Lost pub · Botcherby
The Star
- Gone
- Closed 3 December 1933, the day before the Magpie opened
- There now
- The Warren Guest House, by 2018
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4204055907, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: guest house (The Warren Guest House).
Number fifty-two on the 1920 roll. It traded as the Dixon's Arms from 1855 to 1869 before taking the Star name, and Bulmer's directory of 1884 calls it the White Star, a name that does not appear to have continued. The Cumberland News column of 12 July 1991 places it at the junction of Warwick Road with Victoria Road, and there is one good contemporary fix too: when Botcherby School opened in March 1900, the Carlisle Journal placed the new building and its master's house near the corner of Warwick Road, opposite the Star Inn. So the pub faced the school. The column dates it in the city directories from 1880, and prints a photograph from Carlisle in Camera 2 (Carel Press and Cumbria County Library) showing it in the 1920s.
Mrs Hamilton is Botcherby's beer and wine retailer in Kelly's directories of 1894 and 1897, so the Star was trading then on a beer-and-wine licence. At the adjourned licensing sessions of March 1903 she was objected to as tenant, and the licence went instead to T. R. Graham of Sebergham Terrace, Sybil Street, a Midland Railway employee.
By 1906 it is the 'Star inn', under Edmund Bulman, who was still listed at Deakin's Vaults as well. He had kept Deakin's Vaults on Botchergate for twenty-eight years, carried on business here afterwards, and in retirement lived at the former Petteril Bridge Inn on Warwick Road until his death in 1928. When the Carlisle and District Tramways Company was registered in November 1906 its plans put the terminus of the No. 2 route, starting from near the Courts, near the pub.
It was a Carlisle New Brewery house when the scheme acquired it in August 1916. The State Management Scheme's own account of the Magpie Inn says the new pub was built to replace the old Star Inn, which had been the only pub in that part of the city and a centre for communal and sporting activities. The scheme bought 4,278 square yards on Victoria Road and Botcherby Hall for demolition, and the Magpie opened on 4 December 1933 with a bowling green taking up half the site, so the Star's sporting role was designed into its replacement.
The Star closed on 3 December 1933, the day before the Magpie opened further up Victoria Road, the same overnight handover the scheme managed between the Goliah and the Cumberland Wrestlers five years later; closedpubs.co.uk gives the year as 1934. By 1991 the building was a guesthouse, The Warren.
Photograph
Sources 10
- The State Management Story: the Magpie replaced the Star
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "D" page
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database): Star, Botcherby, closed 3 December 1933
- 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, 19 May 1928, p. 10: obituary of Mr Edmund Bulman (via newspapers.com)
- The Cumberland News, 12 July 1991, p. 4: 'Pubs of yesteryear', The Star Inn, Botcherby (via newspapers.com)
- Carlisle Journal, 3 March 1903, p. 6: adjourned licensing sessions for Carlisle, the Cumberland Ward and Brampton (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1894), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1897), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
- Kelly's Directory of Cumberland (London: Kelly and Co., 1906), Carlisle: street directory and public houses (University of Leicester digital copy)
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