The Zoological Museum Inn

Built

In local directories from 1858

Gone

Gone from the directories after 1863

There now

Not established

Address

8 Finkle Street

Where exactly

On Finkle Street. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.

A beerhouse at 8 Finkle Street, trading from 1858 to 1863 and in the local directory for 1858. It took its name, per the Carlisle Natural History Society's own transactions, from mounted animal specimens on display inside: a museum's worth of taxidermy over the bar, for a pub that lasted barely five years under the name. Not to be confused with the still-open Museum Inn on Moorhouse Road in Belle Vue, over a mile away, which only shows up in the directories from 1876 and has a museum story of its own, landlord Irving Blaylock's taxidermy collection around 1900. Two Carlisle pubs, unconnected, both named for a cabinet of stuffed animals over the bar.

Also lost on Finkle Street

• The Rose and Castle Inn
• The Ordnance Arms

32 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving nearby

• The Brickyard

  City Centre

• Crown Lane Cellar

  City Centre

• The Boardroom

  City Centre

• Carlisle RAOB Club (the Buffs)

  City Centre