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Lost pub · Warwick Road

The Petteril Bridge Inn

Gone 1917

Gone
Closed 1917
There now
In residential use by 2018
Address
1 Brunton Place (239 Warwick Road)
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4138655918, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

On Warwick Road from 1855. The 1891 census gives its address as number 1 Brunton Place, which is the terrace now numbered 239 to 273 Warwick Road, and the inn itself was number 239. Number 247 of the surviving terrace carries a plaque dated 1847, which may mark when this stretch of what became Warwick Road was first built up. Iredale's High Brewery owned it, along with the Albert and Albion on Botchergate, the Drove in Rickergate and a Crown on Warwick Road.

Joseph Glaister, born in Carlisle, was innkeeper in 1861, and Charles Barker, born at Todmorden in Yorkshire, had it by 1891. In September 1890 the licence passed from Thomas Watson to William Cearney. At the licensing sessions of September 1897 the magistrates refused to transfer its licence from Sarah Hogg to George Richardson, over a conviction for permitting gambling at an inn he had kept at Selby, though his solicitor said the offence was his barman's and witnesses from Brunton Place spoke for him. A temporary transfer to Robert Tiffen of the Maryport Brewery Company was granted instead.

It was a Maryport Brewery house when the scheme acquired it in September 1916, or August by Historic England's gazetteer, and it closed in 1917, or 1918 by the same gazetteer, which found the building in residential use by 2018. Fifteen years later Harry Redfern built the Crescent Inn a short way along the same road, and the Lord Brougham went the same way in 1932. Warwick Road lost three pubs inside twenty years and gained one.

A retired publican ended his days in it. When Edmund Bulman, a retired publican of Deakin's Vaults and the Star, died in 1928, the Cumberland News gave his home as '239 Warwick Road, Carlisle, which, before being de-licensed under the State Management Scheme, was known as the Petteril Bridge Inn'. In his last years he could often be seen trimming the ivy that covered the front.

The Cumberland News of 10 January 1992 notes that many people probably pass it daily without realising it was ever a pub, and that only the keen-eyed travelling eastwards along Warwick Road might spot the remains of the lettering on the side of the house showing that it was once the Petteril Bridge Inn. It has it first in the directories in 1855 and gone after 1914, and thinks it most likely yet another city pub closed in the First World War.

Photograph

Black and white photograph of a two-storey brick house with a diamond pattern in its brickwork and an arched doorway at the end of a terrace of rendered houses along a main road
The Petteril Bridge Inn, Warwick Road Cumbria Image Bank, image ct48545, used with permission

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