Carlisle Encyclopaedia
BABIES WELCOME AND SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS
Founded 1905
Sanitary Conditions for City of Carlisle 1919 pp 70-71
BACKHOUSE, Mr Ironmonger
CJ 13.02.1847 p1b Mr Backhouse's shop to sell; in business for 50 years
BACKHOUSE, John Joiner, died 09.01.1845 [Christ Church Memorials no 34]
BACKHOUSE LANE, Scotch Street [1829 Directory]
BACKHOUSES COURT, English Damside
1880 Directory
1924 Carlisle Directory; After 4 Backhouse Walk
City Minutes 1933-34 p76 nos 1-9 Unfit for human habitation
BACKHOUSE WALK English Damside; title deeds show that Aglionbys’ purchased early in the 18th century land in this area from Backhouse, whose name survives in Backhouse Walk [CWAAS OS Vol 6 p147] ;so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
1829 Directory; last voters list 1939
CN 11.09.1998 p9 ‘Dyeing’ mayor gave city to the Scots
BACKHOUSE YARD, Solway Street
City Minutes 1935-36 p181 5 tenements unfit for human habitation
BADMINTON
CN 02.02.1979 p15 (illus) International in Carlisle Market Hall
BAHAI FAITH
CN 26.03.1965 p11 Centre opened 21.03.1965
CN 23.04.1971 p32
BAILEY, William Bank Street
1861 Morris, Harrison and Co ad p13 Glass, china
BAILEYS COURT, Castle Street [1847 Directory]
BAINES, William Grocer, died 28.03.1912 [Monumental Inscription 124/13]; in directories from 1870
The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 67 Scotch Street
CN 26.02.2010 p34 Golden teapot trade sign outside their Scotch Street shop recalled; illustrated
BAINES WILSON
CN 20.03.2009 p18 Commercial law firm launched 1999
BAIRD
M442 p42 Business label for watchmaker
BAIRD, George Watchmaker of this city died 14.11.1835; Monumental Inscription in St Cuthbert’s Yard
1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p 122 Clock and watchmaker, Scotch St
BAIRD, Thomas 51 Castle Street
M442 pp7, 19 Business card for tea, coffee, wine and spirit merchant
BAIRD ROAD Harraby
1940 first directory; Deputy Town Clerk James A Baird
BAIT CABIN Willowholme
CN 21.01.2005 p 12 Feature on business devastated by flood
BAKEHOUSE; Botchergate
CN 03.03.2006 p11 Feature on bakery run by Pauline and Malcolm Robson
BAKEHOUSE YARD, Shaddongate
So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19
BAKEHOUSE, Carlisle public bakehouse
CJ 24.09.1946 p2
BALD FACED STAG, Harraby Hill
CJ 27.07.1811 Meeting of Horticultural Society (to judge gooseberries) ‘held at the house of Mr Richard Sewell, sign of the Bald-faced Stag, Harraby Hill, near Carlisle’
BALFOUR, Warren and WOOD Poultry
Kingstown Trading Estate
CDÊ1952 Ad p359
BALFOUR ROAD Wigton Road
First voters register 1905; council houses from 1932. ‘Balfour and Beaconsfield Streets - to represent two politicians who have no earthly connection with the place’
City Minutes 1902-03 p 410 Approval for 10 houses
CJ 05.05.1914
BALLADS
Round Carlisle Cross Vol 2 Carlisle in Ballad pp 58 - 80
BALLANTINE,W.N. Decorator
Warwick Road, Lonsdale St
CD 1893-94 Ad p82
1901 census; William Ballantine, aged 39, born London, home 35 Cavendish Place
CD 1905-06 Ad p179
CD 1907-08 Ad p205
BALLET
CJ 28.11.1944 p1 Anglo-Polish Ballet Company; visit to Carlisle
CJ 19.12.1950 p2 Continental Ballet Company visit to city
CN 26.01.1990 p1 Bolshoi first for city
CN 02.02.1990 p10 From Russia with love
CN 01.06.1990 p1 Ballet stars sparkle - From Moscow to Carlisle
BALLOON ASCENTS
See Connon, P In the Shadow of the Eagle’s Wing, 1982 2A 629.13
Charles Green ascended from Carlisle on 29.09.1825, and his son, Charles George, on 11.10.1825; Charles Green made further ascents from the city on 28.06.1832 and 07.07.1832
CJ 14.07.1832 Mr Green made another ascent in his balloon, from the yard adjoining the gas works in this city, on Saturday evening last. Mr Green was accompanied by Mr Charles Slee of Penrith. The voyagers effected a safe landing about a mile from Warwick Bridge and returned to Carlisle the same evening.
CP 29.09.1825
CN 06.02.1970 p12 CN 13.02.1970 p12
CN 24.07.1948 p3 (illus) By Green on 28.06.1832
CN 26.07.1974 p6 By Green 1825
CN 02.08.1974 p6 By Green 1825
CN 05.07.1957 p8 By Green
CN 25.04.1958 p12 By Green
CN 15.04.1988 p4 By Green
CN 29.04.1955 p10 By Shipley
CN 13.02.1970 p12 Ascent in 1902
CN 27.07.1990 p4 A balloonists big day
CN 03.09.1993 p4 (illus) Balloon pioneer in city ascent
BALMORAL COURT First voters list 1975
D Perriam Stanwix p55 In 1947 the Railway Magazine explained that it was not always possible for train crews to return to their home depots at night. The LMS built permanent staff hostels and one was built at Kingmoor in 1915 but it was replaced by 1943. The Kingmoor hostel was converted into flats and renamed Balmoral Court
CN 08.12.1989 p7 City battle over control of road
B and M
Shop of English Street, former Woolworth building, closed end September 2023
BAND OF HOPE, Carlisle and District
CJ 20.04.1948 p3 Festival
CN 25.09.1970 p14
CJ 13.04.1937 p4 Festival
B AND Q Currock Rd., London Road
CN 09.06.1989 p18 Ad
CN 19.05.1995 pp5,10 B and Q top brass mind shop
CN 23.03.2001 p5 B and Q plan to move to new London Road site
CN 01.03.2002 p3 Council considers three sites for superstore development
CN 19.04.2002 p3 Local Government Ombudsman brought into row over site
CN 23.07.2004 p5 £40,000 fire at B&Q
CN 04.08.2006 p9 Advert New B and Q opens on London Road
BANDSTAND, Bitts Park
175 Years of Carlisle p39 Photo of bandstand
Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards, J.Templeton, no. 58 Photo of Bandstand
First concert 28.06.1894; demolished 1957
City Council Minutes 1892-93 p294 Resolution to accept design
City Council Minutes 1956-57 p456 Council decision to remove Bandstand
CJ 29.06.1894 p4h Opening of Bandstand
CN 08.02.1957 p8 Demolition
CN 01.08.1969 p12 Bandstand
CN 08.05.1987 p4 History of bandstand
CN 23.03.1989 p4 Victorian bandstand attracted the crowds
CN 28.09.1990 p4 City had bandstand they could not use
CN 29.03.2002 p3 City centre portable bandstand not here until after Easter
CN 10.05.2002 p3 (illus) Queens Jubilee bandstand; first engagement June 3rd
CN 15.08.2014 p16 Denis Perriam article
BANGLADESH COMMUNITY
CN 25.06.1999 p7 Muslim plan for prayers
BANK HOLIDAYS
CN 09.09.1994 p7 Distress call over May Day by bank manager
BANKING
CN 05.01.1952 p5 CN 05.12.1953 p8 CN 12.12.1953 p8
CN 13.03.1970 p14 CN 20.03.1970 p14
CP 28.01.1898 p6c,d Local annual reports
CJ 26.02.1965 Special supplement
CN 26.07.1996 p10 The golden age of Carlisle banking
CN 20.07.2007 p34 History of HSBC in Carlisle back to David Carrick in about 1809
BANK LANE, 34 Scotch Street 1880 Directory; So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
1847 Directory
BANK NOTES
CN 06.09.1947 p5 CN 13.09.1947 p3 CN 04.10.1947 p5
CN 11.10.1947 p3 CN 13.03.1970 p14 (illus)
BANK OF LIVERPOOL English Street 1911 - 1928
CN 21.07.1961 p10
CD 1913-14 Ad p26
BANK OF LIVERPOOL and MARTINS English St and Botchergate
CD 1920 Ad p24
CD 1924 Ad p56
CD 1927 Ad p58
BANK OF SCOTLAND
CN 03.07.1987 p9 Cumbria’s first woman bank manager
CN 21.10.1994 p12 Ad
BANKS
see above
see BARCLAYS BANK, CARRICK, David, CLYDESDALE BANK, CARLISLE OLD BANK, CARLISLE CITY AND DISTRICT BANKING CO., CARLISLE AND NORTH WEST COUNTIES SAVINGS BANK, CARLISLE SAVINGS BANK, CARLISLE UNION BANK, CUMBERLAND AND CARLISLE BANK, CUMBERLAND UNION BANK, DISTRICT BANK, ELLIOT AND FORSTER’S BANK, FORSTER, Thomas and CO, LEITH BANKING CO, LLOYDS, LONDON COUNTY WESTMINSTER AND PARRS BANK LTD,LONDON JOINT CITY AND MIDLAND BANK, MACKAY DAVIDSON AND GLADSTONE, MARTINS BANK, MIDLAND BANK, NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, PENNY SAVINGS BANK, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, SALVATION ARMY BANK, TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, WILLIAM AND GLYNS, WILLIAM DEACONS BANK
CAIH p62
CN 15.09.1989 p4 Private banks risky for investors
CN 12.07.1991 p4 Banking was risky for investors
CJ 13.07.1934 p8 Carlisle and Cumberland
CN 24.03.1995 p3 City bank notes make a mint
CN 22.01.1999 p12 How a bank was saved (Cumberland Union)
CN 20.07.2007 p34 History of HSBC in Carlisle back to David Carrick in about 1809
BANKS LANE, Botcherby
CN 29.06.2007 p3 Hallsteads, Banks Lane opens garden to public
BANK STREET
The White Lion Inn on English Street was demolished in 1849 to make way for the Carlisle City and District Bank. New street between English Street and Lowther Street named Bank Street
See also Clydesdale Bank; Celebrations
Carlisle in Camera p20
CJ 21.12.1849 Records laying out of new street and building of bank
BANNISTER Photographer
Carte de visite noted Bannister and Co North of England Photographic Company, 1 Derwent Place, Cattle Market Corner, Newcastle upon Tyne and Henry St, Carlisle
Carlisle Examiner 29.01.1859 p2e Photo portrait of Bishop
1858 Carlisle Directory Frederick William Bannister, photographic artist, Henry Street
1861 census F.Bannister, aged 33, born Scotland, home 12 Henry St
1861 Morris, Harrison Directory Photographic artist, Henry St
George Bell took over FW Banister’s studio at 12 Henry Street, Carlisle in Feb./ March 1865
BAPTIST CHURCH From 1809 the Baptists held their meetings in a room in Abbey Street; sometime after 1817 they rented the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Fisher Street; (S.Jefferson, 1838, p274). The location of the Fisher Street Baptist Church is marked on Asquith’s 1853 map; another sect, the Berian Baptists, met in a small Chapel in Tower Street, built in 1818 [P&W 1829 p140]; the location of 2 Baptist Chapels is shown on Wood’s 1821 map of the city; by 1847 the Baptists were renting a room at the Athenaeum; Foundation stone of Aglionby St Chapel laid 21.07.1887; opened 17.11.1888; building halved and refurbished church opened 24.01.2004, other half flats to be called Church Ct. A second Baptist Church [former evangelical church on corner with Grey Street/ Edward Street] has opened on Edward Street in 2023.
21.07.1951 Belah Baptist Church opened by Sir Robert Chance closing 21.07.1961. Rebuilt to become Belah Community Centre
CN 26.03.1971 p10
CN 01.04.1994 p1 Pilgrims Easter trek to Holy Isle
Oct/Nov 2003 extensive interior works undertaken on Aglionby St Chapel
CN 23.01.2004 p3 New look church opens tomorrow; building halved
BAR, W Jewellers
ENS 01.12.1977 p14 Ad
BARBERS see HAIRDRESSERS
BARBERS PLACE , Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 96-98 Milbourne Street
BARCLAY and MATHIESON
CN 17.08.1990 Ad p6
BARCLAYS BANK Devonshire St; English Street building 1875 - see The Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company
CD 1920 Ad p32
CN 21.01.1974 p11 (illus) new building
ENS 02.06.1955 p1 Slick robbery
ENS 01.03.1962 p9 (Illus) Pioneer of Gothic revival
CN 21.04.1995 p3 Bank staff to ballot on strike
CN 26.05.1995 p1 Sack threat to bank staff
CN 26.01.1996 Ad p7
BARKER and CO 73-75 Castle Street
Home furnishers
CD 1931 Ad p68
CD 1934 Ad p68
BARKER, George 50 Blackfriars St
Saw maker
CD 1880 pxi
BARKER, Henry Durranhill Road
Motor and Agricultural engineer
CD 1952 Ad p341
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p260
BARKER’S COURT, 37 John Street South [1880 Directory]
BARLEY STACK Rickergate; in local directories to 1906
CJ 02.08.1828 p2 Thomas Kilnvington innkeeper
1861 census Francis Forrester, aged 38, innkeeper, born Carlisle
CP 11.10.1862 p1 Ad To let; now occupied by Fras Foster
1901 census; Charles Daly, innkeeper, aged 50, born Carlisle
CN 02.09.1911 Ad; Old Barley Stack Temperance Hotel to let
BARLEY STACK LANE Rickergate
1829 Directory p154
Listed in Carlisle Directories 1829 to 1902-03
City Minutes 1917-18 p 242 Demolition of part of properties in lane
City Minutes 1919-20 p239 Arrange tenders to demolish remaining houses in lane
BARN CLOSE, Stanwix 1902 Arts and Crafts mansion built to the designs of the London architect Norman Evill; sun dial on south face and the letters SN [Scott-Nicholson] on the rainwater head on the east side of house
D Perriam Stanwix p100 Field name for land formerly inside the Roman fort and belonging to Stanwix House. J and R Bell were the building contractors. Edwin Scott-Nicholson who had commissioned the house died 03.10.1931, his wife dying there 16.05.1947 leaving the house to her daughter Angela Strong. She gave the city first refusal on a possible purchase. City Minutes show that on 01.08.1947 the Finance Committee approved the purchase of Barn Close for £8,000 as a residential home. It opened as the Eventide Home for Elderly ladies on 03.05.1949 and remains a residential home today, a part of the Henry Lonsdale Trust. Home now [2023] closed
1937 CWAAS Members list, Vol 37Mrs Scott-Nicholson, Barn Close
CJ 17.02.1948 p1 CJ 22.06.1948 p1
CN 26.07.1947 p5 To be bought for Eventide Home for women
CN 30.04.1949 p5 (illus) Preview before official opening
CJ 06.05.1949 p1 Opening
CN 07.05.1949 p5 Opening
CN 14.05.1949 p9 (illus) Opening
CN 19.07.1991 p3 Signed over to trust
CN 31.12.2021 p13 Letter concerning closure of Barn Close care home
BARN CLOSE STANWIX DAY CENTRE
CN 24.04.1987 p40 Opening
BARNES, Philip Attorney at Law; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784
BARNES, Robert E and Alex. F
City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate between Carlisle to Bowness
BARNES, Thomas Nailer of Botchergate, died 24.09.1796 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]
BARNES BORDER GARAGE
See also Motor House
D Perriam Lowther Street p35 Garage began in 1909, belonging to Austin Castiglione who left for the army in 1918 and Barnes took it over.
