Carlisle Encyclopaedia

LABOUR CLUB Victoria Place

ENS 06.11.1986 Membership crisis at Labour Club

ENS 27.11.1986 Club set for lifting men only membership policy

ENS 24.03.1988 p12 Labour Club to vote on letting women join

CN 05.10.1990 p1 Legal eagles club swoop

CN 25.01.1991 p17 Winding up labour club

 

LABOUR CLUB Opened 15.02.1910 at 17 Castle Street; new premises at

Scotch Street 24.01.1931

CJ 18.02.1910 CJ 15.01.1960 pp4,8 CN 12.02.1960 p1 CJ 19.02.1960 p9

CN 19.02.1960 p10

 

LABOUR EXCHANGE

see also Employment

Fire at Exchange on Victoria Viaduct 16.03.1922

1924 Carlisle Directory at 17 Castle Street

CN 05.02.2010 p 17 100 years ago since Labour Exchange opened in Carlisle at 17 Castle Street

 

LABOUR PARTY

See Amalgamated Soc.of Railway Servants Official Souvenir 1911 pp26 on

November 1890 first attempt to obtain Labour representation on town council; first Labour Party triumph School Board elections of 1895; November 1904 first Labour councillor returned; first Labour MP returned for city 1922

CJ 17.06.1938 p11 Clement Atlee visit to Carlisle

CN 15.05.1987 p4 First socialist candidate in Carlisle Mr Bannington

CN 14.07.1989 p13 Centenary of Labour in Carlisle

CN 01.04.1994 p12 Labour’s new go it alone plan

CN 01.04.1994 p11 Eden chairman hit back...

CN 12.08.1994 p5 Blair appeal ‘gives Labour lifelong Tories support’

CN 20.01.1995 p5 Labour members debate clause

CN 10.03.1995 p1 Labour left fail in bid to unseat Martlew

CN 31.03.1995 p10 Can Tony Blair woo Cumbria’s Tories?

CN 12.05.1995 p10 Let the Tories into the parlour [mayor’s]

CN 13.10.1995 p1 Labour in bitter row over control of city roads

CN 16.02.1996 p10 Our friends in the Lords

CN 18.10.1996 p3 Blow for Labour as work forces candidate to quit

CN 09.05.1997 p1 (illus) New Labour - New Hospital?

CN 19.04.1999 p1 May call in law over King’s advert

 

LACE, Henry

City Minutes 1929-30 p 660 Licensed to operate bus to Renwick etc

 

LADIES BOARDING SCHOOL Lowther Street circa 1836

CJ 04.01.1963 p4

 

LADY GILLFORDS see PETTERIL BANK

 

LAIDLOW, T.S. Moorville Gardens, the Market

Florists

A manuscript map of 1937 [C480] shows the location of and names Laidlow’s Nursery off Scotland Road

CD 1952 Ad p162

 

LAIDLOW’S Scotland Road

Grocer

CD 1955-56 Ad p248

CD 1961-62 Ad p274

 

LAING and BEATTIE Murrell Hill

Monumental sculptors

CD 1907-08 Ad p140

CD 1907-08 Ad p108

CD 1910-11 Ad pp96-97

CD 1913-14 Ad pp142-43

 

LAING and CO English Street

Boot store

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p 6, 32

CD 1902-03 Ad p262

 

LAING, David Paternoster Row

Coal merchant; furniture removers

CD 1880 Ad pli

CD 1884-85 Ad p280

CD 1902-03 Ad p8

 

LAING, John and Son Ltd Newcastle St; Milbourne St; Murrell Hill; Dalston Rd

Building contractors; 1874 John Laing stonemason and monumental stonemason transferred from Sebergham to Carlisle to start a business as a builder; 1878 plans approved for an office and store on Newcastle Street, the building yard being in Milbourne Street; first large project Little and Ballantyne Building, Victoria Viaduct, 1881; 1898 signed contract with city for new Electric Lighting Station; 1926 John William Laing, son of the founder, moved head office to London; Sir John Laing lived at 42 St James Road, a white brick built house built by his father; the six houses on Talbot Road formerly numbered 1-6 were built by John Laing’s, they were renumbered 2-12 about 1957 when John Laing’s built houses on the other side of the street; the land for the houses was purchased by Laing’s at a cost of £1,700 from John Weddell Nelson, grandson of Thomas Nelson, contractor, on 30.11.1922; the six houses were built, apart from no 1 ,now no 2, as the houses for the various departmental managers of John Laing’s who had their head offices on Dalston Road; No 4 was occupied by Mr Wardle, the Carlisle manager after Laing’s moved HQ to Mill Hill in London, no 12 was occupied by Mr Morton who also worked for Laing’s; the house at no 1, now no 2, was built by John Laing for his friend David Beattie who was a local monumental mason, they both being members of the Hebron Hall Church on Botchergate. This house is totally different in layout and design to the other five Laing’s houses; No 1 was called ‘Kenilworth’ and there is a capping stone on the gate post with this name; when David Beattie retired circa 1958; he bought another plot of land on Talbot Road and John Laing built a bungalow for him on this site, this house now being numbered 14 Talbot Road. Main contractor for Basil Spence’s Coventry Cathedral. In the 1950s Laings built council houses in new Harraby [and through the rest of the country] using their Easi-form concrete construction method [see Crossways in Harraby as an example]. This was a non-traditional construction which was used post war into the 1960s, a housing solution which was fast, cost effective and widely adopted by local authorities, MOD and other social housing organisations. Cast in-situ concrete or pre-fabricated concrete panels were used in the build, inside and outside walls were 75mm thick with a 50mm cavity. This outside was then rendered making it difficult to identify Easi-form houses. Easi-form came in many different styles; bungalows, semi-detached, apartment blocks. There were other non-traditional concrete construction designs, some of poor quality. Easi-form is generally accepted as one of the better types. The company was sold in 2001 to O’Rourke Construction to become Laing O’Rourke

Roy Coad Laing; the biography of Sir John W Laing CBE (1879 - 1978)

Berry Ritchie The Good Builder

CD 1880 Ad pxlv [John and William Laing]

1882 Porters Directory Ad p102 Office 19 Newcastle St, works Blackwell Rd

CD 1902-03 Ad p9

CD 1910-11 Ad p20

CD 1913-14 Ad p176

CD 1920 Ad p315

CD 1924 Ad p2

CD 1927 Ad p2

CD 1931 Ad p2

CD 1934 Ad p2

CD 1937 Ad p2

CD 1940 Ad p2

CD 1952 Ad p30

Warwick Road GPO opened Sunday 27.02.1916; the new premises were erected at a cost of 25,000 pounds, on a site formerly known as Barton’s yard. The main contract was awarded to Laings. Bob Franklin and his assistants in Laings Milbourne Street yard carved the fluted columns for the neoclassical facade. The front of the building faced with worked stone from the Blaxter quarries in Northumberland. The new building was to the designs of Mr Wilkinson of His Majesty’ s Office of Works.

May 1927 rebuilt Apple Tree Inn, Lowther St

City Minutes 1928-9 p133 Tender accepted for 42 houses at Raffles and Botcherby

1933 built Magpie Inn, Botcherby

City Minutes 1933-34 p653 Erection of 80 houses at Currock; accept Laing’s tender

City Minutes 1933-34 p654 Erection of 28 houses at Raven Nook; Laing’s tender agreed

1935 Built St Barnabas Church, Carlisle

CJ 07.01.1938 p10 Advert

CN 17.09.1938 p18 Advert

CJ 14.10.1947 p2 Centenary

CJ 06.01.1948 p3 Centenary

CN 17.01.1948 p5 Centenary

CJ 11.05.1948 pp1-2 Centenary

Team Spirit July 1954 the Church Hall, St Elisabeth’s Harraby - the portion which has just been constructed - has been designed as a building suitable for church services until the main church building has been constructed. It is in steel frame construction with brick cladding, faced with rustic brick. Furnishings from the recently demolished Christ Church in Botchergate have been installed in the new building and folding doors have been incorporated to enable the chancel to be screened off when the building is used for functions other than church services. At the opposite end to the altar, there is a stage, changing rooms, and there is also a kitchen and servery. The boiler house for central heating has been incorporated beneath the stage

Team Spirit July 1954 Inglewood Forest, Pennine Way; completed 21.10.1953. Built by Laings and so named after the Forest of Inglewood which is said to have covered an area from Carlisle to Penrith. Building faced with farmhouse brown facing bricks with french windows leading to a terrace and bowling green and an arch in brick construction

CN 04.07.1957 Supplement Laing’s built for the Empire

1964 general contractors for Civic Centre

CN 11.06.1965 Supplement - History

Cumberland Review Vol 2 No 2 July-October 1970 pp27-28 2B 609

CN 07.05.1971 p13 History

CN 04.02.1977 pp1,8 Withdrawal from Lanes redevelopment

CN 20.05.1994 p14 Firm seeks new site

CN 28.09.2001 p3 Laing sell loss making construction division for £1 to O’Rourke

CN 16.04.2004 p14 Sir Martin Laing steps down as director severing last family link

CN 23.04.2004 p12 Feature on firm; last family link as Sir Martin Laing steps down

CN 07.03.2008 p4 Obit of Maurice Laing

CN 16.07.2010 p15 Ex HQ buildings on Dalston Road to be demolished

CN 13.08.2010 p6 Dalston Road building demolished

 

LAIRD’S LARDER Fisher Street

CN 24.08.2007 p6 Delicatessen closes after 3 years

 

LAIREY DIKES, Stanwix

CJ 09.03.1826 p1a Land at Lairey Dikes for sale; advert

 

LAKELAND BAKE Kingmoor

CN 30.06.2006 p16 Ex Rathbone’s managers open crumpet making factory

 

LAKELAND BREWERIES LTD

CN 16.03.1973 p11

 

LAKELAND CONCRETE

CN 05.10.1990 p5 Concrete firm cements jobs

 

LAKELAND GATE HOTEL Warwick Road

CN 26.06.1998 p1 175 jobs for 2 new developments

CN 05.03.1999 p3 (illus) Cheers

 

LAKELAND KNITWARE CO Fisher Street

CJ 27.11.1964 p11 Opened

 

LAKELAND LAUNDRY London Road, Devonshire Street

CD 1937 Ad p74

CD 1940 Ad p74

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p30; illustration of trade card; came to city 1935

CJ 26.01.1962 p9 CJ 23.06.1967 pp12-13 (illus)

CJ 17.05.1935 Design for new building on London Rd by J.S.Stout of Whitehaven

CJ 04.07.1939 Industrial supplement

CN 09.07.1949 p5 Deepest well in country 870 feet

CJ 24.02.1961 p2 St Albans Row branch

ENS 30.10.1963 p1 Chimney

CN 24.10.1975 p1 Chimney demolished

CN 05.10.1990 p12 Lakeland Pennine celebrate a proud centenary

CN 22.07.1994 p18 Laundry Company set to take over

 

LAKELAND MOTORS

CN 26.05.1995 p18 Ad

 

LAKELAND PENNINE see LAKELAND LAUNDRY

 

LAKES COURT HOTEL Court square; formerly the Cumbrian Hotel

CN 16.02.2001 p8 Ad feature

CN 13.03.2009 p14 Refurbished and renamed from 31.03.2009 Hallmark Hotel

 

LAKESWAY Harraby Green Business Park

CN 30.03.1990 p8 Ad

CN 23.04.1999 p12 Ad

 

LAMB

Fruitier

CN 22.04.1977 p19 (illus)

 

LAMB, William Butcher died 30.11.1808; Monumental Inscription in St Cuthbert’s Yard

 

LAMB AND CO Their print field is shown on Cole’s map of 1805 under the West Walls

 

LAMBERT and WATSON Botchergate

Grocer

CD 1952 Ad p307

 

LAMB INN St Cuthbert’s Lane; in directories for 1837

 

LAMB SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS

CN 19.10.2012 p4 Founded by Ron Lamb. Obit

 

LAMB, SCOTT, FORSTER AND CO Calico printers; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784

 

LAMB, SCOTT, WALDIE AND CO Bleaching ground south of Harraby Bridge

CJ 16.12.1809 Beeby, Hough and Co have taken Harraby Bleach Works lately occupied by Messrs Lamb, Scott, Waldie and Co

1811 Jollie p81 Bleaching ground lately occupied by them

 

LAMB STREET; UPPERBY

A circa 1904 photograph in Carlisle Record Office shows a yard with privy in Lamb Street. The photo was taken to show the squalid sanitary conditions in this part of the village

City Minutes 1935-36 p181 4 and 5 unfit for human habitation

CJ 03.08.1962 p7 (illus) Lamb Street cottages demolished

 

LAMONTE, A

1880 Carlisle Directory Photographer, 18 Bank St

 

LAMP COURT, 87 Denton Street [1880 Directory]

 

LAMP INN English Street; in local directory for 1837

 

LAMP LIGHTERS

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered p14/15

 

LAMPLUGH CLOSE

CP 13.03.1819 p1 Power looms for sale

 

LAMPLUGH WORKS

CN 07.09.2012 p34 History of the site by Denis Perriam

 

LANCASTER, N.B. Cecil Street

CN 06.02.2004 p19 Accountants started by Noel Lancaster in 1958

 

LANCASTER AND CALEDONIAN HOTEL see CALEDONIAN INN

 

LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY see RAILWAYS: LANCASTER AND CARLISLE

 

LANCASTER COTTAGES; Regent Street, so named on the 1851-61 census

02.08.1858 died Francis Barclay of Lancaster Cottages [UMI 52/5]

 

LANCASTER STREET Listed in the 1858 Directory. Runs parallel to Lancaster and Carlisle Railway which opened in 1847. Shown but not named on Studholme’s 1842 map. No development on the street save the gable end of King Street and gable end of a house near Crown Street

 

LANCASTER STREET SCHOOLS see CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL

 

LANCASTRIAN SCHOOL see BRITISH SCHOOL

 

LANCER INN Gallows Hill see Thorncliffe, London Road

 

LANCHESTER MARIONETTE THEATRE

CJ 13.10.1950 p5 Visit to Carlisle

CJ 17.10.1950 p2 Visit to Carlisle

 

LAND AND LABOUR LEAGUE Formed July 1889

Amalgamated Soc of Railway Servants Souvenir Brochure 1911 p 27 1BC 625

 

LANDSDOWNE CRESCENT

City Minutes 1935/36 p115 Permission for 4 houses

 

THE LANES Records suggest that William II divided land in town, particularly the Lanes, between local landowners. The early inhabitants of this part of the city seem to have managed perfectly well without lanes. Later these properties were sub-divided into long, narrow tenements. The reasons for the lanes was to allow access from the west side to the rear of the burgage plots without having to enter from the front of the properties themselves. As these plots became increasingly sub-divided access routes had to be established which bypassed the front entrances. This pattern of development is probably how the Lanes developed; excavation has proved that some of the Lanes originated in the 11th or 12th century; Keays Lane, Hodgsons Court, Union Court and Elliots Lane all in existence by 14th century (Carlisle a frontier city p16); The lanes area extended south beyond Lowthians Lane [White Hart Lane, Bonnels Lane] until Bank Street was driven through from Lowther Street to English Street in 1849. Named Lanes running from Bank St north to East Tower Street prior to 1980s redevelopment and according to the Ordnance Survey of the 1860s – Lowthian’s Lane, Packhorse Lane, Kings Arms Lane, Peascod’s Lane, Old Grapes Lane, Grapes Lane, Crown and Anchor Lane, Lion and Lamb Lane, Lewthwaites Lane, Old Bush Lane, Globe Lane, Union Court, Hodgson’s Court, Keay’s Lane, Law’s Lane, Sewell’s Lane, Bousfield’s Lane, Three Cannons Lane, Longcakes Lane. There are other unnamed spaces shown on the 1860s maps which may have once been lanes. Private ownership, at one time or another, is hinted at by the names of the lanes themselves. The other inspiration for lane names would be a public house there [Grapes Hotel, Crown and Anchor Inn, Kings Arms Inn, Old Bush Inn, Globe Inn, Three Cannons Inn]. Lanes changed names, perhaps with change of ownership. There can be no doubt that that Old Turks Head Lane, Jollie’s Lane and Crown and Anchor Lane are one and the same. Elliots Lane in 1829 appears to become Union Court by 1841. It is only in 1794 with the publication of William Hutchinson’s plan of Carlisle that any of the lanes are named on city maps. However it is Wood’s city map of 1821 which can be regarded as the earliest reliable source for the position of lanes. His map shows 26 lanes, 18 of which are named. Census records suggest that in the second half of the nineteenth century the lanes had a strong residential character along with small-scale commercial and retail premises. In 1841 there were 986 people in the lanes north from Bank Street. These 1841 figures are broken down as follows Three Cannons Lane =28, Bousfield Lane = 19, Sewells Lane = 66, Laws Lane = 27, Keys Lane = 79, Hodgsons Court = 13, Union Court = 98, Globe Lane =43, Old Bush Lane = 33, Lewthwaite Lane = 5, Crown and Anchor Lane = 50, Grapes Lane =51, Old Grapes Lane = 106, Peascods Lane = 85. Kings Arms Lane =147, Pack Horse Lane = 136. The insanitary condition in the Lanes was highlighted in the 1850 Board of Health report. In Lion and Lamb Lane were stables and cow sheds. In Kings Arms Lane is a covered pit into which is thrown the offal from an adjoining slaughterhouse. In Peascods Lane a drain runs from a slaughterhouse, there is likewise an open cellar, a receptacle of filth, stated not to have been emptied for the last three years. A letter in the Carlisle Journal in 1865 refers to Crown and Anchor Lane . For some time the stench arising from the piggeries, slaughter-house, etc has been almost overpowering, so much so as to cause very many to change their route through the lanes on each side and now that the Summer weather is here, the nuisance must become excessive unless checked. Where is the Health Committee? And where is the enactment compelling all such outhouses to be removed a specific distance from dwelling houses? Yet more than one family eat and sleep.surrounded by such an atmosphere. In 1901 the number of people living in the Lanes was 760 broken down as following; Bousfields Lane = 34, Crown and Anchor Lane = 33, Globe Lane = 53, Hodgsons Court = 17, Keys Lane = 69, Laws Lane = 25, Lewthwaites lane = 10, Lion and Lamb Lane = 7, Longcakes Lane = 36, Kings Arms lane = 83, New Grapes Lane = 18, Old Buh Lane = 20, Old Grapes Lane = 33, Packhorse Lane = 26, Peascods Lane = 114, Sewells Lane = 47, Three Cannons lane = 20, Three Crowns lane = 13, Union Court = 102. Occupations in the Lanes in 1901 were; gardener, charwoman, butcher, biscuit worker, dressmaker, telegraphic messenger, insurance agent, joiner, council roadman, blacksmith, ironworks clerk, sweet factory operative, fishmonger’s assistant, hotel keeper, barman, servant, carpet factory operative, hotel keeper, bootmaker, a basketmaker, slater, machinist, plasterer, weaver, glover, carter, corporation labourer, night watchman, coach builder, lamplighter, shoemaker, cordwainer, carter, plumber and gas fitter, pawnbroker, apprentice bricklayer, retired prison warden, tailor, bricklayer, laundress, whitesmith, housekeeper, fishing tackle maker, confectioner’s assistant, bookbinder, apprentice painter, leather merchant, baker’s apprentice, saddler, assistant teacher, photographer, watch repairer, pupil teacher, gas stoker, milliner, publican, tailoress, cattle drover, chimney sweep, cab driver, bellman and bill poster, shop girl, tin box worker, skinner’s labourer, fish dealer, ostler, butcher’s errand boy, porter, boot repairer, provision merchant, warehouse hand, hairdresser, furniture porter, hotel boots, chairmaker, hawker, pedlar, paper hanger, showman, striker in the iron trade, lodging house keeper

McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes; excavations 1981-2

McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes p8 Plan of Lanes

Roman and Medieval Carlisle; the northern lanes, excavations 1978-82, volume 2; the medieval period and post-medieval period pp278 - 298

M. Scott Parker Memories of the Lanes. 2006

CJ 13.06.1865 p3d A nuisance - letter

CJ 13.05.1938 p7 Rickergate property purchase

CJ 15.07.1938 p5 Rickergate property purchase

 

THE LANES SHOPPING CENTRE City Council had plans for the redevelopment of at least part of Lanes site since 1954; 1959 scheme prepared for redevelopment of Grapes Lane area; 1961 loan sanction refused for this scheme; 10/1961 Council appoints consultants to advise on future planning of area; Public Inquiry on proposals Nov/Dec 1965; formal approval given April 1968; 01/1969 Council made known its proposals for development of area and invited applications from development companies; 12/1970 the Grosvenor and Eaton Estates Development Co which had been selected withdrew because of rising costs; Laings and the Council produced a new scheme which was considered by the council in 11/1973; discussions with Laings continued to 10/1976, Laings withdrawing from project in 02/1977; Donaldson’s of London and Building Design Partnership of Preston appointed to carry out appraisal of the Scotch St East area; scheme adopted 1 of 3 put forward by consultants; Compulsory Purchase Order Inquiry took place in 1980; 1981 demolition of existing buildings; 1982 main contract begun; 19.11.1984 official opening by the Duke of Gloucester, plaque commemoration; project architect David Cash; Jimmy Dyer statue unveiled 21.08.1986; new Peascod’s Lane opened 26.10.2000, Cumberland News of 27.10.2000 reports opening of new Debenhams store, anchoring the phase two development

See also SHOPS AND SHOPPING

The Lanes Remembered, 2007

CN 29.01.1960 p1 (Illus) £3m plan for new Carlisle shop centre

CN 29.01.1960 p6 (illus) The shape of things to come

CJ 02.02.1960 p1 The £3m grab at a Carlisle tit-bit

CJ 02.02.1960 p1 Mr Routledge and city centre plan

CJ 05.02.1960 p1 £3m scheme looks like a mirage

CJ 05.02.1960 p8 Shopping centre - for and against

CN 05.02.1960 p1 Carlisle re-actions to £3m city plan

CN 05.02.1960 p10 Letter

CJ 09.02.1960 p1 No dealing, say traders

CJ 12.02.1960 p6 Journalman’s Diary

CJ 12.02.1960 p12 Council has its own scheme

CN 12.02.1960 p1 (illus) Council’s plan for Arcade

CN 12.02.1960 p2 City council has plan of its own

CN 19.02.1960 p12 Letter; Carlisle’s own plan scores

CN 08.04.1960 p1 Scheme abandoned

Carlisle an illustrated history p95 Design for 1961 proposed development

CN 29.09.1961 p12 Plea for city’s old Lanes

CN 06.10.1961 p16 Letters; information on the Lanes and preservation of

ENS 07.05.1963 pp1,6 (illus) Lanes development

ENS 09.05.1963 Cost of plan kept secret

ENS 01.07.1963 p1 (illus) Model on view

CN 10.12.1965 p1 Act now on ‘Shop Centre’ City urged

CN 10.12.1965 p3 City inquiry marathon ends on 6th day

ENS 05.07.1967 p1 Green light for town centre plans

CN 07.07.1967 p10 Second thoughts on city centre plan - comment

CN 07.07.1967 p11 Approval of ambitious scheme

CN 13.03.1970 p28 No decision taken on proposals

CN 20.03.1970 p11 Blueprints for Space Age (Grosvenor plan)

CN 20.03.1970 p1 Shop in comfort

CN 03.04.1970 pp1,2 Garage firm puts new plan for redevelopment and city traders

CN 10.04.1970 p11 Grosvenor scheme approved

CN 10.04.1970 p14 Planning for the future

CN 24.04.1970 p1 Multiples first in shop centre

CN 03.07.1970 p1 Prices leap if city centre scheme goes ahead

CN 10.07.1970 p13 City traders keep up pressure

CN 21.08.1970 p1 City Coop seeks new centre site

CN 28.08.1970 p1 Developers promise to reveal city centre plan details

CN 04.09.1970 p17 Development firm to discuss new Carlisle scheme

CN 11.09.1970 p1 Counsellors meet city developers

CN 23.10.1970 p15 Developers ready to meet council

CN 13.11.1970 p1 Carlisle centre developers rapped for delay

CN 27.11.1970 p1 Deadline set for final decision

CN 11.12.1970 p1 Traders outrage at shock rents

CN 18.12.1970 p3 City scheme decision bid fails

CN 24.12.1970 p1 Grosvenor pulls out

CN 31.12.1970 p1 Shop centre talks fail

CN 08.01.1971 p15 (illus) Traders vote on new scheme

CN 15.01.1971 p1 Laings called in on city centre plan

CN 05.02.1971 p28 Redevelopment plan report considered

CN 12.02.1971 p3 Consultants in talks

CN 12.02.1971 p24 Development attitude irresponsible traders hit out

CN 05.03.1971 p1 New schemes for Carlisle centre await crucial reply

CN 12.03.1971 p1 Redevelopment quandary still remains with city council

CN 12.03.1971 p14 No cash aid (comment)

CN 12.03.1971 p15 Government cash decision deals crushing blow

CN 19.03.1971 p14 Comment - new ideas on city centre

CN 19.03.1971 p15 City centre scheme is finally shelved

CN 08.04.1971 p26 Shop owners in new centre scheme move

CN 17.12.1971 p1 Council won’t cooperate over city centre scheme

CN 09.06.1972 p1 Trust survey could lead to new plan

CN 17.11.1972 p1 Civic Trust scheme could revolutionise centre

CN 01.12.1972 p1 Council notified of Trust plan

CN 01.12.1972 p15 Row brewing over city centre plan

CN 02.11.1973 p10 Giant store is showpiece of mammoth scheme and letter

CN 02.11.1973 p36 City centre super plan ‘nonsense’

CN 09.11.1973 p8 Plans for super shop given go ahead

CN 09.11.1973 p11Change of mind still possible

CN 16.11.1973 p1 Hunter Davis comment - who is going to make a killing?

CN 16.11.1973 p10 Letter

CN 07.12.1973 p10 Civic Trust answer ‘it’s a new old look’

CN 14.12.1973 p11 Plea for say on city centre

CN 21.12.1973 p4 Carlisle Lanes - Solway article

CN 11.01.1974 p5 Centre scheme under attack

CN 18.01.1974 p1 Bulldozer battle looming on new city plan

CN 01.02.1974 p5 Fight to save city centre from axe

CN 01.02.1974 p9 City students test opinion on Lanes

CN 08.02.1974 p1 Rush to back Trust’s scheme

CN 15.02.1974 p11 Mayor says ‘no’ to Lanes scheme (Civic Trust)

CN 08.03.1974 p7 Civic Trust steps up bid to stop destruction

CN 08.03.1974 p6 Carlisle Lanes - Solway article

CN 29.03.1974 p1 Preservation Society to re-plan city centre area

CN 11.04.1974 p14 Women rally to save Lanes (Women’s Institute)

CN 31.05.1974 p1 Lanes win one more champion (petition)

CN 14.06.1974 p1 Facelift ‘silence’ attacked

CN 21.06.1974 p1 ‘Give us the facts’ demand

CN 28.06.1974 p40 Lanes decision will be a ‘leap in the dark’

CN 05.07.1974 p1 Let the people speak says the City Preservation Society.

CN 12.07.1974 p26 This is how a council goes round in circles

CN 19.07.1974 p1 R.I.B.A. warns on redevelopment

CN 19.07.1974 p6 Record of the lanes - Solway article

CN 19.07.1974 p11 Last gasp and hold up in city plan ‘a victory’

CN 26.07.1974 p36 Mayor sparks off new Lanes row

CN 02.08.1974 p1 New plan for city centre (CPS)

CN 02.08.1974 p8 A special meeting will be held

CN 02.08.1974 p10 Full hearing on Lanes future (Comment)

CN 09.08.1974 p10 The Lanes wrong decision (Comment)

CN 09.08.1974 p11 Mayor’s vote seals fate

CN 16.08.1974 p1 Preservationists push their plan

CN 23.08.1974 p11 City could be left with half million bill says Tory; and letter

CN 06.09.1974 p1 (illus) Lanes of the future

CN 06.09.1974 p5 Talks on Lanes plan to go on rules Mayor

CN 06.09.1974 p6 (illus) Society outlines its plan (CPS)

CN 13.06.1974 p6 Laings breaks silence

CN 13.09.1974 p36 Lanes plan may have hit county shop men

CN 11.10.1974 p9 Mayor faces rap in new Lanes row

CN 18.10.1974 p13 CPS willing to put Lanes plan to council

CN 25.10.1974 p1 City centre talks - preservationists left in cold

CN 25.10.1974 p4 CPS peace talks on city centre plan

CN 01.11.1974 p1 CPS snub - Tories lash out

CN 01.11.1974 p40 City centre row - vote of censure threatened

CN 08.11.1974 p10 (illus) Preserving a piece of the past

CN 08.11.1974 p18 Issue of Lanes ‘could be a major scandal’

CN 15.11.1974 p11 Round one to society (CPS)

CN 29.11.1974 p1 Let me be mediator (Willie Whalen counsellor)

CN 20.12.1974 p9 Talks fail to bridge Lanes gap

CN 20.12.1974 p11 Society launch new Lanes campaign

CN 10.01.1975 p1 How Lanes can unlock the past

CN 17.01.1975 p12 New moves to save historical buildings

CN 24.01.1975 p7 Costly facelift for city

CN 14.02.1975 p16 Lanes scheme could mean cash for city

CN 28.02.1975 p11 Great Lanes debate was just a flop

CN 21.03.1975 p1 A spin down the Lanes (song composed)

CN 21.03.1975 p3 Lanes plan storm over secret report

CN 27.03.1975 p11 Alternative scheme blocked (CPS)

CN 04.04.1975 p1 ‘Dirty tricks’ ruse in Lanes war

CN 11.04.1975 p1 (illus) Laings switch to old look for centre

CN 11.04.1975 p4 CPS plan blocked

CN 02.05.1975 p16 Experts condemn new Lanes plan (RIBA)

CN 09.05.1975 p9 City centre scheme rules out homes

CN 13.06.1975 p1 Town clerk lashes the critics

CN 01.08.1975 p1 Minister sets off row

CN 07.11.1975 p15 New city Lanes plan runs into cash snag

CN 21.11.1975 p7 Case for a city centre blue print

CN 05.12.1975 p11 More space for motorists

CN 12.12.1975 p7 City Council wins right to but land

CN 19.12.1975 p7 Great Lanes row boils again

ENS 08.01.1976 p3 New bid on Lanes gets the cold shoulder

CN 09.01.1976 p7 Council blocks a CPS revival on Lanes

ENS 04.02.1976 p12 Letter

CN 20.02.1976 p7 Architect knock plans for Lanes

CN 20.02.1976 p36 New Lanes plan runs into a cash problem

CN 27.02.1976 p9 ‘Alice in Wonderland’ council capers

ENS 02.03.1976 p3 (illus) Time is running out for Geoffrey

CN 12.03.1976 p1 (illus) A new look for Carlisle city centre

CN 19.03.1976 p1 Laings in the middle of Lanes riddle

CN 19.03.1976 p19 New call to save old Lanes

CN 02.04.1976 p24 Row over city centre takes a new turn

CN 23.04.1976 p9 Tories pledge city centre plan fight

CN 02.07.1976 p1 Ombudsman say no to CPS plan

CN 20.08.1976 p11 Laings plan is set for axe

CN 17.09.1976 p1 Tories are set to axe big city shopping plan

CN 01.10.1976 p1 D-Day for Lanes scheme

CN 08.10.1976 p1 Bob (Tiffen) holds the key on vital Lanes scheme

CN 08.10.1976 p9 City builders jobs claim is rapped

CN 15.10.1976 p11 Counsellors ponders next move in Lanes saga

CN 22.10.1976 p13 City Lanes saga goes on... and on

CN 29.10.1976 p3 Liberals woo public over Lanes saga

CN 19.11.1976 p8 Lanes lead to row on ‘hidden letters’

CN 26.11.1976 p11 Plans boss in rumpus over Lanes

CN 03.12.1976 p8 Secrecy over Lanes talks leads to row

175 Years of Carlisle p86 Photo of one lane demolished, one still standing

CN 04.02.1977 p1 We have had enough - Laings

CN 04.02.1977 p8 Act now on the Lanes - comment

CN 11.02.1977 p5 Lanes plan top priority

CN 11.02.1977 p17 Move to save Lanes problem

CN 07.04.1977 p3 New turning for Lanes

CN 06.05.1977 p9 (illus) Plan experts take new look at Lanes

CN 27.05.1977 p15 Border replies in Lanes row

CN 05.08.1977 p1 Lanes it’s over to you

ENS 01.09.1977 p4 City Lanes saga running to end

CN 02.09.1977 p5 New look at city Lanes saga

CN 23.09.1977 p1 C&A drop plans for city shop

ENS 09.11.1977 p3 Traders fear shop jungle

ENSÊ15.12.1977 p17 (illus) Shape of things to come

CN 16.12.1977 p5 (illus) Saga of Lanes takes a new turn

CN 23.12.1977 p3 (illus) Looking back on the Lanes

CN 27.01.1978 p36 Make Lanes ‘mix’ say experts

ENS 09.02.1978 p1 D-Day for city Lanes

CN 10.02.1978 p36 Lanes work could start in two years

ENS 14.02.1978 p10 Lanes go-ahead

CN 17.02.1978 p8 Facelift for Lanes gets go ahead

ENS 15.03.1978 p1 Adams fruit shop collapses; last night workmen pull it down

CN 17.03.1978 p40 (illus) Clean up on collapsed shop; adjoining shops shored up

CN 23.03.1978 p32 Shop must be demolished; Atkinsons should be pulled down

ENS 30.03.1978 p8 (illus) Clouds over the Lanes

CN 31.03.1978 p36 More shops could collapse

CN 14.04.1978 p1 High Street giants rush for city site

CN 28.04.1978 p1 (illus) Plan to eject new life into city centre

CN 28.04.1978 p9 (illus) New Lanes begin to take shape

CN 05.05.1978 p9 Counsellor raps city centre plan

ENS 19.07.1978 p7 (illus) The Lanes; a stride ahead

CN 21.07.1978 p1 Snub for architects

CN 28.07.1978 p36 Letter

ENS 18.10.1978 p3 Fury grows

CN 20.10.1978 p11 Council postpones shops demolition

CN 27.10.1978 p36 Waiting game over eyesore

CN 03.11.1978 p11 New hope for city shops

CN 17.11.1978 p1 Pub plan is delayed by Lanes (Howard Arms)

ENS 22.11.1978 p8 (illus) A look into the eighties

CN 24.11.1978 p15 (illus) City centre of 80s unveiled

CN 08.12.1978 p3 Car parking boost bid for Lanes

CN 15.12.1978 p1 Co-op plan superstore for city

CN 15.12.1978 p3 Bid to demolish shops defeated

CN 02.03.1979 p9 Safety checks on city shops

CN 23.03.1979 p10 (illus) Shameful past and present

CN 01.06.1979 p3 Council in new move on Lanes

McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes p6 photo of demolition

CN 07.11.1980 p7 (illus) Rebuild plan for old shops

CN 05.06.1981 p1 Stores set to open doors

CN 05.06.1981 p1 Library in Lanes bid talks

CN 12.06.1981 p11 Identity crisis in Lanes scheme

CN 19.06.1981 £18m plan attracts insurers

CN 19.06.1981 p10 Comment

CN 14.08.1981 p4 Storing up history

ENS 01.09.1982 p1 Laings land the big job

CN 22.10.1982 p1 A £250,000 deal sparks shop plan

CN 05.11.1982 p22 (illus) Lanes that link city’s past and future

CN 10.12.1982 p4 City centre plans from the past

CN 24.12.1982 p44 City firm loses Lanes contract

Cumberland News Images of Carlisle p13 Unveiling of official plaque in 1984

ENS 07.08.1986 J.Dyer statue by J.Bluck vandalised; to be unveiled on 21.08.

