Carlisle Encyclopaedia
MCALPIN, Daniel Solicitor died 03.05.1875 [Monumental Inscription 85/33]
MCALPIN, James Hosier, dealer
CP 01.09.1821 p2d Bankruptcy of John Hart and James McAlpin
MCALPINE, Alfred Hillcrest Avenue
See also Senator
CN 15.03.2002 p20 Cumbria house builder sold and now trading as Centaur
MCCAULEYS COURT, 12 Rickergate [1880 Directory]
McCAULEY’S MUSIC HALL Peter Street; demolished circa 1938
CN 12.04.1947 p5
CN 29.03.1947 p5
McCAWLEY, D Scotch Arms Hotel, Rickergate
CD 1893-94 Ad p174
MCCLUNG, Samuel
CJ 10.04.1847 p2d Botchergate clockmaker, S.McClung, goes missing
McCONNELL, Alexander Jeweller of this city died 19.12.1792; Monumental Inscription in St Cuthbert’s Yard
MCCUMISKEY, P 60 Botchergate and 17 Collier Lane; moved to Crown Works in 1909, senior partner George Patrick McCumiskey died in 1923 [CN 20.01.2006 p 10]
1882 Porters Directory Ad p160 Rags, ropes, hare and rabbit skins
MCCUTCHEON, Henry L Ironmonger employing 1 apprentice, home address 31 Scotch St, born Carlisle [1851 census]
McCUTCHEONS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 10 Milbourne Street
1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 8-10 Milbourne Street
MacDONALD, P Botchergate
Tailors
CD 1910-11 Ad p114
CD 1913-14 Ad p150
CD 1920 Ad p316
MACDONALDS
CN 17.12.2021 p20 Opened last Friday, Drive through takeaway restaurant opened on old NER railway yard down London Road. Two other Macdonalds in Carlisle, Scotch Street and Kingstown
MCDONALDS COURT, Rigg Street [1880 Directory]
McDOUGALL, Rose Decorators’ merchants
CN 05.07.1991 p8 Ad
MACE, Jem
CJ 12.05.1863 Jem Mace’s Circus in Carlisle
MACES see SWORDS AND MACES
MACGAS
CN 04.10.1991 p14 Ad
McGEARY Portland Place
Hairdressers
CD 1893-94 Ad p182
McGEORGE, James Herbalist
1881 census, living at 24 English Damside, widower, aged 50, medical botanist. On the 1891 census he is living off Botchergate, widower aged 60, born Scotland, herbalist. 1901 census, living at 1 Hare and Hounds Lane, widower, aged 74, herbalist
McGIBBON, Edward Manufacturer of cotton goods, aged 49, home address 1 Lowther St, born Carlisle [1861 census]
McGLASSON St Albans Row
Fish, game and poultry
CD 1927 Ad p68
CD 1931 Ad p256
CD 1934 Ad p60
CD 1937 Ad p52
CD 1940 Ad p62
CD 1952 Ad p297
CD 1955-56 Ad p242
CD 1961-62 Ad p272
CD 1966-68 Ad p266
CN 17.09.1938 p19 Ad
Yesterdays Shopping in Carlisle p30 Photo of exterior
Carlisle an illustrated history p65 1924 photo of exterior
McGRATH,W.J. Lowther Street; Bank Street
Footwear;
William Joseph McGrath then bought by Colonel and Lady Stockdale then sold to Maisie Shiach whose son Callum is the current [2006] owner
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p62
CD 1955-56 Ad inside back cover vi, p62
CD 1961-62 Ad p260,back of inside cover
CD 1966-68 Ad front inside cover, p267
CN 21.07.2006 p10 Feature on assistant who has worked there for 45 years
MACGREGORS Two sweet shops in Carlisle, one on English Street, one in Rosemary Lane. They also had two sweet factories, one in Carlisle and one in Dumfries. Another member of the family had a sweet shop in Glasgow [Family memory]
Kelly’s 1929 Directory Macgregors confectioners, 84 English Street
McHARDY, JohnWillian London Road
From Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. Came to Carlisle to work for Robert Raine in 1914. Set up his own business around the time of Raine’s death. Taxidermist, gun and fishing tackle dealer. J.W.McHardy established a gunsmiths and, fishing tackle and taxidermist business at 9 London Road in 1942, retiring from business in 1974 when the business was bought by a consortium of local business men
W.Graham Carlisle Angling Assn. 150 Anniversary p54 Two photos of shop
CD 1952 Ad p384
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p278
CD 1955-56 Ad p285
CD 1961-62 Ad p65
CN 12.03.2004 p Firm owned by John Park
Trans Carlisle Natural History Society, Vol xiii, p116
MACHINE LANE, Scotch Street [1829 Directory]
MacINTOSH, Chas Scotch Street; English Street
Waterproof manufacturer; India rubber products
Leading Trader of the City Ad pi A616; established 1824
Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p36 photo
CD 1893-94 Ad p180
CD 1924 Ad p24
MACKAY BROTHERS English Street; the Crescent
Travel agent
