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KANGOL HELMETS

Jacques Spreiregen opened a factory in 1938 in Cleator making berets. He recruited his nephew Joe Meisner to work with him and later another nephew Sylvain Meisner who was to run the Carlisle factory. The business expanded with the takeover of William Carrick and Sons, hatters, Denton Holme in 1954. Carlisle factory made magnetic seat belts. Kangol exhibited seatbelts at the 1963 Motor Show at Earl’s Court, but little production occurred until 1966. In 1967 legislation said that any new UK car must be fitted with front seatbelts, giving an impetus to the company. Patents covered a one handed operation buckle and an inertia reel. Kangol Marget’s business was inextricably linked to the various laws world wide concerning seat-belt fitment and wearing. Factory extension completed in 1968. In the early 1970s there was a crash helmet assembly area and half a dozen belt assembly lines, just one producing the Reflex inertia reel belts. By 1974 bought by American Safety Equipment [ASE]. In 1975 550 full-time staff. In 1978 Marmon Corporation bought ASE. 1987 Allied Signals Inc bought ASE from Marmon. European division renamed BSRD, Bendix Safety Restraints Division [BSRD}. 1991 new production introduction of the Mechanical Buckle Pretensioer which effectively tied the occupant to the chassis via the car-seat and dramatically reduced the forces on the occupant’s body as the vehicle crashed. 1988 sales from Carlisle hit £30 million. BSRD division put up for sale and bought by the BREED Corporation. Following a chaotic period BREED filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the dismantling of the Carlisle factory continued apace with yet another new owner, Key Safety [renamed Carlyle Management Group] who relocated production from the city to Romania in 2003. The factory was demolished and student residences built here. Various bits of the business lingered on in the city but a total closure was always imminent for the business which had at its peak employed 1,000 people in the city. Company closed in Carlisle in 2005. Kangol Place now occupies a part of the site. Kangol started making berets. It has been suggested [by Sylvain Meisner] that the name comes from the principal constituents of these berets, k = knitted, ang=angora ol = wool

D.Perriam Denton Holme p15

Alan Tucker, Kangol in Carlisle; the story on an industrial icon

Also called at times ‘Allied Signals’, ‘Breed’, BSRD ‘ ‘Key Safety Systems’ ‘Marmon’

CN 08.05.1970 p1 CN 06.03.1970 p11 CN 17.04.1970 p1 CN 29.05.1970 p15 CN 01.09.1972 p1 CN 03.04.1978 p36 CN 10.03.1978 p1

ENS 14.09.1959 p1 Fire

ENS 04.05.1964 p7 Hope to expand again

CN 17.12.1965 p1 (illus) Chimney demolition

CN 27.10.1967 p6 Seat belts order

CN 17.04.1970 p1 Extensions

CN 24.04.1970 p17 Queen’s Award for Industry

ENS 14.03.1977 p1 Kangol hit by car crisis

ENS 23.02.1978 p1 Row flares at Kangols

CN 24.02.1978 p15 Expansion - letter

ENSÊ25.02.1978 p1 Council give go ahead expansion

CN 03.03.1978 p36 Expansion

CN 10.11.1989 p5 Factory hours axed

CN 25.05.1990 p5 New posts at city firm

CN 21.06.1991 p13 Jobs boom

CN 04.10.1991 p25 Back to work

CN 08.05.1992 p7 City company leads county with award

CN 08.05.1992 p10 It’s people who bring success

CN 02.08.1996 p5 (illus) New seat belt firm... all under one roof

CN 05.09.1997 p3 Takeover raises job fears

CN 20.12.1996 p1 City’s Xmas job hamper from Peugeot-Citroen

CN 27.11.1998 p14 Seatbelt company could close

CN 02.07.1999 p21 Breed plant for sale again

CN 28.04.2000 p 6 Hats of to William Carrick

CN 25.08.2000 p16 Weak ‘euro’ cost 220 Carlisle jobs

CN 11.06.2004 p2 152 of 242 jobs go to Romania; Key Safety Systems

CN 30.01.2015 p8 Book to be written about factory. At its peak in the 1980s it employs 900 people. Opened in 1954 on the site of the William Carrick hat factory in Norfolk Street by Silvain Meisner, nephew of Jacques Spreiregen founder of the Kangol hat manufacturer in Cleator Moor. The intention was to make flat-hats for men but quickly moved into safety and motorbike helmets. In the 1960s the company diversified into making seatbelts. At its peak it provided 65% of the seatbelts in the UK

 

KANGOL PLACE

Occupies part of the Kangol factory site

 

KAREN’S KITCHEN Kingstown

CN 17.07.1998 p15 Ad

 

KATHLEEN’S Annetwell St

Children and baby wear

CD 1955-56 Ad p270

 

KAWASAKI CENTRE

CN 04.08.1989 p8 Ad

 

KAYS Denton Street

Household textiles

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p20 Description of 1930s outfitters

CD 1966-68 Ad p30

 

KC SUPERBIKES, Caldewgate

CN 27.01.2012 p11 Moves to new premises. Mr Mumberson bought out W.T.Tiffen and Son who were originally on Irishgate

 

KEAY, John Attorney at law; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

KEAYS LANE Certainly in existence by 14th century (Carlisle a frontier city p16)

So marked on Asquiths 1853 map

1891 census; 48 people living in lane

The Lanes Remembered pp, 2, 91 Photos

 

KEEN, M Norfolk Street

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p120 Photo of corner shop in 1930s

 

KEENAN, James Denton Street

Electrical and wireless engineer

CD 1931 Ad p140

 

KEENAN, W.J. 110 Denton St, East Norfolk Street

Painter and decorator

CD 1924 Ad p52

CD 1927 Ad p52

CD 1931 Ad p144

CD 1934 Ad p321 Established 1904, late Ellis and Keenan

 

KEENAN PARK Opened 10.10.1962

City Council Minutes 02.04.1959 p982 Agreement to purchase land

CN 12.10.1962 p13 (illus) Opening

CN 19.10.1962 p10 Vandalism at new park

 

KEKWICK, J.W. Surgeon dentist

CP 04.02.1865 Ad; removed to 9 Henry Street

 

KELD HOUSE Old Wigton Road

1847 Directory William Ancell, farmer

1851 census William Ancell, farmer, aged 45 , born Carlisle

1861 census Edward Cartner, 53, farmer 170 acres, born Beaumont

09.10.1866 Edward Cartner of Keld House died [Monum. Inscr. 72/13]

CP 30.10.1874 p1 Ad; Estate called Keld House for sale; Mrs Cartner lives there

1901 directory; Henry Graham, farmer, Keld House; 1901 census Henry Graham, farmer, aged 31, born Carlisle but called Kell House

 

KELD ROAD In voters list from 1968

 

KELLETT, J.T. Alton Street

Slater

CD 1902-03 Ad p10

CD 1905-06 Ad p262

CD 1952 Ad p72

 

KELLEY’S IRONMONGERS Started 1916 Globe Lane; Lowther St

The Lanes Remembered, photo of Globe Lane p66, memories 66-7

CN 27.11.1981 p11 Collapse

CN 14.05.1999 p16 (illus) We’ll fight to win

CN 09.05.2003 p3 Kelley’s to close this year

CN 16.05.2003 p9 Behind the decision to close shop

CN 07.11.2003 p3 To close January 10th 2004; manager Charlie Barling

 

