The Fish Inn

Gone

Licence refused for compensation, 1906

There now

Not recorded

Address

Wetheral

Where exactly

In Wetheral. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the place, not the building. The position is approximate.

A Wetheral inn that started out as the Letters before 1813 and became the Fish in 1838. An older house at the side of the village green traded from 1806 to 1875. In September 1901 its licence passed temporarily from T. Roper to William McIntyre, then of the Wheat Sheaf, who was giving up the Wheat Sheaf to hold only the licence of the Fish. One record has it closing around 1902, but it was still trading in 1906, when the county Compensation Authority heard its case.

It belonged to Joseph Armstrong of Moss Edge, Kirklinton, was mortgaged to the Carlisle Old Brewery, and was run by a manager, John Philipson, at a guinea a week. It stood nearest the ferry and did a large picnic trade, with several thousand people coming to Wetheral on special holidays, and in 1905 the men building the waterworks pushed its sales up to 61 barrels. 'They can serve teas in the garden now,' the chairman suggested; 'people won't go to the house without the licence,' came the reply.

The Authority offered £550, which was refused, so the case went to the Inland Revenue. The Wheatsheaf and the Crown are the two that remain.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 164, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
• Carlisle Journal, 24 September 1901, p. 2: 'Adjourned Licensing Sessions, Cumberland Ward' (via British Newspaper Archive)
• Carlisle Journal, 27 July 1906, p. 6: 'Compensation for licences: meeting of the Cumberland Authority' (via British Newspaper Archive)

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