Carlisle Encyclopaedia

ABANDONED CHILDREN

CWAAS OS Vol 2 p353 Baptised 1784 found in cloister of Abbey, supposed two or three days old

St Marys Parish registers baptisms 19.02.1810 Mary Eden, foundling found on the Sands

St Cuthberts Parish registers; baptism 23.02.1868 Mary Nelson Gates, a foundling found at the gates of Messrs Nelson Works

CJ 04.01.1910 Newly born male child left on St Aidans Vicarage doorstep

 

ABATTOIR

see Slaughter House

 

ABBEY, The Customary name for the Cathedral Precinct. Number 1 the Abbey, Prebendal house, probably late 17th and 18th century with extensive alterations, Flemish bond brickwork with light headers, [D.Weston Carlisle Cathedral History pp112-3]; Number 2 the Abbey, Prebendal house, 1670 with early 18th century extension [D.Weston Carlisle Cathedral History pp113--4]; 1888 alterations and additions, during which time 2 fragments of crosses were found [CWAAS NS Vol 1 p292]; Numbers 3 and 6 the Abbey, Prebendal house, late 1685 with early 18th century additions; 1857 and late 19th century extensions; handmade bricks in English garden bond [D.Weston Carlisle Cathedral History pp114-5]; New Number 4 built about 1859, 7 and 8 The Abbey later subdivisions of this house [D.Weston Carlisle Cathedral History pp115]; Number 5, substantially rebuilt by Dean Thomas Smith as an addition to the deanery in 1671 to 1673. No 5a and 5b and the lower courses of 5 are part of earlier buildings erected by Prior Gondibour in the late fifteenth century. No 5b still has the Prior Gondibour initials, TG, over the door. On no 5a these initials are barely discernible. [D.Weston Carlisle Cathedral History p103]; North East Lodge, built circa 1890, became SPCK bookshop in 1996, now [2023] antique shop [D.Weston Carlisle Cathedral History pp116-7]

 

ABBEY CALDEW HOSPITAL see CALDEW HOSPITAL

 

ABBEY, CHURCH, St. Mary.

CJ 3.11.1950 p2 800th anniversary

 

ABBEY COURT, Abbey Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 24 Abbey Street

 

ABBEYFIELD HOUSE, Goshen Road

CN 19.03.1971 p8 (illus) Opening

 

ABBEY GATE. Restaurant, Abbey St,

CN 24.6.1988 p18 Ad feature

CN 27.7.1990 p15 Eating place up for sale

 

ABBEY GATEHOUSE. Carlisle Cathedral

see CATHEDRAL;Prior Slee's Gateway

 

ABBEY HOSPITAL see CALDEW HOSPITAL

 

ABBEY MILL, Fulling mill and dyehouse on mill race held on permanent lease from the Dean and Chapter, 1715 John Richardson, the dyer, occupied the Mill, lease taken over by Christian and Frederick Guliker in 1724 going bankrupt in 1740 (CWAAS 1985 vol 85 pp187-91, including map showing location of Abbey Mill)

1562 Lord Dacre had to settle a quarrel between the mayor and citizens and Thomas Stanwix over access ‘to a mill called abbey mill’. Summerson, Medieval Carlisle p540

CN 17.7.1998 p13 Wedding solves riddle of 2 Forsters.

 

ABBEY NATIONAL BUILDING SOCIETY.

CN 22.4.1960 New offices in Devonshire Street.

 

ABBEY SINGERS Founded 1962 by Andrew Seivewright, Master of Music at Cathedral

Lakescene, Dec 1975 p51

Cumbria Lake District Life, Vol 37 pp546-547

Cumbria, Oct 1992 p30 Transatlantic celebrations.

CN 15.9.1995 p5 Jane sings for £700 prize

CN 24.09.1999 p25 Music for Millennium

CN 19.04.2002 p31 Singers 40th anniversary

CN 06.39.2002 p15 Singers celebrate 40 years

CN 13.07.2012 p 22 Half century concert

 

ABBEY STREET Number 3 late 18th century or early 19th century with later alterations; number 13, Herbert Atkinson House, late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork with light headers, purchased by the Corporation on 06.11.1934, through the efforts of Councillor Herbert Atkinson, opened as an education centre in 1956; numbers 17 and 19 late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork with light headers; number 26 late 18th century; numbers 28 and 30 late 18th century; number 34 late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork with light headers; numbers 40,42 and 44 late 17th century with 18th century alterations; number 48 late 17th century or early 18th century with later alterations

1933 Carlisle in Camera 1 Photo of east side of street

CJ 19.12.1801 p1 To be let. Weaving shop containing 7 looms with room for an eighth and an excellent press for pressing cloth, situate in Abbey St, late the property of Robert Stodart, deceased. On the 2nd floor are 4 rooms, in one a warping mill. On the 3rd floor is an Heekling Room with 2 pair of good Heckles

29.01.1829 Ca/2/209/43 John Graham, coal vault under the flagging, before the house I am rebuilding in Abbey Street

CJ 12.05.1832 p1a Abbey Street; Dwelling house late in the occupancy of Mr Francis Stodart and also a large and convenient factory or warehouse situate behind West Walls, late in occupation of Messrs Stodart and Sons as tenants

CJ 28.07.1832 Ad. John Brown commenced business in Abbey Street in premises lately occupied by Mr John Graham, joiner and cabinet maker

CJ 01.02.1834 p2 To be sold, leasehold dwelling house, rooms and workshops, back entrance from West Walls. Held under Dean and Chapter lease

CJ 10.06.1881 p1 House now occupied as District Probate Registry under 40 year lease

CJ 13.07.1860 p8 John Hargreaves senior, manufacturer, died 11 Abbey Street

CN 25.10.1947 Solway article; Probate Office moving from Abbey Street

CWAAS 1988 Before Tullie House

CN 27.5.1994 p5 Sparks fly (ill) nos. 1-3 Abbey Street

CN 3.6.1994 p3 City to foot study bill

CN 16.9.1994 p14 Down your way

CN 20.1.1995 p5 £40,000 to save eyesore

CN 23.5.1997 p5 Old corner shop back with new look

CN 15.8.1997 p16 Council's blueprint for £8.5m 'house of history'

CN 8.5.1998 p12 Sumptuous city home (no. 32)

CN 28.8.1998 p5 Pizza plan for a slice of historic Carlisle

CN 08.03.2002 p14 Shop on corner of Abbey St and Annetwell St may soon have tenant

 

ABBEY STREET DISSENTING MEETING PLACE

CWAAS Third Series Vol II , 2002, pp 217- 230

 

ABBEY STREET, No 3

CP 03.06.1854p1 To let comprising 8 bedrooms

CJ 03.04.1857 p8 Birth of daughter of JA Cory

 

ABBEY STREET, No 5

CN 10.10.2014 p18 Demolished circa 1963 for a new Scout and Guide HQ. Previous building built for George Dalton who was in residence in 1765. 1801 occupied by David and Elizabeth Kennedy. Offered for sale in April 1877 it was described as a large mansion known as the ‘Nurses Home’. Building eventually owned by the Boys Brigade and they decided to sell it in 1959

 

ABBEY STREET, No 9

CP 28.10.1870 p1 For sale house in the occupation of Mrs Atkinson

 

ABBEY STREET, No 11

[in 1847 Directory Mr Cust is listed at 4 Abbey Street]

1821 Woods map shows and names the Property of Mr Cust Esq

CP 28.10.1873 p1 Ad For sale family evidence of late Miss Cust

CN 16.07.1954 Demolition and history of no 11 [Photo] This house or a predecessor belonged before 1691 to Thomas Peat. In 1746 John Pears and Jane his wife of Carlisle and John Dalton of Whitehaven sold the house for £156 to the Hon Margaret Lance of Barley Hill, Berkshire. Thirteen years later Charles Lance of Twickenham, Middlesex sold it again. This time it went for only £120, the purchaser being Mrs Penelope Morris of Carlisle, who was already the owner of the adjoining property no 13. By 1783 Mrs Morris had left Carlisle and gone to live in Downing Street, London. In that year she sold her Abbey Street property to Daniel Moore, of Anns Hill, Bridekirk. No 11 was let to Rev Dr Browne Grisdale, a Cathedral dignity, Mr Moore died in 1802 and left the house to his niece Miss Hannah Clift of Cockermouth and she in 1814 sold it for £2,730 to Mr Richard Cust, who was then living in Fisher Street. For the next 56 years it was the home of Mr Richard Cust. Mr Cust died in 1844, leaving two children Richard and Elizabeth. Richard died in 1857 at the age of 42 leaving the house to his sister who died in 1870. She owned several houses in Carlisle which she left to her cousin Sir William Gordon, Bt., of Earlston in Kirkcudbrightshire. He sold no 11 and also no 9 next door which Mr Cust had bought in 1823, to Mr James Birney who bought no 7 in 1888. He died in 1898, when the property passed to Mrs Annie Young, who lived at no 11 until her death in 1916. Her sister Mrs M.A.Walker, sold the property to the Corporation in 1930. For many years the old house was structurally unsafe so that it would have fallen down if the Corporation had not pulled it down

 

ABBEY STREET. No 13 HERBERT ATKINSON HOUSE, Abbey St, late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork with light headers; purchased by Corporation on 06.11.1934 through the efforts of Councillor Herbert Atkinson; became an education centre in 1956

 

ABBEY STREET No 15 Was Tullie House

 

ABBEY STREET 16

CJ 12.09.1862 p8 To be let. Describes 1st floor and attic

CJ 10.10.1862 p8 To let. Mr Forster, Etterby, owner

 

ABBEY STREET 17 and 19 Late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork with light headers. Depicted in 1791 painting by Robert Carlyle. May have been constructed by George Dalton, twice Mayor, between 1772-80 [CN 06.06.2014p16] And follow up letter 20.06.2014 p17]

 

ABBEY STREET 18, 20, 22

1937 Directory T.P.Bell, cycle specialist

 

ABBEY STREET, No 24

CP 27.06.1840 p2c Miss Jackson sets up ladies seminary

 

ABBEY STREET, No 26 Late 18th century

CN 28.11.2014 Housing section p4 and 5 Feature on house for sale

 

ABBEY STREET, Nos 28 and 30 Late eighteenth century with painted Flemish bond brickwork

 

ABBEY STREET. No 32 Built circa 1817 on the site of the stables and coach house for Tullie House for Christopher Hutchinson of Temple Sowerby; became County Police HQ.

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House p33

CN 08.10.1954 p3 Historical detail

 

ABBEY STREET. No 34 Late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork with light headers

CN 24.07.2015 pp4-5 of property section. House for sale

 

ABBEY STREET, No 36

CN 20.04.2007 p76 For sale 36 and 38

 

ABBEY STREET, No 38 [Opposite rear entrance to Tullie House]

CN 13.10.2006 p53 For sale; three floors and cellar - photo

CN 20.04.2007 p76 For sale 36 and 38

 

ABBEY STREET.No 42. Eaglesfield House; late 17th century with late 18th century alterations

see also Hannah's Academy

CN 1.2.1947 CN 8.2.1947

CP 16.12.1870 Nos attending at Elizabeth Murphy’s School, Eaglesfield Hse =18

11.02.1937 George Forster died 42 Abbey Street, aged 79 [SI 233/3]

CN 17.09.1954 Dr Waugh’s own private house...which he leased in 1730

CN 17.07.2015 p16 Dr George Carlyle bought Eaglesfield House in Abbey Street in 1772. Joseph Dacre Carlyle inherited this house on his father’s death

 

ABBEY STREET. No 48 Late 17th century or early 18th century with later alterations. When a school in the 19th century Thomas Bouch, the engineer and designer of the ill fated Tay Bridge, was a pupil here

 

ABBEY STREET. Police Station see POLICE STATION; Abbey Street

 

ABBEY STREET; Sheffield House; so named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19

CJ 17.12.1825 p2 T.Sheffield has taken a house in Abbey Street

CJ 16.02.1839 Railings in front of Mr Sheffield’s house to remain

CJ 15.05.1830 p1b For sale large dwelling house under Dean and Chapter lease for 40 years, 27 of which are unexpired. Occupation of T.Sheffield

CJ 08.04.1853 p8 Mr Sheffield, Abbey Street, died aged 78 years, in Abbey Street residence

CJ 16.09.1859 p6 Isaac Sheffield to give up immediate possession of the court in front of his house....for street improvement

CJ 11.05.1860 p1 To be sold house many years the residence of Thos Sheffield

CJ 18.05.1860 p1 Thomas Sheffield, Abbey Street, moving to 6 the Crescent with the assistance of JG Robinson

Ca/E4/ 2815 Matthew Fisher, photographic room at rear of Sheffield House, 1863

CJ 29.05.1863 M.Fisher photo artist to move from Botchergate to Sheffield House at the foot of Abbey Street

CP 09.01.1864 p8 M.Fisher photo artist moving from 67 Botchergate to Sheffield House, Abbey Street

CJ 17.02.1865 p1e Complete photographic studio of Matthew Fisher, Sheffield House, for sale

 

ABBEY WEDDING SERVICES

CN 1.5.1992 p8 Ad

 

ABBOT, Rachel Milliner , aged 46, employing girls, home address 6 Lowther St, born Maryport [1861 census]

 

A.B.C. CINEMA.

see Lonsdale Cinema

 

ABORTIONS

CJ 29.04.1884 p4 Petty sessions. Case against Carlisle man for procuring and supplying drugs to Ellen Armstrong of Rockcliffe

CJ 06.05.1884 p4 Case against Matthew Irving

CJ 13.05.1884 p4 Case against Matthew Irving

CJ 15.07.1884 p3 No case prisoner acquitted. Matthew Irving supplying noxious drugs to Ellen Armstrong of Rockcliffe

CJ 14.02.1888 p3 Herbal abortion; discharged as insufficient evidence

ENS 30.09.1944 p3 Lady charged with procuring abortion

 

ABSTINENCE see TOTAL ABSTINENCE

 

ACADEMY OF ARTS.

see Finkle Street Museum

 

ACCIDENTS see RAILWAYS ACCIDENTS;ROAD ACCIDENTS

 

ACE FIXINGS Unit 5, James Street

CN 04.05.2001 p9 Ad feature

 

ACORN HARDWOOD PRODUCTS

CN 20.11.1987 p18 Ad Feature

 

ACP ROOFING

see Thomas ARMSTRONG Construction

 

ACTION FOR BLIND PEOPLE

CN 23.10.2009 p7 Charity plans to close Carlisle HQ

CN 15.01.2010 p15 Action for Blind People closes Botchergate HQ

 

ADAIR, Sydney Motor bus services

City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate bus between Town Hall to Raffles

City Minutes 1926-7 p628 Licensed to operate bus between Town Hall to Raffles

 

ADAMS FRUIT SHOP English Street

The Lanes Remembered, p39 photo

ENS 15.03.1978 p1 Workmen yesterday pull down shop after collapse

 

ADAMSON, A. Haxton Abbey Street

Pharmacist and optician

CD 1920 Ad p56

 

ADAMSON, John Spencer Photographer

Known to be in Carlisle by 1908 but by 1911 he was boarding in Blyth, Northumberland

[Ian Moonie Studio Photographers in Cumberland]

 

ADELAIDE STREET I think, when associated with Melbourne Road, just around the corner, suggests an Australian connection. It wasn't uncommon to name streets after places in the Empire. In 1920 further streets were planned in this area, but never built. One of them was to be called Sydney Street. [see map at back of 1920 Carlisle Directory] The street was never built

City Minutes 1898/99 p371 Approval for 11 houses

 

ADELPHI STREET

City Minutes 1898/99 p 374 Approval for houses

 

ADRIANO’S see MALT SHOVEL

 

ADULT LITERACY

The passing of Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act to deter clandestine marriages in 1753 obliged every bride and groom, plus two witnesses, to sign their names in the parish register, or, if they could not write, to draw a cross or mark instead. The registers can give some indication of literacy rates although writing ones name did not mean you were literate. In the 1850s the literacy rates of Caldewgate brides was 56% and bridegrooms 83%

[See Jane Platt Making their Mark; learning to read and write in nineteenth century Cumberland]

B.Graham Nineteenth Century Self Help in Education; the Carlisle Working Men’s Reading Rooms, 1983 p53; 1811- 1900 Percentage who signed marriage registers in parish of St Mary’s

CN 26.03.1976 p10 CN 05.09.1980 p3

CN 09.07.1993 p11 Signing the pledge for literacy

 

ADULT TRAINING CENTRE

see

KINGSTOWN ATC

 

AERO CAFE, Corner of Kingstown Road and California Road. So called because of proximity to Kingstown airfield. D Perriam Stanwix p106 for photo

 

AEROPLANES

First aircraft arrives in Carlisle on 25.07.1911 as part of the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain Air Race

CN 17.08.1912 Gustav Hamel gives an aviation exhibition at Racecourse

12.05.1919 Daily Mail aircraft crash

CN 12.07.1957 CN 16.07.1957 CN 04.08.1961

CN 16.05.1997 p13 Crane your necks

CN 22.09.2000 p2 Metal from sky remains a mystery

 

AETHERIUS SOCIETY

CN 20.09.1996 p1 David's guide to life...

