The Laughing Stock

Gone

Licence given up for £350 compensation, July 1906

There now

Not recorded

Address

Crosby-on-Eden

Where exactly

In Crosby-on-Eden. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the place, not the building. The position is approximate.

The most curious name in Crosby-on-Eden, which once had four pubs. It was the Duke of Wellington until the mid-1860s, then took the name of a local racehorse, Laughing Stock, which had come third in the Derby. The Stag is the only one of the four still pouring. It ended under the Licensing Act of 1904. In July 1906 the county Compensation Authority heard that George Cullen was the tenant and the owner G.

H. Saul, of Florence, in Italy. A valuer called it the best structure in Crosby and said the magistrates had made a mistake in taking the licence away. It had lately been put up at a mortgagees' sale, failed to reach its £500 reserve and been bought afterwards by Mr Wannop. Compensation was fixed at £350, £25 of it for the tenant, and accepted. In February 1891 the transfer of its licence from William Irving to Robert Noble was put back a fortnight. William Irving of the Laughing Stock was on the police black list in October 1890, and his licence was renewed with a caution.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 181, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
• Carlisle Journal, 27 July 1906, p. 6: 'Compensation for licences: meeting of the Cumberland Authority' (via British Newspaper Archive)
• North Cumberland Reformer, 12 February 1891, p. 6: 'The Courts, Carlisle', licence transfers (via British Newspaper Archive)
• Carlisle Patriot, 3 October 1890, p. 2: 'County Police Court', the black list (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Crosby-on-Eden

• The Crown & Mitre

1 other lost pub stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Stag Inn

  Crosby-on-Eden
  0 maway

• Carlisle Golf Club

  Wetheral
  3.3 kmaway

• The Queens at Warwick on Eden

  Warwick-on-Eden
  3.6 kmaway

• The Otter Inn

  Little Corby
  3.7 kmaway