Carlisle Encyclopaedia

FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS

City Council Minutes 1896/97 pp164/65 Report following acts of 1891 and 1895

 

FACTORY BEDDING

CN 02.03.1990 p7 Ad

CN 05.12.2003 p14 Factory Bedding in Denton Holme gone into liquidation

 

FACTORY HOOTERS

CN 21.01.2005 p6 D.Perriam article on the early morning call to work by hooter

 

FAIRBAIRN, E.F. and Sons Edentown

Nurserymen

CD 1913-14 Ad p5

CD 1920 Ad p66

 

FAIRBAIRN, E.F. Caldewgate

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp99-101

Poultry breeders; started business in1928 in Caldewgate. Pioneer in the production of large numbers of day-old chicks using large cabinet incubators. What became known as EF Fairbairn (Holdings) Ltd of Northern Ireland merged with Chunky Chickens becoming Chunky-Fairbairn; further amalgamations brought it into the Ross Poultry Group

CD 1952 Ad p360

CN 24.08.1962 p1 Take over by Ross Group

 

FAIRBAIRN, George Nurseryman, aged 55, born Clapham, London, home Croft House, Botcherby [1901 census]

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp95-100

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p16 Ad Florists and fruiterers. Town Hall Buildings and Croft Nurseries

CJ 03.11.1899 George Fairbairn and Son, the Croft Nurseries, Botcherby, beg to announce that their prize collection of Chrysantemums are now in full bloom

CJ 02.07.1920 The buildings and nursery of Messrs George Fairbairn and Sons, Botcherby, Carlisle...for sale

CJ 27.07.1920 Report on large attendance at the sale

 

FAIRBAIRN HOLDINGS LTD see also EF Fairbairn

CN 24.08.1962 p1 Take over by Ross Group

 

FAIRBAIRNS BUILDINGS, Blackfriars Street [1829 Directory and 1847 Directory]

 

FAIRLIE, John Mercer and Draper of Castle Street

CJ 15.10.1825 p1 J.Fairlie opened a Linen draper’s in Castle Street

CJ 04.03.1826 p2 Bankrupt

 

FAIRLIE, Maria and Margaret School, Lowther Street

See also Devonshire House School

CP 16.12.1870. Nos attending school 26

1891 census; Maria M.Fairlie, schoolmistress, aged 49, bn Carlisle, home 8 Chatsworth Square, 8 boarding scholars listed aged 13 - 19

 

FAIRS

See also GREAT FAIR, HEMPTON FAIR, HIRING FAIRS, LATTER FAIR

CJ 02.09.1853 p6 Sheep and cattle fair (historical description and decline...)

Carlisle People and Places p110 Photo of fair on Sands circa 1889

CJ 27.08.1946 p1 Toll proclamation

CN 31.08.1946 p5 Toll proclamation

CJ 02.09.1960 p4 Carlisle’s Great Fair

CN 29.08.1969 p12 Illustration of 1910

CN 07.04.1989 p10 A job for a professional

CN 09.04.1999 p5 Unwelcome; all the din of the fair

CN 17.10.2003 p3 Morton Fair funfair called off after complaints from locals

 

FALSTAFF EATING HOUSE Formerly King’s Head, Fisher St

CN 18.01.1974 p14 (illus) Opening

 

FAR BOOT Houghton

See also Near Boot

CN 17.07.1992 p4 Memories of

 

FARISHS COURT, Saint Nicholas Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 53 Saint Nicholas Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 53-55 St Nicholas Street

 

FARLAM, John 31 Botchergate

1882 Porters Directory Ad p168 Grocer

 

FARMER’S ARMS Irish Damside; in local directories 1837 and 1858

1861 census, Mrs Read, aged 47, Innkeeper, born Carlisle

 

FARMERS ARMS St Cuthbert’s Lane; in local directories from 1855 - 1902/03

1891 census; Robert Bell, innkeeper and cowkeeper, aged 54

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, p95, 101

Carlisle; Archival photographs p16 photo in 1902; Robert Lockerbie tenant

CN 15.02.1991 p4 (photo) Farmers Arms had a cowshed

 

FARMERS MARKETS For sale of local produce

CN 09.06.2000 p7 Council backs farm markets; likely to be in city centre

 

FARRAGHER, J Church St, Caldewgate

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p14; photo of butcher’s shop

 

FARRELL, A.W. Bakers founded 1953; Etterby

CN 19.08.1988 p11 Closure

CN 02.12.1988 p8 Take over - ad feature

 

FARRER, John, photographer

John Farrer 1867-1916, of Brampton was briefly in Albert place in 1902

 

FARRER, Joseph and FAULDER, Joseph Depot in South Henry Street which was taken over by the Caledonian in 1931

City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate bus service Carlisle to Dumfries

 

FASCISM

D.Perriam Denton Holme p101 Margot White of 63 Nelson Street joined the Carlisle branch of the British Union of Fascists in 1933. In1937 she married the fascist leader William Joyce and fled with him before the outbreak of war to Germany. Granted German citizenship in 1940 she broadcast to the UK and was dubbed Lady Haw Haw

CJ 13.04.1934 Photo of Oswald Mosley at Carlisle

CJ 07.06.1935 p5 A visit to their HQ in Lonsdale St

CJ 27.09.1935 Photo meeting in Carlisle; blackshirts as stewards

CN 09.05.1936 p7

CJ 15.05.1936 Supplement photo of Oswald Mosley at Carlisle

CN 06.03.1998 p5 Day the blackshirts fought in Carlisle

CN 24.07.1998 p1 Fascists target county shows

 

FASHION HOUSE English St

CD 1966-68 Ad piv

 

FAT FINGERS Abbey St named changed to Fats

Restaurant

CN 08.08.1997 p3 (illus) Dean of Carlisle gives thumbs down to sign

CN 15.08.1997 p16 Vulgar sign banned

CN 15.10.1999 p3 Launch of bid for wine bar

CN 10.12.1999 p6 Controversial wine bar

CN 10.10.2003 p1 Fine for knocking down internal wall in listed building

CN 03.12.2004 p8 sold to Eric Cairns and Justin Tornberry by J.Van Leirop

 

FAULDER AND CO 1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p 128 iron and brass founders, Willow-holme

Jollie’s 1811 Directory p84 Iron foundry

 

FAWCETT COURT, English Damside [1880 Directory]

 

FAWCETT SCHOOL Foundation stone laid 04.02.1850; opened January 1851; marked on Asquith’s 1853 map; took over the Central School buildings sometime around 1883; West Walls

CIC p58

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p73 photo of girls’ class

Carlisle an illustrated history p47 pre WWI photo of girls class

CJ 21.01.1853 p4 AGM CJ 26.06.1863 p5 CJ 31.01.1865 p2 CN 10.04.1959 p10 CN 18.09.1959 p10

Carlisle Examiner 29.01.1859 p2d Annual meeting of subscribers

CP 16.12.1870 Details nos on roll 404, nos attending 361

26.01.1908 John H Cotterill, 34 years teacher Fawcett Sch., dies [MI 158/14]

1914 photo of boys class 6 Carlisle in Camera p58

CJ 19.06.1966 p6 Site

CN 30.09.1966 p12 (illus) Pupils in 1897

 

FAY’S LODGING HOUSE Drovers Lane

1901 census; Michael Fay, aged 60, bn Ireland; 27 borders

City Minutes 1921-22 p42 Declared unfit for human habitation

Sanitary Condition for the City of Carlisle 1924 p64 Demolished

 

FEARON BROTHERS

CN 20.01.1995 p1 Declared bankrupt

 

FEDDON’S, Nurseryman, Botcherby

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p100-103

William Feddon born Botcherby 1909. Worked at the former Wellington Place nurseries, opposite his house at 35 Victoria Road. He was famous for his rhubarb crop. Eventually the gardens became neglected and new housing was built here by Impact Housing. Rhubard would appear each year on the former nursery until the land was built over for housing.

 

FELICITY HAT HIRE Blackwell Road

CN 12.06.1998 p7

 

FELL,Bryan Currock Road

Engineers

CN 22.10.1999 p14 Ad

 

FELL HALL see KINGSTOWN READING ROOM

 

FELLING MALE VOICE CHOIR

CN 04.02.1950 p9 To visit city

CN 25.02.1950 p6 Visit

 

FELL VIEW, Warwick Rd

27.04.1902 died Elizabeth Jennings wife of Edward Jennings of Fell View, Warwick Rd Stanwix MI 121/1

 

FEMALE VISITING SOCIETY Relief of the indigent. Dispenses its benefits to the sick and the needy, the aged and the indigent. A certain number of the Ladies divides the town into districts, and two of them go together round each particular district, they enter the houses of the poor, enquire into their situation, soothe them in their distresses, and assist in removing them. They administer relief according to their several necessities, and distribute their charitable gifts with the greatest prudence and discrimination. [Dispensary Report for 1822, p9]

1829 Parson and White p 142 details

Mannix 1847 p136 Founded 1803

 

FENCING

CWAAS OS Vol 2 p349 Fencing master mentioned 1724 one Joseph Johnston

 

FENDLEY,G.H. and E. Carlyles Lane; Castle St

Carpet Manufacturer

CD 1927 Ad p186

CN 06.10.1945 p6 Obit of G.H.Fendley; founded hand-tufted carpet factory with wife

 

FENDLEY,George H Lowther St; Warwick Road; All Saints Church, Calthwaite - choir stalls, lectern, and two angels looking over sanctuary were the work of woodcarver George Fendley, see Nigel Redfern All Saints Calthwaite, the story of the building, 1988 p9 for example of work and photo of Mr Fendley

Wood carving school

CD 1905-06 Ad p134

CD 1907-08 Ad p198

CJ 14.05.1918 p4 War exemption for Mr Fendley; details of business

CN 06.10.1945 p6 Obit of G.H.Fendley; woodcarver, antique business, Castle St

 

FENDLEY, George H Warwick Road

Architects and contractors

CD 1910-11 Ad p110

 

FENDLEY, George H. Castle St

Furniture Store

CD 1913-14 Ad p166

CD 1927 Ad p186

 

FENDLEY, James Repairs to motors, cycles. Mary Street

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p6 ‘Ride Fendley Cycles’

 

FENDLEY’S MOTOR WORKS Cecil Street

Sale of garage by James Fendley in November 1922

Leading Trader of the City Ad pvi,vii A 616; established 1895

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p38 photo

CD 1907-08 Ad p142

CD 1910-11 Ad p140

CD 1913-14 Ad p98

CD 1920 Ad p316

CN 27.02.1959 p10 (illus)

CN 22.06.2001 p8 (illus) Fendley’s Garage; D.Perriam

 

FERGUSON, Charles John Architect [1840-1904] Well known architect responsible for the restoration of Naworth and Muncaster Castles. He played a leading role in the establishment of the Free Public Library and Museum in Tullie House

CJ 21.08.1936 p8 Carlisle architects. Ferguson was County Architect. Pupil of Gilbert Scott he became a partner with Corrry. Leading ecclesiastical and domestic architect. Commercial work was of no interest to him.

 

FERGUSON, George Manufacturer in this city 21.07.1807; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard

 

FERGUSON, George Scotch Street

Yesterdays Shopping in Carlisle p22 Draper; late G.Hetherington; engraving

 

FERGUSON,H Milan Terrace

Caravan Manufacturers

CD 1952 Ad p276

 

FERGUSON, John Backhouse Walk

Textile manufacturer

CN 06.10.2000 p8 Textile brothers

 

FERGUSON, Messrs R.G. [Robert and George] George St, hat manufactory [ Jollie 1811 p 82]

CN 22.08.2014 p18 Denis Perriam article. Hattery part of the first development of George Street in 1799

 

FERGUSON, Richard Manufacturers; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784; Richard Ferguson, Manufacturer of this city; [1716 - 28.12.1787] Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard and inside church. He married Mary [1726-1786], daughter and heir of Joseph Ferguson of Harker at Stanwx Church in 1746. He became a successful flax/cotton merchant and a manufacturer. In 1746 he had a business in Carlisle described as manufacturing Osnaburg, which was coarse striped or checked cotton. It was located in premises under the Town Hall. He was father of Robert and George who had a hat manufactory in George Street and who purchased land in Rickergate. All of their sons were involved in the cotton or linen industry. John, Richard and George established the cotton works at Warwick, which eventually passed to their relatives the Dixons. Mary, his daughter, married Peter Dixon [1753-1832] of Whitehaven. Peter Dixon and his sons became cotton manufacturers of Carlisle

 

FERGUSON, Samuel Denton St

Plasterer

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1880 Ad pxlvii

1882 Porters Directory Ad p142 70 Denton St

 

FERGUSON AND DIXON

1811 Jollie p82 Linen manufactory, English Street

 

FERGUSON AND SOWERBY, Messrs Woodyard near Swifts [Jollie 1811 p 82]

 

FERGUSON BROTHERS LTD

1824 Joseph Ferguson [1788 - 1863] [grandson of Richard Ferguson 1716-1787] started a small concern at the Friggate for dyeing and beetling cotton. 1828 Owing to increase of business he removed to Holme Head, where he rented a small cotton mill previously occupied by Carrick and Johnston; 1837 he built a new works for dyeing and finishing cotton fabrics; 1850 son Robert taken into partnership and a year or so later his son, John. 1850s offices upstream of weir.1863 John Ferguson dies in London. 1864 Edward Chance, brother in law of Joseph Ferguson, becomes a partner. 30.05 1865 new spinning and weaving mills opened [designed by Henry Higginson]. 1873 F.W.Chance, eldest son of Edward Chance, joined the business. 1881 Edward Chance died and no 3 weaving shed erected. Coffee tavern and reading room on Bridge Terrace for Ferguson workers opened January 1882; 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; 1884 J.S.Chance, youngest son of Edward Chance, joined the business. 1886 first patent beetling machine. 1888 John Clark Ferguson died. 1891 New patent aniline black dyeing plant introduced. 1898 Robert Ferguson died. 1900 Ferguson Bros registered as a limited company, with F.W.Chance and J.S.Chance as life governors, H.B.Overton and H.T.Rogers as ordinary directors, and James Scott as Secretary. 1902-03 Large additions made to dyeing and finishing plant, including hydraulic press room and new calendering house. 1905 R.C.Chance, third son of F.W.Chance, joined the business. 1906 Frederick Selby Chance, fourth son of F.W.Chance, joined the business.1910 new print and bleach works erected.1913 Spinning mill extension of 10,000 additional spindles and a new weaving shed ,no 4, erected; 1919 K.M.Chance, youngest son of F.W.Chance joins the company. 1920-21 Large extension of print works. 1923 New warehouse and cottages.