 

A.F.S. [Auxiliary Fire Service] Club Rooms in Swifts Row

CJ 16.01.1940 p1 CJ 19.01.1940 p5 CJ 16.02.1940 p3

CN 19.05.1989 p4 City AFS men scored first with club

CN 18.07.2008 p17 Ex AFS club in Victoria Rd restored and run as The Club

 

AGE CONCERN

CN 07.06.1974 p10 CN 12.09.1980 p8

CN 16.09.1988 pp5,7 Age Concern's best ever year

CN 27.10.1989 p 56 Old folks fight for safer road

CN 19.01.1990 p9 Pensioners take fight to London

CN 26.01.1990 p3 Backing for old folk

CN 21.09.1990 p11 Pupils will help bridge age gap

CN 28.09.1990 p22 Special day for old folk

CN 23.11.1990 p1 Hands off bus passes

CN 07.12.1990 p9 Pensioners in talks on bus passes

CN 21.12.1990 p7 Opening delayed

CN 11.01.1991 p12 Fare comment

CN 18.01.1991 p11 Winter warmer campaign

CN 26.07.1991 p13 More pop-in centre fun

CN 10.1.1992 p7 Old folks scheme wins top award

CN 16.04.1993 p7 Taking day care out to the country

CN 25.02.1994 p1 Age Concern fears

CN 06.12.1996 p1 'Nit picking' claim in row over home care

CN 26.09.1997 Supplement

CN 02.06.2000 p7 Age Concern thanks its helpers

CN 25.04.2003 p8 Profile of Age Concern Team Leader Jean Feddon

CN 27.01.2006 p1 5 jobs threatened in Carlisle Age Concern

 

AGLIANBYE LANDS

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

 

AGLIONBY STREET

CP 06.03.1874 p1 Ad; For sale no 10 Aglionby Street; now occupied by William Baines

CP 18.05.1883 p1 To let new house Aglionby Street

1887 Cecil St Primitive Methodist Church purchases 88 Aglionby Street as their minister’s house. [Primitive Methodism in the Carlisle Circuit p 58] The 1934 directory lists Rev W.H.Campbell, Methodist minister at this address

35 Aglionby Street; Rev Bramwell Evens lived here 1914-1917, Methodist Manse

No 19 built for John Hutton Reed the joiner who died in 1903 [Cumbria Family History Society newsletter no 145 p6]

14.01.2011 p53 68 Aglionby Street for sale; built circa 1880, picture

 

AGLIONBY STREET BAPTIST CHURCH see BAPTIST CHURCH

 

AGRICULTURE, Royal Agricultural Show 1880

CP 16.07.1880 pp 6-7 and supplement

CP 09.07.1880 pp4,6

 

AID FOR WOMEN

CN 04.02.1977 p4

CN 20.06.1997 p6 Refuge urgent

 

AIDANVISION

D.Perriam Denton Holme p49 Started in St Aidan’s School in 1972 when Border TV converted to colour and the school’s art department purchased all their video monochrome equipment. Innovative move which sought to serve educational needs. Moved to the ex Morley Street school by 1976

Carlisle an illustrated history p91 Photo of Aidanvision Studio at Morley St in 1976

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p83 Photo of students using television equipment

CN 29.04.1977 p19

CN 25.11.1988 Aidanvision Studios building is occasionally used by Carlisle area schools using video recording equipment funded by Northern Arts, the British Film Institute and St Aidan’s School and Pocket Theatre is to continue to develop this use.

 

AIDS

CN 03.09.1993 p15 Aids helpline opens in city

CN 29.11.1996 p17 Cumbrians fly the Aids red ribbon

 

AIKIN, John Bootmaker employing 8 men, aged 48, born Scotland, home address Kings Arms Lane [1851 census]; aged 60, employing 8 men, born Dumfries, home address English St [1861 census]

 

AINIO, Charles Maker and vendor of thermometers

CJ 05.10.1816 Native of Italy, well known in this city for many years

Monumental Inscriptions of St Cuthberts entry 78 Charles Aiano, barometer maker, who died September 29th 1816, aged 56. As a tribute by his cousin Charles Aiano

 

AIRBORNE CLUB

CJ 27.04.1948 p3 Renamed

 

AIR CADETS

CN 09.10.1965 New Air Cadet unit no 1862 [Carlisle] will shortly open a detached flight in Stanwix. Squadrons HQ in Strand Road

 

AIR CIRCUS: Sir Alan Cobham 30.07.1932 Orton Grange

CN 23.09.1988 p4

CN 27.08.1993 p4 Air show was a first for city (illus)

 

AIRCRAFT see AEROPLANES

 

AIRPORT - CROSBY ON EDEN Site requisitioned 1940; airfield constructed by John Laing; airfield and camp opened 20th February 1941; 07.12.1960 purchased by city council; official opening day of municipal airport 15.06.1961

see also Kingstown Aerodrome

See also Botcherby Airfield, Kingstown Aerodrome

B/CAR 387.736 Carlisle Airport; a history of Crosby on Eden Airport 1941-1991

WW2 memories see 920/DUN Flying Start by H.Dundas pp 81 - 84

Cumberland Review July - October 1971 pp43-44 (illus)

Cumbrian Airfields in the Second World War pp52-80, Martyn Chorlton, 2006

CJ 12.01.1962 p7 CJ 16.07.1965 p1 CN 05.11.1965 p16

CN 12.11.1965 p1 CN 10.12.1965 p15 CJ 25.02.1966 p7

CN 06.10.1967 p13 CN 20.10.1967 p1 CN 03.11.1967 p1

CN 17.11.1967 p2 CN 24.11.1967 p5 CN 26.01.1968 p1

CN 16.02.1968 p1 CN 26.03.1970 p1 CN 05.06.1970 p1

CN 24.07.1970 p1 CN 11.09.1970 p1 CN 04.12.1970 p32

CN 26.11.1971 p1 CN 24.12.1971 p24 CN 31.12.1971 pp1,20

CN 29.09.1972 p32 CN 06.10.1972 p1 CN 15.12.1972 p1

CN 16.03.1973 p24 CN 27.04.1973 p32 CN 14.09.1973 p1

CN 21.09.1973 p4 CN 21.12.1973 p1 CN 15.02.1974 p5

CN 08.03.1974 p1,11 CN 10.05.1974 pp1,5 CN 05.07.1974 p1

CN 20.09.1974 p1 CN 04.10.1974 p3 CN 28.02.1975 p15

CN 18.04.1975 p1 CN 09.05.1975 p1 CN 27.06.1975 p7

CN 24.10.1975 p18 CN 05.12.1975 p9 CN 24.09.1976 pp3,8

CN 05.11.1976 p9 CN 17.11.1976 p4 CN 14.01.1977 p17

CN 02.09.1977 p7 CN 03.02.1978 p3 CN 24.02.1978 p36

CN 31.03.1978 p36 CN 24.11.1978 p17 CN 14.01.1977 p17

CN 25.08.1978 p21 CN 12.01.1979 p17 CN 19.01.1979 p1

CN 09.02.1979 p7 CN 16.02.1979 p1 CN 23.02.1979 p3

CN 23.03.1979 p5 CN 01.06.1979 p3 CN 08.06.1979 p11

CN 15.06.1979 p1 CN 29.06.1979 p11 CN 06.07.1979 p3

CN 03.08.1979p1 CN 07.09.1979 p11 CN 28.09.1979 p1

CN 03.04.1980 p9 CN 20.06.1980 p9 CN 25.07.1980 p1

CN 20.02.1981 p1 CN 06.03.1981 p1 CN 23.10.1981 p1

CN 06.11.1981 p36 CN 04.12.1981 p1

CN 03.11.1945 p5 Suitable sites

CJ 05.03.1948 p6 Crosby to be closed

CN 06.03.1948 pp3,4 Lack of air transport services

CJ 26.03.1948 p1 Future of Carlisle’s airport

CN 15.01.1949 p5 Transformation of an airport

CN 08.03.1957 p1 Crosby Airport- the future

ENS 15.12.1959 p4 Crosby will be the civil airport

ENS 07.12.1960 p1 Key of new city airport formal handed over

ENS 10.12.1960 p1 First plane to land after 1947

Carlisle an illustrated history p83 photo of official opening day on 15.06.1961

ENS 10.04.1962 p1 New air service for city

CJ 04.12.1964 p11 End of British Midland Airways

CN 23.07.1965 p11 Stop-over from London?

CN 08.10.1965 p1 London service?

CJ 28.01.1966 p8 Plans for joint control

CN 16.09.1966 p1 24 hour service

CN 30.06.1967 p12 Memories of Isle of Man Service

CN 11.08.1967 p1 Training pilots

CN 18.08.1967 p11 As a training centre

CN 27.10.1967 p10 Editorial

CJ 05.01.1968 p3 Autair

CN 19.04.1968 p8 (illus) As a training centre

CN 08.11.1968 p3 Cumberland County Council to pull out

CN 01.08.1969 p1 British Air Services

CN 09.02.1971 p1 General

CN 26.03.1971 p8 (illus) The future

CN 26.01.1973 p9 Removal of Hastings Transport plane

CN 13.04.1973 p9 More areas ‘should help’ run airport

CN 10.05.1974 p21 Oxford Air Training School

ENS 29.11.1977 p3 New cash crisis

ENS 23.01.1978 p1 Ban on flights

ENS 24.01.1978 p1 Go-ahead

ENS 01.02.1978 p3 Stay grounded

ENS 23.02.1978 p17 Atom flights D Day

CN 24.02.1978 p36 Transport of nuclear fuel

ENS 27.02.1978 p1 Clear for take off

ENS 28.02.1978 p1 Flights nearer to take off

CN 17.03.1978 p21 Transport of nuclear fuel

CN 23.03.1978 p13 Transport of nuclear fuel

CN 31.03.1978 p36 Transport of nuclear fuel

ENS 07.08.1978 p1 £1m deal boosts airport hopes

ENS 21.08.1978 p5 (illus) Is Carlisle Airport a flight of fancy?

ENS 24.08.1978 p1 City airport future looking up

CN 01.12.1978 p9 Crash - two dead (illus)

CN 07.09.1979 p11 Hush hush talks over airport

CN 03.04.1987 p10 Editorial on axing link to London

CN 16.04.1987 p5 ‘Firm set to take on city air link’; Malin Air

CN 27.11.1987 pp 10,21 Keep on flying

CN 22.01 1988 p3 Airport decision soon

CN 29.01.1988 pp1,3 Airport faces crunch choice

CN 12.02.1988 pp3,10 Take over hope for crisis hit city airport

CN 15.04.1988 p1 Rescue deal for airport

CN 15.04.1988 p8 Museum piece revives

CN 05.08.1988 p1 Airport set for lift off (Ogden Allied Aviation Service)

CN 21.10.1988 pp1,12 Airport has 10 weeks

CN 28.10.1988 p9 Privatise airport says MP

CN 04.11.1988 p12 We must all back airport - editorial

CN 16.12.1988 p3 Airport battle

CN 17.02.1989 p1 Top pair for city airport

CN 17.02.1989 p10 Back this council

CN 03.03.1989 p9 Airport move

CN 17.03.1989 p12 Here's the good news

CN 12.01.1990 p3 Airlines city link interest

CN 19.01.1990 p9 City flights bid backed by MP

CN 19.01.1990 p10 Let's have lift off

CN 02.02.1990 p15 New air link hope

CN 04.05.1990 p11 Deal seals future of city airport

CN 13.07.1990 p3 Air link nearer

CN 25.01.1991 p1 Airport set for lift off

CN 25.01.1991 p10 This time we must get it right

CN 12.04.1991 p3 Airport waits for London link

CN 12.04.1991 p12 Don't give up

CN 03.05.1991 p19 Trouble in the air

CN 07.06.1991 pp1,10 Secret probe

CN 28.06.1991 p13 Paris air link on way

CN 26.07.1991 p3 Counsellors want low down

CN 13.09.1991 p5 Flights plan

CN 08.11.1991 p23 Businessman slams airport management

CN 08.11.1991 p3 Near miss claim

CN 13.12.1991 p12 More than a flight of fancy

CN 13.12.1991 p28 Airport's big loss

CN 17.1.1992 p1 Lift off for air service

CN 17.1.1992 p13 Airport seeking the high fliers

CN 31.1.1992 p1 April lift off

CN 31.1.1992 p7 Backing a city air link

CN 14.02.1992 p16 City flight plans get a boost

CN 28.02.1992 p5 Cash hiccup in air link plan

CN 28 02 1992 p6 Contract may be lost

CN 10.04.1992 p29 City airport show plan taking off

CN 01.05.1992 p6 Air link delayed

CN 08.05.1992 p1 £90,000 city lift off

CN 26.06.1992 p13 It's chocks away for big air show

CN 14.08.1992 p1 N Cargo takes off

CN 14.08.1992 p2 Airport delay

CN 04.09.1992 p5 Atom flight safety fears

CN 25.09.1992 p57 Airport used in exercise

CN 25.09.1992 p4 Air shows went well from the early days

CN 02.10.1992 p29 Plutonium flights ban called for

CN 15.01.1993 p25 Cancelled warning on N. flights

CN 19.02.1993 p15 Airport take off

CN 26.02.1993 p15 City air service set for take off

CN 16.04.1993 p1 City air service all set for lift off

CN 28.05.1993 p9 Heathrow links up

CN 02.07.1993 p9 Taunt over city air firm crash

CN 09.07.1993 pp3,6 Airport needed - BNFL

CN 23.07.1993 p15 City air link taking off again

CN 30.07.1993 p19 Crosby decision off yet again

CN 15.10.1993 p12 Wing and a prayer

CN 12.11.1993 p1 Carlisle air link firm faces probe

CN 19.11.1993 p3 Tories airport crisis

CN 17.12.1993 p1 Quit notices for airport staff

CN 23.12.1993 p3 Tory call to close airport

CN 30.12.1993 p3 Airport options

CN 28.01.1994 p1 Auditors concern at airport payments

CN 28.01 1994 p12 Comment

CN 04.03.1994 p18 Airport at battle stations

CN 01.04.1994 p14 Fools gold - comment

CN 01.04.1994 p18 American space agency to buy Carlisle airport

CN 08.04.1994 p4 (illus) Charity status set to save aircraft museum planes

CN 22.04.1994 p5 Nuke flights...

