Saracen's Head

Built

Early 19th century

Gone

Acquired 4 August 1916 and closed almost at once

There now

Castle Way. The whole north side of the street went in 1972-73

Where exactly

The viewpoint of the lost-pubs photograph of the street. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

The first half of a merger. The scheme bought the Saracen's Head on 4 August 1916 and the Black Bull Vaults next door on the 23rd, closed both, and took out the wall between them to make one large pub. It opened as the Irish Gate Tavern in October 1917 and ran until 1971. So this is a pub that was closed in order to be enlarged, which is a different thing from the closures either side of it in this archive, and the reason the Board is remembered for building as well as shutting. Castle Way went over the whole north side of the street in 1972-73.

Source

• geograph.org.uk

Also lost on Annetwell Street

• Black Bull Vaults
• Irish Gate Tavern
• The Wrestlers Arms Inn
• The Hound and Otter

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Boardroom

  City Centre
  200 maway

• The Brickyard

  City Centre
  210 maway

• Cumbria Indoor Bowls Club

  Denton Holme
  250 maway

• Crown Lane Cellar

  City Centre
  260 maway