Gordon Hepburn came to Carlisle in 1947 to open a branch of Mackay Brothers in Carlisle
CN 24.06.2011 p4 Obit of G.Hepburn
CD 1952 Ad p390
CD 1966-68 Ad p303
MACKAY, DAVIDSON and GLADSTONE Private Bank
Devonshire Street
CN 04.10.1947 p5
MACKAY DESIGN Castle Street
CN 18.03.1994 p7 Design firm wins major award
MACKENZIE,K and S
CN 05.05.1972 pp12-13 (illus) Feature
MACKENZIE MOTORS Warwick Road; Willowholme
CN 02.11.1973 p8 (illus) CN 14.10.1977 p16
CN 29.05.1981 p12 (advert)
MACKERETH, Thomas Grocer and tea dealer, aged 31, employing 3 apprentices, born Coniston, home address 52 English Street [1851 census]; master grocer aged 41, employing 2 apprentices, home address English St, born Hawkshead [1861 census]
MACKNIGHT, Daniel 1834 Pigot’s Directory Daniel McKnight, dyers, Willow Holme and Scotch St; Master dyer, aged 69, employing 5 men, home address Willow Holme, born Scotland [1851 census]
MACKNIGHT, James and John Master woollen manufacturers, aged 31 and 30, employing between them 16 men, both born Carlisle, home address Willow Holme [1851 census]
1847 Directory p166 Woollen manufacturers, Willow Holme
CJ 01.09.1865 p5 Fire at Messrs McKnight’s Mill, Willow Holme; not much damage
Evening News 03.03.1871 p3 Failure of firm with liabilities of £19,000
MACNIGHT BUILDERS; established 1965
CN 25.01.1991 p12 Rob’s the builder...Ad
CN 21.05.1999 p20 Bob makes quality and family business
CN 27.04.2007 p69 Advert for new houses; John Roberts Gardens; Dalston Rd
2021 Row of houses set in a courtyard on the south west side of Kendal Street where the school was. There is a stone saying McKnight, 2021.
MACLEOD, George and Sons Castle Street
Scotch tweeds
CD 1893-94 Ad p60
MCLLMOYLE WAY
CN 14.04.2006 p71 New Story development in Denton Holme to be named after Carlisle United footballer
MCMILLAN, James Engraver, died 27.05.1863 [MI 68/1] ;in directories from 1829 - 1861; W.Farish Handloom-weaver pp51, 65; 1851 census general engraver, aged 47, employing 1 man, home address 9 Grapes Lane, born Scotland
1837 John Kirkbride Northern Angler; 1855 ed opposite p81 plate of fish hooks engraved by Macmillan of Carlisle
J.Roy was a pupil of James Macmillan [S.Gilpin Life of Sam Bough p7] Sam Bough much frequented the workshop of Macmillan, a man of much ingenuity and usefulness, who could turn his hand to the various forms of engraving required by the jewellers, watchmakers, gunsmiths and copperplate printers of a provincial town. Macmillan was an advocate for teetotalism [p29]
CN 05.02.2016 p16 of section 2 Started in business in 1825 in Old Grapes Lane. D.Perriam article
MACMILLAN, John 2 Finkle Street
Furniture dealers
CD 1893-94 Ad p102, established 1840
MCPHERSON, James English St
1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p136 Carver and gilder
1811 Jollie’s Directory pxvi Carver and guilder
MACREADY THEATRE Blackfriars Street designed by William MacReady; built 1813-4; disused 185-; size about 20X16; photo of present day position in Carlisle an illustrated history p79. Remains of what is thought to be the theatre stand marked with plaque on building opposite St Cuthbert’s graveyard
D Perriam Blackfriars Street p38
CJ 02.07.1814 CJ 09.07.1814 CJ 16.07.1814 CJ 28.11.1829 p3
CJ 27.05.1921 p8 CN 08.03.1947 p3 CN 12.05.1951 p5
CN 18.07.1953 p6 CN 25.07.1953 p6 (illus showing a wall) CN 01.08.1953 p6 CN 22.01.1971 p14 CN 29.01.1971 p12 (illus)
11.07.1814 opening of the new theatre
09.09.1814 Foundling of the Forest
CJ 26.11.1814 p1 New Theatre; Mrs Jordan from the Theatres Royal at Drury Lane
CJ 03.03.1821 p1 Advert for sale
CP 01.09.1821 p2e Theatre opened under Mr Alexander; newly fitted up
CP 13.10.1821 p3c William Macready plays at Theatre
1829 Parson and White p147 The Theatre is a small building, erected about 12 years ago near St Cuthbert’s Church., in the lane to which it gives name. It is but indifferently attended, unless some ‘star’ from the south is paying a visit, when there is generally an overflow
The Citizen 01.05.1830 p679 Description
July 1845 Helen Faucit, famous American artist, appeared her for three nights
CN 02.04.1971 p14 Exhibition by Madame Tussaud
CN 15.04.1977 p17 (illus) Plaque to mark theatre
CN 16.12.1988 p4 Theatre closure is old, old story
CN 23.05.1997 p10 (illus) MacReady’s
CN 23.05.1997 p10 What did the hatters say to the bishop?
