Lost pub · Finkle Street
The Rose and Castle Inn
- Opened
- about 1806
- Gone
- Gone from the directories after 1876
- There now
- Unknown
- Address
- 34 Finkle Street
- Where exactly
- On Finkle Street. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.
At 34 Finkle Street, on the Castle Street corner. It was known as the Woodman from around 1806 before being renamed the Rose and Castle in 1820. One of the city's four men's benefit societies met at the Rose and Castle in 1811, by Jollie's directory, so the sign was in use some years before that renaming; whether at this house or another is not settled. Parson and White's directory of 1829 names Elizabeth Park as its keeper.
Mr Boustead was the landlord in 1851, when the runner William Scott trained there for a race at the Todhills, and Joseph Boustead in 1857, when he gave evidence in a sheep-stealing case that two men had come into his house about nine and left before eleven, 'rather tipsy' when they came in and 'very much so' when they left. It's marked by name on the 1865 Ordnance Survey map. It was still licensed in the late 1860s, as the Rose and Castle on Castle Street: A. Rodgerson signed the innkeepers' memorial for it in February 1867, and in August 1868 James Fisher's licence was suspended for a fortnight. Both reports give Castle Street rather than Finkle Street, which fits a house on the corner of the two.
It turns up in the trade directories through to 1876; one record gives 1877.
Sources 8
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "R2" page
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- Carlisle Patriot, 22 February 1867, p. 7: 'Carlisle Town Council: the Public House Closing Act', with the innkeepers' memorial (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Patriot, 28 August 1868, p. 7: 'Annual Brewster Sessions' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Patriot, 25 September 1891, p. 6: 'Public houses in Carlisle sixty years ago', reprinting the 1829 Parson and White directory list (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 6 February 1852, p. 2: 'Foot racing' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Patriot, 28 November 1857, p. 6: sheep-stealing case, evidence of Joseph Boustead (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Jollie's Cumberland Guide & Directory (Carlisle: F. Jollie & Sons, 1811), p. viii: benefit societies and freemasons' lodges (Google Books scan of the Bodleian copy)
Also lost on Finkle Street
32 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map