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Lost pub · Currock Street

The Moulders Arms

Gone 1916

Gone
Closed September 1916
There now
Demolished for road widening
Address
Currock Street, Carlisle
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4024955168, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

One of the first pubs the Board closed, in September 1916, on Currock Street next door to the Oddfellows Arms, which went the month after. The building stood as a house into the 1960s and came down for road widening. The Cumberland News of 4 November 1916 lists it among the Carlisle licensed houses the Board had closed by 1 November. The Cumberland News of 3 January 1992 places it in the area once known as Wapping, at the south end of the block, overlooking the junction where the mini-roundabout now is, at the opposite end from the Cumberland Wrestlers' Arms, then the street's only pub.

It describes the house, at the end of the terrace beside a second-hand car yard, as still standing, and says it began as a private house built for Mr Iredale of Iredale's High Brewery, which stood on land behind. He got permission in September 1875 to build a detached house, though while he owned it, it would not be his own home. Stabling for horses was added, still there at the rear, with a yard to the right.

By 1880 the house appears in the directories as a public house, and in 1891 approval was given for the terrace houses to its right, attached to the pub and also built for Iredale. It closed in the State Management takeover. As to the name, the most likely explanation is that it was frequented by moulders from Daniel Clark's Waterloo Foundry, which stood not far away on a site behind the railway station.

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Is the Moulders Arms building still standing? The Cumberland News of 3 January 1992 describes the house as surviving at the end of its terrace beside a car sales yard, while the earlier record on this page says it came down for road widening in the 1960s.

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