See also Holme Head

See Centenary Ferguson Brothers, Holme Head works 1824-1924, 1924 B352

All About Carlisle 1934 p82 Messrs Ferguson

CD 1952 Ad p253

CJ 02.08.1949 p2 CJ 09.08.1949 p2 CN 24.05.1974 p23 (illus)

CP 30.04.1864 p1 Ad; erection by tender of cotton mill and weaving shed

CJ 02.06.1865 p6 Second large mill erected

CJ 31.03.1882 Coffee tavern opened in January of that year

CJ 24.03.1893 Specimens dispatched to world’s fair at Chicago

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p122 Photo of works about 1907

CJ 07.01.1938 p10 Local trades

CN 14.02.1948 p5 Increased production methods

CJ 07.05.1948 p1 Increased production

CJ 15.08.1948 p1 ‘Vertical’

CN 12.03.1949 p5 Increased production

CN 04.02.1950 p7 (illus) p2 Boiler plant opened by Lord Adams of Ennerdale

CN 04.07.1958 p13 Supplement Fergusons began as dyers

ENS 10.02.1964 p1 Carlisle firm in £1m merger

CJ 14.02.1964 p11 Merger with Viyella

CN 14.02.1964 p6 Merger with Viyella

ENS 11.05.1964 p1 City firm to acquire companies

CN 15.05.1964 p1 Expansion

CN 03.06.1966 p1 Extensions

ENS 18.01.1967 p1 Fergusons to lose 80 jobs

CN 20.01.1967 p3 (illus) Workpeople paid off

CJ 05.01.1968 p3 Repair of chimney

ENS 08.03.1977 p1 Jobs loss

CN 16.11.1990 p9 60 to lose jobs

CN 06.09.1991 p1 200 jobs hit by shut down

CN 13.09.1991 p19 Call for probe into axed jobs

CN 04.10.1991 p25 Advice on redundancy

CN 06.03.1992 p16 Bid to bulldoze

CN 18.12.1992 p3 Nicky’s stack of money

CN 22.01.1993 p13 Charity grows as chimney falls

CN 27.01.1995 p5 Homes for factory site

CN 19.02.1999 p3 (illus) How I made my first million

CN 12.03.1999 p6 Mills needs a history (redevelopment)

CN 19.03.1999 p3 (illus) Carlisle’s own ‘Docklands’

CN 20.08.1999 p10 Carlisle’s most desirable address

CN 01.10.1999 p1 City’s urban village

 

FERGUSON FOUNTAIN Erected at Malt Shovel in 1859; later moved to Court Square

CN 16.09.1966 p12

 

FERGUSON’S LANE, English St, linking Blackfriars Street and English Street. The lane is still there today. So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p17. Takes its name from the Ferguson family who had a house on English Street alongside the lane. A previous name was thought to be Story’s Vennel

1847 Directory

1852-3 newspaper references to the newly opened Ferguson Lane Reading Room

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 48 English Stree 3 to to 15 Blackfriars Street

1934 Directory 46 English Street

 

FERGUSONS PLACE Milbourne Street; first on census of 1881 and on voters list to 1951

1880 Directory 134 Milbourne Street

Carlisle in Camera 2 p31 view of court

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 132-134 Milbourne Street

 

FERGUSON ROAD First noted on electoral register for 1922; land in this area was formerly owned by the Dean and Chapter and streets were named in honour of Bishops of Carlisle and Chancellors of the Diocese, in this case Chancellor Ferguson

 

FERN LEA GUEST HOUSE, St Aidans Road

CN 25.04.2008 p73 For sale

CN 24.12.2021 p20 For sale popular city guest house

 

FESTIVALS see Blackwell Murry Neet; Carlin Sunday; Christmas; Corpus Christie; Easter Sports;

 

FEVER HOSPITAL see HOUSE OF RECOVERY

 

FEWIS HILL see also Fusehill

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]

 

FICTION

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 9 Carlisle in fiction pp13-20

 

FIDLER, Alfred

City Minutes 1927-28 p624 Licensed to operate bus service to Wetheral

 

FIDO, R.B.

Photographer, 5 English Street. Carte de visite noted

D Perriam Stanwix p93 Robert B Fido 1838- 1920 was in Edentown in 1866 but was later a farmer and died in Skipton

 

FILM

CN 27.05.2005 p 8 Film festival screens historic Michell & Kenyon film of city

 

FILM MAKING

Leon Gould made a film in 1910 entitled The Works and Workers of Denton Holme which featured scenes in Lorne Crescent and the North Street entrance to Ferguson Brothers. Oscar nominated director, Mike Figgis, was born in Carlisle and he came to shoot scenes in Denton Holme in 1999 for Loss of Sexual Innocence, a film loosely based on his childhood. Central to these scenes was the Colville Street area

CJ 16.04.1912 p4a Showing at Her Majesty’s A Local Film; The Making of a Biscuit

CN 12.11.1993 p5 Sun sets sights on the movies

Cumbria Life no 49, 1996 pp38-39 ‘Action’ 2A 9

CN 16.05.1997 p10 How Mr Algie scooped the Royal funeral

CN 17.10.1997 p16 (illus) Here comes Carllywood

 

FINE FARE Botchergate

ENS 06.11.1962 p1 Opened

 

FINESSE Milbourne Street

Windows

CN 30.03.2001 p22 Ad feature

 

FINKLE STREET So named Fynkelstrete in1540; may mean street where fennel is sold or street with a bend

CIC2 p15 Photo of houses at junction with Corporation Rd, Castle side

Carlisle; history and celebration M. Constantine p35 view of back of houses

City minutes 1890-91 item 109 Improvement of Finkle Street; see CIC2 p12

City Minutes 1935-6 p286 6, 8 and 10 Finkle Street should be bought from the Misses Ellia for the purposes of street widening

Memories of Carlisle Chapter 1 Photo of street in early 1950s

CN 11.11.1966 p12

CN 21.09.1929 p4 (illus) Buildings opposite Castle removed

CN 23.10.1948 p5 (illus) Susanna Blamire’s House (Castle View House)

CJ 05.11.1948 p3 (illus) Demolition of houses

CN 18.03.1955 p10 Origin of name

 

NUMBER 10; Susannah Blamire’s House

Memories of Old Carlisle, G.Topping p 131 photo of house

CN 23.10.1948 p5 (illus) S.Blamire’s House; Castle View House

CN 05.06.2015 p12 Probably built in the 1770s, D.Perriam

 

FINKLE STREET ACADEMY OF ART Built in 1823 by Paul Nixson, architect and sculptor which also housed his marble works. The Academy was well furnished on its facade with sculpture by Dumfries born sculpture David Dunbar, comprising a figure of a sculptor set in a niche beside a bust of the Spirit of Carlisle [This work had been exhibited in Edinburgh in 1822, CP June 1823, CN 09.03.2012, CN 05.02.2021] Rearing above the pediment were busts of the architect Christopher Wren, the painter Benjamin West and the sculptor Francis Chantrey. The building was demolished in 1929 for road widening. This was a philanthropic act, Nixson’s only desire being to embellish this town and promote useful improvements; eight art exhibitions held here, last art exhibition in 1833, lessons ceased 1834 ; re-opened as Carlisle School of Art in 1854; in 1877 Carlisle Museum established here; moved to Tullie House in 1891; building demolished 1930

See also Art School; Museum; College of Art, Museums

CIC p56 photo in 1920s

CAIH p51

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House pp44, 48-50

Slee,M. Older Carlisle (illus) p23

CN 29.01.1949 p5 (illus) CN 09.02.1952 p5 (illus) CN 12.12.1953 p8

CN 02.03.1962 p10 (illus) CN 04.03.1966 p12

CJ 12.08.1826 p3a Carlisle Academy of Arts; exhibition to open

CJ 26.08.1826 p3a Carlisle Academy Exhibition; list of exhibitors

CJ 16.09.1826 p1a ad 4th Carlisle Exhibition of Fine Arts at Academy

CJ 16.09.1826 p2b Carlisle Academy of Arts; list of subscribers

CJ 16.09.1826 p2e,f Report on Exhibition

1829 Parson and White p146 Details

CJ 16.05.1835 What was wanted was a place that artists could meet

CP 27.07.1877 p7c Carlisle Museum Finkle Street opened

CN 02.11.1929 p9 Academy of Art

CN 09.04.1999 p13 Fight to preserve city’s heritage

CN 09.03.2012 p34 Statuary group over entrance by David Dunbar

 

FINLAY, John M. English Damside

Floor coverings

CD 1931 Ad p306

 

FINLAYSON, Bill Hairdresser

ENS 06.12.1976 p5 Ad

 

FINESSE WINDOWS

CN 14.08.2009 p14 25 years in business

 

FINN AVENUE

City Minutes 1935/36 p96 New road to be named Finn Avenue. In 1935 Councillor Francis Ambrose Finn was appointed chairman of the Town Planning Committees

They had outside toilets, no toilet paper, cut up newspaper. Near neighbours were the Charters, there were 13 of them in the three bedroom house! Dot would sometimes shout across ‘Can I use your toilet? Our Peggy’s in ours’, then she’d hop over the garden fence. A coal fire downstairs plus a coal fire in front bedroom, but no one could afford to put the upstairs fire on. The other two bedrooms were cold. Us three sisters shared one bed, although later I got a single bed in there. My brother had the third small bedroom. Many people had an old pram and me and my sister would take it to the Junction Street depot and get a quarter of a hundredweight of coal. Niven’s saw mill sold logs and we’d get the pram out and get six penny worth of logs. Mam said ‘I’ll put the hood up and he’ll give you more’; the extra weight buckled the wheels. People would get bread from the Junction Street CO-OP bakery. This closed at lunchtime on a Saturday. Neighbours would take a pillowcase down and maybe get three good loaves for a threepenny piece. If they’d a lot of bread left you’d get more. Our mam however always baked her own bread, three loafs a week plus tea-cakes. They were the best tea-cakes ever. The wash house was outside with the gas boiler. You’d have the washing tub, poss stick, rubbing board and mangle. In the kitchen you’d have the pulley for drying clothes, woollen blankets etc. You’d use Reckitt Blue for whites. Doing the washing, usually a Monday, was a whole day’s work, every item had to be rubbed and rinsed. Afterwards you’d swill the front with the washing water. You always washed the front and back steps; some people rudded the step; some rudded their window sills as well. We used to outline the front step with white London stone, which was very helpful in the blackout. You got the rudd from the women at the Market Cross. You only had one pair of shoes, perhaps galoshes as well. If you got a hole in the sole of your shoes mother would put in a cardboard or felt insole. The felt was cut out of an old hat. Mother had a treadle Singer Sewing machine. When a bed sheet was worn in the middle mother would cut it lengthwise in two and re-sew it with the frayed middle now on the outside. She’d turn dad’s frayed collars, darn socks. We did knitting and sewing at Saint Pat’s school; we were supposed to knit a dark green jumper and a cook’s apron. We paid threepence a week to the school for the thread, we bought the wool cheap from the wool factory near Dixon’s chimney. But I was never any good with the needle. The knocker-upper would come around with his long stick rapping on the upstairs window. A head would pop out and shout ‘I’m up’. This was for shift workers, railwaymen. [memory from a resident there at no 33 Finn Av in the 1930s]