KELL HOUSE, Harraby William Furby, farmer, [Parson and White, 1829] also William Wilson, farmer. [Parson and White, 1829];

 

KELL HOUSES Marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle off Wigton Road; 1847 Directory William Wilson, Kell House; 1851 census, Kellhouses head of household Jane Wilson, aged 83, born Orton, Cumberland. See also Morton Cottage

 

KELLS PLACE, Stanwix Nos. 14,16, and 18 Probably early 18th century with later alterations; CJ 14.04.1838 p3 reports the death of Thomas Kells, gentleman at Stanwix, late Quartermaster of the Rutland Fencible Cavalry, aged 84

 

KELLY, G and A Newtown Road

Stationers

CD 1952 Ad p377

 

KELLY M.C. Bothchergate

Ladies gowns

CD 1966-68 Ad p280

 

KENMOUNT PLACE On 1899 Ordnance Survey sheet

 

KENDALE, John Mercer, died 18.05.1804 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

KENDAL STREET First noted in directories from 1880; named after J.D.Carr who owned nearby Carr’s Biscuit works and was born in Kendal, or another in series of placenames in this area (Hawick St, Silloth St)

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p115 Pre 1950 photo along street

1877 photo; Carlisle in Camera 2 p5

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p189 photo of street in year 2000

Borderer writing in the local press in 13.08.1918 p2f suggests that Hawick Street and Kendal Street were on land laid out by JD Carr, and Kendal was so named because this is where he came from and Hawick Street through his long friendship with Mr Wilson of Hawick who did so much for that Border town

 

KENDAL STREET; OLD SCHOOL COURT Row of houses set in a courtyard on the south west side of the street where the school was. There is a stone saying McKnight, 2021. McKnight are of course the builders

 

KENGAS

CN 19.07.1991 p10 Ad

CN 20.09.1991 p16 Ad

CN 30.10.1992 p8 Ad

CN 19.11.1993 p8 Ad

CN 22.10.2010 p16 Set up in Dumfries in 1987, opened in Carlisle two years later

 

KENNEDY CENTRE Lonsdale Street

CN13.11.1987 p16

CN 17.03.1989 p27 A taste of the Orkneys in the heart of the city

CN 02.04.1999 p18 Ad

CN 10.09.1999 p5 Plans to make new bar best night spot

 

KENNYHOLME

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]

 

KENTMERE Backhouse Walk; London Road; Lime Street

Cardboard box manufacturers

D Perriam Denton Holme p71 Set up in 1906 by two Windermere chemists with the sole object of producing photographic paper. This company was based in Staveley. Diversifying again the company decided to expand with a cardboard box factory in Carlisle. When Kentmere left Carlisle they continued to manufacture photographic paper

CD 1934 Ad p178

CD 1937 Ad p130

CD 1940 Ad p56

CD 1952 Ad p275

CD 1966-68 Ad p259

CN 13.12.1996 p1 22 jobs go as packaging factory folds

 

KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN Drive through KFC now [2022] operating on London Rd, roughly opposite the former Lazonby Terrace, on the site of former petrol station

CN 06.09.2002 p5 Fast food giant to open in Lanes in Autumn.

 

KERR and Sons Milbourne Crescent

Joiners and undertakers

CD 1924 Ad p294

CD 1927 Ad p304

 

KESWICK RAILWAY

CN 13.02.1970 p8 (illus) Closure from Carlisle

 

KETLEY, A Bank St; Crown and Anchor Lane

Financiers

CD 1937 Ad p114

CD 1952 Ad p295

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p238

 

KETTLE, W.F. London Road, Charles Street; Mary Street; Abbey St

Furnishers

CD 1905-06 Ad p20

CD 1907-08 Ad p4

CD 1910-11 Ad p144

CD 1913-14 Ad p152

CD 1920 Ad p180

CD 1924 Ad p64

CD 1927 Ad p272

CD 1931 Ad p144

CD 1934 Ad p216

CD 1937 Ad p225

CD 1940 Ad p325

CD 1952 Ad p62

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p6

CD 1955-56 Ad p6

Leading Trader of the City Ad pp 32,33 A616

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p34 photo of shop

CN 17.09.1938 p19 Ad

 

KEY LARGO The Lanes

CN2 0.02.1987 p6 Opening

 

KEY SAFETY SYSTEMS see KANGOL

 

KEYTOR Mechanical engineers; parent company Carrs Milling

CN 07.03.2003 p16 Keytor may shed 20 jobs

 

KEY TRAVEL

CN 03.10.2008 p3 and letter p 13 Key Travel and Travel Team merge. Key Travel owner Mike Patrickson retires. Business for 23 years on Viaduct

 

KEYS LANE, Scotch St So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city

1880 Directory 43 Scotch Street to 16 Lowther Street

1901 census; 69 people living in this lane in 18 households. Occupations include tailor, boot maker, brick layer, general dealer, hawker, mill worker, gardener, labourer, piercer factory, biscuit worker, laundress, garden labourer, whitesmith, carpet weaver, plumber, housekeeper, fishing tackle maker, confectioner’s assistant, housemaid, domestic servant

City Minutes 1928-9 p788 7 houses unfit for human habitation

45a Scotch Street [1934 Directory]

V.White Carlisle and its Villages; drawing of lane in 1982 p16

 

KIDD, John English Street

Photographer; carte de visite noted dated January 1867. John Kidd placed an advertisement in the Carlisle Journal on 9 November 1866, describing himself as ‘late principal operator for Mr Bell’ and informing the public that he had opened at the portrait studio on the premises of Messrs Thurnam and Sons. [Mr Moonie’s notes]

Carte de visite noted John Kidd, 11 English Street

Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1868 Ad

Slaters 1869 Directory, 11 English Street

CP 23.09.1870 Ad Business bought by Benjamin Scott

 

KIER NORTHERN

CN 13.02.2004 p16 Wins contract to build call centre at Furness Business Park

CN 13.05.2005 p6 Wins contract to design and build leisure complex in Dumfries

CN 23.09.2005 p16 Strong performance in Carlisle office helps boost profits

 

KILNCROFT NURSING HOME St George’s Crescent Stanwix

CN 26.07.2002 p3 Home goes into receivership

CN 25.06.2004 p3 Former nursing home to be turned into flats

 

KILNCROFT SCHOOL St George’s Cres, Stanwix

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p74 photo of school and head Miss Elton

CD 1952 Ad p372

CD 1955-56 Ad p281

CD 1961-62 Ad p296

CD 1966-68 Ad p295

 

KILVINGTON, John C London Road

General dealer

CD 1893-94 Ad p138

 

KING, David Auctioneer; took over from H.E.Winter in 1962

ENS 03.09.1973 Move from Lonsdale Str to Lowther Street

 

KING, William Anthony Spirit Merchant, Carlisle; died 09.11.1862. Monumental inscription [23/10]

 

KING DO CHINESE RESTAURANT, Portland Square

CN 20.01.2012 p4 Obit of Tony Chung

 

KINGE GARTHES

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]

 

KINGFIELD Carlisle Examiner 27.12.1862 p1 Gosling Estate with land called Kingfield