MACUENS PLACE, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 122 Milbourne Street
1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 120-122 Milbourne Street
McVITIE’S see CARRS
MCWILLIAM, AND CO Messrs Manufactory near Scotch St; Jollie 1811 p82
MADAME TUSSAUD Opened show at Carlisle 09.06.1828
MADDOCK, Samuel Master shoemaker, aged 35, employing 5 men, born Carlisle, home address Green Row, Shaddongate [1851 census]
MAGENTAS Fisher Street
Restaurant
CN 14.08.1998 p12 Ad
CN 13.08.1998 p12 Ad
CN 21.02.2000 p5 ‘Value for money’
CN 06.10.2000 p3 Restaurant in Good Food Guide
CN 26.10.2001 p1 Magentas for sale
CN 19.04.2002 p1 Magentas sold and to be called Lemon Lounge Bistro
MAGICAL CHOCOLATE SHOP; Castle Street
CN 14.04.2006 p1 Opened in 2006 by Richard and Angels Barker
CN 30.06.2006 p5 Shuts down
MAGISTRATES
Early in the 19th century magistrates met to sit in justice. Drs Heysham, Grinsdale and Lowry met in the Globe Inn, Scotch Street and the Mayor and sometimes ex mayor sat in a rival court in the Town Hall [Life of Dr Heysham by Henry Lonsdale pp114-117]
Carlisle Examiner 29.03.1859 p2e 2 letters
CN 06.09.1968 p12 First lady magistrate - 1920
CN 27.09.1968 p12 Error put right
CN 23.02.1979 p11 New appointments
CN 09.10.1992 pp1,5,12 I quit - top JP accuses Whitehall
CN 23.11.2001 p6 City calls for extra JPs
MAGISTRATES COURT Rickergate
CN 28.10.1988 p1 Verdict on courts ‘It’s like a toilet’
CN 28.10.1988 p6 Letters
CN 18.11.1988 p10 Not another carbuncle - comment
CN 04.11.1988 pp1,3,6 I don’t like court
CN 06.01.1989 p10 Defence on court design
CN 13.01.1989 p10 An agony award
CN 13.01.1989 p16 No backing for call over court
CN 24.02.1989 p23 More flack for a carbuncle
CN 03.03.1989 p10 Court found guilty again
CN 29.09.1989 p18 Court plans passed
CN 18.10.1996 p1 Cameras set to catch court vandals
CN 21.03.1997 p5 CCTV
CN 05.09.1997 p4 Boss faces chop....
CN 27.08.1999 p3 Courts get own bouncer
CN 12.01.2001 p5 First district judge to sit at Carlisle Magistrates Court
CN 09.02.2001 p3 Job axe; proposed changes; morale low
CN 21.05.2004 p9 Cumbria Magistrates service gets first full time resident judge
MAGNAY, R Swifts Row
Joiner; funeral furnishers; Robert Magnay, cabinet maker, died 24.07.1895; Monumental Inscription [41/8]
1891 census; Robert Magnay, cabinet maker, aged 58, bn Carlisle, home Solway Tce; also living Solway Tce, Percy, Herbert, Percy and Robert, cabinetmakers
CD 1893 -94 Ad p172
CD 1902-03 Ad p224
CD 1905-06 Ad p136
CD 1907-08 Ad p129
CD 1920 Ad p44
CD 1924 Ad p76
CD 1927 Ad p80
1928 Carlisle Pageant Souvenir Brochure; ad established 1864
CD 1931 Ad p96
CD 1934 Ad p136
CN 05.05.1934 Obit of R.J.Magnay
CD 1937 Ad p110
CD 1940 Ad p50
CN 27.07.1940 Obit of Percy Magnay, joiner and cabinetmaker
CN 15.02.1941 Obit of Herbert Magnay, cabinet maker, last of 3 brothers
MAGNET COCOA ROOM Nelson Street. Set up in 1879 along the British Workmen’s principal as an alternative to the pub. The Carlisle Journal reported on 14.02.1879 ‘ a commodious house which recently opened as a grocers is now being fitted up by a number of gentlemen in the Denton Holme district as a cocoa room’. An ornamental lamp was erected over the door by the Ladies Committee of the Temperance Association
MAGNET JOINERY SALES LTD
CN 23.07.1971 p16 (illus) Carlisle depot
CN 01.03.1974 p13 (illus) Showroom opened in Lancaster Street
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH CO Citadel Station
CN 06.12.1957 p12
MAGLONA HOUSE NHS Building, Kingstown
CN 28.03.2014 p21 New home for 150 health employees
MAGPIE INN Victoria Road; opened 04.12.1933 to the designs of Harry Redfern and built by Laing’s
P Hitchon Botcherby A Garden Village pp167-174 the first manager was Herbert Smith. He was later killed in the Gretna air raid in 1941
CJ 05.12.1933 (2 photos) Inside not very like a public house
Renaissance of the English Public House p71 layout plan of pub; photo opp p 76
Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 pp 173 - 176
ENS 05.08.1971 Magpie has a truly rural atmosphere
ENS 05.08.1997 p5 Death threats force out mugged landlady
CN 15.08.1997 p1 Threats close pub
CN 22.01.2016 p3 To reopen after closure in June 2013
MAGUIRE, Annie Dressmaker, aged 37, employing 3 girls, home address 14 Portland Place, born Carlisle [1861 census]
MAIL see COACHING, POST OFFICE
MAINES
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]
