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Picture source: Paul Ashworth

The Tramway Hotel  was situated on St Leonard Gate.

This grade-II listed pub has been standing derelict for at least twenty years. It had a large effigy of a man hanged in chains in one corner and got it's name as being close to the terminus of Lancaster's first horse tram terminus.

Paul Legon (March 2017)

Listed building details:

House, now public house. Late C18, altered C19. Sandstone ashlar with rubble, partly rendered on sides and rear. Slate roofs with kneelers and with copings partly remaining. Double-depth plan with a central doorway, gable chimney stacks, and a full-height extension to the left. 3 storeys above cellars which are expressed as a plinth with large stones, and 5 bays between chamfered quoins. All the openings have plain surrounds. The doorway is recessed up 4 steps, and there is a low entrance to the cellar under the ground-floor window of the fifth bay. Cellar openings in the first and second bays are partly blocked. The lintels of the second-floor windows are continued to form a deep band, and all the windows are sashed without glazing bars. HISTORY: in 1890 a horse tram service to Morecambe was started, with a terminus in nearby Stonewell, and with some stables behind what is now the Tramway Hotel.

Do you have any anecdotes, historical information, updates or photos of this pub? Become a contributor by submitting them here. Contacts: (Click on name to make contact via email. Email doesn't open? Right click and copy link into your preferred email app.) You can also make email contact with other ex-customers and landlords of this pub by adding your details to this page. Name Dates Comments Joy Lunn 1988-1992 Customer. Linda 1997 Does anyone else on here remember this pub being a squat? I was one of the squatters for a bit and would like to make contact with others Other Photos Picture source: Andrew Reilly Date of photo: 2025 Picture source: Simon Armstrong