Carlisle Encyclopaedia

BORDER REIVER Opened 23.07.1971

CN 07.08.1970 p1 (illus) CN 22.01.1971 pp115 (illus) CN 16.07.1971 p2

CN 25.09.1970 p28 Proposed

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p134 photo of interior in 1971

CN 14.05.1971 p1 New pub

CN 23.07.1971 p12 (illus) Opening

CN 28.08.1998 p13 Time gentlemen for a lick of paint

 

BORDER REIVER STATUE, Kingstown Road

Unveiled 20.08.2003, commissioned by Story Constuction as a feature of a 32 appartments block development that the firm had built. The figure would welcome travellers into Carlisle. The statue was modelled by the designer John Parkinson of Upfront Gallery and cast by Castle Fine Arts in Oswester at a total cost of £30,000. the statue is over 10 feet tall, standing on a plinth designed to give the impression of rough ground. The figure peers intently into the distance, his left hand is on the pommel of his sword and his right holds a spear upright. The statue was unveiled by the journalist and broascaster Eric Robson

ENS 20.08.2003

 

BORDER RUBBER COMPANY Botchergate

Waterproofs

CD 1931 p240 Ad

CD 1934 Ad p140

CD 1937 Ad p160

 

BORDERS BEER FESTIVAL

CN 26.01.1996 p3 20 real ales on tap

CN 31.01.1997 p5 They’re only here for the Leg Over...

 

BORDERS ON SUNDAY NEWSPAPER

CN 29.09.1995 p1 Paper folds after 5 issues

 

BORDER STEELWORK STRUCTURES LTD

CN 23.02.1990 p3 (illus)

 

BORDER TELEVISION Durranhill Trading Estate Started transmission 01.09.1961, covering the area of the Scottish Borders, north and West Cumberland and the Isle of Man. Lookaround was a local production with presenters like Eric Wallace and Fiona Armstrong. Derek Batey was a national figure hosting Border TVs Mr and Mrs programme. It was reported on 24.02.2009 that the final Lookaround show from the Border studios would be broadcast that evening. A merger with Tyne Tees meant that a 15 minute slot with the regional evening news programme was broadcast from Gateshead. The site on Durranhill was demolished and cleared for redevelopment by 2014

See Mary Scott-Parker Border Television, 1999 1A 384.554

CN 06.05.1960 p1 Border Group gets new ITV contract

CJ 04.08.1961 p10 (illus)

ENS 01.07.1964 p1 Border TV go on (after strike)

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p175-6 photos of early days in 1960s

Cumbria March 1965 pp508-512 (illus)

CJ 23.09.1966 p28 Extensions

CN 28.08.1970 p13 Colour transmissions

CN 27.08.1971 p16 Colour transmissions-but not for local programmes

CN 01.09.1972 p15 Colour transmissions

ENS 13.11.1978 p1 (illus) Dispute blocks out Border

ENS 15.11.1978 p1 (illus) It’s a blank outlook for Border

ENS 21.12.1978 p1 TV row - now Border hit

CN 09.06.1989 p10 Save our station

CN 15.12.1989 p1 ITV stays tuned on to region

CN 23.03.1990 p16 Border video boost

CN 24.08.1990 p3 Border denies axe rumours

CN 07.09.1990 p1 Border region still on screen

CN 07.09.1990 p10 TV on the border line

CN 08.03.1991 p1 Borders Tyne bid

CN 17.05.1991 p8 No bids

CN 05.07.1991 p17 Cash boost

CN 18.10.1991 p13 Border Television booster

CN 06.12.1991 p7 Border TV celebrates a great double

CN 20.12.1991 p19 Border TV profits rise

CN 24.07.1992 p5 Border TV profit up

CN 05.03.1993 p27 (illus) Border collects award

CN 23.04.1993 p9 Border TV’s radio bid D Day date

CN 11.06.1993 p22 Border TV to handle royal firm

CN 16.07.1993 p17 Border TV profits on the up

CN 30.07.1993 p3 Hunter backs Border

CN 22.10.1993 p3 Border TV secures future

CN 19.11.1993 p3 Scottish news safe

Cumbria LIfe July/August 1994 no 35 pp 4-5 2A 9

CN 24.06.1994 p3 Border praised

CN 12.08.1994 p9 No wide screen TV for Border viewers

CN 14.04.1995 p3 Border praised

CN 05.01.1996 p4 MP fears rivals could swallow up Border TV

CN 16.02.1996 pp1,17 Border Television promotion

CN 10.01.1997 p12 Border for grabs?

CN 07.03.1997 p5 (illus) Border TV pick four films out of 100 for homegrown drama

CN 24.01.1997 p12 Border broadcasting director to leave in March

CN 24.01.1997 p14 Border boss quits

CN 14.03.1997 p5 Changes at top for Border News

CN 13.06.1997 p5 Border biased towards Scots

CN 01.08.1997 p3 Border stays solo

CN 10.10.1997 p3 Border TV tunes into Scots only opt out

CN 18.12.1998 p1 Four new faces

CN 25.06.1999 p7 TV news loses viewers

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p188 new digital control room 1999 - photo

CN 17.03.2000 p1 5 more buyers in queue

CN 24.03.2000 p3 Keep Border TV independent

CN 31.03.2000 p2 Trust us says man who wants Border

CN 14.04.2000 p1 Border bosses back sale to Capital Radio

CN 21.04.2000 p1 Bullough plans new city TV

CN 30.06.2000 p16 Directors go following takeover by Capital Radio

CN 06.04.2001 p18 Programmes praised by Independent TV Commission

CN 25.05.2001 p14 Border TV owners (Capital Radio) face profit fall

CN 03.08.2001 p5 New bosses at Border after £50m takeover by Granada

CN 14.09.2001 p14 Border TV’safe with Granada’

CN 26.09.2008 p1 End of the line for Border TV’s programme ‘Lookaround’

CN 20.02.2009 p5 Final Lookaround regional news programme aired next Tuesday. The following day the local news will be aired from Gateshead. Fifty jobs gone and closure of Border’s Durranhill Studio

CN 27.02.2009 p10 Here is the local news, aired from Gateshead; letters p 13

CN 24.07.2009 p21 Border TV Lookaround team move from Durranhill to Kingstown Studios

CN 26.03.2010 p14 Demolition begins at Border TV Durranhill Studio

CN 30.04.2010 p19 Studios reduced to rubble

 

BORDER TERRIER Public house opened 06.08.1967

CJ 17.01.1967 p8 (illus) CN 23.06.1967 p7(illus) CJ 11.08.1967 p6 (illus)

CJ 18.08.1967 pp9,20 (illus)

ENS 16.02.1987 £100,000 fire rips through pub

 

BORDER TIME SERVICE 25 Church St

Watch and clock specialist

CD 1952 Ad p395

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p282

CD 1955-56 Ad p291

 

BORDER TRANSPORT (Robson’s Border Transport)

See B.Tuck Robsons, 1990 1BC 388.1

In 1936 Stan Robson changed the small haulage company that he operated from Ashley Street into a limited company, Robson (Hauliers) Ltd and bought an old Post-Office yard on the old Durranhill Road, later moving to larger premises across the road. By 1956 the business moved to purpose-built premises on the new Durranhill estate. The haulage wagons with their personalised names such as Border Raider and the wagons became familiar sites. The company remained in Durranhhill until Robson’s Border Transport was sold for £2,100,000 to United Glass

Cumberland Directory 1954 piv

CD 1955-56 Ad piv

CD 1966-68 Ad p274

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p50 Photo of Stan Robson; started firm 1925 - sold 1980

CN 07.11.1980 p3 Sale of

CN 22.02.1991 p10 Stan’s model T...

 

BORDER VENDING Kingstown

CN 02.04.2004 p14 New manager; set up in 1982, employs 160 people

 

BORDERWAY AUCTION MART Part of the H&H group

CN 16.01.2004 p17 Pledges to keep presence in Carlisle

 

BORDERWAY MART Opened 23.08.1974

See also Shepherd’s Inn; Rosehill Estate; Harrison and Hetherington

Carlisle an illustrated history p93 Photo of Willie Whitelaw opening mart

CN 02.08.1974 p13 CN 16.08.1974 pp13-17 CN 23.08.1974 p36

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p49 Aerial view of mart

CN 17.09.1993 p11 City sells £1m mart site

CN 10.02.1995 p1 Mart hits back at cruelty claims

CN 24.02.1995 p4 Marts safety switch

CN 23.08.1996 p1 Sarah’s shears cause a snip

CN 09.10.1998 p3 Mart expansion scheme gets go ahead

CN 23.10.1998 p1 Crisis as MD and chairman resign

CN 13.11.1998 p1 Rebels poised

CN 20.11.1998 p1 Mart staff morale hits new low

CN 30.10.1998 p1 £800,000 slump in mart firm profits

CN 13.11.1998 p1 Rebels poised for a coup

CN 27.11.1998 p3 Shareholders call for details

CN 04.12.1998 p1 Trading Standards probe

CN 23.12.1998 p3 Mart banks on new man Trevor Hebdon

CN 12.03.1999 p1 Settlement likely...

CN 27.08.1999 p24 Harrison and Hetherington 25 years at Borderway

CN 31.03.2000 p3 Revamp

CN 07.12.2001 p19 First screen sale of livestock at mart

CN 22.02.2002.p 22 First live sale at Mart last Monday since closure by F&M

CN 08.03.2002 p22 Hundreds of farmers for first sale for a year

CN 29.03.2002 p6 Tree planted in memory of Foot and Mouth suffering

 

BORLAND AVENUE Councillor Borland represented the Greystone Ward and was a member of the housing committee; street on Carlisle electoral register from 1930

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p107

 

BORLAND’S Townhall

Tobacconist

ENS 01.12.1977 p10 Ad

CN 27.05.1977 p11 (illus)

 

BOROUGH MILL Water Street/ Wood Street

1474 Deed records three city mills; Borough Mill, New Mill and Castle Mill [Summerson, Medieval Carlisle p540]; Corporation Borough Mill is shown on a map of circa 1781 [Bowdererized Hutchinson]

Named on the 1860s 50 inch OS survey of Carlisle. It is called the Borough Mill (Corn) and is located on the north of Wood Street

CP 20.08.1869 p1 Ad; Corn Mill for sale; comparatively new

 

BOROUGH STREET. Between English Damside and Court Square, turning south under the Citadel Station leading to Mill Street. The Victoria Viaduct of 1877 over the railway lines made this route redundant

 

BORTHWICK,T.W. 59 English Street

Hatter, hosier and gentleman’s mercer

CD 1884-85 Ad p267

1891 census; Thomas Borthwick, home London Rd, 41 hatter and hosier, bn Scot.

CD 1893-94 Ad p90

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p2 Vero and Richards, late T.W.Borthwick, 59 English Street

 

BOSNIAN REFUGEES

CN 31.12.1992 p3 Refugees say thanks

CN 22.01.1993 p9 Bid to aid Bosnians launched

 

BOSTOCK and WOMBWELL’S CIRCUS Visited Carlisle 16.09.1905 and 1888

CN 01.05.1954 p10 CN 31.10.1969 p14

 

BOSTON STREET/ AVENUE, Currock

City Minutes 1922-23 p 453 Street formation

City Minutes 1925-26 p537 Change of name to Boston Avenue

 

BOTCHERBY So named Bocherby in 1170; Population in 1780 21 houses, 22 families, 46 men, 52 women The LIfe of John Heysham by Henry Lonsdale p34; became a part of city in November 1912; a neolithic stone axehead was found at Botcherby in 1934 [CAIH p3]; 24.04.1879 Coffin of Roman date found at Botcherby [CWAAS OS Vol 12 p373]

P.Hitchon Botcherby a Garden village

see also Wood St

CN 19.06.1970 p3

24.04.1879 Coffin of Roman date found at Botcherby [CWAAS OS Vol 12 p373]

CJ 25.04.1879 p2 Roman burials in Botcherby

CJ 29.04.1879 Roman burials in Botcherby

CP 02.05.1879 Roman burials in Botcherby

CJ 16.11.1888 p8c Tender for a movable wooden church at Botcherby

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 63 Botcherby Floods 16.09.1918

City Minutes 1926-7 p324 River Petteril to Durranhill Rd land for sale from Mr Casey

City Minutes 1926-7 p717 Approval to buy land for erection of houses

City Minutes 1927-28 p130 Work commence in Botcherby immediately in New Year

City Minutes 27.02.1928 p267 32 houses in progress at Botcherby

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1928 p24 130 houses completed in year

CJ 02.03.1928 Photo of work in progress on new Botcherby estate

City Minutes 1929-30 p297 Contract for 112 more houses at Botcherby; 24 begun;

City Minutes 1929-30 p601 Tender of J.Laing’s for 100 houses be accepted

City Minutes 1930-31 p 102 Contract for 112 houses nearing completion

City Minutes 1930-31 p642 456 Corporation houses in Botcherby ,housing , 980 adults and 675 under 16s

Images of Carlisle p136 Photo in 1937; Coronation Party Ennerdale Avenue

ENS 10.10.1962 p11 By-pass

CN 27.09.1963 p12 About 1912

CN 25.08.1972 p6 (illus) Tollgate

CN 18.12.1992 p3 Estate gets £2m Xmas boost

CN 11.12.1998 p1 Teddies and tears in the rain- Paul Nixon

CN 10.06.1944 p3 Early history

CN 31.05.1991 p7 Oil slick hits city suburb

CN 17.07.1992 p3 Bid number 2 for cash to revamp estate

CN 28.01.1994 D-Day for estate

CN 04.02.1994 p2 Botcherby estate people power

CN 27.01.1995 p10 You have been framed

CN 12.04.1996 p6 Tony hopeful listed as ‘housewife’

CN 29.11.1996 p11 Botcherby’s hidden past; a bird’s eye view

CN 25.07.1997 p5 Estate homes will have a warm glow after £3m facelift

CN 15.08.1997 p1 Overworked police wind down kids cycle training

CN 14.08.1998 p1 Caught on camera

CN 23.10.1998 p18 Botcherby remembers its golden years

CN 29.10.1999 p1 Heroin - the people fight back

CN 19.11.1999 p10 The good folk are frightened to speak

CN 27.04.2001 p9 Grant to help Botcherby estate; worst burglary hotspot in city

CN 09.01.2004 p2 Botcherby to get own CAB office

CN 23.01.2004 p9 Botcherby Healthy Living Initiative launched today

 

BOTCHERBY AIRFIELD

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp63-5 Located on land between St Joseph’s Home and Botcherby Avenue; 10/05/1920 became the first officially recognised civil aerodrome in the region licensed by the Air Ministry. First flight into the airfield from Manchester 14.05.1920. 20.05.1920 flying display at the airfield. Firm went into liquidation but a new business took over in June 1921. Later that summer a flying accident put pay to the enterprise.

 

BOTCHERBY AVENUE

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p106

 

BOTCHERBY BRICK AND TILE WORKS NY 425 559

Cumbrian Industrialist, Vol 3, 2000 p51

P Hitchon Botcherby A Garden Village pp43-5 Bricks had been made at Botcherby since the 18th century; a building contractor’s account for bricks and plastering of the Town Hall during alterations to the inner hall of the gallery in 1733 notes that ‘1500 bricks from Botcherby, 500 from Gosling Sike and 100 from Town Dike Gate were used’. By 1869 the company was owned by Allan’s and in 1876 Thomas Mounsey was the proprietor. James Baty and Sons owned the brickworks by the 1890s. In 1925 Forster Ridley and Sons were listed as owners. It seems that the brickworks did not long survive after the end of WW2. The brick and tile works were immediately behind Tilbury Road.

CJ 11.03.1826 p1a Bricks for sale now standing at Botcherby

CJ 02.06.1832 T Robson and Co, of Botcherby Brickfields had bricks ‘constantly on sale’.

CJ 30.01.1847 p2b To be let brickfield at Botcherby

CJ 10.04.1894 Letter complaining of an offensive smell coming from the brickfields stagnant ditch.