ENS 07.08.1986 Judith Bluck, sculptress, doing some otters for fountain

CN 23.02.1990 p3 A new look at clock for Lanes

CN 07.12.1990 p4 Controversy over loss of a lane

CN 03.07.1992 p4 Lanes were places to live

CN 05.08.1994 p1 City’s super loos

CN 07.10.1994 p16 The Lanes that rose out of the rubble

CN 14.10.1994 p13 Lively day in the Lanes

CN 18.11.1994 p3 Stores (C&A) pay out

CN 16.06.1995 p1 Food Giant up for sale in secret

CN 16.06.1995 p10 Lanes still has a future

CN 16.06.1995 p10 Death knell of a store

ENS 06.03.1996 p5 (illus) City shops centre loses another store

ENS 01.04.1996 p7 City Lanes pass the Scots university test

ENS 10.04.1996 p9 (illus) City Lanes tops 999 false alarms blacklist

CN 27.06.1997 p4 (illus) Ambitious Lanes plan will change face of city centre

CN 25.07.1997 p1 (illus) Huge city traffic shake up

CN 22.08.1997 p1 Flats row over new Lanes project

CN 19.09.1997 p1 Hundreds of jobs on way in city shops plan

CN 31.10.1997 p14 Yes to revamp Lanes centre and 443 homes

CN 28.11.1999 p3 Look at Lanes plan

CN 12.12.1997 p5 (illus) Moment of truth for £30m Lanes extension plan

CN 19.12.1997 p5 We’ll get Lanes right in the end

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p185 1999 photo of new development

CN 01.09.2000 p16 Lanes ‘Can take on Tyneside’

CN 27.10.2000 p1 Debenhams opens; opinion p12

CN 21.09.2001 p3 Promotional campaign launch

CN 28.09.2001 p16 New stores in Lanes; rental figures

CN 05.10.2001 p3 205,000 visitors last week to Lanes; retail boom

CN 12.10.2001 p14 New ad agency for Lanes

CN 02.11.2001 p5 Sunday chaos in Lanes car park

CN 14.12.2001 p3 300,000 shoppers flock to Lanes in a week

CN 07.06.2002 p16 Lanes soon employ over 1000 people

CN 31.05.2002 p18 Menswear retailer Scotts have taken a 15 year lease

CN 14.02.2003 p16 Award for Lanes campaign

CN 28.11.2003 p18 975,000 visitors in October; 82 units, 430,000 sq ft floorspace

CN 23.01.2004 p3 Lanes to get £370k facelift; redesign for Centre Square

CN 11.06.2004 p3 Refurbished square reopened; otters high and dry

CN 04.02.2005 p22 One million visitors in December 2004; 4% up on Dec 2003

CN 18.11.2005 p14 Last December 1,151,377 visited Lanes

CN 30.12.2005 p5 Smoking free zone from 1st January

CN 08.12.2006 p13 Letter reviewing the work of the City Preservation Society in thwarting earlier schemes for the Lanes

CN 05.10.2007 p23 Three national chain stores for Lanes; Next, Rymans and Hawkins

 

LANES VAULTS The Lanes; later called Fantasy, Ruby Tuesdays

CN 06.12.1985 p26 Opening of the Lanes Vaults

ENS 26.03.1987 Threat to close pub after exemption licence revoked

ENS 05.05.1987 Pub for sale following licensing row

ENS 03.12.1987 p1 City bar sold

 

LANGCAKE LANE see LONGCAKE LANE

 

LANGDALE AVENUE

City Minutes 1930-31 p738 New street be named Langdale Avenue

 

LANGHORNE, D Petteril Bank Road

Pharmacist

CD 1952 Ad p278

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p231

CD 1955-56 Ad p233

 

LANGHORN’S LANE see HIGHLAND LADDIE LANE

 

LANGLEY HOUSE, Howard Place

1918 Electoral Register Robert Briggs elector

23.04.1920 R.Briggs died Langley House, Howard Place [MI 214/12]

 

LANGRIGG HOUSE Old people’s home; officially opened 29.02.1972

CN 03.03.1972 p13 (illus)

Civic Affairs April 1972 (illus) 2BC 352

 

LA PERGOLA RESTAURANT Castle Street

CN 16.06.2006 p1 Staff suffer burns from ‘wrong’ kitchen bulb

CN 20.07.2007 p81 Bu siness for sale; run for 16 years by Mauro Mingotti

 

LAPPET

CN 14.05.1993 p3 Arab orders jobs booster

CN 01.10.1993 p17 Police probe factory fire

CN 18.03.1994 p4 (illus) Carlisle based head shawl firm corners 80% of market

CN 26.01.1996 p1 Lay off for 110

CN 02.02.1996 p13 37 city mill jobs to be axed

 

LASERS

CN 14.12.2001 p8 Laser show in city centre

 

LATIMER, William Sheffield St and Lorne St

1882 Porters Directory Ad p78 joiner, builder and contractor

 

LATIMER’S SCHOOL

1841 Census Sarah and Jane Latimer, teachers, Scotch Street

CJ 07.01.1848 p1 S and J L Latimer’s School, 6 Castle Street

1851 Census Sarah and Jane Latimer, teachers, aged 43 and 34 respectively, 6 Castle Street

1858 Kelly Directory Misses Sarah and Jane Latimer, Ladies School, George Street, Carlisle

1861 Census Sarah and Jane Latimer, both retired teachers

 

LATITUDE

54 53 N lat.,2 55 W Lon

 

LATTA, Jim

CN 19.03.2004 p22 Opens gold shop in Carlisle

 

LATTER FAIR Annual fair for horses and cattle on 19th September

CP 22.09.1821 p2f Latter Fair thinly attended

Carlisle Examiner 21.09.1858 p3b

Carlisle Examiner 20.09.1859 p3c,d

CP 23.09.1865 p6f Carlisle Latter Fair

 

LATTIMER, William. [05.03.1830 - 06.02.1889] Bleacher, dyer and finisher. On the 1881 census he is living at 7 Victoria Place. He is described as aged 57 born Carlisle and employing 24 men and 4 boys, previously he was the manager of the Holme Head works. His daughters ran a school in Carlisle for many years

 

LATTIMERS COURT, 24 Lord Street [1880 Directory]

 

LATTIMER’S SCHOOL, Misses

See also Wood View

1881 census 7 Victoria Place. Head of household William Lattimer, bleacher and dyer and finisher employing 24 men and 4 boys. Margaret B Lattimer, daughter, teacher (Ladies School) aged 24, and her sister Mary, teacher (Ladies School)

1891 census 7 Victoria Place. Head of household Jane B Lattimer, widow, living on her own means. Daughters Margaret B, 34, [20.09.1856 - 17.12.1935] Jane Hughes, 25 and Frances A, 24, all three school mistresses. Two school boarders in the house

CP 07.02.1896 p8a Victoria Place

1901 Bulmer’s Directory. Misses Lattimer, Burlington House, Chatsworth Square

1901 census 1 Chatsworth Square. Head Jane B Lattimer, widow and her three daughters Margaret B, Jane H and Frances A, all school mistresses. One school boarder

1911 census, Wood View, Chatsworth Square. Three Miss Lattimers as in 1901, all described as Principals of Private School, plus 6 Boarders aged 11-17, a house mistress, music mistress and French mistress

CN 01.05.1952 p5 Death of Miss JH Lattimer aged 87, daughter of William Lattimer of

Holme Head House, manager of the works. Her two older sisters ran a girls school for many years

 

LAUGHRAN’S LANE; Rickergate

City Minutes 1928-9 p665 5 houses unfit for human habitation

 

LAURA ASHLEY

CN 01.09.2006 p9 Laura Ashley opens second Carlisle shop on London Road

 

LAVER, John Private boarding school, 2,3, the Crescent, aged 45, schoolmaster, born Essex, 9 pupils [1851 census]

 

LAW CENTRE

CN 09.03.1990 p5 Council to fund city law centre

CN 04.01.1991 p1 Law centre

CN 24.04.1992 p44 Law centre saved

CN 23.09.1994 p13 Law centre cases soar

CN 13.12 2002 p3 Community Law Centre cuts an ‘outrage’

CN 13.10.2006 p17 Cash strapped centre faces uncertain future; 14 lawyers employed

CN 11.11.2011 p 16 Celebrates 21 years

 

LAWLEY; Butchers Warwick Road

V.White Carlisle and its Villages p22 1990 drawing of shop

 

LAWN TENNIS see TENNIS

 

LAWRIE Family of clockmakers who moved from Edinburgh to Carlisle circa1740; family flourished until about 1775; ‘I looked into the shop of Lowrey the Watchmaker, to whom I was only known, as far as been employed by my master [Mr Beilby of Newcastle] engraved many Clock faces for him during my Apprenticeship’ [Thomas Bewick in his autobiography p63 of the 1975 OUP edition]

Penfold Clockmakers of Cumberland pp 40-41

 

LAWS LANE Scotch Street So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

Roman and Medieval Carlisle; the northern Lanes, excavations 1978-82, vol 2. The medieval and post-medieval period. Page 16 Photo of lane under demolition

1880 Directory 37 Scotch Street to 12 Lowther Street

The Lanes Remembered pp63, 76, 90 photos

1891 census; 31 people living in lane

1901 census; 25 people living in this lane in 6 households. Occupations include bookbinder, tailor, dressmaker, apprentice painter, baker’s apprentice, leather merchant, grocer’s assistant, fishmonger’s assistant, saddler’s assistant, teacher, housekeeper, watch repairer, photographer, pupil teacher

41 Scotch Street [1934 Directory]

Carlisle an illustrated history p95 Photo of Lane in 1970s

 

LAWSON BROTHERS Wood Street

Lorry, wagon and van builders

CD 1893-94 Ad p214

Carlisle in Camera 2 p7 Photo of Wood St yard and new cart

02.12.1907 died Peter Lawson, cartwright, at Wood St [MI 64/56]

 

LAWSON, Frank Bank Street

Poster writer

CD 1952 Ad p357

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p270

CD 1955-56 Ad p276

CD 1961-62 Ad p257

 

LAWSON, Mordaunt [3rd son of Sir Wilfrid Lawson]

North Cumberland Reformer 03.02,1894 p2 Mordaunt Lawson and Richard Tiltman take over Messrs Bourke, Workington

CJ 26.06.1900 p1 Mordaunt Lawson and Co. Castle Works and Byron Street Foundry. List of products

CJ 28.06.1901p1 Relinquishing engineering department to more rapidly develop their large cycle construction works; to sell plant on Devonshhire Walk premises

CJ 12.07.1901 p4 Failure of Mordaunt Lawson, Evening Hill; a receiving order

CJ 16.07.1901p2 Fire at works

CJ 26.07.1901 p3 More concerning the above failure

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

Lancashire Evening Post 29.01.1904 report on the funeral of Mordaunt Lawson, death by suicide

 

LAWSON, R Castle Street

Engineers

CD 1966-68 Ad p265

 

LAWSON, T Shaddongate; Port Road

Joiners, contractors; undertakers. 1936/7 made the lending library public access book stacks of Austrian oak with ebonised decoration

Leading Trader of the City Ad pp46-7 A 616

CD 1931 Ad p38

CD 1937 Ad p110

CD 1952 Ad p327

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad inside back cover vi

CD 1955-56 Ad pii

CD 1961-62 Ad p87

 

LAWSON, T and Son Builders

CN 26.12.1991 p7 Builders close

 

LAWSON, Thomas Shaddongate

Joiner and contractor

CD 1902-03 Ad p283

 

LAWSONS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 60 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 58-60 Milbourne Street

 

LAWSON FOUNTAIN Court Square later St Aidans Road, Stoneyholme, outside the golf course club house. Provided by temperance advocate W.Lawson

City Minutes 1929-30 p112 Sanction for urinals; move Lawson memorial fountain

CN 16.09.1966 p12 CN 08.05.1970 p14 (illus) CN 16.07.1971 p12 (illus)

CN 14.09.1929 p12 Removal

CN 21.09.1929 p4 (illus) Removal

CN 03.08.1990 p4 Fountain given new sites

 

LAWSONS LIMITED Newtown Road

Drapers, clothiers and general outfitters

CD 1961-62 Ad p268

 

LAWSON STREET

City Minutes 1901-02 p296 Approval for 12 houses

CN 13.05.2005 p13 Photo of VE Day celebration

 

LAZONBY TERRACE Now a part of London Road; photo of terrace in about 1897 in Carlisle in camera 2 p24

CRO SRDBB 3/2/1 1893/1 10 houses for Jas Hewitt, architect and owner. This was followed by one house in 1897 [so dated on facade] for James Hewitt, five houses in 1906 for Mr Hewitt and in 1912 a motor house for J Hewitt

Our City Our People p18 Built about 1897 by Mr Hewitt; Mr Ridley’s shop

 

LEACH, Robert Bank Street

Millers

CD 1920 Ad p40

CD 1924 Ad p92

 

LEABOURNE LEA ESTATE, Blackwell

City Minutes 1923-24 p362 Approval to purchase part of estate for bowling green...

 

LEAGERD HILL

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]

 

LEATHAM STREET

Council Minutes 12.03.1889 p 63 item 60 Approval for formation of new street

 

LEDIARD AVENUE

City minutes 1931-32 p727 New street to be named Lediard Avenue

 

LEE BROTHERS Blackwell Road

Painter and decorator

CD 1952 Ad p72

 

LEE, A 139 Botchergate

1882 Porters Directory Ad p150 Bookseller, newsagent

LEE, Fred Blackwell Road

Painters and decorator

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p267

CD 1955-56 AD p274

 

LEEDS BUILDING SOCIETY Bank Street; opened 1962

CN 16.04.1987 p14 Silver jubilee. Ad feature

 

LEGAL AID

CN 02.03.2001 p14 Threat of no criminal defence work from April

 

LE GALL CAFE Devonshire Street; opposite Le Gall sign on former hairdresser’s salon

CN 04.01.2002 p6 Sold to Ron Wood; opened 5 years ago

 

LE GALL’S HAIRDRESSING SALON Devonshire St

1891 census Yves Le Gaul, aged 31 hairdresser, home Devonshire St, bn France

CD 1952 Ad p311

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p246

CD 1955-56 Ad p250

CD 1961-62 Ad p276

CN 17.09.1938 p17 Ad

CN 08.03.1974 p6 History

 

LEGENDS West Walls

Night Club

CN 26.11.1993 p40 Ad

CN 02.06.2000 p1 John Pattinson buys club again

 

LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN Founded 1906

CN 15.12.1972 p6

CN 22.01.1988 p4 Bid to bring back the old frontiersmen...

