Lost club · Fisher Street
Fisher Street Social Club
- Built
- Grade II listed building
- Gone
- Wound up 2015, dissolved 2016
- There now
- The building stands; the club is gone
- Where exactly
- On Fisher Street. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.
Formerly the Carlisle Working Men's Club & Institute, the classic CIU working men's club, the most common club type in twentieth-century Britain and the one type Carlisle has lost. Its formation traces to 1874, with a first AGM the following spring; it was based first in West Walls, then Paradise Court, before opening its own premises here, at number 11, on 26 January 1928. Its hundredth anniversary was marked in 1974. It was a few doors from the RAOB club at number 20, and the two are often confused.
The building is older than the club: a house of about 1800, built for Robert Ferguson and already on John Wood's map of 1821, of Flemish bond brick with painted stone quoins, three storeys and three bays behind a Tuscan porch, and a school before the club took it. It has been Grade II listed since 13 November 1972; the inside was heavily altered between 1967 and 1971.
Liquidators were appointed in June 2015 and the company was dissolved on 23 September 2016. As of 2023 the building was reported in the middle of building work, having stood closed as a working men's club for several years by then.
Also lost on Fisher Street
- The Carlisle Cross Inn
- The City Vaults
- The Front Page Club
- TC's
- The Regency
- Abstrakt
- The Klondyke
- The Half Moon Inn
- The Saddle Inn
79 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map