The City Arms

Built

Curved entrance added 1858; extended about 1885 into the former Pine Apple Inn next door

Gone

Bought by the Corporation in 1928 and levelled by the end of 1930

There now

Shops. Woolworths was built on part of the site in 1932

Address

41-42 English Street

Where exactly

Placed on English Street from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

Nobody called it the City Arms. It stood next to the gaol at 41-42 English Street and the city called it the Gaol Tap. Its curved entrance went in in 1858, and around 1885 it swallowed the grocer's next door, which had itself been the Pine Apple Inn. The Corporation bought it in 1928 for the express purpose of knocking it down, along with the gaol, to widen the street and put up shops; it was level by the end of 1930 and Woolworths went up on part of the site in 1932.

One source treats City Arms, Carlisle Arms and City Vaults as three names for this one house, which would make two other entries in this archive duplicates of it. That has not been settled here.

Source

• cumberlandscarrow.com

Also lost on English Street

• The Liverpool Arms
• The String of Horses Inn
• The White Lion Inn
• The Royal Hotel
• The White Hart Hotel
• The Pine Apple Inn
• The White Swan Inn
• The Grey Goat Hotel
• The Kings Arms Inn
• The Angel Inn
• The Wellington Inn
• The White Horse Inn
• The Bush Hotel
• The Victoria Hotel
• Yates Wine Lodge
• Outrageous
• The Angel
• The Bull Dog Inn
• The Carlisle Arms
• The Citadel Tavern
• The Cross Keys
• The Crown & Anchor
• The Pack Horse Inn
• The Skinners Arms

Still serving, near where it stood

• Bordo Lounge

  City Centre
  0 maway

• Crown & Mitre Hotel bar

  City Centre
  40 maway

• The Kings Head

  City Centre
  90 maway

• The Sportsman Inn

  City Centre
  100 maway