CN 09.03.1990 p5 Call to boost team

CN 24.08.1990 p31 (illus) Making history

CN 18.12.1992 p25 Rallying call to city tramps

CN 22.01.1993 p4 Volunteers with a long history

CN 04.06.1993 p13 Legion on the march

 

LEICESTER BOOT REPAIRING CO Botchergate, London Road

Boot and show repairers

CD 1920 Ad p22

 

LEIGH, T.W. Westmorland St

Paper merchants

CD 1966-68 Ad Display card

 

LEISURE CARD see CARLISLE CARD

 

LEISURE CENTRE see SANDS; LEISURE CENTRE

 

LEISURE MEMBERS WORLDWIDE Travel Club

CN 19.04.1996 p17 Travel club USA link

 

LEISURE PARK

CN 19.08.1994 pp1,10 Movie giants spectacular leisure plan

CN 02.09.1994 p7 Leisure plan better on city centre site

 

LEITH BANKING COMPANY Set up in Carlisle. First local reference to the bank is in the Carlisle Journal of 21.01.1826 when two newly erected houses adjoining the ‘Banking Office, Tower Street’ were offered for sale. Listed in Parson and White’s 1829 Directory. By 1834 move to the Market Place. This property was the house in which Mary Jackson, the miser was born, [in 1980 77 Scotch Street]. In 1836 following a bank run the business closed. It was amalgamated into a new bank, the Carlisle City and District Bank, opening in March 1837 [CN 14.01.2011]

 

LEMON LOUNGE Fisher Street

CN 24.05.2002 p8 Ad for opening of new Bistro Bar

CN 11.07.2003 p19 Ad feature; celebrating first anniversary

 

LENNOX MARTIN, L Lonsdale St

Insurance; auctioneers

CD 1952 Ad p318

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p250

CD 1955-56 Ad p253

CD 1966-68 Ad pix

CN 17.09.1938 p19 Ad

 

LEO CLUB

CN 24.11.1989 p10 Lions launch Leo club

 

LEONARD, M.T Roofing contractor

CN 16.04.1999 p20 Ad

 

LEONARDOS Lonsdale Street

Restaurant

CN 11.12.1998 p14

CN 22.02.2008 p1 Leonardo’s closes

 

LEPER HOSPITAL St Nicholas Botchergate; The first reference to the hospital is a letter of protection from King John sent in 1201 to the lepers of Carlisle. About the same time we have a charter from Hugh de Morvill endowing the hospital of Saint Nicholas outside the city of Carlisle with a ploughland of his demesne in the village of Hoff near Appleby, the land and goods of Richard the smith of Burgh, his villein, 40s. of land in Thurstonfield, and other land and rents elsewhere. Although it had been founded as a leper house, the qualification for admittance must have been modified to some extent by conditions attached to successive endowments. A royal commission in 1341, after examining all the available evidence, decided that it has been founded by some king of England long before time of memory, for the sustenance of 13 lepers, men and women, a master in Holy Orders who should be resident and sing mass at his will, and a chaplain who should sing mass daily for the benefactors of the hospital. After a lapse of time the lepers places were filled by poor, weak and impotent people which lead to a modification of the rules. When war broke out in 1296, the hospital, without the walls, was open to attack and soon became impoverished. Over the years the running of the hospital became a public scandal and reports of its mismanagement were laid before the Bishop and Crown. An inquisition in 1335 found that the rules had not been observed as they ought for 36 years or more because the said place was burned and totally destroyed, first by the Earl of Buchan’s war and afterwards several times by the Scots. The hospital lingered on as an independent institution until 1477 when Edward IV transferred it with all its lands, tenements, rights, liberties, franchises, commodities and emoluments to the priory of Carlisle. From the parliamentary survey of 1650 we learn that the hospital was altogether destroyed during the siege of Carlisle in 1645, and that the churchyard belonging to it abutted on the highway on the south and east. Evidences of burial have been found in that district during the last century. The Cumberland Pacquet of October 1834 reported that ‘persons employed in excavating the ground for the projected railway [The Canal Branch] last week discovered a very ancient burial ground at St Nicholas, in which they turned up a great number of human skulls and other bones’ The churchyard extended over two and a half acres in 1650 and abutted on the highway on the east and west. [Last part CN 15.09.2017 p16 Second section]

CWAAS Old Series vol 10, p102 -

The Hospitals of Carlisle A 841

Victoria County History; Cumberland Volume 2 pp199-203

Topping,G and Potter,J Memorials of Old Carlisle p11

CAIH p15

CN 04.04.1936 p13 CN 01.10.1965 p10

Jollie 1811 St Nicholas house of Joseph Studholme - formerly leper hospital

Cumbria October 1962 p242

CJ 03.01.1964 p13 CN 01.10.1965 p14

CN 02.12.1988 p4 City’s first hospital catered for lepers

CN 15.03.1996 p5 City leper hospital site found

 

LESLIE, James English Street

Architect and surveyor

CD 1880 Ad pxi

CD 1884-85 Ad pxi

 

LESLIE NURSERIES, Durdar road

CN 21.07.2017 p1 Closes after 125 years. Bought by Tommy Hogg 20 years ago

 

LETTER BOXES se PILLAR BOXES

 

LETTERS INN Botchergate; in local directory for 1829

LETTERS INN St Alban’s Row; in local directories 1847 to 1855

 

LEWIS COURT On electoral register from 1980-81; Ron Lewis was the Carlisle MP from 1964-1987

 

LEWIS COURT, South Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 40 South Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 8-40 South Street

 

LEWTHWAITE, Allan Denton Holme

Hairdresser

Carlisle an illustrated history p65 Photo of name board; established 1922

CN16.03.2001 p4 Allan to retire; went into fathers business in 1946

D.Perriam Denton Holme Photo p93

 

LEWTHWAITE, Musgrave Merchant, died 04.12.1802 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s, Cathedral; no 477]

 

LEWTHWAITE, Thomas Shoemaker of Botchergate, died 21.10.1802 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

LEWTHWAITE, Thomas Shoemaker, aged 41, employing 3 men, home address Castle St, born Carlisle [1851 census]

 

LEWTHWAITE AND LIGHTFOOT

1811 Jollie p82 Iron and wood yard in Scotch St

 

LEWTHWAITES COURT, Princess Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 16 Princess Street

LEWTHWAITE’S LANE Scotch Street; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of the city

McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes-photo p4

1880 Directory 63 Scotch Street to 30 Lowther Street

The Lanes Remembered pp 16-21, 114 Memories and photos of Lewthwaites Lane

10.09.1901 Collapse of buildings in Lanes

1901 census 10 people living in the lane in one household. Occupations include gas stoker, tailoress, milliner

1934 Directory

 

LEWTHWAITES SQUARE, Port Road [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 30 Port Road

1924 Directory lists between 26-28 Port Road

 

LEYLAND, Thomas Botchergate

Cooper

CD 1893-94 Ad p34

 

LIBERAL BORDER CITY CAMERA CLUB

Border City Camera Club founded 28.02.1902; dissolved in November 1906 and reformed as Liberal Border City Camera Club

CWAAS Third Series vol 22 Ian Moonie Amateur photographic groups based in Carlisle 1885 – 1914 pp147-162

 

LIBERAL CLUB 35 Lowther Street; built 1830s for Elizabeth Dacre

Carlisle Liberal Club Ltd Centenary 1881-1981 Robert Fell

D Perriam Lowther Street p22 Closed 2008 because of falling membership. The building taken over by Club 35 then in 2013 the Britannia Sports and Social Club

CJ 02.02.1940 p5 CN 08.02.1941 p6 CN 24.06.1966 p27 (illus)

CJ 04.06.1965 p9 (illus) History

CN 09.10.1981 p6 (illus) Centenary

CN 26.08.2005 p8 Advert for club; details of opening hours, services

CN 05.09.2008 p5 Club stewards pay £375,000 for city Liberal Club

 

LIBERAL INSTITUTE Caldewgate

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p 92 photo of Institute

 

LIBERALS

CJ 21.10.1938 p4 Sir Archibald Sinclair’s visit

CN 21.02.1997 p3 Active city Lib-Dems resign over political differences

 

LIBERTY LEISUREWEAR Corporate and promotional wear

CN 25.09.2009 p20 Company bought by Andrew Dunning. Launched in 1995 by B and V Young

 

LIBRARIES

See also Carlisle Subscription Library; News Rooms; Reading Rooms; Tullie House; I.F.Whitridge

CAIH p 76

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House pp51-onwards

CJ 08.03.1870 p2 CJ 23.06.1966 CN 07.07.1972 p28 CN 08.09.1972 p3

Carlisle Public Library

First stone laid 26.05.1892; opened 08.11.1893 at Tullie House; lending library opened 04.2.1895; when the Tullie House complex opened it comprised a public library, museum and a school of art and to these were added science classes and facilities for technical instruction, then more or less in their infancy so far as Carlisle was concerned. Estimated that the total scheme had cost £22,000. An officer, Robert Bateman, primarily a librarian was appointed to act as librarian and curator. Bateman left in 1898 and was succeeded by Archibald Sparke also a librarian and he left in 1902. In his 1909 printed catalogue of the Bibliotheca Jacksoniana, James Pitcairn Hinds explained that this consists of books, prints, manuscripts etc relating to or in some way connected with Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the Sands, comprising then of some 4,000 volumes. This was formed by the late William Jackson FSA of Fleatham House, St Bees, who died in 1890 and who on his death bed directed that it should be given to the Carlisle Free Library, then about to be established in Tullie House. This local studies collection is still housed and added to in Carlisle Library. The chief officer succeeding Sparke was DR F.H.Newman and he was called Director of Technical Instruction and Principal of Tullie House. Mr Sparke’s deputy as librarian, Mr Hill, was promoted to the position of librarian; Mr Hill found his position shorn of responsibility and quickly left and it was not considered necessary to appoint a librarian but a compromise was effected by giving the title of deputy librarian to Tom Gray, then aged 19, the library being nominally under the supervision of Dr Newman. Dr Newman was succeeded in 1904 by Mr McIntyre who served from 1904 - 1922. Upon McIntyre’s retirement Tom Grey took over as Librarian, retiring in 1949. 02.09.1937 adoption of open access system with the opening of the lending library extension. 27.06.1960 urban mobile library service begun; Ken Smith succeeded Gray retiring in 1973. He was succeeded by Harry Hodgson who was in charge when Carlisle City Library became part of Cumbria County Library on 01.04.1974; moved to Globe Lane 1986; official opening 03.05.1986; 20.06.2011 library after refurbishment goes completely self service

Local Government Octocentenary Brochure pp59-63 1BC 352

CN 07.10.1977 p1 CN 26.05.1978 pp1,11 CN 26.01.1979 p10

CN 02.02.1979 p5 CN 09.02.1979 p32 CN 16.02.1979 p32

CN 23.02.1979 p11 CN 25.05.1979 pp1,9 CN 07.11.1980 p11

CN 05.06.1981 p6 CN 19.06.1981 p1 CN 31.07.1981 p5

CN 10.07.1981 p28

05.04.1875 Public meeting to see if city to adopt Public Library Act

City Minutes 1889-90 p232 Offer from Mechanics Inst. if Library Act adopted

City Council Minutes 1890/91 p446 letter concerning Jackson bequest

CP 20.05.1892 p6a Laying foundation stone of library and museum on 26th

CP 27.05.1892 p4g,5a-f, Laying of foundation stone

CP 10.02.1893 Presentation of manuscript collection to Jackson Library

Jackson Library Bookplate; a condition of the Jackson bequest to the new free public library was the provision of a special and distinctive bookplate. This was in a letter from the executors of William Jackson’s will to the Mayor and Corporation reported to the Public Library and Museum Committee, 07.10.1891. The minutes of 2nd September noted the chairman, Alderman R.S.Ferguson, as already submitting designs. The Jackson bookplate is ‘signed’ J.F.N.standing, for James Forbes Nixon, who was born at Wigton on 16th February 1845. He attended St Bees School. He worked with the famous publishing house of Routledge, whose founder George came from Brampton. He emblazoned many historic houses in Cumberland and Westmorland, with C.J.Ferguson the Alderman’s architect brother. Flags,seals, cyphers, brasses, all were within his compass, and he excelled in bookplates, featuring in Egerton Castle’s book on English bookplates. The book plate bears the city’s motto ‘Be Just and Fear Not’, above the words ‘Carlisle Library’ and below the city coat of arms. Above this is a shield with a young pike known as a ‘jack’ below a sun, hence the play on words Jackson. The shield is surrounded by the words .‘Apollo Jactat Lvcem’ and above this the words ‘’Lux Luvis’. The edges of the bookplate bear the words ‘Bibliotheca Jacksoniana and ‘Carlisle Library’ Climbing roses adorn the bookplate.

14.06.1893 There had been a total of 75,207 visits to the temporary reading rooms

CJ 13.10.1893 Opening date of 26th October postponed [Medallion struck carries the date of 26.10.1895]

21.04.1902 Branch reading room in London Road opened as experiment

CJ 12.05.1903 London Road branch experiment

CJ 12.11.1907 Letter; getting a book akin to those experienced in getting a

Russian passport; forms filled in keys to be produced, unwilling doors opened

City Minutes 1927-28 p83 Presentation of copy of ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’

City Minutes 1927-28 pp255-259 report on need for more space

City Minutes 1928-9 p598 Present accommodation; proposed extension

City Minutes 1929-30 p409 James Walter Brown bequest of books

City Minutes 1929-30 p673 James Walter Brown bequest of £500

CJ 05.02.1932 Scheme to decorate walls of reference library by students of the School of Art [murals opened March 1932]

CN 06.07.1936 p1 Formation of panels of readers

CJ 03.09.1937 pp1,8 Open access

CJ 14.09.1937 p1 Open access

CN 04.09.1937 Open access

CN 11.09.1937 Blacking out the racing pages in the papers

CN 14.10.1939 p7 Busy scenes at the library

CN 20.04.1940 p4 Newsroom reopened

ENS 11.10.1949 Comment on suggestion for branch libraries in city

CN 15.10.1949 Erection of two branch libraries suggested in annual report

ENS 08.11.1949 Additions to stock at public library

CJ 18.11.1949 Centenary of public libraries; a great service

ENS 06.12.1949 Additions to stock at public library

CJ 30.12.1949 New books at the city library

Strong Lad wanted for strong lass; pp49 H.Davies memories of library 1950s

CJ 03.01.1950 Letter about BBC spoken words recordings for loan

ENS 05.01.1950 Additions to stock at public library

CJ 13.01.1950 p3 Mobile library for suburbs too costly?

CN 14.01.1950 p7 Mobile library scheme questioned

CJ 05.01.1951 Letter pleading for silence in reference room

CJ 25.05.1951 Cost of overdue reminders

CN 28.07.1951 p9 Library proves popular

CJ 19.10.1951 Letter; ‘public library little more than...white elephant’

CJ 09.11.1951 City Librarian says classics issue best in new editions

CJ 13.11.1951 Report on City Librarian’s talk on book selection

CJ 16.11.1951 Letter; City Librarian not sole arbiter of what we should read

CJ 22.02.1952 p2 Library issues breaking records

CJ 07.11.1952 p2 Music may be borrowed

CJ 12.12.1952 Record day’s issue; 2,888 on Saturday 11.11.1952

CJ 21.12.1952 November highest monthly total of books issued; 32,700

CJ 11.02.1955 p1 £14,000 books on loan to Carlisle readers

City Minutes 22.03.1955 Replacement of existing murals by Art College Students [series finished by 1961]

CJ 01.04.1955 Bigger fines at Carlisle Library

CN 29.04.1955 p10 (illus) Jackson bookplate designed by Mr Nixon

CJ 15.07.1955 In praise of our public libraries

CN 02.09.1955 Mother gets six months for library thefts

CJ 06.09.1955 Mother and son stole books from public library

CJ 20.07.1956 Disrespect for books blamed on education system

Guardian 02.08.1956 Letters concerning Carlisle reports on book abuse

ENS 08.10.1957 p9 Interview with Margery Johnston (Librarian)

CJ 18.07.1958 p16 More books issued to fewer readers (mobile)

ENS 10.11.1958 City Librarian suggests microfilming local newspapers

Newcastle Journal 19.02.1959 Library acquires second Carlisle Bible

CN 20.02.1959 Carlisle Bible for 6d

Library Committee Minutes 22.03.1960 Collection of views donated to library by Tom Parsable Dawson

ENS 07.04.1960 p11 Record for Tullie House Library

ENS 22.06.1960 p1 Mayor accepts city’s 1st mobile library

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p41 22.06.1969 Photo of inauguration

ENS 23.06.1960 p3 On the road next week

CN 14.10.1960 p9 Queues at the mobile

CN 23.10.1960 p1 It’s pandemonium in library van

CN 07.12.1962 Wealth of information at fingertips; Margaret Brander

CN 02.02.1963 Library displays selection of damaged books

City Minutes 19.11.1963 Norman Nicholson bust anonymous donation to library

CJ 24.01.1964 p6 You’ll tell us what’s wrong with the library

CN 08.06.1973 City Librarian, Ken Smith, to retire

CN 26.10.1973 p20 Insecure roof in Hall

CN 02.11.1973 p11 New service

ENS 17.03.1976 p8 (illus) Ask me another

ENS 11.05.1977 p10 Cash cuts hits the library browser

CN 27.07.1977 p19 Effects of cuts

CN 07.10.1977 Damning report on city’s library service

ENS 18.09.1978 p3 Decision wanted by planners on new library in Lanes

CN 06.10.1978 Library organises book fair in Carlisle; Rev Awdry to come

ENS 16.11.1978 Carlisle Library worst in country

ENS 23.11.1978 Letter disagreeing with all this grumbling at library

ENS 04.12.1978 Deadline for a decision on library

ENS 11.12.1978 Malcolm Wallace, librarian, scoops TV prize

ENS 22.01.1979 Little hope of new library

CN 02.02.1979 p5 Thumbs down on new library in Lanes development

ENS 07.02.1979 Last minute bid to save library plan

CN 09.02.1979 p8 Don’t shelve the library; editorial

CN 16.02.1979 Letter in support of new library

ENS 25.08.1979 p5 Cuts anger book lovers (Saturday afternoons)

ENS 30.07.1981 p8 Exciting plans for city library

CN 11.12.1981 p4 New library in Lanes development

ENS 21.06.1984 Residents at Denton Holme win right for own library

CN 02.05.1986 p16 A new chapter

CN 09.05.1986 p5 Food for thought

CN 28.02.1988 p5 Book festival draws crowds

CN 29.04.1988 p1 Night launch (kite sculpture by Rachel Quarmby)

CN 20.05.1988 p9 Library information at a price

CN 18.11.1988 p13 Library looks back at old Carlisle

CN 11.11.1988 p19 Prizewinner in photo competition

CN 13.01.1989 p15 Video loan scheme

CN 13.01.1989 p40 Libraries opening times talk

CN 17.03.1989 p7 Holiday specials

CN 08.09.1989 p3 Indonesian band for library

CN 15.09.1989 p1 Up and Down

CN 01.12.1989 p10 Mobile library route change

CN 31.08.1990 p4 Library habit goes a long way

CN 07.09.1990 p11 Library fines up

CN 16.11.1990 p1 Million worries

CN 20.09.1991 p4 Looking into local history

CN 15.10.1993 p2 Reading for free ‘pledge’

CN 05.11.1993 p4 An anniversary booking

CN 12.11.1993 p4 How reading for free came to Carlisle

CN 23.12.1993 p22 City library staffs security fears

CN 03.02.1995 p8 Free lending 100 (years ago)

CN 10.03.1995 p10 100 years ago (Boys reading room)

CN 09.02.1996 p5 Roll up to surf the Internet

CN 13.09.1996 p5 An off the shelf solution (Harrys youth club at Harraby Lib)

CN 10.01.1997 p9 Bookworm boss

CN 21.02.1997 p4 Top titles for library’s 50,000 readers

CN 26.09.1997 Supplement (illus) p3 Libraries find write way to say goodbye to Princess

CN 07.11.1997 p2 (illus) County pupils tallest book sets a record

CN 30.10.1998 p5 Library closure angers patients (Garlands Hospital)

CN 09.05.2003 p9 Cartoon of Lanes Library

CN 15.08.2003 p29 Feature on relief mobile driver Robin Phillips

ENS 13.12.2003 Libraries shut for 8 days over Christmas

CN 09.01.2004 p48 Camera club exhibition in library

12.12.2004 Sunday opening at Lanes Library 12 - 4pm for 1 year

CN 03.02.2006 p1 Threat of closure to Denton Holme and Morton libraries

CN 19.01.2007 p11 Threat to Music and Drama Library in Carlisle Library

CN 26.01.2007 p13 Letter praising threatened mobile library

CN 09.02.2007 p19 Increased charges for Music and Drama borrowers

CN 23.02.2007 p11 Proposed 10% cut in opening hours; opinion on library cuts p12

CN 31.08.2007 p23 City mobile library faces axe

CN 07.09.2007 p2 Protests at proposed withdrawal of urban mobile library

CN 14.09.2007 p3 Campaign to save the urban mobile; p13 letter protesting about proposed withdrawal

CN 21.09.2007 p13 Letter complaining about youths in Carlisle Library

CN 21.09.2007 p19 M. Bragg and M.Forster condemn decision to close mobile

CN 28.09.2007 p 13 letter defending axing of urban mobile library

CN 05.10.2007 p13 Letter complaining about the noisy teenagers in city library

CN 12.10.2007 p6 Urban mobile library to be axed

CN 12.10.2007 p13 Letter complaining about children's behaviour in library

CN 19.10.2007 p1 plea to save the mobile library; my link to outside world

CN 26.10.2007 p13 Letter defending cutting library van

CN 26.10.2007 p13 Letter from librarian defending young people using library

CN 02.11.2007 p13 Does library manager ever visit library? Letter

CN 09.11.2007 p13 Letters against withdrawal of mobile library and youths in library

CN 26.09.2008 p6 Man jailed for viewing child pornography in library

CN 20.06.2011 p20 Revamped library reopen; self service

CN 17.02.2012 p10 Harraby Library closes and moves to Community Centre as

a Library Link

CN 19.12.2012 p3 Children’s Laureat, Julia Donaldson, at Carlisle library

 

Cumberland County Library .