CN 20.05.1994 p1 Carlisle - London 55 minutes

CN 20.05.1994 p3 Carlisle gets new flight plan

CN 29.07.1994 p7 Trial runs planned for city air link

CN 09.09.1994 p1 Airport is doomed as airline is pulled out

CN 23.09.1994 p3 Labour takes flak for latest ills at airport

CN 25.11.1994 pp1,10 Farmers consult lawyers over calf flights

CN 06.01.1995 p5 Air firm pulls out

CN 13.01.1995 p3 Airport lands new RAF Cadet contract

CN 13.01.1995 p17 Airport under closure threat

CN 27.01.1995 p5 Flights to return

CN 03.02.1995 p4 Airport talks deferred

CN 10.02.1995 p3 City airport saved

CN 16.06.1995 p1 Airline scraps Jersey flights

CN 23.06 1995 p3 Carlisle airport set to be seized in military exercise

CN 23.06.1995 p12 Airport can still fly high

CN 07.07.1995 p5 The battle for free Cumberland

CN 14.07.1995 p1 The war is over

CN 17.11.1995 p5 £10,000 grant for city airport

CN 08.12.1995 p5 Depot plan for airport cash

CN 15.12.1995 p6 Historic finds at airport road plan site

CN 19.01.1996 p1 Digging for bronze

CN 19.01.1996 p3 Airport deal for model club

CN 16.02.1996 p1 Freight firms short list airport

CN 08.03.1996 p9 Airport could get of ground

ENS 04.04.1996 p15 City airport lands atop race

CN 12.04.1996 p1 Fog on the Tyne brings planes to land

CN 04.10.1996 p1 City may run daily flights to London

CN 06.12.1996 p3 Prospects not good for air service to London

CN 07.02.1997 p1 £50m airport plan

CN 21.02.1997 p1 The visionary behind Carlisle's £50m airport

CN 21.02.1997 p10 The sleeping giant spreads its wings

CN 14.03.1997 p1 Key role forecast for airport

CN 21.03.1997 p1 Residents have say on project

CN 18.04.1997 p5 Teeside rival - no threat

CN 13.06.1997 p7 MP David steps into nuclear flights debate

CN 27.06.1997 p3 Secrecy over airport deal raises fears about flights

CN 01.08.1997 p5 Airport cargo plan gathers momentum

CN 29.08.1997 p3 Combined call to ban nuclear flights

CN 31.10.1997 p1 Pilot Neil launches Carlisle air taxi

CN 16.01.1998 p1 Airport weary locals dismiss latest 'pie in the sky'

CN 23.01.1998 p5 Airport runway heads for John Prescott

CN 10.04.1998 p1 Eyes up Botchergate again

CN 22.05.1998 p12 The war game and how we learnt to love the RAF

CN 10.07.1998 p5 Villagers pour scorn on latest scheme

CN 17.07.1998 p12 Ready for rake off?

CN 14.08.1998 p9 Kart track revs up

CN 19.03.1999 p1 14MU

CN 21.05.1999 p5 Royal Mail to get pledge on airport

CN 01.10.1999 p3 Airport blueprint

CN 15.10.1999 p2 Experts doubt sale of airport

CN 22.10.1999 p3 Firms shows interest

CN 03.12.1999 p8 Ban danger cargoes (BNFL)

CN 10.12.1999p3 12 groups express interest in buying airport

CN 21.01.2000 p4 12 would be buyers

CN 09.06.2000 p1 Haughey faces rival airport bid

CN 16.06.2000 p2 Residents’ new fears over plans for airport

CN 16.06.2000 p2 Carlisle Chief Executive statement concerning council’s current policy

CN 23.06.2000 p12 Too late to gripe over airport plan - letter

CN 07.07.2000 p3 Haughey set to win city airport bid

CN 21.07.2000 p3 Haughey’s plans for city airport (illus)

CN 15.09.2000 p8 Nuke flight fears over airport sell off bid

CN 15.12.2000 p1 Plan for city flights to London and Paris - Lakeland Air

CN 15.06.2001 p1 Haughey plans to develop airport; opinion p 12

CN 22.06.2001 p13 Letter; Haughey must not allow flights carrying nuclear materials

CN 29.06.2001 p2 Haughey de-recognises staff’s union

CN 10.08.2001 p4 Haughey is spending up to £2m on upgrading airport

CN 21.09.2001 p1 Gill Airways, the airline providing Royal Mail flights, collapses.

CN 12.10.2001 p1 Airport to launch scheduled flights from Carlisle ‘in weeks’

CN 11.01.2002 p3 (illus) £2m transforms Carlisle terminal

CN 17.05.2002 p3 Managing Director of airport resigns; Colin Pollard taken over

CN 26.07.2002 p5 Cautious welcome to government plans which could see one million passengers

CN 11.07.2003 p1 Hope for scheduled flights to London; North West Devel. Agency commissions study

CN 08.10.2004 p1 Airport manager, John Barnes, leaves; flights grounded for day

CN 26.11.2004 p1 Delays in starting scheduled flights to London

CN 17.12.2004 p1 Scheduled jet flights to London by next summer

CN 24.03.2006 p12 Feature on Andrew Tikler who has bought Carlisle Airport

CN 23.06.2006 p1 Airport in last trading year to July 2004 made £1m loss

CN 09.10.2009 p12 Feature on Carlisle Airport; airport director Andy Judge

CN 20.05.2011 pp1, 15 Review of Radio One’s Big Weekend

CN 28.03.2014 p6 Farmer who lead challenge which halted airport expansion says a commercial airport on site is just never going to happen

 

AIR RAIDS

CJ 05.04.1938 p5 ARP volunteers needed

CJ 27.10.1939 p1 Where to find shelters

 

AIR SHOW 92,93 94

CN 26.06 1992 p13 It's chocks away for big airshow

CN 25 .09.1992 p49 Show flying high despite weather

CN 07.05.1993 p3 Lift off for all action air show

CN 28.05.1993 p9 Flying visit prepares for air show

CN 18.06.1993 p3 Air show hotline opens

CN 02.07.1993 p17 All the fun of the fair for the airshow

CN 09.07.1993 p19 Another air show challenge for high flyers

CN 23.07.1993 p19 Silent flight attraction at air show

CN 13.08.1993 p1 Hitting heights at our air show

CN 27.08.1993 Supp.

CN 03.09.1993 p25 Air show thrills 30,000 crowd

CN 26.08.1994 p3 Chocks away

CN 26.08.1994 Supp

CN 02.09.1994 p5 Air show rains falls mainly on planes

CN 24.02 1995 p13 Lack of sponsors cancel air show

 

AIR TAXIS (Cumberland) Ltd 14-20 Lonsdale Street, Naworth Castle, 54 Lowther Street

CD 1955-56 Ad p3

 

ALBERT CLUB

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 2 The Albert 1841-1893 pp 103-14; meeting of 05.10.1841 founded club

ALBERT FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL HOTEL Botchergate; In directories from 1855, closed 1892, becoming the Botchergate Conservative Club [S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p78]

Guide to Carlisle C178 a

 

ALBERT HALL Chapel Street

D Perriam Lowther Street p50 In 1872 the Carlisle Public Hall Company was set up. They decided to build halls on the corner of Lowther and Chapel Streets. Plans were drawn up in 1873 for a large hall with a capacity of 2,000, the Victoria Hall, and a smaller hall, the Albert Hall; a remaining wall of the Albert Hall with its distinctive polychrome brickwork can still [2022[ be seen on Chapel Street. Designs for the buildings were by Habershon and Brock of London and the builders were Messrs C and J Armstrong. The cost was £6,798. The foundation was laid in 1873 and the roof raised in March 1874. The Victoria Hall became Her Majesty’s Theatre. Lately the Albert Hall was Iceland, now [2023 empty].

City Minutes 1903-04 p266 Auction room with one entrance onto Chapel St

1924 Carlisle Directory lists the hall beside the Dispensary

 

ALBERT HOUSE, Albert Street

CN 01.02.2008 p34 History of Albert House; built circa 1851-52

 

ALBERT HOUSE SCHOOL

William Sharp Graham in 1898 , at the age of 27, became principal of Albert House School. William Sharpe Graham, in 1905, transferred the Albert House School staff and pupils to new premises and adopting the name of Grosvenor College, at which WS Sharpe had been a pupil.

John Bainbridge Knockupworth; story of a family, 2019 p194 WS Graham started up Albert House School

 

ALBERT PLACE, Stanwix On 1861 census and still so named on 1924 OS map. That part of Brampton Rd today which starts from Stanwix Bank

City Minutes 1934-5 p60 nos 11 - 29 declared unfit for human habitation

 

ALBERT SQUARE; Between Blackfriars Street [directly opposite Highland Laddie Lane] and West Walls; so named on 1841 census and Asquith’s 1853 survey

1880 Directory 40 Blackfriars Street

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 36-40 Blackfriars Street

1934 Directory

 

ALBERT STREET Off Victoria Road; houses built 1852-54

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p 118; photo of street in 1905

CJ 28.05.1852 Finding of Roman remains in digging foundations

CP 07.02.1896 p5a Street first formed in a substantial manner by the Duke of Devonshire and his lessees about the year 1853 and public sewerage carried out 1854-5

CN 01.02.2008 p34 History of Albert House, Albert Street; built circa 1851-52

 

ALBERT TAVERN/ HOTEL Botchergate; in directories between 1855 - 1893/94; 1891 census Thomas Hilton, aged 30, innkeeper, bn Carlisle

 

ALBION HOTEL/ TAVERN Botchergate/ Portland Place; newly built February 1859; became the Border Rambler circa 1992/93

1861 Morris, Harrison and Co p42 Joseph Tiffin ‘Albion Hotel’

1891 census , John Pender, aged 30, hotel keeper, born Scotland

ENS 05.10.1916 Extensive alterations to be made

07.06.1917 re- opened

 

ALBION PLACE, Court Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 9 Court Street

1924 Directory listed between 9-11 Court Street

Carlisle Directory 1955-56 lists 2 properties here

 

ALBION WORKS; London Rd Brown, Tran and Co operated as a textile manufacturer on this site; previously called the Mains, it was later taken over by Bendall’s sheet metal manufacturing works [Linton Holme; a suburb of Carlisle by Marie Dickens p11-12]

 

ALDERMEN

A charter of the 9 Elizabeth states that it was agreed that the government of the city should be the mayor, with eleven worshipful persons of the city. That the mayor should not do any act without the assent of the majority of the eleven. The governing charter 13 Charles I, vested the election of mayor in the mayor, alderman, bailiffs and twenty-four capital citizens. He was to be elected from the aldermen. The office was annual and the election was to be on the Monday next after the Feast of St Michael the Archangel (29th September). The mayor got a yearly fee. The distinguishing mark of the Mayor of Carlisle is a white staff, which is carried to this day. When James 1st of England visited Carlisle on 4th and 5th August 1617 on his return south from Scotland he was greeted by the Mayor, Adam Robinson, who bore his white wand of office and twelve aldermen in their blue bonnets

 

ALDERSON, C.T. Confectioner and Pastrycook

Bridge St, Denton St, Lowther St, Brook St

CD 1903 - 03 Ad p286

CD 1905 - 06 Ad p7

CD 1907 - 08 Ad p80

CD 1913 - 14 Ad p62

CD 1920 Ad p236

 

ALDI

CN 02.07.1993 p3 Stores go - ahead angers residents

CN 24.03.2008 p5 Plan for second city store

CN 10.09.2010 p3 New Aldi store opens on London Road, site of former Cavaghan and Grey bakery

 

ALEXANDER STREET

David Thomson and his brother Alexander, plumbers and contractors, were extensive property owners, and Thomson Street, Alexander Street, Watson Street and Brook Street were built by them. [CN 05.07.1924 p15]

M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration p70 Photo of street circa 1930

City Minutes 1890-91 item 193 approval for laying out new street

City Minutes 28.04.1893 item 475 Approval for erection of 36 dwellings

 

ALEXANDRA ROSE DAY First held in Carlisle June 1914

CN 31.08.1973 p6

 

ALEXANDRA SAW MILL Byron St Founded in 1830 by Robert Creighton in Byron St and traded under the name of J&JR Creighton, after 100 years the company was sold to the forebears of current shareholders

Carlisle in Camera p46 Photo across saw mill

24.08.1929 Fire causes £25,000 worth of damage at saw mill

CN Industrial Supplement 14.04.1960 p6 2B 600

CN Review of Trade and Industry 19.12.1953 p2 1 BC 609

CJ 07.01.1937 p10 Local Trade

CD 1952 Ad p384

Cumberland Directory Ad p278

CD 1955 - 56 Ad p285

CD 1961 - 62 Ad p300

CD 1966 - 68 Ad p301

CN 24.06.2005 p20 Ad feature; Founded 1830 by Robert Creighton; 175 years old

CN 02.11.2012 p19 Closed on Wednesday with loss of 11 jobs

 

ALEXANDRE, Tailors of English Street

CJ 26.02.1965 p9 (illus) Rebuilt

 

ALEXANDROS Warwick Road

CN 09.01.2004 p 9 Review of Greek Restaurant

 

ALFRED COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 144 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 1142-144 Milbourne Street

 

ALFRED STREET, Off Warwick Road

So marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2; building lots for sale

2 South Alfred Street. Mary Smith lived and died here 09.01.1889. She was a women’s suffrage supporter, poet, teacher. See the Dictionary of National Biography for details of her life

 

ALGY'S CIRCUS, Botchergate, site of Palace Theatre; Mr Algie applied on 21.11.1900 for permission to erect temporary building of wood and corrugated iron; Circus remained on site until 31.05.1902; second circus constructed on corner of Collier Lane and Crown Street

CAIH p79 Illus of second circus

City Council Minutes 1903-04 p 401 1 year permission to continue on Collier Lane/ Crown St site

CN 03.06.1950 p4 CN 06.09.1957 p8 CN 13.09.1957 p10

CN 27.06.1958 p10 CN 22.01.1960 p10 CN 17.05.1974 p6

CN 07.06.1974 p6

CN 15.10.1982 p4 Algie’s Circus

CN 14.03.1986 p4 Algy's Circus

CN 29.12.1989 p4 Circus days popular with city

CN 12.01.1990 p4 Eye witness account of city circus

CN 16.05.1997 p10 How Mr Algie scooped the Royal Funeral

CN 08.07.2005 p6 Denis Perriam article on Algie, aka Albert Comley

 

ALICE COURT, Court Street [1931 Directory]

1880 Directory 1 Court Street

1924 Directory listed before no 1 Court Street

Carlisle Directory 1955-56 lists 2 properties here

 

ALICE’S WONDERLAND

CN 25.04.2008 p3 Toy museum opened in Long Lane

 

ALL BLACKS, New Zealand rugby team

CJ 28.10.1924 p5 'All Black' visit to Carlisle

 

ALLAN ESTATE AGENTS, Warwick Road

CN 10.02.2006 p14 Builders opens estate agency on Warwick Road

 

ALLAN,J.J. and SON, Wedding and Funeral Furnishers

58 Port Road

CD 1952 Ad p382

 

ALLEN SCHOOL OF DANCE

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p 109 Photo of Pat Allen in 1972

CN 26.08.1994 p10 Supplement

CN 02.09.1994 p7 School plans 65 year celebrations

CN 17.03.1995 p15 Stepping out to success

CN 23.06.1995 p9 illus What's got 160 legs...

