Lost pub · Ferguson Lane
The Fish
- Built
- In local directories from 1812
- Gone
- Licence considered and refused, 1907
- There now
- Not established
- Address
- 9 Ferguson Lane
One family held it for most of a century. Parson and White's directory of 1829 names John Thompson as its keeper, and he had it for "upwards of 60 years," per a Carlisle Patriot notice of 11 October 1862 putting it up to let. Agnes Thompson, 76 and born in Carlisle, is recorded as innkeeper in the 1861 census, presumably his widow or a relative carrying the licence on.
In May 1868 the licence of the Fish Inn, Ferguson's Lane, passed from Joseph Waller to Thomas Johnston. Thomasina Johnston kept it in 1884, when Bulmer's directory gives 7 Ferguson's Lane, and in June 1886 the licence passed from Thomas Johnston to Robert Baxter, joiner and builder. In December 1890 it passed from Thomas Stockdale to William Thom. Patrick Carr, 53 and born in Wigton, was publican by the 1901 census. The Carlisle Patriot of 31 May 1907 records the licence being considered at the final hearing, and refused.
Sources 6
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "F" page
- Carlisle Patriot, 29 May 1868, p. 5: 'Transfer of public-house licences in Carlisle' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Patriot, 11 June 1886, p. 3: 'Carlisle Police Court', transfer of licences (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Patriot, 25 September 1891, p. 6: 'Public houses in Carlisle sixty years ago', reprinting the 1829 Parson and White directory list (via British Newspaper Archive)
- North Cumberland Reformer, 4 December 1890, p. 6: 'Transfer of licences' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- 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)