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Lost pub · Blackfriars Street

Coach and Horses Inn

Gone 1916

Built
In local directories from at least 1829
Gone
Closed 1916
There now
Demolished; a supermarket by 2018
Address
44 Blackfriars Street
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4008955754, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

At 44 Blackfriars Street, trading before 1827, and a separate, older pub from the Coach & Horses still trading out at Kingstown. The Cumberland News of 22 March 1991 placed it on the western side of the street, with Carlisle Square behind it, on a site that now seems to be part of the Tesco site. A photograph of it is reproduced in Denis Perriam's book on Blackfriars Street, p13.

Joseph Hall is named in the 1829 directory. A Joseph Hall was 'innkeeper and boot and shoemaker, Botchergate' in 1811, and one had the Half Moon in 1824; whether one man or several is not clear. The 1861 census gives Mary Willis, 42 and born at Wigton, as innkeeper. In May 1868 its licence passed from John Reid, who was moving to the Turf, to James Scaife.

The 1991 column printed a descendant's request for a photograph: his great-great-grandfather was the publican from 1873 until his death in 1877, a man he gave as Edmund Clark but whom the contemporary city directories list as Edward Clarke. The licence seems then to have passed to Mrs Elizabeth Clarke, possibly his widow. James Barker, 31 and born in Sheffield, is recorded there in the 1891 census, and still there ten years later, aged 41.

It was a Carlisle New Brewery house, and the Evening News and Star reported its closure on 2 November 1916; the Cumberland News of 4 November lists it among the Carlisle licensed houses the Board had closed by 1 November.

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