Cumberland was one of 7 counties in England and Wales to adopt the Public Library Act of 1919 which empowered counties to set up library services. There were already 9 public libraries in boroughs and urban districts but this left 58% of the population living in rural districts without library provision

Arlecdon and Frizington

Aspatria

Cleator Moor

Cockermouth

Harrington,

Millom

Penrith

Whitehaven

Workington

 

There was an existing framework of school libraries started by the Education Committee in 1909 and the county library in Cumberland was to operate from 100 chosen centres in schools. Head teachers acted as voluntary librarians. There was a severe lack of resources, books, staff and money. One must recall the depression of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923 total expenditure was £1,497

 

The service developed into a box of books either in the school, village hall or similar venue. Transport of books was irregular right up to 1947, using rail, carriers, buses, coal carts, and anything else which offered. The 1st headquarters was no 1 The Crescent, there, there was the County Librarian, one full-time assistant, a shared typist and an office boy. The pattern of service was the same until the introduction in 1950 of the travelling library. The bulk of village centres remained in schools but there was a tendency to move to Reading rooms, WI, village halls but the books were still housed in boxes though some centres now had shelves. This still meant that large numbers of people living in rural areas had no access to books. Even as late as 1945 there were no full-time branch libraries

Maryport = 10.5 hrs

Keswick = 4

Silloth 2

 

The first purpose built library was in Marport in 1957. Many deficiencies in local centres were solved by travelling libraries which carried 2,000 books

1950 first travelling library based in Carlisle

1952 second based at Keswick

1960 based at Whitehaven

2nd based at Carlisle

2nd based at Whitehaven

6th travelling library based in Penrith

 

The vans transformed the service. Village centres declined as mobile use increased. In 1970 400,000 books issued, 1,000 stops, 4,000 families borrowed books

 

Service in small town never developed before 1950

1957 Maryport new library

1963 Seascale

1964 Egremont

1965 Aspatria

A number of small independent library authorities transferred their library powers to the county

Aspatria in 1939

Arlecdon and Frizington in 1940

Millom 1948

Cleator Moor 1962

Penrith 1965

 

The HQ moved to no 1 Portland Square in 1923, then expanded along the block eventually housing a lending library, reference and drama library, children’s library. In 1946 the hourly rate of pay was 2s 6d for men and 2s for women

 

Independent authorities

Arlecdon and Frizington 120 Main Street, Frizington opened in 1892

Cleator Moor established in 1894, new building in 1906 at a cost of £2,500 with a Carnegie grant

Cockermouth, Main Street, erected in 1904 at a cost of £1,000 defrayed by Carnegie

Harrington, Kellys 1929 notes a Harrington Free Public Lending Library

Millom 1891[Bulmer says 1887], formerly Working Men’s Institute

Penrith adopted the act in 1881, opened in 1883 formed from the existing libraries of the Mechanics Institute and Working Men’s Reading Room. 1906 removed to new Town Hall building, £1,200 being contributed by Carnegie

Whitehaven. Carnegie Library opened in 1906

Workington adopted the act in 1889, opened 1891. 1904 new premises in Finkle Street, removed from Pow Street. Grant of £7,500 from Carnegie towards the buildings

 

Headquarters Portland Square; amalgamation of all libraries in the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the Sands [plus a small piece of North Yorkshire, Dent, Sedbergh] on 1st April 1974 to form Cumbria County Library. After this date Portland Square remained Cumbria County Library HQ but lending services transferred to Carlisle Library. First County Librarian John Smith

CN 11.07.1936 p6 The County Library

CN 16.01.1937 p4 County Library

ENS 02.10.1950 Travelling library for Cumberland

CN 03.10.1950 County to inaugurate travelling library

CN 08.02.1974 p9 (illus) Move to Tullie House (Cumbria County Library)

 

Subscription libraries

See also Carlisle Subscription Library

CJ 12.09.1801 p3a F.Jollie’s Circulating Library. Ad

CP 20.03.1819 p3 Meeting of Subscribers

CJ 11.08.1863 p2 Subscription to Mudies

CN 17.08.1990 p4 (illus) Newsroom was great asset for city

 

LICE

CN 03.04.1998 p9 Nit nurse role changed for good

 

LICENSED VICTUALLERS ASSOCIATION

CP 23.12.1854 p1 Carlisle and District Licensed Victuallers Assn to be established

 

LICENSING LAWS

CN 13.01.1995 p16 Children in bars scheme

 

LIDDELL, Charles I West Tower Street

Builder

CD 1902-03 Ad p11

CD 1905-06 Ad p82

CD 1907-08 Ad p90

 

LIDDELLS, Lewthwaite Merchant; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

LIDDELLS AND LUTHWAITE, Merchants; Bailey’s Northern Directory 1781

 

LIDDESDALE TAVERN Peascod’s Lane; in local directories 1855 to 1858

 

LIDDLE, John Borland Avenue

Taxis

CD 1952 Ad p384

 

LIDDLE, Robert Devonshire Walk, Nelson Street

Haulage

Carlisle the Archive Photographs,p50 photo of Ginger Liddle

CD 1952 Ad pp314, 368

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p274

CD 1955-56 Ad p280

CD 1961-62 Ad p277

 

LIDDLE AND HINDE Castle St

Milliners

CP 01.05.1819 p1d Ad

 

LIDL

CN 25.07.2003 p5 Discount supermarket go ahead for Charlotte St site

CN 07.11.2003 p13 New store to open 20.11.2003

CN 24.12.2003 p9 No frills supermarket a success

Spring 2022 work started on a new store on Warwick Road in the fields opposite Victoria Road, Botcherby. January 26th 2023 opening of Warwick Road store

 

LIFEBOAT SATURDAY

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 14 photo circa 1904

CP 04.02.1898 p5d Supporters meeting

CN 25.06.1965 p12 Illustration of in 1904

CN 25.11.1988 p4 Lifeboats in city streets

CN 06.07.1990 p4 When lifeboats took to streets

 

LIGHTFOOT, George and Son Wigton Road, Scotland Road

Chemist

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p41 Photo of facade of 16 Scotland Rd shop

CD 1952 Ad p278

CD 1955-56 Ad p233

 

LIGHTFOOT DRIVE Harraby First appears on the 1938-39 Electoral Register. George Lightfoot was a local councillor

 

LIGHTFOOT’S GARAGE Lowther Street

CD 1952 Ad p304

CJ 19.10.1962 p12

 

LIGHT HORSEMAN Rickergate; in local directories to 1897

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p116

1861 census Marion Armstrong, innkeeper, [called Flying Horseman]

Carlisle City Council Minutes 1900-01 item 386; sold to city for road improvement

CP 25.08.1899 p3b Proposed transfer of licence to new premises in Lindisfarne St

1891 census; J. McCormick, 35 innkeeper, bn Scotland [called Flying Horseman]

CN 26.04.1991 p4 An old pub gave way to the pub

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p129 Photo of pub

 

LIGHTING see STREET LIGHTING

 

LIMES, The Saint James Road

CN 17.01.2003 p3 Old folks home for sale

 

LIME STREET On 1871 census; a timber yard was formerly on the site of this street

 

LINDISFARNE STREET

1881 Preparations are being made to build a number of cottages in the city during the season. Mr C.J.Ferguson had had three new streets planned in the field off Brooke Street. He proposes to name them Lindisfarne St, Oswald Street and St Cuthbert Street

‘My parents lived in Lindisfarne Street from 1927 when they married. I came along in 1931. There were two bedrooms, the one at the back looking onto the engine shed with continual shunting and steaming. It was noisy. At the front it was setts, which wasn’t exactly quiet either. There was no bathroom, just a tin bath; a good wash once a week. The toilet was in the backyard. We had a little bit of a back garden, one rose which flowered for about three weeks. We also kept some bantam hens in a pen which gave beautiful eggs. The doors were always open, kids playing in the street and the grown- ups fetching a chair out onto the pavement for a chat. It was very communal. There were Catholics and Methodists as well as us in the street, but it didn’t make a difference. Us Lindisfarne kids were always at loggerheads with the kids from Oswald Street, that was the street on the other side from us.

Brian Scott recalls the 1930s

City Council Minutes 22.07.1881 Approval for laying out new street

City Minutes 1893-94 p 355 Approval for 12 new houses

City Minutes 1915-16 p 392 Approval for hostel for NER trainmen

 

LINDSAY, Howard Howard Place

Photography

CN 09.08.1996 p4 (illus)

 

LINDSAY, Walter Swift’s Mews

1882 Porters Directory Ad p118 Dealer in horses

 

LINDSAY’S A1 Kingmoor Park

Livestock breeding

CN 10.11.2000 p20 New company in city

 

LINEN LEAGUE

CJ 05.03.1943 p1 Cumberland Infirmary Linen League never so popular

CN 06.03.1948 p3 Last exhibition

CJ 05.03.1948 p3 Last exhibition

CJ 12.03.1948 p4 Last exhibition

 

LINEN WEAVING

CN 22.03.1924 p9 Eighteenth century Carlisle

CN 30.04.1971 p14 At Upperby

 

LING, Thomas and Son Charlotte Street, Randall Street; Viaduct Buildings

Painter and decorator

CD 1927 Ad p164 Established 1889

CD 1952 Ad p349

CD 1955-56 Ad p272

CD 1966-68 Ad p290

 

LINGMOOR WAY, Council houses

No 41 in a block of four houses, three three bedroom and one four bedroom houses. 1950s layout; downstairs-sitting room, dining room and kitchen, upstairs three bedrooms, bathroom and separate toilet, front and rear gardens

CN 22.04.1950 Aerial photo showing street built

CN 06.06.1953 Photo of Lngmooor Way Coronation Party

 

LINGSIDE CRESCENT Harraby

CN 05.12.1953 p3 Opened

 

LINTON HOLME Lindisfarne St; in local directories from 1901

See A suburb of Carlisle; Linton Holme by Marie Dickens pp 70 - 96

CP 22.09.1899 p5 Letter; proposed new hotel in Lindisfarne Street

1901 census Edmund Blair, Licensed Victualler, aged 29; Linton Holme Hotel

CJ 07.06.1901 E.Blair opened Linton Holme Hotel on 12.11.1901

01.12.1937 died Jane Elizabeth wife of Richard Wright, Linton Holme Hotel [Stanwix MI 184/2]

ENS 22.09.2001 p14 Ad feature for new style Linton Holme

 

LINTON STREET

City Council Minutes 1881 17/849 Approval for new houses

 

LINTON TWEEDS

At Warwick Bridge the firm of William Waddell and Sons was well established but in 1912 the company was reformed as Waddell’s Ltd under the joint directors, Cranston Waddell, William Linton and AG Greaves. Cranston Waddell died in 1917 and William Linton, as the sole surviving partner, renamed the firm as Linton Cumberland Homespuns Ltd. They moved to Carlisle, into the former weaving sheds of Dixon’ s Mill, in 1919. The move to Carlisle was because it was famed for the skill of its handloom weavers; William Linton was introduced to ‘Coco’ Chanel and by 1926 London newspapers were reporting that Linton Tweeds were leading the way into all the top Paris fashion houses; when Linton dies in 1938 his daughter Agnes took over the business, then her cousin George Linton joined the firm, he too met Chanel and in 1963 took Leslie Walker to meet her; Leslie Walker bought the business and this in turn passed to his sons Keith and Bruce; there has never been a Chanel collection without Linton Tweeds; their present client list includes Armani, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Calvin Klein, Jaeger, Louis Feraud, Lacroix, Donna Karan, Jean Muir, Aquascutum, Bruce Oldfield, Liz Claiborne, Balmain [Scotsman Magazine 23.10.2004 pp10-13] Margaret Thatcher blue suits were produced with fabric from Linton Tweeds [CN 19.04.2013 p8]

Patricia Hitchon Chanel and the Tweedmaker; weavers of dreams

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p26

CD 1952 Ad p400

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p283

CD 1955-56 Ad p291

CD 1961-62 Ad p304

CD 1966-68 AD p301

CN 04.07.1958 p13 Supp p13 CN 24.11.1961 p7

Carleola (Carlisle High School Magazine) No 76, July 1978 pp10-11 An old Carlisle industry 1BC...

CJ 11.01.1938 p5 Obit of founder William Linton

CJ 14.01.1938 p11 Obit of founder William Linton

CN 15.01.1938 p12 Obit of founder William Linton

CN 22.09.1989 p3 Japanese spark off a city boom

CN 03.04.1992 p9 City firm plans big expansion

CN 26.03.1993 pp12-13 Visitors centre

CN 19.08.1994 p8 From father to son

CN 07.10.1994 p5 Boom as Japanese take to tweed

Cumbria Life March/April 1998 no 57 pp20-21 2A9

Cumbria Life August 1999 no 65 Supplement p11 2A9

CN 12.01.2001 p14 Gemma Wallis aged 22, their commercial manager

Scotsman Magazine 23.10.2004 pp10-13

CN 11.01.2008 p12 Twelve jobs at Linton Tweeds could go

Carlisle Living May 2009 p4 Michelle Obama, the US President’s wife wears a Thakoon Panichul coat made in fabric made by Linton Tweed [photo]

CN 15.04.2011 p12 Feature on the company which employs 55 people

CN 21.09.2012 p5 History published

 

LION AND LAMB Scotch Street; closed 1917

CJ 15.08.1801 p1 Joseph Foster, innkeeper

Newcastle Courant 19.09.1807 Bankruptcy meeting in Mrs Forster’s Lion and Lamb Inn

CP 25.11.1809 p1 To let; Mr Foster innkeeper

1821 New Guide to Carlisle p76 John Barnes

1891 census; John Murray, hotel/pub keeper, aged 53 born Scotland

1901 census; John L Wright, publican, aged 36, born Kirklinton

CJ 21.03.1924 p10 Lion and Lamb to be Labour Party HQ

CN 26.06.1992 p4 (illus)

 

LION AND LAMB LANE Scotch St; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city

1880 Directory 67 Scotch Street to 32 Lowther Street

1901 census 7 people living in the lane in one household. Occupations include publican, servant

 

LIONS CLUB see CARLISLE LIONS

 

LION SECURITY SERVICES

CN 25.03.1988 p32 Ad

 

LIPTON English Street, Grocer

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; frontispiece; photo of facade and staff

 

LIPTON’S Fork lift trucks

CN 13.08.1976 pp4-5 (illus)

 

LISHMAN, John Joiner and undertaker circa 1902 in Carlisle Square. Photo showing premises in D.Perriam Blackfriars Street, p13

 

LISMORE PLACE

City Council Minutes 1893-94 item 77 approval for laying out new street

CN 23.06.2006 p64 New development at 10 Lismore Place for sale

 

LISTER, Archie Blackwell Road, Peel Street

Road transport

CD 1952 Ad p389

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad pviii

 

LISTERS COURT, 19 John Street [1880 Directory]

 

LISTER’S WELL In wall above Holy Trinity Church, Caldcotes

Topper Off Easter 1950 p48 (illus) M 1011

 

LIS WINDOW SYSTEMS

CN 11.11.1994 p8 Ad

 

LITERACY see ADULT LITERACY

 

LITHERLAND, R.L. Border Toffee Works-Kingstown, The Market

Confectioners

CD 1952 Ad p282

 

LITTER

See also Street Sweeps

City Minutes 1927-28 p821 Consideration of baskets in streets for litter

City Minutes 1928-9 p p226 Baskets in Botchergate for litter; experiment

CN 18.01.1991 p7 Litter fight

CN 05.07.1991 p13 Warning to city litter louts

CN 17.11.1995 p5 Mucky streets?

