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Lost pub · Caldcotes

The Plough Inn

1850 to 1916

Built
In local directories from 1850
Gone
Acquired by the scheme September 1916; the building came down in 1955
There now
Demolished in 1955
Address
18 Caldcotes
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3918655901, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

At 18 Caldcotes, a beerhouse before 1850, trading from 1844 by one record, and in the local directories from 1850 to 1914; it is shown on Asquith's 1853 map. The Cumberland News column of 22 November 1991 puts it at the western end of Caldewgate, directly opposite Holy Trinity church (by 1991 demolished), on part of the site then occupied by Carr's biscuit works. Caldcotes is a very old name, dating back at least to the thirteenth century, and means, the writer was given to understand, 'cold cottages'.

Margaret McCutcheon, born in Scotland, was innkeeper in 1861. It was one of several pubs named at the 1901 licensing sessions as places where large numbers of children had been seen leaving, and in view of a new Act due to come into force the following January the landlords were warned to take care over the age of those they admitted. Robert Burns, also Scottish-born, held it by 1901 and is photographed as licensee in a 1902 view of the pub. It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house, sold to the Maryport Brewery around 1903.

The scheme acquired it in September 1916, or August by Historic England's gazetteer, which closes it as a pub in 1918; the 1991 column has it continuing to 1918. In November 1922 the chairman of the Advisory Committee gave the reason: the Plough 'has been dislicensed on account of its structural defects'. It didn't simply close: it carried on for decades as a works social club, recorded in 1950 as 'Carrs men's and pensioners' club', Carrs being the Carlisle biscuit firm, before finally coming down, with the demolition itself photographed and published in 1955. By 2018 the site was a car park.

Photograph

Old photograph of a long two-storey rendered inn on a cobbled street with tram lines, a double-sided sign reading Plough Inn over the door, gas lamps on the pavement and a man and a woman standing by the entrance
The Plough Inn, Caldcotes, around 1902 Cumbria Image Bank, image ct01625, used with permission

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