Bush Tap (Bush Vaults)

Built

Rebuilt 1891 by J.W. Watt, as the White Horse Inn before that

Gone

Closed 1916, one of the houses the Central Control Board shut down

There now

Not established

Address

Formerly the White Horse Inn

Where exactly

Placed on Blackfriars Street from the position of the Sportsman Inn nearby. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

W. Watt rebuilt it in 1891, when it reopened as the Bush Vaults, or Bush Tap. The 1861 census gives William King, born at Bampton Grange in Westmorland, as innkeeper under the old White Horse name. It closed in 1916 as the Central Control Board moved through the city's licensed trade in the scheme's first year. Not to be confused with the separate White Horse Inn this archive already holds on English Street, a different pub a few streets away under the same old name.

This archive also holds a separate White Horse Inn entry, on English Street, whose own building fronted onto Blackfriars Street too and which independent research has since found was itself rebuilt and renamed the Bush Vaults in 1891 -- raising the possibility that this entry and that one describe the same building's own rename under two different citation trails (this one names William King as the 1861 innkeeper, the other Hugh McGrath). Left as two entries pending a proper look, rather than merged on a guess.

Source

• carlisle-encyclopaedia.co.uk

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