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Lost pub · Botchergate

The Earl Grey

1935 to 2010

Built
Opened 9 July 1935, replacing an Earl Grey of about 1837
Gone
Closed as Jesters, 2 October 2010
There now
Carlisle Taekwon-do Centre
Address
161-163 Botchergate
Where exactly
Placed on Botchergate from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

Botchergate has lost two Earl Greys. The first dated from about 1837 and is number fifteen on the scheme's 1920 roll -- a rough house by one account: a 1900s memory piece recalls it as "a rough place, and not very nice to pass, with perhaps a group of toughs at the doorway -- not always sober," part of a sermon at St John's on "the three P's" nearby and in that order: the pub (this one), the pawnshop on Union Street, and the poorhouse on Fusehill Street.

The second replaced it and opened on 9 July 1935: an Art Deco building by Harry Redfern, put up by J & R Bell, on the corner of Rydal Street. It had stopped trading as the Earl Grey by 1987, and went through a run of names after that -- Rydal's, Casablanca and the Carlisle Rugby League Supporters Club among them between 1993 and 1997, then Jesters from 1998 until it closed for good on 2 October 2010.

The building is still there and is now a taekwondo school. Look at the Rydal Street wall and the letters EWS are still painted on it, for Emergency Water Supply, put there in the war so the fire service knew where to draw from if the mains went.

Source

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Still serving, near where it stood

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