Lost pub · Caldewgate
Queens Head Inn
- Gone
- Closed 1918
- There now
- The access road into Sainsbury's
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3927755912, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.
Stood just beyond what is now the traffic island, where the access into Sainsbury's runs, with the Royal Oak a little further along; Historic England's gazetteer gives its address as 6 Church Street. It was trading before 1829. Parson and White's directory of that year has John Studholme at the Queen's Head in Caldewgate, and Jollie's of 1811 has a John Studholm, 'innkeeper and joiner, Caldewgate'; which of Caldewgate's Queen's Heads he kept is not certain, though Honor Studholme was still keeping a Queen's Head Inn on Bridge Street in 1861. Not to be confused with the Old Queens Head, a separate Caldewgate pub on Church Street; there were at least two Queens Heads in this part of the city, possibly three.
It became the brewery's tap. In 1873 the directory lists it as the 'Queen's inn, Richard Robinson Graham & Co.', in 1884 as the 'Queen's Brewery Spirit Bar' under Joseph Graham, and in Kelly's of 1897 and 1906 as the 'Queen's Brewery inn', Graham & Sons, 6 Church Street. A 1910 photograph shows three pubs together: the Queens Head, the Royal Oak and the Globe.
By 1916 it was a Graham & Sons house, tied to their Queen's Brewery, and the scheme acquired it that September; the Cumberland News of 9 September 1916 lists it among the houses acquired that week. In March 1918 the Board's Carlisle committee decided to alter the adjoining Joiners' Arms so that it could take the Queen's Head's place, which fits a closure in 1918; Historic England's gazetteer gives 1917. It has the building still standing on the 1967 Ordnance Survey map before it came down for road widening.
The Royal Oak was pulled down in 1987, and only the Globe building survives from the 1910 view, itself no longer a pub since 2010. Caldewgate lost its pubs slowly, over seventy years, rather than all at once.
Sources 11
- geograph.org.uk
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
- The Cumberland News, 9 September 1916, p. 3: 'The Carlisle Experiment: Additional houses taken over' (via newspapers.com)
- The Cumberland News, 23 March 1918, p. 5: report of the Carlisle Advisory Committee of the Central Control Board (via newspapers.com)
- Jollie's Cumberland Guide & Directory (Carlisle: F. Jollie & Sons, 1811), Carlisle directory, pp. i-xxii: Studholm John, innkeeper and joiner, Caldewgate (Google Books scan of the Bodleian copy)
- W. Parson and W. White, History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (Leeds, 1829), pp. 163-164: Carlisle inns and taverns (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Post Office Directory of Durham, with the principal towns of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland (London: Kelly and Co., 1873), Carlisle: street directory and publicans (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland (1884), Carlisle: hotels, inns and taverns, beerhouses, and wine and spirit merchants (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1897), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1906), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
Open question
A date we can't pin down
When did the Queens Head in Caldewgate close? Historic England's gazetteer gives 1917, one record 1918 and another 1920.
If you know the answer, or where it might be found (an old photograph, a family story, a document), tell us and it goes into the story above.
Also lost on Caldewgate
13 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map
Still serving, near where it stood
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500 maway