MAIN GUARD Market Place; built 1649; Guardhouse turned into Fish Market 13.03.1833; demolished 1855
Jefferson, S History...Carlisle, 1838, p282 Description; date of 1645 under arms
1835 Nutter’s painting depicts the Main Guard [175 Years of Carlisle front cover]
Topping, G and Potter,J.J. Memorials of old Carlisle p28
CP 27.05.1854 p5 Demolition begin at Martinmas; News Room to move
CJ 25.01.1949 p2
CN 10.11.2000 p9 Dating and demolition; Denis Perriam
MAINS COTTON FACTORY London Rd; James Rothwell in partnership with William Halton established 1799 the first cotton spinning factory in the city
CPacquet 07.02.1809 Floods carry away part of weir belonging to Rothwell and Co
1811 Jollie p81 cotton mill called Mains Rothwell and Co
08.05.1819 Edward Rothwell dies aged 54, father of James Rothwell
CP 10.11.1821 p3c Rothwell and Co, Cotton Manufactory, the Mains
1829 Directory Rothwell and Co Mains
1835 drawing by J.Carmichael [in Tullie Hse] showing mill dominating landscape
CJ 06.04.1839 Accident at mill; 15 year old girl killed by fall into machinery
1851 census James Rothwell, aged 65, master cotton spinner, born Lancashire
Manchester Guardian 26.04.1856 p7 Ad Mains Factory for sale, 11,000 spindles
1858 Carlisle Directory Wm Parker and Co, the Mains, Cotton manufacturers
1861 census William Parker, cotton, gingham and check manufacturer, bn Flintshire
CJ 05.12.1856 Dramatic fire at Mains factory; history of factory
CA/E4/656 1861 Additions to power loom sheds for Messrs Parker and Co
04.06.1864 Dalston Memorial Inscriptions. In memory of Sarah wife of John Ashbridge Thomlinson and youngest daughter of William Parker of Carlisle, aged 22
CJ 05.01.1866 Factory called the Mains to be disposed of
CJ 12.01.1866 Mains; works transferred from Messrs Parker and Co to JA Thomlinson [late of that firm] and Mr Buck of Dalston, who have entered into partnership
CJ 24.04.1866 Strike at Thomlinson and Bucks
CJ 21.07.1893 Sale of portion of the mill plant
1877 Transfer of business of Lowthian and Fairlie to the Mains Manufacturing Company, who also recently purchased the business of Messrs Thomlinson and Buck [CN 07.09.2012 p34]
CJ 09.11.1900 Brown Tran and Co purchase the Mains
CJ 11.11.1913 Brown Tran and Co, Albion Mill, description of works
1918 Electoral Register Thomas and Annie Brown
CJ 03.01.1930 Thomas Brown and Co, Albion Works; new plant
CJ August 1930 Forthcoming meeting of liquidators
Linton Holme; a suburb of Carlisle M.Dickens pp 9-12
Carlisle in Camera 1 p49 Photo before 1910
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p97 cotton factory under Brown, Tran, about 1907
CN 29.12.2000 p9 Mains Cotton Factory; D.Perriam
CN 26.06.2009 p34 D.Perriam article on Jim Rothwell
MAITLAND STREET
City Minutes 1900-01 p 326 Approval for new street
City Minutes 1922-23 p 393 Approval for 8 houses
MAKE UP see COSMETICS
MALOYS COURT; 10 Grey St So named on local directories from 1880; on voters list until 1973; on 1901 census Edward Maloy, grocer, living in adjacent house, no 10 Grey St
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between8-10 Grey Street
MALT SHOVEL INN Rickergate; present building completed 04.08.1928, designed by Harry Redfern; renamed Robbies, Adriano’s [Italian restaurant]
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p113
Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 p136 -40 illus
CIC2 p14 Money from sale of pub provided funds for new public library
CN 24.02.1961 p10 (illus) CN 18.12.1981 p1 CN 19.04.1991 p4
1847 Directory Jas. Gilbertson
1861 census Letitia Gilbertson, victualler, 57, born Scotland
1891 census; Jane Little, hotel keeper, bn Irthington, aged 68
CJ 06.04.1894 Sale of pub; only pub owned by corporation
1901 census; Jane Little, aged 79, innkeeper, born Irthington
Renaissance of the English Public House p62 layout plan
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p132, 1967 photo of beer delivery
Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 p139 Details of tenant Mrs Matthews and her removal in 1926 for rebuilding and reinstatement in 1928
ENS 25.09.1969 p6 Inns of Cumbria and the Border
CN 29.03.1974 pp9-11 (illus) Became ‘Brew House’
CN 01.09.1989 p4 Malt Shovel memories
ENS 19.02.1998 p18 Hoppers nightclub added to Malt Shovel
CN 16.08.2002 p5 Landlord declared bankrupt; Robbies only just opened
