Lost pub · Upperby
The Black Bull
- Gone
- Closed when Redfern's Rose & Crown opened, around 1930
- There now
- In residential use by 2018
- Address
- St Ninian's Road, Upperby
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4112253473, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.
On St Ninian's Road, Upperby, from 1822, and kept by John Stubbs in 1829, by Parson and White's directory. Not the Black Bull Vaults on Annetwell Street, which the scheme folded into the Irish Gate Tavern. Joseph Blair of the Black Bull was fined £2 in 1877 for selling in illegal hours and had his licence renewed with a caution. In February 1887 its licence passed from William Shepherd to Joseph McAllan, and in February 1891 the transfer of its licence from the representatives of Joseph McCallum to William Grigg was put back a fortnight.
It had its own piece of yearly ceremony: around the turn of the twentieth century, the mock-mayoral 'election' of Johnny Rinchester as Mock Mayor of Upperby set off from here every New Year's Day, processing to the river, the crossroads, Lamb Street and Roseland Terrace for speeches before the parade returned to the Black Bull itself.
It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme acquired it on 16 August 1916, and it appears in the local directories as late as 1925. It closed when Harry Redfern's Rose & Crown opened to take its trade, around 1930.
Sources 8
- closedpubs.co.uk
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia: directories, census and newspaper index
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- 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
- North Cumberland Reformer, 12 February 1891, p. 6: 'The Courts, Carlisle', licence transfers (via British Newspaper Archive)
- W. Parson and W. White, History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (Leeds, 1829), p. 171: Upperby: Stubbs John, vict. Black Bull (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Carlisle Express and Examiner, 15 September 1877, p. 7: county brewster sessions (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Patriot, 11 February 1887, p. 3: transfers of licences (via British Newspaper Archive)
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