The Indian King

Gone

Closed 1918

There now

Dalston Post Office

Address

The Square, Dalston

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3688450122, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: commercial.

On the square at Dalston, in the building that is now the Post Office, and also known as the African's Head. It closed in 1918. The beerhouse next door, in what is now the bakery, was the Dalston beerhouse. Not the Indian King on Botchergate, the pub later called the Golden Quoit. The scheme took only the lease, in August 1916, and it was shut by March 1918, when the Carlisle committee's report in the Cumberland News of 23 March listed it among the licensed houses closed since its last meeting.

In July 1916 it was one of four Dalston houses on the Cumberland News's list. Its licence was objected to at the Cumberland Ward sessions of 1903, but the objection was withdrawn and the licence renewed that March. James McDonald kept it in 1876, when the bench let him stay open until one in the morning on Whit Monday for the Loyal Caldew Lodge of Oddfellows' annual picnic and supper, held in a field about a hundred yards from the house.

In May 1898 the Dalston Agricultural Society held its annual meeting there, and dropped a plan to merge with Sebergham's show when its secretary reported that the Sebergham society 'would rather die and be buried than amalgamate with the Dalston Society'. 'Well, then, that's done with,' said the chairman. 'It's off.'

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 153, 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, 23 March 1918, p. 5: report of the Carlisle Advisory Committee of the Central Control Board (via newspapers.com)
• 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)
• Carlisle Journal, 3 March 1903, p. 6: adjourned licensing sessions for Carlisle, the Cumberland Ward and Brampton (via British Newspaper Archive)
• Carlisle Express and Examiner, 27 May 1876, p. 8: 'Courts', extension of time (via British Newspaper Archive)
• East Cumberland News, 28 May 1898, p. 3: 'The Caldew-side agricultural shows' (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Dalston

• The Kings Arms
• The Crown and Mitre
• The White Swan

3 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Blue Bell

  Dalston
  40 maway

• Bridge End Inn

  Dalston
  1.4 kmaway

• Dalston Hall Golf Club

  Dalston
  1.8 kmaway

• The Spinners Arms

  Cummersdale
  3.8 kmaway