 

KINGFISHER ESTATE Warwick Road

CN 21.08.1998 p3 (illus) Arson hotel

CN 01.10.2004 p8 Playpark targeted by vandals

 

KING GARTH ANNUAL DINNER

CPacquet 12.09.1809 p2d Annual King Garth dinner given by Corporation

Carlisle Examiner 29.08.1857 p3b

Carlisle Examiner 02.09.1858 p2d

CP19.08.1892 p5d King Garth dinner

CP 11.11.1892 p6d Moved, and agreed, that dinner be discontinued

 

KING GEORGE’S FUND FOR SAILORS CIRCLE

CJ 04.06.1946 p2 Established in the city

 

KING MEADOW

see King’s Meadow

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]

 

KINGMOOR In 1532/3 Edward III granted ‘to the citizens of Carlisle...liberties and customs...the right to common pasture for all kinds of animals at all times of the year upon the King’s moor, with right to dig turfs there and carry them away at will’ [CWAAS 3rd series vol 8 2008 p105] So called Kinge Moore in 1589; the hamlet of King Moor was formerly vested in the Crown [Hutchinson 2p 583]; ancient estate of the Corporation, given to the city of Carlisle by a charter of Edward III, associated with racing from an early period [CWAAS OS Vol 12 p191]

1750 Plan of Kingmoor estate - see CWAAS 3rd series Vol 8, 2008 p106

Hutchinson Vol 2 pp583-584 Description of place in 1794

CJ 18.06.1920 (illus) Kingmoor housing scheme

CN 07.06.1991 p5 Transport policy site call

CN 18.12.1992 p13 City dig lucky strike finds Iron Age site

CN 12.07.1996 p15 Fair still set to be the biggest

CN 19.07.1996 p13 Crowds flock to the fair

CN 21.02.1997 p13 Aerial photograph

 

KINGMOOR BRICK AND TILE WORKS NY 396 586 Opened 1896; closed 1960s

D Perriam Stanwix p74 In 1952 John Laing took over what they called the Moorville Brickworks. It seemed production ceased in 1956 but buildings were still standing in 1962 when six boys broke 93 windows in ‘John Laing’s premises at Moorville’.

Cumbrian Industrialist, Vol 3, 2000 p50

CJ 18.11.1853 Mr Armstrong Kingmoor Brickworks was fined for the non-payment of rates

 

KINGMOOR CROSSING

12.12.1878 James Johnston died Kingmoor Crossing SMI 103/3

25.12.1914 Jane Smith d Kingmoor Crossing SMI 83/3

1934 Directory Kingmoor Crossing Mrs Beatty

 

KINGMOORE FARM

D Perriam Stanwix p71 Described as newly built in 1864, private house today [2021]

1924 Carlisle Directory Listed beside Deer Park

 

KINGMOOR HOUSE

D Perriam Stanwix p62 Photo of house and demolition after fire in 2009

Kingmoor House was built on land leased to Joseph Read, who was mayor of Carlisle in 1682. Its exact date is not known but it was in existence by 1712. [CWAAS 3rd series Vol 8, 2008 p105] 1705 Ann Rickerby of Kingmoor House; 16.12.1719 John Robson of Kingmoor House; 21.12.1801 John Ivison of King-moor-house; 21.11.1827 George Little of Hamlet of Kingmoor House [Baptisms and Burials of St Michael’s Church, Stanwix]

1774 Kingmoor House marked on Hodskinson and Donald’s 1774 map

CPacquet 28.11.1787 House and lands for sale following bankruptcy of Mr Pattinson

1794 Hutchinson’s History of Cumberland ‘ ...The land is very capable of improvement as is testified in the estate purchased lately in King Moor by Mr Lamb of Newcastle. The estate now lets for 300 pounds a year, whereas 4 years ago, it was scarce worth 100 pounds per annum...the estate of Mr Lamb...is kept in complete cultivation by the farmer, Mr Ivison’

Caledonian Mercury 27.04.1815 Gardeners child drowned in duck pond at Kingmoor House

The Examiner 11.04.1824 John Studholme Esq of Kingmoor House married to Elizabeth d of Paul Nixon of Carlisle

CJ 14.07.1838 p1 Mr Studholme of Kingmoor House

CJ 29.06.1839 p1b Kingmoor house to let

Newcastle Courant 25.10.1839 Kingmoor House to let; 400 acres of land

Slater’s 1884 Directory James Ellwood, farmer, Kingmoor House

CN 12.12.2003 p7 Kingmoor House first mentioned in conveyance of 1724

CWAAS 3rd series Vol 8, 2008 p105 - 125

 

KINGMOOR INFANTS AND JUNIOR SCHOOL

Civic Affairs January 1969 p2 Hoped to open January 1969

CN 31.12.1987 p6 Pupils make new year resolutions

CN 20.07.1990 p13 Gun salute as happy school comes of age

CN 19.03.1993 p1 School bid to save jobs of staff

CN 19.03.1993 p25 Photo of presentation

CN 24.11.1995 p3 School staff accused of shopping for pupils

CN 19.01.1996 p1 City school wins glowing praise

CN 11.04.2003 p8 Christine Boucetia appointed new head at Junior School

CN 05.02.2010 p7 Foundation stone of old Belah School goes to Kingmoor

 

KINGMOOR LOCOMOTIVE SHED

See also Kingmoor Rail Depot

CJ 23.02.1962 p7 Fire

 

KINGMOOR MARSHALLING YARD Opened 1963; down yard closed 1972; up hump taken out of use 1982

See RAILWAYS; MARSHALLING YARD

See Railways; Marshalling Yard: Railways; Kingmoor Rail Depot

D Perriam p60 Kingmoor Marshalling Yard. Under the British Railways Modernisation Plan of 1955 Carlisle was to have a new yard, the largest nationally under the scheme. Land at Kingmoor adjoining the West Coast Man Line, covering 500 acres and measuring two and three-quarters mile by one mile wide was purchased in 1956. Construction began in October 1959, coming into operation in 1963 at a cost of £4.5 million. Farmland was levelled and drained and this was covered in 750,000 tons of ironworks slag from West Cumberland and Scotland. This was topped by 100,000 tons of stone ballast. The yard was floodlit making 24 hour work possible. However railway freight was declining and as early as 10.05.1963 the Carlisle Journal ran a headline ‘Kingmoor Marshalling Yard; Will it be a White Elephant’.

 

KINGMOOR NATURE RESERVE Taken over 1914

D.Perriam Stanwix p63 In 1908 a scheme for giving unemployed men work by planting trees was considered but in 1913 the decision was taken to make it a bird sanctuary and nature reserve. For this purpose it was placed in the hands of the Tullie House Committee with the object of ‘increasing the numbers of useful birds’. It remained with Tullie House until 1951 when it was transferred to the Parks Committee.

