Parson and White's directory of 1829 names James Rennison as its keeper.

The Minerva was in the thick of the election riot in Shaddongate on 24 June 1841. Serjeant Goulburn, one of the candidates, was in the house with Major Wilde when a large crowd gathered outside; the police went in to get him out, a man named John Laughlen snatched a constable's stick ('I'll disarm you'), stones came 'very rapidly', and the soldiers had to clear the street. Laughlen got three months for assault at the August assizes.

It is in the local directories as the Anglers from 1858 to 1913 or 1914, and the 1861 census gives Thomas Pollard, aged 39, publican, born Gaitsgill. The old name outlived the change: in March 1866 the council refused Thomas Gibson leave to dig an ale cellar at 'the Minerva Arms Inn, Shaddongate', at the corner of Broadguards, because its floor would have been below the level of the sewer. In 1892-93 a large room was added to the Anglers' Arms, Shaddongate, 'said to be used for private purposes', in the Chief Constable's words.

It was a Maryport Brewery house, and a newspaper note records it closed in October 1916, so it traded on past its last directory listing until the state took the district's pubs that year; the Cumberland News of 4 November 1916 lists it among the Carlisle licensed houses the Board had closed by 1 November. On 30 April 1919 the Central Control Board put it up for auction at the Victoria Hotel, through the auctioneer Fred Telford, among fourteen Carlisle properties it no longer needed: number 22 Shaddongate, 'formerly the Angler's Arms Inn', a house and shop with a large yard and a two-stall stable opening on to Rigg Street, 'suitable for a marine store, carter, or general dealer'. Telford advertised it again by private treaty on 7 June 1919.

Historic England's gazetteer records that it later reopened under the scheme and closed for good around 1924, when it was turned over to another use, though a building on the market as a former inn in 1919 sits uneasily with that. The building was still on the Ordnance Survey map published in 1940 and has since been demolished.

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