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Lost pub · Rickergate

The Drove Inn

1841 to 1919

Built
Probably 1842-44
Gone
April 1919
There now
Carlisle Civic Centre, built 1964
Address
1 Rickergate
Where exactly
Far north of the Civic Centre site, opposite Corporation Road.

A substantial brick-built two-storey end-terrace at the far north of what is now the Civic Centre site, opposite Corporation Road. One record has it trading from 1841; the building itself was probably put up between 1842 and 1844. Mannix and Whellan's directory of 1847 lists the 'Drover, Eleanor Darling, Bridge End', the same house under a slightly different name. The 1861 census gives Eleanor Darling, 50, as licensee, the Cumberland News's 1933 list of the two streets' licensed houses has her there in the 1860s, and E. Darling signed the innkeepers' memorial of February 1867 for the Drove Inn.

At race time in July 1864 Mrs Darling took a crown piece at the Drove for two small brandies that turned out to be counterfeit; the man who passed it, a beerhouse keeper, John Lauchlin, was committed for trial.

William Armstrong kept it in 1873 and 1884, and seconded the motion at the publicans' meeting for the relief of the poor in December 1878. In September 1894 the licence passed from William Hall to Mary Graham, and the 1901 census gives Ellen O'Neill, 25 and born at Longtown, as 'custodian of inn'. It was an Iredale's house, then a Maryport Brewery one, though Historic England's gazetteer has the Old Brewery holding it when the state arrived.

The state took it on 23 August 1916 and closed it in April 1919, one of seven Rickergate pubs the Board shut between 1916 and 1919. Some accounts give its closure as 1917, Historic England's gazetteer among them; April 1917 is the date recorded for the other Drove Inn, on Stanwix Bank. On 30 April 1919 the Central Control Board put it up for auction at the Victoria Hotel, through the auctioneer Fred Telford, among fourteen Carlisle properties it no longer needed: 'formerly the Drove Inn', a house with a yard and outbuildings, sold with the shop, dwelling house and cottage next door. What the building did between then and its demolition around 1961 is not recorded.

Photograph

Old photograph of a two-storey brick corner inn with shuttered windows, a painted picture of cattle above a board reading Drove Inn, William Hall, and a man, a woman and a small child at the door marked Wines
The Drove Inn, Rickergate, around 1902 Cumbria Image Bank, image ct01583, used with permission

Sources 14

Location from geograph.org.uk. The pin marks the site.

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