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Lost pub · Rickergate

Scotch Arms Hotel

Gone 1916

Gone
23 October 1916
There now
Carlisle Magistrates Court extension, and for a time the bus station
Address
20 Rickergate
Where exactly
Partly under the modern Magistrates' Court extension, opposite the Fox & Hounds.

Trading on Rickergate before 1774, at number 20 (30 before the street was renumbered in the 1860s). John Foster's memories of Rickergate in the Cumberland News of 18 January 1991 place it beside the Co-operative store, with Noble Sewell the grocer beyond it, and the Fox & Hounds stood opposite. A Scotch Arms Inn housed an election committee room 'distinguished by a green and white banner' in the city's first council election, in December 1835; the report does not say which ward it served, but this is the city's Scotch Arms.

Mrs Tweddle kept it in 1841, when a sale of property at Kingstown, including the village's Black Bull, was held at her house. William Blamire kept it in the 1860s, at 30 Rickergate by the Cumberland News's 1933 list of the two streets' licensed houses, and W. Blamire signed the innkeepers' memorial of February 1867 for the Scotch Arms. Dennis McCauley, who kept the Blue Bell next door in 1861 and opened the Star Music Hall on Rickergate on 25 June 1877, later kept this house. William Horner kept it in 1897 and Mrs Annie Carlyle in 1906.

It was a Maryport Brewery house by the end. The scheme acquired it in 1916 and closed it on 23 October the same year, so it had months rather than years as a state pub; the Cumberland News of 4 November 1916 lists it among the Carlisle licensed houses the Board had closed by 1 November. The Fox & Hounds outlived it by forty-four years. The building was gone by the Ordnance Survey map of 1940, and Historic England's gazetteer tentatively gives it a second name, the Light Horseman. The site is under the Magistrates' Court extension, along with the Blue Bell, and was the bus station for a time in between.

Sources 13

Location from geograph.org.uk. The pin marks the site.

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