Carlisle in Camera 2 p50 photo of Lowther Street garage in 1930
CN 06.05.2016 Sec 2 p16 City Minute of 1918 record a William Barnes of ‘The Lowther Street Garage’. By 1937 it had become the Eden Valley Motor Company but retained the Border Garage name. Mr Barnes died in March 1965
CN 24.12.2021 p18 D Perriam. The Eden Valley Motor Company still there in 1940; replaced by a new Menzies building by 1952 which was in turn demolished in 1999 to make way for Debenhams
BARNES COURT, Saint Nicholas Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 27 Saint Nicholas Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 27-29 St Nicholas Street
BARNES MOSS 71-73 English St
Bookseller, Printer, Stationer and Railway Bookstalls
Guide to Carlisle C178 Ad
CD 1880 Ad pp 158,176
CD 1884-85 Ad pp ix,157
BARNES YARD, 39 Botchergate [1880 Directory]
BARNES YARD, 66A Botchergate [1880 Directory]
BARNETT, J
CD 1893-94 ad p 78 A.C.Brown, late J.Barnett, hatter and hosier 21 English St
BARNEY’S FIELD Situated on Norfolk Road, opposite no 26, a field in front of Carrick’s Hattery, where a milkman’s two horses, Barnet and Bess, were kept in the 1930s/40s
BARNFATHER, Isaac Papermaker, aged 32, employing 2 boys, home address Cobden St, born Carlisle [1861 census]
BARNFATHER, Isaac Rope maker and grocer, Newtown Place
CJ 12.02.1869 p8 Bankrupt application of discharge
CJ 10.06.1870 p8 Bankrupt on 30.12.1868
BAROMETER MAKERS see PEDRONE, L; Aiano, Charles
BARRACLOUGH,L and B. Baker and confectioner
227 Blackwell Rd
CD 1952 Ad p72
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p224
BARRAS CLOSE, Morton On voters list from 1964
CN 16.09.2005 p5 Plans to knock down four-in-block one bedroom flats
CN 18.08.2006 p7 New plans for Barras Close
CN 12.03.2010 p1 New housing development at Barras close to be called Caslin Way after a local lady who was drowned in the Dominican Republic
BARRAS COURT, English Street [[1829 Directory and 1847 Directory]
BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS (Carlisle)Ltd
CN 11.04.1975 pp8-9 (illus)
BARRETT, James Bootmaker, aged 26, employing 2 men, home address 7 Crown and Anchor Lane, born Carlisle [1851 census]
BARROCK SQUARE, off Petteril Road, Upperby The 1917 City of Carlisle Housing Census lists five self contained premises in this square and one tenement. The owner of all the properties is one Thomas Chandler, Dairyman and Market Gardner. There is one living room [this excludes WC, Washhouse, Scullery] in each home and Mr Chandler’s house has 3 bedrooms, one property has two bedrooms, the rest one. None of the properties has a fixed bath. There are three people living in Mr Chandler’s house, five in the two bedroomed property, four, three, two and four in the others. Mr Chandler’s tenants pay 2/9 per week for two bedrooms, 2/3 for four of the properties and 2/- for one. A 1904 photo shows piggeries etc situate in Barrock Square, and abutting upon the top house in Millers Court. The liquid filth from the pigstye forms a pool and soaks into the foundation of house no 4 Barrock Square [Photo in Record Office, Carlisle]
BARROCK STREET Botchergate; 1884 Carlisle Directory says previously called Hexham Street
BAR SUEDE
CN 24.04.2009 p7 Closed last September; sold and new owners rename Kamanga Lounge
BARTON, Bernard Cotton manufacturer; [T.Pennant; a tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772]; 1829 Directory p152
CN 24.02.2012 p34 Denis Perriam article on the business at Long Island. 26.03.1764 permission given by the Corporation to set up a water wheel there for washing and scourging the yarn and cloth the firm manufactured. By 1764 William and Richard Hodgson were partners in the company known as Barton, Hodgson and Co at the Long Island Works. Barton died in 1773 and his eldest son John took up the business. The Cumberland Pacquet of 1774 advertised that the Barton and Hodgson bleachfields collected cloth from as far away as Ulverston, Annan and Sunderland ‘besides manufacturing linen and cotton checks, stripes and handkerchiefs, dowlas, doilies, housewife cloths, diapers, huckabacks, brown and blue linen and Osnaburghs’. Split in partnership in April 1780. John Barton now went into partnership with William Brumell and became, Brumell, Barton and Co. In April 1786 the newspaper announced that they were declining the business and disposing of the remaining years of the lease
BARTON, Mary Coachbuilder, aged 45, employing 33 men, home address 1 Crescent, born Carlisle, widower [1851 census]; Robert Barton, aged 32, coachbuilder, employing 30 men and 1 boy, home address 1 The Crescent, born Wigton [1861 census]
BARTON AND SONS Crescent Carriage Works
Mr Barton’s property on Henry Street marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2; building lots for sale
Carlisle Diocesan Directory 1873 ; Ad established 1820
CP 07.02.1896 p8f Boag’s Crescent Carriage Co; Late Barton and Sons
BARTON, HODGSON AND CO Bleachfields
CPacquet 25.04.1780 p1 Thomas Hodgson takes over works
BARTON PLACE, Mary Street [1934 Directory]
BARTON’S YARD; The new Post Office on Warwick Rd was built in 1916 on this site
1880 Directory Henry Street
BARWICK BROTHERS Builders and contractors
Carlisle and Gilsland
CD 1952 Ad p266
BARWISE COURT; off English Street onto Blackfriars Street. So called in 1829 Directory; in voters list to 1935; street sign in evidence 1998
D Perriam Blackfriars Street p21 A William Barwise in this area in 1834
Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
1880 Directory 42 English Street to 13 Blackfriars Street
Leading Traders of the City, circa 1909 p 36 View of Barwise Court
City Minutes 01.02.1935 p229 no 21 unfit for human habitation
BARWISE NOOK Willow Holme; completed 1900; demolished 1966
CJ 16.07.1965 p5 (illus) CN 02.04.1976 p6 CN 19.03.1976 p6
Carlisle in Camera 1 p43 photo of houses under construction about 1900
Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton pp20-21 views
City Minutes 1896-97 p 339 Approval for 5 blocks of dwellings for labouring class
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p15 Photo of demolition in 1966
1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 40 properties in this street
BASEBALL
CN 16.05.1936 p19 (Illus) At Brunton Park
BASIN, Carlisle
CJ 29.09.1950 p4 Geological notes
BASKET MAKING see BRISCO, John
BASQUES
CN 09.07.2004 p6 Basque children arrive at Citadel St on 18.06.1937
BASS, Hugh Chimney sweep
CN 16.11.2007 p36 D.Perriam article on sweep who died 18.09.1903
BASSENTHWAITE STREET
City Minutes 1898/99 p 346 Approval for new street
BATES, Joseph 82 Lowther St
Linen and woollen draper
CD 1893-94 Ad p138
BATES, W and E.C. Caldewgate; tobacconist
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916, 2004 p40 photo
BATEY,D.Geo Shoe stylist
Lowther Arcade
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p60
CD 1955-56 Ad p60
CD 1961-62 Ad p260
CD 1966-68 Ad p259
BATEY, Robert and Co 109-111 Lowther St
Plumbing and electrical engineer
CD 1952 Ad p355
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p268
CD 1955-56 Ad p278
CD 1961-62 Ad p70
BATEY, W and Sons 25 Scotland Rd, 35 Warwick Rd, 71 Warwick Rd
Electricians, plumbers and sanitary engineers
CD 1927 Ad p152
BATEY, Wilfred 2 Currock Rd, 13 Strand Rd, Corby Hill
Joiner and funeral director
CD 1952 Ad p324
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p252
CD 1955-56 Ad p257
CD 1961-62 Ad p280
CD 1966-68 Ad p 277
BATEY, William Crescent Works, 15 Warwick Rd, Crosby Court, Crosby Works,
Plumber and sanitary engineer
CD 1902-03 Ad p18
CD 1905-06 Ad p115
CD 1907-008 Ad p188
CD 1910-11 Ad p177
CD 1913-14 Ad p84
CD 1920 Ad p236
CD 1924 Ad p132
24.01.1932 died William Batey, master plumber, at 71 Warwick Rd [MI 179/63]
BATEY, William and Sons 68 Warwick Rd, 71 Warwick Rd, Brunswick Chambers, Collier Lane, Court Square
Electrical engineers and contractors; plumbers
CD 1931 Ad p 202
CD 1934 Ad p136 Established 1899
CD 1952 Ad p357
CD 1961-62 Ad p293
CD 1966-68 Ad p293
BATEY, William and Sons Bartons Yard, the Crescent
Joiners and contractors
CD 1910-11 Ad p9
BATEY AND FORSTER, Builders, joiners and cabinet makers, Albert Square. Photo showing 1873 billhead in D.Perriam Blackfriars Street, p13
BATH HOUSE see EDENSIDE BATH HOUSE
BATHS
Foundation stone laid 04.09.1883; opened 31.07.1884; when opened the baths comprised ladies private baths and the ladies plunge bath, 29 feet by 16 feet and beyond that the second class plunge baths, 65 feet by 30 feet. Opposite these were the first class plunge baths, 60 feet by 30 feet flanked by second class private baths. Extensions were made between 1928 - 1932 when 15 feet was added to the length of one of the pools, making it the existing [in 1958] length of 75 feet. Commemorative foundation stone of new baths laid 17.11.1974; new baths opened officially 17th November 1975. This new 33 and one third metre pool was in a new building adjacent to the existing baths site. Phase two was to be the revitalisation of the ‘old’ baths. 14th October 1977 the new ten metre pool for mothers and toddlers opened in the second phase of the baths redevelopment. This second phase also included a new 20 metre pool. In 2008 Carlisle still has the same three pool baths arrangement. Week beginning Monday 14th November 2022 new pools open as a part of the Sands Centre. Old pools on James Street close and Cumberland News of 01.12.2023 reports demolition has begun as a part of railway station development
City Council Minutes 08.07.1880 p148 Open air in River Eden, pp 184-190 report
Carlisle an illustrated history p81 Photo of laying of foundation stone
City Council Minutes 1883/84 03.07.1884 p18
City Minutes 1920-21 p 680 Proposal for open air baths in Rickerby Park
CP 01.08.1884 p5 CP 08.08.1884 p5 CN 03.12.1954 p12
City Minutes 1928-9 p114 Experiment in mixed bathing on one day per week
CN 02.07.1965 p3 CN 17.01.1975 p7
CJ 07.01.1938 p1 Proposed open air pool for city
CJ 16.12.1949 p4 Refreshment bar to be erected
CN 30.10.1964 p1 (illus) New baths site
CN 14.02.1969 p3 (Illus) New baths site – artist’s impression
ENS 03.11.1960 p12 Swimming boom
ENS 08.09.1977 p15 (illus) New baths
ENS 15.10.1977 p5 (illus) New baths
CN 25.09.1970 p1 New baths
CN 18.09.1970 p1 New baths
CN 21.11.1975 p17 New baths opening
CN 02.02.1973 p15 Proposed new baths
CN 09.02.1973 p5 Proposed new baths
CN 21.11.1975 p17 Opening of new baths
ENS 22.03.1976 p8 Illustration of old baths
CN 17.11.1967 p14 New baths
CN 15.09.1967 p1 New baths
CN 08.12.1967 p1 New baths
CN 15.12.1967 p13 New baths
CN 26.01.1968 p11 New baths
ENS 13.10.1976 p5 (illus) Pool plan puts city in the swim
CN 26.05.1989 p53 Pool threat worry for swimming club
CN 02.06.1989 p40 Swimming baths fear allayed
CN 16.04.1992 p52 Get a tan on the Costa del Carlisle
CN 15.01.1993 p19 New image for baths
CN 27.08.1993 Ad p52 In the swim
CN 27.01.1995 p17 Swimmers pool plea
CN 02.08.2002 p7 To be run by charitable trust
BATHS, Turkish Opened 20.09.1909; William Johnstone contractor; tiling and flooring Messrs Minton, Hollins and Co, Stoke
CP 14.08.1908 p1 Tenders invited for Turkish Baths
CJ 17.09.1909 p5 CN 13.11.1959 p12
CP 04.01.1901 p4f Turkish Baths for Carlisle
CJ 06.06.1902 p4h Proposed Turkish Baths ‘The building will have a distinctly oriental character’
CP 11.09.1908 p6 Baths aristocratic luxury. Increase in costs because of use of tiles instead of paint
CP 10.09.1909 p5a Description of the building
Carlisle Express and Examiner 18.09.1909 p4g Carlisle Turkish baths; inspection by public
CJ 01.05.1912 p8a Success of Turkish Baths! Why they are making a loss
1928 Carlisle Pageant Souvenir Brochure; Ad excellent illustration
CJ 13.01.1950 p2 Turkish baths opened
ENS 11.11.1959 p13 (illus) Take the plunge
CN 22.11.1991 p3 Turkish baths end
ENS 15.01.1992 p3 Public rally to save baths
CN 07.02.1992 p5 Backing for the baths
CN 28.02.1992 p3 Baths boost
CN 02.10.2009 p 21 Turkish Baths could be listed
CN 30.04.2010 p19 Turkish Baths are given Grade II listing
2022 Turkish Baths mothballed after closure on 12.11.2022; too expensive to run
BATS see CUMBRIA BAT GROUP
BATTAIL HOLME is so named Le Batailholm in 1352; Battle 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]
BATTLE OF BRITAIN WEEK
CJ 17.09.1948 p3 Swimming gala
CJ 21.09.1948 p1 Service
CJ 21.09.1948 p1 Silloth display
CJ 21.09.1948 p3 Kirkbride RAF open day
CJ 10.09.1948 p5 Local observances
CJ 14.09.1948 p1 Local observances
CN 11.09.1948 p5 Local observances
CN 25.09.1948 p5 Local observances
BATY BROTHERS 141 Botchergate
Fish and poultry dealers
CD 1961-62 Ad p271
BATY,J and Sons Botcherby and Old St Nicholas
Builders and contractors
CD 1902-03 Ad p5
CD 1907-08 Ad p8
CD 1910-11 Ad p10
BATY, Messrs James and William Upperby and West Walls
Building contractors
CN 08.10.1954 p10 CN 22.10.1954 p10 CN 13.11.1970 p14 (illus)
CD 1884-85 Ad p265
BATY, Thomas Coachmaker of this city died 22.09.1813; Monumental Inscription in St Cuthbert’s Yard
BATY,Thomas
Furnishers
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p19
BATY, Thomas Cabinetmaker, aged 59, employing 15 men, home address Fisher St, born Crosby, Cumberland [1851 census]; joiner and cabinet maker, aged 64, employing 20 men, 2 women and 8 boys, home address Fisher St, born Crosby on Eden [1861 census]
CJ 10.07.1903 p5 Town Council applied to borrow £6,500 for the purchase of Mr Baty’s property in Fisher Street. The surveyor submitted plans for the conversion of the premises into municipal offices at an estimated cost of £1,000
CJ 21.04.1905 p5 The new municipal offices in Fisher Street are expected to be finished in July. The property was purchased from Messrs Thomas Baty and Sons, cabinet makers and covers an area of 1,155 square yards, including the garden at the back, and has a frontage of 76 feet. It is not intended to alter the front [onto Fisher St] but the remaining portion of the property is being reconstructed in order to provide municipal offices
CJ 05.09.1905 p6 New Fisher St offices completed. The entrance to the Treasurer’s Dept., which occupies the whole of the old warehouse except the shop and the room over it in Fisher St, is reached by a passage from Fisher St. The Sanitary department, which will be entered from Fisher Street, is in the old house, which was occupied by Mrs Baty
BATY, Thomas and Sons 23 Fisher St
Upholsterers and carpet warehouseman
CD 1893-94 Ad p74
BATY, Thomas and Sons 2 Lonsdale St; established 1831
Cabinetmakers and upholsters
CD 1924 Ad p228
CD 1931 Ad p185
CD 1934 Ad p240
All About Carlisle 1934 p 98 Founded 1831 by Thomas Baty
CD 1937 Ad p154
CD 1940 Ad p50
CD 1950 Ad p319
Cumberland directory 1954 Ad p249
CD 1955-56 Ad p253
CN 01.03.2002 p3 (illus) Closes down after 171 years; W.Davis retires
BATY, William West Walls
Builder and contractor
04.06.1885 MI U32/9 died Dinah wife of William Baty, builder, Currock Terrace
CD 1902-03 Ad p10
CD 1905-06 Ad p48
CD 1907-08 Ad p118
CD 1910-11 Ad p86
BAXTER, Celia Ballet teacher
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p109 1972 photo of class
BAXTER, John 132 Botchergate
Grocer and provision dealer
CD 1880 Ad pxxvi
BAXTER, M.A.