 

FINNEGAN’S WAKE Lowther Street; formerly The Post

CN 19.12.1997 p10 (illus) Pints are now pulled where stamps were once licked

ENS 24.01.2001 p1 Pub boss jailed; takings gambled

CN 26.09.2003 p5 Pub will soon reopen after being bought by T and B Scougal

 

FIORI CASUAL WARE Scotch St; founded 1979

CN 27.07.2001 Fiori’s ex owner now runs The Officers Club chain of stores

 

FIRE

Topping,G and Potter, J Memorials of Old Carlisle Fire of 19.05.1292 Started by the disinherited son of a Carlisle citizen who set alight to the house he hoped to inherit. The fire destroyed many of the buildings in the city, including much of the recently completed cathedral. The houses were made mainly of wood, huddled together

Topping,G and Potter,J Memorials of Old Carlisle p5 Fire of 1392 [Weston Carlisle Cathedral p16 says fire 1391]

CN 15.09.1972 p8 CJ 20.03.1953 p1

CJ 30.04.1814 [The building in George Street twice burst into flames after the Woods left it. The first time] ‘The flames were no sooner discerned than the whole building was in one complete blaze, blowing up the floors and the roof almost with the force of gun-powder. The conflagration is supposed to have originated in lightening. It may afford a useful hint to add that the leathers of the engines burst while working

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

CJ 05.12.1856 Dramatic fire at Mains Cotton factory

Carlisle Examiner 15.08.1857 p3 Fire in Scotch Street

Carlisle Examiner 20.11.1858 p2 e,f Great fire at hat manufacturer, Scotch St

CP 23.02.1861 p5b Donald’s Flour Mill destroyed by fire

10.01.1871 Slater’s Cotton Factory burnt down

07.04.1889 Fire at Infirmary

18.01.1890 Fire at Carlisle Castle

16.05.1914 Messrs Hayton, Botchergate; £1,760 damage after fire

11.09.1914 St Nicholas Firewood Co; £900 damage after fire

28.12.1914 Fire at Morton carpet factory; damage worth £50,000

20.02.1920 Fire at Carr’s Duke St building; £30,000 damage

13.10.1921 Jamieson’s of Botchergate; £850 damage

16.03.1922 Fire; £2,000 worth of damage

Chief Constables Annual Report for 1926 p13 Dates of 38 fires attended

09.11.1927 Stockroom at Crown and Mitre goes up; £4,500 worth of damage

07.11.1928 James Dias, Motor engineers, Warwick Road; damage of £28,000

CN 10.11.1928 pp16,17 Warwick Road

26.05.1929 Fire at Carlisle Bread and Flour Co; £10,000 worth of damage

24.08.1929 Fire at Creighton’s Saw Mill; £25,000 worth of damage

City Minutes 1931-32 p4 Chief Constables Annual report. pp12-13 Fires in 1931

11.03.1953 Carlisle United’s Grandstand burns down

ENS 25.05.1957 Fire in Corporation Road

CN 02.01.1959 p10 (illus) Carr’s fire in 1920

CN 11.02.1966 p10 Slater’s Mill January 1871

CN 18.02.1966 p12 (illus) Theatre fire in 1904

CN 11.03.1966 p12 (illus) Skating rink in 1920

CN 18.03.1966 p14 Castle Street fire in 1885

CN 15.09.1972 p8 Historical synopsis of notable fires

CN 15.09.1972 pp 1,3 (illus) Penguin House

CN 22.09.1972 p3 Penguins fire

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p158 photos of Penguin factory fire

CN 04.05.1973 p7 (illus) Fire at Scotts leather goods

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p159 photo of Scott’s fire

CN 06.07.1973 p1 After fire at Scotts

CN 24.08.1973 p6 English Damside fire of 06.07.1896

CN 28.06.1985 p4 Castle/ Fisher St in 1895

CN 25.03.1988 p4 Crowds lost senses at a big city blaze

CN 21.08.1998 p3 (illus) Arson Hotel (Warwick Road Hotel)

CN 09.03.2001 p1 Fire death in bedsit in Warwick Road

CN 05.07.2002 p5 Blaze at former day hospital on Newtown Road

CN 11.10.2002 p3 St Joseph’s home burns down

CN 17.01.2003 p1 Boy arsonist who burnt down St Joseph’s home says sorry

CN 04.04.2003 p1 Fire at Graham’s Garage closes London Road

CN 05.12.2003 p5 13 years for arson man, fire at James Tce, Tait St on 29.07.03

CN 25.02.2005 p1 Rathbones the bakery burns down at Durranhill

CN 16.12.2005 p1Fire rips through Chatsworth Sq flats

 

FIREMARKS Mark of the Newcastle Fire Insurance Co on upper outer wall of south east end of Fisher Street

CWAAS ns Vol 3 Photo opp p 409 of Newcastle fire-mark found in Castle St

CN 09.08.1974 p6

CN 29.03.1947 p5 (illus) Insurance fire plate

 

FIRE SERVICE Bills for the maintenance of a Carlisle fire engine show that the city had one by 1733; there was more than one fire engine in Carlisle by 1777. There was a fire in Caldewgate in Jan 1793 and a fire engine was sent, however it was so much out of order as to be of very little service. In Nov 1797 the Cumberland Pacquet reported upon a fire in the market place ‘the city is not supplied with a fire engine and time was lost before one could be procured from the Caste’. Jollie’s 1811 Guide to Carlisle stated that two engines are kept behind the East Walls; but ‘unfortunately there are no firemen attached to them’ 1829 a fire engine house was built beside the new police station in New Bank Lane, presumably the police being responsible for manning it. The old engines were offered for sale in April 1837 by the Watch Committee and were described as being in working order. One had 3.5 ins cylinder and was worked by six men, and the other 5 ins and worked by 12 men. Both were being replaced by two of more powerful construction. [CN 05.11.2010 p32] Volunteer Fire Brigade formed 29.08.1866; at Council Meeting of 16.12.1904 it was decided to replace the Volunteer Fire Corps with a brigade operated by the City Police Force

See also FIRE STATIONS

M1045 p69

CAIH p66

Templeton, J 100 Years of Carlisle Fire Brigade, 1995 1BC 363.378

1158-1958 pp 53-56 1BC 352

CN 12.11.1954 p12 CN 19.11.1954 p12 CJ 24.04.1956 p8 (illus)

CJ 21.06.1806 p3b Use of fire engines

CJ 30.04.1814 [The building in George Street twice burst into flames after the Woods left it. The first time] ‘The flames were no sooner discerned than the whole building was in one complete blaze, blowing up the floors and the roof almost with the force of gun-powder. The conflagration is supposed to have originated in lightening. It may afford a useful hint to add that the leathers of the engines burst while working’

CJ 15.09.1868 p2 Trial of hand fire engine by Carlisle Volunteer Fire Brigade

CJ 18.09.1868 p5 Trial of hand fire engine by Carlisle Volunteer Fire Brigade

CJ 25.09.1868 p6 Letter concerning the above

CJ 21.11.1879 p3 Annual inspection

CP 25.02.1898 p6f Volunteer fire brigade annual meeting

City Minutes 1903-04 pp265-7 Suggestions for fire safety improvements to city halls

City Minutes 1904-05 p85 Appointment of permanent firemen

City Minutes 1904-05 p86 Resignation of members of Volunteer Fire Brigade

City Minutes 1904-05 p87 30th December 1904 Chief Constable takes over

City Minutes 1928-9 p235 Robert Gate appointed officer in charge of Fire Brigade

CJ 12.12.1939 p1 Proving their efficiency

CJ 16.08.1940 pp1,5 From Spring Garden Lane to Warwick St

CN 17.02.1940 p9 From Spring Garden Lane to Warwick St

CN 17.08.1940 p5 From Spring Garden Lane to Warwick St

CN 29.08.1942 p3 1st Anniversary of nationalisation celebrated in Carlisle

CN 05.04.1947 p5 Fire engines

CJ 14.04.1950 p2 Joint Fire and Ambulance service - segregation

CN 24.05.1952 p4 Illustration circa 1908

CN 07.06.1952 p4 Illustration circa 1885

CN 14.06.1952 p4 Illustration of volunteer brigade

CN 08.08.1958 p8 Volunteer Fire Brigade

CN 09.03.1962 p12 (illus) Spring Gardens Lane

CN 14.02.1966 p10 Volunteer Fire Brigade

CJ 09.09.1966 p11 (illus) History

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p157 1966 photo of engine outside station

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p157 1970 photo of engine

CN 22.05.1987 p4 (illus) Early days

CN 03.07.1987 p4 (illus) Early days

CN 02.02.1990 p11 Fire crews call

CN 02.02.1990 p10 Fanning the fire

CN 05.10.1990 p44 Council leads way on safety

CN 08.03.1991 pp1,3 Enter new fire fighters

CN 03.05.1991 p1 Red-hot that's fire fighters

CN 31.05.1991 p23 Fire figures fast flare-up raises fears

CN 02.08.1991 p8 County fire fighters go green

CN 24.01.1992 p3 Fireman’s answer

CN 16.10.1992 p16 Big jump in house fire toll in county

CN 16.10.1992 p7 Firemen praised

CN 04.02.1994 p4 Volunteer fire service (100 years ago)

CN 18.10.1996 p3 Firemen fight back as spending axe hovers

CN 18.10.1996 p3 Brigade likes it hot - but it’ll cost the county £50,000

CN 07.03.1997 p10 The days when firemen who went to blazes were paid in ale

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

CN 26.09.1997 Supp. Fire chief praises drop in callouts

CN 10.10.1997 p4 Successful fire services faces cash cut

CN 02.01.1998 p4 Business as usual at Christmas for the emergency teams

CN 05.01.2001 p1 Carlisle moonlighting firemen face sack

CN 25.10.2002 p1Fire service strike looms; opinion p 12

CN 15.11.2002 p1 Firemen’s strike; feature page p12

CN 22.11.2002 p1 Firemen’s strike

CN 29.11.2002 p1 Dispute will go on; letters page 14

CN 25.06.2004 p1 Call for out of town fire station

CN 20.08.2004 p43 Day in the life of fire brigade man

08.01.2005 Fire station flooded out

CN 23.09.2011 p17 Feature on new fire station being built at Durranhill

CN 30.03.2011 p14 Carlisle West Community Fire Station at Raffles ready. This and the one being built on Eastern Way will replace the Warwick Street station

CN 20.04.2012 p20 West Community Fore Station open

CN 28.02.2014 p5 Council unveils £1m arts centre vision in ex fire station

CN 22.05.2015 p15 Formal opening of the new arts centre

 

FIRE STATION; EASTERN WAY COMMNUITY FIRE STATION

CN 23.09.2011 p17 Feature on new fire station being built at Durranhill

CN 30.03.2011 p14 Carlisle West Community Fire Station at Raffles ready. This and the one being built on Eastern Way will replace the Warwick Street station

 

 

FIRE STATION Spring Gardens Lane 07.11.1898 - 16.08.1940; replaced by Warwick Street fire station

D Perriam Lowther Street p54 The 1896 fire station was in the lane until 1962 when it was demolished to make way for Eden Bridge House; photo

CP 15.04.1898 p6 New site for fire station

CN 09.03.1962 p12 (illus)

CJ 11.06.1937 p7 New police and fire station

CJ 16.08.1940 New station

CN 02.02.1990 p11 Fire crews call

CN 02.02.1990 p10 Fanning the fire

CN 25.09.1992 p49 Calls for new fire station

CN 14.04.2006 p1 City gets two new fire stations

 

FIRE STATION; JUNCTION ST

Volunteer Fire Brigade Station opened 23.01.1885. Foundation stone read ‘CVFB 1884 Francis P Dixon, Mayor, JA Wheatley, Capt’

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p84 The Junction Street cost £517. A manual fire engine, fire escape and other apparatus were kept there, the ground floor also having a reading room and committee room. Above was the caretaker’s accommodation. Picture and map included

CN 13.11.1981 p19

 

FIRE STATION; WARWICK STREET 16.08.1940 to 2011/12 when replaced by two Community Fire Station at Durranhill and Raffles

 

FIRE STATION; WEST COMMUNITY FIRE STATION

CN 30.03.2011 p14 Carlisle West Community Fire Station at Raffles ready.