CN 02.05.2008 p1 Council buys first properties under Renaissance scheme; Adriano’s, ex Malt Shovel
MALTSTERS ARMS John Street; in local directories from 1880
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p114 Photo in about 1902; demolished 2004
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses, 2004, p43
CN 22.12.1978 p 1 Bought by Jennings
CN 30.08.1996 Ad; for sale £109,000
CN 23.04.2004 p3 Closed for good by Mr and Mrs Pagan; to become students flats
MAMMALS
Trans. of the Carlisle Natural History Society, Vol 5, 1933 Mammals in Carlisle
CN 16.07.2004 p3 Mink spotted in Carlisle
MANDERS MENAGERIE
Carlisle Examiner 13.11.1858 p2c In Carlisle
MANDLE AND TINKLER Mary Street, Cecil Street
Coopers, engineers and millwrights
CD 1893-94 Ad p66
MANE-LINE Health and Beauty Centre
CN 16.09.1988 p8 Ad
MANKIN, William Lowther Street; Lowther Arcade
Tobacconist; hairdressing saloon and tobacconist
CD 1893-94 Ad p140
CD 1907-08 Ad p8
CD 1910-11 Ad p7
CD 1913-14 Ad p7
MANN’S, Mrs
CJ 16.12.1870 Details nos on roll 33, nos attending her school 35
MANOR PLACE
City Minutes 1933-34 p186 New street to be named Manor Place
MANOR ROAD, Upperby
City Minutes 1932-33 p 234 Agree to request that Cemetery Road, Upperby be renamed Manor Rd
City Minutes 1935/36 p88 Plans for renumbering road
MAPS Oldest map of city dates from 1542, this manuscript map published in 1815 in Magna Britannia; CWAAS 1971, Vol 71, opp. p52 carries a conjectoral map of city and environs in 1597; 1610 Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1]; 1610 inset 3D map of city appears in corner of Speed’s 1611 map of Cumberland; circa 1700 Meissner’s 3D map of Carlisle in Anglia; In 1995 Carlisle Record Office reproduced in colour a George Smith map showing the disposition of the Duke of Cumberland’s forces during his 1745 siege of the city, this shows the principal streets; map of city appeared on Hodskinson and Donald’s 1774 Map of Cumberland (surveyed 1770/71); other notable maps include Wood’s Map of 1821, Studholme’s map of 1834, Asquith’s Survey of 1853; Ordnance Survey surveyed Carlisle in 1865 at 25 and 50 inch scales
CAIH p55
CP 01.09.1821 p1d Advert to view Wood’s Map of City
CP 07.01.1854 p1 Ad To be ready on 1st Jan map of city by Richard Asquith
CJ 25.01.1867 OS plan of city published at end of past year at 10.56 feet to mile
CN 07.09.1990 p4 A flashback to the 1920’s
CN 27.07.1990 p4 The maps that show what was there
CN 29.11.1996 p10 George Smith: 18th century double agent
McCUTCHEON, Henry L 31 Scotch St
1851 Ward’s North of England Directory ads, p12 ironmonger
MARBLE WORKS, Mill Street
1851 Ward’s North of England Directory, ad p9; props. T and J Nelson
MARDALE ROAD
City Minutes 1935-6 p208 Naming of street
MARGARET CREIGHTON GARDENS Built 1932, named after wife of twice mayor Archibald Creighton
CAIH p89 Interior photo
City Minutes 1931-32 64 dwellings for aged persons on the Old Greystone site ‘nearing completion’
City Minutes 1931-32 p726 Laings the contractors; estate to be called Margaret Creighton Gardens
CJ 11.11.1932 Photo; civic opening 11.11.1932
City Minutes 1932-33 p114 Tender accepted for erection and furnishing of Recreation hut
City Minutes 1935-6 p296 One of our objects at Margaret Creighton Gardens was to provide hot baths for the tenants free of cost. I regret to say that the facilities afforded have not been used
CJ 26.03.1937 p7
MARGARET SEWELL SCHOOL Strand Road; named after Margaret Jane Sewell, member of the Carlisle School Board. Margaret Sewell died on the 13th April 1918 and her obituary in the Carlisle Journal said she was aged 61. She became a member of the old School Board about 20 years ago and with the passing of the 1902 Education Act she was co-opted as a member of the Carlisle Education Committee on which she laboured until last December. Her greatest interest was in the education and the welfare of the young. She interested herself in the work of the Higher Grade School. She was the daughter of Thomas Sewell, saddler, and spent the whole of her life in the city. The City Council Minutes of 04.05.1920 refer to The Margaret Sewell School for Girls. The move to Comprehensive Education meant that in 1968 Carlisle Grammar School was amalgamated with two local schools, Margaret Sewell, (Girls) and the Creighton (Boys) to become Trinity School, a Church of England Comprehensive School on the Strand Road sites.