D Perriam and D.Ramshaw Carlisle First Learning Centre; Tullie House, 2016, pp72-3

CN 24.05.1963 p10

CJ 03.01.1913 Kingmoor Common was to be a bird sanctuary

CJ 11.03.1913 p4 Kingmoor as bird sanctuary

City Minutes 1920-21 pp 75-76 Using Nature Reserve for agricultural purposes

CN 07.06.1963 p10 Illustration of hut in 1914

CN 05.08.1977 p4 History

CN 22.01.1988 p4 City welcome for nature

CN 08.07.1988 p11 (illus) Opened by David Bellamy

CN 12.05.1989 p4 Nature reserve celebrates

CN 26.03.1993 p4 Among pioneers of nature reserves

CN 30.07.1993 p14 Celebration for nature reserve

CN 12.08.1994 p12 reserves 80th birthday

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

CN 12.03.1999 p3 Road rage petition

CN 29.06.2001 p6 Yobs kill red squirrels and kestrel with gun

 

KINGMOOR PARK see ROYAL AIR FORCE 14MU

 

KINGMOOR RACES By tradition Ascension Day races held at Kingmoor; early reference to Kingmoor Races in 1619; following the case of Ismay v Barnes in 1865, when the freemen lost their case, races at Kingmoor came to an end (VCH2 pp441-42)

See also Racing; Racing Bells

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House p18 Mr Mayor and his brethern shall call for...the horse and nag bells with all expedition to be employed for the maintaining of a horse race for the city’s use upon Kingmoor at such time yearly as they shall find convenient

D Perriam Stanwix p63 1750 map showing part of course

G.Topping and Potter J.J. Memorials of Old Carlisle pp 56-58

CJ 24.02.1865 p6 CN 07.05.1949 p5 CN 21.05.1949 p5 CN 27.10.1951 p5

CN 27.02.1959 p10 CN 19.07.1968 p12

1746 Marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle ‘Race Ground’

The Citizen 25.04.1823 p1 Description

Carlisle Examiner 04.06.1859 p3e Kingmoor races

City Minutes 19.01.1893 item 294 tenders for working the clay on course for bricks

City Minutes 14.03.1893 item 417 report on possibility of turning to cultivation

City Minutes 1920-21 p75-6 Survey of old course giving OS field nos (90, 188)

CN 14.09.1946 p6 Inscribed cup bequeathed to Tullie House

 

KINGMOOR RAIL DEPOT; Motive Power depot closed 1967; Traction Maintenance Depot opened 1968

See Railways; Kingmoor Rail Depot; Railways; Marshalling Yard

 

KINGMOOR RAILWAY BRIDGE

CN 31.12.2009 p2 Kingmoor Railway Bridge replaced with a temporary one

 

KINGMOOR ROAD

Houses built here as part of the Garden City development. Pre-war houses built by EJ Hill; post war council houses designed by JW Benwell

D Perriam Stanwix p57

10 houses [as part of a 74 housing estate built for Carlisle Corporation] were built on Kingmoor Road by local builder EJ HIll being completed and occupied by September 1921. Clough Williams-Ellis described the whole estate as ‘The new style, Corporation built houses on the Stanwix Estate. Light, air and flowers’. [CWAAS , 2016, Vol 16 p62-4]

1924 Carlisle Directory lists the following properties Moorcroft, Norwood, Fernbank, Breezemount, Shilcroft, Rosemount, The Gables, Hill Croft, Galegarth, Ingledene, Parkside, Criffel View then nos 36-56 then Gowan Lea, Glenleigh, Royshiel, Moorside, Woodside, Deer Park, Kingmoor Farm, Oakdale Cottages

 

KINGMOOR SCHOOL see KINGMOOR INFANTS

 

KINGMOOR TECHNICAL SERVICES

CN 31.03.2006 p16 Kingmoor Technical Services on move; established 2000

CN 26.10.2007 p20 Employs 50 at Kingmoor Park base

 

KINGMOOR TERRACE

Four houses on Kingmoor Terrace were offered for sale by John Johnston in January 1889. All those living there in 1902 were railwaymen and their families

A manuscript map of 1937 [C480] shows the location of and names Kingmoor Terrace

1924 Carlisle Directory Listed between Woodside House and Deer Park, Kingmoor Road

 

KINGS ARMS Kingstown; in local directories from 1906 to 1914

Dog Inn, Kingstown, 1874 may be the Pointer Dog of the same year and the Spaniel Dog Inn of 1877 [so marked on the OS map of 1865]. This became the Kings Arms Inn by 1879. The Kings Arms closed in 1917 [D Perriam Stanwix p82]

CJ 29.04.1879 p3 Transfer of licence from Thomas Jackson to Alexander McGuinness

CJ 03.06.1879 Transfer of licence Thomas Jackson to Alexander McGinnes

1901 Directory p248 Margaret Pearson, vict., King’s Arms

CJ 06.08.1907 p6 Transfer of license from Mrs Pearson to Wm Rayson

CJ 19.01.1917 p7 Decided to close and convert beerhouse

 

KINGS ARMS INN English Street near Kings Arms Lane; in local directories to 1884

Position marked on Asquiths 1853 map

CWAAS New Series, Vol 55 p61 About this time, 1713, converted into an inn

CPacquet 21.10.1777 p1a Kings Arms Inn to be let

Universal Directory 1793-98 p631 Kept by Hardesty

CJ 03.11.1804 p3 King’s Arms, Thomas Nelson Innkeeper

1810 A Picture of Carlisle and Directory p116 Mr Holmes

1821 New Guide to Carlisle p75 Ralph Holmes

CJ 20.04.1839 p3a To be sold

1841 census Elizabeth Donald, innkeeper, aged 45

CJ 15.06.1855 Robert Little enters into this hotel

Carlisle an illustrated history p74 1857 photo of exterior of inn

Carlisle Examiner 01.03.1859 p3c Kings Arms Inn - sale of

1891 census Thomas Leslie, 42, publican, born Scotland

CP 11.09.1891 Chief Constable opposes renewal of licence

CN 11.02.1950 p7 Portrait taken 100 years ago

CN 18.02.1950 p7 Portrait taken 100 years ago

CN 01.02.1991 p4 Photograph

CN 06.09.1991 p4 Insanitary inn lost its license

 

KINGS ARMS LANE English Street; so named in 1794

Slee, M Older Carlisle p6

The Lanes Remembered pp23-5 Photo of Lane

CJ 05.09.1801 p1b Building and warehouses, lately tallow chandlers, to be let

1851 Report of General Board of Health....Carlisle; R.Rawlinson 1BC 625 p52

1880 Directory 13 English Street to 50 Lowther Street

1891 census; 98 people listed as living in Kings Arms Lane

1901 census 83 people living in 14 households. Occupations include pupil teacher, carpet-maker, office caretaker, chimney sweep, corporation labourer, fitter iron trade, tin box room worker, cab driver, confectioner’s assistant, labourer gas works, china repairer, manager boot trade, wine merchant, carter, dressmaker, bellman and billposter, shop girl, labourer, plumber, retired civil servant, biscuit packer, iron moulder

City Minutes 1930-31 p618 nos 4 and 4 declared unfit for human habitation

15 English Street [1934 Directory]

CN 05.06.1937 p12 (illus) Roman Carlisle - Kings Arms Lane

CN 21.02.1975 p6 (illus)

 

KINGS HALL, Globe Lane

CN 21.10.2016 Section 2 p16 First mentioned in October 1905 when the Railway Mission held a sale in the King’s Hall. 1931 Christian Scientists using the premises until 1952. King’s Hall Youth Club opened here on October 28th 1961. Demolished to make way for the Lanes development

