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Picture source: Brian Norman

The Border Terrier was situated on Ashness Drive. This pub closed in July 2014 and was demolished the following year.

I am just watching Look at Life on DVD. This was part of an extensive series of film featurette films that were shown in Odeon Cinemas before the main film during the 1960’s. I have just come across the episode “Out of the Inn” which features the Border Terrier in Carlisle “as shiny and up to date as any in the country" Interesting to note that 70 pubs in the Carlisle area were nationalised and owned by the Government. According to the narrator, during the Great War the area was bursting with immigrant munitions workers who were known to have painted the old town red rather too often for comfort. So the State stepped in to take over both pubs and breweries in the area! The pubs during this contemporary account are reported to be well run, the beer is cheap and the Exchequer benefits from a profit of £250,000 a year (circa 1967!).

Ian Halsall-Fox (July 2023)

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