CN 20.04.2012 p20 West Community Fore Station open

 

FIRE STATION PLACE, Junction Street [1934 Directory]

 

FIREWORKS

See also Gunpowder Plot

CN 25.10.1996 p1 Heat is on as clocks go back for winter

CN 13.11.1998 p19 £19,000 up in smoke

CN 03.11.2000 p1 Bridge shut for Fireworks

CN 02.11.2001 p1 Yobs cause misery with fireworks

CN 09.11.2001 p17 (illus) report on Bon Fire night show at Bitts Park

CN 01.11.2002 p3 Bitts Fire Bonfire tomorrow

CN 08.11.2002 p15 20,000 at fireworks show

CN 31.10.2003 p1 Could be a crowd of 35,000 for tomorrow’s fireshow at Bitts

CN 31.10.2003 p7 Feature on history of Fireshow; started in 1987

CN 12.11.2004 p 15 Fireshow; 35,000 crowd

 

FIRST CHOICE CONSERVATORIES Port Road

CN 13.03.1998 p16 Ad

 

FIRTH, James Botchergate

Watchmaker, jeweller and optician

CD 1893-94 Ad p46

 

FIRTH, Mary Botchergate

M.Edwards Our City Our People p22 Short memory circa 1900 of confectioner

 

FIRTH STATIONERY LTD Norfolk St

CD 1966-68 Ad p305

 

FISH Ferguson Lane; licence terminated 1907

1861 census Agnes Thompson, aged 76, innkeeper, born Carlisle

CP 11.10.1862 p1 To let; occupied by late John Thompson for upwards of 60 years

1901 census; Patrick Carr, aged 53, publican, born Wigton

CP 31.05.1907 The Fish Inn; licence considered

 

FISH AND CHIP SHOPS

See Pieri, Renucci

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

CN 14.01.1966 p12

CN 01.09.2000 p7 Carlisle chippie in regional final; Holme Fryer

 

FISH AND DOLPHIN St Cuthbert’s Lane; in local directories 1844 - 1913/14

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, pp96-98

1847 Directory John Reid Innkeeper

1861 census Thomas Long, Innkeeper, aged 42, born Carlisle

1891 census; John Carrick, 40, licensed victualler, born Houghton

E.Nelson Around Carlisle pp12-13 Interior and exterior photos

 

FISHER

M442 p46 Business label for chemist and druggist

 

FISHER, G Devonshire Walk

Painter and decorator

CD 1955-56 Ad p272

 

FISHER, Henry Photographer

Portrait [circa 1900] bears the address Eden Studio, Stanwise [sic]. Another portrait of a similar date says ‘Eden Studio’, Etterby Street, Stanwix

D Perriam Stanwix p93 Eden Studio Stanwix in 1897. Not on the 1901 census when he seems to disappear

 

FISHER, John 48 English St; Bank St

Chemists

A J.Fisher, druggist, was a friend of the artist Sam Bough. Sidney Gilpin’s life of Sam Bough contains several letters to J.Fisher from Bough, including a poem Bough wrote entitled To Thirsty Souls. This contains the lines on p75

I’ve wandered into many a bar

I’ve tasted many a drop

But none refreshed my inward man

Like Fisher’s Ginger Pop

 

We bent our steps to English Street

To number forty-eight

Where philanthropic Fisher dwells

And Oh! the glorious sight

 

M442 p6 Business card for chemist and druggist

1829 Directory John Fisher, English Street, chemist and druggist

1847 Directory Martha Fisher, 48 English Street, chemist and druggist

1858 Carlisle Directory Ad at back, 9 and 10 Bank St Fisher’s Ginger Beer, est 1815

Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1868 Ad; established 1815

CD 1884-85 Ad p268

 

FISHER, Matthew Photographer. Botchergate, opposite church [1861]

Carte de visite noted, Sheffield House, Abbey Street, Carlisle

CJ 09.04.1858 Report on the Easter wrestling. Mr Matthew Fisher was on the ground both days, with his photographic apparatus, taking views of the wrestlers as they stood in their tights, ready to grapple. The artist created some little amusement, when he covered his head with a requisite black cloth, and a wag was heard to remark that he supposed the photographer put on the black cap under the impression that he was doing a great execution and taking off the heads of the spectators.

1861 Directory Morris, Harrison and Co Ad p17 Photo artist

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

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

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

CJ 17.02.1865 p1e Complete studio, Sheffield House, for sale

CJ 28.04.1865 p8 Bankrupt

1869 Directory 21 Annetwell St

Not listed in the 1870 or 1873 Directories

 

FISHER, Mike

CN 31.03.2006 p5 Mike Fisher forms new legal firm; Spencer Street base

 

FISHER, T Castle Street

M442 p3 Business card for ladies and gentleman hairdresser

 

FISHER,T and Sons Castle St, Botchergate

Umbrella specialists

Leading Trader of the City p31 Ad A 616

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p35 photo

CD 1907-08 Ad p16

CD 1910-11 Ad p145

CD 1913-14 Ad p137

CD 1931 Ad p68

CD 1934 Ad p60

CD 1937 Ad p52

CN 12.08.1955 p1 Closing

 

FISHER’S Botchergate

Travel goods specialists

CD 1955-56 Ad p288

 

FISHER’S SCHOOL, Mrs

CP 16.12.1870 Details nos on roll 16, nos attending 16

 

FISHER STREET So named vico piscatorum in circa 1300; Numbers 31-33 dated 1776 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 pair of a separate house being entered from; 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, no 11, dated about 1800

CN 21.11.1958 p10 CN 28.11.1958 p10 CN 08.11.1974 p6

See also Mushroom Hall

13.06.1762 St Mary’s Parish Registers, christening, John Bowstead of Fisher St

Cumberland Pacquet 3.10.1797 Freehold garden for sale upon which a dwelling house for a gentleman’s family may be built

CJ 01.06.1888 p1 For sale. Two large houses on Fisher Street, warehouses, dyeworks etc to West Tower Street ‘the property formerly belonged to the late firm of Messrs Peter Dixon and Sons and was occupied by them as offices and warehouses and was recently occupied by John Hutton Gillbanks’

CJ 28.10.1966 p3 Devonshire House

CN 28.10.1966 p13 Letter from Civic Trust concerning proposed demolition of face for extension

CN 24.11.1989 p18 Modern marketing in the ancient by-ways

CN 23.11.1990 p8 (illus) It’s off with the old

CN 20.01.1995 p16 Down your way

CN 01.12.2000 p9 History of number 34

CN 15.02.2002 p3 Firm plans 19 flats in street as town centre moves to Lanes

CN 01.11.2002 p7 Listed building collapses before conversion to flats

CN 14.03.2003 p3 Half of 24 unfinished apartments taken

CN 21.05.2004 p57 Spinners Yard, Fisher St; new house for sale

CN 10.07.2009 p32 D.Perriam on Hutharts and the renumbering of the street; 21 became 31, 22 to 33

CN 02.11.2012 p15 Former YMCA building bought for £83,000

 

Number 7

CWAAS 3rd ser. vol 8, 2008 Excavations of two Romano-British kilns at 7a Fisher Street

 

Number 11 See also Working Mens Club;

J.W.Brown, Round Carlisle Cross, 1951, p114 Built about 1800 for Robert Ferguson

CJ 13.11.1888 p2 Death at his house of John Clark Ferguson

CJ 07.12.1888 p5 Property on Fisher Street left to J.C.Ferguson’s wife

CJ 25.01.1889 p3 Death of Anne Ferguson; wife of J.C.Ferguson

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

CJ 28.10.1966 p3 Devonshire House

CN 28.10.1966 p13 Letter from Civic Trust concerning proposed demolition of face for extension

 

Number 13 Wesley House. Rev Bramwell Evens lived here 1919 – 1922

 

Numbers 19-21 Late 18th or early 19th century with later alterations, Flemish;

bond brickwork, formerly a house now two shops

CN 14.10.2016 Section 2 p16 History of no 19. In 1905 numbered 27, by 1910 renumbered as no 19. In 1880 the house of Mary Baty; then school attendance office then Medical Officer and Sanitary Inspector, then City Education Office. For sale in Nov 1964

 

Number 20 Early 19th century house now [2024] RAOB club

 

Number 22. Former Grapevine Restaurant. Early 19th century. Originally may be numbered 43 when Mary Warwick was living here between 1847 - 1861. 1884 Directory has a Thomas Smithson at no 22. Freemasons Union Lodge took over from Smithson in 1895 [CN 14.03.2014 p14]

 

Number 23 Former Friends Meeting House now cafe and shops; date of relocated keystone 1776 at rear; the original Quaker Meeting house on this site collapsed in 1775; an extension of 1864, dated on facade keystone, was built over the garden so the 1776 building is behind, partly knocked through; building sold by the Quakers in 1962

 

Numbers 31-33 dated 1776 on oval firemark of the Newcastle Fire Insurance Company, with later alterations. Renumbering of the street has meant that 21 became 31 and 22 became 33 [CN 10.07.2009 p32]. Photo of building, when Hutharts, circa 1900 also in this issue of the CN, where the pre 1776 history of this plot is discussed

 

Number 34 Asquith’s survey of 1853 shows this as the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank and as the company was formed in 1837 this may well be the date of the building

 

Numbers 35 - 37 Late eighteenth century with later alterations

 

FISHER STREET; PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH January 31st 1731 conveyance of property to be held in trust ‘for the use of Protestant Dissenters of the Presbyterian Denomination’. Register of baptisms goes back to 1742. First minister whose name is known Rev Thomas Dickenson. New church erected in 1856 whilst Mr Drummond was minister. Church first erected Fisher Street 1737 [P&W p140 says 1730]; location of church shown on Wood’s map of city of 1821; Rev Richard Hunter minister 1819 - 1853, Rev Robert Drummond 1853 - 1858, Rev Henry Miller 1858 - 1869, followed by the Rev Christie; foundation stone laid of new church 19.07.1894 by Mrs Christie. Completed church opened on June 27th 1895, architect Thomas Taylor Scott; demolished July 1986

Jefferson,S History...Carlisle, 1838, p272 First Chapel near West Walls

Presbyterian Church of England Grand Bazaar brochure 1899 M183

CN 23.01.1970 p10 (illus)

CJ 20.07.1894 p7 Foundation stone of new church laid yesterday

Carlisle an illustrated history p42 photo of laying of foundation stone

21.12.1908 Rev J Christie died, minister of this congregation for 38 years [MI 91/1]

175 Years of Carlisle p70 aerial photo showing location of church

CJ 30.09.1947 p2 Tercentenary of church in Carlisle

CJ 09.04.1948 p3 Memorial window

CJ 13.04.1948 p3 Memorial window

CN 25.02.1950 p5 Pulpit desk dedicated

CN 26.03.1971 p14 Music in

 

FISHER STREET UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

CN 14.11.1975 p9 Merger with Church of Scotland, Chapel Street

 

FISH HOOKS

See also KIRKBRIDE and SONS; Routledge, Richard ;ROWELL, J; NICHOLAS, PARKINS,

1772; T.Pennant; a tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides; ‘....here are also made most excellent fish-hooks...’

CN 06.10.2006 p30 History of fish hook making in city, D.Perriam

 

FISH MARKET Guardhouse turned into fish market 13.03.1833

CN 03.11.1978 p18

 

FITNESS FIRST

CN 05.07.2002 p5 Modern health club to open on Newtown Road site

 

FITZIMMONS Botchergate; Lowther St

Hatter and outfitter

CD 1907-08 Ad p106

CD 1910-11 Ad p114

CD 1913-14 Ad p130

CD 1920 Ad p46

CD 1924 Ad p252

CD 1927 Ad p256

CD 1931 Ad p32

 

FIVE DAY SHOPPING

CN 27.11.1964 p10 CN 11.12.1964 p5 CJ 05.02.1965 p1

 

FLAGS

CN 18.06.1993 p4 Mystery of city display (illus)

CN 26.06.1993 p4 City display for royal occasion

CN 02.07.1993 p4 Laundry painter to display date

 

FLEET, Part of Broadguards [1880 Directory]. the Carlisle Journal of 09.05.1913 has a sketch map showing the condemned properties on Shaddongate; the Fleet block of properties is marked on this map

 

FLEMING, James Grocer, aged 63, employing 2 men, home address Fisher St, born Scotland [1851 census]

 

FLEMING, John Tallow chandler, aged 27, employing 1 man and 1 apprentice, home address Fisher St, born Carlisle [1851 census]; grocer and tallow chandler, aged 39, employing 3 men and 2 boys, home address Fisher St, born Carlisle [1861 census]

 

FLEMING, Thomas M and Co West Walls

Woollen manufacturers

CD 1924 Ad p228

CD 1927 Ad p232

 

FLEMING’S COURT, 4 Harraby Street [1880 Directory]

 

FLENSBURG

CN 23.03.1990 p52 Twin towns in the picture

 

FLOGGINGS

Carlisle Examiner 10.09.1859 p2f Flogging of soldier at Carlisle Castle

 

FLOODS

Martin Daley The Carlisle Floods; one story. 2006

P Hitchon Botchrby a garden village pp202-207

CJ 12.12.1856 p8 CP 13.12.1856 p8 CN 16.11.1929 p4

CJ 07.10.1938 p7 (illus) CJ 07.03.1941 p5 (illus) CN 22.10.1954 CJ 22.10.1954 ENS 28.08.1956 p1 CN 15.09.1962 p1 (illus) ENS 08.12.1964 pp1,7