CN 18.04.1997 p9 Streets graffiti are signs of the times

CN 17.09.2004 p15 Letter concerning litter at West Walls

CN 24.03.2006 p9 £100,000 to clear up Harraby’s litter

CN 19.05.2006 p5 Litter louts face on the spot fines of £75

 

LITTLE, Mrs Denton Crescent

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p 39 Photo of sweet shop

 

LITTLE and BALLANTYNE Founded 1790 by Hutton brothers; 14.08.1840 business sold to John Little and Tom Ballantyne; 1860 their nursery on today’s site of St John’s Church, Botchergate and adjacent streets [Garden, Flower and Orchard Streets] [Round Carlisle Cross, vol 2 p10] T.Ballantyne died 1864; Monumental Inscription [43/7]; business passed into hands of Trustees and was run for them by a Mr Baxter Smith; James Watt buys firm and takes over full control in 1868; nursery moved to 130 acre site at Knowefield; Royal Warrant granted on 25.07.1884; they then called themselves the Queen’s Seedsmen; 1909 take additional nursery at Priory Nursery, near Armathwaite; 05.10.1921 private limited company; the lease of the Knowefield 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

Seed merchants

Leading Trader of the City Ad pxii A616

CD 1880 Ad p2

CJ 23.01.1883 p2 City surveyor has commenced planting avenue of trees on Warwick Road; Little and Ballantynes 32 limes, 61 sycamores and 61 black Italian poplars; also L and B present for Earl Street

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, shrubs, 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

CD 1952 Ad p344

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p263

CD 1955-56 Ad p267

CD 1961-62 AD p297

CD 1966-68 Ad p288

CJ 07.11.1871 Knowefield now the property of Little and Ballantyne

Memories of firm in 1930s; Cumbria Gardens Trust, Occas Pap Vol 2 pp48-9

CJ 04.07.1939 Industrial supplement

CJ 18.05.1943 p2 History of the firm

CN 05.01.1962 p18 History

CN 04.12.1998 p7 Nursery tale of Cinderella...

 

LITTLE and JOHNSTON English Street

Grocers; tea and provision merchants, cafe and restaurant

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 Tea dealers, English Street

CD 1931 Ad p210

CD 1934 Ad p232 Established 1851

CD 1937 Ad p124

CD 1940 Ad p62

CN 17.09.1938 p18 Ad

CN 09.06.1989 p4 Specialists in coffees and teas

CN 29.09.1989 p4 Old photos identified

 

LITTLE and PEARSON Old Post Office Court

Coal and brick merchant

CD 1880 Ad pli

 

LITTLE, Christopher Tailor, aged 33, employing 1 apprentice, home address Green Man Lane, born Distington [1851 census]

 

LITTLE, David Watchmaker, aged 68, employing 1 boy, home address Scotch St, born Arthuret [ 1861 census]

 

LITTLE, George Warwick Road

Garage

CD 1927 Ad p5

CD 1931 Ad p5

 

LITTLE, George Wellington Place, Botcherby

City Minutes 1923-4 p588 Licensed to operate bus service to Holme Head

City Minutes 1926-7 p628 Licensed to operate bus service to Croglin

 

LITTLE, J 33 Castle Street

Milliner and dressmaker

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1880 Ad p xliv 33 Castle St, late 11 Market Place

 

LITTLE, James Master carpenter, aged 31, employing 8 men, born Scotland, home address 1 Princess St [1851 census]

 

LITTLE, James Bridge Street

Builder; joiner and undertaker

Carlisle in Camera 2 p29 View of entrance to yard

J Robinson, A Proudfoot and D Nash Botcherby Heroes Remembered 1914-18, 2016 p13-15. Bridge Street premises demolished in 2011 to make way for Sainsbury’s. date stone on building J Little 1894. James Little died 18.06.1931

CD 1893-94 Ad p52

CD 1910-11 Ad p72

CD 1913-14 Ad p58

 

LITTLE, James Black and white smith, Old Foundry, Blackfriars Street

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p23 1915 Bill head shown

 

LITTLE, Jane Milliner, aged 32, employing 1 apprentice, home address Green Man Lane, born Carlisle [1851 census]

 

LITTLE, John 60 Castle Street

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory; ad p10 Confectioner

 

LITTLE, Robert Photographer

Carte de visite noted , 23 Henry Street

1876-77 Slater’s Directory 23 Henry Street

 

LITTLE, Robert Works Nelson St

1882 Porters Directory Ad p 124 Builder and contractor

 

LITTLE, Robert Wood carver, antique dealer and furnisher. In 1861 living on Stanwix bank with his widower father, a butcher. Robert is described as a wood carver, born Crosby. Married Bessie Hope on 08.07.1864. On 1871 he is at 1 Chapel Street, wood carver, with his wife Elizabeth. In 1881 he is at 2 Warwick Square, wood carver, wife Bessie and one child, Ida. Same address on 1891 census, wood carver and antique furniture dealer. Taught wood carving at the Keswick School of Industrial Art. 1901 at 41 Castle Street, dealer in antiques, furniture. 1911 at Hopetown, Etterby, widower aged 71, living with his daughter and her family. Died 13.08.1914, aged 74 [MI 95/33] Will left £1,628 to his daughter Ida Marion Redmayne.

D Perriam Lowther Street p37 Photo of shop front on Lowther Street

 

LITTLE, Thomas Grocer, aged 32, employing 1 man and 2 boys, home address Scotch St, born Scotland [1861 census]

 

LITTLE BANK HOUSE Brampton Road; formerly called Stanwix Cottage; built about 1813 for Mrs Houseman

CJ 02.10.1813 Referred to as newly built

Cumberland Pacquet 30.03.1841 Death of John Fearon of Stanwix Cottage

1948 Mrs Majorie Matthews, Little Bank, Stanwix [CWAAS members list p239]

06.05.1972 Captain Matthews dies at Little Bank

D Perriam Stanwix p96 When it was set to let in April 1817 it was said to be the property of John Houseman, now occupied by Mr Luzmore, Henry Luzmore having been the clerk-of-works on building Eden Bridges. Name changed to Little Bank circa 1927. After 1972 the building was acquired by the Art College although again [2021] it is a private house

 

LITTLE BROTHERS Botchergate

Bakers

CD 1952 Ad p84

 

LITTLE CALDEW RIVER

See also Caldew, River, Mill Races

CN 02.07.1965 p1 (illus)

CN 06.08.2005 p5 To be cleared of Japanese Knotweed by Environment Agency

 

LITTLES COURT, Bridge Street

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 30-32 Bridge Street

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 4 properties here

 

LITTLES COURT, 73 Castle Street [1880 Directory]

 

LITTLES COURT, Court Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 5 Court Street

Carlisle Directory 1955-56 lists 2 properties here

 

LITTLES LANE, Caldewgate

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR Established a home in Albert Street in Carlisle in 1880; removed from there to Botcherby in 1892

See also St Josephs Home

CN 08.02.1963 p10 CN 12.11.1976 p1

 

LITTLEWOODS STORE English Street Opened 25.09.1963

CJ 24.08.1962 Construction of building

CJ 20.09.1963 pp6-7 Opening

ENS 24.09.1963 p1 Opening

CJ 27.09.1963 p4 Opening

CN 27.09.1963 pp1,10-11 (illus) Opening

CN 07.03.1997 p15 Store on market

CN 09.05.1997 p1 Littlewoods fate still in balance

CN 18.07.1997 p5 (illus) Marks and Spencer buys Littelwoods store

CN 08.08.1997 p1 Battle to save jobs

CN 29.08.1997 p4 Take-over workers get a jobs lifeline

CN 23.01.1998 p1 Littlwoods closes

CN 01.09.2000 p16 Littlewoods comes back to Carlisle city centre

CN 11.11.2005 p3 Littlewoods Lanes store to close in January

 

LIVE IN STYLE

CN 20.05.1988 pp12-13 Ad

CN 26.03.1993 pp6-7 Ad

CN 17.02.1995 p4 Designers dump computers

 

LIVERPOOL ARMS English Street/ Bewley’s Court; in local directories from 1855; in 1858 directory called Commercial Hotel and Liverpool Arms

1891 census; Mrs Lancaster, 61, publican, born Carlisle

1901 census; Robert Hind, aged 35, victualler, born Carlisle

ENS 02.11.1916 Closed October

 

LIVERPOOL STREET [off Crown Street]

City Minutes 1972-73 13.03.1973 p1129

 

LIVINGSTONE’S Currock

Newsagents and Post Office

CN 14.08.1998 p6 Ad

 

LIVING WELL Kingmoor

Health and fitness club

CN 03.03.2000 p3 200 chase jobs

CN 21.04.2000 p3 (illus) 35 more jobs

 

LIVING WELL TRUST Formed 1998 by members of the Belle Vue Church of the Nazarene on Moorhouse Road after eight years of voluntary work with children and families on the Raffles estate [CN 14.01.2011 p8]

CN 24.08.2012 p19 Feature of Trust which is now working in 24 localities

 

LLOYD HONDA Kingstown

CN 01.04.1988 p10 Ad

CN 20.05.1994 p9 Top county car firm on move

CN 25.04.2003 p17 Only Honda motorcycle dealership when opens in June

CN 05.09.2003 p5 Kingstown firm hires hawk to get rid of gulls who mess on cars

 

LLOYD LAWN AND LEISURE Kingstown; part of Lloyd Group

CN 18.04.2003 p16 Opened yesterday; p65 ad feature

 

LLOYD LTD

CN 07.01.1994 p15 CN 04.11.1994 pp14-15

 

LLOYD, R (Tractors) Ltd Kingstown; Ralph Lloyd founded the company in 1964 when he took over a Ford tractor franchise at Hardwicke Circus. The firm expanded from here [obit of Ralph Lloyd CN 21.10.2011 p1]

CN 04.02.1977 p4 (illus) CN 12.04.1979 pp8-9 (illus)

CN 22.03.1974 pp15-17 (illus) Opening of new premises

 

LLOYDS BANK 21- 25 Lowther Street; built originally in 1864 for the photographer Benjamin Scott; Property sold in 1919 to Lloyds Bank who converted it by 1922 into a Bank; business transferred to Trustees Savings Bank building on Lowther Street [former Athenaeum] when named Lloyds TSB, now [2022] simply Lloyds.

CD 1920 Ad p38

CD 1931 Ad p34

 

LM SERVICES Rome Street

CN 09.04.2010 p9 Obit of Ian Morrison who was a partner in the business until 1999

 

LOAF AND LADLE Friars Court

Cumbria Life March/April 1997 no 51 p63 2A 9

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

See also; City Council

Carlisle is listed as one of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales regulated under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1882; City Minutes of 6th January 1913 resolved that application be made for constituting the City as a County Borough within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1888; Carlisle County Borough Order,1913 came into operation on 1st April 1914; Carlisle Extension Act, 1950 says Whereas the city of Carlisle is a county borough under the government of the mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of Carlisle. This act defines 'The 'Corporation' means the mayor, aldermen and the citizens of the city of Carlisle. It also refers to local acts which may be jointly cited as 'Carlisle Corporation Acts 1804 - 1950'; Cumbria Act 1982 refers to Cumbria comprising the following areas before the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 The county boroughs of Carlisle and Barrow in Furness...

CN 04.07.1958 p8 Supplement; history

CN 14.05.1993 p5 City welcomes council review

CN 10.09.1993 p1 My fear for city - Eilbeck

CN 10.09.1993 p12 The battle for the town halls of Cumbria

CN 17.09.1993 p3 Complaints up by 50%

CN 17.09.1993 p5 Old counties less popular

CN 18.03.1994 p11 100 years ago

CN 25.03.1994 p4 Leave Cumbria alone

CN 25.03.1994 p10 Happy as Cumbrians - comment

CN 01.04.1994 p12 Labour’s new go it alone plan

CN 13.05.1994 p10 Run ragged by reforms

 

LOCAL HISTORY

CN 01.04.1994 p20 Pupils switch to city’s history

 

LOCAL ‘MAYORS’

Public houses were the centre of many social and sporting activities. Here were elected local mayors; Caldewgate, Shaddongate, Rickergate, Upperby, Wreay, and even Denton Hill. [Topper Off Nov 1936 p 828]

UPPERBY MOCK MAYOR The chain of office of the Upperby Mayor is now in the Tullie House Museum collection. The chain appears to be part made up of watch chain and bottle top. Johnny Rinchester was Mock Mayor of Upperby at the turn of the 19th/20th century. He was odd-job man in the village and lived in a thatched clay cottage in what is now St Ninians Road. The mayor-making ceremony was performed in the Black Bull – a pub on the corner of St Ninian Road and Brisco Road, every New Year’s Day. A pony was borrowed for the Mayor to make a tour of the village and make speeches. He delivered his speech at the River Petteril, the cross-roads, Lamb Street and Roseland Terrace and people came from quite a distance to hear him. He told them what he’s do as mayor – build houses, a railway station etc! Although he had no money! After the speeches it was back to the pub

CP 07.08.1840 Death of William Roy, shoemaker, aged 85 who had filled the office of mayor of Rickergate for 43 years

CN 11.04.2008 p34 Mock mayors of Carlisle; D.Perriam

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered p124 Mock Mayor of Upperby

 

LOCHINVAR MOTOR SERVICE LTD Eden Bridge

Bus services

City Minutes 1925-6 p44 Licensed to operate bus service to Blackbank

City Minutes 1926-7 p631 Licensed to operate bus service to Gretna etc

CD 1931 Ad p76

 

LOCKE ROAD, Durranhill Trading Estate

CN 22.07.2016 Opening of the new Locke Road giving access to Eastern Way

CN 10.03.2017 p5 Revamp of estate; newly created Locke Road

 

LOCKERBIE’S St Cuthbert’s Lane

Cycle and Motor works

Leading Trader of the City Ad p49 A616

 

LOCKHART, I Castle Street

Confectioner

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

 

LOCKHART, John R Botchergate

Watchmaker and jeweller

CD 1952 Ad p82

 

LOCOMEN’S CLUB, CARLISLE, Fisher Street

Chief Constables Annual report for 1925 p5 Club registered on 08.12.1925

Chief Constables Annual Report for 1933 p 36 Club closed 16.06.1933

 

LOCOMOTIVES

CN 09.06.1936 Locomotive named ‘Border Regiment’

CN 04.02.1950 p6 Locomotives built in Cumberland 100 years ago

CN 11.02.1950 p7 Locomotives built in Cumberland 100 years ago

CN 18.07.1950 p7 (illus) Locomotives built in Cumberland 100 years ago

 

LOFTHOUSE Mon. Insc. St Mary’s Church [Cathedral] no 92 Edward Lofthouse, druggist, Fisher St, died 10.07.1812; no 93 Henry Lofthouse, chemist, died 01.07.1796

 

LOGANS THE COUNTY FURNISHERS Blackfriars Street

CD 1952 Ad p320

 

LOGOS

CN 29.01.1999 p1 (illus) City logo ‘pagan’ says Christian

CN 19.02.1999 p1 (illus) Petition over city council’s pagan logo

 

LOMAS St Albans Row

Poulteres; fish merchant

CD 1920 Ad p48

CD 1924 Ad p64

 

LONDON, Mr and Mrs Warwick Road

Confectioners

Leading Trader of the City Ad p54 A616

CD 1913-14 Ad p82

CD 1920 AD p60

 

LONDON AND MIDLAND BANK see MIDLAND BANK; CARLISLE CITY AND DISTRICT BANKING COMPANY; CARRICK

 

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY INN James Street/ Hewson Street; in local directories from 1876; closed 02.10.1938 when the Cumberland Wrestlers opened

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p53

1924 Carlisle Directory James Wyles

 

LONDON AND STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LTD.

