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Lost pub · London Road

The London Tavern

1916 to 2007

Built
Converted from the former South End Unionist/Conservative Club
Gone
Closed 2007
There now
The building survives, in commercial use by 2018
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4092855080, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: commercial.

Converted from the South End Conservative Club, which the builder David Thomson had put up at his own expense. The Cumberland News of 9 September 1916 reported the Carlisle South-End Unionist Club premises as recently acquired and to be turned into a billiard hall and refreshment house, with no cooked meals, and it opened as a pub on 17 November 1916. By October 1917 the London Tavern was one of the Board's houses for workers and railwaymen on London Road, with food sold off the premises. In November 1922 the chairman of the Board's Advisory Committee named it as one of only three 'new licensed' houses in Carlisle, in the sense that the premises had held no licence before the Board arrived, the others being the Gretna Tavern and the St Nicholas Arms.

Its address comes two ways. The scheme's 1920 roll puts it on London Road; closedpubs.co.uk gives 2 Alexander Street, off Botchergate, and Images of Cumbria says the London Tavern on Alexander Street opened in 1916 and closed in 2007. Historic England's gazetteer gives it as 2 Alexander Terrace, London Road, which accounts for both. One account of English Street's pubs pairs it with the Angel Inn at 77 English Street, which fits neither address.

It was sold to Greenall Whitley on 2 April 1973. It closed in 2007, or by one record on 5 April 2008, and the building was in commercial use by 2018.

Sold as the London Road Tavern to Greenall Whitley as part of Group 2, handed over on 2 April 1973. Who bought the rest

Photograph

Black and white photograph of a two-storey brick corner pub with a steep gable, stone-framed windows and a long sign reading London Tavern on the side wall, with an Alexander Street name plate at the corner
The London Tavern, London Road, on the corner of Alexander Street Cumbria Image Bank, image ct08771, used with permission

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