 

KINGS HALL GIRLS’ CLUB

CJ 13.05.1921 p10

 

KINGS HALL YOUTH CENTRE

The Lanes Remembered pp 9 - 10, location map

1934 Carlisle Directory; Globe Lane, King’s Hall Christian Science Society

CJ 14.10.1966 p13

 

KINGS HEAD Fisher Street/ Rosemary Lane; also known as The Old Kings Head

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, p80 - photo

CJ 05.09.1801 p1 Ann Johnston, innkeeper

CJ 25.03.1826 p1c To be let

CP 29.07.1854 p1 To let Old Kings Head, last 28 years occupied by Mr Sawyer

CJ 10.11.1854 Ad Old King’s Head, Fisher Street, for sale

1891 census; Old Kings Head, George Lacy, victualler, 41, bn Lincolnshire

1901 census Robert Ridley, publican, aged 45, born Caldbeck

1905/06 Photo Carlisle in Camera 2 p 19

CN 16.12.1966 p21 Reopening

ENS 20.12.1966 pp6-7 18th century ale house gets a face lift

CN 18.01.1974 p14 (illus) Opening as Falstaff

 

KINGS MEADOW Near Eden Bridge, north side

see also KING MEADOW

CJ 24.10.1865 p2

20.09.1920 Carlisle Citizens League signed deal for purchase of Rickerby Park, King Meadow and Greeny Bank

City Minutes 1931-32 Stone from demolished Gaol used in protecting banks of River Eden in King’s Meadow

1931 Carlisle Directory; map at back shows Kings Meadow

 

KINGS OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT Amalgamation with Border Regiment 30.09.1959; 01.07.2006 amalgamates with King’s and Queen’s Lancashire Regiments to become Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment

S. Eastwood Lions and Dragons; an illustrated history of the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment 1959 - 2006

See also Border Regiment

CN 20.09.1974 p11 CN 11.10.1974 p40 CN 18.10.1974 p13 (photo)

CN 01.11.1974 p10 (illus) CN 16.05.1975 p8 CN 15.12.1978 p8

Cumbria March 1960 pp379-81

23.04.1960 Freedom of City presented to KORBR

CN 29.04.1960 p9 (illus) ‘Freedom’ parade

Cumbria July 1980 pp (illus) pp207-09 Tercentenary of regiment

CN 13.05.1988 p3 City link with boy King of China

CN 15.09.1989 p5 Regiments colours are rededicated

CN 10.08.1990 p1 Bully for them

CN 23.11.1990 p7 Anger over regimental ‘graffiti’

CN 07.12.1990 p8 Fellside badge bid scrapped

CN 10.05.1991 p11 Flying the flag for regiment

CN 17.05.1991 p1 David flies flag (illus)

CN 31.05.1991 p44 Ex-soldiers rent shock

CN 07.06.1991 p11 KORBR will survive

CN 14.06.1991 p16 Army merger denied

CN 28.06.1991 p1 KORBR back in firing line

CN 26.07.1991 p13 KORBR saved as army axe falls

CN 02.08.1991 p10 Reputation for valour

CN 08.11.1991 p23 Back from Belize

CN 29.11.1991 p12 To hell and back again

CN 05.03.1993 p1 30 KORBR are in the firing line

CN 16.04.1993 p7 Army outdoor centre gets go ahead

CN 16.04.1993 p23 PM calls on Regiment in Ireland

CN 23.04.1993 p1 Coming up roses

CN 21.05.1993 p25 Regiment holds annual city reunion

CN 28.05.1993 p3 Soldiers bugle comes home

CN 25.06.1993 p11 KORBR going on parade

CN 08.10.1993 p10 Old soldiers last farewell

CN 25.02.1994 p1 Fall in lads for KORBR 150 new jobs

CN 29.04.1994 p1 (illus) St George’s Day celebrations

CN 13.05.1994 p5 Last post sounded

CN 15.07.1994 p9 KORBR chooses top show for recruitment

CN 22.07.1994 p11 Are we doing enough for our boys?

CN 24.02.1995 p3 Army battles to beat leaked plan

CN 14.04.1995 pp10,15 Boys back in town

CN 02.06.1995 p2 Barracks open after £12m facelift

CN 04.10.1996 p2 Regiment adventure centre wins go ahead from lakes planners

CN 22.11.1996 p4 (illus) Lions on march on Africa

CN 10.01.1997 p4 Local hero looks on as row rages over rescue film

CN 30.05.1997 p5 Review launched into executions

CN 01.08.1997 p4 Send off in style as KORBR goes to Bosnia

CN 15.08.1997 p3 (illus) KORBR’s Col. Tony off to NATO in Brussels...

CN 15.01.1998 p7 Our boys on the brink of war

CN 10.04.1998 p12 Bosnia

CN 19.06.1998 p2 KORBR let down by ‘Irish killer’ boast

CN 10.07.1998 p3 TA stands firm in face of cash cuts

CN 26.03.1999 p1 Our prayers are with you - Kosovo

CN 09.04.1999 p1 Border Regiment bring human touch to refugees

CN 30.04.1999 p1 Boys fly home

CN 16.04.1999 p12 Soldering on in Burma

CN17.11.2000 p6 Peace award honour for 1s Battalion

CN 22.02.2002 p26 (illus) Regiment celebrates 300 years

CN 02.05.2003 p7 Carlisle soldier awarded MC after Afghan campaign

CN 23.07.2004 p12 Threat of amalgamation or disbandment; feature

CN 27.08.2004 p3 Fight for survival; Major General Bob Hodges appeal

CN 08.10.2004 p1 KORBR loses survival battle

CN 12.11.2004 p1 To become the ‘Royal Lancashire Regiment’

CN 17.12.2004 p1 Amalgamation confirmed yesterday; King’s Lans. Border Rgt

CN 25.11.2005 p3 Confirmed to be named ‘Duke of Lancaster’s’ when merges

CN 30.06.2006 p6 ‘Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment ’officially comes into being tomorrow

CN 13.02.2009 p21 KOBR colours laid up in Cathedral

 

Amalgamation

CJ 16.10.1959 p16 (illus) CN 16.10.1959 p1 (illus)

ENS 31.10.1959 p1 Two regiments die as one is born

CN 06.11.1959 p8 (illus) Amalgamation

 

Badge

CN 01.05.1970 p1 (illus) Cap badge

CN 17.05.1996 p6 Ken triumphs over dashed badge luck

 

Band

CN 13.05.1977 p3 (illus) Regimental Association Band

CN 03.03.1978 p11 (illus) Regimental Association Band

CN 15.05.1992 p3 Band retreat may be last

CN 19.03.1993 pp11,12 KORBR battles to save its own band

CN 07.05.1993 p9 Regiment in battle to save band

CN 02.02.1996 p16 (illus) Band keeping on military beat

CN 21.03.1997 p1 Band calls for recruits

 

Museum - housed in Castle since 1932

CN 18.12.1970 p13 Museum burgled

CN 18.06.1971 p1 Museum to be moved

CN 09.02.1973 p6 Museum to reopen

CN 22.09.1972 p8 To reopen

CN 24.08.1973 p10 (illus) Opening

CN 31.08.1973 p9 (illus)

