The City Vaults

Built

Trading as the Turks Head before 1783

Gone

Closed 15 January 1921

There now

Vacant. Latterly a bookmakers

Address

58-60 Fisher Street

Where exactly

On Fisher Street. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.

Almost opposite the Kings Head, at 58-60 Fisher Street, and much older than its name. It was the Turks Head from before 1783 until about 1840, and Parson and White's directory of 1829 names Elizabeth Davies as its keeper under that name. It was the Mechanics Arms for a time, and the Oddfellows Arms from 1841. Not the Carlisle Arms on English Street, the Gaol Tap, which one record says also went by the City Vaults for a time.

It was the City Vaults by May 1859, when 'that Well-accustomed SPIRIT BAR' at the head of Fisher Street, in Robert Johnston's occupation and 'lately been much improved', was put up for auction at the Kings Head across the road, with the house and shop next door. It was held of the Corporation by customary tenure, at a yearly rent of 11s 3d. Johnston had died by July 1860, when it was to let, and that August George Dixon announced he had 'Entered on the CITY VAULTS, Head of Fisher Street', promising 'a first-class article'.

By 1916 it was a Graham & Sons house, tied to their Queen's Brewery. The scheme bought it on 7 September 1916, and the papers that week listed it with the Pedestrian Arms and the Bird in Hand at Stanwix as the Board's latest houses. It closed on 15 January 1921. The building was a bookmakers until recently and stands empty.

Also lost on Fisher Street

• The Carlisle Cross Inn
• The Front Page Club
• Fisher Street Social Club
• TC's
• The Regency
• Abstrakt
• The Klondyke
• The Half Moon Inn
• The Saddle Inn

79 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving nearby

• Carlisle RAOB Club (the Buffs)

  City Centre

• Crown Lane Cellar

  City Centre

• Brewed Awakenings

  City Centre

• Sketch and Sip

  City Centre