Lost pub · James Street
The London & North Western Railway
- Built
- About 1845
- Gone
- Closed 2 October 1938
- There now
- A car park, by 2018
- Address
- 20 James Street
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4013755322, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.
At 20 James Street, in Wapping, and recorded under Hewson Street too, which James Street meets there. The building is thought to date from about 1845 and may have begun as a beerhouse. It traded as the Hat and Feathers from 1854 and as Saint Stephen's Inn from 1865, the name under which the local directories list it from 1869 to 1873, and took the name of the railway company whose line came into Citadel station around 1874. William Ray kept the London and North-Western Inn in January 1879. Around 1901 it was also called the Railway Inn, Hewson Street: James Layden, its keeper then, is in Kelly's directory of 1897 at the 'London & North Western inn, Hewson street & James street'.
It is one of a set of Carlisle pubs named after railway companies: the Midland Railway Tavern on Botchergate went in 1893, and the Pedestrian Arms spent decades as the North British Railway Inn. It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme acquired it in August 1916, and it closed on 2 October 1938, the same day as the Goliah: the scheme's annual report said the rebuilt Cumberland Wrestlers, which opened the next day, had made it practicable to close them both. One record also has the building closed by flooding from 4 December 2015 to 16 April 2016. By 2018 its site was a car park.
Sources 7
- stevebulman.f9.co.uk
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "R1" page
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1897), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Carlisle Express and Examiner, 4 January 1879, p. 4: the innkeepers' subscription list for the General Distress Fund (via British Newspaper Archive)
- The Cumberland News, 1 October 1938, p. 18; 11 February 1939, p. 5; 2 December 1939, p. 7 (via newspapers.com)
7 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map
Still serving, near where it stood
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230 maway
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270 maway
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300 maway
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310 maway