The Wellington Inn

Built

A thatched house stood here from at least 1828; rebuilt of white stone, 1854

Gone

Amalgamated with the Three Crowns in 1916 to form the Citadel Tavern

There now

The former Citadel Tavern building

Address

37 English Street

Where exactly

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

Stood at 37 English Street, virtually opposite the Gaol Tap, and was tied to the wine and spirit firm of T & J Minns. It replaced an earlier pub on the same site which had traded under the same name, and for longer before that as the French Horn: a small thatched house standing there from at least 1828. James Bell was innkeeper by the 1841 census; the house was rebuilt of white stone and put up to let in 1854, when a Mr Holywell took it on -- confirming, at last, an 1880 trade-directory advertisement for a "Holywell Wellington Hotel" on English Street that this entry had previously only guessed might be the same house.

Ann Holywell was still there, as innkeeper, in the 1861 census. By 1891 and 1901 it had settled into trading as a wine and spirit merchant's rather than a full inn. In 1916 it was proposed that the Wellington and the Three Crowns next door should amalgamate, and they did. What came out of it was the Citadel Tavern, which appears in the directories from 1920. Photographs of the Wellington survive from about 1911.

Source

• cumberlandscarrow.com

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 White Horse Inn
• The Bush Hotel
• The Victoria 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