Lost pub · Botchergate

The Las Vegas Strip

2010 to 2018

Built: Opened Thursday 20 May 2010
Gone: Gone by 2018
There now: Not established
Address: Unit 8A, Englishgate Plaza
Where exactly: On Botchergate. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.

A separate business from Rouge next door, and the two were open at the same time: neighbours rather than predecessor and successor, which is easy to get the wrong way round. It opened on the night of Wednesday 19 May 2010, and its opening was covered at the time in the News & Star and the Cumberland News. A photography company covering the city's nightlife announced the next day that a three thousand capacity nightclub had opened in Carlisle: the bright lights of Las Vegas have arrived, the city's newest bar and club complex, the Las Vegas Strip, opened its doors last night. The gaming licence follows on 21 May, two days later, which is the paperwork catching up with the doors.

Three thousand is the number to hold on to. The Brickyard takes 320 and the Source 180. This was ten times the Brickyard, in one building. Terminal, the nightclub in Unit 8, was incorporated into it in 2010. Unit 8 appears on a gig-listing site as the English Gate Plaza Live Music Lounge, capacity 450, open nine at night until four in the morning, and that fits the recollection of a strip of themed bars, an Irish bar among them, wrapping around rather than one room. Rouge holds that same Unit 8 today and is a small club.

It lasted eight years. The gaming licence was surrendered in October 2018, and it was gone by then.

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