CN 07.06.2002 p14 Wendy Allen School of Dancing; mother Pat Allen taught before her

CN 24.09.2004 p4 celebrates 80th anniversary next year

 

ALLEYGATES

CN 24.03.2006 p9 Alleygates; call for 100 locations in city to beat crime

CN 07.07.2006 p9 First alleys to get gates designated

CN 20.04.2007 p7 Alleygates scheme to reduce crime

CN 06.02.2009 p9 Crime goes up after alleygates installed

 

ALLIANCE BUILDING SOCIETY, Devonshire Street

CN 22.12.1972 p18 (illus) Opening

 

ALLIANCE INSURANCE LTD, Lowther Street north east corner with Lonsdale Street

D Perriam Lowther Street p43 Photo showing new corner entrance circa 1928

 

ALLIANCE PAPER

CN 27.07.1990 p14 ad

 

ALLIED SIGNALS see KANGOL

 

ALLINSON, W.H. Devonshire Street

CJ 01.05.1847 p2b Wine and spirit business of late W.H.Allinson for sale

1861 Morris, Harrison and Co p12 bought by Joseph Hope

 

ALLISON, E Tobacco and snuff manufacturer

1847 Steels guide to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Ad for Thomas Blacklock, successor to late E.Allison

 

ALLISON, John Shoemaker, aged 72, employing 4 men, home address Scotch St, born Bothel [1851 census]

 

ALLISON, R Market Place

Grocer

CJ 28.03.1818 p1c Advert

 

ALLOTMENTS

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p81 Allotments in Denton Holme

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p113-P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p106 By 1843 Messrs Peter Dixon and Sons of the Shaddongate Mills had set aside parcels of land in Shaddongate and Warwick Bridge for 130 of their workers. General Enclosure Act of 1845 made provision for allotments ‘for the purposes of exercise and recreation and for the labouring poor’. The 1908 Small Holdings and Allotments Act made local authorities responsible for the provision of allotments. One of these was to infill the disused reservoir on Harraby Hill, thereby creating 27 allotments for rent at 5 shillings per year

CJ 15.12.1893 reported on a meeting of the proposed Denton Holme Allotments ‘with a view to asserting the nature of the demand for garden allotments under the Act of 1887’.

CN 03.02.1917 p4

CJ 13.01.1939 p1 Allotments for Carlisle unemployed

CN 23.01.1954 p1 Lack of allotments at Harraby

CN 09.10.1998 p5 Allotments in line for an image make-over

CN 16.07.1999 p3 Gardeners on the barricade

CN 11.05.2001 p7 History of allotments

CN 06.07.2001 p3 Dispute over land near Dykes Terrace; petition supporting Compulsory Purchase

CN 10.08.2001 p5 Dykes Terrace row goes to the county court

CN 28.05.2004 p3 91 year old still digging at her allotment; plot since 1947 at St Aidan’s

 

ALL SEASONS HOME CARE

CN 02.04.2010 p19 Started 2005, now employs 25 people

 

ALMA INN Rickergate; in directories between 1858 - 1861

1861 census Mary Wren, victualler, aged 45, born Workington

 

ALMERYE HOLME

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

ALMOND,L and SON, Butcher

2 Botchergate

CD 1952 Ad p84

 

ALMSHOUSES ASSOCIATION

CN 10.08.1990 p3 (illus) Marking special day

 

ALPHA COURT, William Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 7 William Street

1924 Carlisle Directory lists before no 7 William Street

 

ALTERNATIVE, Lonsdale Street

CN 01.05.1987 p8 Ad feature

CN 28.04.1995 p19 Ad Feature

CN 22.04.2011 p15 Moves to Old Town Hall; run by Elaine and Tony Bell who started the business almost 30 years ago

 

ALTON STREET

1 - 27 Alton Street built by William C.Armstrong, 1858 - 1948. Built from the bricks salvaged from the demolished Potteries cottages. My grandfather informed me that the total cost of labour for each Alton Street house was £17, which would indicate that each house was constructed for under £100. Brought up at 25 Alton Street was Frank Sawyers, butler/ valet to Winston Churchill during World War Two [See 1911 census]

City Council Minutes 10.06.1881 Laying out of new street approved

City Council Minutes 1890-91 item 130 approval for laying out new street called Alton St

CN 16.02.2007 p68 Alton House for sale

 

AMALGAMATED FARMERS CUMBRIA

CN 18.01.1991 p5 Farm firm closing depot in cutback

CN 25.01.1991 p7 Depot's closure secrecy row

 

AMATO, Nicky Crosby Street

CN 14.02.2014 p8 Sicilian tailor retires

 

AMBER DRIVING TUITION

CN 16.03.2001 p16 Moves into premises in Cecil Street two years after forming

CN 05.12.2003 p 34 Julie Hendy and Sue Rymer partners

 

AMBROSE HOLMES

City Minutes 1932-33 p425 Footpath from Stoney Holme over Ambrose Holmes

 

AMBULANCE SERVICE 1909 Ambulance Service introduced as part of fire service

City Council Minutes vol XX, 18.12.1908 pp107-08 Resolved to provide horse ambulance

City Minutes 1909-10 p192 Horse ambulance arrived 17.09.1909; replaced by motor ambulance 30.12.1915, City Minutes 1915-16 p150

CJ 31.12.1915 p7 Motor ambulance for city. Body of it built by James Hodgson of West Walls

Memories of Carlisle, chapter 9 photo of two ambulances in 1948

CN 08.08.1958 p8

CJ 18.01.1881 p3 Ambulance carriages are provided for public use, one at Citadel Stn

CJ 25.01.1881 p2 Girl from Wetheral sent to House of Recovery by ambulance

CJ 24.09.1909 p5 New ambulance van completed for city by Messrs Whitfield and Howe

CN 27.10.1989 p7 Support call for ambulance crews

CN 10.11.1989 p5 Give 999 crews pay rise - MP

CN 10.11.1989 p12 A deserving cause

CN 24.11.1989 p1 Hopes rise in mercy dispute

CN 01.12.1989 p3 Mercy men pay dock protest

CN 29.12.1989 p3 Public back mercy crews with cash

CN 26.01.1990 p5 Mercy crews in bid for support

CN 02.02.1990 p6 Public join ambulance pay demo

CN 16.03.1990 p19 A high bill for dispute

CN 16.08.1991 pp1,10 A true angel of mercy

CN 01.05.1992 p5 More jobs on ambulances

CN 09.10.1992 p1 Green light for mercy service trust

CN 04.06.1993 p4 Early city ambulance was a gift

CN 01.07.1994 p3 Ambulances score low

CN 28.04.1995 p2 Mayor opens new ambulance HQ

CN 05.01.1996 p1 Ambulance staff busiest Christmas

CN 15.03.1996 p4 Mercy workers 20 years service rewarded

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p162 Photo of interior view of control room in 1997

CN 02.01 1998 p4 Business as usual at Christmas for the emergency teams

CN 02.01.1998 p11 Death and glory and a lot of TLC

CN 09.01.1998 p3 Ambulance plan sparks fear of trust take over

CN 28.01.2000 p3 MP demands extra cash for service

CN 04.02.2000 p9 999 crew’s roadshow

CN 11.02.2000 p9 On the roadshow to recovery

CN 29.09.2006 p19 Threat to move ambulance HQ from city to near Preston

 

AMERICAN CONSUL , in Carlisle

CN 25.08.1967 p10

 

AMERICAN FOOTBALL see Carlisle Kestrels

 

AMERICAN GOLF

CN 07.01.2005 p5 Golf shop to open on Botchergate on February 19th

 

ANCHORAGE CENTRE

CN 25.01.1991 p16 Anchorage is a haven

CN 03.05.1991 p11 Old folks centre plea

CN 12.07.2002 p13 Letter supporting the centre but fearing for the future of centre

CN 20.08.2010 p1 Serves last meal today before closure

 

ANCHOR HOUSING ASSOCIATION, Carlisle

CN 03.06.1977 p11 New flats

CN 20.05.2011 p3 Threatened closure of Edenvale House. Marlborough Gdns by Anchor

 

ANDERSON,E Auctioneer and appraiser

Devonshire St

Guide to Carlisle C178 Advert

CD 1880 Ad pvi

 

ANDERSON,E Builder and Contractor

St Nicholas Street

CD 1952 Ad 267

 

ANDERSON, Lisa Interior Design Studio

Whiteclosegate

CN 23.04.1999 p6 Ad

 

ANDERSON,T Butcher

10 Bridge St, 2 Balfour Road

CD 1952 Ad p87

 

ANDERSON, W.B. Wholesale fruit and potato merchants; firm founded in 1898 by brothers William and John Anderson; wholesale fruit and veg. business sold off to West Cumberland farmers in 1976, the property side of the business being retained by the family [CN 16.03.2007 p4 Obit of John Anderson]

77 West Walls

see Memories of Carlisle 2 BC 9 ,4pp

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection ; photo p13 West Walls warehouse

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p48 photo of office staff in 1952

CD 1952 Ad p298

 

ANDERSON'S, Timber merchants; prior to 1850 the business was in the hands of Messrs Thomas Walker and Co and from that date it was carried on by Messrs Armstrong and Graham until 1862 when it was sold to Mr James Graham. In 1870 Mr Thomas Anderson entered into partnership with Mr Graham who subsequently went to live in Newcastle and the business was in the hands of Thomas Anderson from 1885 - 1897 when he was joined by his eldest son Robert M. Anderson and in 1902 Mr Arthur W Anderson also became a partner in the business. 1904 great fire that gutted the whole saw mill [CJ 05.08.1932]

Denton Holme

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p42 photo of wood yard

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p68 Joiners and timber merchants

1901 Directory p897 Anderson and Sons, timber and slate merchants, Denton St

CJ 02.12.1913

CJ 03.10.1924 p7 Obit of Thomas Anderson

CN 17.09.1938 p18 Ad

CN 21.12.1973 p1 Merger

CN 10.04.1998 p7 Ad

CN 26.06.1998 p8 Ad

CN 14.04.1960 p6 Industrial Supplement 2B 600

CD 1952 Ad p385

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p280

CD 1955 - 56 Ad p286

CD 1961 - 62 Ad p300

CD 1966 - 68 Ad p30

CN 22.11.2013 p18 Sold by family to Magnet in the 1970s, then in 1996 sold to Maurice Barker and Vince Woods, all the time trading as Andersons. Business with showrooms in Dumfries, Kilmarnock and Stranraer employs 70 people. Traded as Andersons since 1888.

 

ANDREW MARVEL Botchergate; in directories 1847 - 1852;afterwards Golden Quoit [S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894- 1916 p77]

1847 Directory publican Isaac Newton; 21 Botchergate

CP 16.02.1850 p1 For sale; the Andrew Marvel

 

ANDREWS, Hesket 46 Sheffield St; Devonshire Buildings, Lowther St

Set up in business as a photographer in the city circa 1874. In May 1885 he moved to 108 Senhouse Street, Maryport. He died in Wigton 26.09.1894 [Ian Moonie Studio Photographers in Cumberland]

Carlisle an illustrated history p74; copy of photographer’s carte de visite

D Perriam Lowther Street p29 John Warwick, Hesket Andrews son in law, took over his Lowther Street studio until 1902

Cartes de visite noted with addresses 46 Sheffield Street and also Devonshire Buildings, Lowther Street, opposite the Post Office. 46 Sheffield Street was also the address of the photographer J.Warwick

Carte de visite noted J and W Dodgshon late H.Andrews

Slater’s 1876-77 Directory 46 Sheffield Street

1880 Directory 82 Lowther St, home 46 Sheffield St

1884 Carlisle Directory, photographer, 82 Lowther Street, res Scotch Street

 

ANDREWS COURT, Rickergate. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

ANDREWS COURT, 22 Castle Street [1880 Directory]

 

ANDREWS COURT, Studholme Lane [1880 Directory]

 

ANGEL INN, English Street; also called Bewsher’s; closed 1916

1634 Inne ye Angell in the Market Place ; Jefferson History of Carlisle p47, 1838

CJ 19.06.1802 Death of John Mulcaster landlord of the Angel Public House

CJ 17.11.1804p3 William Elliott Innkeeper

New guide to Carlisle p77 1821, John Mitchinson, Angel Inn, Castle St

CJ 19.03.1842 p3 plan showing the location of the Angel; conviction of the innkeeper, Mrs Christopherson, for arson. She intended to claim the insurance on the property and go to America. She pleaded guilty and was transported to Australia

CP 18.03.1843 p1 Aaron Martin opened above establishment

CJ 03.02.1844 Ad; anniversary of the opening of Angel Inn and London Tavern

CJ 08.10.1858 Angel Inn and London Tavern; ad Tom Fleming enters above Inn

CN 19.04.1974 p1 illus. of emblem; threatened demolition

CN 14.06.1974 p10 letter; history

ENS 03.07.1975 p5 Old inn demolished; inn burnt down in 1841

CN 06.12.1991 p4 A landlady who was no angel; Walter Brand stayed here in 1634

 

ANGLERS INN Shaddongate; in directories 1858 - 1913/14

1861 census Thomas Pollard, aged 39, publican, born Gaitsgill

ENS 02.11.1916 Closed October 1916

 

ANGLING ASSOCIATION,CARLISLE Inaugural meeting 17.12.1852

See E.Cave The Carlisle Angling Association B/CAR 799.1

Walter Graham Carlisle Angling Association; a 150th Anniversary. 2005

Carlisle Examiner 30.12.1858 p3c Annual meeting

Carlisle Examiner 12.03.1859 p2e Adjourned annual meeting of Carlisle Angling Association

 

ANGLING IN THE EDEN

CJ 28.08.1863 p6 The citizens rights

CJ 04.09.1863 p6

CJ 11.09.1863 p7

 

ANGLO-POLISH BALLET COMPANY

CJ 28.11.1944 p1 Visit to HM Theatre

 

ANGLO-RUSSIAN CIRCUS

CJ 30.01.1945 p1 Visit to Carlisle

 

ANGUS, J.C.

