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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 add your email contact details along with other ex-customers and landlords of this pub here. 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