For history pre 1940 see HIGHER GRADE SCHOOL; 15.01.1940 school transferred to new buildings of which first sod cut 07.05.1937 and foundation of boys school (Creighton School) laid 19.02.1938; official opening 17.04.1940; 01.09.1962 amalgamated with the Creighton School
CN 02.05.1936 pp13,16 New Central schools
CN 29.05.1937 p12 Work proceeding on the erection of the Central Schools on the Swifts
CN 29.01.1938 p4 illus. Architects drawing of Central Schools
CN 22.02.1938 p4
CJ 25.02.1938 p11
CN 26.02.1938 p5 Plaque unveiled at entrance to boys school
CN 07.05.1938 p4 Aerial photo of the new schools
CN 05.03.1949 p5 50th anniversary
CJ 19.04.1940 p5 CN 20.04.1940 p5 CN 27.04.1940 p5
CJ 16.01.1940 p1 Pupils occupying
CJ 19.01.1940 p4 Opening day
City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p22, 24, 41 photos of school in 1958
ENS 12.03.1960 p1 M.S. girls join protest march
CN 08.04.1993 p9 Calling old class mates
MARGARET’S JEWELLERY STALL; The Market
CN 21.01.2005 p36 Feature; 35 years if success, run by Hardmans
MARGERY STREET Named after Margery Jackson, the Carlisle Miser; adjoins Jackson Street; Brothers William and Matthew Johnstone, builders, partnership dissolved in 1907 after close upon 20 years; responsible for Margery St and Jackson Street [Obit of Matthew Johnstone CN 30.12.1911 p11]
City Minutes 1898/99 p432 Approval for 14 houses
MARINA CRESCENT Named after Princess Marina who married the Duke of Kent
City Minutes 1935/36 p96 New road to be named Marina Crescent
ENS 22.04.1996 pp8-9 (illus) Goodbye Beirut?
ENS 25.04.1996 p16 (illus) Groups have say in estates new look
MARK, John Newtown, rope and twine manufacturers, in 1829 Directory
MARK, John Nail manufacturer employing 12 men, born Thursby, aged 50, home address Russell Street, Botchergate [1851 census]; nail maker and iron merchant, aged 60, home 2 Russell St, born Thursby [1861 census]; in directories from 1829 - 1880
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p 10 Iron merchant, 2 Mary St
CN 03.10.2014 p16 John Mark baptised Thursby 27.07.1797. He purchased the nail manufactory of Mrs Harrison, Watergate Lane circa 1821. Circa 1846 moved to Mary Street. John Mark died in 1881 and was succeeded by his nephew William Mark Bell, who died in 1888 and the business was put up for sale. Jane his widow continued the business. By 1895 she’d taken up the license of the Golden Fleece, Corporation Road.
MARK, Joseph Portland Place
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p90 Photo of butcher’s shop
CN17.01.2014p16 Denis Perriam; article. Joseph Mark move to city in 1871 where he opened business in Portland Place. Son Bell Mark took over the business
MARK,W.D. Tyne Street
Ice and cold stores
CD 1905-06 Ad p101
CD 1907-08 Ad p6
CD 1910-11 Ad p8
CD 1913-14 Ad p6
MARKET - BUTCHERS
See also SHAMBLES
D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022 p10, illus, A Butchers Market was built as an arcade in 1844 to the designs of John Hodgson on a confined site between the Athenaeum and the Congregational Church. This was never a success and in 1862 the former market was bought for £1,000 and replaced by the Post Office
CN 15.07.1994 p10 150 years ago
MARKET - COVERED In 1799 Butchers Shambles moved to Old Bluebell Lane between Fisher Street and Scotch Street; [Woods 1821 Map of Carlisle marks this market] ; enlarged in 1854 to include butter and egg market; additions made in 1879; foundation stone of new market laid 20.12.1887; new market opened 02.10.1889; separate fish market entered by door adjacent to market’s Fisher Street door; incorporated into the capitals are carvings of the heads of sheep, bull and cockerel, representing the trades that went on in the market. The carvings were done in situ by Mr Beal of Newcastle; projecting building added to West Tower Street facade was added in 1900 for a poultry market and original carved capitals moved forward. Open market around Carel Cross closed 28.09.1927 when all was moved to the covered market Major refurbishment began in 1989, phase one opening on 14.08.1990
D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle First Learning Centre; Tullie House p85 1961 painting of interior of covered market
Margaret Forster Hidden Lives p166 [early 1950s] our shopping began at the covered market as shopping always had done all my mother’s life and her mother’s before her. We went through the big double doors and down the little cobbled hill and patronized the butchers’ stalls just as my grandmother had done. We bought the same kind of Cumberland sausage and potted meat and black pudding, which I hated to eat. ...After this meat buying ordeal, things improved. I liked the fruit and vegetable stalls, full of produce not very artistically arranged but absolutely fresh, brought in each morning from the surrounding countryside. nothing exotic, no pineapples or melons - I hadn’t seen such fruit- and no fancy foreign vegetables, just huge cabbages and cauliflowers and leeks and onions and millions of potatoes...the last port of call was to the butter women who sat behind trestle tables, their butter and cheese arranged in