1882 Porters Directory Ad p134 William Armstrong, late MA Baxter, glass and china
BAXTER, Thomas Painter and glazier, employing 1 man, home address 5 Hodgsons Court, born Longtown [1851 census]
BAXTERS INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS
CN 14.02.2003 p16 25 jobs created at Kingmoor warehouse
BAXTER’S ROW is Le Bakster rawe so named in 1380, meaning Bakers Row
BAY, The Denton Holme; opened 2004
CN 17.09.2004 p2 Pub granted public entertainment licence
CN 28.04.2006 p6 Sold to Scottish and Newcastle by Ron Wood
CN 14.03.2008 p15 Beth Martin takes over the Bay
CN 22.01.2010 p 67 The Bay for sale; photo
CN 22.04.2011 p11 Empty pub vandalised
BAY HORSE Rickergate; in local directories 1869 - 1914
Evening Journal 30.08.1870 p1c Thomas Armstrong, Bay Horse fined for having a drunken and riotous company in his house and harbouring prostitutes
CP 02.10.1874 p1 For sale Bay Horse Hotel, recently built of the best materials
1891 census; Henry Pearce, hotel keeper, born Bath
1901 census; Henry Pearce, innkeeper, born Gloucester, aged 59
ENS 19.10.1916 Closure
BAY HORSE COURT, 29 Rickergate [1880 Directory]
BAY HORSE LANE Rickergate
Carlisle Directory 1924 Between 27-29 Rickergate
City Minutes 1930-31 p628 Nos 11-13 declared unfit for human habitation
Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p58 photo in 1937 before demolition
BAZAARS
CN 01.12.1989 p4 Bazaar for weavers made county history
BEACONS Carlisle Castle; mentioned by Thomas Denton as ‘Carlisle Castle High Tower’ [CWAAS OS Vol 14 p140]
BEACONSFIELD STREET
City Council Minutes 10.06.1881 Approval for laying out of new street
BEADLE and HILL jewellers
CN 08.12.1989 p5 Rent rise crisis for jewel firm
BEARING POWER Denton Holme
CN 25.11.1994 Ad p14
BEARING SERVICE LTD
CN 13.11.1987 p8 Ad
BEATLES, The Popular music group
Played in Carlisle 08.02.1963 and 28.11.1963
CN 05.02.1988 p7 Beatlemania hits the city
ENS 26.10.1963 p1 Teenagers on ticket stampede
BEATTIE, Elizabeth 20 Lowther St
1882 Porters Directory Ad p140 Dressmaker
BEATTIE, F Without the Irish Gate
!811 Jollie’s Directory p84 Hat manufactory and dye house
BEATTIE, George Damside
Hat manufactory
CP 03.07.1819 p1e For sale after death of owner
BEATTIE and Co Murrell Hill, Warwick Rd
Sculptors and masons; funeral directors; founded by David Johnstone Beattie; started at Murrell Hill under the name of Laing and Beattie; after WWI name changed to Beattie and Co; 1925 firm moved to Warwick Road [obit of David Johnstone Beattie CN 03.07.1964 p11]; the house at no 1 Talbot Road, now no 2, was built by John Laing for his friend David Beattie who was a local monumental mason, they both being members of the Hebron Hall Church on Botchergate. This house is totally different in layout and design to the other five Laing’s houses built on this road; No 1 was called ‘Kenilworth’ and there is a capping stone on the gate post with this name; when David Beattie retired circa 1958 be bought another plot of land on Talbot Road and John Laing built a bungalow for him on this site, this house now being numbered 14 Talbot Road, it was called ‘Meikleholm’ and John Beattie died there, the house passing to his widow and subsequently to his daughter Elsie Beattie; upon David Beattie’s retirement no 1 was sold to Fisher St Presbyterian Church who used it as their manse, after the Fisher Street church closed the house was sold back into private hands
Carlisle an illustrated history p84 Photo of workman carving Botcherby WWI memorial
1921 Canonbie war memorial; pink granite pedestal by Beattie [Pevsner Dumfriesshire p154]; Bronze statue by Clapperton
1921 Lochmaben War Memorial by Beattie an Co [ Pevsner Dumfriesshire p 418]
1922 Lockerbie, Dryfesdale Parish Church, Shrine Chapel with stone altar by Beattie [Pevsner Dumfriesshire p 418]
1925 Monument to the Nithsdale Marttyrs by D.J.Beattie and Sons, Dalgarnock Graveyard
[ Pevsner Dumfriesshire p213]
V.White Carlisle and its Villages p26 drawing of office in 1998
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p19
CJ 04.07.1939 Industrial supplement
CD 1920 Ad p158
CD 1924 Ad p32
CD 1927 Ad p168
CD 1931 Ad p168
CD 1934 Ad p162
CD 1937 Ad p168
CD 1940 Ad p 172
CD 1952 Ad p210
Cumberland Directory Ad p218
CD 1955-56 Ad p93
CD 1961-62 Ad p107
CD 1966-68 Ad p97
CN 15.10.1999 p13 Ad
BEATTIE and LAING Murrell Hill
Monumental sculptors
CD 1905-06 Ad p99
BEATTY TERRACE, Harraby [1934 Directory]
BEATY and Co Solicitors
CN 26.02.1988 Ad p11 Amalgamated to become Mounseys
BEATY BROTHERS, Builders and contractors
See also James Beaty
Peter Beaty died 10.12.1907. The obituary in the Carlisle Journal of 13.12.1907 says Peter was of Lismore House, Carlisle. Born 1844 at Hutton Row he was the last survivor of the firm Beaty Brothers, builders and contractors who commenced work in 1870 and carried out many important contracts in the city and surrounding areas. They built Brampton Church, Netherton Church at Maryport, St Aidans Church, Carlisle, Silloth Church Tower, Carrs Mill at Silloth, the North British Railway Sheds at Silloth and Carlisle, stations on the Midland Railway, Dalston Bridge, Crown and Mitre Hotel in Carlisle. For 30 years they were contractors for the War Department. James Beaty who died at the end of September was for a short period a member of the firm but during the greater part of his career he was in business for himself. The other brothers were John and Thomas. All four brothers were in early life associated with their father at Hutton Row, where they carried out a section of the Midland Railway contracts when the company extended the line from Settle to Carlisle. Beaty Brothers were known for the soundness of their work. Peter leaves a son who succeeds to the business. The 1851 census shows the family at Ivegill. The father, John, a stone mason aged 44 was born at Kirkbride. Wife Mary, 39, born Sebergham. John 15, Mary Ann 14, both born Castle Sowerby, Jane 12, Peter 9, Thomas 6 all born Penrith and James aged 3 born Hesket in the Forest
CJ 19.02.1892 p5 Plans for St Joseph’s Home. F.W.Tasker, London. Six acres. About to erect, cost excluding site, £6 or £7,000. Messrs Beaty Brothers the builders.
BEATY Sons and Co 32 Lonsdale St, Backhouse Walk
Cardboard box manufacturer
CD 1913-14 Ad p172
CD 1920 Ad p77
CD 1924 Ad pp 5, 160
CD 1927 Ad pp 288,304
BEATY, James Stone Yard, Cecil St, Tile Works, Curthwaite Station
Builder, contractor, brick and tile merchant
see also Beaty Brothers
CD 1884-85 Ad p281 Successor to Thomas Milbourn
BEATY,James 4 Old Post Office Court
Builder and contractor
See also Beaty Brothers
CJ 03.03.1893 p5 Carlisle Steam Laundry, Warwick Rd just erected to designs of T.Taylor Scott, James Beaty builder
CD 1902-03 Ad p20
CD 1905-06 Ad p96
BEATY, James and Sons Lonsdale St
Stationers and printers, advertising
1895 dissolution of long-standing partnership of Halstead and Beaty of Lonsdale Street
Leading Trader of the City A 616, pp13,14
CD 1902-03 Ad facing 104/5
CD 1907-08 Ad facing page 156, p262
CD 1910-11 Ad pp 161,176, 272
CD 1913-14 Ad pp 85, 195,280
CD 1920 Ad pp 19, 80, 208
CD 1924 Ad pp188,265, 293
CD 1927 Ad back page ii
CD 1952 Ad p236 back page 1
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad back page v, 41, 288
CD 1955-56 Ad pp 8, 241, back page v
1959 Halstead’s acquire the goodwill of James Beaty and Sons
BEATY, John Brickmaker, builder and contractor of Strand Road
Ad in William Shaw, Gretna Green, established in 1877
BEATY, M 98 English St
Confectioner and caterer
Leading Trader of the City A 616 p 27
CD 1910-11 Ad pp80,145
CD 1913-14 Ad p122
CD 1920 Ad p180
BEATYS Lonsdale St
Printers, books, binding, greaseproof, bags, sulphite wrappings
CD 1907-08 Ad p20
CD 1927 Ad p176
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad ppxlix, xxx, xxxiv
BEATY’S COTTAGES Harraby; in voters lists to 1939
Carlisle an illustrated history p68 Photo of rear in 1904
BEATY’S TRAVEL SERVICE 34 Lowther St
CD 1961-62 Ad p302
BEAUFORT HOUSE Chiswick St
Higher grade school
CD 1893-94 Ad p14
BEAUMONT, John Brandy merchant; Bailey’s Northern Directory,1781 and 1784; died 14.11.1806 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]
BEAUTIFUL BATHROOMS Warwick Road
CN 22.01.1988 Ad feature p6
CN 18.01.1991 Ad feature p8
BEAUTIFUL CARLISLE SOCIETY founded 1920
CN 13.12.1919 CJ 12.12.1919 CN 13.07.1957 p8 CN 14.09.1973 p6
CN 21.09.1973 p6
CN 24.08.1990 p4 Call to make city beautiful
BEAVAN and Co 51-53 English St
House furnishers
CD 1902-03 Ad pp 34,51,54,55,180,189,264 and 273
CD 1905-06 Ad p170
CD 1907-08 Ad p157
BEAVER COTTAGE Andrew Carruthers of Beaver Cottage died 10.04.1845 [Holy Trinity Churchyard no 32]; on 1851 census Beaver is listed with John Carruthers as head of household, aged 41, born Irthington, farmer and insurance agent, Beaver Cottage is listed separately for a gardener
BEAVER FARM
09.04.1903 Margaret Carruthers died at Beaver Farm, Belle Vue [MI 206/63]
1918 Electoral Register Isaac James Beaty, in succession from Beaver Farm
BEAVER HALL One and a half miles from Carlisle off the Wigton Road
Sale notice 08.05.1799 in parcel of papers BO 1
CJ 17.07.1813 Beaver Hall to let. 35 acres and dwelling house, 2 miles from Carlisle
CP 01.09.1821 p1e Ad; for sale; now occupied by William Hetherington
BEAVER ROAD So named on 1918 Electoral Register
City Minutes 1935/36 p117 Approval for 4 houses
CN 08.06.1990 p4 Old farm gave its name to city streets
BECK, J Linen, woollen and draper
CP 03.06.1815 p1b Advert
BECK, John Mercer, died 05.11.1791 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 152]
BECKET’S SWORD
CJ 19.05.1944 p4 Robert Bruce swears fealty to Edward I in Carlisle Cathedral
BECKETT’S FISH AND CHIP SHOP Denton Street
Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, pp21, 34 1930s photo and description
D Perriam Denton Holme p91 Photo of shop
BECKO’S DELICATESSEN Castle St
Mr Becko, a Czech who fought with both the British and French armies and was at Dunkirk, is remembered by several people as a dour, unsmiling individual. Someone coming to Carlisle in the late 1970s recalls that this was the only shop in the city in which you could buy a bell pepper.
CN 08.02,1980 p1 (illus) Demolition
CN 17.08.1984 Recently retired from his delicatessen
CN 30.08.1991 p44 City delicatessen man goes home after 44 years [Czechoslovakia. he fled the country in 1939]
CN 21.07.2006 p4 Obit of Mr Becko
BECK ROAD So named on 1918 Electoral Register
BECK’S PLACE, 9 Northumberland Street [1880 Directory]
BED AND BREAKFAST
CN 23.03.2007 p11 Carlisle’s B and Bs struggle against budget hotels
BEDFORD, James Herbalist
1891 census boarding at the Farmers Arms, St Cuthbert’s Lane with Mary Bedford, both born Uxbridge, he aged 48, she 49. His profession is medical botanist
BEDFORD ROAD
City Minutes 1921-22 p657 Approval for two houses
BEEBY, HOUGH AND CO Harraby Bleach Works
CJ 16.12.1809 Have taken Harraby Bleach Works lately occupied by Messrs Lamb, Scott, Waldie and Co
BEEBY, Margaret Dressmaker, employing 4 girls, home address 4 St Albans Row, born Kirkoswald [1851 census]
BEEBY’S COURT, 43 Shaddongate [1880 Directory]
So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 63-65 Shaddongate
THE BEECHES, Carleton Grade 2 listed building. Farmhouse dated 1830-40. Flemish bond brickwork. Behind and at right angles to the house, but joined to it, is the earlier farmhouse with stone lintel dated 1706 and the initials R.R.S. East of the Beeches are farm buildings, the cartshed and barn. Dated 1826 with the initials J.M.R., possibly John Railton. Mixed red and yellow ashlar. Cartshed two and a half storeys, barn one and a half storeys to farmyard but three storeys to rear. Very large and in prominent position at road junction. James Shanks of the Beeches, Carleton, died 31.10.1905 [Monumental Inscription 119/3]
BEECH GROVE Stanwix
CN 13.08.1993 p6 letters concerning housing
CN 20.08.1993 p6 Permission exists, housing
CN 12.08.1994 p9 Building protesters silent
BEECH HOUSE, Belle Vue Dora Graham died Beech House, Belle Vue 04.10.1933 [MI 393/12]
BEECH HOUSE, Botcherby
06.10.1896 Annie d of J and M Wood died Beech House, Botcherby [MI Rosley]
BEEHIVE Warwick Road; in local directories from 1873
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p118-9
CP 30.12.1887 Ad Bee-Hive Inn to let
15.06.1894 James Little, aged 85, died Bee Hive, interred Stapleton
1901 census; Margaret Little, beerhouse keeper, aged 44, bn Stapleton
09.10.1909 died Isabella Little, aged 86, died Bee Hive
ENS 01.10.1975 p14,15 (illus) Things buzzing at the Beehive
ENS 15.07.1998 Beehive reopens after revamp
CN 29.07.2005 p5 Set to reopen after floods; new extension
BEEHIVE COURT, Caldcotes [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 28 Calcotes [1880 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory Between 28-32 Caldcotes
BEEHIVE FURNITURE DEPOT London Rd and Charles St
1882 Porters Directory Ad p154 Margaret Forster general dealer
BEER
CJ 21.11.1947 p1 Strike at state brewery
CJ 25.11.1947 p1 Strike at state brewery
CJ 28.11.1948 p1 Return to work
CN 14.11.1975 p10 (illus) Theakston brewery
BEES TURRET, On north wall, referred to in 1714
BEGGARS see TRAMPS
BELAH
D Perriam Stanwix p67-69 A house called Belah was for sale at Gosling Syke in November 1837
CP 11.12.1841 p1 Ad; field called Belah Close for sale
BELAH BAPTIST CHURCH
21.07.1951 Belah Baptist Church opened by Sir Robert Chance closing 21.07.1961. Rebuilt to become Belah Community Centre
BELAH COMMUNITY CENTRE
21.07.1951 Belah Baptist Church opened by Sir Robert Chance closing 21.07.1961. Rebuilt to become Belah Community Centre
CN 15.12.2006 p9 Quarter of a million pound facelift for neglected centre
BELAH COTTAGE, later Ivy Cottage, at Goslyn Bridge seems to have pre-dated the 1820 Kingstown Toll Gate [D Perriam Stanwix p70 illus]
1924 Carlisle Directory John Newton
BELAH CRESCENT
D Perriam Stanwix p67 Map showing the proposed layout of Belah Crescent in 1925
City minutes 1932-33 p 468 Approval for 2 houses; owner W.H.Reeves
Margaret Bell died Belah Cres 21.09.1939 [Rosley MI]
BELAH ESTATE
D Perriam Stanwix pp67-8 Council housing was built in 1939 to accommodate workers at the newly constructed 14MU. Post war council housing was well advanced by the summer of 1948
Sale of estate 30.10.1920 see B/CAR 333.333 (acc no 3263)
CN 23.10.1920 p12 Belah Estate for sale; Belah Cottage, Belah Gdns, Belah Hse
CJ 29.06.1934 The Belah estate which is being developed by Messrs WH Reeves, is typical of the advance which has been made in home-providing today. The estate is situated between Scotland Road and Edentown
Cumberland Evening News 10.0.1948 Houses on the Belah estate nearing completion-photos
CN 01.08.1997 p11 Love and Wordsworth made suburb romantic
BELAH GARDENS
1924 Carlisle Directory John Graham
BELAH MEDICAL CENTRE
Built on the site of the former Belah School, opened 2013. in 2021 one of the main vaccination centres in the city during the Covid 19 pandemic
BELAH ROAD
12 houses [as part of a 74 housing estate built for Carlisle Corporation] were built on Belah Road by local builder EJ Hill being completed and occupied by September 1921. Clough Williams-Ellis described the whole estate as ‘The new style, Corporation built houses on the Stanwix Estate. Light, air and flowers’. [CWAAS , 2016, Vol 16 p62-4]
BELAH SCHOOL Opened 12.05.1952; official opening 19.11.1953; closed 15.07.2008
CN 05.11.1949 Tenders to build new school on Waverley Road
CJ 16.05.1952 p5 Opening
CN 17.05.1952 p7 Opening
Memories of Carlisle, Chapter 2 Photo of school children in 1950s
CN 21.11.1953 p8 Belah new school is educational milestone
CJ 20.11.1953 p1 New ultra modern Belah school
CN 22.05.1992 p29 School anniversary
CN 03.06.1994 p4 School battles against cash cuts
CN 16.02.1996 p1 Parents still in dark over head
CN 23.02.1996 p1 Headteacher was crucified
CN 01.03.1996 p3 Head defends himself
CN 15.03.1996 p5 Verdict soon on head
CN 29.03.1996 p3 Date set for head
CN 26.04.1996 p1 Row rages on
CN 03.05.1996 pp1,10 Ex head considers job tribunal
CN 10.05.1996 p3 Give us the facts
CN 17.05.1996 p3 Parents anger
CN 24.05.1996 p3 No open meeting
CN 31.05.1995 p5 Teachers told to boycott top job
CN 28.06.1996 p2 Long history of problems
CNÊ19.07.1996 p5 Talks aim for peace
CN 26.07.1996 p3 I won’t take my children out of Belah
ENS 29.05.1996 p1 Headteachers blacklist Belah
CN 25.10.1996 p1 D Day as troubled school picks new head
CN 01.11.1996 p5 It’s time to look ahead, says new head of troubled Belah
CN 29.11.1996 p5 Parents anger as taxpayers foot Belah school head bill
CN 21.02.1997 p5 New head
CN 27.05.2005 Learning Supplement p2 Eric Robson, memories of school days
CN 01.12.2006 p13 Letter in defence of school threatened with closure
CN 29.12.2006 p13 Letter from parent on proposed closure of school and option open
CN 16.02.2007 p1 Belah School could be saved if Stanwix Primary School moved to site
CN 04.01.2008 p15 Council expected to announce closure; in last decade roll fallen from 320 to 45
CN 11.01.2008 p5 Belah closure announced at end of Summer term
CN 18.07.2008 p1 Belah School closed on Tuesday
CN 22.01.2010 p 7 Demolition of school begins
CN 05.02.2010 p7 Foundation stone of school goes to Kingmoor School
BELL, George Photographer
George Bell took over FW Bannister’s studio at 12 Henry Street, Carlisle in Feb./ March 1865 and moved from there to 32 English Street in April 1867.
