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Lost pub · Newtown Road

The Green Dragon

about 1806 to 1998

Built
The original about 1806, extended out to Newtown Road in 1860
Gone
Closed 1998
There now
A private house
Where exactly
From the listed building at 92 Newtown Road. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

By some distance the roughest entry in this archive, and it has the record to prove it. The original building went up about 1806 and was extended out to Newtown Road in 1860, though an 1801 newspaper notice naming Benjamin Bell as innkeeper suggests it may already have been trading by then; William Underwood held it from 1804, and the Victorian censuses name Thomas Martin and later William Mitchell as landlords.

The scheme took it in 1916 and sold it to John Smith's on 7 May 1973. On 3 September 1847 a man was killed at the Green Dragon by the landlord's tame bear. In April 1985 someone put a shotgun through a pub window. The landlord was declared bankrupt in March 1997 and the pub closed the following year. A 1999 bid to reopen it failed because the premises were by then too well known as a 'notorious trouble spot'; a year later there was a fresh attempt to reopen it as a cafe, billed at the time as Carlisle's roughest pub getting a new lease of life.

It's not clear whether that ever opened -- it's a private house now, which is one way of settling the matter. Not to be confused with two other, older Green Dragons the city once had: one on Scotch Street, gone by 1861, and a third, shorter-lived one on Rickergate/Solway Terrace in the 1860s and 70s.

Sources

Location from britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Placed on the right street, not the exact spot.

Also lost on Newtown Road

Still serving, near where it stood

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