front of them, the butter pats each with an individual crest. As in every aspect of our lives shopping in the market was carefully structured, the route between the stalls never varying - butchers, greengrocers, butter women. Progress was very slow. Plenty of time, while goods were selected, talked over, paid for, for me to stare up at the glass roof where pigeons flew about and to be aware of the echoes in that cavernous space. It was always cold, since there was no heating and doors opened on each side to the streets beyond, and the stallholders would often have a struggle weighing things with hands wrapped in two pairs of fingerless mittens and scarves dropping down and getting in the way. On the many wet days rain would sweep in and trickle down the main cobbles entrance until it became a veritable stream. How I longed to get out of the market and into the warm shops
Local Government Octocentenary booklet pp 63-68 1BC 352
CIC2 pp10-11Photos of construction and Scotch St entrance
CAIH p41
Carlisle in old picture postcards view 30, 31 and 32
CP 09.02.1861 p1a Butter and Egg market move to New Market from 16th Feb
1887 Roman finds when building new covered market CWAAS OS Vol 12 p360
CP 23.12.1887 p6 Laying the foundation stone of new market
City Minutes 06.08.189 p 234 item 405 Clock for New Market from Potts of Leeds
CJ 04.10.1889 Opening of new market
City Minutes 1920-21 pp 331-2 Withdrawal of all restrictions on letting stalls
CJ 19.04.1938 p1 Illustration of interior - annual dog show
CJ 09.12.1938 p1 £12,000 improvements
CJ 13.12.1938 p1 Markets scheme explained (plan)
CN 14.10.1939 p7 Tenants vain protest of sunset closure
CJ 15.12.1939 p3 Market blackout problem
ENS 01.01.1960 p1 Market opened for poultry sales only
ENS 28.06.1960 p7 Plans for development of market’s west bay
ENS 07.01.1961 p1 ‘Basket Row’
ENS 10.01.1961 p3 Letter
ENS 11.01.1961 p9 Basket Row traders cannot go back
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p53 1966 and 1968 interior photographs
ENS 25.06.1968 Supplement
ENS 26.06.1968 Supplement Steel and sandstone shell
ENS 22.08.1968 pp13-15
ENS 17.10.1968 pp18-19
ENS 13.01.1975 p1 City markets hygiene shock
ENS 14.01.1975 p15 Traders hit back
ENS 28.01.1976 p1 Crisis in market place (rents)
ENS 02.12.1976 pp11-13 Adverts
ENS 14.12.1977 pp14-15 Adverts
175 Years of Carlisle p101 photos of interior in 1980s; p115 interior
CN 13.01.1989 p4 City’s new market a big step forward
CN 13.01.1989 p4 City riot of colour for Hall opening
CN 13.01.1989 p21 Stallholders at war over market plan
CN 20.01.1989 p8 Uproar in the market
CN 20.01.1989 p19 Shoppers split over city market plans
CN 03.02.1989 pp1,14 Market moves
CN 03.02.1989 p4 Victorian opposition to market plan
CN 10.02.1989 p1 New look for market plans
CN 10.02.1989 p4 City markets have long history
CN 17.02.1989 p5 Fighting on over plans for market
CN 17.02.1989 p10 It’d better be right
CN 07.04.1989 p3 Market decision is a blow or traders
CN 26.05.1989 p4 Rate rise hit market facelift
CN 09.06.1989 p1 City traders quit market
CN 21.07.1989 p9 Market deal is revealed
CN 18.08.1989 p4 Memories of market and Rickergate
CN 01.09.1989 p4 Malt Shovel memories
CN 06.10.1989 p4 A Victorian landmark
CN 19.01.1990 p1 Stalled by rent rise
CN 13.07.1990 p22 Market delay
CN 03.08.1990 p9 Attack on market stalls
CN 17.08.1990 pp10,23 (illus) Making the most of the market
CN 28.03.1991 p18 (illus) It’s a light in the dark
CN 12.04.1991 p6 Market crisis
CN 31.05.1991 pp1,10 City market rents shock
CN 05.07.1991 p1 Empty market in crisis
CN 12.07.1991 p3 Labour ‘market flop’ slammed
CN 30.08.1991 p23 Market mystery
CN 15.11.1991 p1 Fears for city ghost market
CN 15.11.1991 p12 Harsh truth about the market
CN 26.12.1991 p1 Market firm in takeover
CN 07.08.1992 p1 Breaking point at the market
CN 14.08.1992 p3 Another market trader pulls out
CN 02.10.1992 p1 Trader kicks up £20,000 stink
CN 09.10.1992 p3 City hits back in row over drains
CN 26.02.1993 p11 Boom time for city creche
CN 12.03.1993 p3 Council taken to task by Earl
CN 02.04.1993 pp1,12 City market counter attack
CN 15.10.1993 p11 New plans for market
CN 05.11.1993 p6 Secret plans to rescue market
CN 18.03.1994 p7 £1m rescue bid
CN 13.05.1994 p1 Market may get off ground
CN 01.07.1994 p17 Carlisle market plans rejected
CN 22.07.1994 p3 Too high rents drive butcher out of market
CN 19.08.1994 p5 Butcher closure blow to doomed market
CN 26.08.1994 p16 Shopping a pleasure (Ad)
CN 30.09.1994 p3 Up market university
CN 14.10.1994 p10 Cup of sorrow as market cafe closes
CN 13.01.1995 p5 Campus deal with market abandoned
CN 13.01.1995 p11 When sugar and spice and all things nice were at market
ENS 17.02.1995 p1 City market faces new row over hygiene
CN 21.04.1995 p5 Talks on control of market
CN 05.05.1995 p4 Market decision
CN 18.08.1995 p3 Riddle of markets closed shutters
CN 19.01.1996 pp1,10 Wrangle threatens market
CN 23.02.1996 p5 Market crisis grows
CN 15.03.1996 p3 Higher rents ‘nail in coffin’
CN 29.03.1996 p3 (illus) City of future has stalls on streets
ENS 30.07.1996 p11 (illus) From covered market to new theatre?
