Royal Oak

Gone

Reduced to off-sales by 1920, demolished 1987

There now

Redeveloped

Address

Bridge Street

Where exactly

Placed on Caldewgate from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

A slow ending rather than a sudden one. James Armstrong, born at Hesket, was publican here in 1861 at thirty-eight; George Boak, a Carlisle man of thirty, had it by 1901. Then the scheme took it, and from 1920 the directories list it as off-sales only. It stayed that way for nearly fifty years, to 1968: a pub reduced to a shop counter and left to run down rather than closed outright, which is a quieter way of doing what the Board did to the Queens Head up the road in 1918.

A separately-held pub database gives the off-licence its own trading name for its last years, Cellar 5, from 1973 to 1987. The building came down in 1987. Not the Royal Oak at Scotby or the one at Moorhouse, both still serving.

Source

• carlisle-encyclopaedia.co.uk

Also lost on Caldewgate

• The Bricklayers Arms
• Queens Head Inn
• The Pheasant Inn
• The Globe Inn
• The Rodney Inn
• The Old Queens Head

Still serving, near where it stood

• Joiners Arms

  Caldewgate
  0 maway

• The Jovial Sailor

  Caldcotes
  240 maway

• Cumbria Indoor Bowls Club

  Denton Holme
  420 maway

• The Milbourne Arms

  Denton Holme
  490 maway