CJ 11.12.1964 pp1,9 (illus) ENS 23.02.1967 p1 CN 17.03.1967 p14

CN 29.03.1968 p12 ENS 12.12.1972 pp1,11 (illus) CN 15.12.1972 p18 (illus)

1570-1 Breach of the River of Eden besides Carlisle [CWAAS ns Vol 3 p134]

1696 ‘in the late storm the land floods were so bad they broke Priestbeck Bridge at Carlisle’ CN 15.11.2013 p18

Quarter Sessions Petitions Christmas 1733-34. petition of John Pears of the City of Carlisle - petition to seek subscriptions for his relief. Was ’reduced to the Lowest Ebb’ some years ago by various business losses; eg £300 being his cargo’s value in a shipwreck, also a wheat crop swept away by a flood of the River Eden

Newcastle Courant 23.11.1771 Letter from Carlisle; Eden never so high

CPacquet 09.12.1794 p2 Eden at so great a height as can be remembered

CPacquet 07.02.1809 p3 Eden, Caldew and Petteril flooded; worst in memory

CPacquet 26.09.1809 p2e Caldew runs into Caldewgate

01.11.1815 Great Flood of Eden; water up to the Three Crowns, Rickergate

CP 01.12.1821 p3b Eden swollen to a height ever scarcely seen

CP 09.02.1822 p3 Storm and flood; exceeded blast of 1st Dec; worse than 1771

CJ 12.12.1856 p8 Great Flood at Carlisle; greatest flood since 1822

Manchester Guardian 08.01.1851 p3 Worse floods in Carlisle since 1822

Carlisle Examiner 14.10.1858 p2f,3a

CP 22.01.1875 Storm; great portion of Rickerby Park under water

CJ 06.05.1890 Renewing the flood marks on Eden Bridges

CJ 06.09.1892 p3a Great Flood, height of River at Eden Bridges was 16 feet 1 inch and rose to 20 feet and 4 and a half inches on Friday before subsiding

City Minutes 1902-03 p242 27.01.1903 Eden highest level since 1874

CP 22.03.1907 Eden at Caledonian Bridge 17ft 10in high

16.09.1918 Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 63 floods at Botcherby

CJ 17.09.1918 p2 Flood records; Caldew 09/1892 one of worst floods

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p80 photo of floods at Stoneyholme in Sept 1918

CJ 02.01.1925 pp4, 8 (illus) Extensive floods

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p 109 Photo of Caldewgate flood January 1925

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards, J.Templeton, nos. 52, 53 1925 flood

175 Years of Carlisle p60 3 photos of 1925 floods

CN 03.01.1925 pp3,4 Flood of 1925

CJ 06.01.1925 pp2,5 Great storm and floods

CJ 09.01.1925 Supp (illus) Flood of 1925

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p100 Photo of flood in Caldewgate

CJ 21.09.1926 pp2,5 (illus) Flood of 1926; Caldewgate, River Petteril

CJ 24.09.1926 p4 (illus) Flood of 1926

CN 25.09.1926 p11 Flood of 1926

CJ 06.02.1945 p1 Severe floods - Eden

CN 19.01.1946 p6 River Eden scheme

CJ 17.01.1947 p1 (illus)

CN 18.01.1947 p5

CJ 24.01.1947 p4

ENS 18.10.1954 p1 Floods; 1,4 inches of rain in city in 24 hours

ENS 23.08.1958 p1 City homes flooded

CN 15.10.1965 p12 (illus) Flood of October 1903

ENS 16.06.1966 p1 Floods hit Civic Centre

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p165 Edenside flooded in 1967 - photo

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p 165 1968 flood Bowman Street - photo

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p 166 1968 flood Warwick Road - photo

175 Years of Carlisle p82 1968 flood in Willowholme

CN 21.02.1968 pp1,11 Protection against flooding

ENS 25.03.1968 pp3,10,11 Floods in city; 6,000 people hit by rising water

CN 29.03.1968 p11 (illus) Protection against flooding

CN 19.06.1970 p1 Scheme for prevention

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p168 photo Jan. floods Rickerby Park 1982

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p168 photo Willow Holme Floods 1982

ENS 28.03.1987 p4 (illus) Floods - Rickerby Park, Harraby Green

CN 27.01.1989 p4 When winters proved a washout

CN 05.05.1989 p4 The day Caldewgate turned into a lake

ENS 05.02.1990 p1 (illus) Rickerby Park flooded

CN 10.02.1995 p10 (illus) 22 feet and still rising

ENS 25.07.1996 p12 Flood alert scheme for 1,300 city homes

CN 21.02.1997 p1 Flood causes rail embankment landslip

CN 21.02.1997 p27 (illus) Water, water everywhere as floods hit Cumbria

CN 29.10.1999 p13 Mill owner fought back to overcome flood set backs

CN 03.11.2000 p1 (illus) Floods: are we next in line?

CN 01.12.2000 p7 Plan of areas in city at risk of flooding

CN 06.02.2004 p1 £20m upgrade of city’s flood defences planned

CN 26.11.2004 p3 Plans to guard 1,000 homes in Carlisle area

08.01.2005 Worst flood since 1822 in city; flood made national and international news; flood caused by a coincidence of unusual meteorological conditions, including exceptional rainfall in the preceding 36 hours, combined with very strong winds driving up already high tides; for a brief period record river levels were noted; for the lower Eden, these were 6 metres or more above more usual levels, the peak at Eden Bridge, Carlisle reached 15.37 metres above Ordnance Datum, exceeding the previous highest flood of 1822 by over a metre [Carlisle Naturalist Vol 13 Number 1]

CN 14.01.2005 pp 1-13 on great flood in Carlisle on Saturday 8th January

CN 21.01.2005 p1 £250m flood bill; other stories pp1-5

CN 21.01.2005 p3 List of people nominated for their bravery in floods

CN 04.02.2005 p3 Psychological impact of stress on flooded homeowners

CN 11.02.2005 p5 Rented property prices rise sharply

CN 18.02.2005 p1 Flood banks plan to raise banks by 1 metre

CN 18.02.2005 p8 D.Perriam review of floods

CN 25.02.2005 p3 No guarantees can be given concerning new flood defences

CN 18.03.2005 p1 Experts attacks flood recovery operation

CN 25.03.2005 p5 New defences on show

CN 01.04.2005 p1 £1.5 million flood aid for city

CN 15.04.2005 p13 Letters concerning insurance companies and flood claims

CN 22.04.2005 p1 Some flooded areas no go areas with insurance companies

CN 22.04.2005 p 13 Two letters retelling experience dealing with insurers

CN 24.06.2005 p1 Work to improve flood defences will start; stop gap measure

CN 08.07.2005 p12 Feature on Carlisle flood family 6 months after

CN 15.07.2005 p9 163 page report on flood

CN 26.08.2005 p9 Flood victim died of pneumonia 6 weeks after disaster

CN 16.09.2005 p5 Coroners court on 2 women who drowned in January floods

CN 23.09.2005 p1 Hundreds of flood victims won’t be back for Christmas

CN 14.10.2005 p1 Blocked drains and not burst river bank flood streets

CN 21.10.2005 p 1 25m flood prevention scheme tabled

CN 21.10.2005 p3 Feature on 3 families returning home after floods

CN 21.10.2005 p 13 Letters concerning the floods

CN 06.01.2006 p1 One year after flood; plus 16pp supp

CN 13.01.2006 p7 Plaque unveiled on Eden Bridges showing height of water

CN 27.01.2006 p7 On Jan. 9th 2006 303 flood properties still empty

CN 28.04.2006 p9 Portable flood defences for Etterby Terrace

CN 12.05.2006 p9 Official opening of £12m flood defences 16th May; completed in 2008

CN 19.05.2006 p9 2 schemes to prevent flooding; higher flood bank or create temporary flood storage areas

CN 26.05.2006 p9 120 flood victims still not back in homes

CN 01.09.2006 p1 81 flood families still out of their homes

CN 08.12.2006 p1 Heaviest rain since January 2005 puts city on flood alert

CN 15.12.2006 p15 £20m flood protection scheme for Denton Holme, Caldewgate and Willowholme; flood protection scheme for Warwick Road area well under way already

CN 05.01.2007 p5 30 families still haven't been able to return home after floods

CN 05.01.2007 p9 Seven feet Flood defence wall at Harraby Green underway

CN 21.03.2008 p9 Eden and Petteril 13 million pound flood defences finished

CN 27.06.2008 p19 Flood defences at Etterby Tce and Etterby Place finished

CN 23.01.2009 p11 New flood defences almost complete

CN 27.03.2009 p15 Plaque unveiled at Holme Head Bay marking flood defence work. Completion next year

CN 27.11.2009 p10 City almost flooded again; flood water again in Willowholme

CN 11.06.2010 p5 £38m flood defences officially opened; 10 km of raised defences, 30 flood gates, 2 automated pumping stations

5th/ 6th December 2015 Storm Desmond caused extensive flooding in Carlisle. On Sunday at 2am the depth gauge on the River Eden near the Sheepmount, surpassed the record level of 7.23m set on January 6th 2005. In Carlisle approx 2,200 to 3,500 homes were flooded. Eden Bridges was closed for days whilst it was assessed for structural damage. The record level of the Eden at the Sands was 7.912m. At Botcherby Bridge the level of the Petteril was 4.36m

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

 

FLOORWARMING UK

CN 17.10.2003 p18 Carlisle based company £250,000 contract with Gleneagles

CN 05.11.2004 p20 Signs deal with Story Construction.; MD Richard Dixon

 

FLORAL HOUSE, Stanwix

18.03.1901 died at Floral House Rev J.R.Gibson. Stanwix MI 98/1

 

FLOWER BOUTIQUE Botchergate, Lanes

CN 29.09.1995 p3 Boutique business man quits Botchergate

 

FLOWERS see CARLISLE FLOWER SHOW; CARLISLE AND DISTRICT FLORAL ART GROUP; CARLISLE AND CUMBERLAND FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY; FLOWER SHOW; ORCHIDS

 

FLOWER SHOW

See also CARLISLE FLOWER SHOW

CN 04.09.1948 p3 Revived

CN 16.08.1974 p6 1913 show

CN 26.07.1991 p1 City flower show wilts

 

FLOWER STREET Orchard St and Garden Str in this area so called because originally site of nurseries of Hutton brothers

 

FLOWER STREET MOTORS off London Road

CD 1952 Ad p342

 

FLOWER STUDIO Lowther St

CN 16.06.1995 p2 Shop shutters down

 

FLU see INFLUENZA

 

FLUORIDE

CN 07.11.2003 p3 MP supports fluoride in water; in west but not east Cumbria

CN 14.11.2003 p13 Two letters against fluoride

 

FLYING CLUB see BORDER FLYING CLUB

 

FLYING HORSEMAN see LIGHT HORSEMAN

 

‘FLYING SCOTSMAN’

CN 10.05.1947 p5 CN 17.05.1947 p5

 

FODEN’S COURT, 35 South John Street [1880 Directory]

 

FODEN’S COURT, 40 South John Street [1880 Directory]

 

FODENS COURT, Water Street

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 Nos 1 and 2 unfit for human habitation

1880 Directory 49 Water Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 39-41 Water Street

 

FOOD

see also Butchers, Carlin Sunday

Dr Heysham, 1753-1832 .He had no tea, excepting once a year at a lady friend’s house. He took no bread to his morning’s meal, unless he had a supply of Westmorland oatcake, which he was in the habit of spreading with butter thicker than the cake itself, and adding a great quantity of salt to it. He snuffed

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p23, pies and peas takeaway in 1930s

Someone coming to Carlisle in the late1970s recalls that Beckos deli on Castle Street was the only shop in the city in which you could buy a bell pepper.