CN 28.01.1977 p6

CN 28.04.1978 p14 (illus) Regimental Museum

Cumbria LIfe May/June 1994 p73 issue 34 2A9

CN 22.07.1994 pp3,10 Regiments museum plea

Cumbria Life Aug 1999 issue 65 p16 supp 2A 9

CN 13.02.2004 p6 Feature on Curator Stuart Eastwood

CN 25.09.2009 p4 £1m needed to rehouse museum in Alma Block

CN 12.09.2014 p3 Article on the revamped Museum which will open in Arroyo Block

 

KING’S TOWER Now known as Richard’s III Tower or Tile Tower [CWAAS OS Vol 13 p189]

 

KINGSTOWN The Carlisle Extension Act of 1950 added Moorville, Kingstown and Greymoorhill to the city. [2BC 352 6879]

D Perriam Stanwix p80 The 1760 map of Kingmoor shows no more than 10 houses at Kingstown. By 1892 574 persons lived here. There was an abundance of clay and the claypits and kilns gave work to many residents. Before this handloom weaving had provided employment, the Carlisle Journal in May 1827 advertising for sale seven four-loom weaving shops with dwellings above newly erected. In May 1878 the Rural Sanitary Authority said that Kingstown was a disgraceful village with no ditch to throw slops into. A ditch was provided in 1892 but on a visit the Local Government Board found that residents put slops into the road rather than go three yards and put them in the proper place. As a result of this pollution ‘the best well in Kingstown smelt’.

See also Greymoorhill

Carlisle in Camera 2 photo in early 1920s

ENS 14.06.1960 p5 Attempt to reduce accident risk

ENS 30.06.1960 p7 Attempt to reduce accident risk

CN 30.09.1994 p16 So much to choose from at Kingstown

CN 28.04.2000 p3 Disaster waiting to happen

CN 25.08.2000 p3 Kingstown proposed £800,000 roundabout

CN 29.12.2000 p2 £800,000 traffic scheme opposed

CN 11.05.2001 p5 Gyratory traffic scheme abandoned

 

KINGSTOWN ADULT TRAINING CENTRE Opened 15.11.1968

CN 22.11.1968 p6 Opened

Civic Affairs January 1969 p1

CN 05.01.1996 p9 City adult training centre to close

CN 19.01.1996 p4 Parents feel left out

 

KINGSTOWN AERODROME Municipal aerodrome opened 1933 (licensed 1934); first commercial flight landed at Kingstown from Croydon; with the formation of the Border Flying Club in June 1935 a clubhouse and hangar were built at the aerodrome; during the War Elementary Flying Training School no 15 operated from Kingstown, moving here from Redhill in June 1940; medical officer with wooden huts, including mortuary, based off California Road, opposite the aerodrome [these buildings eventually formed the basis for the James Rennie School]; after the war civilian flights resumed but the limitations of Kingstown for scheduled services was apparent, only 2,400 feet field length, nearby development, poor drainage. Still a Carlisle to the Isle of Man service began from here however all flying ceased 1957

D Perriam Stanwix p86-87, p109 photo

CN 18.01.1936 p14 CJ 11.04.1939 p4 CJ 21.07.1939 p3 CN 17.08.1956 p8

City Minutes 1927-28 pp703-05, 837 Committee to consider Carlisle as air base

City Minutes 1928-29 pp 384-5 Suitability of land at Kingstown; pp489-93 report

City minutes 1932-33 pp 318-321 Report of development of aerodrome at Kingstown

City Minutes 1932-33 pp 596 - 605 Details, maps and plans concerning airfield

Carlisle an illustrated history p83 Photo of first commercial flight in 1933

Cumbrian Airfields in the Second World War pp121-134, Martyn Chorlton, 2006

CJ 14.03.1933 p4 Carlisle on the air map

23.03.1933 first commercial aircraft to land

CJ 24.03.1933 p8 Civic flight

CJ 31.03.1933 p7 A flying base at Carlisle; letter

CJ 04.04.1933 p2 First visitor to air base

CJ 07.04.1933 p7 Air Squadron tours

CJ 12.05.1933 p7 Civic flight

City Minutes 1934 - 35 At back of volume maps and plans of the aerodrome

CJ 16.04.1937 p6 Airport depot for Carlisle

CJ 21.05.1937 p6 New aerodrome

CJ 02.11.1937 p5 New airport

Carlisle in Camera 2 p61 photo about 1937

CJ 08.03.1938 p5 Successful defence of Carlisle Aerodrome

CJ 01.04.1938 p4 Air depot houses

CJ 28.07.1939 p3 Sharper look out needed

M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration p40 Photo of bomber landing in 1940

CJ 02.01.1948 p1 No 15 Flying Training Centre closed and closed to civilian traffic

CN 03.01.1948 p6 No 15 Flying Training Centre closed and closed to civilian traffic

CJ 02.07.1948 p2 Future

CN 15.01.1949 p5 Part of airport to be developed into trading estate

CN 05.03.1949 p5 Flying activity planned by Air Navigation and Trading Co

 

KINGSTOWN BRICK WORKS NY 398 590 Taken over by J.Beaty

Cumbrian Industrialist, Vol 3, 2000 p50

Carlisle an illustrated history p88 1906 photo of Kingstown Brickworks

D Perriam Stanwix p84 Not shown on the 1865 OS map. Brickworks offered for sale in 1887 with a chimney of 100ft with a capacity for 180,000 bricks. James Beaty took the works in January 1891and the new works were added with 3 chimneys. The Carlisle Journal reported at the end of 1907 the Kingstown Brickworks was closed.

CJ 30.04.1880 Charles and John Armstrong made common and ornamental bricks, some of which have been used in the building of the Grand Central Hotel

CJ 24.08.1883 Ad

CJ 06.05.1887 p1 Brickfield, Kingstown, lately occupied by Charles Armstrong

CJ 01.01.1909 p4e Kingstown Brickworks closed at the end of 1908

 

KINGSTOWN CHURCH see ST PETERS

 

KINGSTOWN ENGINEERING LTD Started 1949

CJ 01.11.1963 p8 (illus)

 

KINGSTOWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

D Periam Stanwix p87 As early as January 1949 the Cumberland News reported that Carlisle Municipal Airport was being rapidly transformed into an enterprising trading estate

CN 28.02.1975 p7 CN 30.07.1976 pp7-9 (illus)

CN 15.01.1949 p5 Transformation of an airport

Civic Affairs January 1965 p1-2

CN 27.06.1953 p3 Advert for Milburn Motors, Airport Trading Estate

CN 30.07.1965 p5 Development

CN 24.09.1971 pp9-11 (illus) Feature

CN 07.04.1989 p3 Industry threat to wildlife

CN 24.09.1993 pp15-17 Take a closer look at Kingstown

CN 24.05.1996 Supplement

CN 17.11.2000 p5 Call for CCTV at crime hit Kingstown estate

 

KINGSTOWN LORRY PARK see LORRY PARK, KINGSTOWN

 

KINGSTOWN READING ROOM Kingstown Reading Room given to Kingmoor Parish on 24th March 1937 by the Fell family of the Knells in memory of the late Mrs Fell. In recognition of this it will be renamed ‘Elizabeth Fell Memorial Hall’. [CJ 23.04.1937 p8] Today, 2007, this single story building is being used as a church.

