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Lost pub · Rickergate

The Horse and Farrier

Gone 1907

Gone
Licence terminated February 1907
There now
Not established
Address
11 Rickergate
Where exactly
Placed by house number on the east side of Rickergate, between the Drove Inn and the Fox & Hounds, from the order of the houses in Kelly's directories of 1894 to 1906 and the Ordnance Survey map of 1865. The position is approximate.

At 11 Rickergate, and trading from 1820. Jollie's directory of 1811 has Robert Bell, 'innkeeper and farrier, Rickergate'; the sign often went with the trade, so this may have been his house, though Jollie does not name it. Parson and White's directory of 1829 names James Salisbury as its keeper, and Mannix and Whellan's of 1847 has a Horse and Farrier at Bridge End, under John Armstrong, very probably this house at the bridge end of the street. Number 11 was James Little's eating and beer house in 1873 and 1884, and Robert Ridley's beerhouse in the 1890s. A photograph of it appears in S. Davidson's Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses. Not the Horse and Farrier on Wigton Road, which still trades.

By 1906 it was a beerhouse licensed since before 1869, kept by Elizabeth Graham and owned by William Harper of Carlisle. It had been sold in 1902 for £425 and offered since without a reserve, and had found no buyer. At the county Compensation Authority that July a valuer called the building 'merely the site', but said the house did a special trade among tramps and the tenant was 'a wonderful woman for broth'; when he called, he had stood four men a pint each. Asked whether she could carry on as a broth house, another valuer thought that if there were any compensation for broth it might be managed. The Authority fixed £200, £10 to the tenant, and it was accepted.

Its licence was formally terminated in February 1907, one of the Rickergate houses to go in the run-up to the First World War rather than under the State Management Scheme itself. The Cumberland News of 19 July 1991 names it among the Rickergate and city houses closed with the Rising Sun in 1907.

Sources 11

Location from geograph.org.uk. The pin is approximate.

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