Lost pub · Kingstown
The Jovial Butcher
- Built
- A beerhouse by the 1884 local directory
- Gone
- Licence given up for £300 compensation, July 1906
- There now
- Not established
- Address
- Beech House, Kingstown
- Where exactly
- In Kingstown village, at a house called Beech House. The Ordnance Survey maps don't name it, so the pin marks the village, not the building. The position is approximate.
A beerhouse at Beech House, Kingstown, and not the older Botchergate house of the same name, which became Deakin's Vaults. In the village it was 'the jerry', the common name for a beerhouse, and it was sometimes called the Butcher's Arms. It is in the local directory by 1884. Mr Graham was the landlord in February 1891, when a drunk called George Messenger smashed the fanlight over its door with a large stick; Messenger had not been drinking there, Graham told the court, and he was fined 10s 6d and costs, with 6s for the damage.
In February 1894 George Graham moved to the village's Kings Arms and died within months, leaving it to his daughter, Margaret Pearson. Kelly's directory of 1894, compiled the year before, lists George Graham among Kingstown's beer retailers, very probably at this house, and Matthew Graham, a beer and wine retailer there in 1897, was its beerhouse keeper by the 1901 census; whether he was family is not recorded. It was the jerry that Thomas Ward walked into one Saturday evening in November 1895, after he and his daughter had knocked a labourer, John Hoodless, down on the road fifty yards out of the village over a debt of 1s 6d and kicked him senseless. 'I doubt I've made a bad job of it,' Ward told the room. He went to gaol.
In March 1903 the tenant was objected to 'on the ground that he had too large a family', and the bench passed the licence to William Rayson, who had two children, on condition that sanitary improvements were made at the house. Three years later it came before the county Compensation Authority, set up under the Licensing Act of 1904 to buy out licences the justices judged surplus.
By then Margaret Pearson owned it; a brewery rented it from her at £18 a year and sublet it to Rayson at £16. It had been a beerhouse 'as long as could be remembered', and sold about 54 barrels and 135 dozen bottles of beer a year, with nine gallons of wine, at 3d a pint. The Authority offered £300 in July 1906 and it was accepted, £20 of it going to Rayson, who took over the Kings Arms from Mrs Pearson the next year.
Sources 9
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "J" page
- North Cumberland Reformer, 19 February 1891, p. 2: 'Breaking "mine host's" windows' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 9 February 1894, p. 6: 'The Courts', transfers of licences (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 26 June 1894, p. 3: 'Temporary transfer' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Patriot, 13 December 1895, p. 3: 'Brutal attack on a man at Kingstown' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 3 March 1903, p. 6: adjourned licensing sessions for Carlisle, the Cumberland Ward and Brampton (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 27 July 1906, p. 6: 'Compensation for licences: meeting of the Cumberland Authority' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1894), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1897), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
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