 

BOTCHERBY BRIDGE P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p51-5 The bridge’s existence was noted in a Will going back to 1380. In 1687, on a visit by the judges to the city, the bridge and road was washed away by floods and a petition was made to the Cumberland Quarter Sessions by Mr James Nicholson of Carlisle for a further rate to pay the whole cost of rebuilding it in 1691. A new road replaced the one washed away and the bridge was built of stone. By 1715 the Surveyor’s report on the county bridges showed the Botcherby Bridge needed paving to the cost of five shillings and again in 1736 it needed further repair. The Botcherby Bridge is marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle; On January 13th 1816 the Carlisle Journal reported that the bridge had collapsed. and Botcherby Bridge was rebuilt the next year. The bridge was again in need of rebuilding in 1822 after flood damage and it appears to have been rebuilt in 1836; new bridge completed June 1932 (plaque)

CP 09.02.1822 p3 After flood Botcherby Bridge, built 1817, needs rebuilding

23.08.1887 Inquest held concerning child’s death after fall from Botcherby Bridge. Bridge is dangerous both for pedestrians and carriage traffic

City Minutes 1930-31 p322 Tender of Matthew Muir, Kilmarnock, accepted for widening

CN 23.02.1968 p10 Description of the old bridge

CN 30.06.1961 p3 (illus) New bridge

CN 08.01.2016 p6 Residents claim Botcherby Bridge too low and acts as a dam

 

BOTCHERBY CARNIVAL

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden Village pp208-214

 

BOTCHERBY COMMUNITY CENTRE Ex Botcherby School

P Hitchon Botcherby a Garden Village pp243-45. On 19.06.1968 the premises became known as Botcherby Youth and Community Centre, changing its name to Botcherby Community centre in 1981

CJ 12.01.1968 p10

CJ 28.01.1938 p13 Turning Botcherby Schools into community centre

CJ 09.12.1938 p1 City mothers take action

CJ 16.12.1938 p1 Fathers support

CJ 29.09.1967 p9 (illus) Community centre

CJ 03.11.1967 p3 (illus) Community centre

CN 24.11.1967 p1 Community centre

CN 24.10.1969 p3 Community centre

Civic affairs October 1970 Youth wing opened 13.10.1970

CN 11.09.1998 p7 Centre is new base for Duke of Edinburgh Awards

 

BOTCHERBY FAMILY CENTRE

ENS 29.10.1981 p16 (illus)

CN 26.01.2001 p3 Centre destroyed by blaze ‘not arson’

CN 14.12.2001 p5 Plans to rebuild family centre are to be put before council

CN 23.05.2003 p5 Family centre reopens

 

BOTCHERBY FOOTBALL CLUB

Hitchon, Pat Botcherby a garden village p216 -7

 

BOTCHERBY GARDENS AND NURSERY GROUNDS

CD 1880 Ad pl Botcherby Gardens and Nursery Grounds, office no 5 Green Market, Thomas Hamilton and sons

 

BOTCHERBY GRANGE

1891 census; Thomas Barton, coachbuilder, aged 58, bn Carlisle

 

BOTCHERBY GROVE

CN 29.03.1996 p6 Ad

 

BOTCHERBY HALL Built in 1882by Mr Wilson

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp30-33

CJ 07.09.1883 Advertised for sale or to let; The mansion has been recently built

CP 07.10.1887 Botcherby Hall to be let or sold

1891 census; John Yeates, living on own means, bn Hensingham

1901 census; Ann Turner, aged 74, head, widow, born Wigton

1918 Electoral register Esther and Henry Musgrave

CN 17.10.1931 City purchase (illus)

Ca/C3/497 Urban Sanitary Authority Box 44 - conveyancing bundle 1931 (CRO)

City Minutes 1931-32 p186 12.01.1932 Sale approved to Dr de Mello

 

BOTCHERBY HOUSE

1891 census; Henry Jessop, locomotive engineer, 43, bn Leicester

 

BOTCHERBY MILL Mill stood on this site from at least 1644; Botcherby Mill marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle; new mill built November 1771; by 1934 a motor engineering company established at mill; 1995 derelict buildings burnt down[Linton Holme a Suburb of Carlisle pp 5 -7 ]

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden Village pp41-42 Rebuilt by the miser Margery Jackson who put the following inscription above the door ‘Miss Margery Jackson, sister of WN Jackson, Esq, rebuilt this mill 1790’ No longer a mill in the 20th century becoming a dairy farm run by Thomas Johnston, in 1934 it was housing an engineering company and in the 1950s the Cumberland Tyre Company. Buildings burned down in 1995 after being left derelict for some time.

J Robinson, A Proudfoot and D Nash Botcherby Heroes Remembered 1914-18, 2016 p30 -3 3 Photo of mill plus details of Johnston family

CP 09.02.1822 p3 Mr Waugh of Botcherby Mill lost 3 pigs in floods

1829 Richard Irving miller [Parson and White]

1834 Pigot’s Directory Richard Irwin, miller

1847 Directory p154 W. Robinson, manager, Botcherby Mill

1861 census Elizabeth Rayson, one of her servants ‘corn miller’ and 2 apprentices

CP 19.09.1863 p1 Ad to let Mill; present tenant Mr Robinson

03.12.1884 Died at Stanwix Thomas Railton of Botcherby Mill [Farlam MI]

30.12.1889 Died at Blencowe Joseph Railton of Botcherby Mill [Farlam MI]

1901 census; Thomas Johnston; dairyman, aged 45

1918 Electoral register Thomas and Jane Ann Johnston, Botcherby Mill

 

BOTCHERBY - ORCHARD HOUSE

For sale see B/CAR 333.333 acc no 3238

 

BOTCHERBY POST OFFICE; Inside newsagents on corner of Wood St and Victoria Rd

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p176-7 In 1938 run by Rose Greenop; 1950s and 1960s Stanley and Dorothy Banks, Barry Brayton, Louis and Linda Ruddick [2018]

CN 21.03.2008 p3 Botcherby and Denton Holme Post Offices to close

CN 20.06.2008 p19 Botcherby PO only one saved

 

BOTCHERBY SCHOOL

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp130-133 Map locates the school to a triangle of land between Warwick Road and Tilbury Road. The will of Joseph Atkinson of 01.12.1753 left a bequest of money for the building of a school. In 1860 Whellan’s Directory states that ‘on the north side of the village is a small school for children of both sexes, which will accommodate about fifty pupils, average attendance about 40. It is supported by the quarter-pence of the scholars’. It seems the school no longer existed by 1897 and the land was sold to give funds for the new Botcherby School of 1890

CJ 20.04.1900 School site to be sold to provide the price for an elementary school

 

BOTCHERBY SCHOOL Stone dated 1900; opened 19.03.1900 (Kelly 1906 p267)

P Hitchon Botcherby a Garden Village pp133-9 The school was formally opened on 15.03.1900 and it was the Upperby School Board who erected the school. On 25.08.1926, the School Management and Organisation (Joint) Committee commented on the ‘meagre attendance’ with a recommendation to the Board of Education to ‘close the school as early as possible’. This was agreed and the final day was Friday 21.01.1927. During its years of closure it was used by a variety of local groups. The Carlisle Journal of 23.06.1939 reported that after agitation from local people the school was being reopened for 5 to 7 years-olds. The war years saw the school being used by evacuees and by children from other schools on the ‘double shift’ system. In 1956 Miss Robinson was appointed to Pennine Way Infants School for its opening term but, as the building was not ready, the children were bussed to Botcherby School for temporary classroom space. On 19.06.1968 the premises became known as Botcherby Youth and Community Centre, changing its name to Botcherby Community centre in 1981

CJ 16.03.1900 Opened yesterday at a cost of £3,000, erection of school and master’s house near the corner of Warwick Road opposite the Star Inn

CN 29.01.1938 p19

City Minutes 1925-6 p734 Proposed closure of school

City Minutes 1928-9 p188

City Minutes 1929-30 p107 Suggested reopening of Botcherby School

CN 02.11.1929 p12 Botcherby school re-opening

City Minutes 1932-33 p610 Agree to reopen for younger children for winter term

CJ 02.06.1939 p5 Botcherby school controversy

CJ 09.06.1939 p1 400 sign petition

CJ 23.06.1939 p1 Still not satisfied

CJ 23.06.1939 p6 Botcherby school to be reopened

CN 24.06.1939 p4 Why it was decided to reopen Botcherby School

CN 28.01.2000 p9 The old Botcherby School celebrates century

 

BOTCHERBY TURNPIKE

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p49-51 In 1828 a group of Carlisle businessmen and landowners met at the Bush Inn to establish the Carlisle to Brampton Turnpike Trust. In 1835, with the city becoming a Municipal Borough, the repair responsibility was handed to the newly created Highways Board, who replaced the parish surveyor, and it was deturnpiked in 1876. The site of the toll bar was on the west corner of Greystone Road and Warwick Road

25.11.1854 The Botcherby Tollgate and house to be lighted with gas, a lamp to be put on the outside of the house

 

BOTCHERBY WAR MEMORIAL Corner of Victoria Road and Warwick Road

Carlisle an illustrated history p84 Photo of Beattie worker carving memorial. The memorial was originally on land outside the Botchery School but, with road widening, was later moved to its current site within the Community Centre gardens. Fifteen names are recorded on the memorial. A memorial roll of honour is in St Andrews Church

P Hitchon Botcherby a Garden Village pp 66-67

M Robinson, A Proudfoot and D Nash Botcherby Heroes Remembered 1914-18, 2016 ,p3 has a photo showing the original position of the war memorial

CN 26.06.1920 A move is on foot for the provision of a war memorial for Botcherby

CN 23.10.1920 House to house collection on behalf of the Botcherby war memorial

CN 26.03.1921 Memorial to be unveiled on the 28th March

 

BOTCHERGATE Is vico Botchardi c1245; Botchardgate 1292. The Botchard after whom ther gate was named was presumably the man whose name is also preserved in Botcherby. Up to 1800 what is now called English St was called Botchergate: at first Botchergate simply, then Botchergate Within (the city); the modern Botchergate barely existed in 1746 [CWAAS OS Vol 6 p147] Map published in the Carlisle Journal of 17.10.1835 shows the boundaries of the following city wards; St Cuthberts, St Marys, Rickergate, Caldewgate, Botchergate

1820 see G.Topping Memories of Carlisle pp133-4 for description in 1820

CN 27.05.1960 p1

ENS 05.01.1960 p1 Chaos feared in Botchergate

ENS 21.12.1959 p5 (Illus) Mr Botchergate (Santa)

ENS 28.05.1960 p1 Band draws crowd to Botchergate

ENS 04.02.1971 p1 Court St demolition

ENS 10.08.1994 p1 ‘Botcher’ blues for top hotel

CN 01.03.1995 p2 Auctioneer sued

CN 04.08.1995 p11 Put people first (letter)

CN 09.08.1996 p1 Botchergate auction looks at closure

CN 13.09.1996 pp 1,10 Midlands turns its back on Botchergate

CN 25.01.1991 p23 City battle to save sub Post Office stepped up

CN 05.08.1994 p14 Down your way

CN 23.05.1997 p9 Botchergate’s hidden treasure

CN 24.10.1997 p19 (aerial view) The way the Romans marched...

CN 06.03.1998 p1 Portland properties goes bust

CN 25.09.1998 p5 Botchergate the golden mile

CN 23.10.1998 p1 Call for more excavation work at cinema

CN 06.11.1998 p7 Aerial view

CN 31.10.2003 p1 Threatened closure of Botchergate post office

CN 08.01.2016 p1 Building of new council offices on Botchergate reveals Roman cemetery

 

BOTCHERGATE - ARCADE

CJ 14.08.1903 (illus)

 

BOTCHERGATE CINEMA Opened 1915

See also Gaumont, Odeon

CJ 30.07.1915 p6a First advert for New Picture House

CJ 01.04.1938 p13 Cinema fire

Memories of Carlisle, Chapter 1 Photo of facade circa 1955

 

BOTCHERGATE CLOSES

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]

 

BOTCHERGATE CONSERVATIVE CLUB Formerly the Albert Hotel; opened 28.08.1893

CP 04.02.1898 p7

CJ 14.07.1903 Club struck off the register for drunkenness on premises

 

BOTCHERGATE - DEVELOPMENT

see also BOTCHERGATE - TRAFFIC, see also BOTCHERGATE, EAST

ENS 12.09.1959 p1 Blitz in Botchergate - reconstruction scheme

CJ 14.10.1966 p3 (Illus) Development plan

CJ 06.01.1967 p11 Development plan abandoned

CJ 01.03.1968 p12 Development plan

CN 08.03.1968 p3 Development plan revised

CN 09.12.1988 p4 Sweeping changes in a main city street

CN 23.03.1989 p1 City facelift for problem area

CN 11.05.1990 p7 Aiming to give street a new look

CN 30.11.1990 p15 Facelift talks

CN 22.05.1992 p17 Plan to give street new life

CN 16.10.1992 p18 Trust study city area

CN 29.10.1993 p3 Plan to spruce up streets

CN 05.11.1993 p7 Facelift planned

CN 19.11.1993 p1 (map) Revolutionary plan to make Botchergate into walkway

CN 26.11.1993 p1 £1m Botchergate go ahead

CN 26.11.1993 p14 (illus) Slump St lifeline

CN 14.01.1994 p3 Backing Botchergate

CN 04.02.1994 p25 Surveyor attacks Botchergate plan

CN 25.03 1994 p13 City shops homes plans

CN 01.04.1994 p15 £700,000 for Botchergate face lift

CN 12.08.1994 p3 Blue print for a bright Botchergate

CN 12.08.1994 p12 Tatty street hitting hotels trade

CN 07.10.1994 p5 Facelift first steps

CN 27.01.1995 p1 Million £ revamp

CN 10.02.1995 p5 Botchergate plan will be £1m white elephant

ENS 14.05.1995 p10 Botchergate blueprint gets a cool reception

CN 08.09.1995 pp1,10 People power backs Botchergate revamp

CN 29.09.1995 p1 Botchergate gets seal of approval

CN 22.09.1995 p5 Botchergate stalled

CN 06.10.1995 p1 Joy as Botchergate revamp is put on ice

CN 10.11.1995 p3 Botchergate protesters will ask government to drop plan

CN 08.12.1995 p1 (illus) Beautiful Botchergate scheme unveiled

CN 15.12.1995 p2 Labour feud hits plans for Botchergate

CN 29.01.1996 p5 Resign call over revamp

ENS 03.04.1996 p5 Botchergate revamp wait sinks pet shop

CN 06.09.1996 p4 Ask the public

CN 20.09.1996 p3 (illus) Council earmark £70,000 to smarten up street

CN 08.11.1996 p6 Campaign man welcomes new street plan

CN 06.12.1996 p1 New multi million pound scheme for Botchergate

CN 17.01.1997 p3 Support stopped

CN 17.01.1997 p5 Planners set to rule on £25m new Botchergate

CN 07.03.1997 p13 Rats in Botchergate

CN 16.05.1997 p3 Public thumbs up to Botchergate show

CN 20.06.1997 p3 Going for £10m

CN 25.07.1997 p1 Botchergate not forgotten

CN 15.08.1997 p16 Brightening Botchergate

CN 22.08.1997 p5 (illus) £325,000 city facelift is nearly over

CN 24.10.1997 p5 (illus) End in sight for chipboard city...

CN 21.11.1997 p3 Build new civic HQ in Botchergate

CN 21.11.1997 p11 (illus) Bulldoze the Civic Centre, scrap the airport...

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p186 photo of redevelopment

CN 13.03.1998 p3 Man who holds key to Botchergate work

CN 10.04.1998 p1 Airport mastermind eyes up Botchergate again

CN 24.04.1998 p1 Traders confront city bosses

CN 19.06.1998 p3 (illus) New pubs success inspires £8m boost to Botchergate

CN 31.07.1998 p1 Botchergate will rise from the ashes

CN 14.08.1998 p16 Bulldozers prepare to move

CN 11.09.1998 p1 Tycoon involved in deal

CN 02.10.1998 p6 Rebirth of Botchergate begins

CN 16.10.1998 p2 (illus) Set to be ‘Royal Mile’ of Carlisle

CN 18.12.1998 p3 Pizzas in the piazza?

CN 18.06.1999 p2 Scaffolding collapse

CN 11.02.2000 p1 Scaffolding collapse firms in court

CN 02.03.2001 p2 Plans to build a new hotel, shops, offices in Botchergate

CN 13.04.2001 p7 Plan revealed for Botchergate

CN 01.06.2001 p5 New nightclub planned for Botchergate

CN 08.03.2002 p3 Work starts on Monday on multi million pound development

CN 13.09.2002 p3 (illus) Steel work of Botchergate’s new skyline rises

CN 07.02.2003 p5 Multi million pounds transformation near completion this summer

CN 02.05.2003 p1 Planning permission for 15 flats; South Henry St corner

CN 08.08.2003 p14 £2m Ibis Hotel opens

CN 31.10.2003 p3 Botchergate development of pubs, bars almost complete

CN 19.12.2003 p3 Australian bar open; other attractions planned

CN 10.06.2005 p6 (illus) Plans for Botchergate development; numbers 149-59

CN 12.05.2006 p22 Plans to make Botchergate a pedestrian area on Saturday night

CN 04.01.2008 p11 Gates for Botchergate will mean no traffic on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights [fear of drunks being run over]

 

BOTCHERGATE, EAST - DEVELOPMENT

CJ 23.07.1937 p7 CN 20.05.1977 p17 CN 24.06.1977 p21 CN 13.09.1974 p7 CN 24.09.1976 p1 CN 03.09.1976 p1 CN 13.05.1977 p32 (map)

CN 20.05.1977 p17 CN 03.03.1978 p19 CN 14,10.1977 p7

ENS 14.09.1978 p10 (illus) ENS 01.04.1982 pp16-19

CN 13.05.1977 p32 (plan),p17,p8 (opinion)

 

BOTCHERGATE - HISTORY

CN 01.11.1957 p10 CN 08.11.1957 p10 CN 22.11.1957 p12

CN 29.11.1957 p10

CP 16.02.1850 p1 Ad; For sale various properties ‘in improving part of Carlisle’

CJ 09.06.1863 p3 State of in 1863

Our City Our People p20 on Description of shops about 1900

CN 15.12.1972 p6 (illus) About 1900

CN 17.05.1974 p6 History

CN 10.06.1944 p5 Name and early history

CN 04.04.1985 p4 History

CN 06.01.1990 pxiii supp. Street that saw the rebels off to the gallows

CN 18.10.1996 p10 From a green field to a palace

ENS 13.05.1976 p7 (illus) In the steps of Roman legions

ENS 13.05.1976 p8 (illus) Botchergate is steeped in history

CN 09.10.1998 p1 Carlisle’s Romans went to Botchergate

CN 06.11.1998 p9 Botchergate comes full circle

CN 22.01.1999 p12 Banks etc

Memorials of Old Carlisle Topping and Potter p27 Derivation of name

CN 25.10.1957 p10 About 1850

CN 03.03.2000 p12 All change in life and times of Botchergate

 

BOTCHERGATE - LAW and ORDER

See also RIOTS

CN 05.05.1989 p11 City police heroes are honoured

CN 29.04.1988 p10 Editorial Public disorder

CN 15.04.1994 p1 New vandalism outbreaks

CN 27.05.1994 p10 Street of shame

CN 25.07.1997 p1 (illus) Co-op blaze; firemen look again at arson

CN 29.05.1998 p10 Boozergate

CN 07.08.1998 p1 Bulldozers to flatten arsonists playground

CN 16.02.2001 p1 Pint and punchup culture

 

