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Lost pub · Rickergate

Barley Stack

Gone 1903

Gone
Licence ended April 1903; a temperance hotel by 1911
There now
Not established
Address
35 Rickergate
Where exactly
Placed by house number on the east side of Rickergate, just south of the Three Crowns, by Barley Stack Lane, from the order of the houses in Kelly's directories of 1894 to 1906 and the Ordnance Survey map of 1865. The position is approximate.

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. The 1861 census gives Francis Forrester, 38, an innkeeper born in Carlisle, and the Carlisle Patriot advertised the house to let in October 1862, describing it as 'now occupied by Fras Foster.' J. Forster signed the innkeepers' memorial of February 1867 for the Barley Stack.

Mr Fisher of the Barley Stack proposed the ward committees at the publicans' meeting for the relief of the poor in December 1878, and sat on Rickergate's. In March 1884 the licence passed from James Fisher to Mary Graham, at the same sitting at which Isaac Graham of the Duke's Head on Corporation Road handed his to John Fisher: very probably two families exchanging houses. In September 1892 the licence passed from Mary Graham to John Scurr, and Charles Daly, 50 and Carlisle-born, kept it by the 1901 census.

It is in the local directories until 1906, but the directories lagged: the Carlisle Journal's report of the adjourned licensing sessions of March 1903 lists it among six city licences that would cease after April that year. The last record of it is a Cumberland News advertisement from September 1911, offering the 'Old Barley Stack Temperance Hotel' to let: whatever the house had become by then, it was no longer an ordinary licensed pub.

Sources 8

Location from geograph.org.uk. The pin is approximate.

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