The Red Cat

Gone

Closed by the Board, 1917

There now

Not recorded

Address

Brisco, Carlisle

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4120651030, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential (Red Cat House).

At Brisco, south of the city on the old road towards Durdar. It opened as a beerhouse around 1850, as the Red Fox Inn, and was later the Red Cat, and the Liquor Control Board closed it in 1917. The Cumberland News of July 1916 calls it the Red Cat, Durdar. At the county Brewster Sessions of September 1871 Richard Howe, beerhouse keeper of the Red Cat, near Durdar, had his licence suspended for a month for selling beer during illegal hours. In June 1886 its licence passed from Joseph Jackson to James Bowman, who had farmed for twenty years under the late Sir Robert Brisco.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 144, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
• 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, 8 July 1916: 'First State tavern: to be opened by Lord Lonsdale', with the list of licensed houses in the Cumberland Ward and Longtown divisions (via newspapers.com)
• Carlisle Patriot, 15 September 1871, p. 7: 'The Courts: the Brewster Sessions' (via British Newspaper Archive)
• Carlisle Patriot, 25 June 1886, p. 3: 'Transfer of licences' (via British Newspaper Archive)

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