Lost pub · Denton Holme
The Denton Inn
- Built
- A beerhouse from 1867
- Gone
- Closed 17 October 1927 after adverse police reports
- There now
- The building, in residential use by 2018
- Address
- 110 Denton Street
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3973654998, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.
Closed for its own conduct, which is rarer among lost pubs than closure by demolition or decline. It began as a beerhouse at 110 Denton Street in 1867, became an Iredale's pub in 1873, and first appears in the directories in 1880. Robert Scott was its beer retailer, at 110 Denton Street, in 1873, and Tordiff Faulder in 1884.
In September 1897 its tenant, Robert Wilkinson Wharton, asked the licensing magistrates to turn its beer licence into a full one. He had been there about three years, and said his customers left him because he could not sell them spirits; he had been asked for spirits about three hundred times that year. His solicitor told the bench that Denton Holme, on the far side of the railway bridge, had about four thousand people and only one fully licensed house, the Prince of Wales, and the Chief Constable that the Prince of Wales was only a few yards away. The owners were the trustees of the late Joseph Iredale.
The Vicar of St James's, the Rev. H. W. Farrar, spoke against it, with petitions from property owners and Sunday school superintendents, and the full licence was refused as not required. The beerhouse keeper who applied in 1901 was George Astley; the Chief Constable found a large open bar and two small sitting rooms, well fitted up and clean.
The scheme took it on 22 August 1916, and it shut on 17 October 1927 following adverse police reports. The building at 110 survived the pub: by 2018 it was in residential use. What happened to the name after that is muddled: the scheme's own sale catalogue lists a Denton Inn at 50 Denton Street, possibly trading as Denton Wine Stores, sold to Scottish & Newcastle on 16 April 1973. So either the name moved sixty doors down the street, or the Board kept an off-licence going under the old name, or somebody wrote the wrong number in a ledger. The second one's closing date is not recorded.
Sources 7
- co-curate.ncl.ac.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
- Carlisle Patriot, 10 September 1897, p. 3: 'Licensing Sessions: City of Carlisle' (via Findmypast)
- Carlisle Journal, 14 February 1902, p. 7: the Chief Constable's annual report (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Post Office Directory of Durham, with the principal towns of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland (London: Kelly and Co., 1873), Carlisle: street directory and publicans (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland (1884), Carlisle: hotels, inns and taverns, beerhouses, and wine and spirit merchants (University of Leicester digital copy)
Also lost in Denton Holme
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210 maway
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590 maway