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Lost pub · Scotch Street

The Lion and Lamb

Gone 1917

Gone
Closed as a pub April 1917
There now
The Lanes shopping centre
Address
Scotch Street, Carlisle
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4012155990, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

A Scotch Street house of the New Brewery, taken by the scheme in August 1916 and shut as a pub in April 1917. The Board did not sell it off; it reopened the building as the Trades Hall, a meeting room for the friendly societies and trade unions. The site is under the Lanes now, a few yards from the Old Bush and the Globe. Jacob Milburn kept it in the 1860s, by the Cumberland News's 1933 list of the two streets' licensed houses.

The Cumberland News of 26 June 1992 found the pub in one of the Robson photographs of the Market Place taken in the 1890s, the light coloured building in Scotch Street just behind a man with a walking stick. It says the pub was in the city directories in 1829 and probably older, standing on Scotch Street between Lewthwaite's Lane on its northern side and the Lion and Lamb Lane, and apparently in business continuously until the scheme took it in 1916.

The column also tells what became of it, from the Carlisle Journal of 21 March 1924, when Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. C. James asked in the Commons whether a government building was being made over to the Carlisle Labour Party as its headquarters. The reply from the Home Office was that from 1917 the local board of the scheme had habitually let the house as the Trades Hall, for meetings of trade union branches and friendly societies, many of which had previously met on licensed premises, and that by then it was no longer licensed.

In 1921 it was let at £37 a year to three nominees of the Carlisle Trades Council, and in 1923 the rent went up to £57 in return for improvements to meet the Council's wishes, at a cost to the State of £250. In September 1897 the licence of the Lion and Lamb passed from John Pender to William Little; the report gives no street, but this is the only Lion and Lamb known in the city. E. Millburn signed the innkeepers' memorial of February 1867 for the Lion and Lamb. Ten years later it was a sale room: in February 1877 the Bird in Hand on Castle Street and two dozen houses behind it were auctioned here.

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