Lost pub · Botchergate
The Northumberland Arms
- Built
- A beerhouse, the Dog & Partridge, before 1850; renamed by 1850
- Gone
- Closed by the State Management Scheme, 12 July 1916
- There now
- Demolished; replaced by an early twentieth-century building
- Address
- 76 Botchergate
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4044755459, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.
A beerhouse called the Dog and Partridge from 1837, renamed in 1850. It appears as Northumberland House from then until 1877, and later as the Northumberland Arms, at 76 Botchergate. Mannix and Whellan's directory of 1847 has Thomas Mason keeping a beer house at 109 Botchergate, and in 1858 he has the 'Northumberland House'.
Mason signed the innkeepers' memorial of February 1867 for 'Northumb. House'. That September the city justices withdrew his licence, and at a special sitting at the end of the month refused to restore it, though his solicitor told them Mason was a man of seventy who had kept the house for over thirty years, which fits the beerhouse's start in 1837, and that his one offence since 1865 was being 'roused from his bed to supply a traveller with a glass of cordial at two o'clock in the morning'.
The directories show it trading on as a beerhouse all the same: W. Dillon was the beer retailer at 76 and 78 Botchergate in 1873. William Irving, beerhouse keeper and blacksmith, had it by 1884. In October 1885 he was on the black list, 'formerly of the Goliath Inn' and fined twice, and the Mayor renewed his licence with a warning to be very careful. He still held it in 1891, when it became a Maryport Brewery pub, and the directories have him as a public house in Kelly's of 1897 and as a beer retailer's again in 1906 and 1914.
The scheme closed it on 12 July 1916. It was one of the six houses shut on the day the Gretna Tavern opened, and the Board's report of 1 November 1916 still listed it by its old name, Northumberland House, Botchergate.
Sources 15
- S. Davidson, Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894-1916, pp71-2
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "N" page
- 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
- The Cumberland News, 4 November 1916, p. 5: 'The Control Board: progress of the Carlisle scheme' (E. C. Sanders's report of 1 November) (via newspapers.com)
- Carlisle Patriot, 22 February 1867, p. 7: 'Carlisle Town Council: the Public House Closing Act', with the innkeepers' memorial (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Examiner and North Western Advertiser, 1 October 1867, p. 3: 'The Revocation of Public House Licences' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Mannix and Whellan, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland (Beverley, 1847), Carlisle: hotels, inns and taverns, and beer houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Post Office Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1858), Carlisle: commercial list and inns (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Post Office Directory of Durham, with the principal towns of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland (London: Kelly and Co., 1873), Carlisle: street directory and publicans (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland (1884), Carlisle: hotels, inns and taverns, beerhouses, and wine and spirit merchants (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1897), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1906), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland and Westmorland (London: Kelly and Co., 1914), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Carlisle Patriot, 2 October 1885, p. 7: 'Adjourned licensing day' (via British Newspaper Archive)
Open question
A date we can't pin down
Did the Northumberland Arms ever regain a full licence after Thomas Mason lost his in 1867? The directories show it trading on as a beerhouse, but Kelly's of 1897 lists it among the public houses.
If you know the answer, or where it might be found (an old photograph, a family story, a document), tell us and it goes into the story above.
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