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Lost pub · Rickergate

Three Crowns

Gone about 1916

Gone
Closed by the Board's order from 1 May 1916; acquired in August 1916
There now
Carlisle Civic Centre
Address
31 Rickergate
Where exactly
Under the Civic Centre, at the former junction with Laughran's Lane.

Stood at 31 Rickergate, at the junction with Laughran's Lane (12 before the street was renumbered, and given as 1 Three Crowns Lane in 1873), and was trading before 1770. Not the Three Crowns on English Street, which the scheme amalgamated with the Wellington to make the Citadel Tavern. Robert Graham of the Three Crowns offered a reward for a lost hound in December 1820, and Parson and White's directory of 1829 names Jonathan Casson as its keeper.

In the spring of 1864 a travelling stallion stood at the Three Crowns every Saturday before setting off on a week's round of the villages, from Burgh and Aikton to Wigton, Thursby, Wetheral and Smithfield. Thomas Stockbridge kept it in the 1860s. Henry Loughran, whose surname the lane beside it carried, kept it in 1884; William Macdonald had it in 1897 and Walter Walker in 1906.

It was a Maryport Brewery house. Its ending is recorded two ways: it is said to have closed on 18 April 1916, and also to have been acquired by the scheme in August 1916, and the Cumberland News explains both. On 22 April 1916 it reported that the Central Control Board had issued an order closing the Three Crowns Inn, Rickergate, from 1 May to 5 April the next year, because the tenant had been convicted two or three weeks earlier of supplying a soldier with liquor contrary to the military authorities' order. So April is the order and the penalty, a closure of eleven months rather than an ending.

The Board's report of 1 November 1916, printed in the Cumberland News of 4 November, lists the Three Crowns, Rickergate, as the one Carlisle licence 'suspended' by order of the Board before its operations began.

The Board then took the house with the rest in August: the Cumberland News of 26 August 1916 lists the Three Crowns Inn, Rickergate, among the eleven licensed houses it acquired that week, alongside the Carlisle New Brewery. It never reopened. On 30 April 1919 the Board put it up for auction at the Victoria Hotel, through the auctioneer Fred Telford, among fourteen Carlisle properties it no longer needed: 'formerly the Three Crowns Inn', a shop with a commodious dwelling house, a range of cottages, stabling and a large yard behind. The site is under the Civic Centre, or its car park by Historic England's gazetteer.

Sources 17

Location from geograph.org.uk. The pin marks the site.

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