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	Picture source: Fred Long
The Crown & Anchor was situated at 1 Tangier Street. This pub closed in the 1950s.
The Crown and Anchor dates back to at least 1820, and probably significantly earlier. It was located on the corner of Tangier Street and Brackenthwaite, in the shadow of the local landmark, the Bransty Arch. For some 50 years it also had a small brewery behind, but researchers should not confuse this with the Tangier Brewery, a much larger concern located at 4 Tangier Street. We can be sure of the location as a sale notice in 1851 describes it as having frontage onto Tangier Street, then extending backwards along Brackenthwaite. The very early history is difficult to research, but we can demonstrate that the Crown and Anchor belonged to the Longmire family from about 1820 from an advertisement in 1851 saying that it had been in their hands for 31 years. The first definitive record comes in White’s Directory of Cumberland 1829 which shows Jonathan Longmire, inn keeper and brewer of the Crown and Anchor, 1 Tangier Street. This enables us to track back to notices for an auction sale held in 1826 at the house of Jonathan Longmire in Tangier Street and to the marriage of a daughter of Mr Longmire, inn keeper of Tangier Street, in 1823. The 1841 census shows Jonathan as a brewer in Tangier Street, with his family which includes a son Thomas, also a brewer. Jonathan Longmire died on 9 Oct 1844 and the business was continued by the said Thomas. This is confirmed by several notices of auctions at Longmire’s house, the sign of the Crown and Anchor, Mannix directory of 1847 and the 1851 census. In October 1851 Thomas Longmire put the Crown & Anchor up for sale giving us a very full description of the premises and facilities. Although not specifically recorded, it seems clear that the property was bought by the Dalzells1 of Corkickle Brewery and that by 1852 was occupied by John Dalzell and his wife. Whether they continued brewing here has not emerged, but it is certainly not mentioned again as a brewery after 1851. The Inn was to remain in the ownership of, and a tied house to, Corkickle Brewery for  many years. John Dalzell retired in 1861 and was followed by a succession of tenant landlords
Bill Swift (March 2020)
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