BOTCHERGATE - SHOPS

ENS 08.07.1970 Supplement p16 Busy Botchergate is shoppers paradise

ENS 13.05.1976 pp 10-12 (illus) Something for everyone in this area of Carlisle

ENS 31.01.1980 pp14,15 Shopping supplement

CN 18.11.1994 p18 Top stores keen

CN 30.07.1993 p1 Shops chain boost

CN 15.09.1995 p1 Big name on way

CN 29.09.1995 p3 Boutique business man quits Botchergate

CN 13.06.1997 p3 Anger of cafe pair forced out

CN 03.04.1998 p1 Traders in despair

CN 29.03.2002 p7 Mayblins closes after nearly 100 years

 

BOTCHERGATE - TRAFFIC

CJ 21.07.1939 p3 £50,000 by-pass

CN 17.06.1994 p3 No parking spaces for disabled

CN 02.12.1994 p13 Relief road gets go ahead

CN 13.01.1995 p16 Scrap road plan call

CN 28.07.1995 p4 Call for rethink on road plans

CN 03.11.1995 p1 Doctors fight city route plan

ENS 07.05.1996 pp1,3 £224,000 cost of doomed relief road

CN 01.08.1997 p11 Bid to block traffic trial scheme fails

CN 08.08.1997 p5 Green light for city traffic plan

CN 03.10.1997 p1 Botchergate traffic

CN 21.11.1997 p3 Delay traffic scheme until you see development plan

CN 16.07.1999 p10 Traffic plan will make things worse

CN 14.06.2002 p9 Bus and cycle lane to be removed

 

BOTCHERGATE - WOODROW WILSON Public House. Wilson was twice American President; his mother was born in the city, is grandfather a minister here

CN 15.05.1998 p10 From a co-operative past to a Woodrow Wilson future

CN 19.06.1998 p3 (illus) New pubs success inspires £8m boost for Botchergate

 

BOTT,W York House, London Road

Dentist

Leading Trader of the City A616 Ad p62

CD 1905-06 Ad p169

CD 1907-08 Ad p182

CD 1910-11 Ad p95

 

BOTTLE COLLECTING

CN 27.12.1974 p10

 

BOUGH, James Boot and shoemakers

1829 Directory James Bough, Abbey Street. This was the father of the artist Sam Bough

[Sidney Gilpin Sam Bough RSA some account of his life and works pp1-3]

 

BOUNCERS see NIGHTCLUBS

 

BOUNDARIES Boundaries extended by Carlisle Corporation Act of 1887 which came into effect from 15.05.1887; from 09.11.1912 parts of Belle Vue, Cummersdale, Stanwix, Upperby, Harraby and Botcherby were added to Carlisle municipal borough

CAIH p54

CN 12.10.1946 p5 CN 26.10.1946 p5 CN 10.01.1948 p3

CP 15.04.1898 p6c Incorporating Stanwix with Carlisle

1930 City of Carlisle Yearbook p46 City boundary points on main roads [L168]

CN 28.09.1946 p5 Map showing 3 constituencies, Carlisle...

CJ 21.07.1950 p4 Extension of Carlisle city boundaries

CN 05.11.1949 p9 Plan of proposed extension

CN 22.10.1971 p16 Extension of 1903

CN 15.10.1993 p2 Accusations fly in boundaries row

CN 21.07.2000 p26 Suggested changes by Boundary Commission

CN 19.01.2001 p7 Public inquiry into suggested changes to Carlisle Constituency

CN 22.06.2001 p5 Boundary changes to Carlisle constituency; Wetheral to city

 

BOUNDARY ROAD

City Minutes 1934-35 p869 Renumbering of road

 

BOUNDARY STONE

CN 22.11.1947 p3 CN 29.11.1947 p5 CN 06.12.1947 p3

CN 13.12.1947 p5 CN 20.12.1947 p5 CN 15.08.1969 p12

CN 05.09.1969 p12 Lists positions

CN 23.03.2012 p36 Article by Denis Perriam on the city freelidge stones that marked the city boundary

 

BOUNDARY TERRACE; Upperby So named on 1901 census

 

BOURNE BUSINESS CENTRE; Milbourne St

CN 21.01.2005 p 6 Run by Kay Kyle

 

BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CN 11.03.1988 p6 Playing in Carlisle

 

BOUSFIELD LANE Scotch Street; so named on Woods 1821 map of the city

The Lanes Remembered p27 Photo

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 8 Lowther Street to 27 Scotch Street

1891 census; 23 people living in lane

1901 census 34 people are living in the lane in 8 households. Occupations are; charwoman, gardener, butcher, biscuit worker, telegraphic messenger, insurance agent, dressmaker, school teacher

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 No 5 unfit for human habitation

1934 Directory 27 Scotch Street

CJ 06.08.1937 p1 Part stopping up

 

BOUSTEAD, James English Street

M442 p2 Business card for tea, coffee, chocolate and cocoa dealer

 

BOUSTEAD, Robert

28.05.1822 Saddler of Carlisle died aged 55 [MI Irthington]

 

BOUSTEAD, Samuel Butcher

See also RED LION

Carlisle Examiner 20.06.1857 p2 Butcher’s shop to be sold

CJ 24.07.1857 p1d Dwelling house and butcher’s shop with Botchergate frontage in occupation of Samuel Boustead

CJ 06.01.1888 p8 Bacon curing business, Crown Street. To be let

CJ 01.06.1897 p3 Failing to submit plans for building at Harraby, bacon factor

CJ 03.04.1900 p2 Bacon curer, Harraby. Prosecution ‘by an accumulation of slaughter house offal and filth in fields adjoining Petteril Banks at Harraby. There were enormous heaps composed of blood pigs feet and other unsaleable offal, 40 or 50 carloads each. Smell to be abated in one month’

CJ 01.06.1900 p6 Further half column

CJ 10.07.1900 p3 Further proceedings

CJ 24.07.1900 p2 Decision of bench £50 fine

CJ 26.09.1913 p7 62-74 Botchergate for sale. Since disposed of to the COOP for £8,500. Mr Boustead’s Red Lion unsold

CJ 18.08.1916 p6 Bacon in a week. Carrying on business in buildings formerly occupied by Samuel Boustead. describes process

 

BOUSTEAD, Thomas

31.01.1765 Died Thomas Boustead of Carlisle, Attorney at law [Stanwix registers]

 

BOUSTEAD, William Donald’s Ct, King’s Arms Lane

1882 Porters Directory Ad p170 Whitesmith, locksmith and bellhanger

 

BOUSTEAD GRASSING

CP 16.11.1833 p1 Ad Bousteads Grassing to be sold

CJ 18.03.1879 p3 Bousteads Grassing pegged out as street

City Minutes 1915-16 p98 Approval for 24 houses; details of size and nos of rooms

City Minutes 1919-20 p 131 Work commenced on houses on 20th January1920

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1928 p24 32 houses completed

CN 06.08.1999 p2 Residents protests at new homes

CN 30.10.2009 p30 D.Perriam. Origin of name traced to 1610. A large field named Millom Meadow subsequently belonged to the Boustead family

 

BOUSTEADS BUILDINGS, West side of Botchergate, southern part of the Coop complex

CJ 23.08.1889 p8 Tenders for plastering, plumbing etc in new building

CJ 14.12.1894 p5 Fire in Beavan’s furniture shop built as part of a block of seven about 5 years ago by Samuel Boustead. Next shop Hayton and Son

 

BOUSTEADS COURT, South Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 26 South Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 24-26 South Street

 

BOWENS TURRET

On old city walls; ‘I fancy the Bowens Turret must have been about opposite to the Sallyport which appears to have been situate half way between the Rickergate and Springold Towers’ [Grangerized Hutchinson]. Referred to in 1787

 

BOWER STREET

City Minutes 1899-1900 p344 Estate to be named Bower Street

City Minutes 1900-01 p 326 Approval for 8 houses

City Minutes 1933-34 p167 Plans approved for 8 houses; owner J.Millar

 

BOWES, Bill Crosby St

Plumber

CN 01.12.2006 p15 Firm closes; started in 1953

 

BOWES COURT, Charles Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 31 Charles Street

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 1 property here

 

BOWES STORES 137 Denton St

Grocers

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p32 Mary Ann Bowes outside shop; pp19-20

CD1952 p116 Ad

Cumberland Directory Ad p35

CD 1955-56 Ad p35

 

BOWLING see also MYDDLETON STREET BOWLING CLUB, STANWIX BOWLING CLUB, WEST END BOWLING CLUB

CPacquet 15.08.1797 Ad; to be let a nice bowling green; Spring Gardens Lane

CJ 14.11.1801 p1d Spring Garden Bowling Green to let; fruit trees and green

Carlisle an illustrated history p82 1880s photo of Springs Gardens bowling green

D Perriam Denton Holme. Planning permission was given to Ferguson Brothers to lay out the Bridge Terrace bowling green in 1880, although it was thought to date from 1872. It was again re-laid and extended in 1893 with a reopening ceremony. Quoits were also mentioned as being played here in 1880

CP 09.04.1897 p5 Opening of Carlisle Subscription Bowling Green, Myddleton St

CP 29.04.1898 p5a Meeting to form new bowling green at Edenside

CP 19.06.1908 p5 Nicholson and Cartner have published 2 sets of different phases of the Border City Bowling Tournament with well defined photos.

09.07.1919 International Tournament Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p92

City Minutes 1924-25 p397 Advert for green keeper for Currock Bowling Green

City Minutes 1927-28 p829 Income and players at municipal greens; 1927 and 28

CN 01.05.1970 p28 SMS to open indoor rink?

CN 15.03.1974 p36 Indoor rink

CN 16.06.1972 p1 Indoor green on Viaduct Estate

CN 17.11.1972 p1 Indoor green on Viaduct Estate

ENS 19.01.1976 p5 Indoor bowling green opened

CN 23.01.1976 p13 Indoor green - Viaduct Estate

CN 28.04.1978 p16 (illus) Edenside Bowling Club

CN 02.06.1989 p4 Bowling club of long ago

CN 15.12.1989 p4 Still bowling along

CN 28.03.1991 p6 Bowlers to lose greens

CN 08.10.1999 p12 Days that prisoners destroyed a bowling green inside prison

 

BOWLING GREEN INN / HOTEL Lowther Street; in local directories from 1873 until State Management sell off when it became a probation hostel; forerunner of this pub was the Shakespeare Tavern.

D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022 p8 As early as 1713 there was a Spring Garden House which , by 1803, became the Shakespeare Tavern; replaced by the present building in 1885, The Bowling Green Hotel . After State sell off in 1972 it became a hostel

See also Bowling; Probation Hostel

Carlisle an illustrated history p82 photo of rear of inn and bowling green

1891 census; Andrew Tait, aged 61, hotel keeper, bn Scotland

CD 18.02.1898 p5c Dinner to the city police

ENS 01.04.1971 p6 The pub has lost its bowling green but retains its name

CN 21.02.1992 p4 (illus)

CN 08.10.1999 p12 (illus) Day rioting prisoners destroyed a bowling green

 

BOWMAN, Edward 139 Denton Street

Chemist

CD 1920 Ad p68

 

BOWMAN, George

Electrician

ENS 03.09.1958 p2 Ad supplement

 

BOWMAN, John W. 139 Denton St

Chemist

CD 1955-56 Ad p233

CD 1961 -62 Ad p19

 

BOWMAN, Robert Tower Buildings

Watch and clock repairer

The Lanes Remembered p79 Photo of shop, 21 Scotch Street

CD 1952 Ad p395

CD 1954 Cumberland Directory Ad p82

CD 1955-56 Ad p82

 

BOWMAN,T 61 English Street

Berlin and fancy repository

CD 1880 Ad p xxii

CD 1884-85 Ad p263

 

BOWMAN, Thomas Dealer in fancy goods, aged 31, born York, home address 34 Cecil Street [1861 census]

 

BOWMANS CHEMIST

CN 16.06.1995 p4 Ad

 

BOWMAN’S CLOSE Botchergate

See also Fusehill Street

City Council Minutes 09.02.1886 p9 Sale of Charity Field

 

BOWMAN’S COURT, 13 Scotch Street [1880 Directory]

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

BOWMANS DRUG STORE Lowther Arcade

Chemists and druggists

CD 1920 Ad p40

 

BOWMANS LANE Bridge Street [1847 Directory]

 

BOWMANS LANE, Scotch Street [1829 Directory]

 

BOWMANS TOY SHOP Scotch St

Started in 1857, closed Sept 1971

Carlisle a photographic recollection; J.Templeton; photo of facade p19

CN 24.09.1971 p8 CN 26.11.1971 p14 (portrait)

 

BOWMAN STREET In vicinity of field called Bowman’s Field [CN 17.09.2004 p6]; street first noted in 1880 directory. Street interrupted by playground. In 1922 Margaret Ann Hind bought a house [no 43] in the street, three bedrooms and a parlour, yard, no garden, opening straight onto the street, for just under four-hundred pounds. This was the house where the author Margaret Forster’s mother and grand-mother lived. Margaret Forster Hidden Lives pp66-7]

 

BOWSON, Benjamin and Co Merchant; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784

 

BOX, Gordon

CN 07.09.1990 p8 Boom firm that’s Boxing clever

CN 23.01.1998 p15 Coach companies merge

 

BOXING

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden city pp128-9 Details concerning local boxers Joe Winthrop, Tex Williams, Alan Morland and Jack Baty

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered p92 Last prize fight in city

CJ 03.07.1934 p4 Open air

CN 15.11.1971 p11(illus) At the Cosmo

CN 19.02.1988 p4 Border prize fight drew 15,000 crowd; city fighters made history

CN 03.03.1989 p4 City fight made the headlines

CN 26.09.1997 p21 I was close to quitting but in I knew I’d be the champion

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p100 Photo of C.Shepherd boxing in city

CN 19.10.2001 p26 (illus) Carlisle Villa Boxing Club

CN 01.03.2002 p25 Charles Shepherd opens boxing gym on Raffles estate

CN 10.10.2003 p24 Currock House Boxing Club gets grants

CN 23.02.2007 p26 Feature on Carlisle Villa Boxing Club, Currock; formerly called Christus Rex

CN 23.09.2011 p29 Feature on Colin Nixon of Carlisle Villa Boxing Club

 

BOYD, Thomas Grocer and druggist, aged 37, employing 5 men and 8 boys, born Burgh by Sands, home address 16 Spencer St [1861 census]

 

BOYD, William G, and Son 26 Blackfriars St

Signwriters, decorators

CD 1952 Ad p350

 

BOYD’S COURT, RIGG ST

City Minutes 1931-32 p289 nos. 2,4,6, unfit for human habitation

 

BOY RACERS

CN 21.07.1995 p1 Tension mounts over boy racers

CN 12.01.1996 p4 Gates and bollards spoil boy racers

 

BOYS BRIGADE Started in Carlisle in 1892

CP 27.05.1898 p5d CN 13.10.1967 p13 CN 27.10.1967 p10

CN 03.11.1967 p5 (illus), p13 CN 24.11.1967 p14 (illus)

CJ 22.04.1921 p7d Stanwix Boys Brigade

CN 13.05.1921 p8 St James Company

CJ 26.03.1943 p3 Ist Battalion - Jubilee celebrations

CN 27.03.1943 1st Battalion Diamond Jubilee

CN 16.09.1966 p12 Boys Brigade Institute demolished

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News pp116,7 Boys Brigade parade in 1969, 1970

CN 23.09.1988 p3 Rose Ann is just one of the boys

CN 10.11.1989 p4 Boys Brigade came to city century ago

CN 18.10.1991 p11 Calling all ex city Boys Brigade members

CN 13.12.1991 p11 Keeping Boys Brigade flag flying after 100 years

CN 18.12.1992 p19 A new spirit for the boys clubs

CN 26.03.1993 p4 Happy days in Boys Brigade

CN 09.07 1993 p4 Photograph

CN 29.10.1993 p14 One club as effective as 10 police

CN 08.02.2013 p22 2nd Carlisle Company last Boys Brigade unit in city

 

BOYS CLUBS see CALDEWGATE BOYS CLUB, YOUTH CLUBS

 

BOY SCOUTS see SCOUTS

 

BPC MAGAZINES see WEB OFFSET

 

BRACKEN CLOSE, Belah

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 12 properties here

 

BRACKEN RIDGE, Belah

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1-99 and 2-38 properties

 

BRADLEY,A 3 Kings Arms Lane, Peascod’s Lane

Painters and decorators

CD 1952 Ad p351

CD 1955-56 Ad p272

 

BRADLEYS (Chester) Ltd 19 English Street

Outfitters opened in Carlisle June 1966

CN 24.06.1966 p9 (illus)

 

BRAG Botcherby Residents Action Group

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp244-250

 

BRAMERTON LODGE CHAPEL, Wood Street

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p145-6 This barn building is believed to have been first used for worship in 1867. It became the subject of a planning controversy when plans were announced to demolish it. The Cumberland News of 04.07.1986 reported that a compromise had been reached...a rear wall of the building will remain, to preserve the view enjoyed by some people living in Wood Street. But the rest of the building will be demolished by Allen Builders, who plan to construct homes for first-time buyers on the site

 

BRAMPTON CARLISLE RUN Started in 1952, ‘oldest 10 mile run in UK’. Organised in 2023 by the Border Harriers

CN 22.11.1957 p13

CN 29.11.1957 p5

CN 06.12.1957 p10 Results of race

CN 24.11.2023 p24 Photos

 

BRAMPTON ROAD; originally known as the Military Road was formed between 1749 - 1757. Numbers 3-9 were built in 1905, replacing dilapidated thatched cottages on the Bank.