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

 

LONDON ASSURANCE Devonshire Street

CD 1931 Ad p124

 

LONDON COUNTY WESTMINSTER AND PARRS BANK LTD

Devonshire Street

CD 1920 Ad p28

 

LONDON JOINT CITY AND MIDLAND BANK LTD English Street, Court Square

CD 1920 Ad p14

 

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK LTD

CD 1913-14 Ad p28

 

LONDON MIDLAND SCOTLAND RAILWAY

CN 17.01.1942 p3 Council sell land

 

LONDON ROAD

CN 15.11.1957 p10 About 50 years ago

CN 27.02.1998 p3 Leisure complex plans hit snag

CN 25.02.2000 p1 New length of road to be dug up

 

LONDON ROAD RAILWAY STATION / GOODS DEPOT see RAILWAYS; NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY; LONDON ROAD GOODS STATION

 

LONDON ROAD REPEATER STATION see POST OFFICE REPEATER STATION

 

LONDON ROAD SURGERY

CN 10.09.2004 p12 Typical day at London Rd surgery

 

LONDON ROAD TAVERN London Road/ Alexander Street; formerly premises of South-End Unionist Club

CJ 05.09.1916 p5

ENS 16.11.1916 Opening of new tavern

CN 18.11.1916 p7 Opening of London Road Tavern

CN 05.07.1924 p15 Obit of David Thomson, plumber and contractors. He built the South End Conservative Club, London Road, at his own expense...converted into the London Tavern

 

LONDON ROAD TERRACE; constructed 1851 for the Mutual Benefit Building Society

CJ 14.11.1851 Ancient vault opened on Gallows Hill, in front of the line of cottages the men belonging to the Carlisle Mutual Benefit Society are building. Leaden coffin under flags. Relics presented to Mechanics Institute by Mr Entwhistle, the builder from Liverpool

 

LONG, Geordie 5 Church Street, Caldewgate, hairdresser, bonesetter, massage. Personal recollection that in the late 1940s child taken to Geordie Long for joint problem, after the child had attended the Cumberland Infirmary and had not been ’cured’. 1924 Directory Described as men’s hairdresser’ [but well known locally as bonesetter etc]

 

LONG, John and Sons Annetwell Street

Glass and china merchants

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1880 Ad pxlv

CD 1893-94 Ad p54

CD 1905-06 Ad page white 83

 

LONG, William Letter press printer died 28.05.1837; Monumental Inscription [9/8]

 

LONGCAKE LANE, Scotch Street [1829 Directory]

CN 07.02.2003 p7 Named after John Langcake born in Scotch St 1733

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 17 Scotch Street

1901 census 36 people living in the lane in 6 households. Occupations include bricklayer, seamstress, dressmaker, joiner, housekeeper, coach painter, cattle drover, painter’s apprentice, gardener, labourer, weaver

19 Scotch Street [1934 Directory]

 

LONG ISLAND So named in Jollie’s 1811 Directory, p83; marked on Studholme’s 1842 map

1847 Directory Watergate Lane

 

LONG ISLAND IRON WORKS Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

LONG ISLAND PARK Lamplugh Street

CN 11.03.1994 p1 Business park planned

CN 24.01.1997 p10 (illus) Names live on from Long Island, Carlisle

 

LONGLANDS CLOSE AND ROAD So named Langelandes 1359

CJ 11.12.1841 p1c Fields called Short Longlands, Stanwix for sale

D Perriam Stanwix p95 Longland Road and Croft Road were laid out as the Rickerby Garden City Estate seen here on a plan of 1925. Some of the housing was built at the time but other plots were not developed the 1950s and 1960s

1948 ‘High and Over’ Longlands Rd, Clare Burgess [CWAAS members list, vol 48 p 233]

 

LONG LANE Linking Castle and Fisher Streets. Position shown on the 1560s map of Carlisle

Slee, Mary Older Carlisle (illus) p24

V.White Carlisle and its villages, p10 drawing in 1982

 

LONGSOWERBY

Margaret Forster Hidden Lives p84-5 The first council estate in Carlisle was ready for occupation in 1922 and how proud the City Council were, inviting other cities to send representatives to inspect it. It was on the west of the city, at Longsoweby, and it consisted of only 600 houses. But each house was well built of good materials, no skimping because they were houses for the poor. Many of them had parlours with bay widows and some even had proper bathrooms with indoor lavatories. They were so attractive. To the great indignation of the council, white-collar workers, who could well afford to buy their own house, or at least rent privately, were taking tenancies. The slums of Rickergate and Caldewgate were certainly not being cleared by any happy exodus to Longsowerby. There were furious protests made by Labour councillors that too much money had been spent on too few houses when it should have been spent on building many more basic, cheaper homes for the thousands who needed them. Costs would have to be cut when the larger Raffles estate was developed later

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p82 Longsowerby. Before the planned new estate following the 1919 Housing Act land here was used as a 9 hole golf course known as St James Golf Club

CJ 03.05.1921 p5 House building

City Minutes 1920-21 pp204-5 Tenders for the erection of 254 houses

City Minutes 1921-22 p428 Report on progress; 26 houses completed

City Minutes 1926-7 p 220 46 houses at Longsowerby; pp 450, 519, 585, 656, 718

City Minutes 1927-28 p827 10 houses in progress of being built

City Minutes 1928-9 p188 approval for 52 houses

 

LONGSOWERBY ROAD On electoral register from 1926 but ‘Long Sowerby’ was a field name here mentioned in the Parliamentary Survey of 1650 [CWAAS ns vol 90 p237]

 

LONSDALE, John

1811 Jollie p82 iron warehouse near Scotchgate

 

LONSDALE, John J Printer and publisher, aged 36, employing 7 men and 4 boys, born Carlisle [1861 census]; John Irving Lonsdale started the Carlisle Express in 1861

 

LONSDALE, Joseph Shoemaker, aged 57, employing 10 men, home address 52 Scotch St, born Carlisle [1861 census]

 

LONSDALE BATTALION see BORDER REGIMENT; LONSDALE BATTALION

 

LONSDALE BRICK AND TILE WORKS

CJ 07.01.1938 p10 Local Trade in 1937

 

LONSDALE CINEMA opened 21.09.1931, proprietors Sidney Bacon Pictures; architect Percy Browne, stained glass by Reed Millican of Newcastle; First performance Ralph Lynn in Chance of a Nigh Time along with Harold Meredith on the Mighty Lonsdale Christie Organ [which rose to view on an elevator]. On the stage Talbot O’Farrell, the Irish entertainer. 2,000 seating capacity. Prices 2/4, 1/6, 1s and 6d. Closed for conversion to cinema/bingo 19.02.1972; two cinema separate extension built at rear on Mary’s Street; main cinema on Warwick Rd closed 23.04.2006 with screening of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. Main building on Warwick Road demolished Jan Feb 2014 [CN 17.01.014 p7, CN 24.01.2014 p6 CN 21.02.2014p1]

CJ 30.10.1959 CN 13.10.1961 p12 CN 02.06.1978 p1 CN 09.06.1978 p8 CN 14.07.1978 p1 CN 03.11.1978 p4

Carlisle an illustrated history p79 Architects drawing of facade

ENS 20.09.1932 p2 1st birthday

ENS 20.02.1934 p3 Raie da Costa entertains

CJ 20.02.1934 p5 Raie da Costa entertains

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News pp102-05 Photos of artists that had appeared on the ABC stage; Thora Hird, Max Bygraves, Dennis Spice, Vernon Gray, Janette Scott, Kenneth McKellar, Cliff Richard, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Mick Jagger

Strong lad wanted for strong lass; pp59 H.Davies memories of Minors 1950s

CJ 16.02.1962 p1 Called ABC

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p105 Photo of Lonsdale organ in 1968

07.04.1967 The Walker Brothers, Englebert Humperdink, Cat Stevens, Jimi Hendrix, The Quotations, The Californians, Nick Jones. Presented by Capable Management Limited in association with Harold Davison and Tito Burns

1968 Appeared The Bee Gees, John Cash, Helen Shapiro, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Lulu, Cilla Black, PJ Proby, Roy Orbison, Ike and Tina Turner, Cliff Richard

CN 12.03.1971 p3 To be part bingo

CN 30.04.1971 p12 Burglary

CN 21.05.1971 p9 Bingo

CN 26.05.1972 p18 (illus) Reopened

ENS 20.01.1978 p1 Cinema not to close

ENS 03.05.1978 p1 Curtain down on city cinema

CN 18.09.1981 p4 (illus) History

CN 08.01.1988 p4 Cinema that has outlived the others

CN 11.11.1988 p25 Cinema smoking ban a winner

CN 13.01.1989 p16 Boost for cinema

CN 19.08.1994 p7 Organ booms out again

CN 19.07.1996 p1 City Cinema screens

CN 24.01.1997 p3 Roll up kids, it’s Saturday morning cinema in Carlisle again

CN 19.02.1999 p1 Mobile phones banned from city cinemas

CN 21.01.2000 p3 Who will win the big picture show?

ENS 26.08.2000 p4 Mike Figgis premiere ‘Miss Julie’ at Lonsdale

CN 23.03.2001 p7 Ticket sales fallen by one third; plea for help from council

CN 27.04.2001 p13 Letters supporting Lonsdale independent cinema

CN 10.01.2003 p13 Letters supporting Lonsdale Cinema Art Centre Trust

CN 13.06.2003 p5 May Nixon, usherette, retires aged 83

CN 18.07.2003 p3 £3.8m city theatre planned for Lonsdale site

CN 19.03.2004 p3 Future looks uncertain as landlord negotiates sale of building

CN 25.11.2005 p13 Letters backing cinema; Lonsdale may be converted to flats

CN 02.12.2005 p13 Letter in support of Lonsdale as a building

CN 09.12.2005 p13 Letters in support of Lonsdale

CN 16.12.2005 p10 Feature on Lonsdale projectionist Tony Smith

CN 23.12.2005 p1 Attempt to save Lonsdale by making it a listed building

CN 13.01.2006 p12 Feature on the Lonsdale and campaign to save it

CN 17.02.2006 p13 Letters in support of the Lonsdale Cinema

CN 24.02.2006 p3 Save our Lonsdale; p13 letters

CN 14.04.2006 p1 Council’s secret talks to buy the Lonsdale; letters p13

CN 21.04.2006 p6 Feature on cinema which closes on Wednesday

CN 28.04.2006 p21 Report on last film show

CN 18.08.2006 p29 Lonsdale Cinema on Mary St; D.Tomas and D.Connor take over running, Alan Towers still the lessee

CN 23.02.2007 p6 Lonsdale’s ‘City Cinemas’ on Mary St to close next week

CN 15.06.2007 p3 Made a Grade II listed building

CN 10.04.2007 p7 Demolition of Mary Street Cinema, which was built as a separate extension at rear

CN 13.08.2010 p13 Letters concerning the deplorable state of the Lonsdale

CN 03.12.2010 p11 Police probe blaze at Lonsdale Cinema

CN 18.10.2013 p1 Lonsdale sold for £630,000 to Burge Halston

CN 18.07.2014 p13 Stained glass saved and displayed in bar in new Halston Hotel [In renovated GPO on Warwick Rd]

CN 13.03.2015 p7 Art Deco mural saved

 

LONSDALE GARAGE CO

City Minutes 1927-28 p626 Licensed to operate bus service to Belle Vue, Upperby

 

LONSDALE LANE, John Street

1880 Directory

City Minutes 1934/5 p955 no 1 unfit for human habitation

 

LONSDALE MEMORIAL

CJ 29.08.1944 p3 Criticism

 

LONSDALE STATUE White marble; The Crescent; carved by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson in his London studio. During its production Watson said ‘The labour I go through is beyond all that I could wish any friend to suffer’. Erected 13.08.1847 between the two citadel towers, protected by railings; moved from island position in English Street 25.07.1929 as it was considered a traffic hazard, new site outside the Citadel. The inscription on the front of the pedestal reads William Earl of Lonsdale KG Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland from 1802 to 1844.

CN 05.02.1971 p14 (illus) CN 05.03.1976 p6 (illus)

Carlisle an illustrated history p 59 engraving showing original position

CJ 08.03.1845 Competition for the statue

CJ 24.10.1846 Foundation stone laid

CJ 13.08.1847 Erection of statue

1890s photo showing original position; Carlisle in Camera 1 p25

CN 19.09.1986 Photo of statue being moved

 

LONSDALE STREET Wood’s map of Carlisle in 1821 shows this as the property of Lord Lonsdale. The south eastern corner into Lonsdale Street from Lowther Street was originally two houses built in the 1820s.

1847 Directory Lowther Street

Asquith’s map of 1853 shows no buildings on the street east of Crosby Street

CP 21.09.1877 p1 Building sites for sale in Lonsdale Street and St Paul’s Sq

B/CAR 333.333 Sale of 2 - 12 Lonsdale Street 19.07.1910

CN 05.12.1997 p10 (illus) A stroll round the Earl and Duke part of town

No 31 Arkle House; dated 1874

CN 11.07.2014 p20 WI House for sale. Been their home since 1945

 

LOOSE BOX

CN 12.06.1987 p29 Ad feature

CN 06.05.1988 p12 Sold

 

LORD, Cyril (Agency) Showroom Lowther Street Carpets

CD 1966-68 Ad p260

 

LORD BROUGHAM INN Pack Horse Lane; in local directory for 1834

 

LORD BROUGHAM INN Warwick Road/ Crosby Street; in local directories from 1837 to 1934; closed 02.10.1932 [Chief Constables Annual report 1932 p 39]

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916 p103

CIC p51 William Hayton tenant

1861 census Elizabeth Wise, innkeeper, aged 47 born Dalston

1901 census; William Hayton, aged 32, bn Caldbeck

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; p96 photo of exterior

B/CAR 333.333 Sale of old premises 05.09.1933

CN 03.05.1991 p4 (illus)

 

LORDS BOOKSELLERS Globe Lane

CN 04.04.1985 p8 (illus) Opening of shop

 

LORD STREET So named on Asquith’s survey of 1853; also in this area King St, Princes St, Court St and King Street

CJ 02.02.1864 p3

 

LORD STREET READING ROOM Established 1848 (Whellan 1860 p131) in John St Botchergate; foundation stone of Lord Street laid 12.07.1851; opened December 1851; In 1851 the secretary, William Bowman, stated that ‘the room is well supplied with newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, which are much read by the members, who throng the room each evening and it is pleasing to see what eagerness they manifest in the pursuit of knowledge’. Library offered to Corporation in 1891 on condition city adopts Public Libraries Act; so marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

CN 14.04.1951 p5 CN 03.12.1976 p6

CP 10.08.1850 p2a Proposed new building

Controversy of the reading room allowing free thinking literature Thomas Paine Age of Reason. See Jane Platt Making their Mark; learning to read and write in nineteenth century Cumberland, pp83-84

Carlisle an illustrated history p76 Copy of painting of foundation stone laying

CP 07.06.1851 p1 Ad; tenders for the erection of reading room in Lord Street

Illustrated London News 20.12.1851 pp731-732 (illus) Description

Carlisle Examiner 15.11.1859 p2d Annual soiree

CN 10.08.1990 p4 Reading room with a place in history

CN 30.08.1996 p10 Highly literate labourers of Lord Street

CN 25.11.2016 p15 Section 2 p16 History of the building

 

LORDY’S RESTAURANT

CN 17.07.1992 p21 Ad

 

LORNE ARMS INN Shaddongate; in local directories from 1880; closed 1917

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p118 Photo taken in 1902; John Skelton tenant

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses, 2004, p45-6

CJ 28.03.1924 p6 Sale of property formerly known as Lorne Arms

CN 10.05.1991 p4 (illus)

 

LORNE CRESCENT In 1880 Directory; Princess Louise opened the Victoria Viaduct in 1877; she was the daughter of Queen Victoria and the wife of Marquess of Lorne, whom she married in 1871

 

LORNE PLACE, Milbourne Crescent [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 6 Milbourne Crescent

 

LORNE STEWART Newtown Road

Building service engineers

CN 22.04.1994 p14

 

LORNE STREET In 1880 Directory; Princess Louise opened the Victoria Viaduct in 1877; she was the daughter of Queen Victoria and the wife of Marquess of Lorne, whom she married in 1871

 

LORRY PARK, Kingstown

CN 17.05.1974 p1 CN 02.08.1974 pp8,19 CN 16.08.1974 p21

CN 07.03.1975 p1 CN 02.05.1975 p36 CN 11.07.1975 p7

CN 13.08.1971 p1 Proposed lorry park

ENS 29.03.1977 p8 5 star treatment

 

LOSH AND CO Located on the Denton Holme millrace. A map of circa 1781 shows the water powered works ‘Losh and Co Cotton Stampery’ [Grangerized Hutchinson]

Cotton manufactory and printfield; printworks well established by 1779; printworks demolished around 1853

The firm of Losh, James and Co is listed in 1775 as ‘calico printers Denton Holme’. It seems this was the same business with different partners in1783; Thomas Benson, George Mounsey, Thomas Losh, John Milbourne and John Wasdale, trading as ‘Losh and Co, Denton Holme’. In 1797 George Blamire and Richard Tyson were additional partners other partners having died and withdrawn. The founding partner, Thomas Losh, died in 1811 but the company continued with this name. In 1819 the lease was renewed with a new partnership of brothers, William, Thomas and John Losh trading from 1821. They continued until declared bankrupt in 1841. The unoccupied buildings were finally sold in 1852

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p12

Newcastle Courant 13.01.1781 Marriage of manager of printfields

Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784 Thomas Losh and Co; calico printers

Cumberland Pacquet 15.03.1796 Fire in print manufactory

1811 Jollie’s Directory p84 Printfield of Messrs Losh and Co

CP 24.03.1821 Partnership expired; advert

W.Farish Handloom Weaver p18 Employment at Losh’s calico works about 1833

1834 Pigot’s Directory William Losh and Sons, Denton Holme Works, Calico Printers

CJ 04.11.1843 Death of William Moffett, worked for 56 years for Losh and Co

CN 26.05.2006 p10 Ad in Carlisle Patriot Nov 1841 refers to ‘late bankrupts’

 

LOSHVILLE see ETTERBY SCAUR

 

LOU LOU Lowther Street

CN 16.07.2004 p8 Ironmongers becomes fragrance shop

CN 14.07.2006 15 Shop to close

 

LOVERS LONNING Later called Halfey’s Lonning ran from Raven Nook to Cecil St in 1860s [Round Carlisle Cross 2nd series p10]

City Minutes 1933-34 p 731 reforming back street connecting Jackson Street with the South West end of Grace Street known as Halfey’s Lane

CN 06.07.2007 p32 Named after Thomas Halfey, nurseryman of London Rd

 

LOW BREWERY see IREDALES

 

LOW CUMMERSDALE The Carlisle Extension Act of 1950 added Low Cummersdale to the city. [2BC 352 6879]

 

LOWE, David Sadler and harnessmaker, aged 40, employing 2 men and 1 apprentice, home address 37 Blackfriars St, born Blackburn [1851 census]

 

LOWER VIADUCT

CN 20.04.2001 p9 New superstore plan

CN 05.07.2002 p13 letter against new food store on Lower Viaduct estate

CN 27.06.2003 p3 Tesco’s proposed Viaduct store ‘would be too big’ says MP

 

LOWES, James Jollie’s Lane, Scotch St

1811 Jollie’s Directory pxvi Engraver

 

LOWES, W and Son Tait Street

Piano tuners

CD 1952 Ad p354

CD 1955-56 Ad p275

CD 1961-62 Ad p102

CD 1966-68 Ad p292

 

LOWLANDS MOTORWAYS LTD

City Minutes 1927-8 p626 Licensed to operate bus Manchester/Glasgow via Carlisle

 

LOWREY, Watchmaker see LAWRIE

 

LOWRY, John

CP 03.06.1815 p1b Mercer and draper; advert

 

LOWRY GARDENS

CN 01.08.2008 p69 Advert for new houses

 

LOWRY HILL The Ordnance Survey 2,500 sheet, copyright of 1973 shows the following streets on the Lowry Hill estate; Bailey Road (listed on electoral register from 1972) , Heather Drive (listed on the electoral register from 1971), Liddle Close (1968), Lowry Hill Road (1967), Lowry Close (1967), Lyne Close (1970), Naworth Drive (1971), Netherby Drive (1967), Sark Close (1969) and Teasdale Road (1973); on the Ordnance Survey 10,000 sheet of copyright 1976 the following streets appear; Brunstock Close (1975), Esk Road (1975), Gelt Close (1975) and Kershope Road (1975)

1774 Lowries Hill marked on Hodskinson and Donald’s 1774 map

D Perriam Stanwix p91 The Lowry family anciently held 28 acres of land and on a map of 1750, a house in Kingmoor is shown as John Lowrey’s. Sold in 1856 to Charles Armstrong for £2,010. Later acquired by the Voight family who left in 1926. The purchaser of the farm and 49 acres on 26.05.1925 was William Cullen. They sold the land in February 1965 to John Laing for £63,000. Laing’s then developed the area for housing

CN 09.12.1966 Lowry Hill estate; houses for sale built by John Laing

CN 21.02.1975 p9 Shops

CN 17.03.1978 p4 (illus) 1854 Asylum plan

Autumn 1978 The Lion and Dragon contains on the back page an advert ‘Lowry Hill, two bedroom semi-detached bungalows with central heating and garage at £16,850’

CN 20.11.1987 p4 Controversy over Lowry Hill in 1850 - Asylum plan

CN 28.11.1997 p12 Aerial view

CN 23.01.1998 p16 Aerial view

 

LOWRY STREET

1924 Carlisle Directory lists under Blackwell

 

LOWS, A 55 Castle Street

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory, ad p 13 dental surgeon

1858 Carlisle Directory Ad at back; Surgeon Dentist, 19 Lowther St

 

LOWS, John Carlyles Lane, Castle Street

M442 p4 Business card for goldsmith and jeweller

 

LOWTHER, John Peter Street

Horse dealer

CD 1893-94 Ad p158

 

LOWTHER ARCADE Opened August 1904; earlier Arcade to Crosby Street opened July 1844

D Perriam p23 In 1903 The Carlisle Old Brewery Company decided to replace Three Crowns Lane with an arcade, having an entrance through the Three Crown Inn on English Street.

