The Drove Inn

Built

Traceable to 1809, under an earlier sign, the Drove of Cattle

Gone

Closed December 1917

There now

Unknown

A separate Drove Inn from the Rickergate one, on Stanwix Bank, closed two months later by the same Central Control Board -- December 1917 against Rickergate's April. The Carlisle Journal of 3 July 1809 names Mrs Halliburton as innkeeper, and an even earlier sign survives in an 1813 advertisement: the Journal of 11 September that year lists houses for sale "at Mary Bushby's, the Sign of the Drove of Cattle," evidently this same pub before it settled on the shorter name.

" The 1851 census records Henry Dyer, engineer and innkeeper, remembered as the father of Jimmy Dyer, a local bard; the 1861 census gives Edward Fairbairn, 43, innkeeper and florist. Mrs Marrs died at the Drove Inn on 1 December 1868, aged 79, per the Carlisle Journal, and the North Cumberland Reformer of 8 September 1892 described it as licensed for a very long time, with Jane Short as landlady and poor accommodation.

The licence passed from Jane Short to Mary Noble in 1896, and from Walter Walker toward Charles Basford in 1903 -- a transfer the magistrates refused, sending it instead to David Mitchell. T. H. Tanner was tenant when the Carlisle Journal advertised the inn for sale on 7 February 1913. A Carlisle Journal photograph from 2 June 1967, captioned "a former inn," shows it had by then long ceased trading, consistent with the 1917 closure. uk's 1917 date, noted and set aside under the Rickergate entry, belongs here instead.

Sources

• Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "D" page
• closedpubs.co.uk
• Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "D" page