D Perriam Stanwix p95 Ribbon development along Brampton Road had begun with these Arts and Crafts inspired house. John William Laing built and lived in what is today 139 Brampton Road, then called Fairholme. His aunt lived next door at 141

1924 Carlisle Directory lists the following properties; Mulcaster House, Braestead, Green Hey, The Cottage, Home Acres, Home Acres Cottage, Stancroft, Edenville, Inveresk, Fairholme, High Croft, Meadow Ash, Kintyre

City Minutes 1929-30 p728 Approval for 26 houses by John Laing

CN 26.11.1949 p5 Port. of cottages at junction with Scotland Road

 

BRAMPTON ROAD PILL BOX, Junction with Well Lane. Box built in 1941/42 as part of the Western Command Stop Line 18 which ran from Pooley Bridge to near Brampton. Box of an individual design rather than one of the standard reinforced concrete designs. It has been camouflaged as part of a stone built garden wall. It is situated to guard the exit road from Rickerby Park. The pill box is included in a 1949 illustration of Brampton Road by Brian Fawcett, demonstrating that it remains unchanged. The south east face is constructed of red sandstone blocks with a string course, to match the garden wall to either side, but standing taller.

 

BRANTWOOD AVENUE

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 2-16

 

BRASH, E.G. 6 Paternoster Rd

1882 Porters Directory Ad p96 successor to John Williams; iron and wire worker

 

BRASS BANDS

CP 15.04.1898 p3c Competition

 

BRAVERY AWARDS

CN 27.06.1997 p7 (illus) Bravery award policeman tackled garage knifeman

 

BRAY,C.H. Devonshire Walk

Engineer

CD 1893-94 Ad p214 late J and R Richardson’s

CJ 31.01.1902 p8 Messrs Mordaunt Lawson and Co. For sale as a going concern moulders and engineers formerly carried out by Mordaunt Lawson and their predecessors Messrs Bray and Messrs Richardson in Byron Street and Devonshire Walk, which is now in a flourishing condition

 

BRAYTON ENGINEERING Rosehill estate

CN 23.07.1999 p19 Ad

 

BREAD STRIKE 1977 see ROBERTSONS BAKERY, CARLISLE

 

BREARLEY, James Stockbrokers; opened in 1988 closed 2002

CN 14.06.2002 p18 Stockbrokers to close

 

BREATHLYSER

ENS 23.06.1960 p9 Machines will tell whether you are fit to drive

ENS 25.06.1960 p7 Chief Constables differ on value of pub reactor meters

 

BREED see KANGOL

 

BRENNAN’S SHOP Scotch Street

CN 27.02.1976 p6 (illus)

 

BREWERIES

see also Carlisle Old Brewery; New Brewery, Connell and Pattinson, Daniel, Hall, Haugh, Iredale, Pattinson, Peattie, Queens Brewery, Theakston (formerly Carlisle Old Brewery), State Management, West Walls Brewery

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894-1916, 2004

CN 22.09.1951 p4 CN 29.09.1951 p4 CN 06.10.1951 p5

CN 13.10.1951 p4 CN 17.11.1951 p4 CN 21.10.1960 p12

CN 09.02.1968 p10 CN 14.11.1975 p10 (illus) CN 22.11.1974 p8

CN 13.12.1974 p1 CN 18.08.1972 p1 CN 19.01.1973 p1

CN 26.01.1973 p1 CN 02.02.1973 p1 CN 16.02.1973 p9

CN 27.07.1973 p1 CN 03.08.1973 p1

04.09.1762 Christening St Mary’s Parish regs; George Irwin, the Brewery, Maltster

CD 1905-06 Ad p87 Carlisle New Brewery, Shaddongate

CN 01.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s

ENS 12.03.1968 p1 Walk out shuts State Management Brewery

CN 24.09.1971 p16 Carlisle State Brewery

CN 28.09.1973 p40 For sale?

CN 03.05.1974 p17 Carlisle Brewery bought by Theakston

CN 15.11.1974 p5 Old Brewery, Rome Street

CN 28.07.1978 p11 Expansion of Theakston

CN 16.10.1987 p9 Former state management brewery Theakston closes

CN 11.12.1987 p1 Hotel planned as brewery is sold (ex Theakston)

CN 27.01.1989 p3 City brewery plans unveiled

CN 06.07.1990 p4 Link with former city brewery

CN 07.12.1990 p9 Veto for brewers

CN 13.01.1995 p13 Beer fanatics look forward to top class drinking

CN 03.03.1995 p10 Ales brewed in Carlisle could be found in the colonies

CN 26.01.1996 p3 20 real ales on tap

CN 17.03.2000 p12 Rise and fall of Carlisle Brewing business

CN 11.08.2006 p11 City breweries at and after the 1916 State Control takeover

 

BREWERY ROW So named because of its proximity to the New Brewery; in local directories from 1834 and in voters list until 1973

1850 In Brewery Row the general Board of Health report on the city noted that there is only one privvy for twenty families in the street and this has not been cleaned out since built.

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p117 Photo of street in 1937

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p29 View of Row in 1959

City Minutes 01.02.1935 p229 8,9,10,11,12 unfit for human habitation

 

BREWERY ROW ADULT SCHOOL AND READING ROOM

Carlisle Examiner 23.10.1858 p2c

 

BREWHOUSE see MALT SHOVEL

 

BRIAR BANK

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1-133 and nos 2-126

 

BRICKLAYERS ARMS John St, Caldewgate; in local directories from 1880; closed by Central Control Board in October 1916; in 1894 the owner is given as Thomas Lister who was also a builder, hence the name? The pub may previous to 1880 have been called the Sportsman’s Arms Inn and previous to this the Weavers Arms; building demolished 2001

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p114 Photo of pub in 1902

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses, 2004, p44

ENS 02.11.1916 Closed October 1916

CN 02.08.1991 p4 (illus)

 

BRICKS AND BRICKWORKS

See also ATKIN,THOMAS, BOTCHERBY BRICK AND TILE WORKS; CARLISLE BRICK TILE AND POTTERY WORKS; KINGSTOWN BRICK WORKS; KINGMOOR BRICK AND TILE WORKS

Carlisle Castle; the Tile Tower, rebuilt in brick for artillery in 1483-5 by Richard III. The earliest documented brick in the city. [Pevsner and Hyde p241]

P Hitchon Botcherby A Garden Village pp43-5 Bricks had been made at Botcherby since the 18th century; a building contractor’s account for bricks and plastering of the Town Hall during alterations to the inner hall of the gallery in 1733 notes that ‘1500 bricks from Botcherby, 500 from Gosling Sike and 100 from Town Dike Gate were used’.

CAIH p88

D Perriam Stanwix p49 Map of 1909 showing Great Brick Field and Brick Kiln Field at Etterby

1711 Son of W. Reay, Carlisle brickmaker, adm to Gra.Sch.; Gra. Sch. Reg. p55

1717 Son of R Railton, of Carlisle, brickmaker, adm to Gra.Sch.; Gra. Sch. Reg. p62

1746 Brick kilns marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle near King Moor

Cumbria Industrialist, vol 3 G.Brooks Cumbrian Brick Works:North Cumbria, 2000

CJ 24.12.1813 Sell, rent or let a field at Newtown...fit for making any quantity of bricks

CJ 16.04.1814 Field at Newtown well adapted for brick-making. Excellent clay over whole field. Two small kilns

CJ 08.05.1824 Brick making this year promises to be a very profitable business, the number of new buildings in progress in our city causing an extraordinary demand

CJ 11.03.1826 p1a Bricks for sale now standing at Botcherby

CJ 15.04.1826 p1c Bricks for sale at Stanwix

CJ 30.01.1847 p2b To be let brickfield at Botcherby

CJ 14.07.1854 Newly erected brickworks at Murrell Hill

CN 24.11.2000 p8 The clay that built the bricks that built our city

 

BRICKYARD, Fisher Street. In 2023 it describes itself as a key figure in the Carlisle music scene for many years. Formerly known as the Richmond Hall or Richmond Memorial Hall it was renovated and its doors opened on New Years eve 2002. Ideally situated between Newcastle and Glasgow, the Brickyard is a 320 capacity venue

CN 21.03.2008 p10 Faces winding up order

 

BRIDAL DIRECTORY Denton Holme

CN 27.02.2004 p4 Owner Deborah Dixon closes to concentrate on tiaras

 

BRIDE AND GROOM Wedding hire

CN 22.11.1996 p17 Bride and Groom create a fairytale wedding

 

BRIDGE INN Solway Street; in local directories 1858 - 1858

CJ 29.01.1858 Ad; Beerhouse to be let

1861 census; Robert Irving, 43, bn Longtown Innkeeper, no 3 Solway Terrace

 

BRIDGE LANE 4 Bridge Street to Willow Holme

1847 Directory Bridge Lane Bridge Street

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

City Minutes 1931-32 p220 Nos 2,4,8, unfit for human habitation

 

BRIDGE LANE COURT, Bridge Lane [1880 Directory]

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

BRIDGES

see also Railway Bridges, Bog Road Railway bridge, Botcherby Bridge, Brunstock Beck Bridge, Caldew Bridge, Caldew Street-Graham Street to Boustead Grassing, Crown St; Denton St; Durranhill Railway Bridge, Durranhill Road Bridge, Eden Bridges, Etterby Railway footbridge, Harraby Bridge, Irish Gate Bridge, Maryport Cottages Railway Footbridge, Nelson Bridge, Port Road Railway Bridge, Roman Bridges, Rome Street Bridge, Suspension Bridge, Upperby Bridge, Victoria Viaduct, Millennium Fund (for Hadrian’s Bridge), Wigton Rd

ENS 21.11.1960 p11 Stanton Road bridge - 2 big bangs

CN 11.09.1992 p1 Bridge steel appeal (Crown St railway bridge)

CN 11.11.1994 p18 £15,900 to revamp city bridges

CN 04.10.1996 p1 £2m lottery cash for new Eden bridge

CN 07.11.1997 p1 Architects battle for new Eden bridge

CN 12.12.1997 p5 Young architects bridge designs to go on display

CN 23.01.1998 p4 (illus) Millennium bridge

CN 26.06.1998 Repair work to start on danger bridge (Waverley)

CN 28.08.1998 p9 Builder Ormistons viaduct

CN 04.06.1999 p1(illus) Millennium Bridge faces hugh overspend

CN 18.06.1999 p11 Why build bridges just revive one - letters

CN 03.09.1999 p5 search for mole who leaked bridge figures

CN 05.11.1999 p1 Hadrians Bridge - lottery blow

CN 10.12.1999 p1 £300,000 extra for bridge

CN 23.12.1999 p3 Hadrians Bridge - city opts for original design

CN 31.03.2000p7 Giant crane to lift new bridge

CN 07.04.2000 p1 (illus) Midnight move (Irritate)

CN 14.04.2000 pp1,11 (illus) Civic Trust slates bridge (Irritate)

CN 19.07.2002 pp1,5 Longest Eden bridge as part of projected Northern bypass

 

BRIDGE STREET Caldewgate

Carlisle in Camera 2 p29 View prior to 1894

 

BRIDGE TERRACE Holme Head; built 1852-53 for Ferguson Brothers, originally 16 houses now 11, architect John Hodgson; the new bridge at Boustead Grassing is referred to in the Carlisle Journal of 04.01.1840; coffee tavern and reading room provided for Ferguson workers opened January 1882 at city end of terrace; the tavern, designed by George Dale Oliver, was on the ground floor with a reading room above. There was a grocery shop adjoining and the grocer was also the custodian of the tavern. The tavern was replaced by a dining hall in 1912, but the reading room was still in use in 1949; nearby recreation ground and bowling green laid out in 1881

D Perriam Denton Holme. Planning permission was given to Ferguson Brothers to lay out the Bridge Terrace bowling green in 1880, although it was thought to date from 1872. it was again re-laid and extended in 1893 with a reopening ceremony. Quoits were also mentioned as being played here in 1880

CN 08.05.2009 p53 Ad feature with picture for the sale of no 22 for £160,000

CN 22.06.2012 p77 Ex coffee house for sale

 

BRIDGEWATER ROAD

City Minutes 30.03.1893 item 400 Approval for laying out new street

 

BRIGGS BROTHERS West Tower St, 1 and 2 Market St

House furnishers

CD 1880 Ad pxiii

CD 1884-85 Ad p272

CD 1893-94 Ad p148 Established half a century, 1 and 2 Market St

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p18 1 and 2 Market Street. Established 1837

CD 1902-03 Ad p13

CD 1905-06 Ad p101

CD 1910-11 Ad p98

CD 1913-14 Ad p70

CD 1920 p116

 

BRIGGS, James Carpenter, aged 40, employing 5 men and 2 apprentices, home address Gibbons Court, Scotch St, born Scotland [1851 census]

 

BRIGGS, W and Co 84 London Road

The Tyre Hospital

1954 Cumberland Directory Ad p281

CD 1955-56 Ad p287

 

BRIGG’S COURT, 10 Charlotte Street [1880 Directory]

 

BRIGGS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

 

BRIGG’S PLACE, 34 Charlotte Street [1880 Directory]

 

BRIGG’S PLACE, 3 John’s Place [1880 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 3-5 John Street

 

BRIGG’S TERRACE, 38 Charlotte Street [1880 Directory]

 

BRIGHT BIRD PRODUCTIONS

CN 27.07.2007 p22 Independent film production firm established in city

 

BRIGHT STREET Radical sympathisers named this street after MP John Bright [CAIH p49]

So marked on map of 1853. Buildings on west but not east side of street

CN 14.12.2007 p57 12 Bright Street for sale; 1850s mid terraced property - photo

 

BRINDELLS COURT, Margaret Street [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory between 2-4 Margaret Street

 

BRISCO, James William Had a basket making business in Old Globe Lane for over sixty years, circa 1900. For a period he taught blind men in Lonsdale Street the art of basket making. He grew an acre of willow for the baskets [CN 19.06.1970 p14]; 1931 Directory lists John W Brisco, basket and bedding manufacturer, 51a Castle Street

 

BRISCOS COURT, Lord Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 7 Lord Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between 7-9 Lord Street

 

BRISCOS COURT, Princess Street [1934 Directory]

 

BRISCOS COURT, Upperby [1934 Directory]

 

BRISCO’S PLACE, 27 Princess Street [1880 Directory]

 

BRISTOW, George

City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate bus service to Currock, Blackwell...

City Minutes 1926-7 p628 Licensed to operate bus service to Currock....

 

BRITAIN IN BLOOM

CN 29.09.2000 p3 (illus) Carlisle wins top award

CN 03.06.2005 p3 Carlisle will not take part this year; silver last year

 

BRITANNIA CLUB, 35 Lowther Street, opened 2013

 

BRITANNIA INN Irishgate Brow; in local directories to 1848

CJ 25.04.1846 Ad; to be let a public house

 

BRITANNIC ASSURANCE Co Ltd 56 Warwick Road

CD 1952 Ad p322

 

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY/INSTITUTE

Carlisle Examiner 06.01.1859 p4a Visit to Carlisle

Carlisle Examiner 05.03.1859 p2c Arrangements for meeting in Carlisle

Carlisle Examiner 26.07.1859 p2c Society in Carlisle

Carlisle Examiner 30.07.1859 p2c,d,e,f, p3a,b,c,d,e Society in Carlisle

Carlisle Examiner 02.08.1859 p2e,f p3a,b,c,d,e p4b,c Society in Carlisle

Carlisle Examiner 06.08.1859 p4c Society in Carlisle

 

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION

See also Television

You could receive a signal in Carlisle from Holme Moss near Hudddersfield [opened 1951] before the mast at Sandale [opened 1956] was brought into operation. To pick up the Holme Moss signal you needed a large aerial. If you lived in a council house your tenancy was governed by strict rules as to any changes you could make to the property. The large aerial needed to pick up the Holme Moss signal needed planning permission. The city council minutes from 1951/52 contain planning applications from council houses for said aerial. This lead to comments about subsidised council housing tenants being able to afford the ‘luxury’ of a television. Although Border Television did not come to the city until September 1961 local people could tune into Tyne Tees if you had the right sort of serial, not the H shape but a horizontal aerial with v shaped arrow heads along it [memory]

CN 28.10.1950 p5 Television comes to Borders

CN 14.09.1956 Top floor of Bulloughs, Castle Street, acquired for BBC Studio

CN 03.07.1987 p6 Switch of BBC news from Newcastle to Manchester

CN 06.11.1987 p6 Letter concerning above

CN 13.11.1987 p12 Editorial concerning switch

CN 18.12.1987 p6 Letter concerning switch

CN 22.01.1988 p1 Switch back say parishes

CN 05.02.1988 p11 MP in top talks

 

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION ORCHESTRA

CJ 16.12.1947 p2 Visit to Carlisle

 

BRITISH DEAF ASSOCIATION

see also CUMBRIA DEAF ASSOCIATION; DEAF

1983 Princess Diana visits the society in her role as Patron

CN 15.12.1995 p12 Bid to keep HQ in city

CN 23.02.1996 p8 Deaf HQ shutdown - 20 jobs

 

BRITISH FIELD PIECE INN in local directories from 1844 - 1848

 

BRITISH HOME STORES The Lanes

CN 09.12.1994 p12

 

BRITISH LEGION

CJ 23.04.1937 p4 Carlisle HQ

CJ 03.09.1937 p1 (illus p5) Opening of HQ

CN 11.01.1947 p7 Dedication of the new standards

CN 23.07.1999 p5 Flying flag for Carlisle

CN 08.11.2002 p10 Letter concerning British Legion’s leaving Tory Club

CN 18.10.2002 p6 Stanwix branch can no longer have AGM in Conservative club

CN 07.11.2003 p8 Victor Busby President of Carlisle Branch; feature

CN 28.03.2008 p17 Stanwix and St Ann branch closes after 60 years

 

BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY

CN 10.01.2003 p3 Party to fight May elections in city

CN 28.05.2004 p BNP chief Nick Griffin to visit city

 

BRITISH RAILWAYS CLUB Gillford Park Opened 12.11.1963

CJ 15.11.1963 pp6-7 (illus)

 

BRITISH RESTAURANT

see also Eden Restaurant; Petteril Restaurant

CN 16.10.1992 p4 Coping with wartime food rationing

 

BRITISH SCHOOL see also HOLME HEAD SCHOOL

 

BRITISH SCHOOL Mary Street, Botchergate. Marked on the 1st ed 50 inch OS map on Mary Street

Meeting held in Carlisle 1809 to consider establishing a Lancastrian School in the city. January 1810 premises in Fisher Street found; 1811 moved to a large room in Watergate (Whellan 1860 p 125); new building Mary St 1834 (Mannix and Whellan 1847 p138) ; so named on Studholme’s 1842 survey of city; transferred to newly formed Board School 08.05.1874; closed 07.10.1885; replaced by new Lowther Street Board School ; demolished 1973

1834 Pigot’s Directory, Lancastrian School, Water Lane, Timothy Powell, Master

CP 27.12.1862 p5

CP 16.12.1870 Elementary School Returns; 242 on roll 170 attending

CP 08.01.1886 p1a Ad; Former British School, then Board School, for sale

CN 13.07.1973 p6 illustration of foundation stone

CN 20.07.1973 p6

CN 16.09.1988 p4 Danger in school as ceilings fell in

CN 06.08.2010 p32 Denis Perriam article

 

BRITISH STANDARDS

CN 26.06.1992 p12 Standards of excellence

 

BRITISH TELECOM

CN 29.03.2002 p5 124 job losses as BT call centre closes in city

 

BRITISH WORKMAN INSTITUTE Temperance Society opened in former Gleaner public House in November 1875 [CN 16.01.2004 p6]

 

BRITISH WORKMANS AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE CO

CD 1893-94 Ad p24

 

BROADBENTS ‘OYSTER BAR’ St Albans Row

Ice cream manufacturer

CD 1893-94 Ad p170

 

BROADGUARDS Shaddongate; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 Nos 2,3,4,5,7, 8 and 9 unfit for human habitation

 

BROADMEADE

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]

 

BROADOAKS COURT

Broad oaks were a major feature of Botcherby; a handful remained before the new property development got underway. The names in this development [Broadoaks Grange and Oakleigh Way] recall the now felled trees.

