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Lost pub · English Street

The Carlisle Arms

1847 to 1930

Built
In local directories from at least 1847; alterations 1858
Gone
Closed September 1930, demolished for road improvements
There now
Not established
Where exactly
Placed on English Street from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

Also known locally as the Gaol Tap and the Pineapple or Pine Apple, and traceable to at least 1847 -- per the Carlisle Encyclopaedia's own account, the original public house on this block, later extended into what became the City Arms. That is not quite how this archive's separately-sourced City Arms entry tells it: there, "Gaol Tap" is the City Arms's own nickname and the Pine Apple Inn is a distinct building at 43 English Street, absorbed into the City Arms around 1885.

Three names -- Carlisle Arms, City Arms, Pine Apple -- and at least two conflicting accounts of how they relate; this entry keeps its own identity rather than being folded into either. Eleanor Bowman is named in the 1829 directory, p164, and the 1861 census gives Elizabeth Bell, 57, as innkeeper. Alterations went in in 1858 to the design of John Hodgson, adding a pediment carrying carved city arms by the sculptor John Kirkbride -- work that may be what later accounts of the City Arms's 1858 curved entrance are describing under a different name.

It closed in September 1930 and was demolished for road improvements, the same clearance that took the City Arms and made way for the Woolworths built on part of the site in 1932. The Cumberland News ran illustrated retrospectives on it on 7 August 1964, 3, 17, 24 and 25 April 1970, and again on 7 June 1991.

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