The Pedestrian Arms

Built

In street directories from 1869

Gone

Closed 2012, demolished 2014

There now

Cleared

Where exactly

From the listed building at 92 Newtown Road. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

Stood on Newtown Road at the corner of Bright Street, in the directories from 1869. It became the North British Railway Inn around 1876 or 1877 and went back to its old name when the scheme took over, though exactly when depends who you read: one account says 1916, while the directories carry it as the North British Railway Inn until 1920 and as 'The Pedestrians' from 1921. Directories lag, so both can be right.

Either way the state was in the business of making pubs sound less like railway bars. It closed in 2012 and was demolished two years later. A pedestrian, in the nineteenth-century sense, was a professional long-distance walker, and the sport drew crowds and heavy betting. A separately-held Carlisle pub database gives the naming order the other way round -- North British Railway Inn first, from 1869, with a Pedestrian Arms only built on the site in 1921 -- against the directory-based account above, where the Pedestrian Arms name comes first. The two accounts of the demolition date agree (2014), so this looks like a sequencing error in one source rather than a genuinely different building; not resolved here.

Source

• carlisle-encyclopaedia.co.uk

Location from britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Placed on the right street, not the exact spot.

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