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Lost pub · Allen Grove

The Board

Gone 1930

Gone
Closed by 1930
There now
A house
Address
Allen Grove, Warwick Bridge
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4845556617, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The 25-inch map of about 1900 marks the beerhouse 'B.H.' here. The building's use in 2018: residential.

A beerhouse at Allen Grove, near Warwick Bridge, on the corner where the road from Heads Nook station comes down to the lane, also known as the Boarding House. The Ordnance Survey's 25-inch map of about 1900 marks it 'B.H.', for beerhouse, opposite a small house by the corner. William Dalton kept it in May 1876, when he was given an extra hour on a Saturday night to hold a picnic. John Barran had it by the 1880s, and when he died, in June 1886, the licence passed to his widow, Jane Elizabeth, who kept the house for more than thirty years.

Her one appearance in court came at the end. On Sunday 2 April 1916 a sergeant and a constable watching the house, after complaints, saw a man come down the road from Heads Nook station and go in at twenty to nine, and two more at twenty past. At a quarter to ten they went in front and back, the sergeant jumping a fence to reach the back door; an alarm went up inside, the three men were hurrying for the front door, and in the bar there was a glass half full of beer with froth on it.

'I did not let them in,' Mrs Barron said. 'Are you going to make any to-do about it?' and to her daughter, 'Why did you let them in?' Her solicitor's explanations were that one man came every Sunday for vegetable scraps for his hens, another to explain why his daughter had missed a trip with Miss Barron to see the Carl Rosa Opera Company in Carlisle, and the third was looking for a pipe lighter he had lost in the garden, which was found; 'froth', he added, 'was rather an elusive thing'.

Mrs Barron, 65, slapped the bar of the witness box and swore no drink had been drawn that morning, since she had the key of the cellar, and that the police had sworn lies. The bench fined her £10, under the Central Control Board's order then newly in force, after 32 years without a charge against her.

Three months later it was still licensed, as the Board, Allengrove, in the Cumberland News list of July 1916, and it had gone by 1930. The building is a house now.

Photograph

Old Ordnance Survey map of the hamlet of Allen Grove, with a red circle round a small building at a road junction marked B.H. for beerhouse, a red label reading The Board Inn, and the mill race to the west
The Board at Allen Grove, marked 'B.H.' (beerhouse) on the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of about 1900 National Library of Scotland, CC BY 4.0

Sources

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