Carte de visite noted, 21 Henry Street [12 and 21 probably same address, street renumbering]
Carte de visite noted ‘Bell’s City Portrait Rooms, 32 English Street
1869 Slater’s Directory 32 English Street
1870 Directory George Bell photographic artist, 32 English Street, home Scotby
Not listed in the 1873 Directory. In that Directory Benjamin Scott, photographer, is listed at 32 English Street and Devonshire Street
BELL, Isaac Carrier of this city died 05.10.1828; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard
BELL, Isaac Timber merchant
1851 census Grey Goat Lane, English Street, born Walton
1861 census; Ash House, Newtown Road. Isaac Bell, timber merchant, aged 55, bn Walton
CJ 21.12.1860 Died James Bell, son of Isaac Bell, 27 at Ash House, Newtown Road
BELL J and R Nelson St; firm founded 1863; firm out of business circa 1952
Builders
D.Perriam Denton Holme p59
J & R Bell & Sons, Builders & Contractors, Carlisle was a family firm established by two Carlisle brothers, John Davidson Bell and Robinson Cartner Bell. After completing apprenticeships as bricklayer and stonemason respectively, they took over the business previously carried on by Joseph Bell, their father, on the latter's retirement. Joseph Bell had in turn been carrying on a business established in partnership with John Hutton, another Carlisle builder, in 1863, a partnership which was dissolved ca.1876. In 1881 Joseph Bell was in business on his own account, with premises in Sheffield Street, employing 15 bricklayers and 10 labourers
John Davidson Bell, by then fully qualified, and Robinson Cartner Bell, still serving his apprenticeship, both worked in the business. Taking over from their father in the late 1880s, the brothers built the business in partnership until John Davidson Bell's death in 1895, after which Robinson Cartner Bell carried it on. Several other members of the Bell family were subsequently involved in the business, including Walter R. Bell, Robinson Bell (son of another of Joseph Bell's sons, Edward), and Robinson Cartner Bell's own sons, Robbie Bell and Joseph Jackson Bell. Robinson Cartner Bell died in 1941, the firm continuing in business for a further ten years before finally being wound up in 1952.
The contribution of J & R Bell & Sons to the landscape and life of the City of Carlisle was considerable: "Large numbers of Carlisle Corporation houses; many of the Carlisle & District State Management taverns; the Robert Ferguson Schools, Denton Holme; The Out-Patients Department at the Infirmary; the Palace Theatre; the City Picture House; St Margaret Mary School; Newtown School; the Employment Exchange; the Lakeland Laundries; the Carlisle and County High School for Girls; extensions to most of the factories in the city".
Additionally J & R Bell & Sons built many private houses in the Denton Holme area in particular, also Barn Close , Stanwix. The firm's success was founded on its reputation for good workmanship, thoroughness and reliability 5, and "Bell built" is a recommendation still used in the property brochures of local estate agents.
1 Family Papers: 1863 Account Book for "Messrs John Hutton & Joseph Bell, Builders, Corporation Road, in Account with Messrs Mackie, Davidson & Gladstone, Bankers, Carlisle".
2 Family Papers:1876’ Memorandum of Agreement’ between John Hutton & Joseph Bell.
3 1881 Census.
4, 5 Press notices following the death of R. C Bell in June 1941.
1910 Built Mission Hall on East Tower Street
The memorial, dwarf screen and stalls for the clergy, to John Wrigley in Seascale Church was overseen by George Black. The actual carving was carried out by Mr Sharp of Whitehaven. The stonework was done by J and R Bell [CJ 18.06.1912 p5]
City Minutes 1928-9 p133 Acceptance of tender for houses at Raffles/ Longsowerby
City Minutes 1929-30 p752 Tender of J and R Bell for 50 houses accepted; Raffles
1929 Built the Black Lion at Durdar, Coach and Horses, Kingstown and the Horse and farrier, Raffles
29.09.1930 Cumberland Inn completed to the designs of Harry Redfern. The inn was built by J and R. Bell of Carlisle. Redfern paid homage to those who had helped in the building by inserting a stained glass rebus in six of the windows in the mixed first class bar at first floor level, including a window each for J and R Bell,
City Minutes 1932-33 p357 Approval for 18 houses, Freer St; owner J and R Bell,
1935 built Earl Grey Inn, Botchergate
1940 built Redfern Inn
1949 the firm ceased trading
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p18
CJ 07.01.1938 p10 - paragraph in Local Trade
CD 1902-03 Ad p179
CD 1905-06 Ad p133
CD 1907-08 Ad p102
CD 1910-11 Ad p152
CD 1913-14 Ad p62
CD 1920 Ad p236
CD 1924 Ad p60
CD 1927 Ad p64 Established 1863
CD 1931 Ad p128
CD 1934 Ad p36
CD 1937 Ad p36
CD 1940 Ad p36
BELL, Joe Central Post Yard, West Wall Crown and Mitre Garage
Car Hire
CD 1931 Ad p80
CD 1934 Ad p68
CD 1937 Ad p124
CD 1940 Ad p68
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p278
CD 1952 Ad p381
CD 1955-56 Ad 285
CD 1961-62 Ad p44
CD 1966-68 Ad p300
BELL, John Currier
CP 19.06.1852 p3 Died on 17th June in Lowther Street
BELL, John Master shoemaker, aged 41, employing 3 apprentices, born Kirklinton, home address 22 Lowther Street [1851 census]
BELL, John Draper died 25.06.1908 [Monumental Inscription 10/14]
BELL, John Botchergate, 103 Denton Street
Butcher
M.Edwards Our City Our People p22 Short memory circa 1900
CD 1893-94 Ad p48
CD 1905-06 Ad p99
CD 1907-08 Ad p106
CD 1910-11 Ad p127
CD 1913-14 Ad p119
CD 1920 Ad p92
CD 1924 Ad p40
CD 1927 Ad p38 Established 1860
CD 1931 Ad 88
CD 1934 Ad p76
CD 1937 Ad p60
BELL, Joseph Carpenter of this city, died 11.11.1801; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard
BELL, Joseph 17 Rickergate
Tinsmith and hardware dealer
CD 1893-94 Ad p174
BELL, Joseph
City Minutes 1925-6 p159 Licensed to operate bus service to Hallbankgate
City Minutes 1926-7 p628 Licensed to operate bus service to Hallbankgate
BELL, Joseph and Son 52 Scotland Road
Joiners and contractors
CD 1924 Ad p72
CD 1927 Ad p76
CD 1931 Ad p300
CD 1934 Ad p240
CD 1937 Ad p154
CD 1940 Ad p162
BELL, M 159 Botchergate
Bakers and confectioners
CD 1952 Ad p82
CD 1955-56 Ad p224
BELL, Robert Draper aged 35, employing 1 assistant and 3 apprentices, home address 79 English Street, born Bowness, Cumberland [1851 census]
BELL,T and Sons Rosehill
CN 02.10.1998 p1 Bell brothers sell up cattle haulage business
BELL, T.P. Abbey Street
Cycle retailers
1901 census for Stanwix Thomas Bell bicycle maker [fitter] aged 23
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p18
ENS 07.08.1962 p5 Thomas Pollock Bell, 84, died today; started firm 64 years ago
CD 1940 Ad p216
CD 1952 Ad p62
CD 1955-56 Ad p6
CD 1961-62 Ad p267
CD 1966-68 Ad p261
CN 07.04.1989 p1 Shop closes after more than 90 years
CN 27.06.2008 p3 Donald Bell of T.P.Bell dies
BELL,T.W. 58 West Tower Street
Horticultural engineer
1954 Cumberland Directory Ad p246
BELL, Thomas Joiner and cabinetmaker, aged 36, employing 2 men, born Wetheral, home address 1 Grey Goats Lane [1861 census]
BELL,W and Co Ferguson’s Lane, English St, 7 and 9 Portland Place
Plumbers
CD 1884-85 Ad p270
BELL,W and Son 5 and 6 New Markets
Butchers
CD 1952 Ad p274
BELL, Walter Tailor and draper, aged 56, employing 7 men, home address 62 Scotch St, born Scotland [1851 census]
BELL, William Shipbuilder, Canal Basin; in directories 1829 - 1851
CJ 13.10.1821 Handsome sloop, ‘The Crown’, was launched from the stocks at Bowness. She was built by Mr William Bell
23.10.1825 ‘The City’, the first ship to be built in Carlisle, was launched at the Canal basin. The vessel was built was Mr William Bell, of Bowness, and launched from his timber yard at the Basin. The Bell family built ships in Carlisle throughout the life of the Carlisle Canal. A gravestone in Carlisle’s Dalston Road cemetery [188/27] remembers William Bell died 25.09.1894; this was the son of the original Canal Shipbuilder, William Bell. The 1841 census shows that William Bell, shipbuilder, lived at Canal Cottages
November 1826 Messrs Bell launch their ship ‘The Albion’ at the Canal Basin. This was built for the Carlisle Grocer’s union
July 1827 The Fortuna was launched from Bell’s yard
April 1829 The smack ‘Jane’ launched from Bell’s yard
01.03.1863 William Bell senior died at Canal cottages
CN 13.11.1998 p8 The Solway Lightship was built by William Bell of Carlisle in 1840 to light the way into Port Carlisle harbour
BELL, William Chemist, aged 33, with 3 assistants, born Carlisle, home address English Street [1861 census]
BELL, William Millwright, aged 45, employing 19 men, home address 1 Spring Gardens Lane, born Kirklinton, Cumberland [1851 census]
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p 7 Lowther St millwright and engineer
BELL, William 2 Tait Street
Butcher
CD 1952 Ad p273
BELLA HEADS LANE see HEADS LANE
BELLERBY, J School on Scotch Street. Noted sampler done by Isabella Brown who finished this work at J.Bellerby’s School, Scotch Street, May 8th 1834 aged 10
BELLERBY and SONS 30 English Street, 93 Botchergate
Household drapery
Carlisle in Camera 1 p19 photo showing part of facade
1858 Directory Robert Bellerby, linen draper and hosier, Botchergate
1873 Directory Robert Bellerby and sons, hosiers, 93 Botchergate
1891 census; Robert Bellerby, draper, aged 70, bn Carlisle, home Cavendish Pl.
CD 1893-94 Ad p108
M.Edwards Our City Our People p24 Memories of shop about 1900
04.05.1903 died Robert Bellerby, draper of this city, aged 83 [MI 57/63]
BELLE VUE Belle Vue estate sold 08.11.1898; Belle Vue became part of city in November 1912
CJ 26.09.1865 p2 In 1865
CJ 07.04.1882 p1 Market gardens at Belle Vue for sale. Between 4 and 5 acres, fruit trees, piggeries. J.H.Pattinson will show
CJ 07.04.1911 p1 Belle Vue. Farm for sale - building estate?
1930s description of Belle Vue in A Carlisle Lad by J.Templeton, 2007, pp6-11
04.10.1933 Dora Graham died Beech House, Belle Vue [MI 393/12]
CN 20.06.1997 p13 Aerial view
CN 16.06.2006 p11 insight into Belle Vue history; Denis Perriam
BELLE VUE POST OFFICE
1930s description of General Store and Post Office in A Carlisle Lad by J.Templeton, 2007, pp9 - photo
CN 24.01.1975 p3
CN 14.02.2003 p7 Moorhouse Road post office earmarked for closure
CN 25.04.2003 p3 Post Office closes
BELLE VUE READING ROOM
CP 27.12.1862 p5
BELLE VUE SCHOOL
Civic Affairs January 1969 p2 Hoped to open January 1969
Civic Affairs October 1970 p2 Classrooms opened in Aug; all finished Easter 1971
BELLGARTH NURSERY
see also WALTONS
CP 13.01.1905 p1 To let Bellgarth Gardens, Newtown - nurseries; 7500 ft of glass
1918 Electoral Register William and Jessie Walton
BELLGARTH ROAD
City Minutes 1903-04 p758 Permission to lay out estate
BELL PARK KERRIDGE Portland Square
Solicitors
CN 04.02.2000 Ad p9
CN 13.12.2002 p14 Senior appointment at law firm
CN 29.06.2007 p22 Move to Parkhouse business park
BELLRINGERS and BELLMEN
CN 08.02.1947 p5
CN 31.05.1947 p5 To form association
CJ 27.05.1947 p2 Cumberland and Westmorland Assoc. of Change Ringers reformed
CN 22.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 12.09.1997 p2 People needed to ring in Millennium
BELLS see BURGESS AND HAYTON; CATHEDRAL-BELLS; MARKET COVERED BELL; ‘MUCKLE TOUN BELL’; NICHOSON AND CO; RACING
BELLS COURT, Corporation Road [1934 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 23-25 Corporation Road
BELL’S COURT, Rickergate
1880 Directory 30 Rickergate
City Minutes 1928-9 p361 No 1 unfit for human habitation
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 28-30 Rickergate
1934 Directory 28 Rickergate
BELLS COURT, Saint Nicholas Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 47 Saint Nicholas Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 47-49 St Nicholas Street
BELL’S FISHMONGERS The Market; Kingstown
175 Years of Carlisle p115 photo of market stall about 1990
CN 02.04.1993 Ad p16
CN 14.02.1997 p4 Rare prize
CN 08.03.2002 p14 Fish and game firm expansion will create jobs
CN 21.03.2003 p3 Bell’s open shop in Cranston’s Fisher St shop
BELLS OF LAZONBY
CN 27.06.2003 p7 bakers pull out of covered market
BELMONT TERRACE, Belle Vue, later part of Moorhouse Rd; photo of no 6 Belmont Avenue, later 38 Moorhouse Rd in A Carlisle Lad by James P.Templeton
BENDALL, James and Sons London Road
Sheet metal workers and motor body repair. Founded in 1894 has been at the forefront of fabrication technology. In the 1920s the company manufactured body panels for Donald Campbell’s Bluebird land and water record breaking speed machines. During the 1950s Bendalls became one of the first suppliers of bespoke equipment into Windscale, Britain’s first nuclear facility. In the 1970s Bendalls manufactured equipment for the North Sea oil industry. In 1996 Bendalls Engineering was bought by Carrs Milling PLC. In 2022 the operational base occupies 56,000 square feet over two sites within the Kingstown Industrial Estate, Carlisle. The workshops are capable of large scale fabrication up to 250 tonne, including testing facilities, a large X-Ray bay to carry out on site radiography and an in-house machine shop facility
CN 17.09.1938 p20
CJ 09.12.1949 p5 25th Anniversary
CN 14.04.1967 p1 Extensions
CN 15.07.1955 Work on Donald Campbell’s Bluebird
CN 14.04.1960 p3 Cumberland News Industrial supplement
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p51 1960 interior photo of works; also p68
CN 24.12.1971 p13 Obit of James Bendall
CN 24.11.1989 p5 Strike set to spread
CN 20.05.1995 Centenary supplement
ENS 18.07.1996 p1 Carrs Milling buys Bendalls
CN 27.02.1998 Ad p12
CN 23.03.2001 p5 Plan to move to Kingmoor Park
CN 30.03.2001 p18 Revolutionary engine turbine to be made in Carlisle
CN 23.08.2002 p20 Bendalls complete world’s first tidal current turbine
CN 30.05.2003 p2 Strike and no confidence in bosses vote
CN 20.06.2003 p14 Lead role in generating electricity from tidal currents
CN 25.07.2003 p18 Cash to develop underwater turbines
CN 28.10.2005 p 14 New site at Kingstown; 6m turnover
CN 17.02.2006 p18 Signs deal to build and design the world’s first tidal powered turbine
CN 06.04.2007 p21 Bendalls wins 1.6m pound contract with Sellafield
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p259
CN 29.01.2009 p18 Bendalls win contract to build a new evaporator for use in Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield
CN 14.12.2012 p22 To build pressure vessels for two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point; currently employs 75 people; started 1894 as steel-fabricating business
BENDIX SAFETY RESTRAINTS see KANGOLS
BENDLE, Henry 17 Scotch Street
Wine and spirit merchant
Guide to Carlisle Ad C178
1882 Porters Directory Ad p88 Successor to T.L.Gilkerson
BENDLE, Robert Solicitor; died 12.06.1866, aged 72 [Monumental inscription 5/33]
BENDLE, Robert Attorney at Law, aged 66, living at 1 Victoria Place, born Carlisle [1851 census]
BENFIELD MOTORS Rosehill Estate; Nissan dealership taken over from Masons
CN 17.08.2001 p15 Plans to transform dealership
BENSON ,J.J. and J.
CN 17.11.1995 p1 Mobile shop loss is gain to market
BENWELL, JW Architect
CJ 21.08.1936 p8 Carlisle architects. His great work was the restoration of Dalston Hall
BERLIN TERRACE Renamed Chertsey Mount in 1917 (City Minutes 1916-17 p203)
City Minutes 1891-92 p261 Approval for new street
City Minutes 1893-94 p 238 Approval for 4 houses
CJ 30.06.1967 p10 CN 14.09.1973 p6
CN 02.06.1989 p4 City street name that lost favour
CN 30.06.1989 p4 Police changed house numbers
BERLIN WOOL SHOPS
CN 16.04.1987 p4
BESWICK, A Strawbonnet maker
CJ 06.03.1847 p1c Advert; shop in Paternoster Row
BESWICK’S COURT, 4 Caldcotes [1880 Directory]
BETA COURT, William Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 11 William Street
1924 Carlisle Directory lists between 11-13 William Street
BETTAM and Co 4 Irishgate, 10 Annetwell St
Boot manufacturer
1891 census; R,Bettam, aged 38, home 4 Irishgate, bn Birmingham
CD 1902-03 Ad p227
BEVERIDGE ROAD On electoral register from 1997-98
BEWICK, Thomas Wood engraver
CN 26.04,1952 p4 Local connections
CN 18.06.1971 p14 Work
CN 09.07.1971 p14 Work
BEWLEY, Robert School; 31 Chiswick St
CP 16.12.1870 Number in attendance at school 35
BEWLEY, William
City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate bus services Carlisle - Gretna
BEWLEYS COURT, Crosby Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed
BEWLEY’S COURT, 12 English Street [1880 Directory]
BEWLEY’S COURT, 36 Rickergate [1880 Directory]. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
BEWSHER,F.O. 14-16 English St; see also Angel Inn
Wine and spirit merchant
CP 23.12.1887 F.O. Bewsher opened wine and above spirit stores 16-17 English St
CD 1893-94 Ad p110
1901 census; Frederick Oberlin Bewsher, 67, bn Penrith, home 43 Scotland Rd
CD 1902-03 Ad p14
BHP MOTORSPORTS
CN 03.04.1992 p10 Firm with high performance
BIBLES
CP 28.05.1835 Advert, sale of bibles by Thurnam and Scott
BIBLE SOCIETY Cumberland and Carlisle Auxiliary Bible Society started in 1813
CP 30.04.1853 p1a Notice of the annual meeting on May 3rd
BICYCLE CLUB
CN 04.12.1964 p12 (illus)
BICYCLES see CYCLING; BORDER CITY WHEELERS
BIDDY MULLIGAN’S see WOOLPACK
BIFFA
see also REFUSE COLLECTION
CN 22.02.1991 pp1,10 Bin firm may dump Carlisle
CN 08.03.1991 p25 Bin cleaning wont stop pledges Biffa
BIG SOFTIES West Walls
CN 21.05.1999 p9 (illus) To close
BIJOU RESTAURANT
CN 28.10.2011 p5 Restaurant moves from Carlyle Court to corner of Fisher Street and Saint Marys Gate
BIJOU THEATRE Mechanics Hall, Fisher St
D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House p46 The hall was originally built for the purpose of affording accommodation for lectures of a literary and philosophical character, to be given to members of the Carlisle Mechanics Institute, but as the day of lectures gradually passed away, the room became more and more devoted to amusements of a different kind. An agreement was reached in June 1869 with the School of Art for a 5 year lease and the Carlisle Journal reported on 05.08.1870 ‘On Monday night students assembled in their new quarters for the first time which offered ventilation and space i which to pursue their studies, which in the limited area of the old academy in Finkle Street they did not enjoy’.
