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Lost pub · Caldewgate

The Globe Inn

Gone 2010

Gone
Closed 8 December 2010
There now
The building survives
Address
6 Bridge Street
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3952156031, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: unoccupied. The Ordnance Survey's 25-inch map surveyed in 1865 names the Globe Inn on the north side of Bridge Street, between Bridge Lane and Caldew Bridge, below the Old Brewery.

Trading from 1787 at 6 Bridge Street, and originally the tap for the old Carlisle Brewery. The Cumberland News of 22 May 1992 says little is known of it, though the building is still standing, and that the Globe Inn at the corner of Bridge Lane, which leads down to Willowholme, is not the original. The original, it says, was the empty white building adjoining the Caldew Bridge end, in the directories in 1829, and the pub seems to have moved to the site it occupies about the 1880s.

A Carlisle Patriot report of November 1827, quoted in the Cumberland News of 20 September 1991, describes the churchwardens of St Mary's and the police superintendent, Mr Batty, going their rounds in Caldewgate on a Sunday morning during divine service and finding two houses without company and peaceable, then returning to find them filled with noisy guests drinking freely. The licensees, George Armstrong and Joseph Rixon, were at the time at the Globe and the Joiners Arms respectively. Summoned before the mayor on the Wednesday, they promised to comply, and were warned that the Police Act allowed fines of £5, £10 and £100 and suspension of the licence for repeat offences.

It was the polling place for Caldewgate Ward in the city's first council election, in December 1835, when a blue flag with the Radical mottoes 'Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot' hung from its window.

Sundays became a long argument. From 1876 it held only a six-day licence, granted after neighbours petitioned that Sunday opening would be an obstruction to people going to church, 'because loungers would always be hanging about the corner'. In May 1876 the licence of the Globe Inn, Caldew Bridge, passed from John Armstrong to John Hodgson, who was on the police black list in September 1880, and in June 1881 it passed from John Hodgson of the Old Brewery to Mrs Cairns, already in the house. When Esther Cairns asked for seven days in 1884 her solicitor said he had passed the house six times a day and never seen the slightest objection to it, even on Sundays, to which a magistrate replied: 'No, for the simple reason that it is not open on Sundays.'

In June 1886 the licence passed from Esther Cairns to James Cully, 'who has married the former tenant'. A tenant some years before had asked for the six-day licence, and that September his successor's solicitor, Mr Errington, argued that under the Act of 1872 the bench could not refuse to restore the full seven-day licence; and the majority of the magistrates agreed. Cully was on the black list in September 1892, fined 40s for allowing gaming in the house that March, and the licence passed from him at the same sessions to William McGeary, very probably the W. McGeary who had been Nanson's barman at the Rose and Crown in Lowthian's Lane in 1890 and 1891.

In 1892-93 the Globe Inn, Bridge Street, was gutted and its whole front made into a bar. T. G. R. Nanson, the spirit merchant who owned the Rose and Crown, had bought the Globe by his death in January 1897 and 'improved' both 'to suit the changed conditions of the trade'. Richard Robley Watson kept it in 1897, and Nanson's name stayed on it in the directories after his death: it is T. G. R. Nanson's in 1906.

It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme acquired it in August 1916, and passed to Scottish & Newcastle on 18 April 1973. It was the last pub standing from a 1910 photograph of Caldewgate that also showed the Queens Head and the Royal Oak, which went in 1918 and 1987. The Globe outlasted them both, reopening in 2006 after the January 2005 flood, and closed on 8 December 2010, one of ten Carlisle pubs lost between 2010 and 2017, when the city went from 85 licensed premises to 75.

Sold to Scottish & Newcastle as part of Group 1, handed over on 18 April 1973. Who bought the rest

Photograph

Colour photograph of a two-storey brick pub with arched upper windows, a hanging globe sign and a dark fascia reading The Globe, Traditional Fine Ales, behind railings on a main road
The Globe, Bridge Street, Caldewgate Cumbria Image Bank, image ct30377, used with permission
Old Ordnance Survey street plan of Bridge Street, Caldewgate, near Caldew Bridge, with a red circle around the words Globe Inn on the north side of the street below the Old Brewery, and a red label reading Globe Inn
The Globe Inn, named on the north side of Bridge Street near Caldew Bridge, on the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map surveyed in 1865 and published in 1874 National Library of Scotland, CC BY 4.0

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Open question

An unsolved mystery

Was the Globe Inn always on its last site? The Cumberland News of 22 May 1992 says the original Globe was the empty white building by the Caldew Bridge end and that the pub moved to the Bridge Lane corner about the 1880s, while this page has it at 6 Bridge Street from 1787.

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