CN 01.08.1997 p4 (illus) Suck it and see if it’s an insect

 

FOODFAYRE

CN 24.09.1999 p12 A taste of excellence

CN 30.08.2002 p6 4th annual food fair

 

FOOD GIANT The Lanes

CN 03.04.1992 p6 Street stars limber up for store launch

CN 10.04.1992 p31 Reg and Vera open new store

CN 16.04.1992 p59 Rush to new store

CN 16.06.1995 pp1,10 Food Giant up for sale in secret

 

FOOD PARCELS

CJ 30.08.1949 p1(illus) Distribution

 

FOOD POISONING

City Minutes 1889-90 p105 Medical Officer’s Report; poisonous pork, 1 man died

 

FOOT AND MOUTH OUTBREAK

See also Cumberland Show

CN 04.05.2001 p3 Carlisle hard pressed hotels boosted by influx of MAFF men

CN 04.05.2001 p3 More than 10,000 expected at Spring Show which goes ahead

CN 04.05.2001 p13 (illus) Operation to cull Cumbria based in Carlisle portacabins

CN 29.03.2002 p6 Tree planted at Borderway Mart in commemoration

CN 03.05.2002 p5 Foot and mouth enquiry at Kendal and Carlisle 28th - 31st May

 

FOOTBALL 15.06.1568 reference to Mary Queen of Scots watching football in city (VCH2 p276); Sir Francis Knollys reporting that Yesterday her Grace went out at a postern on a playing-green towards Scotland; and we with twenty-four halberders of master Read’s band, with divers gentlemen and other servants waited on her. Where about twenty of her retinue played at football before her the space of two hours very strongly, nimbly and skilfully, without any foul play offered, the smallness of their balls occasioning their fair play. 1610 reference to a ‘foat ball’ on Shrove Tuesday. [Records of Early English Drama; Cumberland, Westmorland and Gloucestershire, 1986 p71]; 1612 reference to foottball on the Swifts [CWAAS OS Vol 12 p195]; the Rules of the Shoemakers Guild, perhaps dating to 1595, state that Making of foot balle. Item it is fully condiscended and agreed upon by the fellowship of this gyld that no journeyman or apprentice shall make any foot balle to sell or play withal without consent and knowledge of his or their maisters and that they shall not play at football within the liberties of this cittie upon paine everytime they shall do the contrary to forfeit to the common box [this is quoted in the Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p 180 where a note adds that this rule was crossed out and that Football led to fights and rows, but it was allowed on Carlisle Sands ; about 1874 occasional games of Association Football played in city but no organisation attempted; 08.09.1880 the Carlisle Club formed (VCH2 p491)

see also Carlisle United

CJ 05.10.1875 p2 Opening match on Binnings field kindly lent for the season

CJ 01.12.1876 p4 Carlisle Football Club. Have secured Edenside Cricket Ground; scratch map to be played

CJ 09.12.1881 p6 Letter about the organisation of football at county level

CJ 13.12.1881 p2 Letter about the organisation of football at county level

CJ 22.09.1882 p4 Carlisle Assoc. FC Practice every Friday and Sat at 2pm in field at Cemetery Lane

CJ 25.02.1890 p2 Ground at the corner of Waterworks Lane

CJ 14.04.1891 p2 Football in Carlisle; game not so dangerous as it was at one time

CJ 16.10.1917 p3 Munition girls v Canadian lumbermen

CJ 19.04.1918 p5 Munition girls v Blyth Spartans

CN 21.01.1950 p3 England v Scotland Youth International match at Brunton Park

CN 17.06.1950 p4 Played in city 1568

CN 05.06.1987 p4 St Bedes AFC 1920-21 photo

CN 12.06.1987 p4( illus) Carlisle Caledonian Railway side 1919

CN 18.09.1987 p4 (illus) Red Rose FC 1902-03 season

CN 02.10.1987 p4 Red Rose FC

CN 12.02.1988 p4 Carlisle East End AFC 1927 photo

CN 26.02.1988 p4 Carlisle East End AFC

CN 22.12.1995 p7 City signs on to be Euro apres soccer centre

CN 12.09.1997 p4 Head questions society that values soccer above education

CN 26.06.1998 p1 World Cup cuts crime 20%

CN 07.05.1999 p3 (illus) Football team beats odds for Wembley

CN 12.10.2001 p25 Football coaching for girls aged 12-16

CN 27.02.2004 p12 Feature on violence in local Sunday league football

CN 01.10.2004 p1 9 months for assault on local referee Peter Jackson

 

FOOTBALL VIOLENCE

CN 09.09.1988 p10 Comment - Carlisle fans at York

CN 04.11.1988 p12 Comment - name ban wrong

CN 03.03.1989 p18 Soccer fan hurt in knife attack

CN 10.03.1989 p15 Custody for city gang members

CN 04.02.1994 p3 Police probe soccer violence

CN 04.02.1994 p12 Comment

CN 25.03.1994 p5 Police probe soccer violence

CN 12.11.1999 p1 City pubs on alert as big match fans head north

CN 08.03.2002 p3 Accused man at Brunton Park disturbance says he was victim

CN 15.03.2002 p5 Four Carlisle men cleared of Brunton Park violence against Hull

CN 16.08.2002 p1 Pledge to weed out hooligans after clashes at home game

CN 23.08.2002 p5 Extra police at Carlisle game after violent clashes

CN 30.08.2002 p5 Attempt to identify youths; hooliganism crackdown

CN 30.05.2003 p3 Carlisle fans before York magistrates; charge of affray

CN 06.06.2003 p1 Thugs banned for 5 years from Carlisle matches

CN 15.05.2009 p2 7 men banned after violence following Millwall game

 

FOOTPATHS IN CITY

See also Carlisle and District Footpaths Preservation Association; Walks

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 2 Public footpaths pp 114-124

Carlisle Express and Examiner 12.02.1881 Before the Sanitary Authority. Mr John Nicholson complaining of the very bad state of the Currock new road,arising from landslips. Mr Milburn said there was a hole in the footpath big enough to bury a horse

CJ/CP 25.09.1889 Carlisle Health Committee. Mr John Nicholson of Currock Villa complaining of the dreadful state of Currock Road; never cleaned or watered. When the weather is dry and a little wind gets up, persons passing along the road were almost blinded with dust; in winter wet weather made the footpaths in places unpassable

CN 06.01.1956 p10 CN 13.01.1956 p10 CN 27.01.1956 p8 CN 09.02.1973 p6

CN 16.02.1973 p6 CN 23.02.1973 p6

CJ 15.04.1826 p2f Devonshire Bank/ Hissop Holm Well footpath; relief of poor work

CJ 27.12.1828 Letter on public footpath from Hyssop Holme to Gosling Sike; poor repair

CJ 18.06.1858 Ann’s Hill to Eden Bridge - gravel laid, seats erected

CJ 07.06.1864 Repair of scaur walk

CN 30.12.1955 p8 List of

CN 22.07.1988 p4 City footpaths of long ago

CN 23.07.1993 p27 Paths campaign bearing fruit

CN 25.04.1997 p8 (illus) Champagne opening of path for disabled people

CN 23.01.1998 p1 Court reopens paths

CN 05.01.2001 p5 Planed footpath behind Coledale Meadows causes row

CN 02.02.2001 p7 Coledale Meadows footpath rejected by councillors

CN 23.11.2001 p6 Flight of steps behind Castle are a right of way

 

FORD, Harriet Emma School, 13 Chiswick St

CP 16.12.1870 30 children in attendance at Miss Ford’s School

 

FORDENS COURT, Water Street SEE FODENS COURT, Water Street

 

FORDS see ETTERBY WATH

 

FORGE GREEN, James Street So named on census from 1851 to 1871

 

FORRESTERS NEWSAGENTS Wigton Road

CN 26.11.2004 p16; began in 1907 as gents hairdresser; for sale

 

FORSTER AND CO

1811 Jollie p82 Wood yard in English Street

 

FORSTER AND SHORT Scotch Street

Wholesale grocers and tea dealers and tallow chandlers

Business established in Botchergate in 1858 by Richard Forster and Thomas Short; In 1858 the well-known firm of Dawson and Bushby, wholesale grocers, tallow chandlers and seedsmen were giving up their business and Mr Forster decided to take over the business in conjunction with Thomas Short of Newcastle [obit of R.Forster CP 11.03.1910]. 1872 removed to Scotch Street; 1881 Mr Short died and seven years later his son, Mr Thomas Short, and Mr Forster's eldest son, Frederick William Forster, were admitted into partnership [ A Descriptive Account of Carlisle Illustrated, 1893, B/CAR 91 with detailed description of works]. Mr Richard Forster’s, an ex-mayor, death was reported in the Carlisle Patriot of 11.03.1910

 

FORSTER and SHORT Oswald St

Wholesale supermarket

CN 15.11.1968 pp (illus)11-12

 

FORSTER, Francis Master tailor, aged 35, employing 3 men, born Carlisle, home address London Road [1851 census]

 

FORSTER,H English St

Baby and ladies outfitter

CD 1880 Ad pxliv

CD 1884-85 Ad p279

 

FORSTER, J Bridge St

Grocer

CD 1893-94 Ad p52

 

FORSTER, James Market Place

M442 p5 Business card for Tea dealer

 

FORSTER, James WASTELL, DONALD AND CO Printers and dyers

Cummersdale works established in 1801 by John Forster, banker, Carlisle, under the name of Forster, James and Co, afterwards Forster, James, Wastell, Donald and Co, under the management of David Donald. The works continued under this name until 1817 when it ceased and for 17 years the works remained empty. At that time the place was taken by Thomas McAlpin and Co [1858 Carlisle Directory Ad at back for Cummersdale Works]

Jollie 1811 p 83, xiii calico printers Cummersdale

 

FORSTER, John and Sons Manufacturer; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784 [spelt Foster in 1781]; muslin and check manufacturers, Fisher St [Jollie 1811; Carlisle Directory p xiii]; 1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p 127 John Forster and Sons, manufacturers, Fisher St

 

FORSTER, M London Road, Charles St

Furniture dealer

CD 1880 Ad pxiii

CD 1902-03 Ad p287

 

FORSTER, Robert Lowther St

Tailor and draper

CD 1880 Ad pxli successor to Cape and Son

 

FORSTER, Sandra and Associates

CN 28.01.1994 p14 A new name in property market

 

FORSTER, Thomas and Co Bankers; failed 18.11.1836; Number 19 Castle Street Dated 1798 on shared rainwater head, house of the Forster family of bankers; bank founded in 1792 , when a new bank opened in city in 1803 Forster’s became known as the ‘Carlisle Old Bank’ [CAIH p62]; location of Castle Street bank shown on Wood’s 1821 map of city

CN 06.09.1947 p5 CN 13.09.1947 p3 CN 04.10.1947 p5

CN 05.12.1953 p8 CN 12.12.1953 p8 CN 13.03.1970 p14 CN 20.03.1970 p14

1811 Directory p xiii James, Thomas and John Forster, bankers, Castle St

27.04.1822 James Losh opens an account at Forster’s Bank for his nieces Sarah and Catherine Losh [James Losh Diary]

1829 Directory p 159 Thomas Forster and Co, Old Bank, Castle St

24.04.1831 ‘I dined at Woodside [Wreay] but went into Carlisle in the Evening and slept at the Coffee House where I saw Mr Forster the Banker on Railroad business’ James Losh Diary

CP 26.11.1836 p2 After careful examination of the books accountants estimate there remains sufficient to pay all creditors at least 16 shillings in the pound. Loss not as serious as at first estimated

Bristol Mercury 26.11.1836 p1a Failure of a Carlisle bank. Stopped payment this Friday morning, unexpectedly and much to the surprise of everyone

Loans to the firm of Nixson and Denton [contractors on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway] contributed in large measure to the failure of the bank B.Fawcett History of the Newcastle and Carlisle railway 1824-1870 p58

Newcastle Courant 26.11.1836 p3a Failure of Messrs Forster, bankers, Carlisle occurred on 18th November. Within our remembrance no circumstances has occurred to create so strong a sensation in Carlisle. Firm established upwards 50 years in city

Champion and Weekly Herald 04.12.1836 Bankrupts; Joseph Forster, John Forster and William Forster, Carlisle, bankers; 21st Dec and 13th Jan

Newcastle Courant 30.03.1838 p3c A dividend of four shillings in the pound has been declared on the estate of Messrs Forsters, bankers, Carlisle

Derby Mercury 14.04.1841 p3e The creditors of Messrs Forster late bankers of Carlisle have received 12 shillings in the pound and another dividend is on the eve of being paid

 

FORSTER, Thomas 29 Castle St

1851 Ward’s Northern Directory; ads p 20, watchmaker, jeweller

 

FORSTER’S COURT, 98 Milbourne Street [1880 Directory]

 

FORSTERS COURT, Church Street [behind Malsters]; on 1861 census and on electoral registers until 1955

1880 Directory 13 Church Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 11-15 Church Street

27.04.1904 To be sold D/Mil/Mounsey/153/146 CRO sale notice and plan

Carlisle Directory 1955/56 , nos 3,4, and 6 listed between 11 and 17 Church Street

 

FORSTER’S COURT, 4 South John Street [1880 Directory]

 

FORSTER’S FISH AND GAME SHOP; Botchergate

1891 census; Ellen Forster, 37, fishmonger, 84-6 Botchergate, bn Scotland

1901 Bulmers Directory; Ellen Forster, 84-6 Botchergate, fish dealer

CN 15.10.2004 p4 Obit of Andrew Peat who owned shop; bought by his father

CN 19.01.2007 p9 A Davies bought dealership, moving to Kingmoor Park from Botchergate where they have been since 1881

 

FORTUNE OF WAR Rickergate

CJ 24.03.1804 p3 James Clemetson, Innkeeper

CJ 27.05.1809 For sale, John Nicholson Innkeeper

 

