The Victoria Hotel

Built

Rebuilt in Arts and Crafts style, 1904-05

Gone

Taken over by the state in 1916, sold on to E. F. Fairbairn in 1920

There now

Citadel Chambers

Address

English Street, extending into Citadel Row

Where exactly

Placed on English Street from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

A late one to go, and it went at its largest. The Victoria stood on English Street and had already extended back into Citadel Row when it was sold in 1891. Between 1904 and 1905 it was rebuilt in an Arts and Crafts style -- Oliver and Dodgshun's plans, approved in 1903, described it at the time as "mock Tudor" -- and pushed further into the Row again. A run of named licensees carries it on from there: Aaron Martin, who moved in from the Angel in 1851 and is still there as "Marton" in Kelly's 1858 directory, then Richard Johnston (1861 census), Margaret Little, hotel manageress in 1891, and Andrew Tait, in charge by an 1898 sale advertisement and still there, Scottish-born, in the 1901 census.

The State Management Scheme took the hotel over in 1916 and sold it on in 1920 to E. F. Fairbairn, who leased what is now called Citadel Chambers to Cumberland County Council -- so the offices occupy a hotel that was rebuilt bigger only to be shut fifteen years later. Citadel Row, incidentally, was once Cuckold's Row.

Source

• carlisle-encyclopaedia.co.uk

Also lost on English Street

• The Liverpool Arms
• The String of Horses Inn
• The White Lion Inn
• The Royal Hotel
• The White Hart Hotel
• The Pine Apple Inn
• The White Swan Inn
• The Grey Goat Hotel
• The Kings Arms Inn
• The Angel Inn
• The Wellington Inn
• The White Horse Inn
• The Bush Hotel
• The City Arms
• Yates Wine Lodge
• Outrageous
• The Angel
• The Bull Dog Inn
• The Carlisle Arms
• The Citadel Tavern
• The Cross Keys
• The Crown & Anchor
• The Pack Horse Inn
• The Skinners Arms

Still serving, near where it stood

• Bordo Lounge

  City Centre
  0 maway

• Crown & Mitre Hotel bar

  City Centre
  40 maway

• The Kings Head

  City Centre
  90 maway

• The Sportsman Inn

  City Centre
  100 maway