Lost pub · Botchergate

Talk of the Border

Built: Plans passed May 1940, licensed 1 July 1940
Gone: Closure date not established
There now: Not established
Address: 79 Botchergate

A dance hall with three names in thirty years, upstairs at 79 Botchergate. Plans to convert the upper floor into a ballroom were passed in May 1940 and the licence granted on 1 July that year: the Cameo Ballroom, trading under that name until 1964. In February 1965 it was renamed the 101 Club -- the same club this archive also held as a separate, address-less entry, the One-O-One Club, now folded in here: open by December 1965, still going in August 1966, reported closing in February 1968 and confirmed shut that June, then taken on by a new owner and reopened on 28 January 1969.

That April it was renamed again, to Talk of the Border. Freddie Starr was photographed there at some point in its run, and a Cumberland News piece of 31 May 1974 asks whether Mecca had taken the club over; it was still being written up in the paper as late as August 1980. What happened to it after that has not been traced: no closing date, no later name, and nothing on what the building holds now. The building it stands in has outlasted every name given to it, which is the usual pattern on this stretch of Botchergate.

Sources

Carlisle Encyclopaedia: the Cameo Ballroom, 79 Botchergate, licensed 1 July 1940, renamed the 101 Club in 1965 and Talk of the Border in April 1969
Images of Carlisle (Cumberland News), p107: Freddie Starr photographed at the club
CN 31.05.1974: "Mecca takeover?"; CN 01.02.1980 and CN 29.08.1980

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