FORUM

CP 15.05.1819 p4d letter concerning the new Carlisle Forum; literary society

 

FOSTER AND DOWNEY English St, Lowther St

Tea and coffee merchants

CD 1905-06 Ad p77

 

FOSTER BROTHERS Warwick Road, Crown St, South John St

Coal agents and furniture removers

CD 1905-06 Ad p5

CD 1907-08 Ad p156

CN 17.09.1938 p17 Ad

CN 24.06.1950 p7 Celebration of jubilee

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p69 On the death of William Binning Foster Bros took over the business

 

FOSTER BROTHERS Devonshire St

Removers and storers

CD 1952 Ad p302

 

FOSTER FAMILY Carlisle clockmakers; Edward Foster came to Carlisle circa 1750s, dying in 1809; his son John took over the business in 1800 and he died in 1813; later in the century two other clockmaker Fosters worked in the city, possibly they were related

J.Penfold Clockmakers of Cumberland pp 46-48

 

FOSTER, J.J. Rickergate

Cycles

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p42 Photo of shop facade

 

FOSTER, James Printer; letterpress printer, aged 44, employing 3 apprentices, home address Plume of Feathers Court, born Carlisle [1851 census] ; died 22.01.1858 [Monumental Inscription 50/33]

 

FOSTER, John and Sons Manufacturers see FORSTER, John and Sons

 

FOSTER, John

City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate bus service Town Hall to Kingstown

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

 

FOSTER, S.H. 14 West Tower St, Scotch St

1882 Porters Directory Ad p164 Dress and mantle maker

 

FOSTER, William Chairmaker, aged 44, employing 3 men, home address 49 Lowther St, born Rockcliffe [1851 census]

 

FOSTERS COURT, South John Street [1934 Directory]

 

FORTERS COURT, Church Street [1934 Directory]

 

FOUNDATION 15

CN 08.03.1991 p8 Ad

 

FOUNTAINS see also DRINKING FOUNTAINS; COURT SQUARE GARDENS; WELLS

685 AD The citizens showed Saint Cuthbert the walls of the town and a remarkable fountain built by the Romans. Discussion of where that well was in Ferguson’s Hutchinson p590. The well was inside the city walls, so not the one in the Castle

The second edition OS map of Carlisle shows an ornamental fountain in the Court Square Gardens. Fountain placed there June 1886. The fountain can be seen in various postcard views and is illustrated in D.Perriam’s book on the Citadel Station p22 and cover illustration. This fountain removed in 1930. The Chinese Gardens contained a pond and ornamental fountain, naked boy holding a swan, in the upper garden, but this had been drained for many years. In 2023 replacement working fountain in upper pond. In 2008 the only working ornamental fountain in the town centre is in the sunken Harwicke Circus Gardens.

CN 29.11.2013 p7 Friends of Rickerby Park hope to refurbish Chinese Gardens. Want to replace the missing statue of boy and swan which was a feature of the upper pond. Photo of statue

 

FOX AND GRAPES Irish Damside; in 1847 local directory

 

FOX AND HOUNDS Jollie’s Lane; in local directory for 1829

 

FOX AND HOUNDS LANE, Rickergate

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

FOX AND HOUNDS PUBLIC HOUSE Rickergate Closed 30.10.1960

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p108, 117

1861 census Margaret Smith, aged 50, innkeeper, born Cumwhinton

1891 census; William Smith, aged 46, innkeeper, born Carlisle

1901 census; William Walker, Aged 48, hotel keeper/ publican, bn Scotland

ENS 27.10.1960 p5 (illus) Last orders at the Fox and Hounds

CN 28.10.1960 p3 Closure

CN 18.11.1960 p21

CN 25.11.1960 p12

 

FRANCE, Kenneth Spencer St

Opticians. Kenneth France, born 1924 in Honley, West Yorkshire. Joined Johnston’s, the Castle Street opticians, after the war. In 1966 he set up on his own in the Crescent moving to 26 Spencer Street in 1976. His sons, David and Michael joined him in the business

CN 07.06.1996 p14 Ad

CN 25.10.2002 p20 Ad feature; 36 years in business; new shop in Brampton

 

FRANCES, Maria School of Dance

CN 26.08.1994 p10 Supplement

 

FRANCHISE see ELECTIONS

 

FRANCIS STREET

CJ 15.05.1813 Advert for eating house in Francis Street, near Scotch Gate. The premises have a communication backward into Rickergate

CJ 06.08.1814 Promises for sale, situate near Norton’s Tower and fronting into Francis Street

23.12.1814 Our Lady’s RC Parish registers; baptism of Andrew Gallagher, one of the sponsor is from Frances [sic] Street

19.02.1816 Saint Mary's parish registers records the death of John Semple of Francis Street. Denis Perriam has come across this street name before but says it isn’t marked on any map. He suggests it is in the Peter Street area of Rickergate.

 

FRANCOS RESTAURANT

ENS 24.06.1986 p8

CN 13.09.1991 p14 Business as usual

CN 05.06.1998 p13 Ad

 

FRASER,J.G. Church St

Plumbers

CD 1952 Ad p87

 

FRASER GROVE, St Ann’s

George MacDonald Fraser suggests that Fraser Grove was named after Kenneth Fraser, the local Medical Officer. He notes that there were 3 other Fraser doctors in the city at the time, his father and uncle, Willy and Allan, the above unrelated Kenneth and a Mark Fraser, also unrelated [Strong Lad Wanted for Strong Lass, H.Davies, p15]

The author Reginald Hill was brought up here in the 1940s/1950s

 

FRATERY see CATHEDRAL; FRATERY

 

FREDERICK STREET In voters list from 1901-02

Denton Holme Childhood, Babs Cullen p29 Photo of street in 1930s

 

FREE BREAKFAST ASSOCIATION see SUNDAY FREE BREAKFAST ASSN.

 

FREEDOM NIGHTCLUB Former Pagoda Nightclub; Lancaster Street

CN 15.09.2000 p14 Super club ready for action - opens two weeks

CN 22.09.2000 p22, 23 (illus) Taste of Freedom for the clubbers

 

FREEDOM OF CITY Honorary Freedom of Borough Act 1885

13.08.1889 - date conferred on James Robert Creighton

11.02.1896 - date conferred on Richard S.Ferguson

14.12.1897 - date conferred on William Irwin Robert Crowder

13.06.1899 - date conferred on W.C.Gully, Viscount Selby

07.07.1902 - date conferred on Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein

11.09.1906 - date conferred on Benjamin Scott

09.06.1908 - date conferred on J.W.Lowther, Viscount Ullswater

27.12.1918 - date conferred on President Woodrow Wilson

18.09.1919 date conferred on Sir John Stevens Cowans

04.05.1921Sir Frederick William Chance

04.05.1921 Francis Peter Dixon

04.05.1921 George White

City Minutes 1923-24 p85 Freedom given to Alfred H.Collingwood, Town Clerk

City Minutes 1924-25 p 650 To be conferred on Ernest Page, Recorder

City Minutes 1925-26 p336 Joseph Pattinson Buck, JP, ex-mayor; freedom of city

22.09.1927 Mary Ellen Creighton

City Minutes 1932-33 p261 Alderman Thomas Ridley, 26 years on council

17.05.1947 Field Marshal Montgomery made honorary Freeman of City

05.03.1952 William W.Edel made honorary Freeman of City

23.04.1960 Freedom of city presented to Kings Own Royal Border Regiment

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p151 Photo RAF 14 MU 1969

Prince Charles became freeman 29.01.1986

CN 23.09.1988 p7 Awarded to Lord Whitelaw and Ron Lewis

175 Years of Carlisle p104 photo of award to Ron Lewis and Willie Whitelaw

CN 02.12.1988 p29 Only other living freeman Prince Charles

CN 25.03.2016 p8 Bestowed on Judge Paul Batty, Eric Martlew, Michael Mitchinson and Canon William Roan. First time given in twenty years

 

FREELIDGE STONES

CN 23.03.2012 p36 Denis Perriam article

 

FREEMAN’S CLOSE

Carlisle Examiner 27.12.1862 p1 Gosling Estate with land called Freeman's Close

FREEMASONS The first Lodge of Freemasons in Carlisle of which there seems to be any record was constituted in 1766, its number is given as 369; second Lodge opened in 1771, Harmony Lodge, no 422, and this closed down in 1851; in 1852 Victoria Lodge, no 882, was opened; Victoria Lodge closed two years after; in 1921 a second Harmony Lodge, no 4280, was founded in the city; the third lodge to be formed in the city in 1785 was Union, no 216, and this was the forerunner of Union Lodge no 310; in April 1875 the Bective Lodge was consecrated in the city, no 1532; 08.05.1902 Border City Lodge, no 2906 consecrated; Carliol Lodge, no 4089, consecrated in February 1920; Hadrian’s Lodge, no 5216, consecrated 04.12.1930 and St Cuthbert Lodge, no 5294, 29.10.1931; Border Lodge of Installed Masters constituted 08.12.1932; Sir Galahad Lodge, 5897 constituted 11.11.1943; Abbey Lodge constituted 11.09.1947, no 6425; Luell Lodge, no 6482 constituted 18.12.1947; Edenside Lodge constituted 15.04.1948, no 6569; Creighton Lodge, no 8071, constituted 21.04.1966; St Michael’s Lodge, no 8454, constituted 05.09.1972;

24.04.1896 Formal opening of Lodge 310 premises in Fisher Street; lodges moved to Portland Square in 1934

R.A.Clarke Bried History of History of Union Lodge No 310 Carlisle, 1932

K.W.Bond The New History of Freemasonry in the Province of Cumberland..., 1994

CN 28.12.1946 p7 Founder of Sir Galahad Lodge

CN 23.02.1990 p4 Disaster struck at Masonic ceremony

CN 17.11.1995 p15 Freemasonry cares cash boost

CN 21.06.2002 p15 (illus) Open day at Masonic Lodge, 10 Portland Square

CN 02.05.2008 p32 Feature on Carlisle Branch of Lady Freemasons, Friendship Lodge 48, consecrated in 1992

CN 01.02.2013 p8 Freemasonry exhibition at Tullie House

 

FREEMASONS ARMS Annetwell Street; in local directories 1847 and 1848

 

FREEMEN see GUILDS

 

FREER COURT On electoral register from 2001-02

 

FREER STREET Freer Street is listed on the 1908-09 electoral register but only one Freer St is listed until the register for 1934-5 when 18 houses appear; A Leicestershire firm of solicitors, Blunt and Freer, dealt with the sale of the South Vale Estate in Denton Holme; hence the two street names in this area [CN 24.12.2010 p29]

City Minutes 1932-33 p357 Approval for 18 houses; owner/ builder J and R Bell,

 

FREESTON PLACE, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory between 61-63 Milbourne Street

 

FREETIME Outdoor activity shop

CN 19.04.1996 p17 Ad

CN 21.03.1997 p6 New store

 

FREIGHT TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

CN 30.01.1970 p17

 

FRENCH

19.05.1760 Death of Rene Suet a French prisoner upon parole; Stanwix registers

CWAAS OS Vol 2 p351 Details of French prisoners from parish registers

CN 20.08.1999 p12 French in Carlisle

 

FRENCH BROTHERS Scotch Street

Drapers and tailors

CD 1893-94 Ad p176

 

FRENCH HORN INN English Street; in local directories to 1837; Joseph Purdie kept the French Horn, died 10.07.1838 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

FRESHFIELDS COURT, Botcherby

Built in 1985, it was later refurbished and redeveloped by Riverside and in 2017 provided a complex of 30 self-contained properties with a communal lounge

 

FRIARS

CJ 13.08.1946 p2 Dominicans (Black) and Franciscans (Grey)

 

FRIARS COURT Devonshire Court; near the house of the Franciscans

1847 Directory

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

CN 24.08.1973 p6 Wine store

 

FRIARS TAVERN Devonshire St; in local directories from 1873.

1901 census; Letitia Allmand, 30, Hotel Manageress, born Oswestry

D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022 p7 Illus of carved mural at entrance

CJ 06.11.1964 p10 Haunted

ENS 29.07.1970 Supplement p6 Friar’s customers can tell some spine-chilling...

