The Durham Ox

Built

In local directories from 1829

Gone

Gone from the directories after 1907-08, last traced in a 1909 sale notice

There now

Not established

Where exactly

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

Renamed twice and back again. Joseph Barton is named at the sign in the 1829 directory, p164, and the Carlisle Journal advertised it to let on 23 November 1839. Between 1847 and 1857 it traded under a different name entirely, the Coachmakers Arms -- the Carlisle Journal's sale advertisement of 29 August 1856 describes it plainly as the "Coachmakers Arms formerly Durham Ox," and it had reverted to the Durham Ox name by 1861, when Robert Irving, 40, is recorded as victualler in that year's census.

Margaret Coulon is the innkeeper of both the 1891 and 1901 censuses. The Carlisle Journal of 17 December 1909 records the "late Durham Ox" up for sale, the last trace of it found. It is in local directories in the Rickergate area from 1847 to 1855 under the Coachmakers Arms name.

Sources

• Carlisle Encyclopaedia
• Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "D" page
• S. Davidson, Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894-1916

Location from geograph.org.uk. Placed on the right street, not the exact spot.

Also lost on Rickergate

• The Light Horseman Inn
• Bay Horse
• Scotch Arms Hotel
• The Wheat Sheaf Inn
• Three Crowns
• Blue Bell Inn
• The Drove Inn
• The Malt Shovel
• Fox & Hounds
• The Rising Sun
• Alma Inn
• Barley Stack
• Crown and Thistle
• The George and Dragon Inn
• The Fortune of War
• The Prince Regent
• The Horse and Farrier
• The Ship Inn

Still serving, near where it stood

• Howard Arms

  City Centre
  170 maway

• Brewed Awakenings

  City Centre
  210 maway

• The Old Bank

  City Centre
  250 maway

• The Kings Head

  City Centre
  260 maway