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Lost pub · Botchergate

Deakin's Vaults

Gone 1917

Built
Unknown
Gone
1917
There now
Absorbed into the Border Rambler
Where exactly
Placed on Botchergate from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

Swallowed whole. When Redfern took on his first Carlisle job in 1917, reworking the pub next door over nine months, the scheme had him take Deakin's Vaults into it. The enlarged house reopened as one pub and is still trading as the Border Rambler. The Vaults did not so much close as get absorbed, which was also the fate of the Saracen's Head and the Black Bull at Annetwell Street.

So called in local directories from 1880, and possibly under an earlier sign again before that: the Carlisle Encyclopaedia's own "J" page entry for the Jovial Butcher (or Jolly Butcher), Botchergate, calls itself directly "the forerunner of Deakin's Vaults," citing the same 1951-demolition, Pearl-Assurance-Office fate and the same local-directory run. A sign for "the Jolly Butcher" was advertised for sale on 5 November 1831.

This is a different, older Jolly Butcher from the one that traded briefly under that name on Scotch Street, at what's now the site of the Three Cannons, between about 1827 and 1840 -- two unrelated pubs that happened to share a sign. That same encyclopaedia entry gives a different fate for the building than the absorption told above: it says the pub was demolished in 1951 to make way for the Pearl Assurance Office, with a 1951 photograph of the publican E.

Bulman reproduced in Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p91. Whether that is a separate, later demolition of what remained of the original Deakin's Vaults building after 1917, or a different account of the same closure that doesn't square with the Border Rambler absorption story, hasn't been settled here -- both are recorded rather than one being silently preferred. xls spreadsheet gives a fuller naming chain again -- the Broom (1822-28), then the Jovial Butcher (1829-94), then Deakin's Spirits Vaults (1894-1916 or 1924) -- and its own account of the building's end is a third version again: it gives the demolition as 1999, not 1951. Three sources, three different endings; none of them picked over the others here.

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