 

BROADOAKS GRANGE

Broad oaks were a major feature of Botcherby; a handful remained before the new property development got underway. The names in this development [Broadoaks Court and Oakleigh Way] recall the now felled trees.

 

BROAD STREET The city plan of 1821 shows a Broad Meadows in this area; no Broad Street on 1871 census but on 1881 census

CJ 26.10.1888 p4 editorial Planting trees on streets; Warwick Road and Broad Street

CP 23.06.1899 p6d 43 Broad Street sold; house leased for 200 years from 1877

ENS 10.04.2003 p3 (illus) E.Pigram’s 99 year association with Broad St house

 

BROCKBANK and WALLACE

M442 p48 Business label for tea dealers

 

BROCKBANK, Ellwood Timber merchant, aged 54, employing 20 men and 10 boys, home address 6 George Street, born Ulverston [1851 census]

 

BROCKBANK,I.G. 26 Devonshire St

Hatter and Gents Mercer

CD 1905-06 p98

CD 1907-08 Ad p98

 

BROCKBANK, John Timber merchants

1861 census John Brockbank, timber merchant, aged 3, employing 29 men and 10 boys, home address 6 George St, born Carlisle

CP 28.10.1870 p1 For sale premises in James St lately occupied by J.Brockbank

 

BROCKBANK, T Veterinary surgeon

1851 Directory. Ad; Albert Square [after page 82 at back]

 

BRONCO BILL’S WILD WEST SHOW

In Carlisle September 1915

CJ 03.09.1965 p6

 

BRONZE AGE Bronze age earthenware was found in clearing the ground at the Garlands Hospital in 1861; for an illustration see Carlisle an illustrated history p3; plough marks, around 2,000 BC, associated with the early bronze age have been found during the Castle Green dig [Carlisle Millennium Project; excavations in Carlisle 1998 - 2001 p6]

CWAAS ns vol 56 3 unpublished collections of Bronze age pottery at...Garlands...

CWAAS 3rd series Vol 5, 2005 Bronze age burnt mound at Garlands Hospital

 

BROOKFIELD GARDENS London Rd; on electoral registers from 1897

 

BROOKS Market Arcade, Scotch St, Botchergate

Tobacconist

1891 census; James Brooks, tobacconist, Botchergate, born Cummersdale, 54

CD 1920 Ad p260 Established over 50 years

City Minutes 1928-9 p216 No 1 Arcade formerly occupied by Mrs Brooks to be let

CD 1952 Ad p162 (J.Brooks)

 

BROOK STREET

So called on Asquith’s 1853 plan of city, road leading to Greystone; a few houses being built at the Botchergate end of the road. A stream passes under the road at the Botchergate end, hence the name? The 1st edition OS map shows no signs of this stream. David Thomson and his brother Alexander, plumbers and contractors, were extensive property owners, and Thomson Street, Alexander Street, Watson Street and Brook Street were built by them. [CN 05.07.1924 p15]

City Council Minutes 1892-93 pp133-138 Erection of 193 dwelling houses

CWAAS OS Vol 13 p251-2 Find of Roman tiles in Brook St on 03.07.1894

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p165 Photo of flooded street in1967

CN 26.03.1999 p9 A store of goodies

 

BROOK STREET SCHOOL Brook St Infants School opened 12.10.1891, architect T.Taylor Scott; Brook Street Boys school opened 25.07.1892; Brook St Girls School and extension to Infants school opened 04.08.1896; Brook Street Infants renamed Brook Street Primary School 31.08.1982

I went to Brook Street School in the 1930s. As with most Victorian schools there were outside toilets. They were a tough lot at the school, kids from the Botcherby and Harraby estates and some of the teachers were tough as well. One of my only memories of going to school aged 5 or 6 was seeing the cane hanging on the wall. It was never used on the young ones but I got plenty when older. The headmaster at Brook Street was Mark Graham. He was a very good Cumberland and Westmorland wrestler. He’d pick you up, turn you upside down and spank your bottom. You didn’t mind that. I remember him fondly. We’d play out the latest films we’d seen in the playground. Ginger Thompson, the future Carlisle United footballer, was a classmate. The year below was Bobby Johnston, a future wing-half. Surprisingly Brook Street had a rugby team. [Bryan Scott former pupil]

Linton Holme a suburb of Carlisle p35 Photos

CJ 17.10.1916 p4 Negotiations in progress for conversion of Brook Str and Norman Street schools into temporary hospitals

CJ 19.12.1916 p4 Board of Education have agreed to use of Brook Street and Newtown Schools as military hospitals

CJ 16.10.1917 p2 Conversion completed at Fusehill and opened yesterday. Accommodation for 400 wounded and Brook Street and Newtown Schools converted to accommodate another 250

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p120; photo of girls class

Carlisle an illustrated history p47 illustration of architect’s design

City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 pp 22,24 Photos of school in1924 p 39 1958 photo

Over the Garden Wall; life of Donald Scott p12 Memories of school in 1940s

CN 30.03.1990 p5 (Illus) Yesteryear

CN 28.11.1997 p4 Pupils create their own garden

CN 15.10.2004 p13 Photo of infants in 1930s

 

BROOMBYS Currock Rd

CN 04.03.1994 p14 Ad

 

BROOME COURT

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1-43 and 2-60

 

BROTHELS see PROSTITUTION

 

BROUGH, J.T. 1 Market Place

1882 Porters Directory Ad p66 Tea dealer

 

BROUGHAM TRIPTYCH See also Cathedral; Brougham Triptych

 

BROWN, A.C. 21 English St

Hatter, Hosier and Gents Mercer

M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration 79 Photo of shop front

CD 1893-94 Ad p78 late J.Barnett

CD 1902-03 Ad p283

CD 1905-06 Ad p66

 

BROWN, Miss A.J. 56 Castle Street

Dressmaker

1891 census; Alice Brown, dressmaker, aged 48, home 56 Castle St, bn Carlisle

CD 1893-94 Ad p26

 

BROWN, A.P. and J Builders

CN 27.06.2008 p25 Founded 30 years ago; now at St Nicholas Yard

 

BROWN, Andrew Nelson Street

Carpet and furniture

CD 1966-68 Ad p268

CN 09.09.2005 p4 Obituary of Andrew Brown

 

BROWN, Chris Joinery

CN 16.12.1988 p17 Ad

CN 21.02.2003 p18 Ad feature; formed 1982

CN 16.11.2007 p16 Ad Feature on Netown Rd Industrial estate firm

 

BROWN,G.F. and Co 6 Lowther St , 14 Devonshire St, 25 English Street

Ironmongers, established 1840

Established by John Brown and carried on by his brother, Mr George Brown, until his death in 1875; then passed into other hands before being purchased by G.F.Brown, so bringing the business back into the family

Descriptive Account of Carlisle Illus, circa 1893; 4pp supp; 3 photos; B/ CAR 91

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered pp114-115 (illus)

CN 02.10.1959 p12 (illus) CN 09.10.1959 p10 (illus)

CD 1880 Ad pxix

CD 1905-06 Ad p78

CD 1910-11 Ad p106

CD 1920 Ad p182

CD 1924 Ad p224

CD 1927 Ad p224

CN 15.01.1993 p4 Shop steps into modern ways

 

BROWN, George 1 Brown’s Lane

CN 03.06.1977 p6 1912 Tech College Finance

 

BROWN, Gilbert Mary St

Wholesale Warehouseman

The Lanes Remembered p 107 photo of business in Lanes

CD 1893-94 Ad p140

 

BROWN, James Cork cutter, employing 1 boy, home address Lowther St, born Carlisle [1861 census]

 

BROWN, James Lowther St, Victoria Place Established 1860

Footwear specialist

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 24 Botchergate

Leading Trader of the City A616 Ad p52

CD 1902-03 Ad p178

CD 1920 Ad p16

CD 1927 Ad p224

CD 1931 Ad p116

CD 1934 Ad p232

CD 1937 Ad p154

CD 1940 Ad p46

CD 1952 Ad p263

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p225

 

BROWN, Jeremiah 24 Scotch Street

CJ 31.03.1832 p2 Ironmongers; received support from the public for 20 years

 

BROWN, John Grocer, died 27.01.1804 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

BROWN, John Coachmaker and cartwright

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

 

BROWN, John Tinsmith, aged 56, employing 2 men and 2 boys, home address 11 Mill Street, born Scotland [1861 census]

 

BROWN, John 61 English Street

M442 pp 8, 47 Business card for tea dealer and grocer

 

BROWN, Joseph Shoemaker, died 27.01.1804 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

BROWN, Reg Driving School instructor

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p179 1950s photo of R.Brown and car

 

BROWN, Thomas and Co

Furnishing, textile manufacturers

CJ 07.01.1939 p10 Paragraph in Local Trade in 1937

 

BROWN, W Castle Street

Steam Dye Works

CJ 30.05.1856 Advert for new dyeing establishment at 65 Castle Street

1858 Directory William Brown, 85 Castle St

1861 census; William Brown, home 85 Castle St, aged 27, born Whitehaven

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p5 85 Castle St

Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1869 Ad; established 1856

1891 census, William Brown, 57,dyer and cleaner, home Victoria Pl, bn Whitehaven

1901 census; William Brown, dyer, aged 68, home 23 Howard Pl, bn Whitehaven

CP 28.05.1909 Death of William Brown, aged 75, father dyer at Whitehaven

CN 01.03.2002 p 6 (illus) History of Brown’s the dyer

 

BROWN,W. and Sons 16 Bank St, 17 Devonshire Walk

Dyers, laundry, cleaners

Leading Trader of the City A 616 Ad pp28-29

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p39 photo

Guide to Carlisle C 178 Ad p290

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 84a English Street, Devonshire Walk works

CD 1902-03 Ad p174

CD 1905-06 Ad p2

CD 1907-08 Ad p62

CD 1910-11 Ad p152

CD 1913-14 Ad p76

see B/CAR 333.333 Devonshire Walk Works for sale 16/04/1918 ,acc 3263 (Alternative 2BC9 acc 17923)

CN 01.03.2002 p6 (illus) History of Brown’s the dyer

 

BROWN, William Cabinet maker in this city 24.03.1850; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard; 1851 census has a William Brown, joiner and cabinet maker, living in Corporation Road, aged 39, employing 6 men, born Scotland

 

BROWN, William S. 35 Bank Street

Tea merchant

CD 1884-85 Ad pviii

 

BROWN and BROWN 75 Scotch Street

Printers and stationers

The Lanes Remembered p47 photo

CD 1952 Ad p362

 

BROWN and PATTINSON South Street

Upholstery manufacturer

CD 1952 Ad p393

CD 1955-56 Ad p288

 

BROWN and STEWART 62 Castle St Clothes shop

CP 07.02.1896 p8g Successor to T.Rome

 

BROWNE, William Barrister at Law, aged 38, living at 5 Victoria Place, born Bridekirk, Cumberland [ 1851 census]

 

BROWNS 60 Lowther Street

Shoe shop

CD 1955-56 Ad back page iv

CD 1961-62 Ad back page xxxvi

CD 1966-68 Ad p62

 

BROWNS COURT, English Damside [1934 Directory]

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory English Damside

1924 Carlisle Directory After 4 Backhouse Walk

 

BROWNS LANE, linking Castle Street and Fisher Street; so marked on Asquith’s 1853 survey. Castle Street [1934 Directory] Demolished in 1977 when the new Cumberland Building Society HQ built

1847 Directory

1880 Directory 67 Castle Street to 42 Fisher Street, previously called Post Johns Lane

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 67-69 Castle Street

 

BROWNS ROW, Gas Works [1829 Directory]

Small-pox appeared in a poor family in Brown’s Row, which had recently arrived in Carlisle from Ireland [Dispensary Report for 1834 p9]

 

BROWNS ROW, Water Street [1847 Directory]; Marked on Wood’s map of 1821; to the north is Mr Brown’s house and south is property owned by Mr Brown. Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

Many will remember Brown’s Row and many other places that have been entirely removed by the railway running into the Citadel Station. The removal of these fever nests, as they might be called, was greatly conducive to the health of the people of Carlisle. Dr R Elliot, 1856

 

BRS PARCELS LTD Petteril Bridge Station

CD 1966-68 Ad p273

 

BRUCCIANI Ice cream

The Lanes Remembered p78 Photo of facade of shop of Scotch Street

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 64 circa 1904 of ice cream cart

CJ 25.07.1899 p3 Lugi Brucciani. County Court case. Ice cream and chipped potato dealer

CJ 13.03.1900 p3 Luigi Brucciani appeared for prisoner, his employee

CJ 04.10.1901 p1 49 -53 p1Tenancy of Messrs Brucciani

CJ 22.07.1902 p6 Affray in a fish and chip shop in East Tower Street. Primo Corrieri managed Mr Brucciani’s shop

CJ 04.10.1910 p8 Primo Corrieri, 27, of Scotch Street, manager for Brucciani

CN 01.04.2011 p3 Giovanni Corrieri dies. Owned business for over 100 years

CN 13.01.2012 p32 D.Perriam. History of the business

 

BRUCCIANI, Luigi Fish and chip shop in Blackfriars Street [2021 Watts coffee shop] The 1901 directory lists L Brucciani and Co, restaurant and ice cream vendors, 49 and 51 Blackfriars Street, 28 Union Street, 9 Northumberland Street and 7 East Tower Street. The Carlisle Journal of March 1968 reported that the shop was to close after 58 years, the proprietors, Fontana and Baldacci not renewing the lease. Mrs Ida Fontana came to Carlisle in 1909 and Christopher Baldacci had been her partner for 50 years

 

BRUMELL, BARTON AND CO Calico printers; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784. Brumwell’s water powered Cotton Stampery is shown on the Corporation damn mill race on a map circa 1781 [Grangerised Hutchinson]

See also BARTON

 

BRUNSTOCK BECK BRIDGE

CN 07.12.2001 p13 (illus) New Brunswick Beck bridge in place; letter against

 

BRUNSWICK HOUSE Corner Brunswick St

See also Brunswick House School

CP 03.08.1866 p1 Ad; to let Brunswick House, lately occupied by Miss Tapley

CP 30.03.1883 p1 Ad To be let; specially built for ladies school

 

BRUNSWICK HOUSE MEDICAL GROUP Becomes part of Carlisle Health Care, the Warwick Road Brunswick House surgery and Eastern Way surgery closing, new health care centre opening on Locke Road, Durranhill. St Paul’s surgery off Lonsdale Street still open as at 2023

CN 18.09.1992 p10 City medical group in new surgery

 

BRUNSWICK HOUSE SCHOOL Brunswick St corner and Cavendish Place

CP 03.08.1866 p1 Ad; to let Brunswick House, lately occupied by Miss Tapley

CJ 17.08.1877 p8 Brunswick House built as a first class boarding school. Occupied by Mr Kindley

CP 30.03.1883 p1 Ad To be let; specially built for ladies school

1901 census Lydia Jefferson, aged 48, School Principal, 9 borders, 11 teachers

CP 13.01.1905 p1 Ad Boarding and day school for girls; prep school for boys

CN 13.03.1931 p14 Bruswick House School; Music Festival winners photo

1934 Directory 72 Warwick Road, Brunswick House School; Miss R.Jefferson

CN 25.05.1990 p4 City’s private schools

 

BRUNSWICK STORES 66 Warwick Road

Food specialists

CD 1952 Ad p212

CD 1955-56 Ad p93

CD 1961-62 Ad p273

 

BRUNSWICK STREET Street named in 1841 census. So marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2; building lots for sale; The 1853 Asquith Survey of Carlisle shows the street laid out but only one property built. The household returns for 1881 for 1 Brunswick Street, head Robert Thorpe, cashier Joint Stock Bank, includes Isabella Gale, housemaid, aged 9, born Bothel

see also Brunswick House

CJ 07.12.1855 p1 Ad To be let newly built dwelling houses in Bolton Place and Brunswick Street

Carlisle Examiner 27.12.1862 p1 Building land at the junction of Cecil Street and Brunswick Street.

