Lost pub · Durdar Road
The White Ox
- Built
- Rebuilt 1904 by the Old Brewery Company
- Gone
- Closed 2007 or 2008
- There now
- Houses
- Address
- 60 Durdar Road
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4023753037, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.
The White Ox at Blackwell, on Durdar Road south of the city, and a pub from at least 1790. Records describe it as replacing a pub called T'Theekt Cott, the thatched cottage. Its long-serving landlord, Johnny Dawston, is commemorated in Robert Anderson's Cumberland-dialect ballad 'Blackwell Murray-Neet', written around 1804; his widow, Nancy Dalston, kept the house for close to sixty years after him, until her own death in 1844. Parson and White's directory of 1829, though, lists 'Dalston John, vict. White Ox' under Blackwell Low: a Dalston still at the sign, but a John rather than Nancy.
In 1903 the justices objected to its tenant, Mrs Jane Moore, though not to the house, and the licence went temporarily to W. H. Mulcaster, a traveller for the Old Brewery Company. In 1904 the old inn was demolished and a new one built on the same site by the Old Brewery Company. The Cumberland News's list of July 1916 calls it the White Ox, Blackhall. The scheme took it from the Old Brewery that August, gave it new, enlarged public rooms in 1961-2, and sold it to Greenall Whitley on 2 April 1973. It closed in 2007 or 2008; its address is given as 60 Durdar Road.
The name was a common one. A beerhouse on Corporation Road was the White Ox in 1859 and the White Cow in the directories; the Sportsman Inn on Heads Lane, still open, used to be the White Ox; Co-Curate describes 61 St Nicholas Street, on the junction with Woodroufe Terrace, as a former White Ox Inn, and a mural by Kate Norris on that corner recalls it; and a White Ox on English Street, in the local directories until 1837, had its landlord William Morley fined for allowing gambling on the premises, according to a Carlisle Patriot notice of 31 March 1821.
Sold to Greenall Whitley as part of Group 2, handed over on 2 April 1973. Who bought the rest
Sources 7
- co-curate.ncl.ac.uk
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia: directories, census and newspaper index
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
- The Cumberland News, 8 July 1916: 'First State tavern: to be opened by Lord Lonsdale', with the list of licensed houses in the Cumberland Ward and Longtown divisions (via newspapers.com)
- Carlisle Journal, 3 March 1903, p. 6: adjourned licensing sessions for Carlisle, the Cumberland Ward and Brampton (via British Newspaper Archive)
- W. Parson and W. White, History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (Leeds, 1829), pp. 170-172: Blackwell Low: Dalston John, vict. White Ox (University of Leicester digital copy)
Also lost on Durdar Road
Still serving, near where it stood
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890 maway
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1.3 kmaway
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1.4 kmaway