The Liverpool Arms

Gone

Closed October 1916, then the Lockerbie Temperance Hotel

There now

Bordo Lounge, in the building that replaced it

Address

78 English Street

Where exactly

The site of the present Bordo Lounge building.

At 78 English Street, and the Joiners Arms from at least 1779. Mary Nelson occupied it in 1814, though Daniel Wilson owned it. In June 1827 it was very probably the Joiners' Arms of Mr M'Glasson, "second door from the Skinners' Arms", where Isaac Fell of Upperby, a damask weaver, kept his Carlisle receiving station.

In 1847 the publican, Mr Little, moved to new premises on Scotch Street, took the Joiners Arms name with him and gave it to the house there, which had been the Black Bull. So 78 English Street carried on under other names. It was briefly the New Commercial Inn around 1850, appears in the 1858 directory as the Commercial Hotel and Liverpool Arms, and from the early 1850s traded as the Liverpool Tavern or Liverpool Arms, the name it kept for the rest of its life. Not the Joiners Arms on Church Street in Caldewgate, which is a different house again.

Elizabeth Harker signed the innkeepers' memorial of February 1867 for the Commercial. Her licence for the Liverpool Arms was one of five the justices withdrew that September for the irregular way the houses were run; the house traded on under later keepers, so it was licensed again before long. Mrs Lancaster was publican in the 1891 census, Richard Frankland Aspin kept it in 1897, Robert Hind in 1901, and Joseph Johnston in 1906, very probably the Joseph Johnston of the Spread Eagle in 1894.

The Evening News and Star recorded its closure in October 1916, and the Cumberland News of 4 November 1916 lists it among the Carlisle licensed houses the Board had closed by 1 November. It then became the Lockerbie Temperance Hotel. That building was later demolished, and the one that replaced it now houses Bordo Lounge, which opened in the old Topshop unit in October 2023, next door to the site of the Angel.

Also lost on English Street

• The String of Horses Inn
• The White Lion Inn
• The Royal Hotel
• The White Hart Hotel
• The White Swan Inn
• The Grey Goat Hotel
• The Kings Arms Inn
• The Angel Inn
• The Wellington Inn
• The White Horse Inn
• The Bush Hotel
• The Victoria Hotel
• Yates Wine Lodge
• Outrageous
• The Bull Dog Inn
• The Carlisle Arms
• The Citadel Tavern
• The Cross Keys
• The Crown & Anchor
• The Pack Horse Inn
• The Skinners Arms

81 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• Bordo Lounge

  City Centre
  0 maway

• Crown & Mitre Hotel bar

  City Centre
  50 maway

• The Kings Head

  City Centre
  90 maway

• The Sportsman Inn

  City Centre
  100 maway