Caledonian Inn

Built

In local directories 1850-1914

Gone

Closed 1916

There now

Demolished; industrial and retail units by 2018

Address

7 English Damside

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3996655703, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

At 7 English Damside, trading from 1838, and a separate pub from the Caledonian still trading on Botchergate: the two should not be conflated. R. Lee is named at English Damside in the 1858 directory, and the 1861 census gives Robert Lee, innkeeper, 59. The Carlisle Patriot put it up for sale on 2 October 1874 together with the West Walls Brewery, then held on a yearly tenancy by a Miss Mabel Wannop.

Elizabeth Handy had taken the licence from John Thom in December 1890, the paper noting that she was 'a woman separated from her husband, who is also a publican'; she is the innkeeper of the 1891 census, 39 and born at Taunton. In September 1893 it passed from R. Elliott to George Astley, who came from the Wrestlers' Arms. Bernard McAlindon, 59 and born in Ireland, is recorded there in 1901.

It was a Maryport Brewery house by the end, and it closed in 1916: the Cumberland News of 21 October 1916 gives the Caledonian Inn, English Damside, and the Bay Horse as the two fully licensed houses closed that week.

Also lost on English Damside

• The New Inn

42 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• West Walls Brewing Co.

  City Centre
  50 maway

• Tithe Barn

  City Centre
  100 maway

• The Sportsman Inn

  City Centre
  130 maway

• Open Mind

  City Centre
  220 maway