The Oddfellows Arms

Built

A beerhouse by 1855, in local directories under this name from 1858

Gone

Closed by the scheme in 1916, by 1 November

There now

Demolished; a roundabout by 2018

Address

42 Crown Street

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4024855167, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

A beerhouse by 1855 and in the directories as the Oddfellows Arms from 1858, at 42 Crown Street, or 48 by another record. The Cumberland News column of 8 November 1991 calls it one of the many beerhouses of the city in the nineteenth century, standing at the corner of the Currock Street junction. Not to be confused with the other Carlisle pubs that traded as an Oddfellows Arms at various points, among them the City Vaults on Fisher Street, which wore the name from 1841 to about 1860, and the Union Inn on Irishgate Brow.

Jane Hodgson, born at Gilsland, was innkeeper in 1861. In March 1886 the licence passed from the late Ellen McGrath to her nephew, Hugh McGrath. William Harrison kept it in the 1890s, probably the William Harrison of the Moulders Arms next door in 1884. The column's photograph, taken about 1900, is unusual in showing a delivery of beer being made.

First a house of Hall's Crown Street brewery, then a Maryport Brewery one, it was closed by the scheme in 1916: the Board's report of 1 November lists the Oddfellows' Inn, Crown Street, among the Carlisle houses already closed, so the date of 2 November usually given is probably that of the newspaper report. The building was later demolished.

Also lost on Currock Street

• The Cumberland Wrestlers
• The Moulders Arms

6 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• Smiley's

  City Centre
  350 maway

• The Scott & Brassey

  City Centre
  360 maway

• Woodrow Wilson

  City Centre
  370 maway

• Bees Knees

  City Centre
  370 maway