ENS 27.11.1974 (illus) Pub reopens after facelift

ENS 02.08.1977 p1 Why I called time - pub man

CN 30.11.1990 p6 A new feel for an old friend

CN 30.09.1994 p3 Pub up for sale

ENS 11.02.1999 p 19 FT’s is Carlisle’s new cafe bar

ENS 14.07.2003 p7 Will become the Glasshouse after refurbishment

CN 03.03.2017 Supp p16 History of the property

 

FRIARS RESTAURANT Devonshire St

Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1871; ad now opened

 

FRIENDLESS GIRLS see also STANWIX HOME FOR FRIENDLESS GIRLS

The Carlisle Diocesan Ladies Association for the Care of Friendless Girls had a training Home in Abbey Street. Their purpose was the help and protection of girls and young women and to this purpose a training home in Abbey Street was kept. Their 1902 annual report stated that eight girls were in training for service at the beginning of 1901. Then the home was under the management of Hon. Matron Miss Sythe with the assistance of Miss Bannister. The Association also had girls’ clubs in Caldewgate, Sowerby Street and Wood Street. The association also had a rescue branch

 

FRIENDS

George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends preached in Carlisle where he ‘stood a-top the cross in the middle of the market and there declared unto them that the day of the Lord was coming’ . He was imprisoned in Carlisle Gaol in 1653, charged with blasphemy

 

FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND Fisher Street; closed 1855; location at northern end of Fisher Street shown on Wood’s 1821 map of city

Letter by Hudson Scott in very large H SCO

1850 Report of General Board of Health; Rawlinson p86 Nos. of burials 1838-49

CN 12.01.1962 p11

 

FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE 23 Fisher Street; original building collapsed in 1775 and was rebuilt in 1776 (date stone); location shown on Wood’s 1821 map of city at southern end of Fisher Street; alterations in 1864 (date stone); new meeting house opened at north end of Fisher Street in 1963, on site of their old graveyard

Jefferson,S History...Carlisle, 1838, p273 Society here since death of founder Fox

 

FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE Fisher St; Opened 11.05.1963 designed by Hodgson and Tritton ‘like a mobile classroom’ [Pevsner and Hyde]

CJ 10.05.1963 p3 CJ 17.05.1963 p9 (illus)

 

FRIGGATE COTTAGES, Westmorland Street [1880 Directory]

 

FRIGGATE WORKS Denton Holme; 1865 Ordnance Survey sheet so names ‘Friggate Works [confectionery and Biscuit]’, the firm of T.Holstead moving here in 1858

CN 24.12.2003 p7 A former field name; pre 1858 former dye and finishing works

So marked on Asquith’s map of 1853 Frigate Dye Works

D.Perriam Denton Holme, 2019 p17

 

FRONT PAGE

see also Jacksons

CN 18.08.1990 p44 City club set to re-open

CN 30.05.1997 pp1,10 Nightspots win back licenses

 

FUNERALS see CEMETERY

 

‘FUNNY TIMES’ Periodical

CN 13.08.1971 p12

 

FUR SHOP Botchergate

CD 1952 Ad p303

 

FURNESS FANS

CN 13.07.1990 p8

 

FURNITURE EXPRESS, Shaddongate [Formerly Durham Pine]

CN 13.10.2006 p5 Store goes into administration

 

FURZE STREET

City Council Minutes 1898/99 p50, page 50 Approval for 7 houses

CN 26.07.2002 p7 Quality Street winner in best street competition

 

FUSEHILL STREET So named Fewshill [see above] in 1608; probably from fehus meaning cattle shed; Builders William and Matthew Johnstone, brothers, partnership dissolved in 1907 after close upon 20 years, built row of artisans dwellings in Fusehill St opposite the Workhouse, [Obit of Matthew Johnstone CN 30.12.1911 p11]

City Council Minutes 15.01.1889 20/759 Recreation ground on Bowman’s Close

CJ 27.05.1892 Botchergate Recreation Ground opened

CJ 03.06.1892 p7a History of recreation ground scheme

CP 14.09.1894 p1 Ad For sale nos 6,7,9,10,11,12 recently built

City Minutes 1923-24 p593 Electricity transformer station; permission

ENS 11.11.1959 p1 Damaged by traffic

CN 16.04.1992 p5 Hunts on for green boffins (Gardens)

CN 16.10.1992 p7 A new life for an old city green

CN 31.10.2003 p13 Letter objecting to plan to lease Park for medical centre

CN 27.02.2004 p5 Residents battle to keep gardens

CN 13.08.2004 p1 impression of proposed surgery; objections; letters p13

CN 20.08.2004 p9 Image of proposed medical centre; letters p15

CN 27.08.2004 13 Letters concerning proposed centre

CN 17.09.2004 p1 Medical centre gets approval

CN 17.09.2004 p6 History of playground/ recreation ground

CN 13.05.2005 p 13 Letter concerning neglect and decline of garden

CN 10.03.2006 p3 Medical centre to open at end of March

CN 24.03.2006 p 14 Fusehill Medical Centre opens on Monday

CN 21.04.2006 p18 Ad. feature on new centre

 

FUSEHILL STREET HOSPITAL see CITY GENERAL

 

FUSEHILL STREET WORKHOUSE In March 1862 a committee of Guardians was appointed to consider the desirability of erecting a workhouse capable of accommodating the inmates of the two workhouses of Saint Mary’s and Coalfell Hill, the Harraby Hill workhouse remaining a training school for children as before. Since the formation of the Union the population had increased by upwards of 10,000, bringing with it a proportionate increase of paupers. The increase of paupers then in receipt of relief was 2,599, including the children of those persons receiving relief, of whom 280 were inmates of the two workhouses. The present workhouses were full so that the workhouse test could not be fully applied, and a greater number of out door applications for relief was the consequence. The committee recommended the erection of a house capable of accommodating 500 persons. Over 5 acres were purchased at Fusehill from a Mr Dobinson. Plans were advertised and 15 sets sent in, from which those of Messrs Lockwood and Mawson of Bradford were chosen. Tenders were advertised. After consideration the contracts were awarded as follows; Messrs C and J Armstrong, excavating, brickwork and masonry, £5,407; total cost of land and building £12,715 7s. 25th July 1863 timber raising dinner for workmen. Opened for public inspection 16.01.1864; building in the Italian style built of red brick with white stone facings; opened 02.04.1864 to inmates; dining room initially used as chapel, separate chapel dedicated 17.01.1894. Throughout the whole length of the building on each floor runs a long corridor 250 feet in length. The right half of the building dedicated to women and left hand men. Some apartments for old married couples. An infirmary adjoins the house. Military hospital 1916, CJ of 23.10.1917 reporting on the arrival of the first patients; in 1927 deaths at the workhouse were recorded in the Richardson Street Cemetery registers as having taken place at 2 Broad Street, disguising the disgrace of having a relative die in the workhouse. Under the Local Government Act of 1929, Boards of Guardians were abolished and the Fusehilll Institution was transferred to Carlisle Corporation, under the administration of the Public Assistance Committee. The section of the Institution which were the sick wards were used more and more for general hospital purposes, and under powers contained in the Public Health Act 1936, the Corporation appropriated this separate building for hospital purposes and gave it the name the City General Hospital. Thus within the same curtilage was the Fusehill Institution and the City General Hospital, both administered by the Corporation. First matron of the City General was appointed in 1937. On the 1939 Register there are 155 people listed, including staff, under Fusehill Street, Public Assistance Institute, 2 Broad Street, Carlisle. In June 1940, Fusehill Institution became an acute emergency war-time hospital catering solely for service and other war casualties; the chronic sick and non-sick cases in the Institution were transferred elsewhere. After the war the Institution resumed admission of the aged and chronic sick. In 1946 there was a greatly increased need for maternity beds in the area and the city council arranged for the ear, nose and throat work and gynaecological work to be transferred from the City General to the Institution. The City General was then adapted for maternity cases and its name changed to the City Maternity Hospital; for a temporary period the name City General Hospital was not associated with any hospital building in Carlisle. The passing of the National Health Act in 1946 and the appointment of the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board resulted in both the Institution and the City Maternity Hospital being included in the group of hospitals placed under the control of the East Cumberland Hospital Management Committee whose administrative functions began on 5th July 1948. The change of control saw the disappearance of the title Fusehill Institution as the building was renamed City General Hospital; Buildings now a part of St Martins College

Bulmer 1901 Directory p881

Carlisle an illustrated history p44 photo of exterior of workhouse

Linton Holme a suburb of Carlisle pp27 - 30 photos and plan of women’s ward

Plan of Workhouse; Appendix E The New Poor Law in Cumberland...2A 362.5

Carlisle Examiner 06.11.1858 p2d New Workhouse

CJ 08.01.1864 p5 New workhouse

CJ 22.01.1864 p5 Open to public

CJ 12.02.1864 p5 Official inspection

CJ 10.11.1871 p6 Workhouse funeral; letter

CP 02.04.1864 p8 New poorhouse

CJ 26.12.1873 p5c 169 inmates sit down in the Workhouse Hall and are served roast beef and plum pudding. Mr and Mrs Bell did everything to cheer the hearts of their aged and infirm guests

CJ 11.12.1885 p5 Artist inmate decorated Guardian’s Boardroom and has extended into interior of workhouse. Italian scenery and English country lane, spires of Durham Cathedral and Swiss views [see also previous issue]

1891 census; inmates 118 males, 84 females, John Richardson Tiffin, Master

1901 census; 262 inmates, of which 94 women; William Scott, Master

Guardian’s Minutes 03.02.1908 pp 316, 324 Mr Briggs stated that an inmate of the Fusehill was a painter and the Master had put him to paint pictures. Resolved that the pictures be framed and hung up in the wards

Guardians Minutes 01.10.1906 p185 states that the numbers of inmates in Fusehill in the 12th and 13th weeks of the Michaelmas quarter ending the 20th and 27th September were 281 and 275 respectively, and in the corresponding weeks last year were 282 and 283 respectively. Out-door relief amounting to £92 10s and £92 13s 6d was paid during the two weeks to 968 and 969 recipients, and £95 6s 6d and £94 4s 6d was paid during the corresponding weeks of last year to 1,025 and 1,019 recipients respectively

CP 03.04.1908 p8 Former member of the Scottish Royal Academy in the workhouse. He has given his name as Tom Smith to the authorities. For some time he has been selling his paintings at very low prices amongst the working class of Carlisle, but he states that there is so much distress in Carlisle that they don’t have the money for such luxuries as pictures. In bad health, Smith is aged 63. His work is hung in the Workhouse Hall, several large oils, sunset at Loch Lomond, Derwentwater from Friar’s Crag. He refused to be interviewed and is angry at the misfortunes having become known. He particularly resents the suggestion that he was brought to his present state through any fault of his own. Smith is spending his time in the workhouse painting pictures, but in reply to a question if his work could be sold for the man’s benefit it was stated that the Local Government Board regulations would not admit of this.

CJ 16.05.1916 p5 Suggested use of Fusehill Institution as military hospital. Matter held in abeyance

CJ 08.08.1916 p5 Renewed offer of Fusehill for the wounded

CJ 15.08.1916 p5 Fusehill scheme dropped

CJ 17.10.1916 p4 Carlisle to become important centre for treatment of wounded soldiers

CJ 20.10.1916 p4 Penrith Guardians offer to take 18 males and 8 females should Fusehill be required

CJ 31.10.1916 p5 Probable that inmates will have been moved by end of week; children to be moved from Harraby Hill to Shap

CJ 10.11.1916 p9 New military hospital at Carlisle would need 70 or 80 nurses and clerical staff

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 Street Schools converted to accommodate another 250

CJ 23.10.1917 p2 First patients for military hospital arrive, 170

CJ 27.12.1918 p4 Christmas in military hospitals; 105 at Fusehill, 30 at Newtown and 21 Eden Bridge Hospital

CJ 06.06.1919 Gives history as Fusehill Street, Brook Street and Newtown; closure yesterday as patients transferred to Blackpool. 9, 809 passed through

City Minutes 1934-35 p318 - 327 Report on turning institution into a general hospital

CN 16.03.1935 £10,000 scheme to convert part of Carlisle Pool Law Hospital into a municipal hospital

CJ 15.03.1935 Conversion scheme

City Minutes 26.01.1937 Received formal approval of the Ministry of Health under the Local Government Act 1933 to the appropriation of part of the Fusehill Institution for the purposes of a hospital. Should be effective from 1st April 1937

City Minutes 23.02.1937 With effect from 01.06.1937

CJ 20.07.1937 p5 Food at Fusehill

CJ 21.09.1937 p4 Diet of food at Fusehill

CJ 18.01.1938 p1 48 hours week

CJ 19.07.1938 p4 Pocket money for inmates

CJ 17.10.1944 p1 To be known as the City Social Welfare Home

CN 29.03.1952 Photo of conversion of part of building into nurses home

CN 16.08.1952 Photo of completion of nurses’ home

CN 17.05.1974 p6 Photo of survivors of Quintinshill Railway accident

CN 21.06.1974 p6 Photo of patients in 1st World War

CN 23.08.1996 p10 Money for old rope

CN 24.03.2000 p8 How the palace of the poor became the City General

CN 20.08.2010 p D.Perriam WWI hospitals in city

CN 08.10.2010 p32 Denis Perriam on the building of the new workhouse

CN 01.04.2011 p10 1918 at Hospital Photo of nurses and soldiers

 

FYNE PAPER

CN 20.07.1990 p6 Worth a lot on paper