CP 19.09.1863 Dwelling house in Brunswick Street to let

CP 03.08.1866 p1 Ad; to let Brunswick House, lately occupied by Miss Tapley

CP 05.01.1872 p1 Ad; no 11 for sale - ‘comparatively new’

 

BRUNTON AVENUE

City Minutes 1923-24 p49 Permission for 6 houses

M.Daley The Carlisle Flood; one story. Concerns 2005 flood in Brunton Avenue

 

BRUNTON CRESCENT On the voters list from 1929

City Minutes 1932-33 p 729 Permission for 4 houses. Owner E.J.Hill

City Minutes 1933-34 p 167 Permission for 14 houses. Owner E.J.Hill

City Minutes 01.02.1935 p232 6 houses approved. Owner E.J.Hill

CN 14.01.2005 p12 Brunton Crescent and the Great Flood

 

BRUNTON HOUSE Warwick Rd; John George Halstead died Brunton House, 259 Warwick Road, 23.01.1923 [Grammar School Memorial Register p189]

 

BRUNTON PARK

See also Carlisle United, Hughie McIlmoyle sculpture

First Carlisle United game played here 02.09.1909

CN 26.09.1969 p14 CN 17.10.1969 p14

City Council Minutes 1908/09 pp95,102 proposed new football ground

CJ 03.09.1909 p7 First game at Brunton Park

CJ 05.04.1939 p1 No betting license for greyhound racing

CN 21.01.1950 p5 Youth International soccer match to be played on Feb.4th

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p88 1953 photo of stand that burnt down

ENS 02.05.1956 p1 United plan shelved (covered area)

ENS 07.07.1960 p1 To get extra covered terracing

CN 12.09.1969 p12 Purchased

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p169 Jan 1982 flooded and frozen - photo

CN 08.09.1989 p1 I would sell Brunton Park

CN 14.12.1990 p8 United’s club rooms top of the table

CN 10.09.1993 p4 50 years ago - acquisition of ground

CN 01.07 1994 p14 New scheme for Brunton Park

CN 10.09.1994 p4 50 years ago - acquisition of ground

CN 21.07.1995 p1 Brunton Park safety pledge

CN 17.08.2001 p9 History of Brunton Park before football ground

CN 18.06.2004 p24 Improvements at Waterworks end

CN 23.07.2004 p37 Feature on groundsman Ted Swainson

08.01.2005 Great Flood puts ground out of Action

CN 29.07.2005 p 28 Sunday unveiling of Hughie McIlmoyle statue

CN 09.09.2005 p13 Photo of unveiling

 

BRUNTON PLACE see also WARWICK ROAD, BRUNTON PLACE

Would appear to now be the block nos 239-273 Warwick Road; no 247 has a plaque inset into gable end with the date 1847; Nancy Irving died at Brunton Place 06.05.1851 [Christ Church Memorials no 27] ;all this block appears on Asquith’s 1853 map of the city ;1891 census lists Petteril Bridge Inn as number 1 Brunton Place

1847 Directory

CJ 15.04.1881 p6 Walk along Warwick Road, visits Chatsworth Square and Brunton Place

 

BRUNTON VILLA Warwick Road

1861 census Annie Thompson, aged 21, born Carlisle

1891 census Agnes Thomson, aged 79, living on own means, bn Scotland

1901 census; John MacIntosh, clergyman, Church of Scotland, bn Scotland

City Minutes 1923-24 p116 Widening of Warwick Road; payment to D.Thomson

CN 05.07.1924 p15 Obit of David Thomson; resided for many years at Brunton Villa

 

BRYDEN,S and Sons Clothing wholesalers

CJ 23.04.1948 p1 New premises

CN 24.04.1948 p7 New premises

 

BRYDENS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 47 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between 47-49 Milbourne Street

 

BRYSON, Alexander Murrell Hill

1882 Porters Directory Ad p104 Joiner and builder

 

BS 5750

CN 26.06.1992 p12 A positive way to better business

 

BSRD see KANGOLS

 

B:/TVL SAINT CUTHBERTS LANE

Travel agents

CN 23.06.2000 p8 Ad feature

 

BUCHANAN ROAD Named after Councillor Mrs E.S.Buchanan

 

BUCK, Robert and Sons Mr Robert Buck was born in Yorkshire at Skipton in 1822. Took an appointment with Messrs Joseph Pattinson and Co, Wigton by whom he was taken into partnership. In 1863 he began business in Dalston, combining cotton and marino spinning with the manufacture of fancy flannel shirtings. He took into partnership his sons Edward Robinson and Joseph Pattinson [who left to establish himself in Manchester] and a Mr Bleasby. Purchased the Atlas Works in Nelson Street and moved there in 1883. After moving into the city two other sons, Alfred and F.W. were taken into partnership; Robert Buck was also involved with the business Messrs Thomlinson and Buck, which subsequently was floated as the mains manufacturing Company, and was still carried on at the time of Mr Buck’s death in December 1897 [CJ 07.12.1897]; The author Margaret Forster, recalls in her book Hidden Lives [pp68-9] that her aunt, Nan, got a job here aged 13. ‘Buck’s was not as good a place to work as Carrs. This was not a Quaker-owned factory and there wasn’t the same care shown for the welfare of the workers, but in some ways girls preferred Buck’s. Here they could learn a valuable trade, one they could carry on when they were married and practise at home. The factory itself was a little intimidating, a tall brick-built edifice. but there was tremendous spirit amongst the three hundred women who worked the looms there. But Nan didn’t work on the looms’. She started in the machine-room on the second floor, sewing on; buttons, then progressed to sewing shirt parts together, some by hand, some by machine in 1953 the Cumberland News reported that the firm in a year manufactured at least 400 different tartans and about 70,000 dozen scarves, as well as shirts and pyjamas. The firm then employed about 550 people. Closure in the mid 1980s

Denton Holme D.Perriam pp18-19 Atlas Works

CJ 12.01.1866 Mains; works transferred from Messrs Parker and Co to JA Thomlinson [late of that firm] and Mr Buck of Dalston, who have entered into partnership

CJ 27.02.1883 Mr Buck has taken the mill of Messrs JA Thomlinson and Co, Norfolk Street

CJ 04.11.1913 p8 4 columns and 2 photos inside giving workings of the Atlas works

CJ 07.01.1939 p10 09.05.1953 p6 (illus) CJ 26.06.1964 p1

Carlisle an illustrated history p36 interior view of finishing room pre WWI

M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration p60 Interior with woman worker

CJ 03.08.1928 Messrs R.R.Buck and Sons

CN 04.07.1958 Supplement (also B/CAR 791.6) Bucks go back to Elizabeth 1st

CN 13.08.1949 p5 (illus) Increased production

ENS 07.01.1960 p7 Extension

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p42 interior view of women at work

CD 1952 Ad p373

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p218

CD 1955-56 Ad p218

 

BUCKBARROW, David Mon. Insc. St Mary’s Church [Cathedral] No49; died 31.03.1784, merchant of this city

 

BUCKBARROW LANE Scotch St

CJ 07.11.1801 p1a Houses in Buckbarrow Lane, Scotch St to be sold

 

BUCK HOUSE, Newtown Road 1861 census

 

BUCK INN 1 Corporation Road; in local directories 1848 - 1858; on 1861 census, Stephen Sharp, innkeeper, born Castle Sowerby

 

BUCK INN Irishgate;

CJ 21.02.1818 p1e Ad; to be sold or let

 

BUCKLE, J.A. South Henry Street

Locksmith

CD 1952 Ad p330

CD 1961-62 Ad p 282

CD 1966-68 Ad p280

CN 22.03.2002 p6 Taken over by J.A.Buckle two years ago

 

BUDDHISTS

CN 29.03.2002 p3 Buddhists group to open centre in Aglionby Street

CN 06.09.2002 p3 Uma Buddhist centre of Aglionby Street

CN 04.03.2005 p40 Day in the life of Buddist nun who runs centre in Upperby

 

BUFFALO BILL Visit to Carlisle 15.09.1904

CN 27.02.1954 p8 CN 06.03.1954 p8 CN 13.03.1954 p8

CN 20.03.1954 p8 The arrival of the Wild West show in Carlisle aroused much excitement. To see numbers of huge Red Indians, with full head-dress, war paint, tomahawk and so on marching down English Street and visiting the shops was quite a sensation. The show was erected on the Sauceries in front of the Castle, and to me and hundred of other teenagers, the performances were wonderful. There were Indians attacking cowboys and taking imaginary scalps as they ran down stage-coach parties of settlers - altogether a fine display of daring horsemanship. Mr Porthouse, 3 Boston Avenue

CN 05.11.1954

CN 12.11.1954 p12 When I was walking outside the ring, in company with my aunt, who took me to the show, we saw a tall figure in full war paint with robes - Sitting Bull - the Indian Chieftain, who figured in Custer’s Last Stand, which was realistically re-enacted on tour. The old chief was standing quite alone except for a nearby squaw selling picture postcards. My aunt, rather sceptical of the reality of Sitting Bull’s identity, approached the magnificent, silent figure and actually poked him in the ribs. Judge my surprise and excitement and my aunt’s when the Indian chief raised his right arm with palm extended, exclaimed ‘How’ . Hand in hand we made a rapid retirement

CN 10.03.1989 p4 When the Wild West came to Carlisle

CN 24.04.1954 Mr Hewitson of Aspatria recalled that he was a bill poster when the show came to town ‘For every poster that we put up there was a slip warning publicans that if they supplied his Indians with liquor - firewater - it was at their own risk. The chief feature of the show was General Custer’s last stand depicting the battle of the Little Big Horn when the American forces were overwhelmed by the indians lead by their chief Sitting Bull’

 

BUFFALOES, ROYAL ANTIDILUVIAN ORDER OF Fisher St

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p60 photo of their band

 

BUILDING AND REPAIR COMPANY 15a john Street

CD 1952 Ad p145

CD 1955-56 Ad p 230

 

BUILDINGS

CP 22.07.1881 Current building projects in the city

Renaissance of the English Public House pp57-79 State Management pub design

CN 31.10.1971 p4 Post war building

ENS 24.09.1973 p3 Carlisle architectural sick joke say City Preservation Society

ENS 31.05.1986 p4 Demolition

CN 27.10.2000 p9 Where building stone came from for various buildings

CN 08.02.2002 p12 Civic Trust comments on Carlisle’s architecture

CN 22.10.2004 p12 Feature on architecture in city; Civic Centre ‘monstrosity’

CN 26.08.2005 p13 Letter on new Rosehill Toby Carvery; ‘sameness of buildings’

 

BUILDINGS IN CITY CENTRE [as at 2004] WHICH PRE DATE 1800

ABBEY, The Customary name for the Cathedral Precinct. Number 1 the Abbey, Prebendal house, probably late 17th and 18th century with extensive alterations, Flemish bond brickwork with light headers; Number 2 the Abbey, Prebendal house, 1670 with early18th century extension; 1888 alterations and additions; Numbers 3 and 6 the Abbey, Prebendal house, late1685 with early 18th century additions; 1857 and late 19th century extensions; handmade bricks in English garden bond; Number 5, substantially rebuilt by Dean Thomas Smith as an addition to the deanery in 1671 to 1673. No 5a and 5b and the lower courses of 5 are part of earlier buildings erected by Prior Gondibour in the late fifteenth century. No 5b still has the Prior Gondibour initials, TG, over the door. On no 5a these initials are barely discernible. [D.Weston Carlisle Cathedral History p103]

ABBEY STREET Number 3 late 18th century or early 19th century; number 13 late 18th century; numbers 17 and 19 late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork with light headers; number 26 late 18th century; numbers 28 and 30 late 18th century with painted Flemish bond brickwork; number 34 late 18th century; numbers 40,42 and 44 late 17th century with 18th century alterations; number 48 late 17th or early 18th century

CASTLE William II built first timber castle in 1092; Keep begun in 1122 by Henry I and completed by David I of Scotland, third floor added in 16th century for canon; Captains’s Gatehouse (Inner Gatehouse) built in 1160s; Outer Gatehouse (de Ireby’s Tower) built around 1167; Half Moon Battery built in 1542,

CASTLE STREET Numbers 6-12 late 18th century with later alterations, Flemish bond brickwork with light headers, the 19th century lettering DYE WORKS refers to the business of William Brown established in 1856; numbers 14 and 16 late17th or early 18th century and late 18th century with later alterations, no 16 with Flemish bond brickwork was two houses, each with a single bay, number 14 is the older house and projects into the street; numbers 13 and 15 and number 2 Paradise Court mid or late 17th century; number 17 dated 1798 on shared rainwater head; number 19 1798; number 21 late 18th century, Flemish bond brickwork with light headers; number 42 and 9 Paternoster Row late 18th century; numbers 77-83, including 1 Greenmarket, late 18th century, an inscribed plaque over the central windows says ‘Sir Walter Scott was married from this house Dec 24th 1797’

CATHEDRAL Henry I founded an Augustinian priory in Carlisle in 1122. In 1133 the priory church became St Mary’s Cathedral. In 1541 it became the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity; early 12th century with various rebuildings until the early 15th century; 1652 alterations to west end; minor 1764 alterations

CITADEL Built in 1541 as a independent fortress at the vulnerable southern end of the city walls, part of a national system of defence designed by the German engineer Stefan von Haschenperg; 1809 - 1812 alterations and additions by Thomas Telford and Robert Smirke

CROSS Market Cross, Carel Cross Built 1682 (dated and inscribed Joseph Reed Mayor 1682 ); circular flight of 5 steps [6th now buried] from the centre of which rises a pillar surmounted by a lion sitting holding a scroll with the city arms; sundial faces on top of pillar; mason’s marks on the main sundial face ‘ATM’ and has Ordnance Survey bench mark on the top step; on site of earlier medieval market cross; Denis Perriam suggests that the lion represents the Royal authority granted through charters for the City to hold markets

DORMITORY; ruins of the dormitory for the Priory of St Mary’s; mid or late 15th century

ENGLISH STREET Number 11 late 18th century with later alterations

FISHER STREET Numbers 31-33 dated 1776 on oval firemark of the Newcastle Fire Insurance Company, with later alterations; numbers 35-37 late 18th century with later alterations; number 18 late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork, originally two houses of the same build, the sixth bay forming part of a separate house being entered from Long Lane; numbers 19 -21 late 18th or early 19th century with later alterations, Flemish bond brickwork, formerly a house now two shops; number 23 dated 1776; Carlisle Working Mens Club dated about 1800

FRATRY Built 1465-1490 for Prior Gondibour; circa 1690 alterations; 1809-11 restoration by Robert Smirke; 1880-81 restoration by G.E.Street; the crypt has been dated to 1300, but the Prior Gondibour monogram on two of the roof bosses suggest that he rebuilt it from the level upwards. The Fratry was refectory of the priory where the canons ate in common as their rule required

GREEN MARKET Where vegetables were sold; Number 1 late 18 th century, numbers 3 and 4 mid or late 18th century with later alterations

GUILDHALL Built as a timber-framed house for Richard de Redness at the beginning of the 15th century with later alterations and restorations. The medieval gargoyles are plaster casts of originals in Carlisle Cathedral, first placed here in 1844; all except one on the facade are 1978 replacements. Inside some of the dividing walls are of wattle and daub; Guildhall Museum opened 19.09.1978

HEADS LANE; Sportsman Inn; early 18th century with later additions;

PATERNOSTER ROW Number 3 early 18th century; number 7 late 18th century; number 9 and 42 Castle St late 18th century

PRIOR SLEES GATEHOUSE For Prior Slee; dated 1528

PRIORS TOWER/DEANERY Late 15th century Tower and hall with 17th century extensions and alterations; further 1853 extensions by James Stewart;

1949-51 alterations; the whole now Deanery, meeting and flats

REGISTRY; The Abbey Former Cathedral Library; dated 1699 Thomas Carliol [Thomas Smith, then Bishop of Carlisle]

SAINT ALBANS ROW Numbers 4-16 4 houses in a terrace now shops, early to mid 18th century with later alterations; the front of number 4 is hidden by the 1717 extension to the Old Town Hall, but the ground floor shop window is visible through the archway under the extension

SAINT CUTHBERT’S CHURCH Demolition of old church commenced 01.01.1778; rebuilding commenced 13.01.1778; opened about 22/23 September 1779;

SCOTCH STREET Numbers 36, 38 and 40 late 18th century with later alterations; number 60, Blue Bell Inn, late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork, building completely gutted in 1976 leaving only the front wall; number 70 late 18th century with later alterations; house is really a continuation of St Albans Row but its gable end projects into Scotch St

TITHE BARN Built by Prior Gondibour in the 1470s, with later alterations and restored 1969-1971; square blocks of sandstone, some with masons marks; the northern side was originally thought to be open, so this was glazed in the restoration; the west gable collapsed in 1875 so this was replaced with painted breeze blocks in the 1969-71 restoration

TOWN HALL Built 1668 - 69 on site of medieval Town Hall; 1717 (dated) extensions; 19th century alterations and additions

TULLIE HOUSE Dated 1689 on lead rainwater head for Thomas Tullie, later Dean of Carlisle; mid 18th century alterations and additions

