The Three Cannons

Gone

Closed October 1916

There now

In commercial use by 2018

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4012056098, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: commercial.

Traded as the Ordnance Arms from before 1801, becoming the Jolly Butcher in 1827 and finally the Three Cannons from about 1840. The Cumberland News's Lanes column of July 1992 puts it on the south side of Three Cannons Lane, as the Cannons Inn from 1837; Kelly's directories of 1897 and 1906 miss it, because it faced the lane. A separate Ordnance Arms stood on Finkle Street and declined a licence renewal in 1902: a different pub under a similar name.

Parson and White's directory of 1829 names John Simpson as its keeper, when it was the Jolly Butcher; Pigot's of 1828-29 spells him John Sampson. The Cumberland News's 1933 list of the two streets' licensed houses has John Vickers at the Three Cannons, Cannon Lane, in the 1860s. In September 1864 it stood empty, and the owners asked for the licence to be renewed so that they could let it. 'If nobody wants the house what necessity is there for a license?' asked the Mayor; the other two magistrates granted it. George Calvert kept it in 1884. In 1891 the Three Cannons Inn, Three Cannons Lane, was gutted and formed into a single bar room. Robert Thomlinson had it in 1901 and Glover Thomlinson in 1914.

It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house, and it closed in October 1916 along with so much of the rest of the street; the Cumberland News of 4 November 1916 lists it among the Carlisle licensed houses the Board had closed by 1 November. On 30 April 1919 the Central Control Board put it up for auction at the Victoria Hotel, through the auctioneer Fred Telford, among fourteen Carlisle properties it no longer needed: 'a large bar, formerly the Three Cannons, suitable for a shop', between Three Cannons Lane and Bousfield's Lane, with a dwelling house above and another next door with a bakehouse and oven.

Also lost on Scotch Street

• The Blue Bell Hotel
• The Globe
• The Duke's Head
• The Old Turks Head
• Black Bull, Scotch Street
• The Grapes Hotel
• The Old Bush Inn
• The Plume of Feathers
• The Green Dragon
• Ismay's Vaults
• The Lion and Lamb
• Amos's Spirit Stores
• The Captain Cook
• The Rising Sun

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

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Market Hall Bar

  City Centre
  50 maway

• Howard Arms

  City Centre
  100 maway

• Brewed Awakenings

  City Centre
  100 maway

• The Kings Head

  City Centre
  130 maway