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Penny Blue Food & Lounge, Carlisle

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This city centre bar is situated in the former main Carlisle Post Office. It sells a range of cocktails, spirits, wine and draught (keg ) and bottled beers. It offers a range of food specialising in tapas, steaks and other more traditional meals including Sunday roasts.There is an outside drinking area.

Historic Interest

The Halston is housed in Warwick Road’s former General Post Office which opened on 27th February 1916. The site was previously Bartons Yard (which is where the bar/bistro gets its name from) and home to William Barton and his business partner Robert Tweeddale’s horse harness and coach manufacturing business, which also supplied horses for mail coaches during the 1830s-40s.In the early 1900s, construction company Laings won the contract to build the post office. It carved the fluted columns and intricate design of the building’s neoclassical facade with stone from Blaxter quarries in Northumberland. The building was impressive inside and out, with the horseshoe-shaped public counter on the ground floor made from the finest mahogany. The Warwick Road post office served the people of Carlisle for many years until it was closed in 2008.

Information for this venue is provided by the Solway Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Belted Bar
Local Authority
Carlisle District (B)
Last updated
09/07/2024
Last surveyed
05/11/2017
Pub ID
SOW/1841
Asset of Community Value
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Monday
Noon - 11:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 11:00pm
Friday
Noon - 1:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 1:00pm
Sunday
Noon - 10:00pm
Monday
Noon - 9:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 9:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 9:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 9:00pm
Friday
Noon - 9:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 9:00pm
Sunday
Noon - 9:00pm
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Facilities
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
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Family Friendly Family Friendly
Features
Transport
Close to bus routes (10m)
city services
Nearby Station (175m)
Carlisle
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