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Lost pub · Warwick Bridge

The Spinners Arms

Gone 1909

Gone
Licence extinguished with compensation, 1909
There now
Not recorded
Address
Warwick Bridge
Where exactly
On the main road through Warwick Bridge. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the village, not the building. The position is approximate.

A roadside inn on the main road through Warwick Bridge, in the Solway CAMRA directory of the district's pubs from 1834. The village's other houses on the road were the Warwick Arms and the Co-operative Inn, which the Board rebuilt as the George.

Messrs Nicholson and Skelton of Carlisle bought it in 1902 for £900 and spent another £200 on it, and J. T. Armstrong was the tenant when the justices referred it to the Cumberland Compensation Authority in 1909. It was the last case on the list. The superintendent said the inn was badly built and hard to supervise, the worst house of sixteen within a three-mile radius, with no room in front to pull up a horse and trap. The Wetheral sergeant agreed about the supervision: there were three front doors, 'but one was a back door' (laughter).

The owners' solicitor said it had a big frontage to the road and an increasing trade, and that a good many neighbours had signed a petition for it; a Carlisle architect, George Armstrong, said three vehicles could pass in front and five feet more could be had by raising the channel. In June 1909 the authority sent it for compensation. The Solway CAMRA directory gives 1906.

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