The Samson Inn

Built

1891 (rebuilt; an earlier beerhouse on the site, the Steam Engine, is recorded from 1837)

Gone

Closed 1938

There now

A fast food outlet

Where exactly

Placed on London Road from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

Known earlier as the Steam Engine, a beerhouse at Halfway Houses on London Road recorded from 1837, before it took the Samson name -- itself borrowed from an early locomotive that ran on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. It was rebuilt in 1891 and carried on into the twentieth century. The building is still standing and is a takeaway now, which is the fate of a good many London Road frontages. It shares the street with the Railway Inn, which went in 2005, and the St Nicholas Arms, which is still open.

Sources

• State Management scheme record (co-curate.ncl.ac.uk)
• Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "S1" and "S2" pages
• CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)

Also lost on London Road

• The Railway Inn
• The London Tavern
• The Cranemakers
• The Thorncliffe

Still serving, near where it stood

• St Nicholas Arms

  London Road
  10 maway

• The Roadhouse Hotel

  London Road
  40 maway

• Carlisle South End Constitutional Club

  City Centre
  110 maway

• Gallaghers

  City Centre
  180 maway