CN 23.05.2003 p8 Ad feature; plasterer

 

ANGUS,R.F. Cleaning services; established 1980

CN 20.07.1990 p8 Sweeping all before them

CN 16.06.2000 p19 Ad feature

 

ANGUS HOTEL Scotland Road

CN 03.10.2003 p61 For sale; 14 beds

CN 26.11.2004 p19 Sold to Martin and Rachel Perry by G.and E Webster

 

ANIMAL FRIENDS SOCIETY, Carlisle. In 1925 Alfred Brisco called an inaugural meeting of what was to become the Carlisle Animals Friends Society. When the Northern branch of the National Equine Defence League was founded the Animals Friends Society was incorporated with it. In 1936 Mr Brisco was elected to the League and later became director of the whole league

see also ANIMAL REFUGE, RSPCA, HORSE TROUGHS

 

ANIMAL REFUGE, Blackwell Road In 1964 the National Equine Defence League built home in Blackwell Road

CN 27.01.1967 p8

Cumbria 04/1978 pp37-38 illus

 

ANNABELLE’S Lowther Street; opened November 1986, formerly Citadel Tavern

ENS 04.07.1988 New boss of Carlisle nightspot says business as usual

 

ANNANDALE TILE CO

CN 18.01.1985 p24 illus

 

ANNE, Princess

CN 28.04.1972 (illus )Visit to Carlisle

CN 01.07.1983 p40 illus

 

ANNET SQUARE, Annetwell St So called in 1837, on voters list to 1946. So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19

1880 Directory 15 Annetwell Street

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 11-13 Annetwell Street

City Minutes 1928-9 p665 6 houses unfit for human habitation

 

ANNETWELL STREET

1540 Annottewell, probably the well formerly at the junction of Annetwell Street and Finkle Street, perhaps originating from St Ann’s Well

17.01.1799 Died Elizabeth Barnamont of Annetwell Street; Stanwix Parish registers

1877 Photo of west end; Carlisle in Camera 2 p4

CP 07.07.1832 records the death from the Cholera outbreak of Mrs Martha Clark, aged 42 and her daughter, Isabella, aged 8, both of Annetwell Street

CJ 12.01.1923 History

CN 07.09.1956 illus of about 1926

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p14 Two photos of street about 1961

CN 03.09.1971 p14 Derivation of name

CN 26.11.1971 p1 Married quarters

CN 03.12.1971 pp1,16 Married quarters

CN 06.04.1973 p6

CN 27.05.1994 p5 Sparks fly...crumbling bike shop

CN 03.06.1994 p3 City to foot study bill

 

ANNETWELL STREET CHAPEL In 1778 a small company of Scots resident in Carlisle invited the Associate Presbytery of Edinburgh’s Kelso Church to send to Carlisle a minister to preach, in 1780 the Rev Waugh was appointed as supply in Carlisle and in 1781 Lady Glenorchy purchased from the Rev Waugh a small chapel on Annetwell St; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city; between 1820 and 1835 the pastor at the chapel was the Rev Woodrow, maternal grandfather of the future President of the USA, Woodrow Wilson; 19.03.1843 congregation moved to Lowther Street; property taken over by John Blaylock, who manufactured ticket machines here; demolished between 1875-77 when occupied by Nicholson, china and glass merchants

see Lady Glenorchy and her churches 1 BC 285.5 p45

CWAAS 3rd series, Volume 4 pp 201 - 220

CJ 14.03.1818 p2d Annual meeting of Sunday Schools belonging to Annetwell Chapel

CJ 14.03.1818 p3b Comment concerning annual meeting - 400 children

CJ 31.05.1912

CN 12.05.1967 p12 illus

 

ANNIE OF EDENSIDE, Play by Charles Vynne

CN 23.09.1950 p5

 

ANNIES COURT, Saint Nicholas Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 9 St Nicholas Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 9-11 St Nicholas Street

 

ANNS PLACE, Princess Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 13 princess Street

 

ANN STREET, Newtown [1880 Directory]

So marked on Asquith’s map of 1853

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists two properties here

 

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

CN 08.06.2001 pp1,3 In Carlisle 06.06; £1 painting is worth £15,000

 

APPLES

CN 25.10.1996 p9 illus Hard-core apple lovers

 

APPLE TREE, Harraby Hill

CJ 27.08.1814 Gooseberry show at the house of Mr John Harding, sing of the Apple Tree

 

APPLE TREE Lowther Street; first time in local directories 1869; present building completed and opened May 1927, to designs of Harry Redfern; built by John Laing, joinery work J.H.Reed; Lena Brown and C.H.Lawrence have been doing mural paintings on the new model tavern, the Apple tree, the subjects are ‘The Gardens of Hesperides’ and ‘Atalanta’s Race’ [Carleola no 54, July 1930 p58]; renamed Pippins 1987/88

Carlisle the archive photos p53 photo of old pub managed by T and J Minns

Renaissance of the English Public House pp 63,64 layout plans; photo opp. p68

Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 pp123, 125, 128-32, 134 for illustrations

ENS 19.12.1960 p1 Gaoled for damaging two Carlisle pubs

CN 10.07.1992 p4 How Apple Tree has blossomed

CN 29.09.2000 p15 Pubs plans to demolish history; destruction of staircase

CN 15.03.2013 p15 Pippins reopens as Apple Tree after refit

 

APPLEYARDS GARAGE

see also Graham and Roberts

see also Dias

ENS 11.06.1968 p1 Merger with Graham and Roberts

CN 03.02.1978 p1 Merger with Dias

 

APPRENTICESHIP

CN 24.02.1951 p4 CN 03.03.1951 p5

 

APV MITCHELL see PRATCHITT BROTHERS; MITCHELL DRYERS

 

AQUARIUS HAIR FASHIONS, Peascod’s Lane

Roman and Medieval Carlisle; the northern Lanes, excavations 1978-82, vol 2. The medieval and post-medieval period. Page 14 Photo of advertising sign

 

ARCADES see BOTCHERGATE ARCADE, LOWTHER ARCADE

 

ARCADIA FLOWERS, Lowther Arcade

CD 1961 - 62 Ad p272

 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BRITISH see BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

 

ARCHAEOLOGY

See also Romans

CN 10.01.1975 p1 CN 30.05.1975 p1 CN 05.09.1975 p14 CN 07.04.1978 p5

CN 18.07.1953 (illus) Ancient Carlisle unearthed; Castle Street pre Elizabethan buildings

CN 15.10.1976 p1 Roman Wall

CN 18.03.1977 p1 Mediaeval

CN 13.05.1977 p1 Blackfriars Street

CN 03.06.1977 p1 Blackfriars Street

CN 15.07.1977 p1 Blackfriars Street

CN 23.09.1977 p10 Blackfriars Street

CN 28.10.1977 p11 Blackfriars Street

CN 07.04.1978 p5 Blackfriars Street

ENS 26.04.1978 (illus) Blackfriars dig; skeletons

CN 28.04.1978 p9 Lanes eventual redevelopment dig

CN 03.08.1979 p32 Lanes

CN 05.12.1981 p3 Tullie House site

Cumbria Vol 34 pp 400 - 401 Stanwix 1984

CN 06.01.1989 p5 Exciting find in city centre dig (gold coins)

CN 04.05.1990 p7 City find is unique in Roman history

CN 18.12.1992 p13 City dig; lucky strike finds iron age site

CN 23.01.1998 p12 Secrets that lurk beneath the Civic Centre

CN 08.09.2000 p1( illus)Roman Fort find on Castle Green

CN 08.09.2000 p13 Letter concerning possible destruction of site

 

ARCHBOLD, John Scotch Street

CP 02.07.1842 p1b Commencing business in gunmaking business

[not listed in 1858 Post Office Directory]

 

ARCHITECTS see ARCHITECTS PLUS; Daniel Birkett, Thomas Cox, Edward J. Dodgshun; Henry Higginson, John Hodgson; JOHNSON and WRIGHT; Matthew Johnstone; Paul Nixson; George Dale Oliver; Thomas Taylor Scott, James Stewart

CJ 21.08.1936 p8 Carlisle architects, Corry, CJ Ferguson, GD Oliver, T.Taylor-Scott. JH Martindale, M.Johnstone, G. Armstrong, H. Higginson, JW Benwell, W Scott-Nicholson, TG Charlton

 

ARCHITECTS PLUS

CN 19.08.1988 p2 Having designs of their own

CN 22.12.2000 p12 Four of staff made into associates

 

ARCHITECTURE see BUILDINGS; CIVIC TRUST

 

ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT, Carlisle Castle

See also Muniments

A Cumberland Record Office was the consequence of the Public Records Act of 1877. This led to the setting up of the County Records Committee. The Carlisle Journal in October 1880 reported that a new muniments room had been fitted up in the Nisi Prius Court and a large proportion of the public documents had been deposited there. There was however no paid staff. With the formation of Cumberland County Council in 1889 this responsibility passed to them. There was a £2,200 extension in 1910. In 1942 there was concern that these historic documents may fall to the present waste paper collection campaign. There was also the prospect of destruction by enemy action. This led to the appointment of the first County Archivist, Madelaine Elsas. In 1948 it was hoped that ‘Cumberland and Westmorland may soon be in a position to provide comparable facilities [to Lancashire] for the preservation of archives and for the comfort and convenience of historians who wish to study them.’ This did not happen until 1960 with a Joint Archives Committee and a move from the Citadel to the Castle took place [CN Section 2 29.09.2017 p15] 2011 new archive centre opened at Lady Gillford’s, Harraby

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle First Learning Centre; Tullie House p86-7

CN 10.12.1965 p8 CN 02.12.1966 p8 illus

Cumbria November 1977 pp457 - 458

CN 23.04.1993 p12 Today's events tomorrows history

CN 01.04.1994 p7 Inglewood's plea for historic 'raw materials'

CN 30.10.1998 p12 Digging up the family tree

CN 18.02.2005 p6 Possible transfer of Archives to Petteril Bank

CN 14.04.2006 p3 £4.79 grant to move to Lady Gillford’s at Petteril Bank

CN 09.01.2009 p7 Work on new archive centre to begin on 19th January

CN 16.01.2009 p10 First sod cut

CN 03.06.2011 p16 New archives Centre opens

CN 13.01.2012 p11 Official opening by Chris Bonington

 

AREA COURT, Crown Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 16 Crown Street

 

ARENA PUBLISHING COMPANY, Scotch Street

CN 30.07.1971 p30

 

ARGOS BUILDING on Lowther Street. Previously J.Dixon and Son, furnishers, and originally built for David Thomson. Architect of Art Deco building Mr Fawcett Martindale. These new premises were approved by the Health Committee on 22.07.1934

and opened as premises for the sanitary engineers, David Thomson, in April 1935. The external frontage of the building was rendered in cream, Snowcrete cement. Flagpost which is octagonal instead of the usual round pole

 

ARGYLL CINEMA, Harraby; opened 23 July 1956; closed 07.11.1959; building to be demolished on 08.12.2003

see also Cosmo

CJ 26.06.1958 CJ 04.11.1960 p7 CJ 09.02.1962 p6

CN 25.11.1955 being built

CN 20.07.1956 p8 Ad Argyll to open on 23rd July; ‘Carousel’ first film

CN 10.08.1956 Memories of early cinema in Carlisle triggered by opening of new cinema in Harraby

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News pp24,25 Interior view and view of queue of youngsters

ENS 03.09.1958 p2 illus

CN 06.11.1959 p1 Cinema to close due to lack of business

CJ 06.11.1959 p6 (illus) To close tomorrow evening

CN 21.10.1960 p7(illus) Converted to roller skating rink

CJ 05.06.1964 History of building

 

ARGYLL DRIVE, Harraby

CN 13.08.2004 p71 Ad for new houses on site of old Argyll Cinema

 

ARK PET STORE Wigton Road

CN 06.12.2002 p1 Owner fears his shop will be closed by City Council

CN 13.12.2002 p3 Pet shop can stay open; letter p13

 

ARMISTEAD, Christopher Grocer and provision dealer, aged 30, employing 4 men and 1 boy, born Lupton, Westmorland, home address Princess Street [1851 census]; Christopher Armistead, grocer, aged 47, employing 1 man and 3 boys, born Wigton, home address London Road [1861 census]

 

ARMISTICE DAY

CN 10.11.1978( illus) CJ 14.11.1939 p1

175 Years of Carlisle p51 Three photos of 1918 Armistice Day in city

CJ 12.11.1937 p1 (illus) Service

CJ 15.11.1938 pp1,5 (illus) Services in Carlisle

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p115 photo of 1966 service at Cenotaph

CN 11.11.1988 p4 Armistice Day at Cathedral

CN 28.10.1988 p4 Armistice brought paid holidays

CN 14.10.1988 p4 Poignant memories of Armistice Day

CN 17.11.1989 pp16-17 Poignant return to Flanders

CN 16.11.1990 p23 Crisis casts shadow over day

CN 18.11.1994 p6 Thumbs up for court poppies

CN 03.11.1995 p13 Appeal for silence

CN 10.11.1995 p1 Stores fall silent

CN 17.11.1995 p8 Nostalgic Armistice Day gift for Fred

CN 13.11.1998 p16 Armistice Day

CN 19.11.1999 p18 Big turnout

 

ARMS OF CARLISLE New arms for city drawn up and became official in September 1924; these are the present arms; the shield in the arms is surmounted by a mural crown which indicates that at one time Carlisle was a walled city; the red cross on the shield probably originated from the Carlisle family who bore these arms in feudal times; the red roses are almost certainly in honour of the Virgin Mary whose emblem is the red rose and to whom Carlisle Cathedral is dedicate; the wyverns supporting the shield shows the links between the Celts of Cumbria and those of Wales; the motto comes from Wolsey’s speech to Cromwell in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII

see K.Smith Carlisle pp 75-76

see also Motto

CWAAS OS Vol 6 pp1-14 Armourial Bearings of the City of Carlisle

Civic Affairs January 1961 pp 2,4 History 2BC 352

City Minutes 1922-23 p 525 City arms not officially registered; design of no authority; new arms

CN 23.04.1949 p5

CP 15.10.1880 (illus) Armourial bearings of the city of Carlisle

CJ 12.09.1924 City Arms

 

ARMSTRONG, Charles and John Builders; Victoria Hall , Clydesdale Bank , Morley Street Denton Holme Schools, Charlotte St Congregational Church, St Mary’s, St Paul’s and St John’s, LNWR goods shed, Caledonian Railway engine shed at Kingmoor, Midland Waggon repairing shops, restoration of nave of Cathedral, Caledonian bridges over the Caldew - all Carlisle

1851 census Charles Armstrong, house builder, aged 49, bn Dalston, home Chapel St

CJ 30.10.1857 p5 Charles Armstrong to be interred, died aged 56, 35 years in business

CJ 04.12.1857 p4d Charles and John Scott Armstrong succeed to business

1861 census Charles Armstrong, aged 28, builder, employing 13 men, born Carlisle

1863 Messrs C and J Armstrong awarded contract for excavating, brickwork and masonry on the new Fusehill Street Workhouse at a cost of £5,407;

CJ 11.11.1873 Contract for new Victoria Hall to Messrs C and J Armstrong 6,798 pounds

