The Bay Horse

Gone

Licence given up for £425 compensation, July 1906

There now

Not established

Address

Laversdale Lane End, Irthington

Where exactly

At Laversdale Lane End, near Irthington. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the area, not the building. The position is approximate.

A one-storey, thatched public house at Laversdale Lane End, owned by Thomas Ridley of Newtown, Irthington, with a £230 mortgage held by J. Drummond. Robert Mark had been the tenant for nineteen years by 1906, and the owner was his brother-in-law. It did a fair trade, about 37 barrels of ale a year over the last three years, with 155 gallons of spirits, and Mark reckoned to make £160 or £170 a year from it, though he kept no proper accounts: it was not the custom, his solicitor said, for many people to keep proper books.

A few years before, an offer of £700 for it had been refused. It was the first case the county Compensation Authority took for the Brampton division in July 1906, and it fixed £425, £400 to the owner and £25 to the tenant, which was accepted. Laversdale's other pub, the Sportsman, traded on into the twenty-first century.

Source

• Carlisle Journal, 27 July 1906, p. 6: 'Compensation for licences: meeting of the Cumberland Authority' (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Laversdale

• The Sportsman

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Sally

  Irthington
  2.4 kmaway

• The Fleece at Ruleholme

  Irthington
  2.8 kmaway

• The Stag Inn

  Crosby-on-Eden
  3.7 kmaway

• The Otter Inn

  Little Corby
  4.9 kmaway