WEST WALLS and NORTH WALL BESIDE CASTLE Built between 1122 - 1200 with later extensive repairing and re-facing

 

BULL BAITING A Nutter drawing shows the bull ring outside the Town Hall. Null baiting and cockfighting banned in 1835

CN 20.05.1960 p10

J.Robinson and S.Gilpin Wrestling and Wrestlers pp 223-226

On great church festivals the enjoyment of the day would be wound up with bull baiting in the ring under the windows of the Guildhall, a wretched animals or two being provided by the butchers guild [Municipal Records p26]

Cumberland Pacquet 15.02.1791 Bull baiting in Carlisle

Cumberland Pacquet 22.02.1791 Sequel, two people injured

Cumberland Pacquet 19.02.1805 Magistrates have removed the ring in the market place appropriated to the savage sport of bull baiting

CJ 21.08.1824 Bull baiting banned

CJ 04.09.1824 After an interval of 27 years the ancient national amusement of bull baiting has been revived in Carlisle

The Citizen 18.06.1824 p113 Town bull; history

 

BULLOUGH and Co Castle Street; founded in 1910 by Arthur Bullough; 1944 Arthur’s son John took over and he was joined by his sons Ian and Michael in 1962; Ian retired in 2003, leaving his son Edward to take over the reins; 2006 acquired by up market chain store Hooper’s

CN 16.07.1976 pp5-7 (illus)

Yesterday’s Shopping in Carlisle p10-11 Interior of shop in 1910

M.Constantine Carlisle, a history and celebration, p43 Photo of building shop 1930s

CN 17.09.1938 p17 Ad

CJ 13.04.1956 p6 Extension

CN 13.04.1956 p7 and supp (illus)

CN 03.06.1966 Supplement

CN 13.03.1970 p11 Ad (illus)

CN 02.10.1987 p10 Ad feature

CN 18.11.1992 p13 Pat on back for city store

Cumbria LIfe Sept/Oct 1994 no 36 pp 16-17 2A 9

CN 07.02.1997 p1 Fights competition

CN 14.01.1997 p3 Branches out

Cumbria Life Nov/Dec 1998 no 61 pp16-17 2A 9

Cumbria LIfe March/April 1999 no 63 pp52-55 2A 9

CN 14.07.2000 p14 Fourth generation of Bullough family joined firm

CN 10.11.2000 p12 The next Mr Bullough; Edward Bullough

CN 24.01.2003 p17 £1m makeover for store

CN 12.12.2003 p5 Ian Bullough to retire from day to day running

CN 03.06.2005 p5 Edinburgh Wool Mill take over one third ground floor

CN 17.02.2006 p3 Sylvia Mason retires after 45 years of dressing windows at Bulloughs

CN 23.06.2006 p7 Hooper’s buy store; store to change name in a few months

CN 08.09.2006 p31 Feature on new manager of Hoopers

CD 1910-11 Ad 128

CD 1913-14 Ad p120

CD 1920 Ad p164a

CD 1924 Ad p6

CD 1927 Ad p6

CD 1931 Ad p6

CD 1934 Ad p6

CD 1937 Ad p6

CD 1940 Ad p6

CD 1952 Ad p98

Cumberland Directory 1954 pxxii

CD 1955-56 Ad pvii

CD 1966-68 Ad p279

CN 22.06.2012 p1 Shop was due to close tomorrow. 83 employed

 

BULMAN, James 24 St Cuthbert’s Lane

Fruit and potato merchant

CD 1880 Ad pxxviii

 

BULMAN, James 81 and 83 Castle St, Green Market

Basket warehouse and wicker furnishing depot

CD 1884-85 Ad p263; est 1850

 

BULMAN and POLLARD Estate agents

CN 31.05.1991 p8 A good deal to offer

CN 28.09.2001 p16 Philip Bulman, 25 years in house business

 

BULMAN PARTNERSHIP Estate agents

CN 03.05.2002 p9 Closed last Saturday; lettings business continues

 

BUNKERS HILL

CJ 31.03.1832 p2 Bunkers Hill estate for sale now in occupation of Captain Lowthian

CN 12.11.1976 p6

CN 19.09.2008 p34 D.Perriam’s history of the house. Built circa 1778 by John Milbourn

 

BUNTING MEADOWES

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]

 

BUNYAN’S LONNING, Botchergate George Topping ‘Memories of Carlisle’, 1922, p133 has the following description of Bunyan’s Lonning from an 1820 description ‘ There was another stone wall, and finally Bunyan’s Lonning - on one side a clay daubing with a thatched roof and its gable end fronting the street; on the other, the last house, belonging to Robert Bunyan, the builder’; the 1837 directory lists a Ann Bamford, Bunyan’s Buildings, Botchergate; the 1884 Carlisle Directory p21 says Bunyan’s Lonning now known as South Henry Street.

 

BURGESS AND HAYTON, Lowther St Iron and brass founders; ‘Cockpit Smithy’, occupying the site of the old Lowther St cockpit; in 1826 the firm was called Burgess and Insall and they in 1826 cast the Sebergham church bell [CWAAS OS Vol 9 pp256-7]; Burgess and Hayton cast the Hayton Church bell dated 1830, Christ Church, Carlisle, bell dated 1830 [CWAAS OS Vol 8 p528, details of Christ Church] and Wetheral bell, dated 1833, by which time firm moved to Water Lane; [Mr Hayton returned to live in Sebergham, where he died on 26.02.1882];1837 directory lists Thomas Burgess, iron founder, Water Lane and 8 Botchergate; Mr Burgess of Water Street Foundry constructed a gas works to supply gas to the Shaddongate Mill ‘which was nearly as large as the present Carlisle gas works’ [CJ 09.07.1836]; the Water Lane premises was known as the ‘Waterloo Foundry’, which eventually passed into the hands of Daniel Clark [CWAAS OS Vol 6 p430]; 1847 Directory Thomas Burgess Waterloo Foundry

Bulmer, 1884, p52 A23

 

BURGESS ROLL

City Council Minutes 1883 - 84 01.12.1884 Number on roll 1835 to 1884

 

BURGH ROAD

City Minutes 1935/36 p117 Permission for 4 houses

 

BURLINGTON HOUSE SCHOOL Chatsworth Square

CP 13.01.1905 p1 Ad Boarding and day school for girls; prep school for boys

 

BURLINGTON PLACE Now a part of Victoria Place after opening of Georgian Way

City Minutes 1890-91 item 793; formed in 1855 and made by Duke of Devonshire

CP 30.04.1864 p1 Ad; No 6 Burlington Place to be let; 5 bedrooms

CP 31.12.1869 p1 Ad; 9 and 11; modern dwelling houses

No 11 Rev Bramwell Evens lived here 1922-23

No 5 and 7 for sale 25.06.1917 see B/CAR 333.333 acc no 3238

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p21 Demolition of houses for Castleway

 

BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION

CN 19.07.1991 p6 Old soldiers to parade through city

CN 26.07.1991 p13 Recording VJ day in poetry

CN 16.08.1991 p11 Veterans of Burma on parade

CN 26.08.1994 p27 Forgotten army remembers VJ day

CN 22.03.1996 p5 Burma veterans upset at medal sale

CN 14.03.1997 p29 Cathedral gift...

CN 26.04.2002 p12 Carlisle Association closes; standard laid up in Cathedral

CN 16.08.2002 p5 Carlisle branch winds up on August 15th; 30 year old branch

 

BURNELLS LANE, English Street [1847 Directory]

 

BURNETT ROAD, Harraby First appears in the Carlisle Directory for 1940.

 

BURNETTS Solicitors Victoria Place

CN 05.10.1990 p1 Legal eagles club swoop

CN 21.04.1995 p11 Ad

CN 21.07.1995 p4 City lawyers start ‘no win no fee’ system

CN 12.01.2001 p6 Article about partner John Morris

CN 19.12.2003 p14 Expansion; firm now has 125 staff

CN 30.12.2005 p14 Legal advisers to further education section

CN 03.02.2017 p9 To move from the Victoria Place premises. 130 staff work there

 

BURNS, Robert Painter, glazer, paper hanger, and photographer, 8 Crosby St [1861 Morris Directory]

 

BURNS, W 5 Grapes Lane

Bill poster

CD 1893-94 Ad p172

 

BURNS CLUB

CJ 28.01.1938 pp5,7 Annual dinner

 

BURNS COURT, Burns Street. POETS CORNER; Local name for area in Caldewgate; Byron Street, Milton Street, Burns Street and Scott Street; all demolished in slum clearance and industrial development, save for one house on Byron Street (March 2001).

City Minutes 1933-34 p77 no 5 unfit for human habitation

1880 Directory

 

BURNS FESTIVAL

CN 01.10.1993 p14 Cashing in on Burns

 

BURNS NIGHT

CP 23.01.1819 p2 Ad for celebration in honour of birthday

 

BURNS STREET; POETS CORNER Local name for area in Caldewgate; Byron Street, Milton Street, Burns Street and Scott Street; all demolished in slum clearance and industrial development, save for one house on Byron Street (March 2001).

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

City Minutes 1933-34 p77 nos 1-5 unfit for human habitation

 

BURNS TAVERN St Cuthbert’s Lane; in local directories to 1837

 

BURROW, James Master carpenter employing 2 men, home address Chapel Lane, near Jane Street, aged 32, born Dalston [1851 census]

 

BURROW, Thomas and Son Drapers founded 23.07.1954

CN 16.07.1954 p9

 

BURTON’S THE TAILOR English St

see also Style Union

Carlisle in Camera 2 p58 photo of facade in 1930

CN 27.05.1994 p3 New image

 

BUSES see BUS SERVICES

 

BUSH BROW

see also Bush Hotel

City Minutes 1932-33 p589 New roadway be named Bush Brow

CJ 23.02.1943 p2 Makes way for the viaduct

 

BUSHBY, Joseph Builder, aged 55, employing 8 men and 2 boys, born Sebergham, home address 42 Cecil Street [1861 census]

 

BUSHBYS YARD, Peter Street

1924 Directory listed after 36 Peter Street

City Minutes 1935-36 p181 unfit for human habitation

 

BUSHEL

CWAAS OS Vol 8 pp269-279 The Carlisle Bushel

 

BUSH HOTEL / INN First mentioned by name in 1686 ‘Simon Tate of the Bush Inn’. [CN 13.07.2012 p32] Originally situated on Scotch Street [ in the 1970s Currys on this site] from where it moved in 1783 to English St; demolished to make way for new Victoria Viaduct; new Bush Hotel reopened 1878 to the designs of CJ Ferguson. Compulsorily purchased by the Central Control Board in 1916. The Board offered the hotel for sale on 22.04.1918 and the building was sold to the National Provincial and Union Bank. This bank opened on 06.07.1922 .Remains a bank, National Westminster, today [2023]

Position marked on Woods 1821 map

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

Round Carlisle Cross 5th Series p25 The Bush - famous Carlisle hostelries

CIC pp26-27 Photos of new and old hotels

Carlisle an illustrated history p77 engraving of new hotel designed by CJ Ferguson

CN 20.09.1952 p6 (illus) CN 10.01.1958 p10 (illus)

CN 24.01.1958 p10 (illus) CN 01.09.1967 p12 CN 05.12.1969 p14 (illus)

CN 09.02.1970 p12 CN 10.01.1975 p6

14.07.1714 Bishop Nicolson dined at the Bush CWAAS NS Vol 5 p1

02.03.1716 Thomas Pattinson of the Bush Inn married Catherine Read

1725 Sign of the Bush; Report manuscripts of Duke of Portland pp129-32, HMC

1746 Baron Clarke’s Notebook p38 ‘Saw him at the Bush in Carlisle’

1747 Thomas Pattinson, Carlisle Bush Inn [Index of Wills Prove din the Consistory Court of Carlisle]

Newcastle Courant 08.03.1766 p2 Joseph Wootton announces he has taken inn

Newcastle Courant 11.06.1768 p3a John Garthwaite from the Fighting Cock, Bishop Auckland, has taken the Bush Inn

Newcastle Courant 18.06.1768 p3a Joseph Wooton; my bad state of health and loss of wife oblidges me to leave this business

1770 Six months tour through the North of England, Vol IV, p591 Bush, J.Garthwaite. Good. A broiled chicken, with mushroom sause, a plover, a plate of sturgeon, tarts, mince-pies, and jellies 1s 6d a head

CPacquet 02.01.1777 p3 William How entered into Bush Inn; lately Gawthwaite

Mon. Insc.St Mary’s [Cathedral] No24 Barbara Garthwaite d 06.01.1777, of the Bush

01.05.1783 moves from Scotch Street to a more convenient house on English Street

CPacquet 15.04.1783 p3d Change of address

CPacquet 16.09.1789 p3d James Fairbairn new landlord

15.12.1789 William Howe late of Bush Inn died [Mon. Inscript. St Cuthbert’s Yard]

Universal Directory 1793-98 p631 Kept by Fairbairn

CJ 03.01.1801 p1 Ad; Bush Inn to be let; James Fairburn owner

CJ 03.05.1801 p3 John Fletcher Innkeeper

CJ 04.03.1809 p2 John Fletcher innkeeper

1810 A Picture of Carlisle and Directory, p116 Mr Wilson

Jollie 1811 p 82 Kept by Mr T.Wilson; mail and other coaches depart

1821 New Guide to Carlisle p75 Thomas Wilson

CP 25.08.1821 p1a To be let; established many years

CJ 09.03.1822 p3b Ralph Holmes Innkeeper

1829 Directory p163 Ralph Holmes

17.10.1831 R. Holmes, of the Bush Inn, writes to Lord Lowther’s asking for financial assistance following damage to the Bush during the late election. [CRO D LONS/L/1/3/401 or 405] refers to a former case when the Coffee House windows were destroyed

CJ 28.07.1832 Death of Mr Ralph Holmes of the Bush by apoplexy

CJ 20.07.1839 p2g Bush Inn for sale

1841 census; Thomas Jackson, aged 60, Hotelkeeper

1847 Directory Bush Hotel and Posting House, Breach and Jeffrey

1851 census Benjamin B Breach, aged 38, Hotelkeeper

1851 Directory. Ad [after page 82 at back]

CJ 02.12.1853 Ad; refurnished; patronised for over 50 years by principal families

1861 census John Cowx, aged 48, hotel keeper

CJ 24.05.1878 New Bush Buildings; detailed description

CP 02.07.1880 p1f Change of manager

CD 1880 Ad pli

CD 1884-85 Ad p279

1882 Porters Directory Ad p76 A.C.Kirkpatrick manager

1891 census; Johnson Carr, victualler, aged 50 born Liverpool

1901 Bulmer’s Directory ; Robert Clarke Manager, Johnson Carr proprietor

1901 census; Robert Clarke, manager, aged 54

City Minutes 1918-19 p92 Licensed premises closed

CN 05.04.1991 p4 Pubs of yesteryear

CN 19.02.1993 p4 City hotels of long ago

CN 18.03.2005 p8 D.Perriam; history of Bush

CN 13.07.2012 p32 Denis Perriam’s history of the Bush

 

BUSH TAP/ VAULTS Blackfriars St;

1861 census William King innkeeper, born Bampton Grange, Westmorland

The White Horse Inn was rebuilt by JW Watt in 1891 and renamed the Bush Vaults. Closed in 1916 under the Central Control Board

 

BUSINESS (Carlisle)

CN 19.05.1995 pp1,10 To cash in on cable TV

CN 08.05.1998 Supp Business exhibition

CN 02.07.1999 p21 Good credit risk

CN 17.09.2004 p1 Booming city short of at least 1,000 workers

CN 01.04.2005 p2 Business still show effects of January flood

 

BUSINESS INITIATIVES CARLISLE established 1983

see also Carlisle Business Development Company

CN 17.05.1985 p8

CN 22.04.1994 p3 Agency gets new image

 

BUSINESS MATCH

CN 21.06.1991 p3 Michelle’s firm is a prize winner

 

BUSKERS Lonsdale St

Night Club

CN 22.07.1994 p1 I’ll be back vows Busker Ged

CN 12.08.1994 p5 Club ‘yes’

CN 07.10.1994 p3 Opening date

CN 14.10.1994 pp1,14-15 Buskers re-opens doors

CN 28.10.1994 p15 Night club trial date

CN 10.11.1995 p17 Buskers bid for space

CN 05.07.1996 p14 Ad Buskers branches out

CN 07.02.1997 p3 Under 18s on city

CN 02.05.1997 p3 Angry Buskers neighbours vow to continue their fight

CN 18.07.1997 p3 Monday D-Day for popular city nightclub

CN 15.08.1997 p1 End is in sight for Buskers noise row

CN 23.01.2004 p2 Buskers closes; owner Ged Crooks to sell

CN 05.03.2004 p2 New owners to change name to The Village; plans outlined

 

BUS SERVICES

See also Horse buses

see also Blair and Palmer; Caledonian Omnibus Co; Everard and Todd, Horse Buses; Park and Ride, Ribble; Stagecoach Bus Company; Stanwix Omnibus, United; Wallis,J.J.; Western SMT

First bus service operated from June 1907 Carlisle to Brampton, service finished about 1910; first regular motor omnibus service into Carlisle established by Cumberland Motor Services 30.05.1921; first suburban route Bert Everard’s route to St Ann’s Hill started 20.02.1922; 31.08.1931 bus services taken over in city by Ribble

