The Highland Laddie

Gone

Closed 2007; briefly the Fern Leaf until the M6 extension forced it shut

There now

In residential use by 2018

Address

Todhills, Carlisle

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3682563095, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

The main pub in the hamlet of Todhills, north of the city on the old road to Scotland. It was built in 1824 and was a pub before 1829. It closed in 2007, reopened briefly as the Fern Leaf, and the M6 extension north of Carlisle then forced it to close for good. Not the Highland Laddie at Glasson, still trading, or the one at Brampton.

It was a State Management house. The scheme took it in October 1916, at first under the Board's Scottish control office, altered and refurnished it in 1933-4, improved the public bar in 1959-60 and put it up for sale in 1972. By 2018 the building was in residential use. The Board was there earlier than that. The Cumberland News's list of the Cumberland Ward's licensed houses on 8 July 1916 says that two of them, the Bridge Inn at Metal Bridge and the Highland Laddie at Todhills, 'have already been taken over by the Liquor Control Board in connection with the Gretna area', so it was one of only two Cumberland Ward houses the Board already had by then.

The Cumberland News of 7 October 1916 lists it among the houses the Board had bought for the Gretna area before the Carlisle scheme began, transferred to the Carlisle district from 1 October.

Sold to John Smith's as part of Group 3, handed over on 11 May 1973. Who bought the rest

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 199, 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)
• The Cumberland News, 7 October 1916, p. 5: 'The Carlisle Experiment: Reconstruction of Inns' (via newspapers.com)

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Crown & Thistle

  Rockcliffe
  1.8 kmaway

• Metal Bridge Inn

  Metal Bridge
  2.2 kmaway

• Coach & Horses

  Kingstown
  4.8 kmaway

• The Drovers Rest

  Monkhill
  5.0 kmaway