 

KINGSTOWN ROAD

D Perriam Stanwix p71 Subsidy housing built [140 Kingstown Road] by EJ Hill in 1926

D Perriam Stanwix p73 Kingstown Road speeding. On 07.09.1909 Lord Vernon was caught speeding at Moorville. He had been travelling in excess of 56 miles per hour. September 1929 PC Bell was killed at Moorville, when he was knocked off his bike by a hit and run driver. After a crash into St Augustine’s grounds in November 1966 the Carlisle Journal referred to this stretch of road as ‘death row.

13.11.1909 John Routledge from Howberry, Kirklinton was fatally injured while walking home along Kingstown Road when he was struck by a horse drawn wagonnette

CN 22.08.1931 Photo of RAC box on Kingstown Road. This included a first aid station for injured motorists

CN 27.08.2010 p11 Plan to demolish, on north side near Morrisons, 150 year old cottage

 

KINGSTOWN SCHOOL

D Perriam Stanwix p81 Tenders were invited for the building of a school at Kingstown in 1871 to the design of Daniel Birkett. This remained in use until the new Kingmoor School was opened. Today, 2021, the building is used by a stove business

 

KINGSTOWN TOLL COTTAGE Built circa 1820; taken over by the Midland Bank in 1996 (plaque); 28.04. 1829 James Cleghorn of Kingmoor [sic] Tollbar [Baptisms and Burials of St Michael’s Church, Stanwix]

See also Turnpikes

D Perriam Stanwix p70 Turnpikes An 1818 Act inaugurated the Carlisle to Glasgow Turnpike Trust, which specified that only one toll should be levied between Carlisle and Allison Bank, This was probably why the Kingstown gate was built replacing the earlier gate at Gosling Bridge. The collection of tolls ended in 1884 in England and the turnpike wound up. The toll cottage remained as a house. In 1940 a RAF plane crashed through the roof and for many years the different coloured slates recalled the incident. Illus of house before conversion to a bank

 

KINGSTOWN TRAINING CENTRE see JAMES RENNIE SCHOOL

 

KING STREET Also in this area Princes St, Lord St and Court St

so marked on Studholme’s 1842 map, houses on both north and south sides to Lancaster Street

CJ 15.01.1842 p1c For sale 25 newly erected houses on south side of street

CP 06.08.1847 p1 Ad; 37-61 for sale; recently been built

CJ 04.09.1874 p1 Ad; Four cottages 21,23 and 25 for sale

Sanitary Condition for the City of Carlisle 1927 p74 80 houses, 355 people

City Minutes 1928-9 p786 No 20-22 unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1930-31 p618 No 6 declared unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1932-33 p579 8,10, 12, 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 unfit for habitation

City Minutes 1934-5 p 59 38 - 56 declared unfit for habitation

 

KIRK, Miss Maggie Roseville Terrace

Vocalist

CD 1920 Ad p13

 

KIRKBRIDE, John Marble and stonemason, aged 65, employing 2 men, home address Finkle St, born Carlisle [1851 census]

 

KIRKBRIDE, Jonathan Cabinetmaker, aged 56, employing 22 men and 2 women, home address Crown and Anchor Lane, born Carlisle [1851 census]

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 32 Lowther Street

 

KIRKBRIDE AND SONS, 42 English Street; Fish-hook and fishing tackle makers [Pigots 1834 Directory]

CP 29.08.1818 p2 Richard Kirkbride, fish hook manufacturer of St Albans Row. To be sold house and shop the late property of J.Barnfather deceased, now in occupation by Richard Kirkbride

CJ 07.03.1835 p1 J.R. and W Kirkbride, fishing rod, tackle and fish hook manufacturer, 42 English Street, adjoining the Bush Inn. John was upwards of 14 years in London as principal fly maker at Ustonson’s, Temple Bar

CJ 21.11.1835 p2 Dissolution of partnership. John, William and Richard Kirkbride of Carlisle by mutual consent

CJ 28.11.1835 p2 John Kirkbride, 60 Castle Street, eldest son of R.Kirkbride since commenced in English Street with his brothers. Sole inventor of the improved Irish-shaped hook

CJ 28.11.1835 p2 Richard and William Kirkbride carry on at their old establishment, 42 English Street, having served under their father, who had upwards of 40 years experience. Sole makers of the new improved Irish-shaped hook

CJ 25.02.1837 p1 Advert for the Northern Angler by John Kirkbride. Fishing tackle maker of 60 Castle Street

1837 John Kirkbride Northern Angler; 1855 ed opposite p81 plate of fish hooks engraved by Macmillan of Carlisle

CJ 01.04.1837 p3 Review of John Kirkbride’s Fisherman’s Companion ‘long established family of fish hook makers, well known in the north counties’

CJ 29.04.1837 p3 Letter about Mr Kirkbride’s book

CJ 06.05.1837 p3 Letter in reply to above

CJ 13.05.1837 p3 Another letter in reply

CJ 20.05.1837 p3 Another letter

CJ 17.06.1837 p2 Review of John Kirkbride’s book

CJ 27.01.1838 p3 Died after long illness, aged 40, John Kirkbride of Castle Street, fish hook manufacturer and author of the Northern Angler

CJ 27.07.1839 p2 To let; now occupied by Mrs Kirkbride, fish hook manufacturer, at head of Castle Street; apply to Mr Fitzgerald, owner

 

KIRKBRIDE and SONS Lowther Street

Cabinet makers

CD 1880 Ad pv

CD 1884-85 Ad p268

 

KIRKBRIDES COURT, 18 Castle Street [1880 Directory]

 

KIRKPATRICK The Market

Fruitier

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p242

 

KIRKPATRICK, James Nelson Street

Marble and monumental mason

See also Kirkpatrick and Nixon

CD 1893-94 Ad p158

 

KIRKPATRICK, John Plumber, employing 2 men and 2 boys, aged 73, home address Rickergate, born Carlisle [1861 census]

 

KIRKPATRICK, Jos

M442 p49 Business label for tea and coffee dealer

 

KIRKPATRICK AND NIXON Denton St

1882 Porters Directory Ad p114 Marble and monumental masons

D.Perriam Denton Holme p65 Partnership dissolved in1886 and James Kirkpatrick continued on his own

 

KIRKS PLACE, 41 Westmorland Street [1880 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory lists between 41-43 Westmorland St

 

KIRKUP, James Tea dealer, aged 77, living at 11 George Street, born Kirkandrews [1851 census]

 

KIRKWOOD, G and SONS Greystone Road

Motor repairs

CD 1952 Ad p336

 

‘KITLIN’S EYE’ Nickname of court on East side of London Road near Halfway Houses [Our City Our People p16]

 

KIZMET Cecil Street

CN 17.05.2002 p8 Ad; new hair dressing saloon

 

KLONDYKE PUBLIC HOUSE, Fisher Street

1891 census lists the pub at 56 Fisher Street, but property unoccupied

 

KLYNE, D Scotch Street

Hat manufacturer

Carlisle Examiner 20.11.1858 p2e,f Great fire

Carlisle Examiner 23.11.1858 p3a Great fire

 