D. Perriam Denton Holme p55 Bus services

CN 11.03. 1955 p10 CN 15.04.1955 p8 CN 13.05.1955 p10

CN 10.01.1958 p10 CN 01.11.1963 p12 CN 02.08.1974 p5

CN 30.08.1974 p19 CN 22.11.1974 p17 CN 29.11.1974 p15

CN 13.12 1974 pp1,15 CN 03.01.1975 pp1,13 CN 10.01.1975 p5

CN 24.01.1975 pp4,5 CN 24.01.1975 p28 CN 14.02.1975 pp 4,7,36

CN 21.02.1975 p5 CN 28.02.1975 pp 5,16 CN 07.03.1975 pp4,7

CN 14.03.1975 p36 CN 21.03.1975 pp1,15 CNÊ27.03.1975 p9

CN 11.04.1975 p9 CN 18.04.1975 p8 CN 25.04.1975 p7

CN 02.05.1975 p11 CN 23.05 1975 o17 CN 13.06.1975 p7

CN 04.07.1975 p1 CN 11.07.1975 p21 CN 18.07.1975 pp 13,19,36

CN 01.08.1975 p1 CN 15.08.1975 p7 CN 22.08.1975 p1

CN 29.08.1975 p1 CN 29.08.1975 pp3,32 CN 05.09.1975 p11

CN 12.09.1975 p9 CN 19.09.1975 p11 CN 26.09.1975 pp 11,36

CN03.10.1975 p4 CN 10.10.1975 p9 CN 17.10.1975 p3

CN 31.10.1975 p40 CN 07.11.1975 pp 8,15 CN 21.11.1975 p7

CN 05.12.1975 pp 8,36 CN 19.11.1976 p40 CN 30.01.1976 p32

CJ 14.06.1907 p5 Commencement of bus service between Carlisle - Brampton

CJ 24.02.1922 A new bus service has been instituted between the Town Hall and the top of St Ann’s Hill by Ben Everard

25.04.1922 John James Foster began the route from the Town Hall to Stanwix, Moorville and Kingstown. He sold this to the Carlisle and District Motor Service in 1930

City Minutes 1923-4 pp587-9 Vehicles, routes and proprietors licensed to operate

City Minutes 1926-7 pp627-33 Vehicles, routes and proprietors licensed to operate

City Minutes 1927-28 pp 621-28 Vehicles, routes and proprietors licensed

CN 22.10.1927 p7 Beginning of daily bus service between city and Newcastle

City Council Minutes 1930-31 pp27 32 List of bus operators operating into and in city

01.11.1931 Ribble took over local bus services

CJ 14.02.1939 p4 Increased frequency

CJ 29.09.1942 p1 Alterations in city bus stops

CJ 26.03.1954 p1 92 Carlisle drivers win safety award

Memories of Carlisle, chapter 8 photo of bus conductress at Market Cross

CN 01.11.1963 p12 Old Bert and Bill Bus Service

CJ 25.06.1965 p6 Why city council lost

CN 01.02.1991 p9 En route to a city bus row

CN 29.11.1991 p2 Bus delays end soon

CN 28.02.1992 p9 £2.5m cash boost for city buses

CN 04.09.1992 pp1,12 All change on the buses

CN 16.10.1992 p11 £750,000 spent on new buses

CN 23.10.1992 p25 New look for bus service

CN 11.12.1992 p2 MP snubs new buses hand over

CN 18.12.1992 p21 £3.5 m boost for city bus fleet

CN 08.01.1993 p11 Better service on the buses

CN 01.04.1994 p1 Shot fired at Carlisle bus

CN 08.04.1994 p1 New missile attack on bus

CN 27.05.1994 p1 Disarming PC rides shotgun

CN 22.09.1995 p9 Fury as buses switch streets

CN 23.05.1997 p5 On the buses

CN 17.04.1998 p3 Pensioners in front line

CN 23.10.1998 p3 Better buses? You’ll have to wait

CN 11.02.2000 p3 Sex attacker strikes twice

ENS 02.09.2000 p4 London Road - signalled bus gate

CN 26.01.2001 p7 London Road bus stop removed and not replaced

CN 16.02.2001 p17 New bus operator between Carlisle/ Langholm and Edinburgh

CN 28.09.2001 p1 City Driver shortage; Carlisle buses run local services in Annan.

CN 28.12.2001 p5 Stagecoach reply to suggestion that they are reducing service

CN 22.02.2002 p13 Letter complaining about revised Stagecoach timetable

CN 02.08.2002 p7 Botchergate bus lane taken up last Sunday

CN 04.10.2002 p5 Stagecoach to introduce 15 newer buses in Carlisle

CN 15.11.2002 p1 £738,000 to improve city bus services

CN 15.11.2002 p2 Bus driver assaulted

CN 06.12.2002 p2 Bus driver attacked by angry passenger

CN 19.11.2004 p9 Buses to have CCTV to combat vandalism and violence

CN 21.01.2005 p 1s Feature on business devastated by flood; 59 buses lost

CN 11.02.2005 p5 85 flooded buses scrapped; buses drafted in from Hastings etc

CN 15.04.2005 p3 CCTV and police on board late weekend night buses planned

CN 29.04.2005 p21Late night weekend bus service starts from Crescent

CN 01.07.2005 p2 39 new City Stagecoach buses unveiled by Barbara Windsor

CN 18.11.2005 p1 Plans to give pensioners free off peak travel from April

CN 09.12.2005 p2 CCTV promised after attack on driver

CN 30.09.2011 p15 Reays Carlisle bus service celebrates first anniversary

BUS FARES

CJ 14.05.1937 p8 Bus fares to be reduce

CJ 11.06.1937 p8 Bus fares to be reduced

CJ 23.07.1937 p7 Bus fares to be reduced

CJ 11.01.1949 p1 State buses higher fares?

CN 19.05.1989 p23 City works could push bus fares up

CN 12.02.1993 p20 Anger over city fares rip off

CN 05.03.1993 p3 OAP rips up bus pass

CN 06.03.1998 p1 U turn call on OAPs fares

CN 20.03.1998 p5 Union joins wars on bus fares cuts

CN 03.04.1998 p3 Pressure mounts on bus fares

CN 01.05.1998 p6 D-day next week (OAPs)

CN 12.06.1998 p1 Council pledge to restore old folks bus fare cuts

CN 09.02.2001 p4 Disabled concessionary fares; ad p18 for details

 

BUS HISTORY

CN 19.01.1952 p5 Carlisle - Brampton bus (illus)

CN 07.04.1955 p8 Best and Bill bus (illus)

CN 16.07.1965 p10 Hodgson’s buses (illus)

CN 07.06.1974 p6 Transport from theatre in 1920s

CN 12.08.1988 p4 Rivalry in early city bus routes

CN 24.11.1989 p4 Horses pulled first bus service in city

 

LONSDALE STREET BUS STATION/ DEPOT; immediately east of Lowther Street-Lonsdale Street Bus Station. The Caledonian Omnibus Co acquired this property from local bus company J W Hodgson and built a depot/ station there which opened in 1938; Western SMT also used this station.

 

LOWTHER- LONSDALE STREET BUS STATION Site acquired by Ribble 1932; demolition and rebuilding autumn 1934, opened 07.06.1935 by Ribble; north side leased to Cumberland Motor Services; SMT used station for Edinburgh service, Western SMT used station for London services from 16.07.1935; Caledonian Omnibus built a bus station/ depot in Lonsdale Street, adjacent to rear entrance of Ribble Bus Station, which opened in 1938

CN 23.09.1960 p10 Central bus station

ENS 13.10.1960 p6 Proposed new bus station

CN 11.11.1988 p1 £2m plan for city bus station

CN 12.05.1989 p1 New bus station timetable

CN 14.07.1989 p13 Go ahead

CN 08.09.1989 p11 Bus site sale a mystery

CN 03.11.1989 p10 City bus station costs rise

CN 20.07.1990 p3 A blasting for city bus station

CN 20.07.1990 p12 One stop short of perfection

CN 28.09.1990 p15 Anger over bus facilities delay

CN 09.08.1991 p7 Portaloo plan for depot

CN 24.07.1992 p5 Firm ends hope of bus station loos

CN 27.11.1992 p29 Trust plea rejected

CN 17.03.1995 p3 Travel centre opened

CN 13.02.2004 p13 letter; waiting room/ enquiry office now closed

CN 13.01.2012 p6 Feature on spartan bus station

BUS PASSES see FARES

SCOTCH STREET BUS STATION Opened by United in 12.09 1938; 06.03.1971 remaining United services transferred to Lowther St station [United services transferred to Ribble 05.01.1969]

The Lanes Remembered p 77 photo

CJ 07.01.1939 p1 United Bus station

CN 05.03.1971 p9 Scotch Street bus station to close

CN 19.03.1971 p28 City council to purchase bus station

 

BUS SHELTERS

CJ 14.09.1948 p2 Proposal

CJ 29.07.1949 p1 New bus shelters at Saint Nicholas

CN 22.05.1992 p3 Counsellors bus shelters bust up

CN 16.03.2001 p5 Call for shelters on Lowther Street

CN 18.03.2016 p16 Bus shelters attached to the Town Hall from 1934. Work began on the erection of new shelters around the Steel Memorial and Cross 21.07.1949. By Jan 1965 the shelters were removed as a new traffic system put in place

 

BUS TOKENS

CN 20.03.1987 p4 Bus tokens

 

BUTCHERS

My grandmother on Corporation Road got her meat from Robsons in Fisher Street. Tripe was from the Market, and on Saturday we’d have tripe and onions. We’d have grey tripe raw with salt and vinegar, delicious. You can’t get good tripe today. Sometimes we would have cow heel, pigs trotters. [Muriel Kemp recalling the 1940s]

Wood’s 1821 Map of Carlisle marks the Butchers Market linking Fisher St and Scotch Street

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p37 Photo of 1920s butcher’s shop

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p 16 Butchers Xmas window in 1930s

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, pp54-55 Butchers trade in the 1930s

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p50 Photo of Pioneer shop in Fisher St

CN 15.03.1996 p5 Last of the few

CN 23.04.2004 p4 Obit. of Caldewgate butcher Joe Pearce

CN 24.07.2009 p6 Mr Robinson retires from Cromie and Robinson, Botchergate butcher

 

BUTCHERS GUILD

See also GUILDS

CJ 12.01.1940 p7 (illus) Silver plate

 

BUTCHERS MARKET Lowther Street see MARKET, BUTCHERS

 

BUTCHERS SHAMBLES see SHAMBLES

 

BUTLER, Pauline Solicitor

CN 22.08.2008 p6 Closed down after accusations of irregularities

CN 17.07.2009 p1 Police investigate disgraced solicitor. £900,000 ‘lost’ in 8 years

CN 01.04.2011 p2 Disgraced solicitor admits £250,000 fraud

 

BUTLER ACCOUNTANCY

CN 23.11.2007 p22 Moves into Warwick Rd business Park; started 6 years ago

 

BUTT, D August 1891 an advert in the paper announced that Drinkwater Butt had taken over the photographic business of T.G.Waite. In November 1896 the Carlisle Journal reported that Mr Butt was making arrangements for the exhibition of the Cinematescope in the city; the first films shown in the Carlisle. The performance took place in the Drill Hall and is fully described in the paper of the 17th November. August 1897 Mr Butt filed for bankruptcy [CN June 12th 2009 p32]

CD 1893-94 Photographer, 43 Bank Street

 

BUTTERFIELD,J Union Court, Scotch St

Joiner and shopfitter

CD 1952 Ad p327

 

BUTTER MARKET

CJ 27.05.1921 p4

 

BUTTERWORTHS Lowther Street

Solicitors and estate agents

CN 08.10.1999 p19 Ad

CN 02.07.2004 p18 Expanding overseas property sales

 

BUTTIFANT, John Carver and gilder, aged 40, employing 1 man and 1 boy, home address English St, born Norwich [1861 census]

 

BYERS BROTHERS John St, Caldewgate

Sheetmetal workers

CD 1952 Ad p398

CD 1955-56 Ad p290

CD 1966-68 Ad p297

 

BYERS,J Iredale Yard, Currock St

Motor engineers

CD 1952 Ad p338

CD 1955-56 Ad p262

CD 1961-62 Ad p285

 

BYPASS

See also RING ROAD; ROADS; BOTCHERGATE -TRAFFIC; MOTORWAY; OUTER RING ROAD; TRAFFIC SCHEMES

CJ 20.07.1962 p2 CN 12.11.1965 p13 CN 18.10.1968 p1 CN 18.12.1970 pp1,8 CN 10.07.1970 p1 (illus) CN 16.10.1970 p1

CN 27.11.1970 p1 (illus) CN 18.12.1970 pp1,8

CJ 21.07.1939 p3 Cecil Street-Brook St

ENS 10.10.1962 p11 Botcherby by-pass

CN 12.10.1962 p9 (plan) relief Road

CN 30.07.1965 p3 plan

CN 24.01.1964 p1 (diagram),p8

CN 12.03.1965 p1 (illus) General

CN 28.06.1968 p9 Starting

CN 11.12.1970 Special supplement

CN 19.05.1989 p1 Priority for £6m by - pass round city

CN 26.05.1989 p11 MPs efforts attacked

CN 16.06.1989 p3 By-pass will miss villages

CN 17.11.1989 p10 Short sighted

CN 06.04.1990 p3 MPs fury over by-pass report

CN 20.04.1990 p9 Tories attack by-pass delays

CN 04.05.1990 p5 By-pass will hit city communities

CN 01.06.1990 p11 City talks on by-pass

CN 07.09.1990 p5 City by-pass options report

CN 07.12.1990 p8 By-pass pressure boost

CN 15.03.1991 pp10,11,44 Labour tactics not democratic

CN 28.03.1991 p11 Village joins in by-pass battle

CN 17.05.1991 p3 Anger as city by-pass put back

CN 06.09.1991 p7 South by-pass likely

CN 24.04.1992 p5 Northern city by-pass push is on

CN 02.07.1993 p22 New city by-pass plans show

CN 09.07.1993 p3 Southern by-pass is best for city

CN 16.07.1993 p3 Villagers welcome by-pass

CN 30.07.1993 p3 County’s reply to transport chiefs

CN 13.08.1993 p9 Backing southern by-pass

CN 17.09.1993 p12 By-pass over my dead body

CN 29.10.1993 p27 North needs relief road

CN 05.11.1993 p1 Protest show

CN 04.02.1994 p15 Changing Carlisle

CN 10.06.1994 p1 City by-pass push

CN 16.09.1994 p2 Southern by-pass will reduce traffic

CN 02.12.1994 p13 Relief road gets go ahead - Botchergate

CN 30.06.1995 p5 Stanwix residents to protest - letter

CN 29.09.1995 p3 New call for Stanwix by-pass

CN 19.01.1996 p4 City by-pass tops the list

CN 26.01.1996 p13 County backs north relief road scheme

CN 21.06.1996 p1 Relief road back on agenda

CN 28.06.1996 p1 Residents split over by-pass

CN 28.06.1996 p10 Dream home turns into relief road nightmare

CN 01.05.1998 City needs roads

CN 22.01.1999 p5 Battle lines drawn over relief road

CN 12.03.1999 p3 Road rage petition

CN 12.03.1999 p1 Road rage petition

CN 20.08.1999 p1 Hope of relief road

CN 17.12.1999 p1 Put on back burner for 12 months

CN 31.03.2000 p33 (illus) Plans unveiled

CN 04.08.2000 p13 Letter Northern Development Road

CN 01.09.2000 p1 Professor condemns plan for city bypass and homes

CN 01.09.2000 p12 Opinion concerning western bypass

CN 01.09.2000 p13 Letter concerning western bypass

CN 22.09.2000 p5 (plan of proposed route) Protest against western bypass

CN.29.09.2000 p1 By-pass objectors bid to block road in court

CN 15.12.2000 p1 (plan) £24m Western bypass gets go ahead; further protests

CN 15.12.2000 p6 Western bypass; protesters hopes; opinion p12

CN 22.12.2000 p11 Letters concerning Western bypass and Northern Route

CN 02.02.2001 p10 (plans) Northern development route - pros and cons

CN 09.02.2001 p1 Western bypass go ahead after legal challenge dropped

CN 09.02.2001 p13 Letters concerning bypass

CN 16.02.2001 p13 Letters concerning Carlisle Northern Development route

CN 23.02.2001 p3 Council argues case for Public Finance Initiative funding

CN 26.10.2001 p1 Northern development route delayed 5 years

CN 19.07.2002 pp1,5 Eden’s longest road bridge on long awaited northern bypass

CN 06.09.2002 p3 Funding approved for Western bypass

CN 06.12.2002 p1 Northern Development route step closer; western bypass

CN 13.12.2002 p13 letter; correct name Western Bypass; no chance to object

CN 06.06.2003 p3 Bypass go ahead-Newby West to Kingstown; works start 2005

CN 10.10.2003 p5 Bypass Newby West to Jtn 44 begin in summer 2005

CN 05.03.2004 p3 Western bypass to open in 2007; Newby West to M6 Kingstown

CN 21.01.2005 p5 Nitrogen Oxide exceeds limits on polluted Scotland Rd

CN 29.04.2005 p13 Map showing outer Ring Rd, Northern Development Route...

CN 06.05.2005 p13 Letters concerning above map; environmental impact

CN 09.09.2005 p1 Bypass delayed for a year as costs soar to £100m

CN 20.01.2006 p1 Western bypass could be scrapped after spiralling costs

CN 23.10.2009 p12 Feature on Carlisle’s Northern Development route; work commences on Monday on five mile bypass linking the M6 at junction 44 with Newby West

CN 12.11.2010 p5 Beams of new bridge over Eden lowered into place

CN 12.08.2011 p11 First section of £176 m bypass opened on Wednesday

CN 11.05.2012 p2 New bypass [Northern development route] opened in Feb used by 10,000 vehicles each day

 

BYRON STREET [POETS CORNER] Local name for area in Caldewgate; Byron Street, Milton Street, Burns Street and Scott Street; all demolished in slum clearance and industrial development, save for one house on Byron Street (March 2001)]. On the census from 1851

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

CN 14.01.2005 p11 Byron St and the Great Flood of 08.01.2005