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Lost pub · Corporation Road

Crown Inn

Gone 1916

Built
In local directories 1855-1914
Gone
Closed 17 September 1916, a month after the scheme acquired it
There now
Converted to a house; in residential use by 2018
Address
10 Corporation Road
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4006556312, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

In the local directories from 1855. Bernard Roner, 53, is recorded as innkeeper at number 5 Corporation Road in the 1861 census; Kelly's directories of 1897 and 1906 give number 10, next door to the Duke's Head at 8, while a Cumberland News column of 24 April 1992 puts it at No 8, the left-hand house in a photograph of the three. The 25-inch Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1865 marks one inn a few doors west of the Golden Fleece, probably the Crown, with the Duke's Head next door on the corner side; in 1905 the Duke's Head was said to have an inn next door. Not the Crown Inn on Henry Street.

Hugh McGrath kept it until February 1855, when he moved to the White Horse on English Street. In May 1876 the licence passed from John Taylor to John Burns, who was on the police black list in September 1880, and the Carlisle Journal advertised it for sale on 9 May 1884, then occupied by Burns. That September the licence passed from Mr Burns to Mr Blaiklock, and Mrs Isabell Blaiklock still had it in 1894; Mrs Agnes T. Fleming kept it in 1897 and 1906.

The 1992 column calls its career chequered. In 1907, despite police objections at the licensing sessions, a tenant called Murray got the premises, the previous tenant having held them for only six months, during which, it was said, the house had been very badly conducted and frequented by women of loose character. Murray stayed two or three years; the licence went to Hugh Black in 1910 and to a Mrs Young in 1911.

The scheme acquired it in August 1916 and closed it on 17 September, a month later; the Cumberland News of 7 October 1916 counted the Crown Inn, Corporation Road, among the houses the Board had just closed. The column found it in the directories until 1914 and, given the number of pubs in the Rickergate and Corporation Road area, thought it no surprise that the scheme marked it as no longer needed.

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