CJ 27.10.1868 p2 Charles Dillon, distinguished actor appears at Bijou Theatre
CJ 29.12.1868 p3a 3 or 4 years since theatricals revived in city at Bijou Theatre
CJ 24.12.1869 Ad for Bijou Theatre; Fredrick Young’s London Comedy Co
CN 13.12.1963 p10 Illustration of playbill
BILLIARDS
1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p139 Joseph Porter, billiard table keeper, English St
BINGO
see also Gala Bingo
ENS 06.08.1963 p1 (illus) Bingo for HM Theatre
CN 13.07.2001 p6 Carlisle woman wins £34,000 at Rex Bingo Club
CN 30.11.2001 p4 Carlisle bingo caller wins UK title
CN 21.11.2003 p3 Jim Collins, Harraby, pensioner wins £41,000
BINNING, S.J. and Son Ltd 52 English St, London Rd, Crown St, Lancaster St, Denton St,Dalston Rd
Coal merchants; for early history see Thompson, M
CN 03.03.1961 p12 CJ 10.03.1961 p8 (illus) CN 11.06.1965 Supplement
CD 1910-11 Ad p78
CD 1913-14 Ad p92
CD 1924 Ad p88
CD 1927 Ad p96
CD 1931 Ad p56
CD 1934 Ad p318
CD 1937 Ad p234
CJ 29.05.1894 Obituary of Samuel Jackson Binning
CP 01.06.1894 Obituary of Samuel Jackson Binning
BINNING MEMORIAL CLASSROOMS; Christ Church Schools, Lancaster St
CN 19.08.1950 p4 (illus) Laying of chief corner stone
BINNS English Street
see also ROBINSON BROTHERS; HOUSE OF FRASER
CN 09.03.1946 p6 Up to 1933 block of stores owned by Mr Frank Robinson
CJ 05.03.1946 p1 Called Robinson Brothers
CN 17.09.1938 p17 Advert
CN 27.07.1990 p52 Jobs pledge as axe hits 100 store staff
CN 07.10.1994 Ad pp18,19
CN 31.01.1997 p1 Sixteen jobs may go in Binns store
CN 14.03.1997 p5 Binns set for relaunch
CN 21.03.1997 p1 Refurbishment opening
CD 1937 Ad p4
BINNS,H Son and Co English St
Home and wear, cafe
CD 1934 Ad p32
BIOLETTI Devonshire St
Hairdresser and perfumer
Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1872; ad
BIRD IN HAND PUBLIC HOUSE Castle Street; closed 1916
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, p93
So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19
1829 Directory p163 John Dunn
1861 census, Mary Thompson, aged 49, innkeeper, born Aikton
1891 census; John Robinson, 32, cooper, born Ireland
1901 census George Lewthwaite, innkeeper, aged 38, born Carlisle
CN 17.05.1991 p4 (illus)
BIRD IN HAND PUBLIC HOUSE Stanwix; closed 1917
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p72 oblique photo of pub, 1923
D Perriam Stanwix p23
1829 Robert Hewitt Stanwix [Parson and White p 163]
1851 census, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick innkeeper, 54, born Kent, Dover
City Minutes 1918-19 p 141 Purchase completed for widening of Scotland Rd
City Minutes 1923-24 p116 Advertise for tenders to pull down building
CN 26.12.1991 p4 (illus)
CN 14.03.2008 p36 History by Denis Perriam
BIRD IN HAND LANE, Castle Street In the voters list until 1955, first mentioned in the 1829 directory; between 5 and 7 Castle St in 1901
So named on 50 inch OS map 1899 23.03.19
1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 12 properties here
BIRDS
Carlisle Natural History Society; Transactions vol.5, 1933, Birds in Carlisle
CN 25.10.1996 p5 Exotic squatters are a father in farmers cap
CN 27.06.1997 p19 (illus) Farmers urged to help save the skylark - but subsidy goes south
CN 11.07.1997 p3 (illus) Hero John’s flying tackle saves entangled swans
BI-RITE 83 Lowther Street
See also Orams
D Perriam Lowther Street p40 Photo of facade
Cumberland News Images of Carlisle p11 Photo of food shop
BIRKBY HOUSE Stanwix
CJ 03.07.1942 p1 New residence of the bishop
BIRKETT, Mr Daniel, [1837-1897] Architect who designed the Central Hotel which opened in 1881. Son of John Birkett of Broomhills, Dalston. Trained in the office of John Dobson in Newcastle [CJ 27.07.1897p2]. First major contract was for the Cumberland Union Bank in 1865 at the corner of Botchergate and Court Square. 1868 Hope and Bendle’s spirit shore, Lowther Street. In 1878 designed a school in Caldewgate and in 1879 a school in Morley Street. He died on 23.07.1897 at the Priory, Roehampton
BIRKETT, James
City Minutes 1924-25 p89 Licensed to operate bus Town Hall to Gretna
BIRKETTS BAKERY
CN 07.07.2000 p14 Birketts create 14 jobs in new Lanes shop
CN 13.10.2000 p14 Birketts open new shop in Lanes
BIRKETT’S LANE, Castle Street So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
BIRK’S EMPEROR CAFE 66 English St. In 1934 Directory at this address
CD 1952 Ad p124
CJ 17.07.1953 p5
BIRMINGHAM MOTORS 27 Rickergate, Durranhill Road
CD 1952 Ad p343
CD 1955-56 Ad p265
BIRRELL’S COURT, 4 Margaret Street [1880 Directory]
BIRTH CONTROL
Margaret Forster Hidden Lives pp123-4 In Carlisle, as in most other cities, there was only a Babies’ Welfare Centre where babies were weighed and appropriate advice given to the mothers, who were served with a cup of tea and a biscuit for one penny’. The appropriate advice didn’t extend to the limitation of families....The only recourse any young mother had was the family doctor...the whole business of birth control upset Lily; but then so did the whole business of sex. But she tried to be brave and after a visit to the dreaded doctor had produced no enlightenment, beyond being told it was her husband’s business to take care, she felt there was nothing she could do except to try and limit intercourse. She got into the habit, when Arthur was ready to go to bed, of staying up, saying she would just finish the darning. Then she would sit close to the fire and darn and wait and listen and hope to hear him snoring when she would at last join him, slipping between the covers with the greatest caution
CJ 27.05.1938 p9 Run by Carlisle and District Branch of National Birth Control Assn on Victoria Place
BIRTHS
See also; abortion; Illegitimate births; midwives, triplets
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 02.10.1885 p8 Wet nurse wanted.
CJ 05.02.1886 p8 Ad wet nurse wanted, aged about 25. Liberal wages given
Our City Our People, M.Edwards p7 Description of a birth in 1889
City Minutes 1908-09 p253-254 Annual birth rate 1875 to 1908
CJ 04.01.1910 Newly born male child left on St Aidans Vicarage doorstep
Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle for 1923 p12 Rate and nos. 1891 - 1923
Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle for 1927 p12 Rate and nos 1891-1927
CN 31.10.2003 p1 Girls 12 gives birth; opinion page 12
BISHOP GOODWIN SCHOOL Foundation stone of Goodwin Mission School laid 10.09.1892 by Mrs Ware, daughter of Bishop Goodwin, late Bishop of Carlisle; opened 05.09.1893; foundation stone of new infants department laid 11.04.1896 and opened 19.11.1896; foundation stone of boys department laid 27.04.1898; New school opened 03.02.1972
CN 06.02.1976 p6 CN 29 .05.1970 p1
CP 16.09.1892 p6f,g Laying of foundation stone of Goodwin Mission School
Carlisle Express and Examiner 17.09.1892 p5a Foundation stone of Mission school
CP 29.04.1898 p6 Laying the foundation stone
CJ 29.04.1898 p6d Laying of foundation stone
CP 14.01.1898 p3 Plans for new school
Carlisle The Archive Photos p100 photo of school about 1904
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p62 Photo of school choir, 28.05.1912, after Paris visit
CN 01.01.1949 p5 Development plan
Memories of Carlisle, Chapter 2 School photo in 1953
‘It’s 1956, and Standard Three at Bishop Goodwin junior school is keyed up to take the Merit. It was drummed into us at school that passing the Merit was your passport to everything a good education could give. Passing the Merit and going to the city’s high school for girls was the ultimate accolade and only a few were able to have this opportunity. My Mum and Dad had never had a chance to carry on their education even though my Father won a scholarship to the grammar school, and deep down I knew they wanted me to have the chance they never had. My recollection is that there were three sections to the Merit - English, Arithmetic and Intelligence and we all took the exams on the same day, My Mum was still in bed enjoying her morning cup of tea and I took the letters upstairs, not realising what it contained. She opened it and suddenly the tears came coursing down her face and she jumped out of bed. ‘You’ve passed’, she said ‘You’ve passed for the high school, just wait till I tell your Dad’. I sat down on the bed slowly, the enormity of the situation engulfing me like a huge wave. I’d passed the Merit and I was going to the high school. ‘Mam’ I said hesitatingly ‘It costs a lot of money to buy the uniform’. ‘Never mind’, she said ‘You’re going, and that’s that.’ I called for my friend ‘What did you do?’ was the exited cry and joyfully I replied ‘High School’, ‘Brainy, eh?’ she joked. ‘I’m going to the secondary modern’. The conversation was repeated time and again as we met our friends. My heart sank everytime. I was the only one. I would have to go on my own, no friends to go with. It got so bad that I hardly dared answer when asked if I’d passed. My pride was quickly turning to despair. In the classroom the teacher called me and Mary to the front ‘These girls have passed for the high school’ he said with undoubted pride. Relief rose in me so hard that I thought I would choke. There was another girl - I wouldn’t have to go on my own. The uniform was bought, at what cost I’ll never know, but it was several years before Mum had a new coat. The gabardine was on the long side ‘You’ll grow into it’, and the gymslip had to be regulation length, touching the floor when you knelt down. Grey knee-socks were held up by garters. Badges were sewn on along with dozens of names tapes. A leather satchel was handed down complete with a Osmiroid pen and Lakeland pencils. I was ready.[Quoted in Cumbria within Living Memory, 1994]
CN 11.05.1962 p10 (illus) Choir
CN 29.06.1962 p12 Choir visit to Paris
CN 13.07.1962 p12 Choir visit to Paris
CN 04.02.1972 p26 Archbishop opens new city school
CN 11.02.1972 p12 Early days
CN 22.03.1974 p10 (illus) Official opening
CN 23.01.1976 p1 (illus) Coin find - demolition of old school
CN 26.08.1988 (illus) Boys choir put city in limelight
CN 01.11.1991 p10 Boyhood memories
CN 22.11.1991 p13 Special cathedral service
CN 19.03.1993 p1 Ton up schools
CN 23.04.1993 p9 Marking 100 years of schools
CN 30.04.1993 p52 School brings its history to life
ENS 22.05.1996 p8 (illus) Bless this new nursery
CN 08.11.1996 p2 Exploding firework starts nursery blaze
CN 27.06.1997 p1 Parents defend city infants school after damning report
CN 03.07.1998 p5 Ofsted - clean bill of health
CN 01.06.2001 p5 Proposed amalgamation of Infant and Junior Schools
CN 22.02.2002 p4 (illus) Infants and junior schools to merge in September
CN 11.07.2003 p3 Open day at merged schools; now ‘Bishop Harvey Goodwin Sc’
CN 18.07.2008 p7 WWI memorial finds new home in Bishop Harvey Goodwin School grounds [From Howie Boyd Hall]
BISHOPS CLOSE Sheltered housing; Stanhope Road
CN 03.04.1987 p40 Opened by Princess Anne
BISHOPS COURT, Princess Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 50 Princess Street
BISHOPS OF CARLISLE
List of Bishops - Weston, D.W.V. Carlisle Cathedral History p142, 2000
Athelwold (or Adelulf) consecrated/ enthroned 1133; vacancy; Bernard enthroned/ consecrated 1204; Hugh de Beaulieu 1219; Walter Mauclerc 1224; Silvester de Everdon 1247; Thomas de Vipont 1255; Robert de Chause 1258; Ralph de Ireton 1280; John de Halton 1292; John de Ross 1325; John de Kirkby 1332; Gilbert de Welton 1353; Thomas de Appleby 1363; Robert Reade (Reed) 1396; Thomas Merke (Merks) 1397; William Strickland 1400; Roger Whelpdale 1419; William Barrow 1423; Marmaduke Lumley 1429; Nicholas Close 1450; William Percy 1452; John Kingscote 1462; Richard Scrope 1464; Edward Story 1468; Richard Bell 1478; William Senhouse 1495; Roger Leyburn 1503; John Penny 1508; John Kite 1521; Robert Aldrich 1537; Owen Oglethorpe 1557; John Best 1561; Richard Barnes 1570; John May (Meye) 1577; Henry Robinson 1598; Robert Snowden 1616; Richard Milbourne 1621; Richard Senhouse 1624; Francis White 1626; Barnabas Potter 1629; James Ussher 1642 in commendam 1656 died; vacancy; Richard Sterne 1660; Edward Rainbow 1664; Thomas Smith 1684; William Nicolson 1702; Samuel Bradford 1718; John Waugh 1723; George Fleming 1735; Richard Osbaldeston 1747; Charles Lyttleton 1762; Edmund Law 1769; John Douglas 1787; Edward V Vernon Harcourt 1791; Samuel Goodenough 1808; Hugh Percy 1827; Henry Montagu Villiers 1856; Samuel Waldegrave 1860; Harvey Goodwin 1869; John Wareing Bardsley 1892; John William Diggle 1905; Henry Herbert Williams 1920; Thomas Bloomer 1946; Sydney Cyril Bulley 1967; David Halsey 1973; Ian Harland 1989; Graham Dow 2000; James Newcombe 2009
CN 15.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 11.11.1944 p5 And Scottish wars
CN 16.06.1989 p4 Bishops rarely stayed long
CN 23.06.1989 p4 Refused bishopric
CN 08.12.1989 p27 A new bishop is welcomed
CN 12.04.1996 p1 Bishop calls for ‘raves’
CN 10.03.2000 p15 Delay as Downing Street mulls over choice of Bishop
CN 14.04.2000 p4 The delay the Bishop cleaned the lavs
CN 01.12.2000 p7 66th Bishop to be enthroned on December 2rd
CN 29.05.2009 p1 New Bishop, James Newcombe
BISHOP’S TOWER
Slee, Mary Older Carlisle p18
BITTS PARK
see also Bandstand, Mayors Drive, Sauceries, VICTORIA, Queen; Statue of; Victoria Park; Weavers Bank,
In 1892 a further flood embankment, the Mayor’s Drive, extended the riverside path around the Sauceries and made it possible to form a ‘People’s Park’ on the Bitts
CJ 16.11.1888 p5 Levelling of Bitts; tip for rubbish now on Bitts
CJ 04.08.1939 Temporary huts for militiamen being erected on Bitts Park
CN.18.10.1947 pp4,5 Campsite requisitioned by Ministry of Works; MAFF to move in
CN 31.01.1948 p5 Bitts Park Camp; new tenants move in
CN 09.07.1949 pp4,5 Ministry of Works asking for lease; history of site
CN 04.02.1950 p9 Proposal for development as a general sports centre
CN 03.06.1950 p4 Origin of name
CN 08.02.1957 p8 Bandstand demolition
CN. 24.02.1961 MAFF offices at present in huts on Bitts Park
CN 14.08.1964 p18 Move of MAFF to new Eden Bridge House start Thursday
CN 15.07.1966 p11 Photo of part demolition of Park Camp
CN 23.03.1989 p4 Victorian bandstand attracted the crowds
CN 20.10.1989 p9 Fireshow joins the arts
CN 26.05.1995 p1 Gaining experience (proposals extension)
CN 04.10.1996 p1 (illus) Bloom with a view wins title for Bitts Park
CN 14.11.1997 p1 (illus) Where there’s muck there’s grass
CN 03.08.2001 p1 Stage set for 60,000 pop fans in park for Radio 1 show; ad p14
CN 09.05.2003 p5 Childrens paddling pool will not reopen because of safety fears
CN 02.04.2004 p13 £170,000 on Bitts Park water feature in place of pool
CN 18.06.2004 p16 New interactive water feature opens
CN 06.08.2004 p3 10,000 people expected at pop2thepark
CN 29.04.2005 p5 Devastated by flood but bouncing back
CN 12.08.2005 pp11, 29 7,000 strong crows for pop event
CN 19.05.2010 p34 D.Perriam; article on former river channel, now sunken gardens. Wood’s map of 1821 marks a pond here
CN 20.05.2011 p32 Story of army camp depot built here in August 1939. MAFF moved in in January 1948. One or two huts still retained for park’s dept Bitts Depot
CN 02.05.2014 p3 Urban Adventure opens attraction in park; zip wire
CN 21.10.2016 p5 Play park opens again after flood
CN 20.10.2017 p1 Granite compass removed; installed in 2011. Slippery surface may have caused accidents
CN 24.12.2021 p19 Cultural hub in Bitts Park, opened this summer. Housed just behind the Park Keeper's house it is based around container units offering snacks, coffees etc
BLACK, George Timber merchant, joiner and carpenter employing 20 men and 6 apprentices, aged 44, born Burgh, Cumberland, living at 2 Cecil Street [1851 census]; timber merchant, aged 54, employing 24 men and 7 boys, home address 2 Cecil Street, born Burgh [1861 census]
BLACK, George Lorne Street
1882 Porters Directory Ad p152 Builder established 1832
CN 26.10.1929 p10 Obit of George Black, master joiner, took over control of business from his father George Black, who lived in Cecil Street, carried out joinery in connection with the restoration of Bamburgh Castle for Lord Armstrong. The work extended over 14 years and 300 tons of teak alone in the roof, also workshops made moving pulpit in St Cuthbert’s Church; G.Black building contractor 1914-19 for enlargement and improvement of Crossrigg Hall [2C9 CLI 728.8]; his was the preferred wood-working firm of the architect C.J.Ferguson and worked on many prestigious commissions, Naworth Castle, Dalston Hall, St Aidans’s, Carlisle. The combination pulpit and prayer desk in Kirkbride Church was carved by George Black [Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England, B and W Armstrong, 2005]; Canon Weston reports that a 40 feet screen by Black is in Corbridge Parish Church and that the parish minutes report that the tender for this was accepted in 1912; The memorial dwarf screen and stalls for the clergy, to John Wrigley in Seascale Church was overseen by George Black. The actual carving was carried out by Mr Sharp of Whitehaven. The stonework was done by J and R Bell [CJ 18.06.1912 p5]
BLACK, Jos Scotch Street
CJ 24.04.1847 p2c Ad for hosiery and haberdashery business
1851 Directory. Ad 29 Scotch Street [after page 82 at back]
BLACK, R and Son West Walls
Joiners
CN 15.10.1954 p12
BLACK, Wallace
City Minutes 1927-28 p621 Licensed to operate bus to Liverpool and Glasgow
BLACK BULL Annetwell Street; rebuilt circa 1878/9; in local directories to 1914; called Old Black Bull to1855; known as the Blazing Barrel, a gas lit advertising sign hanging outside; 1917 knocked through to Saracens Head and enlarged property renamed Irishgate Tavern, which was demolished in 1972 for road improvements
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, pp90-92
1829 Directory p 164 Old Black Bull; David Spedding
So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19, called Old Black Bull Inn
1891 census; William Skelton, wine and spirit merchant, aged 39, born Wigton
ENS 24.08.1916 Takeover by State Management
ENS 05.10.1916 To be amalgamated with the Saracen’s Head; later Irishgate Tav.
