The Border Terrier

Built

Opened 6 August 1967

Gone

Closed 2014, demolished May 2015

There now

Cleared

Address

Ashness Drive, Morton

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3817054047, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

A large estate pub on Ashness Drive at Morton, opened on 6 August 1967, or the 16th by Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. It is sometimes put on Newlaithes Avenue. It was not Morton's other pub alongside the Royal Scot on Langrigg Road either: different part of Morton, different estate. The scheme sold it to Scottish & Newcastle on 16 April 1973. On 16 February 1987 a fire did a hundred thousand pounds of damage to it.

It closed in July 2014 and was pulled down the following May. Named, like the Border Reiver, for the frontier, though in this case for the dog bred to work it. It was one of the Home Office's larger jobs, so the plans, drawn in 1965, went out to a London firm, Douglas Reed and Son, working to the chief architect's sketch. By then the scheme had stopped keeping the sexes apart, and the pub had two big rooms, a public bar and a smoking room, both open to women, with an off-sales shop.

It was trailed in the scheme's jubilee supplement of October 1966, a year before it opened, as an entirely new pub on the Morton estate, 'to be the largest in the city', its name not yet chosen and a stage already planned. H. B. Wilson's official history says it was particularly popular with the younger generation.

Sold to Scottish & Newcastle as part of Group 1, handed over on 16 April 1973. Who bought the rest

Sources

• carlisle-encyclopaedia.co.uk
• 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
• 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)
• The State Management Story documents: Evening News supplement, Half a Century of the State Management Scheme, 12 October 1966
• The State Management Story documents: H. B. Wilson, History of the Carlisle State Management Scheme 1916-1974 (Home Office, about 1975)

Still serving, near where it stood

• Pirelli Social Club

  Denton Holme
  540 maway

• Royal Scot

  Morton
  590 maway

• The Spinners Arms

  Cummersdale
  1.1 kmaway

• The Horse and Farrier

  Morton
  1.1 kmaway