Lost pub · Blackfriars Street
Bush Tap (Bush Vaults)
- Built
- The Bush Hotel's tap; joined with the White Horse Inn in 1891
- Gone
- Closed 1916, one of the houses the Central Control Board shut down
- There now
- In commercial use by 2018
- Address
- Blackfriars Street
- Where exactly
- On Blackfriars Street. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.
The Bush Hotel's tap, on Blackfriars Street behind the hotel. The Post Office directory of 1858 lists it simply as the 'Bush, W. A. King, Blackfriars street', and the 1861 census gives the same William King, born at Bampton Grange in Westmorland, as innkeeper. It was a separate house from the White Horse Inn next door until 1891, when J. W. Watt rebuilt the White Horse and joined it to the Bush Hotel. The Chief Constable reported that year that the White Horse's ground floor was made a bar room and the Bush Vaults were to be let as a shop, 'thus making one bar room less'.
The name lived on. Kelly's directories list the Bush Hotel Vaults on Blackfriars Street in 1897, 1906 and 1910, and in 1914 the same bar is the White Horse, under John Harman of the Bush Hotel, so after 1891 the Bush Vaults and the White Horse were one bar under two names. It closed in October 1916 as the Central Control Board moved through the city's licensed trade in the scheme's first year. Historic England's gazetteer lists it as the White Horse, Blackfriars Street, and records the building in commercial use in 2018; the Board's own report of 1 November 1916 also called it the White Horse, Blackfriars Street, quite distinct from the Bush Hotel, whose licence was still being negotiated.
Sources 8
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "B2" page
- Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
- The Cumberland News, 4 November 1916, p. 5: 'The Control Board: progress of the Carlisle scheme' (E. C. Sanders's report of 1 November) (via newspapers.com)
- Post Office Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1858), Carlisle: commercial list and inns (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1897), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1906), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1910), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland and Westmorland (London: Kelly and Co., 1914), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
Also lost on Blackfriars Street
65 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map