BLACK BULL INN [OLD], Irishgate Brow
So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19
BLACK BULL Scotch Street; in local directories to 1861
CJ 07.11.1801 Furness Hodgson, innkeeper.
1821 New Guide to Carlisle p76 Nathan Goulding
CJ 20.02.1847 p1a Ad; now altered name to Joiners Arms Inn
1861 census William Fisher, inn keeper, aged 36, born Scotland
BLACK BULL Upperby; local directories to 1925
BLACK BULL, Kingstown
CJ 30.10.1841 p1 For sale. Mr Mitchinson tenant
BLACK BULL LANE, 52 Scotch Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 54 Scotch Street [1880 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 50-52 Scotch Street
BLACK BULL YARD, Scotch St [1829 Directory and 1847 Directory]
BLACKBURN AND MAIN Solicitors; Edward Blackburn born 1854 [Carlisle Grammar School Memorial Register p168, 1924]
BLACK DEATH see PLAGUE
BLACK FRIARS Came to Carlisle in 1233; moved to permanent site in Blackfrairs St in 1238; location of Friary see Summerson Medieval Carlisle 1, p160 1BC 9. After the Dissolution the buildings of the Black Friars were retained in the King’s hands, enclosed with palings and converted into a council chamber, magazine and storehouse for the convenience of the garrison
D Perriam Blackfriars Street pp18-20 There were only 4 Dominican Friars left in the convent in 1530 and the buildings were too extensive for their needs. Sir Christopher Dacre was storing grain in one of the disused buildings in 1534. Another part, known as the Guarding House, was occupied by the King’s ordnance and gunpowder. After the Dissolution the Blackfriars Convent was lying waste in 1539. From 1556 there were meetings in the remodelled buildings, here for the Council of the North ‘for the purpose of transacting business then arising between the Kings of England and Scotland’, but by 1561 these were permanently transferred to York and there after stone was taken from the buildings for the city walls. In 1561 Cuthbert Body ,deputy porter at the Castle, occupied part of the buildings. By 1608 this was described as the Warden House of the Citadel and other buildings there were ‘utterly ruinated and wasted’. The area became gardens for wealthy citizens well into the 18th century. The archaeological dig in the Blackfriars graveyard recovered over 300 medieval skeletons. The graveyard is now covered by Marks and Spencer Food Hall
Topping,G and Potter,J Memorials of Old Carlisle p10
Round Carlisle Cross Vol 6 The Blackfriars of Carlisle pp 22-31
CWAAS O.S. Vol 6 p138
VCH Vol 2 pp194-199
BLACKFRIARS STREET Where the Black Friars were
D Perriam Blackfriars Street, 2021
CN 19.07.1957 p8 (illus) CN 26.07.1957 p8 CJ 14.10.1960 p5 (illus)
CPacquet 25.07.1780 p1` Ad for two commodious houses for sale
City Minutes 1925-6 p552 -3 Proposed reformation of prison site - 2 maps
CJ 22.02.1927 Photo showing property to be demolished
CJ 02.08.1935 Street widening in progress to take in part of St Cuthbert’s graveyard
Carlisle in Camera 1 p61 photo in 1920s
Carlisle in old picture postcards view 22 in about 1908
CJ 19.08.1966 p3 Widening
CN 03.06.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
CN 13.05.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
ENS 26.04.1978 (illus) Photo and article of skeletons
CN 07.04.1978 p5 Archaeological dig
CN 23 09.1977 p10 Archaeological dig
CN 28.10.1977 p11 Archaeological dig
CN 03.06.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
CN 15.07.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
CN 07.12.1990 p4 Controversy over loss of a lane
ENS 01.08.1978 p13 (illus) Unearthing the city’s past
CN 09.01.1998 p10 (illus) Marks and Spencers; where Blackfriars once worshipped
BLACKHALL
1610; called Blacall fields 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]
CJ 15.07.1921 p5
BLACKHALL STREET, so named on the 50 inch 1899 OS map; now that portion of Blackwell Road south from the 5 roads junction
BLACK LION INN, Durdar Built 1929 by J and R Bell to the design of Harry Redfern and opened May 6th of that year; extended December 1969
Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 p140-141
1929 Henry F.Long first manager, when he died in 1946 it passed to his wife who resigned in December 1947
CN 20.02.1981 p7
BLACK LION Irishgate Brow; in local directories 1847 - 1861
So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19
BLACKLOCK, Thomas Tobacco manufacturer and grocer, aged 28, employing 26 men and boys, home address 8 Lowther St, born Cumwhitton [1851 census]
1847 Steel’s guide to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Ad; shop Market place, successor to late E.Allison
BLACKLOCK and WILKINSON Grocers
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p8 1 English Street
BLACKOUT
CJ 05.04.1949 p1 End of after 10 years
BLACK PEOPLE
See also SLAVERY
1789 There is a memorial stone just inside St Cuthbert’s Church. The stone, behind glass, reads ‘J Grencapo who died 1789 aged 27. He was brought to Carlisle from the West Indies by a vicar of this parish, but died of pneumonia’
Cumberland Pacquet 17.07.1827 p3 John Kent son of West Indian slave appointed a policeman in city
14.01.1844 Epitaph in Saint Mary’s Churchyard ‘Sacred to the memory of James Anthony, a Native of Africa. He came into this country in 1790, in the service of William Giles, Capt in the Nineteenth Regiment of Foot, and remained the respected servant of the family for upwards of forty years. Died January 19th 1844, aged 75 years. There shall be one fold and one Shepherd’. S.Gilpin Life of Sam Bough p6 and memory of Antonio
CJ 20.01.1844 p3 American negro, James Anthony, ‘Toney’ died. Servant to Captain Giles and later a servant to Sir Richard Hodgson
CJ 17.04.1894 p2 Black actor in Carlisle ‘African Roscius’ descended from a Senegal princess.
CJ 24.04.1894 p2 Jottings. Ira F Aldridge son of a black clergyman born in New York where his parents had come from Gambia, played in Carlisle in 1842
CJ 02.02.1926 p4 memory of James Anthony by Sam Bough’...his father despatched him to the Mayor’s house with a pair of mended shoes. It was a bitterly cold winter’s night and Sam was ushered into the kitchen to warm himself. A negro servant, as black as ebony, was there. He was noted all over Carlisle for muttering to himself Massa very good to Tony’
CJ 21.01.1930 p6 Negro William Brown found lodging in a condemned house in Finkle Street, aged 36 been in Carlisle for 12 years. Charged with wandering abroad without any visible means. He was a decent fellow; discharged, first time under the law
BLACKSHIRTS see FASCISTS
BLACK SWAN INN Castle Street; Demolished April 1868
CP 06.11.1819 p1a To be let, ancient and well accustomed inn
CJ 20.09.1828 p1 For sale
CJ 04.10.1828 George Smith, innkeeper
CJ 01.12.1848 Ad for sale of Black Swan Inn, Castle Street
Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
1861 census George Scott, publican, aged 72, born Sebergham
CN 12.02.1999 p13 (illus) Cathedral that hid behind a pub
BLACKWELL
Cumbria 4/78 pp37-38 Animal sanctuary
ENS 21.02.1962 p1 Sale of land
BLACKWELL HALL 1901 census; Joseph Barker, aged 50, farmer, bn Wigton
BLACKWELL HOUSE Farmhouse and stables, 1730s - 1740s, with stable extension of 1905. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Used as HQ by both Jacobites and Crown during the two sieges of Carlisle during the ‘45 uprising. Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here 10th November 1745 and Duke of Cumberland 21-31st December 1745. Illustrated in Bonnie Prince Charlie in Cumberland, J.A.Wheatley,1903, p21. Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Borderland, D.J.Beattie, 1928, 2 photos on page 55, 1995 reprint of this title has 2 1995 photos of this house on page 54
1901 census; Margaret Waugh, 77, farmer, bn Nichol Forest
CN 10.01.1958 p12 (illus)
BLACKWELL LODGE
CN 21.06.1913 p1c Blackwell Lodge; to let previously occupied by F.P.Dixon
BLACKWELL MURRY NEET
CP 29.04.1904 p5a It was no doubt quite an undesigned coincidence that the publication of the centenary edition of the works of Robert Anderson, the Cumberland Bard, and the demolition of the house of Jwohnny Dawston at Blackwell which had been famous because it was the scene of Bleckell Murry-Night should have occurred in the same week. Yet so it was. Last week when the earliest copies of the Centenary edition were being issued from the press the workmen were busy demolishing the White Ox public house, which had been the property of the Old Brewery Company, who intend erecting an up to date inn upon the site. There has, we believe, never been any doubt that the White Ox was the scene of the rustic revelry so graphically described by Anderson. Our readers who are acquainted with the poem will remember the four lines towards the close of the Murry-Neet
The last o’December, lang may we remember
At five o’ the mworn, eighteen hundred and twee
Here’s heath and success to the bave Jwohnny Dawston
An’ monie see meetings may we leeve to see
That Jwohnny Dawston was the landlord of the house is established by an obituary which appeared in the columns of the Patriot just sixty years ago, or to be quite exact on the 16th March 1844
At Blackwell, near this city, on the 3rd inst, Mrs Nancy Dalston, at the advanced age of 81 years, widow of the ‘braw Jwohnny Dawston mentioned in Anderson’s well-known ballad of Blekel Murry-Night. She had been landlady of the village inn near sixty years, and was much respected.
If Nancy Dalston was the landlady for about sixty years, she must have been in the house before the French Revolution broke out in 1789, so that the White Ox, which has now been levelled with the ground, must have been a licensed house for something like one hundred and twenty years and possibly a good deal longer. Before the premises were demolished a photograph was taken on behalf of the Old Brewery Company, and it is probable that those who care for a picture of Jwohnny Dawston’s house may be able to obtain one
1805 ed of Andersons ‘Ballads in Cumberland Dialect’ Bleckell Murry-neet
CP 08.01.1909 Bleckell Murry Night held on New Years Eve at Racecourse
CN 30.12.1999 p7 Ballad of Blackwell Merry Neet
BLACKWELL PLACE
City Minutes 1925-6 p663 New street to be called Blackwell Place
BLACKWELL RACECOURSE see RACECOURSE
BLACKWELL RACECOURSE SUNDAY MARKET see MARKET - SUNDAY
BLACKWELL ROAD
City Minutes 26.07.1889 item 380 p 228 80 Houses Blackwell and Gloucester Rds
City Minutes 1922/23 p60 Sanction to race 60 houses on Blackwell Rd estate
City Minutes 1924-25 pp112-115, 393 Report on Blackwell Road estate
City Minutes 1925-26 pp62-3,121,180-1, 323, 457, 541 Progress of estate
City Minutes 1932-33 p111 Renumbering of road approved
BLACKWELL SPRINGS
CJ 19.06.1966 p6
BLACKWELL TERRACE
1924 Carlisle Directory lists 7 properties here
BLACKWELL VALE OLD PEOPLES HOME
CN 20.09.1991 p10 Ad
CN 02.07.1993 p13 City home voted tops for care
CN 15.04.1994 p16 Home from Home
CN 13.11.1998 p1 Nursing home assures families after food bug death
CN 23.09.2011 p5 Two weeks to sort out failing care home
BLADESMITHS LANE see NEW BANK LANE
BLAIN, David Painter, plumber and glazier, aged 40, employing 9 men and 3 apprentices, home address 7 Castle St, born Scotland [1851 census]; painter, glazier and plumber, employing 17 men and 3 apprentices, home 7 Castle St, born Scotland [1861 census]
BLAIN,J Blackfriars St. Ironmongers
Photo showing premises in D.Perriam Blackfriars Street, p15. Joseph Blain died in 1897, his name being retained on the business. A projecting brushhead hung over the premises, advertising the business, this sign is in the Tullie House Museum.
Ironmongers [flourished circa 1880-1956]
CN 19.07.1957 p8 (illus) CN 26.07.1957 p8
CN 06.07.1956 p1 Closing down
BLAIN’S YARD, Annetwell Street [1829 Directory and 1847 Directory]
BLAIR and PALMER Coaches. East Tower St; opened depot/ station in Drovers Lane 01.06.1935;
D Perriam Lowther Street p44 Photo of their Drovers Lane bus station
City Minutes 1927-28 p621 Licensed to operate bus service to Silloth
City Minutes 1933-34 p 340 Purchase of land on Drover’s Lane for bus station
City Minutes 1933-34 p597 Approval for garage and bus station on Drovers Lane
CD 1952 Ad p339
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p259
CD 1955-56 Ad p263
CD 1961-62 Ad p262
BLAKELEY, Andrew and Sons 47 Thornton Road
Builders and contractors
26.07.1923 Andrew Blakeley, builder, Stanwix died, aged 59 [SMI 78/2]
CD 1931 Ad p232
CD 1934 Ad p100 Established 1894
City Minutes 1934-5 p339 Approval for 4 houses; owner A.Blakeley and Sons
CD 1937 Ad p80
CD 1952 Ad p268
BLAKE STREET London Road, opposite St John’s Church; in directories from 1858
so marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
1880 Directory 22 London Road
BLAKEY’S Glovers Row
Carlisle in Camera 1 p9 Photo of boot and shoe shop
Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 9 View of Glovers Row shop
BLAMIRE, J 1 Market Place
CP 18.08.1855 p1 Ad; Tea and coffee dealer
1861 census; John Blamire grocer and tea dealer aged 35, born Carlisle, home address 19 Cavendish Place
BLAMIRE, John Grocer, died 20.06.1811 [Monumental Inscriptions Saint Cuthbert’s Yard]
BLAMIRE,John 62 English St
Grocers
CD 1884-85 Ad p261
BLAST CLEAN Kingstown
CN 18.03.1994 p15 Ad
CN 27.08.1999 p18 Ad
BLAYLOCK This family of watchmakers was the most prolific watchmaker in the county; the business commenced in 1768 in Longtown; the family moved to Carlisle setting up in business in Rickergate before moving to Scotch Street; for the complex history of this family see Penfold’s ‘Clockmakers of Cumberland’ , pp 49-57
See also John Blaylock The Blaylock Clockmakers of Longtown and Carlisle. 2012. A study of the family of clockmakers beginning with John [1] born in 1736 and ending with John [3] about 1870. John [2] in partnership with his brother William came to Carlisle in about 1818 after inheriting the clockmaking business in 1803.