CJ 16.04.1886 p5 failure of business

CJ 30.04.1886 p6 Full report on business failure

CJ 11.05.1886 p2 Further report on failure of builders

CJ 17.09.1886 p7 Bankruptcy of Messrs Armstrong

CJ 15.10.1886 p6 On going bankruptcy

CJ 18.03.1887 Newfield Grange for sale modern mansion built by Mr Armstrong and at present in the occupation of Mr C Armstrong

CJ 08.04.1887 p1 Sale notice of Kingstown brickworks

CP 26.09.1890 Charles Armstrong fellow apprentice with Thomas Nelson in 1822

CJ 04.04.1916 p4f Death of Charles Armstrong; obit; firm founded 1820

CN 27.10.2000 p9 Brothers helped create Victorian Carlisle

 

ARMSTRONG, Edward Nailer employing 2 men, aged 64, born Penrith, home address Forge Green, James Street [1851 census]

 

ARMSTRONG, Etta Ladies outfitter

43 Bank St

CD 1955-56 Ad p270

CD 1961-62 Ad p290

 

ARMSTRONG, J.J. Garage

Denton Garage, Thomas St, Lancaster St

CJ 29.03.1963 pp6-7 illus

ENS 20.03.1963 pp12-13 Ad

CN 13.06.1952 p3 illus 2 seater coupe

CD 1952 Ad p335

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p258

 

ARMSTRONG, James Photographer

CJ 09.12.1864 On or after 3rd December inst, Mr Armstrong, portrait painter, of Aglionby, will attend in person daily at the Mechanics Institute, Fisher Street, to take carte de visites portraits and practice photography in all its branches

[ Still at the Mechanics Institute in March 1865 but on 6th July 1866, he announced that he was building a first class portrait gallery in Brampton. Ian Moonie Studio Photographers in Cumberland]

 

ARMSTRONG, John Grocer and confectioner, aged 40, home address Rickergate, born Carlisle [1861 census]

 

ARMSTRONG, John Electrical engineer

West Tower St

CD 1905-06 Ad p82

 

ARMSTRONG, Robert

CP 15.10.1825 p2 Entered into grocery business in Scotch Street, recently occupied by W.Bell

 

ARMSTRONG, Robert Silk Mercer

67 English St

Guide to Carlisle C 178 Ad p153

CD 1880 Ad p100

CD 1884-85 Ad p147

 

ARMSTRONG, Robert and Albert Denton St

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p23, description of fishmongers in 1930s

 

ARMSTRONG, T Church Street

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p 109 View of shop facade; painters and decorators, 1925

 

ARMSTRONG, Thomas 20 Lonsdale St, Belah and Moorville nurseries

1882 Porters Directory Ad p92 Nurseryman and fruit merchant

 

ARMSTRONG,Thomas Builder

CN 22.03.1991 p10 Tried and trusted

CN 28.03.1991 p16 ad

ENS 11.07.1963 p6 Ad

 

ARMSTRONG, Thomas and Co

M442 p5 Business card for whip and thong manufacturers

1841 census; Thomas Armstrong, whip manufacturer, West Walls

1851 census; Thomas Armstrong, whip manufacturer, 17 West Walls, aged 50, born Carlisle

CJ 31.12.1852 p3 Mr Armstrong’s whippery, West Walls, damaged by gales

 

ARMSTRONG,Tom and Son Fish and poultry dealer

42 Denton St

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p36

CD 1955-56 Ad p36

CD 1961-62 Ad p271

CD 1966-68 Ad p266

D.Perriam Denton Holme Photo p94

 

ARMSTRONG, W.T. Draper, aged 28, employing 2 apprentices, home address Irish Gates, born Carlisle [1861 census]

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC658.87

 

ARMSTRONG, Walter Joiner and builder

14 Botchergate

CD 1884-85 Ad p265

 

ARMSTRONG, William 17 King’s Arms Lane

1882 Porter’s Directory p134 Glass, chine and earthenware; late M.A.Baxter

 

ARMSTRONG AND HARGREAVES

CJ 15.03.1878 p8 Armstrong and Hargreaves; partnership dissolved by mutual consent. Woollen manufacturer, 31 West Walls

 

ARMSTRONG COURT Rickergate

CP 05.12.1873 p1d; ad, for sale 15 tenements, rooms etcs

 

ARMSTRONG’S COURT, 35 St Nicholas [1880 Directory]

City Minutes 1935-36 p181 Armstrong Court Lord Street, unfit for human habitation

 

ARMSTRONG’S LANE, 1 Willow Holme [1880 Directory]

Marked on Asquith’s map of 1853

 

ARMSTRONGS LANE, Rickergate. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

ARMSTRONG WATSON Accountants. Kenneth Sharp trained as a chartered accountant with his father’s firm James Watson and Son after WWII. In 1960 he was behind the merger of his firm with Armstrong Routledge and Co to form the basis of what is known today as Armstrong Watson [CN 05.06.2009 p4]. New premises opened on the Rosehill estate, 200 staff moving in in the middle of August 2023; staff being previously on three sites in the city. Inspirational signage declares ‘The standard you walk past is the standard you accept’

see Memories of Carlisle 2 BC 9 4pp

CN 19.02.1988 Ad feature pp14-15

CN 30.08.1991 p23 Firm on the move

CN 13.09.1991 p25 Accountancy firm expands

CN 23.06.2000 p16 New look for Armstrong Watson - dropping the ‘Co’

CN 12.10.2001 p14 Fined over audit delay

CN 11.07.2003 p18 Ranked as 28th largest accountancy firm in UK in survey

CN 05.06.2009 p4 Death of Sir Kenneth Sharp founder of accountants

 

ARMY APPRENTICES COLLEGE see HADRIAN'S CAMP

 

ARMY INFORMATION OFFICE Abbey St

ENS 25.11.1959 p1 Reopened

 

ARNWOOD HOUSE

ENS 28.03.1983 p2 Home for mentally handicapped former criminal refuge

 

ARRIVAL Clothes shop

Devonshire St

CN 05.02.1999 p1 (illus) Closing down

 

ARROL, Archibald and Sons Brewers

City Hall Buildings, Lowther Street

CD 1880 Ad pxxxvii

 

ARROYO ARMS Public House Harraby; opened 23.06.1958 by Major John Gibbon in the company of the Border Regiment; in memory of battle Arroyo des Molinos at which the 2nd Battalion of the 34th infantry regiment, later part of the Border Regiment, fought. During the battle the band of the 34th French Regiment along with their drums and drum major was taken prisoner. The Arroyo pub sign used to be a painted model of a drummer boy

CJ 13.08.1965 p1

CN 27.06.1958 p2 Opened

ENS 17.06.1971 p6 Drummer boy sign greets customers

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p134 Photo of pub sign

October 2007 Boarded up

 

ARROYO DAY see BORDER REGIMENT

 

ART

See Public Art

CN 22.01.1993 p4 Hunt for art

CN 24.03.1995 p3 Art boom

CN 31.03.1995 p3 £70,000 arts plan

CN 01.08.1997 p3 Lottery funding is just the ticket for arts projects

CN 11.06.1999 p27 (illus) Crowds stream to rail art show

 

ART COLLEGE see COLLEGE OF ART, ART SCHOOL

 

ART DECO BUILDINGS IN CITY; Lonsdale Cinema; SMT Garage on Viaduct; Electricity Works extension James Street best seen from Nelson Bridge, including that part of the extension on the bridge [with clock]; Woolworth buildings; Earl Grey pub in Botchergate [for details of steel tubular chairs, chrome doors...see Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 pp 162 - 165]; Coop on Cumwhinton Road, near junction with London Road; Argos building on Lowther Street [former David Thomson building; see architect F.Martindale]; facade of Marks and Spencer has Art Deco motifs; St Barnabas Church and Vicarage; Cavaghan and Grey building on London Road, at junction with Petteril Bank.

 

ART GALLERY see TULLIE HOUSE

 

ARTHUR, King and his association with Carlisle

Cumbria Sept 1959 p158

John Peel Jottings May 1960 no 18

Carlisle and Cumbria; Roman and Med. Architecture, Art and Archaeology; pp63-72

A. Wheatley King Arthur lives in Merry Carlisle

 

ARTHUR, James Bookseller, Rickergate

CP 09.01.1822; Storm and flood; two references to Mr Arthur being flooded out

1829 Directory p160

1835 comment by a traveller for A and C Black when subscribing for the seventh edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica ‘A NO man whose punctuality of payment is not much to be depended upon. Would give specimens to his canvassers to show about the country’ [Rafferty, K Hudson Scott, 1998 p11]

1847 Directory 28 Rickergate, booksellers

CN 02.01.2009 p26 James Arthur, bookseller; died 09.08.1877 aged 87; D.Perriam

 

ARTHUR, T.W. Printers

71-73 English St, 32 Rickergate

CD 1880 Ad pxxxii, xlvi, xxi, p282

1851 Ward’s Northern Directory; ad p22 28 Rickergate

1861 census Thomas Arthur, aged 33, bookseller and printer, employing 2 men and 8 boys, bn Carlisle

CD 1880 2nd last page advert for A. B Moss, successor to T.W.Arthur

 

ARTHUR STREET

City Minutes 1895-96 p 322 Approval for 25 houses

CN 27.05.1960 p13

 

ARTISANS DWELLINGS Broadguards, Caldewgate

Voters list 1891 - 1960

 

ARTISTS ACADEMY see FINKLE STREET ACADEMY OF ART; ART SCHOOL

 

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Magpie Inn built in Arts and Crafts style, See also Barn Close

D Perriam p95 Stanwix Ribbon development along Brampton Road had begun with these Arts and Crafts inspired house

 

ARTS CENTRE

CN 12.11.1970p1

 

ART SCHOOL

See also College of Art, Finkle Street Museum;

On 13.04.1832 Sir Robert Peel spoke in the House of Commons in connection with proposals to build a National Gallery

It is well known that our manufacturers are, in all matters connected with machinery, superior to all our foreign competitors but, in the pictorial designs, which are so important in recommending the productions of industry to the taste of the consumer, they are, unfortunately, not equally successful; and hence they have found themselves unequal to cope with their rivals

1836 official committee appointed to enquire into the best methods of applying art to industry. Free trade mentality meant that many manufacturers did not welcome ‘government interference’.

First school of design opened in Somerset in 1837. Other schools were opened in industrial towns and each received a grant of £250 from the government on condition that a similar sum was raised locally

1851 Great Exhibition and resurgence of interest in art. V and A established in 1854

The government realised that manufacturers weren’t supporting the Schools of Design and reorganised them, renaming them Schools of Art, no longer restricted to teaching design to manufacturers but thrown open to anyone who wanted an artistic education, although the government hoped they would appeal primarily to artisans. The manufacturers supported them no more than before.

1854 a School of Art opened in Carlisle. Right from the start the Carlisle School was under financed, the initial subscription list for £100 only raising £90. Premises were found in the Finkle Street Academy and the following course offered

Linear geometry, elementary mechanical drawing, linear perspective

Freehand outline, from copies and from casts

Drawing the human figure, from flat examples

Drawing flowers and foliage etc from nature

Elementary painting, from flat examples,

Outlines of figures, from the cast

The figure shaded, from the cast

Ornament painted in monochrome

Ornament painted in colour

Figures painted from casts

Artistic anatomy and Laws of colour

 

The school had an average attendance of 59 students, mainly artisans who attended in the evening [Mon at a charge of 2 shillings per month]. Morning classes from 9-11 were charged at 9 shillings per month for males [Mon, Wed, Thursday] and 4 shillings per month for females [Mon, Wed, Thurs 11-1pm]. The school was quickly in debt to the tune of £110, in 1858 the debt stood at £98. The financial difficulties of the Carlisle School of Art were typical of the state of the majority of the provincial schools. South Kensington School was run on a comparatively lavish scale. There was resentment that South Kensington’s twelve masters taught five hundred students whilst the ninety provincial schools had ninety-two masters who taught 10,000 students in the Central Schools alone; the majority of these were artisans, not middle class paying students. From 1854-1864 grants totalling £1,100,000 had been given to the Department of Art and it looked to the provincial schools as though South Kensington, with its wealthy students, was getting more than its fair share of the grant. The man who investigated these matters was Edmund Potter, MP for Carlisle, a calico manufacturer and author of Essays on Calico Printing. He proved that South Kensington was receiving a disproportionate amount of the grant and the provincial schools had badly treated. A report in 1864 recommended the separation of the grant to provisional schools from that of South Kensington

An agreement was reached in June 1869 with the School of Art for a 5 year lease of the Mechanics Hall in Fisher Street; since January 1894 School of Art transferred to Tullie House; September 1894 Sciences Classes commence in Tullie House. 1950 School of Art moved to Homeacres

See CAIH p51

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House pp44

See also Finkle Street Academy of Art; College of Art

CJ 24.03.1854 Meeting for the establishment of a School of Art

18.05.1854 committee was to make arrangements with the proprietor for taking the Academy of Art in Finkle Street

11.08.1854 Resolved that Alfred Newton Brooke be appointed master of the school

Carlisle Express 03.11.1856 letter asking What has become of the School of Art

29.12.1857 Herbert Lees appointed art master. He took them to Fisher Street [Mechanics Hall] and eventually Tullie House

Carlisle Examiner 09.11.1858 p2f Annual meeting of subscribers

Carlisle Examiner 16.04.1859 p3d Carlisle School of Art; Finkle Street Exhibition

Carlisle Examiner 03.12.1859 p2d Carlisle School of Art; annual meeting of subscribers

Carlisle Examiner 08.10.1859 p2d Carlisle School of Art; annual distribution of medals

CJ 18.12.1863 p6 Annual meeting

CJ 26.01.1864 p2 Government grants

CJ 29.01.1864 p4 Government grants

CJ 24.11.1865 p5 Annual meeting

CJ 28.11.1865 p3 Exhibition of work

CJ 05.08.1870 ‘On Monday night students assembled in their new quarters for the first time which offered ventilation and space in which to pursue their studies, which in the limited area of the old academy in Finkle Street they did not enjoy’.

