The Union Inn

Gone

Last in the directories in 1897

There now

Not established

Address

later 51 Scotch Street

In the local directories from 1850 as the Union Hotel, on Citadel Row, and recorded earlier, from 1837, as the British Field Place, which may be the British Field Piece under a slipped spelling. By 1880 the directories give its address as 51 Scotch Street rather than Citadel Row, though it is the same house. A separate, much thinner Union Inn on Irishgate Brow is a different pub again.

In November 1858 the deputy coroner held an inquest at the Union Inn, Citadel Row, on John Barnes of Cockermouth, 72, who had dropped dead near the Lonsdale monument on the Saturday afternoon and been carried into the inn while a labourer ran for a doctor. Richard Hoyle, aged 35 and born in Preston, was innkeeper in the 1861 census, and a Carlisle Patriot advertisement of July 1868 put it up for sale 'in the occupation of John Armstrong'. John Foster of the Union Inn was on the police black list in September 1880.

In March 1881 Robert Dalton sold the Union Hotel at auction on the premises: bidding opened at £1,400, and C. J. Armstrong of the Victoria Hotel bought it for £2,530, 'with a view to the extension of his business'; the late John Forster had paid £2,300 for it three years before. That June the licence passed from Mr Hodgkinson to Armstrong. One record ends it in 1881, but the directories carry it on, as the Union wine and spirit vaults. Andrew Tait of the Union was on the black list in September 1892, fined 21s for serving a drunken person, and in 1897 he ran it with the Victoria Hotel and the Bowling Green. That is its last directory year; it is gone from Bulmer's directory of 1901.