There is an 1842 Blaylock of Carlisle clock in Crosby Ravensworth Church; this was restored in 2006
CP 04.04.1818 Death of Anne, wife of William Blaylock, watchmaker of Rickergate
CP 02.08.1834 Ad for John Blaylock
CP 09.05.1840 Ad for John Blaylock, watch and clock maker, 53 Scotch Street
CP 19.06.1841 Ad for John Blaylock
CP 01.03.1851 Messrs Blaylock, turret clock improvements
CP 12.02.1859 Ad; partnership with William Pratchitt
CP 05.02.1870 Above partnership dissolved
BLAYLOCK 50 Scotch Street
Watch and clockmaker
Guide to Carlisle C178 Ad
CD 1880 Ad px; established 1768
BLAYLOCK, John Engineer and founder employing 40 men, and watch and clockmaker employing 4 men, aged 44, born Longtown, living at 3 Lonsdale Street [1851 census]; engineer and watchmaker, aged 54, born Longtown, employing 110 men, home Fisher St, born Longtown [1861 census] John Blaylock manufactured a considerable number of railway dating presses to the design of Thomas Edmondson of Brampton. In 1859 John went into partnership with William Pratchitt. These ticket dating presses continued in production under this partnership [dissolved 1870] and later under Pratchitt Brothers until 1939.
1847 Directory John Blaylock and Co, Bridge End Foundry, and Long Island
Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map Long Iron Iron Works
The Engineer 26.06.1863 shows the design for the Edmondson, Carson and Blaylock Railway Ticket Machine [see See also John Blaylock The Blaylock Clockmakers of Longtown and Carlisle. 2012. pp62-3] The early ticket dating machines were assembled in the old Annetwell Street Independent Chapel.
CJ 13.10.and 24.10.1848 Reference to Blaylocks Long Island Works
BLAYLOCK, Thomas Grocer and tobacco manufacturer, aged 38, born Cumwhitton, home address Victoria Place [1861 census]
BLAYLOCK, William Watchmaker, aged 33, living at 11 Swifts Row, born Longtown [1851 census]
BLAYLOCK AND PRATCHITT Blaylock and Pratchitt founded in 1859 on Long Island Ironworks site; later became Pratchitt, Blaylock and Pratchitt; 04.02.1863 purchase of new site in Denton Holme, which became Denton Ironworks
See Pratchitt Brothers
Carlisle Examiner 10.02.1859 p1a Ad Taken into partnership with W.Pratchitt
CP 05.02.1870 Above partnership dissolved
CN 17.01.1969 p10
BLAYLOCK, Mrs Denton Street
Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p22 Description of shop in 1930s
BLAYLOCK’S SCHOOL, Miss Margaret Fisher Street
CP 16.12.1870 13 children attending
Slater’s 1884 Directory Misses M and L, 18 Fisher Street
BLAZING BARREL Annetwell Street; nickname for Old Black Bull Inn
BLENCOWE STREET On the census from 1891
Blocks of houses in the Blencowe Street neighbourhood built by Johnstone Brothers
[Obit Matthew Johnstone CN 30.12.1911 p11]
CJ 21.11.1879 p5 Plans for laying out Blencowe St in 1879
BLENCOWE STREET MISSION ROOM St James Church
Foundation stone laid 13.04.1883; official opening 26.10.1883; demolished August 1993
D Perriam Denton Holme p40 Designed by J Murchie
BLIND see also ACTION FOR BLIND PEOPLE; WORKSHOPS FOR THE BLIND; SCENTED GARDEN FOR THE BLIND; ASSOCIATION OF THE READING OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AMONG THE BLIND
see BRISCO, John [taught basket weaving to blind]
CP 01.04.1854 p8 James Burke begun manufacture of mats in city; totally blind
CN 25.03.1994 p12 Museums new ‘resident’ will guide blind visitors
CN 30.03.2001 p8 Carlisle first in rules for guide dogs in taxis
CN 13.06.2003 p2 Cars parked on pavement put blind at risk
BLIZZARD OF 1895
CN 29.11.1952 p6
BLOOD DONORS
CN 14.07.1995 p3 City patients get their own blood
CN 08.01.1999 p1 NHS winter crisis
BLOOD SPORTS
CAIH page 29
CN 14.07.1967 p12 Coursing; Caldewgate
BLOOMERISM
CP 06.12.1851 Advert for talk by Miss Julia Lester who will appear in the new and popular Bloomer dress
At the time a Bloomer was lecturing in the city the local poet John Rayson wrote the below lines
Wey has te been to Carl, Dick
To hear the Bloomer’s speeches?
Man-woman of the doubtful sex,
Whae wants to wear the breeches
There’s Keaty Bell and Sally Green
Hae kick’d up sec a racket
And say they’ll wear their frocks nae nair
But each wull have a jacket
And there’s that madcap, sister Bet-
A silly, thoughtless donnet –
Had thrown her guid silk hat aside
And wore a Jim Crow bonnet;
But fadder catch’d her wid it on,
And at her trousers flouncing
When he reach’d down the servants whip
And gave the jade a trouncing
etc
BLOW, John 1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p123 Solicitor, Rickergate; Solicitor in this city, died 25.07.1829; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard
BLOW’S BUILDING
1829 Building [today the post office] on corner of Scotch Street and West Tower St [CN 29.06.2007p36]; John Blow, solicitor, died July 25th 1829
BLOW’S LANE So named on the 1841 census in Botchergate; the 1821 map of Carlisle shows that John Blow had property in this area
1880 Directory Now known as East Street
BLUE ANCHOR Bridge St; in local directories 1847 - 1848
BLUE ANCHOR LANE
1880 Directory Now Parr’s Court
BLUE BELL St Cuthbert’s Lane; in local directories to 1837
1829 Directory William Stout
BLUE BELL HOTEL Rickergate; in local directories to 1914; closed April 1917
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916 p114
1829 Directory Edward Forster
CJ 28.07.1832 Ad. To be sold. Mr Edward Forster the tenant, who has been in possession nearly forty years, will show the premises
1847 Directory; Joseph Trimble, victualler
1861 census Dennis Mccauley, Victualler, aged 28, born Ireland
Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p60 photo 101 Rickergate; J.Black tenant
1891 census; Jane Hope, aged 57, innkeeper, born Kirklinton
1901 census; Joseph Black, innkeeper, aged 30, born Great Orton
21.10.1907 Died at Blue Bell Hotel, Rickergate, Joseph Black aged 36 [MI Stanwix 75/1]
CN 22.03.1991 p4 (illus)
BLUE BELL INN Brunton Place; in Carlisle directory for 1893/94
BLUE BELL INN Scotch Street; late 18th century building with Flemish bond brickwork; building completely gutted in 1976 leaving only the front wall
CJ 18.07.1801 Mr Norman Innkeeper
CJ 06.10.1804 p1 Blue Bell, Thomas Norman Innkeeper
1810 A Picture of Carlisle and Directory, p116 Mr Norman
CJ 01.07.1809 p1 Thomas Norman innkeeper
CJ 21.02.1818 p3c Died Thos Norman for many years master of the Blue Bell Inn
1821 New Guide to Carlisle p76 John Snowden
CJ 09.03.1822 p1a Nancy Irving, Innkeeper
1829 Directory Nancy Irving
CJ 15.01.1842 p1a T.Loftus entered into this premises
1847 Directory Robert Mounsey, victualler
1861 census William Tiffin, inn keeper, aged 39, born Dalston
CP 24.03.1882 p1 Ad; To let; about to be expanded
1901 census; William Wilson, victualler, aged 61
04.09.1912 died Mary Louise Wilson of Blue Bell Hotel, Scotch St, 38 [MI37/63]
ENS 14.01.1971 p6 Legend of ghost
ENS 09.04.1973 City pub closes
CN 27.07.2012 p34 First mentioned 1776, Mrs Norman licensee. History of pub by Denis Perriam
CN 12.04.1991 p4 (illus)
BLUE BELL LANE Scotch Street; its exact position is shown on the fold out map in the back on Robert Rawlinson’s Report to the General Board of Health...Carlisle, 1850; first noted on the 1841 census it is on the electoral registers until 1920
1851 Report of General Board of Health....Carlisle; R.Rawlinson 1BC 625 p51
1880 Directory 62 Scotch Street
Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p60 photo of entrance to lane
City Minutes 1925-6 p547 6 dwellings unfit for human habitation
BLUE BELL LANE/ YARD Rickergate; so named in the directories from 1834 to 1940, on the voters list until 1926 [1934 Directory 8 Rickergate]. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
1880 Directory 8 Rickergate
1924 Carlisle Directory between 8-10 Rickergate
BLUE CIRCLE CEMENT
CN 31.10.1975 p1
BLUE LUGS see JOINERS ARMS, Caldewgate
BLUNDELL PLACE, Blackwell
1924 Carlisle Directory lists 6 properties here
BLUNDELL ROAD Harraby; in the local directories from 1940; possibly named after Carlisle Gas Engineer J.E.Blundell
BLUNDELL TERRACE, Blackwell
1924 Carlisle Directory lists 6 properties here
BLUNT STREET First appears on the electoral register from 1938-9; A Leicestershire firm of solicitors, Blunt and Freer, dealt with the sale of the South Vale Estate in Denton Holme; hence the two street names in this area [CN 24.12.2010 p29]
BLYTHE PLACE, Cumberland Street [1934 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 13-15 Cumberland Street
BLYTH’S COURT, 5 Cumberland Street [1880 Directory]
BMX
CN 02.10.2009 p5 BMX track opens at Harraby
BOAGS Crescent Carriage Works
CD1893-94 Ad p134
CP 07.02.1896 p8f Late Barton and Sons
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES West View, Northumberland Rd
CD 1893-94 Ad p14
BOARD INN Bridge Lane; in directory for 1855
BOARD INN Castle Street/ Paternoster Row Late 18th century with alterations
CN 13.08.1965 p9 CJ 24.12.1965 pp7,11 CN 23.12.1965 p12
CP 24.05.1895 Board Inn for sale by auction
CJ 22.04.1921 p7 Alterations
CJ 13.08.1965 When pub closes for refurbishment where will the regulars go?
CN 17.12.1965 p1 Re-opened 20.12.1965
ENS 21.12.1965 Supplement New Board Inn reopens
CN 02.07.1971 p3 Proposed take over by Cathedral
CJ 22.04.1921 p7 Alterations
CN 12.10.1990 p11 The board of the board...
CN 18.07.2014 p116 Corner of Paternoster Row and Castle Street rebuilt as two houses in 1799. Wine and spirit store established here in 1845. May 1895 called the Board for the first time. [D.Perriam]
BOAR’S HEAD Court Square; in local directories to 1837
BODYSNATCHERS see RESURRECTION MEN
BODYTEK
CN 17.07.1992 p16 Ad
CN 02.07.1993 p14 Ad
BOER WAR No 71 Etterby Street has a plaque outside ‘Border Regiment Cottage Home 1905’, topped off with the Border Regiment Badge. This was built for soldiers disabled in the Boer War.
City Minutes 1901-02 p804 Roll of active service; Bor. Regiment plaque approved
City Minutes 1904-05 p28 Cumberland Yeomanry Memorial Tablet for Town Hall [Now I believe upstairs in the Border Regiment Museum, 2023]
BOG ROAD
CN 03.02.2006 p10 Area referred to as ‘The Bogg’ in 1841 census. Today [2023] the road is on a raised causeway; previously a bog
BOG ROAD RAILWAY BRIDGE
Bridge plate says P and W Maclellan, Clutha Iron Works, Glasgow, 1876
BOLTON, Harold East Norfolk St
Joiners and contractors
CN 1952 Ad p325
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p253
CD 1955-56 Ad p257
CD 1961-62 Ad p280
CN 12.08.2005 p3 Obituary of Harold Bolton; firm founded 1933
BOLTON PLACE So named on Asquith’s 1853 Survey; the map shows a complete terrace on the south side and no properties on the north side. Part of Warwick Road today but formerly the row of houses between Brunswick St and Cecil Street
CJ 07.12.1855 p1 Ad To be let newly built dwelling houses in Bolton Place and Brunswick Street
BOLTON PLACE ACADEMY Later Grosvenor College
CN 20.05.1966 p12
BONFIRE NIGHT see FIREWORKS
BONFIRES - Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
CN 03.07.1987 p4
BONNELL AND SON English St
M442 p10 Business card for chemist
BONNELL’S LANE, English Street through to Lowther St So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
CN 03.10.2008 p34 This lane disappeared with the creation of Bank Street in 1851. James Bonnell, chemist and druggist came here from Newcastle. He retired in 1846, when business taken over by Andrew Thompson. Mr Bonnnell died 1850,
Cumberland Pacquet 03.05.1796 Advert. Taken over shop of Mr Lamb
1829 Directory p161 James Bonnell and Son, English Street
BONNETS and BOWS Greenmarket
CN 27.03.1998 p17 Ad
BONNINGTON NEW MEDIA Abbey Street
We design
CN 05.04.2002 p18 Set up in 1995
BOOKCASE Castle Street
CN 18.01.2002 p23 Bookcase expands site
CN 28.02.2003 p8 Article on owner Steve Matthews
CN 10.02.2012 p41 Feature on Gwenda Matthews. Opened Bookcase in 1979. Bookends opened in 1987
BOOK FAIR
CN 06.10.1978 p23
BOOKS
CN 02.12.1988 p4 Early look at history of Cumbria (Caxton’s description of Britain 1480)
CN 10.10.1997 p3 Collectors hot on the trail of antique railway books
CN 20.11.1998 p9 Images of Carlisle for new book
CN 23.12.1998 p10 Bookworms have turned
CN 03.09.1999 p10 Cumberland News book on Carlisle
BOOKSELLERS see CAMPBELL, Alexander; HALL, Henry, HENDERSON, Alfred; HODGSON, William; JOLLIE; THURNAM, Charles
Newcastle Courant 02.01.1731 p4 Mr Rich Cook, bookseller in Carlisle
Newcastle Courant 20.04.1723 p12 Mr Alderman Hall, Bookseller, Carlisle
The BOOT see NEAR BOOT
BOOTH,L.R. Radio Merchants
CN 17.09.1938 p18 Ad
BOOTH,L.R. Lonsdale Street
Electrical showroom
CD 1927 Ad p120
CD 1931 Ad p52
CD 1934 Ad p48
CD 1952 Ad p157
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p272
CD 1955-56 Ad p278
CD 1961-62 Ad p295
CD 1966-68 Ad p264
BOOTHMANS Furnishers, English St
V.White Carlisle and its Villages p25 drawing of shop in 1982
BOOTHMANS Fisher St; furnishing company ‘well known during and after WWII, family coming to Carlisle from Skipton in 1930s, after war run by brothers Harold, Norman and Bill, eventually sold shop to Bulloughs’ [CN 15.04.2005 p4]
BOOTS THE CHEMIST
CN 08.11.1996 p4 (illus) Award
BORDER H.M.S.
