The Heilk Moon

Gone

Closed after 1972; a house by 2018

There now

A house

Address

Barclose, Scaleby

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4431362915, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

At Barclose, near Scaleby, north-east of the city. It was originally the Joiners, from the early nineteenth century, and later took the name the Heilk Moon, whose origin has been argued over locally for years; the likeliest explanation offered is that it is a corruption of an older name or phrase. It was still the Joiners' Arms, Barclose, Scaleby, on the Cumberland News's list of July 1916 of the Longtown division's licensed houses the Board was taking over, and the scheme acquired it in 1917.

By 1968 it was one of three houses the scheme had turned over to tied tenants, under a policy of letting pubs that were not paying rather than managing them, and it was improved that year. It was offered for sale with the rest of the scheme's estate in 1972, and by 2018 it was a house.

Sold to Scottish & Newcastle as part of Group 1, handed over on 19 April 1973. Who bought the rest

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 190, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
• Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
• The Cumberland News, 8 July 1916: 'First State tavern: to be opened by Lord Lonsdale', with the list of licensed houses in the Cumberland Ward and Longtown divisions (via newspapers.com)

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