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Lost pub · Wheelbarrow Hall

The Joiners Arms

Gone 1909

Gone
Licence extinguished with compensation, 1909; the building was later demolished for road widening
There now
Demolished to widen the road
Address
Junction of Scotby Road and the A69
Where exactly
At the crossroads of the A69 and the road to Scotby; the Ordnance Survey's 25-inch map names the inn beside the buildings on the north side of the main road there. The pin marks the junction, not the building, so the position is approximate.

At Wheelbarrow Hall, a hamlet on the Brampton road two and a half miles out of Carlisle, at the crossroads where the road to Scotby turns off. It was built around 1833, in the parish of Wetheral, and the Ordnance Survey's 25-inch map, surveyed between 1861 and 1863, names it the Joiners Arms Inn, beside the buildings on the north side of the main road at the crossroads. George Earl kept it in 1885 and was still there in 1899.

In June 1885 PC Gordon found three Scotby men, a collier and two curriers, drunk and very insolent in the house. He told the landlord to serve them nothing more, and when he came back with a second constable one of them was lying in the road and the other two were still inside; each was fined 5s and costs. In October 1899 it was Earl's turn: he was summoned for permitting drunkenness after PC Grey of Scotby found James Bowman, the Wheelbarrow Hall blacksmith, lying drunk in a ditch about 300 yards from the inn.

Earl said Bowman had come in about seven, been stood two glasses of whisky by William Henderson, gone out at eight to shut his shop and come back for another, of which Earl would give him only half 'as he thought he had had enough'. His solicitor, G. A. Lightfoot, said Bowman had drunk a 'noggin' of whisky from a bottle in his own shop after he left, and the bench dismissed the charge without needing to hear the witnesses.

By then the inn was up for sale: in September 1899 'the fully-licensed inn known as the Joiner's Arms, Wheelbarrow Hall' was offered by private treaty, 'on main road between Carlisle and Brampton, and at the junction of the Road to Scotby', with offers to Mr Forster, solicitor, of Brampton, or William Wood, land agent, of Lowther Street. Earl left early in 1900. On 31 January the auctioneer W. L.

Tiffen sold his furniture and the entire bar utensils at the inn: a mahogany dining table, a table piano, two four-posted bedsteads, kitchen settles and several sets of rush-seated chairs among them. The inn lost its licence in 1909, and the building was later demolished to allow the road to be widened. Not the Joiners Arms in Caldewgate. Its licence was referred to the Cumberland Compensation Authority in 1909.

Miss M. Marshall of Holme Park owned it, a free house with one transfer in twenty-five years, and Henry Lambert had been the tenant for nine years, his daughters running the inn for him; there had been only three tenants in sixty years. The Scotby constable said it did a weekend trade and that there was another inn three hundred yards away. Lambert spoke of four bedrooms, a good large yard and a good roadside trade, Miss Marshall, who lived a few yards off, said it was well conducted and the rent was £30, but in June the authority sent it for compensation.

Photograph

Detail of an old Ordnance Survey map: a crossroads on a tree-lined main road, with Wheelbarrow Hall to the north, a cluster of buildings on the corner and the words Joiners Arms Inn beside them
The Joiners Arms Inn at the Wheelbarrow Hall crossroads, on the Ordnance Survey's 25-inch map surveyed 1861 to 1863 Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Sources

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