CN 07.02.1942 p4 Adoption of Destroyer H.M.S.Border
BORDER AND COUNTY CLUB Portland Square
see also BORDER CLUB, COUNTY CLUB
The County Archives Cascat says that The Border and County Clubs amalgamated in 1977
CN 19.01.1996 p5 Border and County Club in Portland Square to close on June 30th. Ten years ago it had 500 members, today it has 80. It was an amalgamation of the two clubs
BORDER ANIMAL HEALTH Rosehill Estate
CN 04.09.1987 p6
BORDER AUTOMOBILES
CN 27.10.2006 Supplement; Opens opposite ASDA on Kingstown
BORDER AVIATION COMPANY Formed 1920
CN 26.10.1973 p6
BORDER BALLOONS
CN 23.12.1999 p19 A business to float
BORDER BAND
CN 11.06.1999 p5 School leavers urged to blow their own trumpet
BORDER BOARDING Allengrove, Heads Nook
Kennels and canine bureau
CD 1931 Ad p104
CD 1934 Ad p302
BORDER BOOT REPAIRING DEPOT Rickergate
Leading Trader of the City A616 Ad p48
BORDER CAFE 95 and 97 Botchergate
CD 1880 Ad pxv
1882 Porters Directory Ad p74 Chops, steaks, tea, coffee and cocoa
CD 1884-85 Ad pvi
BORDER CAR SALES 2 Mary Street
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p261
CD 1955-56 Ad p264
BORDER CARAVANS
CN 27.04.1979 pp17-19 Ad. History
CD 1966-68 Ad p259
BORDER CITY Periodical created, conducted and written by a group of men associated with the Caldewgate Reading Room; first produced June 1863; ceased to exist August 1864. Price one penny halfpenny
B.Graham Nineteenth Century Self-Help in Education-mutual improvement societies; case study-Carlisle Working Mens Reading Rooms pp 52-53
Border City no 1 p2 ‘medium through which the working men in this part of the kingdom could express their sentiments on various topics which are frequently and most ably discussed’
BORDER CITY BICYCLE CLUB Founded 1878
They had a track on Binning’s Field where Carlisle College is today. Initially there was a wooden boarded track but this was replaced with cinders in 1882. Famous local cyclists are William G. Brooks and the Rev Swann [CN 17.09.2010 p34]
CN 06.11.1959 p12 CN 14.02.1969 p12
BORDER CITY CAMERA CLUB
Founded 28.02.1902; dissolved in November 1906 and reformed as Liberal Border City Camera Club
CWAAS Third Series vol 22 Ian Moonie Amateur photographic groups based in Carlisle 1885 – 1914 pp147-162
BORDER CITY FURNISHING 43 Scotch St
The Lanes Remembered p 75 photo
BORDER CITY MINSTRELS Founded about 1880 disbanded 1906
CN 03.09.1965 p10 CN 05. 11.1965 p10 CN 10.09.1965 p10
CN 19.05.1989 p4 Contrast in style of entertainment
BORDER CITY SWIMMING CLUB
M.Edwards Our City Our People pp46-7 Formation of the club after 14-18 war
P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p115-7. Doreen Hutton member of the Border City Swimming Club. Twice Border City champion while still under 14. In 1939 she won the 440 yards Amateur Swimming Association Championships at Minehead. In August 1939 she swam for England against Germany winning the 400 metre freestyle event. She was given a great reception upon her return
CN 16.03.1990 p4 (illus) In the swim
BORDER CITY WHEELERS Founded 1925
See also CYCLING
CN 27.06.1975 p6 (illus) CN 04.07.1975 p6 CN 11.07.1975 p6
CN 25.07.1975 p6 CN 21.05.1965 p12 (illus) CN 28.05.1965 p10
CN 28.01.1966 p12 (Illus) In 1932
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p98 Photo of Wheelers inn 1977
BORDER CITY WIRELESS 48 Scotch St
CD 1931 Ad p232
BORDER CLUB Established 1862 [unsure where reference comes from]
See also BORDER AND COUNTY CLUB
1884 Slater’s Directory. 41 Lowther Street [The club is not listed in the 1873 Directory for the city]
1901 41 Lowther Street
1906 41 Lowther Street
1910 Due to renumbering of the street they are now listed at no 20 Lowther Street
CJ 20.02.1914 p12 Advertises that Tiffen have taken over no 20 the former premises of the Border Club
Kelly 1921 p70 Situated in the Crescent
Kelly 1929 8 Victoria Place
CN 12.03.1938 p12 Moved from Victoria Place to Portland Square
The County Archives Cascat says that The Border and County Clubs amalgamated in 1977
CN 19.01.1996 p5 Border and County Club in Portland Square to close on June 30th. Ten years ago it had 500 members, today it has 80. It was an amalgamation of the two clubs
BORDER CONSTRUCTION Formerly Border Engineering; formed in 1998 from the merger of Crombie construction [founded 1899] and Border Engineering Contractors [founded 1920] CN 01.06.2007 p21
CN 01.12.1995 p14 Building firm celebrates first 75 years
CN 06.04.2001 p18 Firm moves to new premises
CN 29.11.2002 p17 £55m housing development in Sunderland
CN 05.09.2003 p14 Wins £1.9m contract for Capita’s new building at Kingmoor
CN 01.06.2007 p21 Wins 20m pound contract for Berwickshire School
BORDER COUNTIES LEMONADE AND SODA WATER WORKS
Bay Horse Court, Rickergate
CD 1880 Ad pxxxvi
BORDER COUNTY FOODS
CN 09.04.2004 p14 Takes over part of Bells the fishmongers business
BORDER DAIRY 48 Lowther St, The Creamery
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p19
CN 14.04.1960 p14 Industrial Supp
CN 05.04.1974 p5 Sold to Milk Marketing Board
CD 1952 Ad p322
Cumberland Directory 1954 pxv
CD 1955-56 Ad pxii
CD 1961-62 Ad p4
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p42 Photo of Lowther St shop; started 1898, Mr McQuillin
CN 17.07.2009 p4 Obit of Thomas McQuillin, director of Border Dairies. Firm started by his father in Lowther Street and expanded onto Shaddongate site. He retired in 1974 when Border Dairies was taken over by the Milk Marketing Board
CN 17.08.2012 p32 History of the firm by Denis Perriam
BORDER DELIVERIES Caldew Garage, Metcalfe St
CD 1952 Ad p2
BORDER DESIGN ASSOCIATES
CN 25.04.1997 p13 All you need to know about design and print
BORDER ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS LTD Milbourne St
Founded 26.06.1920; merged in 1998 to become Border Construction
City Minutes 1932-33 p 357 Approval for 20 houses on Garlands Rd
CN 26.06.1970 p17 (illus)
CN 17.09.1938 p19 Advert
CN 14.04.1960 p6ÊIndustrial Supplement
CD 1952 Ad p20
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad pxx
CD 1955-56 Ad pxiv
BORDER FINE ARTS
CN 07.10.1994 pp1,10 Miniature men gain grants
CN 03.01.1977 p4 Showroom plan aims to attract more tourists
CUMBRIAN LIFE Jan/Feb 1994 no 32 pp19-20, 2A9
ENS 28.05.1986 p1 Jobs
CN 31.08.2001 p3 Border Fine Arts to shut Carlisle factory
CN 08.11.2002 p1 Enesco make 43 staff redundant
CN 01.04.2005 p14 Carlisle based Enesco £32.5 m sales in 2004
CN 08.07.2005 p18 John Hammond who set up the company steps down
CN 14.10.2011 p6 Distributes to three continents from Carlisle warehouse; employs 140 people. Focus on firm
BORDER FLYING CLUB Founded July 1935
With the formation of the Border Flying Club in June 1935 a clubhouse and hangar were built at Kingstown aerodrome.
Carlisle in Camera 2 p61 part view of club house
D Perriam Stanwix p86 Photo of the interior of clubhouse
CN 30.05.1958 p10 CN 29.10.1976 p6
BORDER FOOD MACHINERY
CN 31.03.1989 p13 Ad. Boom firm is on the move to a bigger base
CN 21.01.1994 p14 Ad
BORDER GALLERY Fisher Street
Opened 24.11.1968
CN 29.11.1968 p3 (illus)
BORDER GLASS (Cumbria) Ltd
CN 06.02.1987 p8 (illus) Ad
BORDER HARRIERS
CN 29.01.1949 p4 Ad
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p96 1971 photo of lady Border Harriers
CN 27.11.1994 p17 Harrier girls are runaway team success
CN 02.08.2002 p22 Harriers man, Deacon, wins gold at Commonwealth Games
BORDER HOUSE; SAMUEL JESPER LTD English St
Ladies and Gentleman’s wear
CD 1924 Ad p286
CD 1927 Ad p296
CD 1931 Ad p132
CD 1934 Ad p156
CD 1937 Ad p210
BORDERLAND FARM SUPPLIES Rosehill Estate
CN 17.12.1993 p14
CN 16.11.2001 p18 Borderland celebrates 13 years; ad feature
BORDER LEGION Stanwix and St Ann’s Branch
CN 29.10.1949 p6 (illus) Dedication of standard
BORDER LOCKS AND SECURITY Portland Place
CN 25.06.1993 p14 Ad
BORDER MACHINE CENTRE
CN 23.06.1989 p8 Ad Everything is coming up roses
BORDER MAGAZINE
CN 20.09.1947 p5 First issue
BORDER MILITARIA SOCIETY
CN 03.08.1990 p12 One man’s battle
BORDER MOTOR Airport Trading Estate; Kingstown
CD 1952 Ad p337
BORDER OFFSET
CN 28.09.1990 p8 Ad
BORDER PILATES Warwick Road
CN 29.08.2003 p14 Fitness instructors start Pilates studio
BORDER PRESS AGENCY 12 Lonsdale St
Run by John Barker, former sub editor on the News Chronicle, and his brother Peter, photographer. Border Press Agency were a wedding and commercial photographers as well as publisher. In April 1971 they started the monthly magazine Lakescene. In 1985 BPA deposited material in Carlisle Record Office
CD 1966-68 Ad p286
BORDER PUBLICITY CO LTD Atlas Works, Nelson St
Printers
CD 1961-62 pxxxviii and back of inside cover
CD 1966-68 Ad display card
BORDER QUESTION CAMPAIGN (religious campaign)
CJ 05.09.1947 p2 CJ 19.09.1947 p1 CJ 30.09.1947 p1
BORDER RAIDERS Rugby League Club
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p99 Photo; merged with Barrow 1997
CN 11.03.1994 p1 Oich no I don’t hate English
CN 18.11.1994 Supplement centre pages
BORDER RAMBLER see ALBION
BORDER REGIMENT 34th Regiment of Foot raised in 1702 in Norfolk and shortly afterwards quartered in Carlisle Castle, this became the first Battalion Border Regiment; 55th Regiment of Foot raised in Stirling Christmas Day 1755. August 1782 the 34th and 55th were attached to the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland in an effort to cultivate a county connection and make them fertile grounds for recruitment, but the regiments were rarely home and there was little chance of further connections. A memorial tablet was placed in Carlisle Cathedral on behalf of the 34th in 1873 and two sets of colours also placed there. Up until this date the links between the Regiments and the counties were tenuous. In 1873 Colonel Newdigate took command at Carlisle Castle and the 34th sent two companies to take up their quarters there. [Although they were there in 1702 this was the first permanent connection] Up until now recruits were taken from all parts of the land; from now the regiments were recruiting from the Lake Counties. The 34th became the First Battalion Border Regiment, the 55th the Second Battalion Border Regiment; these two were linked as the Border Regiment in 1881 following reorganisation of the army, the County Militia became the 3rd Battalion and the Cumberland and Westmorland Volunteers became respectively the 4th and 5th Battalions; the Regimental March of the First Battalion is John Peel and the Regimental March of the Second Battalion is The Lass o’ Cowrie, formerly the march of the 55th. 1950 these two Battalions amalgamated and became known as 1st Battalion Border Battalion; became Kings Own Royal Border Regiment 30.09.1959
see also KINGS OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT; ETTERBY STREET BORDER REGIMENT COTTAGE HOMES
Douglas Sutherland Tried and Valiant; the story of the Border Regiment 1702-1959
CN 27.03.1948 p5 CJ 23.03.1938 p3 CJ 26.03 .1948 p5
CN 18.09.1964 p14 CN 07.01.1966 p10 (illus) ENS 11.06.1983 p4
City Minutes 1901-02 Roll of Active Service; plaque approved
CJ 14.07.1918 p2 Presentation of medals at Castle
CJ 01.10.1946 p1 Border Regiment offered freedom of Kendal
CN 01.11.1947 p5 Border Regiment Week in Cumberland and Westmorland
City Minutes 1943/44 p165 Agreed to present deed with freedom rights to reg.
CJ 07.07.1944 p3 To be presented with Title Deed
CJ 21.07.1944 p5 To be presented with Title Deed
CJ 05.09.1944 p3 Presentation
CJ 08.09.1944 p1 (illus) Presentation
CN 10.05.1952 p4 (illus) 250th birthday
CN 17.05.1952 p5 (illus) 250th birthday
CN 08.11.1952 p6 New tanker named ‘Border Regiment’
Cumbria May 1960 pp 65-67 (illus)
CN 02.07.1965 p10 Battle on Inchville 1940
Cumbria October 1965 pp 313-314 (illus) At Carlisle Castle
CN 17.05.1974 p11 (illus) Last Border Regiment service
CN 18.08.1989 p5 A new Peel portrait for Regiment
CN 30.07.1965 p9 (illus) Territorial Association in Castle
CN 08.11.1991 p13 Old soldiers relive daring was deeds
CN 28.01.1994 p16 Border Regiment soldier’s body found
CN 18.09.1998 p10 Peace at last for Border Regiment soldier
CN 18.05.1990 p13 Honour for old soldier
1st BATTALION
CN 21.09.1946 p3
CJ 16.11.1945 p3 First British glider exercise under Churchill
CN 21.10.1950 p5 Amalgamation with 2nd Battalion
CN 04 11.1950 p5 Amalgamation with 2nd Battalion
2nd BATTALION
CN 14.06.1947 p3 2nd Batt. returned after 23 years service abroad
CN 20.09.1947 p5 Laying up of colours
3rd BATTALION MILITIA Suspended since 1920; disbanded 1953
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p149 Photo of colours
CN 12.07.1985 p4 (illus) Colours of 3rd (Royal Cumberland Militia) Batt.
4th BATTALION
CN 25.05.1946 p5
CN 21.12.1946 p5 Article in the ‘New Times of Burma’
CN 24.08.1946 p3 Relieved Australians at Tobruk
CN 29.03.1947 p5 Return
CN 08.10.1949 p6 Battalion band to be reformed
CN 22.12.1945 p5 4th and 9th Battalions merged
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p149 photo of colours
CN 13.11.1992 p11 Photo of 17th annual reunion of 4th Battalion
5th BATTALION
CN 12.08.1950 p5
CN 19.08.1950 p5 Colours to be transferred from Workington to Castle
CJ 22.08.1950 p1 Battalion colours laid up
6th BATTALION Raised 07.09.1914
City Minutes 1915-16 p419 Presentation of 2 captured machine guns to city
CN 04.05.1946 p5 Battalion tribute to a General
7th BATTALION Raised 07.09.1914
8th BATTALION Raised 07.09.1914
CN 26.02.1988 p4 (illus) Regimental police
9th BATTALION Raised 14.09.1914
CN 22.12.1945 p5 4th and 9th Battalions merged
10th BATTALION (Reserve) raised October 1914
11th (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) see LONSDALE entry below
12th (Service) Battalion. Originally raised as a reserve Battalion for the 11th
AMALGAMATION 30.09.1959 became Kings Own Royal Border Regiment
CN 06.05.1960 p10 Border Regiment’s last chapter
CN 26.07.1957 p1 Amalgamation with King’s Own
CN 02.10.1959 p1 Became Kings Own Royal Border Regiment 30.09.1959
ENS 24.07.1957 p1 Border Regiment to be merged
ENS 31.10.1959 p1 2 Regiments die as one is born
CN 17.05.1974 p11 (illus) Last Border Regiment service
CN 06.11.1959 p8 (illus) Amalgamation
ARNHEM
CJ 16.02.1945 p3
CN 17.02.1945 p5 (plan) Story of airborne expedition
CN 27.01.1989 p15 Arnhem offer for old soldiers
ARROYO DOS MOLINOS CELEBRATIONS
CJ 31.10.1947 p1 (illus) Commemoration parade
CJ 29.10.1946 (illus) pp1,3
CN 29.10.1954 p1 (illus) Arroyo Day
CN 31.10.1958 p1 (illus) Last Arroyo day
CN 14.08.1959 p1 (illus) Connection with Arroyo
BADGE
CJ 11.08.1944 p3 Origin of Badge and Colours
BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
CN 13.05.1977 p5 CN 06.05.1977 p11
BORDER REGIMENT REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION
CJ 29.11.1938 p5 BRA Standard dedicated at Penrith
CN 08.06.1946 p5 Amalgamated with Home Guard (Carlisle Branch)
BORDER REGIMENT locomotive
CN 09.06.1936 Naming ceremony 06.06.1936
BURMA
CN 19.04.1974 p6 Picture of men in Burma, 1914
CHAPEL IN CATHEDRAL
CN 29.03.1947 p5 Memorial Chapel in Cathedral
CN 22.10.1949 p5 Memorial Chapel work in progress
CN 05.11.1949 p5 (illus) Dedicated by Archbishop of York
CN 22.01.1949 p5
CN 19.10.1946 p5 Donation
CN 31.08.1946 p5
CJ 17.09.1946 p1 Banner dedicated
COLOURS
CN 13.03.1948 p5 2nd/3rd Bat. Colours deposited in Reg. Museum
CJ 11.08.1944 p3 Origin of Badge and Colours
CN 05.06.1960 pp6,10 (illus) Laying up of colours
GALLIPOLI
See Glory is No Compensation, Border Regiment at Gallipoli, R.May, 2003
CN 04.01.1985 p6 (illus) Campaign history
LONSDALE BATTALION
See Bardgett, Colin Lonsdale Battalion 1914-18, 1993 1A 355
CJ 11.05.1915 p8 departure of Lonsdale from Carlisle for Prees Heath
CN 02.12.1955 p10 (illus) CN 09.12.1955 p10 CN16.12.1955 p10
CN 30.12.1955 p8 CN 06.01.1955 p10 (illus) CN 13.01.1956 p10
CN 20.01.1956 p10 CN 27.01.1956 p8 CN 03.02.1956 p8
CN 10.02.1956 p8 CN02.03.1956 p10 CN 30.06.1978 p10 (illus)
CN 07.07.1978 p10
CN 10.08.1990 p1 Bully for them
CN 17.08.1990 p4 Preparing for war in city
CN 08.04.1993 p13 The lost Lonsdales (book review)
MEDALS
CN 17.08.1946 p5 Medals for regiment museum at Carlisle Castle
CN 10.08.1946 p5 Victoria Cross won by an officer
MEMORIAL HOMES Etterby St; dated 1905 for Boer War soldiers [see Etterby St]
MUSEUM - Kings Own Royal Border Regiment
CN 12.09.2014 p3 Article on the revamped Museum which will open in Arroyo Block
CN 17.08.1946 p5 Medals for regiment museum at Carlisle Castle
CN 10.08.1946 p5 Victoria Cross won by an officer
NORTH WEST FRONTIER
CN 22.06.1956 p10
CN 29.06.1956 p8
CN 06.07.1956 p10
CN13.07.1956 p8
SONG
CN 02.10.1964 p14
CN 17.12.1993 p4 Remembering the rhythm of war. Song for BR
VICTORIA CROSS
CN 10.08.1946 p5 Victoria Cross won by an officer
CN 24.11.2006 p7 Plaque unveiled in Cathedral to 10 VC holders
VOLUNTEERS
CN 02.11.1956 p10
CN 01.05.1959 p12 (illus of helmet)
WORLD WAR I see also Gallipoli, Lonsdale Battalion
CN 18.05.1956 p10
CN 25.05.1956 p8
CJ 14.07.1918 p2 Presentation of medals at Castle
CN 08.02.1991 p3 Regiment’s tribute to a Somme hero
CN 14.07.1995 p10 Captured on film; Battle of Somme
CN 18.08.2006 p3 Three Border Regiment soldiers shot for desertion ‘pardoned’