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Lost pub · English Street

The White Hart Hotel

Gone 1874

Gone
Demolished 1874
There now
Bank Street
Address
18 English Street
Where exactly
On the south side of what is now Bank Street, at its English Street end. The pin is approximate.

A well-known coaching inn on the east side of English Street, south of Bank Street, next to the Royal Hotel; the address also appears as 39 English Street. It was trading before 1777, and kept by Thomas Scarrow from at least 1805 to 1814; his innkeeper's licence of 1812 survives, and in 1811 one of the city's three women's benefit societies met there. The Scarrows were yeoman farmers from Scarrowhill, near Cumwhitton, who came north through Wetheral into the city. His son of the same name became a Carlisle councillor and alderman, and in 1847 opened the Lancaster and Caledonian Hotel on Botchergate, which trades today as the Caledonian.

Launcelot Brown had the White Hart through the 1820s, when R. and T. Lawson's carriers left it for Newcastle, and William Bowman to 1833. Isabella Nicholson ran it from 1851 to 1864. She bought the Royal Hotel next door in 1855 and joined the two into a hotel of twenty bedrooms. The Cumberland News of 21 June 1991 dates her joint management to about 1858 where the directories carry her to 1864; see the Royal Hotel for the rest of that column.

Both came down in 1874 when the south side of Bank Street was built, and the White Hart's materials sold that June for forty pounds. No photograph survives, only a drawing.

Sources 5

Open question

A date we can't pin down

How long did Isabella Nicholson run the White Hart and the Royal Hotel together? The Cumberland News of 21 June 1991 says until about 1858, but the directories and the 1861 census have her there into the 1860s.

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