The Union Inn

Gone

Gone from the records after 1876

There now

Unknown

Where exactly

Irishgate Brow ran down from the castle towards the Caldew and has gone; the pin marks roughly where it was, not the building. The position is approximate.

On Irishgate Brow, the steep road down from the castle to the Irish Gate, from the early 1840s, first as the Oddfellows' Arms and later as the Union Inn, and trading until 1876. Its owner, John Thompson Hills, lived on the premises and spent years trying to let it. In 1857 he was also the occupier of the cottages behind the Rose and Crown at the foot of the Brow, sold with it that August.

In February 1855 he advertised 'a well-accustomed public house, known by the sign of the "Oddfellows' Arms"', to be let at or before Whitsuntide. By April 1858 it was the Union Inn, and to let again; in December 1860 it was to let with immediate possession, through Hills or his solicitor Mr Wannop; and in July 1863 once more, entry immediate or at Lammas. The local directories list it as the Union from 1858 to 1861.

Between lettings it had tenants. Mrs Noble had it at Easter 1861, when she advertised a tea party and ball at the Union Inn on Easter Monday, tea on the table at six o'clock, the day of the city's Easter wrestling. In February 1862 the coroner, W. Carrick, held an inquest there on Elizabeth Turnbull, 67, of New Bank Lane, whose body had been found in the Eden near Caldew foot.

Not the other Union Inn, on Citadel Row and later Scotch Street.

Also lost on Irishgate Brow

• The Britannia Inn
• The Royal Victoria
• The Seven Stars Inn
• The Ship Inn
• The Rose and Crown

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

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Brickyard

  City Centre
  220 maway

• The Boardroom

  City Centre
  230 maway

• Crown Lane Cellar

  City Centre
  270 maway

• Carlisle RAOB Club (the Buffs)

  City Centre
  290 maway