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Lost pub · Longtown

The White Swan Hotel

Gone 1917

Gone
Closed by the Board, 1917
There now
In commercial use by 2018
Address
Longtown
Where exactly
Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3799668711, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: commercial.

One of Longtown's coaching-era hotels, trading from around 1790, and closed by the Liquor Control Board in 1917 (the Cumberland News of 19 May 1917 lists it among three houses closed in the previous month), the year the town was under outright prohibition. The Wheatsheaf Hotel went the same way the same year. The Tavern and the Graham Arms are what the town kept.

It stood on Swan Street. The Board took it over in October 1916, at first under its Scottish control office, before closing it, and by 2018 the building was in commercial use. The Board offered it for sale by auction at the Victoria Hotel, Carlisle, on 3 May 1919, as lot 1: a dwelling house in Swan Street, formerly the White Swan Inn, with five bedrooms, a bathroom, a yard and stables. The October 1916 date marks a transfer, not a takeover.

The Board, through its Scottish office, had been running the seven Longtown houses since about the summer of 1915, as the Cumberland News noted in July 1916, and handed them to its Carlisle management on 1 October. In March 1827 a Swan Inn at Longtown was to let from Whitsuntide, with a large yard and a good pump, stabling for nearly thirty horses, a large warehouse, a barn, byres and pigsties, applications to the Brewery Office in the town; it may be this house or the separate Swan that the Solway CAMRA directory has to 1861.

Frank Blackburn had the White Swan in the 1880s. His licence was held over for a month in 1885 after he had been fined under the Licensing Act, and in 1886 he ran a drinks tent at the Longtown sports. In August 1890 William Steel was fined a shilling for being on the premises at twenty past eleven on a Saturday night; he said he was waiting for an excursion train. Mrs Ann Jane Blackburn passed the licence to Richard Moscrop in 1895.

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