St Alban's Spirit Vaults

Gone

Closed 1922

There now

Shops

Address

St Alban's Row, Carlisle

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4008755979, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: commercial.

A spirit vaults on St Alban's Row, in an early to mid-eighteenth century building. The scheme took only the lease, in September 1916 (the Cumberland News lists the St Alban's Spirit Stores among the premises acquired in the week to 9 September), and closed it in 1922. It was a different house from the Hole in the Wall and the Old Queens Head on the same short row, all three a few steps from the Market Cross.

Its trade suited the Board's plans: the general manager's report of 1 November 1916 lists the St Alban's Row Vaults among only seventeen places in the city left to sell bottles of spirits over the counter.

Sources

• 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, 4 November 1916, p. 5: 'The Control Board: progress of the Carlisle scheme' (E. C. Sanders's report of 1 November) (via newspapers.com)
• The Cumberland News, 9 September 1916, p. 3: 'The Carlisle Experiment: first meeting of the Local Committee' (via newspapers.com)

Also lost on St Alban's Row

• The Hole in the Wall

77 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Kings Head

  City Centre
  50 maway

• Crown & Mitre Hotel bar

  City Centre
  70 maway

• Bordo Lounge

  City Centre
  70 maway

• The Old Bank

  City Centre
  100 maway