Great War Centenary
Contents
- Introduction
- History
- Military
- Military Depots
- Military Headquarters
- Coastal Defences
- Anti-aircraft Batteries
- Pillboxes
- Drill Halls
- Training Areas and Camps
- Rifle Ranges
- Prisoner of War Camps
- Internment Camps
- Sound Mirrors
- Airship Bases
- Airfields
- Seaplane Bases
- Naval Establishments
- Naval Vessels
- Caring for Casualties
- Military Hospitals
- Royal Naval Hospitals
- Army Hospitals
- Royal Air Force Hospitals
- Territorial Force Hospitals
- Southern General Hospital
- Northern General Hospital
- Eastern General Hospital
- Western General Hospital
- Scottish General Hospitals
- London General Hospitals
- Canadian Convalescent Hospital
- New Zealand General Hospital No 1
- War Hospitals
- Voluntary Support
- Auxiliary Hospitals
- War Hospital Supply Depots
- Supporting the War Effort
- Manufacturing
- Munitions
- National Munitions Factories
- Airships and Aircraft
- Shipyards
- Mining
- North Wales Manganese Mines
- State Management Scheme
- Hostilities and incidents on British soil
- Aerial
- Naval
- Army
- Easter Rising
- Memorials
- National Memorials
- National Memorial Arboretum
- Naval Memorials
- Regimental and Battalion Memorials
- Divisional Memorials
- War Memorials
- Battlefield Crosses
- Animals in War
- Drinking Troughs
- Memorial Benches
- Poppies
- Ulster Murals
- Memorial Hospitals
- Memorial Halls
- Memorial Parks and Gardens
- Memorial Clock Towers
- Memorial Arches
- Memorial Windows
- Thankful Villages
- Statues
- Centenary Memorials
- War Cemeteries
- Centenary Commemorations
- Events
- Reconstructions
- Commemorative Installations
- Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
- Weeping Window
- Wave
- Miscellany
- Tanks, trains, guns, shells and mines
- Songs and Entertainment
- Private air raid shelter
- Belgian Refugees
- Refugee billets
- Token of thanks and memorials
- Other
- War Poetry and Authors
- Hedd Wyn
- Francis Ledwidge
- Wilfred Owen
- Rupert Brooke
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Charles Sorley
- Edward Thomas
- Laurence Binyon
- JRR Tolkien
- Links
State Management Scheme
In 1916 the government nationalised the brewing, distribution and sale of liquor in three areas of the country to limit consumption of alcohol around the armaments factories at Gretna/Eastriggs near Carlisle, Enfield and Cromarty Firth.The largest area was Carlisle extending across the Scottish border to Annan including five breweries and 235 pubs though by 1918 the number of pubs had halved now supplied by a single brewery in Carlisle. The Scheme operated the pubs and brewery until privatisation by Edward Heath in the early 1970s.
Carlisle Brewery Offices Gretna Tavern
The first new pub, the Gretna Tavern in the old Post Office opened in 1916 to replace six other pubs. The large open layout with seats and long tables in a restaurant format set a precedent for the interwar pubs in Carlisle and copied elsewhere. Pub managers were incentivised to promote food ahead of alcohol sales.
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The Crown and Thistle at Rockliffe and another village pub were closed in 1917 and a new club was opened in the village institute that was taken on a seven year lease and known as the Mounsey Arms. Curiously the closed pub seems to have been revived by the State Management Scheme presumably once the lease on the institute expired.
Initially run from Carlisle the Scottish Border pubs benefited from the improvements seen in England. The majority of the pubs and hotels were in Annan.
Not everyone gave in when the compulsory notice was served. The landlord of the White Quey near Durdar refused to sell and closed the pub completely. In his will he ordered that the building was never to be used as a pub. In 1975, after the State Management Company was wound up in 1974, the building was sold and following a legal battle the owner's grandson was found and agreed to rescind the restriction on use.
Four public houses and an off-licence were compulsorily purchased close to the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock. The premises returned to private ownership in 1922-3. Three of the four have been identified Greyhound, Royal Small Arms Tavern (Rifles) and Ordnance (demolished 1920s). The fourth is tentatively identified as the Plough Inn, Sewardstone (demolished 1980s).
The Cromarty District Scheme around Invergordon involved 18 premises (six public houses, nine licensed hotels and three off-licences). These were privatised in 1973.
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