KNAGG FAMILY Active 1604 - 1779 as blacksmiths, locksmiths and clockmakers in Carlisle

J.Penfold Clockmakers of Cumberland pp 64-66

 

KNIGHT, Frances 10 Rosemary Lane [1870], 13 Crown and Anchor Lane and 13 Old Grapes Lane [1876 and 1877], 45 Blackfriars Street [1880] and 12 Blackfriars Street [1884 and 1897] Boot and shoemaker

 

KNIGHT, George Master shoemaker, aged 38, employing 2 men, born Carlisle, home address South Street [1851 census]

 

KNIGHTS OF SAINT COLUMBA, Catholic Association

Originally formed in Glasgow in 1919. Carlisle Council 60 was formed on 23.09.1923. The first Grand Knight of Council 60 was Lieut Bernard Francis Rudden. The lasting monument to Council 60 is the creation of the Wayside Shrine at the corner of the Wetheral Plains road and the A69 in 1956. Cross has subsequently been restored. Every Good Friday since 1956 a Walk of Witness has taken place to end the Holy Week

 

KNIGHTS OF SAINT COLUMBA CLUB, Warwick Sq

CN 04.03.2005 p61 Sold

 

KNIVES AND KNIFE GRINDERS

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p40 photo of Fargie Johnston, knife grinder

CJ 05.03.1943 p1 (illus) Article concerning knife grinders Mr and Mrs Donowho

ENS 15.12.1961 p6 illus Mr Robert Donohue, last knife grinder

ENS 13.02.1987 p4

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p182 Photos of knife grinders

CN 08.11.1996 p1 Council bans knives from tenant stores

 

KNOWE COTTAGE John Bolt died here 22.04.1891 and Wilhelmina Bolt died here 15.04.1892 [Stanwix MI 73/1]

 

KNOWEFIELD Stanwix 11.06.1797 Joseph Stephenson of Knowe Field [Baptisms and Burials of St Michael’s Church, Stanwix]; The house Knowefield was previously called Rose House. The 1840 tithe map for Stanwix shows a house called Knowefield, which was extensively altered for GHH Oliphant-Ferguson in 1862. It was this house which formed the nucleus for Little and Ballantyne’s nursery. Little and Ballantyne after the death of the proprietors was first run by trustees under the management of Baxter Smith. He was joined in partnership by James Watt of Edinburgh in 1868. It was perhaps at this time that the firm leased the Knowfield Estate and abandoned the nurseries on London Road. Watt became the sole owner of the business and he lived in Knowefield House surrounded by the Little and Ballantyne nursery. The firm flourished receiving Queen Victoria’s Royal Warrant on 25.07.1884, and they then called themselves the Queen’s Seedsmen. The lease of the estate ran out in 1933 and the estate was put up for sale. Little and Ballantyne were now able to purchase but relinquished part of the land for housing

D.Perriam Stanwix p75

1861 census Knowe Field Robert Little, agr.labourer, aged 42, bn Brampton

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p83 Photo of Knowefield, home of Sir James Watt

Bulmer , East Cumberland 1883 p288 A22

CJ 07.11.1871 Now the property of Messrs Smith and Watt of Little and Ballantyne

1901 Bulmer’s Directory p267 The Knowefield Nurseries, the property of Messrs Little and Ballantyne, are situated in Stanwix; they are upwards of 150 acres in extent and amongst the largest in Britain, employing at some seasons of the year about 200 hands. They are famed for roses, of which 60,000 to 70,000 may be seen in flower at one time, forest trees, fruit trees, schrubs, rhododendrons, greenhouse and stove plants and alpine and herbaceous plants, are all well worth a visit, which will be both instructive and interesting; it is one of the sights of Carlisle. These nurseries were selected by the English Government to re-afforest the Isle of Man, where many millions of young trees were planted. The seed department is conducted in one of the most handsome and substantial buildings in Carlisle, adjoining the railway station, and contains an area of 30,000 superficial feet of floor-room, with the most complete set of steam machinery for cleaning and dressing seeds - the only machinery of its kind in the northern counties. The firm of Messrs Little and Ballantyne has been established nearly and century, and has been for many years been one of the leading concerns in the trade

13.09.1913 Hannah Punton wife of James Watt, died Knowefield [Stanwix MI 203/2]

ENS 17.07.1933 p4 Knowefield estate sale

CN 18.07.1933 Knowefield Estate; details of sale

30.06.1935 James Watt, Knight, died at Knowefield [Stanwix MI 203/2]

09.02.1958 Maisie, eldest daughter of James Watt, died Knowefield [Stanwix MI 203/2]

ENS 06.08.1960 p5 General view of housing estate

ENS 16.08.1960 p1 General view of housing estate

ENS 09.07.1996 p6 That’s when neighbours become good champions

CN 04.12.1998 p7 Nursery tale of Cinderella and Fag Ash Lil

 

KNOWEFIELD AVENUE

City Minutes 1933-34 p447 Approval for 2 houses

City Minutes 1934-5 p339 Approval for 4 houses; owner A.Blakeley and Sons

 

KNOWEFIELD COTTAGE

19.12.1912 Margaret Mitchinson died Knowefield Cottage [SMI 56/2]

19.01.1933 Arthur Bell died Knowefield Cottage [SMI 17/2]

 

KNOWEFIELD HOUSE Home of the Watt family

D Perriam p75 Stanwix Photo of house

 

KNOWEFIELD NURSERIES see KNOWFIELD

 

KNOWEFIELD PARK

CJ 10.05.1861 Tendering for building at Knowefield

City Minutes 1933-34 p447 Knowfield estate lay out; approval

 

KNOWEFIELD WOOD see STANWIX, STANWIX HOUSING

 

KNOWE PARK ESTATE

ENS 01.09.1934 p1 John Laing new houses - ad

 

KNOWE ROAD

City Minutes 1933-34 p447 Approval for 12 houses

 

KNOWE TERRACE, Stanwix

CJ 27.04.1888 p1 Ad All that dwelling house with the yards, workshop, byre and out-offices adjoining , situate in Knowe Terrace, Stanwix

CJ 04.05.1888 p5 Sale report for above

City Minutes 1933-34 p76 nos 1-5 and 11 Unfit for human habitation

 

KNOWLES, Thos English St

M442 pp5, 14 Business card for tailor and draper

CJ 21.05.1842 p1 Shop on English Street lately occupied by Mr Knowles, tailor and draper, situated opposite the Bush Inn

 

KOREAN WAR War death noted on Harrraby War memorial

 

KORKY’S WINE BAR St Cuthbert’s Lane; later called Town Crier

CN 22.08.1986 Bar on market for £85,000

 

K RADIOS Green Market

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p271

 

KRAKATOA RESTAURANT Lowther Street

CN 13.02.1987 p6 Opening

CN 11.12.1987 p6 Expansion

 

K SHOES

CN 13.10.1978 p8 (illus) Opening

 

KUDOS Friars Court

Hair saloon

CN 27.02.1998 p15 Ad

 

KWIK FIT

CN 28.08.1987 pp18-19 New autocar service centre opened

 

KWIK SAVE

CN 13.05.1994 p5 Store war

CN 28.10.2005 p3 Kwik save to close in Botchergate