Lost pub · Carleton
The Blue Bell
- Gone
- Closed about 1920 or 1921
- There now
- The building later became a restaurant, Bluerare
- Address
- Carleton
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4269853024, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: restaurant/ residential (Bluerare/ Blue Bell Cottage).
In the directories from 1847, though it was trading earlier: Parson and White's directory of 1829 has Martha Little as victualler of the Blue Bell, Carleton. Joseph Martin kept it until September 1890, when he left for the Black Lion at Durdar and the licence passed to John Mellish, late a farmer in Carlisle. Mellish still kept it in 1897 and 1906. It was still trading in July 1916, when the Cumberland News listed it two places after Carleton's Golden Fleece.
The scheme acquired it in March 1917, and it is number 76 on the scheme's roll of 1920. It closed in 1920 or 1921, one of the houses the Board shut soon after taking over. Carleton had three licensed houses on that roll and in the directories: this one, the Golden Fleece, and the Greenbank, which survives as the Nosey Cow. Two of the three were gone inside five years of nationalisation. The Blue Bell's building later became a restaurant, Bluerare.
Sources 9
- Brewery History Society: the 1920 roll of Carlisle & District State Management Scheme pubs
- Mike Tuer's Cumberland pubs database (Solway CAMRA): directory first and last appearances
- CUMBERLAND_PUBS_4.xls (Cumberland pubs 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
- The Cumberland News, 8 July 1916: 'First State tavern: to be opened by Lord Lonsdale', with the list of licensed houses in the Cumberland Ward and Longtown divisions (via newspapers.com)
- W. Parson and W. White, History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (Leeds, 1829), pp. 170-172: Carleton: Little Martha, vict. Blue Bell (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1897), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1906), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Carlisle Journal, 23 September 1890, p. 3, and North Cumberland Reformer, 13 November 1890, p. 8: the Blue Bell, Carleton, Joseph Martin to John Mellish (via British Newspaper Archive)
Also lost in Carleton
2 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map
Still serving, near where it stood
-
150 maway
-
840 maway
-
1.2 kmaway
-
1.4 kmaway