City Minutes 1928-9 p596 present accommodation of Art School in Tullie House; proposals

CJ 05.09.1941 p5 In Tullie House

CN 21.06.1985 p4 Early history

CN 26.03.1999 p9 Long struggle for Art College

 

ASBESTOS

CN 13.06.2003 p1 Discovery of asbestos at Cumbria Industries for Disabled closes factory

CN 11.11.2005 p5 Legal action over death linked with exposure to asbestos

CN 25.07.2008 p1 Asbestos fear in ex council houses

CN 24.08.2012 p1 Tesco Viaduct store closes for refurbishment and removal of asbestos

 

ASBRIDGE,W and Son Devonshire Walk

Plumbers

CD 1952 Ad p355

 

ASCENSION DAY A major occasion for the city. The Chamberlains and Guilds accounts show that the celebration focused on a circuit of local boundaries. All occupations joined the mayor and corporation in a riding of the boundaries of Kingmoor. From 1593 to 1635 payments are frequently entered for entertainment on this day, variously the trumpeters, waits, musicians, a fool, a fiddler, a juggler [Records of Early English Drama; Cumberland, Westmorland and Gloucestershire, 1986 p26]

CPacquet 16.05.1809 p3 Ascension day in city; band and colours of guilds proceed to Kingmoor

CP 08.05.1819 p2c Ad Ascension Day breakfast, races at Kingmoor

CP 22.05.1819 p3 b Half column description of Ascension day celebrations

CP 02.06.1821 p3d Ascension Day celebrations; Carlisle Freeman’s day

CJ 12.05.1950 p5 Procession of guildsmen

CN 20.05.1977 p6 Guilded festivals

 

ASDA STORE Opened 16.03.1987

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p54 Photo of exterior

CN 26.09.1975 p1 CN 21.11.1975 p8 CN 04.12.1981 p21

CN 06.11.1981 p9 CN 20.11.1981 p1 CN 29.09.1981 p7

CN18.09.1981 p1

ENS 04.03.1987 p10 Set to go

CN 06.03.1987 p1, Ad 13

CN 13.03.1987 supplement

CN 09.07.1993 p25 Superstores £3m vamp

CN 24.09.1993 p15 Superstores £3m new look

CN 29.07.1994 p18 ASDA - where customers always come first

CN 31.05.1996 p4 ASDA's smart scheme to cut down on crime

CN 07.05.1999 p12 Staff shares windfall

CN 25.06.1999 p3 Wal Mart

CN 18.01.2002 p3 Asda and Tesco plan extensions to stores

CN 09.08.2002 p3 £1m revamp brings 70 jobs

CN 12.07.2013 p7 New store on London Road opens Monday

 

ASHBURNER, T.W. and B Grocers, 5a West Tower Street [where Tyson’s electrical store is, 2009]

CN 03.02.1945 Obit of Banks Ashburner, aged 72, grocer and provision merchant. In 1895 he joined his brother, Tom Wills Ashburner, in the West Tower Street business where he remained until 1941. Bank’s two sons, Tom and Banks junior, carried on the business after Banks senior’s death. Tom died in August 1969 and the business closed a few months later [details from a family member]

 

ASH HOUSE, Port Road [opposite infirmary Road, today [2023] numbered 9 Newtown Road. It also bears the name Ash House above the front door.

Marked on the 50 inch 1860s OS map of Carlisle opposite Infirmary Street

CJ 21.12.1860 Died James Bell, son of Isaac Bell, 27 at Ash House

1861 census; Isaac Bell, timber merchant, aged 55, bn Walton

Examiner 27.04.1867 Ash House to let. Recently completed by the late Isaac Bell, drawing room, dining room, breakfast room, five bedrooms and attic, bath room, kitchen, laundry and wash-house, coach house and stable and other out-offices together with a large kitchen garden and pleasure grounds, with or without about 2 acres of grass land.

Carlisle Express and Examiner 20.09.1879 Theft from the garden of Ash House 3 stones 11lbs of potatoes valued at 2s6d from the garden at Ash House of the Rev A Edwards

1871 census William Miller, engaged in commerce

1881 census David Burns, mechanical and mining engineer

Slater’s 1884 Directory John Errington, solicitor

1891 census David Burns, mechanical and mining engineer

1901 census lists 1 Ash House, John Sinton and 2 Ash House John Reed

1911 census John Rood is at 3 Ash Terrace. The terrace has not expanded

 

ASH LEA, Harraby

CJ 14.04.1939 p13 Death of Mary, eldest daughter of Samuel Boustead, died on the 11th

 

ASH LEA STREET INFANTS/ BOYS/ GIRLS SCHOOL Ash Lea Street Infants School opened 08.04.1890; Ash Lea Street Boys School opened 13.05.1895; Ash Lea Street Girls School opened 07.10.1895; Infants School closed 01.09.1988

Margaret Forster Hidden Lives p130 Margaret Forster was a pupil at the infants school in the 1939. The playground was a concrete square, the lavatories were the same kind of freezing outside horrors shared still by all the board schools, but things inside had changed. The infants’ reception class was big and light and it had a chair-swing suspended from the beams of the ceiling and a small see-saw and sandpit, and bright pictures on the cheerfully painted walls. But it was the books Margaret seized on, many of them, picture-books with easy words, too easy

 

ASH LEA SECONDARY SCHOOL

Memories of Carlisle, Chapter 5 Photo of 1959-60 football team

CN 05.07.1968 p1 (Illus) Closing

 

ASHLEA VETERINARY CENTRE Ashley St and Port Rd

CN 03.07.1998 p13 Ad feature new premises

CN 26.07.2002 p5 Sex discrimination claim

CN 02.08.2002 p6 Practice denies discrimination claim

CN 06.12.2002 p14 Employees sex discrimination claim dismissed.

 

ASHLEY STREET

City Council minutes 25.02.1887 19/983 Approval for laying out Ashley Street

City Council minutes 25.03.1887 20/016 approval for 4 houses in Ashley Street

 

ASHLEY STREET SCHOOL see ASH LEA STREET SCHOOL

 

ASHMAN CLOSE On electoral register from 1998-9, Alan Ashman was a former manager of Carlisle United

 

ASH TERRACE, Newtown Road see ASH HOUSE

 

ASHTON, Joseph George Street

Hat manufactory

CJ 10.06.1826 p2b Manufactory to be let

Woods 1821 Map of Carlisle marks Mr Ashtons Hattery at the head of George Street

 

ASKINS and LITTLE Stonemasons

CN 29.04.2005 p39 Profile of partner John Little

CN 14.06.2013 p24 Firm established 2000, employs 15 men

 

ASQUITH’S MAP OF CARLISLE see MAPS

 

ASSIZES

Abolished in December 1971 to become Crown Court; Judges from the central court went on a circuit throughout the country; serious crimes were dealt with at these courts

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 6 Some Assize Memories pp 60-68

CWAAS ns Vol 61 Sir John Clerk; a journey to Carlye and Penrith in 1731. Long description of the Assize judges arriving in the city’ First rode about one hundred and twenty of the High Sheriff’s men, clad in a light blew livery with little picks in their hands’. Next came the High Sheriff’s coach and in it the two judges. The judges were Mr Justice Denton and Mr Justice Probine. Description of the services, prayers and anthems in the Cathedral. The judges were seated next to the Bishop, and were in their robes of scarlet. They had long full bottome’d periwigs. this, they suppose, adds a great deal to their gravity, tho’ if the thing be well considered it seems pretty odd that the judges should think themselves ornamented by long haires of a woman, and who was perhaps likewise a whore to the bargain. The criminals for that day were two horse-stealers, and one for the assisting in the murder of a new born child. There were likewise two or three more for small thefts. The horse stealers were one Patricksone and one Trueman. The sum of the evidence was that they had stolen horses, and the first both a cowe and a horse tho’ he had been indeited for the like crime a year before and had been burnt in the hand. This Patricksone, it seems, was an old sinner about seventy years. The other a young fellowe but a notorious rogue. No lawyers spoke for them for it seems they are not admitted or will not be employed this way. All the account they gave of themselves and their stolen horses was that they had bought them from others. The judge sum’d up the evidence in a few words and gave his opinion that the prisoners were guilty, so the jury return’d them accordingly. The fellows were damped on this verdict but I believe they expected no better quarters. They were carried from the bar into a little room near by and keapt there till some others were tried when they were brought into the court again and received sentence of death. The judge finished his speech; ‘Nothing remains for me to doe but to pronounce a dreadful sentence against you which is that you be taken to the place from whence you came , and thence to be carried to the place of execution where ye are both to be hanged by the necks till ye dye, and the Lord have mercy on your souls. The child murder case was dismissed as all the evidence the judge said was hearsay

02.08.1681 Guns fired for judges coming CWAAS OS Vol 13 p192

15.08.1682 Guns fired for judges coming CWAAS OS Vol 13 p192

14.08.1683 Guns fired for the judges coming CWAAS OS Vol 13 p192

06.08.1684 Judges received with 15 guns; Bishop Nicolson’s Diaries; CWAAS ns vol 1, 1901 p15

CWAAS ns vol 61, 1961 pp 223 - 237 Description of Assizes in 1731 in Carlisle [see above]

CPacquet 13.08.1782 p2 Report on Carlisle Assize

CJ 08.08.1807 p3,b,c, Cumberland Assizes

CJ 27.08.1808 p3 Cumberland Assize

CJ 03.09.1808 p3 Cumberland Assize

CPacquet 01.08.1809 p2d Prisoners sent for trial before Sir Alan Chambre

CP 08.08.1809 p2 Lunch and procession to meet judge

CJ 08.09.1810 p3 Summer Assizes

CJ 31.08.1811 p4 Cumberland Assize

CJ 07.09.1811 p4 Cumberland Assize

CJ 27.08.1814 p4 Cumberland Assize

CP 15.08.1818 p3 Carlisle Assizes

CP 04.09.1819 pp1,4 Carlisle Assizes

CP 03.03.1821 p2 Spring Assizes

CP 01.09.1821 p2f,p3 Cumberland Assizes open

CJ 09.03.1822 p2a-e Spring Assizes

CJ 11.03.1826 p4 a-e Spring Assizes

CJ 05.08.1826 p2d-f,3a-d,4 b-f Summer Assizes

1829 Spring and Autumn Assizes , about second week of March and third week of August

CP 11.08.1832 CJ 11.08.1832

CJ 14.03.1835 p4 Spring Assizes

CJ 03.08.1839 p2f Cumberland Assizes

CJ 10.08.1839 p3f-h,p4a-d Cumberland Assizes

20.02.1841 Cumberland Assize

19.07.1842 Midsummer Assizes

CP 17.03.1843 Spring Assize

05.08.1844 Cumberland Assize

21.02.1846 Cumberland Assize

CJ 27.02.1847 p4a-h Cumberland Lent Assizes

CJ 07.08.1847 pp2,3,4, Cumberland Assizes

CP 12.08.1848 Supp p3 Summer Assizes

CP 03.08.1850 p3 Summer Assizes

CP 09.08.1851 p2 Summer Assizes

CP 06.08.1853 p5 Cumberland Assizes

CP 11.08.1855 p5 Summer Assizes

CP 09.08.1856 p5 Summer Assizes

CP 02.03.1861 p6 Spring Assizes

CP 25.02.1865 p7 Spring Assizes

CP 24.07.1868 p6 Summer Assizes

CP 23.07.1869 p7 Cumberland Assizes

CP 21.02.1873 p6 Cumberland Assizes

CP 23.02.1877 p6 Assizes

CP 29.06.1877 p6 Carlisle Assizes

CP 15.03.1878 p6 Spring Assizes

CJ 13.04.1880 p2 Assizes

CJ 29.10.1880 p5 Winter Assizes

CP 04.11.1881 p6 Autumn Assizes

CP 21.04.1882 p6 Carlisle Assizes

CP 18.01.1884 p6 Carlisle Assizes

CJ 17.04.1885 p17 Spring Assizes

CP 22.04.1887 p6 Carlisle Assizes

CP 08.07.1887 p6 Carlisle assizes

CJ 10.07.1888 p 5 Summer Assizes

ECN 24.11.1888 p6a-c Carlisle Assizes

CP 04.03.1892 p6 Assizes

CP 11.03.1892 p7 Assizes

CP 08.07.1892 p3 Carlisle Assizes

CP 15.07.1892 p3 Carlisle Assizes

CP 18.11.1892 p6 Winter Assizes

CP 19.02.1897 p7a-c Carlisle Assizes

CP 02.07.1897 p5c,d Carlisle Assizes

CP 09.07.1897 p7a-c Carlisle Assizes

CP 05.11.1897 p7g Winter Assize

1912 Winter Assizes 25.01.1912

CJ 21.01.1913 Assizes

CJ 06.06.1913 Assizes

CN 05.06.1920 p11 Summer Assizes for Cumberland

CN 30.09.1955 p10 (illus) 1914 Assize

CN 07.10.1955 p10 (illus) 1915 Assize - first in motorcar

CN 21.10.1966 p12 (illus)

CN 24.09.1971 p19

CN 08.10.1971 p8 (illus) Last Assize

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p162 interior photo of last Assize Court

 

ASSOCIATED NETWORK ENGINEERS Kingmoor Park

Computing

CN 10.11.2000 p14 Kingmoor arrival

 

ASSOCIATION OF THE READING OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AMONG THE BLIND Established by Miss M.Graham in 1856

 

ASTHMA

CN 05.09.1997 p5 (illus) Parents launch appeal fund to honour memory of Abbe

 

ASTI, D Bridge St

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p92 Photo of ice cream seller

 

ASYLUM CLOSE

Carlisle Examiner 27.12.1862 p1 Gosling Estate with land called Asylum Close

 

ATHENAEUM Lowther Street The Mechanics’ Institute had promoted the building of the Athenaeum but had to hand responsibility for its construction to a limited company of businessmen who raised the cost by public subscription. Opened 28.04.1840; designed by Arthur and George Williams of Liverpool; facade built of white stone from the Prudhoe quarries; contained large lecture room capable of seating 1,000 people, a spacious exhibition room and a concert room lighted from the top and hung with six chandeliers. Another spacious room contained the museum, there were also two rooms occupied by the Mechanics Institute as a library and School of Design. Bought on 14.04.1845 by George Head Head as an act of philanthropy to preserve it for public use. Until 1851 it was the home of the Mechanics Institute and Library; inside remodelled into extension for adjacent General Post Office which opened on 26.01.1874; inside designed by J.H.Martindale and opened as Savings Bank 09.07.1929; interior entirely gutted 1988; 2004 home of Lloyds TSB Bank. Today 2022 Lloyds Bank

see Mannix and Whellan 1847 Directory p140

see Carlisle an illustrated history p76 engraving of exterior

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House pp42-43

see also Trustees Savings Bank, Post Office

04.08.1838 Newspaper invited tenders for the ‘New public building’

CPacquet 18.09.1838 scheme at a standstill for want of money

CJ 02.02.1839 Records death of Thomas Aikin, contractor, who was constructing this building

CJ 02.05.1840 Building approaching completion

CJ 18.01.1845 Part of roof gave way in August

CJ 22.03.1845 Offering it for sale on the 14th April

CJ 14.05.1852 Advert for the sale of Rev Attree’s furniture in the saleroom

CP 07.01.1854 p1 Mrs Thurnam exhibits at Athenaeum 3 painting by John Martin

December 1861 Charles Dickens gave reading over two night in Athenaeum

CJ 12.07.1872 City Surveyor to make arrangements for the removal of the museum from the Athenaeum

CN 12.02.1960 p10 (Illus)

CN 14.04.1995 p12 150 years (up for sale)

CN 05.03.1999 p13 (illus) Carlisle Athenaeum

 

ATHLETICS TRACK; SHEEPMOUNT see Sheepmount Running Track

 

ATKIN, Thomas Eden Place

D Perriam p41 Builder, brickmaker and bricklayer Thomas Atkin of Etterby Street built a terrace of houses called Eden Place circa 1836

M442 p16 Business receipt for builder and dealer in bricks

1834 Pigot’s Directory; Thomas Atkin, Stanwix, builders and brickmakers

 

ATKINSON and DAVIDSON Coach builders established in 1869 by James Atkinson

Cathedral Court, Castle Street

Established by Alderman James Atkinson in 1869 and the third generation of the firm was running it in 1959. Main job building and repairing road vehicle bodies; first for horse drawn conveyances to horseless carriages, charabancs, buses, cars and trucks. James Atkinson died 21.05.1905 [MI 28/38]. He was apprenticed as a coach builder to Messrs W and J Proud. He and his brother in law W Davidson commenced business in Lewthwaites Lane, they then moved to Lowther Street and finally to Castle Street. A fire destroyed the premises which were then rebuilt. Upon the death of Mr Davidson on 16.10.1900 [MI 35/60] the business was carried out by Mr Atkinson and two of his sons.

