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Lost pub · Rickergate

The Wheat Sheaf Inn

1780 to 1916

Built
On the 1867 OS map; trading before 1780
Gone
Closed by the Board, 11 October 1916
There now
Carlisle Magistrates' Court, formerly the police headquarters
Address
30 Rickergate
Where exactly
Under the Magistrates' Court, built as the police headquarters.

At 30 Rickergate, and trading before 1780; the Cumberland News's 1933 list of the two streets' licensed houses gives its address as 24 Rickergate. Parson and White's directory of 1829 names William Graham as its keeper, and Pigot's of 1828-29 gives the house the longer sign of the Wheat Sheaf and Pigeons, under the same man. William Bell kept it in the 1860s; he also kept the Grapes on Scotch Street. John Wright, a former tenant, took the Golden Fleece on Corporation Road in 1889. Mrs Agnes Mitchinson kept it in 1897, and John H. Wilson, who also had the Bricklayers Arms, in 1906.

The scheme acquired it in October 1916 and closed it on the 11th of that month; the Cumberland News of 4 November 1916 lists it among the Carlisle licensed houses the Board had closed by 1 November. No period photograph of it is known, and the building had been demolished by 1972. There's an irony in what replaced it: the pub closed by the state in 1916 now lies under the building that became the Magistrates' Court after the 2005 flood drove it out of the old police headquarters.

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