Lost pub · Pack Horse Lane

The Guardsman

Gone 1893

Gone: Licence refused at the Brewster Sessions of September 1893
There now: Not established
Address: Pack Horse Lane, off English Street
Where exactly: Pack Horse Lane was one of the Lanes off English Street, cleared for the shopping centre; the pin marks roughly where it was, not the building. The position is approximate.

An inn in Pack Horse Lane, one of the Lanes between English Street and Lowther Street, whose end can be dated to the month. J. Carruthers signed the innkeepers' memorial against the Public House Closing Act for the Guardsman in February 1867. At the city Brewster Sessions of September 1893 the police served notice objecting to the renewal of Jacob Carruthers's licence for the Guardsman Inn, Pack Horse Lane, at the same sitting that finished the Jumbo Bar on Botchergate, and the bench refused it.

Carruthers gave notice of appeal, but by the middle of October the North Cumberland Reformer was reporting it withdrawn. Whether Jacob was the J. Carruthers of 1867, or a son, is not recorded. The lane had another inn in the 1830s and 1840s, a second Lord Brougham. William Pattenson Stubbs kept the Guardsman in 1847, when he was among the publicans who took their bills to the party agents after the election.

Sources

Carlisle Patriot, 22 February 1867, p. 7: 'Carlisle Town Council: the Public House Closing Act', with the innkeepers' memorial (via British Newspaper Archive)
North Cumberland Reformer, 7 September 1893, p. 2: 'Brewster Sessions' (via British Newspaper Archive)
North Cumberland Reformer, 19 October 1893, p. 4: 'The Appeal Case: Messrs. Skelton v. the Carlisle Justices' and 'Licensing Appeal Withdrawn' (via British Newspaper Archive)
Carlisle Journal, 3 March 1848, p. 2: the Carlisle election inquiry (via British Newspaper Archive)
Carlisle Journal, 25 August 1848, p. 2: the Carlisle election inquiry, evidence (via British Newspaper Archive)

Open question