The Spirit Stores

Gone

Licence ended February 1907

There now

Not established

Address

Rickergate

Where exactly

On Rickergate. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.

A spirit shop on Rickergate with a six-day licence and early closing, and in its last years the property of J. Walker and Sons, the Kilmarnock whisky distillers, who bought it in 1896 for £4,000. From 1900 they leased the licensed part to the Brampton Old Brewery Company. Samuel Shipley was the tenant in July 1906, when it came before the county Compensation Authority, selling about 73 barrels of beer a year, 147 gallons of spirits, 171 dozen bottled beer and 200 dozen mineral waters.

One valuer put it at £1,842 with the licence and £250 without. The Authority offered £650 and adjourned, and the licence went in February 1907 with those of the Rising Sun, the Horse and Farrier and the Otter.

Sources

• Carlisle Journal, 27 July 1906, p. 6: 'Compensation for licences: meeting of the Cumberland Authority' (via British Newspaper Archive)
• The Cumberland News, 19 July 1991, p. 4: 'Pubs of yesteryear', Rising Sun, Rickergate (via newspapers.com)

Location from geograph.org.uk. The pin marks the street, not the building.

Also lost on Rickergate

• The Light Horseman Inn
• Bay Horse
• Scotch Arms Hotel
• The Wheat Sheaf Inn
• Three Crowns
• Blue Bell Inn
• The Drove Inn
• The Malt Shovel
• Fox & Hounds
• The Durham Ox
• The Rising Sun
• Alma Inn
• Barley Stack
• Crown and Thistle
• The George and Dragon Inn
• The Fortune of War
• The Prince Regent
• The Horse and Farrier
• The Ship Inn

56 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

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• Brewed Awakenings

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• Carlisle RAOB Club (the Buffs)

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• Crown Lane Cellar

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