V.White Carlisle and its Villages p21 Drawing of facade on Lowther St

CN 06.03.1954 p8 CN 23.07.1954 p10 CN 20.08.1954 p8 (illus)

CN 03.09.1954 p10 CJ 21.06.1968 p20

CN 12.02.1960 p10 (illus) Earlier Arcade

CJ 21.06.1968 p20 (illus) Renovated

CN 26.03.1971 p14 Both Arcades

CN 17.12.1993 p4 Echoes of the glories of Greece

CN 18.03.1994 p11 100 years ago - new Lowther Arcade

CN 25.07.2008 p68 Lowther Arcade undergoing complete redecoration

CN 01.08.2008 p7 Arcade to get makeover

 

LOWTHER ARMS St Cuthbert’s Lane/ Head’s Lane; closed 21.12.1915

(City Minutes 1915-16 p140)

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, p99

CJ 11.12.1841 p1c For sale; for many years known by the sign the Lowther Arms

CP 18.12.1841 p1 Ad ; for sale

CJ 15.01.1858 For sale

CP 06.03.1874 p1 For sale; now in the occupation of Mrs Keating

CP 01.03.1907 Police object to renewal of licence

 

LOWTHER BROWN’S LONNING Lowther Brown was a tenant of the nearby Newlaithes Hall from about 1871 to his death 15.10.1916

 

LOWTHER HOUSE Lowther Street/ Drovers Lane; common lodging house; Foundation stone laid 29.11.1898; demolished as part of northern extension to Lanes Shopping Centre

D Perriam Lowther Street p56, illus A Carlisle Lodging House Association was formed in February 1897 with the object of ‘housing the labouring class’. Lowther House was to cost £4,000 and have 170 beds. Foundation stone laid 29.11.1898 with the opening ceremony in December 1899. The company went into liquidation in 1920. The City Council ran the hostel until demolition in 1999. In the 1950s the old men would occasionally be taken down to Eildon Lodge for a shower and clean clothes

CN 19.09.1969 p11 CN 14.06.1974 p7

CN 21.02.1975 p32

CP 15.12.1899 The opening ceremony of model lodging house

1901 census; 34 borders

1918 Electoral register 42 on register; all men

CJ 17.02.1961 p6 (illus) Known to many as the ‘house of despair’. Ugly red brick building with black windows and dirty lace curtains. But 16 Carlisle old age pensioners and 15 middle-aged men call Lowther House home. Each night about 30 other wanderers and vagrants sleep there. Fresh bed linen is once a week. Blankets are washed every ‘once in a while’. It costs 2s and 6d for a bed in one of the two dormitories for a night or 15s a week. Then there are 9 cubicles - a bed, a locker with a screen around forming a small private room for 3s a night or £1 a week. Last month an average of 65 men stayed there each night. Seven were men in full time employment, eight had casual jobs and fifty were unemployed or lived off old age pensions, the dole or National Assistance. No meals are provided but there is a communal hot plate upon which the men cook food they buy for themselves and eat in the large dining room. There is also a recreation room with a TV. It opens at six in the morning and closes at 9:30 each night. The manager said ‘We do get quite a bit of trouble with men who get drunk’... We get all the wanderers travelling from England to Scotland and Scotland to England. The council took the house over in 1921 from a private firm.

V.White Carlisle and its Villages; drawing of property p 14

 

LOWTHER STREET Before the extension of the city beyond the city walls this area was called Drovers Lane [see Cole’s map of Carlisle 1805]; Wood’s map of 1821 shows this area as the property of Lord Lonsdale, a member of the Lowther family. The street is shown as being laid out but with no buildings on the east side. The south eastern corner into Lonsdale Street was originally two houses built in the 1820s. Demolished in 1963 to form the Royal Insurance office block in 1964. In 1861 a city councillor said ‘You must all know what Lowther Street once was, a ditch, a dirty hole’. The line of the street had once been the ditch of the east wall of the city. Lowther Street as formed ended at Spring Gardens Lane. A petition to open up Lowther Street to Eden Bridges was presented to the council in 1889 and details of the plan were published in February 1890. Demolition progressed on Eden Street and Swifts Row in June 1894 and 1895

D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022

CN 25.04.1958 p12 CN 08.02.1963 p10

CP 15.10.1825 p2 To let newly erected house on east side of Lowther Street

CJ 14.01.1826 p2e For let; Lowther St - 5 newly erected genteel dwelling houses

CJ 28.01.1826 p1a For let; Lowther St - new house on east side near Courts

CP 22.04.1865 p1 Ad; House for sale; one of the best in city; Rev Adams residence

1877 photo of street Carlisle in Camera 1 p6

City Minutes 1892-93 08.11.1892 item 39 Plan of proposed extension to street

CP 16.12.1892 p6a-c Map showing extension of Lowther St to Eden Bridges

CN 24.04.1954 p8 Illustration of 1910

CN 29.04.1966 p12 (illus) About 1905

CN 24.12.1980 p3 (illus) Traffic scheme

CN 02.01.1981 p1 Traffic scheme

V.White Carlisle and its Villages p 23 1989 drawing of east side past bus station

CN 07.08.1992 p4 When Lowther Street had only one side

CN 18.12.1992 p4 Opening out of Lowther Street

CN 11.02.1994 p4 Lowther Street improvement (100 years ago)

CN 11.11.1994 p18 Down your way

 

Number 22, east side, Dated and inscribed JJS 1892 (J.Jackson Saint), built by

Johnstone Brothers

 

Number 24 and 26, east side, Built 1830s

 

Number 30-40 even, east side, 7 terraced houses built late 1820s/ 1830s

 

Number 35 Liberal Club; west side, built 1830s for Elisabeth Dacre;1878 became

the Royal Trevelyn Hotel. 1884 sale to the Liberal Club

J.W.Brown Round Carlisle Cross, 1951, p116 Mrs Dacres house

 

Number 37-39, west side, late 1830s, for and by Thomas Nelson; photo Carlisle in Camera 1 p53.No 37 was a private house until 1955 when planning

permission was given for conversion to William Deacon’s Bank, then William and

Glyn’s Bank, then the Royal Bank of Scotland which closed in 2018

CN 25.06.2004 p 8 D.Perriam; story of Lowther Street

 

LOWTHER STREET ACADEMY

CN 05.01.1952 p5 CN 26.01.1952 p4 (illus) CN 23.02.1952 p6

CP 16.12.1870 65 pupils on roll; W.S.Harrison master

 

LOWTHER STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Architect John Nichol of Edinburgh [Mannix and Whellan 1847 Directory p132]; Opened 19.03.1843; visit by President of the USA Woodrow Wilson on 29.12.1918 on his Pilgrimage of the Heart, as his maternal grandfather, Thomas Woodrow, had been pastor at the forerunner of this chapel between 1820-1835, when the congregation worshipped in the Annetwell Street chapel. Wilson addressed the congregation but would not go into the pulpit as he did not think his grand-father would have approved. People said that they could not see him, ‘No, but you will hear me. ’A plaque on the exterior of the church records Wilson’s visit

See D.P. Thomson Lady Glenorchy and her churches, p47 1 BC 285.8

CWAAS 1971 Volume 71 p295

CN 07.03.1936 p4 CN 07.07.1961 p10 (illus) CN 12.05.1967 p12

CJ 21.07 1838 Intention to build a new church announced

CJ 22.01.1842 Ad to contractors for the building of the church

CJ 24.01.1865 p2 Reopening after alterations

CJ 27.01.1865 p6 Reopening after alterations

CJ 30.03.1948 p2 War memorial

CN 03.04.1948 p5 War memorial

CN 23.04.1993 p4 Celebrating 150 years

CN 28.10.1994 p1 (illus of interior) Ailing church could close

CN 25.06.1999 p4 (illus) £200,000 plea to save a church

CN 16.02.2001 p5 £350,000 facelift for church

CN 09.11.2001 p11 (illus) Home stretch in £350,000 overhaul

CN 01.04.2005 p8 New play centre opens in church basement

 

LOWTHER STREET; EXCHANGE BUILDINGS They were constructed for Hope and Bendle, wine and spirit merchants in 1881 and extended in 1885

 

LOWTHER STREET METHODIST CHAPEL (TABERNACLE) Foundation stone laid of Methodist Free Chapel, Lowther St 04.04.1836; closed August 1933

See D Perriam Lowther St p16 The Wesleyan Reform Association chapel was built in wood on Lowther Street in 1835. This was replaced by a permanent structure in1836. Known as the Tabernacle, it was reconstructed in 1857, with the date on the facade. With Methodist reorganisation it became the United Methodist Free Church but it was made redundant and demolished to make way for the Ribble Bus Station in 1935. I have never seen a good photo of the building.

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

Carlisle Examiner 13.06.1857 p3a

Carlisle Examiner 15.09.1857 p2b Reopened for worship

Carlisle Examiner 22.09.1857 p3b Reopening

Carlisle Examiner 03.10.1857 p3d,e Reopening

 

LOWTHER STREET SCHOOL Board school Opened 12.10.1885 to the designs of George Dale Oliver; built to accommodate 708 girls, boys and infants. In later years the school was used as an annex to Carlisle technical College. Building demolished in the 1980s and site today [2022] is a car park although the railings and gates fronting onto Lowther Street are still in situ

Margaret Forster Hidden Lives pp43-44 recalls that her mother attended this school. Lowther Street Infants, where Lily started in 1905, it was not a good school. It was one of the Board Schools opened after the Education Act of 1870, when local authorities were instructed to take on the task of educating the children of the city and paying for it out of the rates. The Board School styles of architecture in Carlisle tended towards the Gothic - classrooms were enormous, with high ceilings and interconnected, separated by sliding partitions. The floors rose in tiers and pupils sat at long desks with sloping lids. His Majesty’s Inspector’s were extremely critical of this Lowther Street School (Infants and Mixed) during the period Lily was there though they acknowledged ‘the children come from very poor and neglected homes’ and therefore admitted teaching was difficult. Lily’s own home wasn’t neglected or particularly poor but it was true that Corporation Road, whilst respectable in itself, was on the edge of Rickergate, Carlisle’s worst slum area. The HMI report of 1909 was damning. The whole school was said not to reach a very high level of proficiency and the teaching was criticized as far too restrictive and ill-prepared. A Mr Bolt had broken a cane, as well as regulations, in caning two girls with unnecessary vigour, for which he expressed regret [though whether for breaking the cane or beating the girls is not clear] Violence was the only kind of discipline and the Inspectors sound most enlightened in their condemnation of this regime of terror. They pointed out in their detailed report that violence did not work because even with it there was ‘in no class the order that could be desired’. They went on ‘there is an absence of that bright and sympathetic treatment under which young children best develop their natural activities of mind and body’. Mr Bolt left and by 1912 things were a bit better for eleven-year old Lily and her contemporaries. But HMI came down in favour of the boys and against the girls, suggesting to the teachers that the sexes should be separate ‘so that the girls do not hold back the boys who, as a whole, show more interest and power’. This advice was not acted upon and the following year this decision was vindicated; of fourteen pupils put in for the Merit [an examination held to determine which sixteen pupils in the whole of Carlisle should have free places at the new Higher Grade School] only two were selected and both were girls. One was Lily

D Perriam Lowther Street p52, 3 photos, see also p 31

CJ 13.03.1931 p14 Photo of Lowther St Mixed School Music Festival winners

CN 20.07.1973 p6

 

LOWTHIAN,J.B. Chartered accountant

CN 29.04.1988 p44 Merger for city firm

CN 01.03.1991 p18 Firms link up talks

 

LOWTHIAN, John Mary Street

Engineers

CD 1884-85 Ad pvii

 

LOWTHIAN, Richard Attorney at law; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

LOWTHIAN, Robert Blacksmith, aged 48, employing 4 boys, born Scotland, home address 1 Dobinson Ct, Botchergate [1861 census]

 

LOWTHIAN, FAIRLIE AND CO Took over Cowen’s Cotton Mill in Currock. This had become Messrs LOWTHIAN and PARKER in 1845 and Lowthian, Fairlie and Co by 1857. In 1872 this site was purchased by the Joint Station Committee for the enlargement of the Citadel Station [CN 20.02.2009 p32] Lowthian and Fairlie, formed before 1857, and previously Lowthian and Parker, secured a site for a power-loom shed at Long Island. This was the Lamplugh Works. This building was nearly completed in 1861. Previously the firm had been at Currock Mill, at the end of Rome Street. The company also operated a dye works at Cummersdale. William Jordan Fairlie died in 1875. Transfer of business to Mains Manufacturing Company in 1877

 

LOWTHIAN AND PARKER

1847 Directory Lowthian and Parker, Cotton and Flax spinners, Currock Works and Dalston. Currock Works marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

LOWTHIANS LANE English Street; So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, p87 photo

1880 Directory 27 English Street

1891 census; 44 people listed living in Lowthians Lane

27 English Street [1934 Directory]

CN 30.08.2002 p19 Cast iron name plate put up in April after 180 years

 

LOYALTY CARD see CARLISLE CARD

 

LSUK Car parts, London Rd

CN 10.10.2008 p7 Sudden closure

 

LUCETTI’S

CN 28.07.1995 p3 Little pizza Italy in Carlisle

 

LUCILLE Annetwell Street

Baby linen

CD 1961-62 Ad p290

 

LUGUVALIUM FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUB

CN 15.03.1991 p7 Heading for green lanes

 

LUNACTICS

An 1845 Act of Parliament required all counties to provide a lunatic asylum for the pauper insane;

See also Garlands

Quarter Sessions Petitions Easter 1718 Petition of widow Rashel of the city of Carlisle, is widow of John Rashel, butcher and freeman of Carlisle; ‘is a person Non Compos Mentis, and hath been so for Many Years, and is well known to the inhabitants of Carlisle’ . An attendant is needed ‘lest She happen an untimely and Sudden Death’. Petition for to pay for one

Easter 1751 Quarter Sessions petitions. Petition of Margaret Coulton for assistance. Her husband was in the Army ‘since infancy’ with small pension from Chelsea Hospital, but now a lunatic needing constant care. Has no place of settlement although lived in St Mary’s, Carlisle, for many years. Ordered 3s a week till withdrawn by some JP

 

LUND CRESCENT So named after Edmund Lund, City Treasurer

City Minutes 24.12.1934 p185 New Street to be name Lund Crescent

 

LUNE CHINESE MEDICINE CLINIC Market Entrance

CN 20.09.2002 p3 Opened in Carlisle last month

 

LUPTON, Jeremiah Attorney at law; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

LUSH Scotch St

CN 05.11.2004 p6 Cosmetics shop to open next week

 

LYCEUM THEATRE see MATCHBOX THEATRE

 

LYNDALL, R 9 Grapes Lane

M442 p26 Business card for engraver

16.03.1902 Robert Lyndall died, son in law of J. Macmillan, engraver [MI 68/1]

 

LYONS, J and CO LTD

Coffee and chicory

CD 1931 Ad p318

 

LYSTOR,W.J. Drover’s Lane; Blackfriars Street

Flax and twine spinners and black rope manufacturers

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p29 Oblique photo of premises

CD 1880 AD pxxviii; established 1770; successor to the late William Howe, removed to Blackfriars Street from Drovers lane [He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of William Howe]

1882 Porters Directory Ad p112 20 Blackfriars St, works Swifts Lane

CD 1893-94 Ad p204

February 1896 William Lystor died aged 61

October 1899 shop and business advertised for sale