Lost pub · Rockcliffe
The Mounsey Arms
- Gone
- Closing date not recorded
- There now
- A house, Mounsey Arms Cottage
- Address
- Rockcliffe
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3595861572, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential (Mounsey Arms Cottage).
The rare case of the Board opening a pub rather than shutting one. The building went up in 1882 as a reading room, and the Board acquired it, converted it and opened it as the Mounsey Arms in August 1917, eight months after closing the village's Ship Inn. It stood next to the Crown & Thistle, and is a house now, Mounsey Arms Cottage. It opened on 24 August 1917.
The reading room became a large public bar, with a separate library that also served soft drinks during the day, so the village kept a reading room of a sort. The Board's report for 1918 called it an experiment on the lines of a village club. Both of the village's inns had been closed, and the institute was leased and served beer and other refreshments, but not wine or spirits. It was too early, the report said, to call it a success, since the young men most likely to use it were away at the war.
Sources
- 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
- 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)
- The State Management Story documents: H. B. Wilson, History of the Carlisle State Management Scheme 1916-1974 (Home Office, about 1975)
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