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered p115

Carlisle in Picture Postcards view 35; photo of facade

CJ 05.02.1869 p4 Advert have taken premises lately occupied by Haughton and Thompson, Lewthwaite Lane

CJ 08.04.1870 p5 Ad various conveyances repaired

Evening Journal 09.08.1870 p4 Ad New Coach Building Establishment

CJ 20.01.1871 p5 Notice of removal from Lewthwaite Lane to 8 Lowther St

D Perriam Lowther Street p36 illus of their Lowther Street works

Ca/E4/1688 CRO New premises Castle Street for Atkinson and Davidson

CJ 17.03.1882 p2 Move from Lowther Street to Castle Street

CJ 30.06.1885 Fire at premises; Ad concerning reopening and details of fire

CN 03.08.1894 p5 Large order for a Parisian firm; Governess Cars

CJ 13.11.1896 p8 Ad; partnership between James Atkinson and William Davidson dissolved

CJ 23.05.1905 p5 James Atkinson, coachbuilder, died aged 60. History of firm

CJ 16.03.1906 p1 Sale of carriages occasioned by the death of James Atkinson

CJ 27.06.1905 p5 Will of James Atkinson, coachbuilder, £15, 461

CJ 07.05.1920 p7 Devonshire House School; sold to client. The house at one time town house of Joseph Ferguson MP and his son J.C.Ferguson, from whose representatives it was purchased by the late Messrs Atkinson and Davidson, coachbuilders

CN 29.12.1967 p8

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p261

CD 1955-56 Ad p260

 

ATKINSON, RITSON and LIGHTFOOT

CN 22.05.1992 p1 Law firms merge

CN 03.04.2009 p4 David Ward retires from Atkinson Ritson. He joined Hartson and Atkinson in 1959 and became a partner in Atkinson and North

 

ATKINSON and WOOD English St

General drapers, Ladies and Gents Tailors

CN 09.11.1956 p10

CD 1893-94 Ad p86

CD 1913-14 Ad p6

CD 1920 Ad p316

CD 1924 Ad p253

 

ATKINSON, Amos Shoe Shop English Street

see also LANES collapse of building in 1978

CN 06.03.1970 p9 (illus)

CN 23.03.1978 p32 Atkinson’s shop will have to be demolished after collapse of shop next door

 

ATKINSON,H West Tower Street

Plumber, Gas fitter, Glazier

CD 1905-06 Ad p82

CD 1907-08 Ad p129

CD 1910-11 Ad p98

CD 1913-14 Ad p62

 

ATKINSON, James, Lewthaite’s Lane, Scotch Street see ATKINSON AND DAVIDSON

 

ATKINSON,Jas Town Hall

Drapery

1858 Carlisle Directory Ad at back for James Atkinson, under the Town Hall Clock, tailor

CD 1880 Ad pxlix

CP 18.11.1892 p3c Bankruptcy of James Atkinson, 49 English Street

 

ATKINSON, James and Co Brewers; Bailey’s Northern Directory 1781 and 1784

 

ATKINSON, M

1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p 120 M.Atkinson and Co, Milliners, Rickergate

M442 p33 Ad for hat manufacturer

 

ATKINSON, Samuel Attorney at Law; Bailey’s Northern Directory 1784

 

ATKINSON, William Painter, aged 41, employing 13 men, home address Abbey Street, born Carlisle [1851 census]

 

ATKINSON CRESCENT Harraby; named after counsellor Herbert Atkinson

Voters list from 1946-47 on

 

ATKINSON’S COURT Abbey Street

Where the Carlisle artist Sam Bough was born on 8th January 1822. The house, an unpretending abode, stood immediately west of the street, in a small courtyard, entrance to which was gained by an arched gateway. The house has since been pulled down, but a tablet in the Abbey Street wall indicates the birthplace of the artist

Carlisle; Archival photographs p44 photo

1880 Directory 14 Abbey Street

 

ATKINSON’S COURT, King Street

1880 Directory 48 King Street

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 50-52 King Street

City Minutes 1934-5 p59 1,2 and 3 declared unfit for human habitation

 

ATKINSON’S COURT, 52 King Street [1880 Directory]

 

ATKINSONS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 54 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 52-54 Milbourne Street

 

ATKINSONS COURT, William Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 1 William street

1924 Carlisle Directory lists before no 7 William Street

 

ATKINSON’S OF BOTCHERBY Market gardener who specialised in rhubarb; garden just on north side of the Magpie, now new housing [Cumbria Gardens Trust, Occasional Papers Vol 2, 2004, pp 50-51

 

ATKINSON’S SQUARE King Street

1924 Carlisle Directory Listed between 38-40 King Street

City Minutes 1934-5 p59 1,2 ,3, 4, 5, and 6 declared unfit for human habitation

 

ATKINSON’S TANNERY; Irish Damside

CJ 23.04.1875 Progress of Carlisle railway works; demolition of Mr Atkinson’s tannery planned

 

ATLANTIS (RUMBELOWS)

CN 15.11.1991 Ad p13

 

ATLAS FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CO Scotch St

CD 1880 Ad piii

 

ATLAS HALL Corner of Denton Street and Lorne Street

Demolished 1966; originally a chapel built circa 1881 for 250 people

D.Perriam Denton Holme p42 Plans for the Denton Street Christian Mission House were submitted to the City Council in 1872. Previously this group of Christians had met in Fisher Street. Details of the opening service were given in the Carlisle Express in November 1872. As the Church of Christ, the Denton Street chapel was advertised in the North Cumberland Reformer in December 1893. This was in advance of this sect building a new church on the corner of Grey Street and Edward Street, the later Elim Church. The Carlisle Journal in May 1912 explains in an editorial that Messrs RR Buck and Sons had extended both at Nelson Street ‘and the old chapel at the corner of Lorne Street...turned by the firm to industrial uses’. In October 1921 local press reported that the building had not been used for religious purposes for 10 years and during the war was a parcel packing depot for the Citizens League. It was to be ‘converted into a recreational hall for Atlas Works by Messrs Buck’ and was to be renamed the Atlas Hall’. The Carlisle Journal in May 1939 stated that the hall had ‘been acquired by the Unitarian body’, their chapel being dedicated in the Autumn. The Unitarians ceased to meet there in 1956 and the city minutes for March 1957 show a change of use from church hall to workshop for G Gillieran; then in March 1958 a further change from workshop to warehouse for Eden Wholesale Suppliers. Demolished 1966

 

ATLAS WORKS Denton Holme

see BUCKS

Denton Holme D.Perriam pp18-19, Atlas Works

Atlas Works built in 1877 by cotton manufacturer John Thomlinson; Grammar Sch Memorial Register p119

CP 22.03.1878 Building in Carlisle; new mill in Nelson Street near completion

CN 13.12.1991 p5 Business enticed by rent free premises

CN 14.02.1997 p4 Trip to jungle - Dan Russell

 

AUCTIONEER, The Restaurant/pub

Rosehill

CN 14.05.1993 p6 Ad

CN 27.06.1997 p9 Restaurant expands to beat the queues

CN 26.09.2003 p8 Ad Feature; opened 1974

 

AUCTION MART see BORDERWAY MART; HARRISON,Robert; HARRISON AND HETHERINGTON;HETHERINGTONS; TELFORD, Edward; ROSEHILL

 

AUCTIONS

CN 29.11.1996 p8 Auctions firm hopes to build new salesroom

CN 28.11.1997 p3 Dr Johnson comes to the aid of the hospice

 

AU PAIRS

CN 14 .02.1997 p8 My life as an au pair in the USA

 

AUSTIN, Henry Photographer

Henry Austin 1891-1903 born Cheltenham and ont he 1891 census was on Kells Place. He was still taking photos in 1895

 

AUSTIN,J Agricultural mart, Botchergate

CD 1937 Ad p280

 

AUSTIN FRIARS - Nazareth House; run as orphanage for children of both sexes aged between 2 months and 14 years, by Poor Sisters of Nazareth from 1925 until property sold to Augustinian Friars in 1951

See ‘It Isn’t Always Raining ‘ by S.Gray-Wilson, 2000 1A362.715

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen p54 Sisters call for meat at Cullens butcher in 1930s

ENS 06.05.1978 p8 illus A home from home for the lucky lads in one huge happy 'family'

CN 16.07.1993 p1 Scandal of city's 'Botany Bay' orphans

CN 23.07.1993 p1 Orphans plight untrue says MP

CN 23.07.1993 p15 Harrowing tale of family torn apart

CN 06.08.1993 p7 Letter about Nazareth House

CN 06.08.1993 p11 Tearful call to find her relatives

CN 13.08.1993 p3 News brings about a reunion

CN 20.08.1993 p11 Tears flow as years come back

CN 03.09.1993 p4 (illus) Recalling boys in the band

CN 22.07.1994 p5 Thank you everyone for my lovely new house

CN 20.03.1998 p1 (illus) Lawyers probe child abuse

CN 27.03.1998 p3 More charges against nuns

 

AUSTIN FRIARS CEMETERY

A private cemetery now [2010] in the school grounds. There are marked graves and eleven graves with crosses but no names. The marked stones are as follows; James Cogan June 1912, aged 58 years; Johanna Wachtel, 27.12.1901 aged 19; Sister Collette Reynolds 4th Jan 1933 aged 63; Sister Columbanas Fagan died December 16th 1933 aged 70; Mother Victor English died January 24th 1935 aged 61; Sister Columba Mckenna died March 3rd 1941 aged 64 years; Sister Erkembade O’faherty died 9th June 1950 aged 70 years; Brian Hannow 1982 aged 64; Peter Edward ? 2000 aged 85; Finbar Murphy died 2001 aged 66; Mother Anne Marie Cantwell died March 1957 aged 77; Tom Lyons [ex head] Hilary Jordan 1995 aged 74

 

AUSTIN FRIARS SCHOOL founded 1951; building completed 1892 for girls school for Order of the Sacred Heart; foundation stone laid 16.04.1891; school moved in 1903 to Newcastle; building then used as Chadwick Memorial Industrial School until 1923; Sisters of Nazareth took over building as orphanage in 1925;

see also AUSTIN FRIARS - Nazareth House

See also Saint Monica’s

See also Chadwick Industrial Memorial School

See also Sacred Heart Convent

see Memories of Carlisle 2BC 9 3pp

CD 1952 Ad p369

CD 1955-56 Ad p282 Preparatory and Secondary school for boys conducted by Augustinian fathers. Planned and built as a high class school. The entire building is centrally heated; and the lighting and cubic space are in accord with the most exacting standards. Boys are prepared for the ordinary examinations leading to the universities and professions. Special attention is given to modern languages. Trained nuns supervise the domestic arrangements and general welfare of the school. Boys are received in the preparatory department from the age of nine. Very Rev Father Prior OSA

CD 1966-68 Ad p296

CJ 06.07.1951 p5 Opening

CN 07.07.1951 p5 CN 08.07.1966 p13

CN 11.11.1955 p10 History of the building

CN 25.11.1955 p10

CJ 12.07.1957 p4

CN 21.02.1964 p12

CN 25.10.1963 p2 Public school

CN 27.09.1964 Chapel re-opened

CN 02.10.1964 p12 (illus) Chapel re-opened 27.09.1964

CN 28.05.1965 pp1,5 (illus) Extensions

AUSTIN no 5 1966 pp33-36 History

CN 30.06.1967 p11 (illus) Extensions

CN 07.07.1967 p6 (Illus) Extensions

CN 03.04.1969 p3 (illus) Figures for chapel

CN 17.09.1976 p10 Silver jubilee

CN 22.02.1991 p23 New block for school

CN 15.03.1991 p44 Calling back the old boys

CN 07.06.1991 p44 A £300,000 face lift for school

CN 19.07.1991 p13 Work starts on £300,000 school block

CN 17.07.1992 p12 Top school is changing with the times

CN 28.05.1993 p4 Girls were first on school site

CN 17.12.1993 p5 Lay head takes charge of Friars

CN 09.09.1994 p4 First lay head for city catholic school

CN 16.08.1996 p1 Drink drive head quits

CN 22.03.1996 p16 Imposing history of city school (job review)

CN 21.06.1996 p3 25 years in priesthood for fathers

CN 26.03.1999 p16 Ad

CN 01.10.1999 p13 Another successful year

CN 18.02.2000 p15 New head rows in

CN 30.06.2000 p12 Inquest on school girl who fell down school stair well on 09.03.1998

CN 21.07.2000 p12 School children assaulted on trip to France

CN 29.09.2000 p8 (illus) New Headmaster Nicholas O’Sullivan

CN 02.03.2001 p16 Unites with Saint Monica’s School

CN 27.07.2001 p22 (illus) New nursery to open January 2002

CN 04.04.2003 p16 Headmaster, Nick O’Sullivan, to leave at end of term

CN 13.06.2003 p17 Becomes a charitable trust alongside St Monica’s

CN 04.07.2003 p4 Christopher Lumb becomes new head

CN 14.05.2004 p18 Fr O’Connor unveils plaque to teaching members of Augustinian order

CN 29.04.2005 p2 New science block plans; school has 470 pupils aged 3-18; term fees £1,380-£2,869

CN 15.07.2005 p1 Last Austin Friar, Bernard Rolles, leaves school

CN 05.05.2006 p3 plans for £2.4m junior school

CN 24.08.2007 p22 3.1 million pound extension to St Monica’s almost ready

 

AUSTRALIA

Carlisle Examiner 27.05.1858 p4b Emigrants letter to Carlisle

 

AUSTRALIAN BOYS TOUR OF EUROPE

City Minutes 1924-25 p348 Proposed visit to Carlisle on 02.05.1925

 

AUTHORS

ENS 11.06.1982 p4 Locations for books

 

AUTOMATIC COAL CLEANING CO

see also Simonacco

ENS 08.05.1957 History

 

AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION Castle St office opened 1967

CJ 21.03.1947 p2 New Carlisle office opened

 

AUTO RESTRAINTS SYSTEMS LTD

see KANGOL LTD

 

AUTOVOLKS Willow Holme

CN 18.11.2005 p16 New management team of Barrie and Carol Barnes

 

AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE CLUB see AFS CLUB

 

AVENUE, The Public House see COSMO

 

AVF

CN 06.04.1990 p9 Taking hi-tech look at farming and rust

 

AVONDALE TERRACE

City Minutes 1901-02 p 249 Renamed St Aidans Road

 

AXA INSURANCE

CN 21.07.2006 p20 Plans to close Lowther Street branch in September

 

AXSON DRIVE, Garlands Estate. One of a series of streets in this area named in connection with Woodrow Wilson whose mother was born in the city in 1826. Axson was the maiden name of Woodrow Wilson’s first wife

 

AYRIS, H.E. Architect. Came to Carlisle to work for G.Dale Oliver. On Mr Oliver’s retirement in 1919 he took over the practice. The 1938 Kelly’s Directory lists him as FRIBA at 68 Lowther Street