CN 30.08.1996 p1 TSB accused of killing market
CN 27.09.1996 p3 Blow to market as banks snubs talks
CN 03.01.1997 p10 How Carlisle got its covered market after 100 years battle
CN 24.01.1997 p6 (illus) Traders welcome market moves
CN 01.08.1997 p1 Bring on the clowns
CN 08.08.1997 p1 In the market for fun
CN 27.03.1998 p12 Market Hall - spree for learning
CN 31.07.1998 p5 Campus expansion hits snag as US store gets market site
CN 07.08.1998 p3 Facelift to start this month
CN 27.11.1998 p11 (illus) Letters
CN 28.05.1999 p19 Revamp nearly done
CN 23.02.2001 p20 Aim to revive home produce stall holders on a Saturday
CN 03.08.2001 p16 Halladale Group takes over day to day operations
CN 01.03.2002 p3 Market Harbour, fishmonger’s stall closes down
CN 14.03.2002 p3 New business; computers, handmade textiles
CN 27.06.2003 p7 Bakers Bells pull out of market
CN 06.08.2004 p5 All 101 units will be taken by September
CN 01.10.2004 p18 Lease being sold by Halladale Haworth
CN 11.02.2005 p1 Lease sold for £8m-Modus Properties of Manchester
CN 12.01.2007 p24 Polish food store opens in Market Hall
CN 13.11.2009 p7 Market jewellers in market for 40 years
MARKET - COVERED - BELL
See also TOWN HALL BELL
Currently (January 2000) there is a bell hung in the Covered Market. Mary McBride, former Market Superintendent, recalls ringing this bell when a junior there (1950s/1960s?). It was rung 10 minutes before closing to get people out and at opening times to let people know the market had opened. It is now moved from its original position and is just for show.
CWAAS OS Vol 7 p238-9 Old Market Bell inscribed 1584; now in museum
CJ 11.03.1881 Concerning vote to abolish ringing Market Bell
CWAAS Old Series vol XIII p338 Ringing the Market Bell
MARKET CROSS see CROSS
MARKET GARDENERS see ATKINSON’S OF BOTCHERBY; CLARK BROTHERS; HUTTON BROTHERS; LITTLE AND BALLANTYNE; WALTONS
MARKET HALL
CN 01.12.1978 p4 (illus) CN 08.12.1978 p4 CN 03.08.1979 p3
CN 01.12.1978 p4 (illus)
CJ 08.12.1939 p1 Problem of lighting
CJ 15.12.1939 p2 Market blackout problem
ENS 26.11.1960 p1 Storm over closure of markets west bay
ENS 03.12.1960 p1 Housewives found chaos
ENS 05.12.1960 p1 Market basket row
ENS 14.12.1960 p9 City market’s committee accused of highhandedness
CN 08.12.1978 p4 History
CN 24.06.1988 p11 Public get say in Market Hall plans
CN 12.08.1988 p9 Market firm chosen
CN 13.01.1989 p4 City riot of colour for Hall opening
CN 19.07.1991 pp8-9 (illus) An old favourite gets a brand new lease of life
CN 26.01.1996 p1 City rejects allegations of Market Hall ‘indifference’
CN 17.02.2012 p12 Feature on the Market
MARKET - HORSE
D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022 p10. Map showing the location of the Horse Market on Lowther Street. In 1862 it moved to Swifts Row
CP 22.03 1817 The workmen are busy levelling the new Horse Market which will soon be open to the public. It was possible for horses to run up and down Lowther Street to show their paces.
MARKET - PIG
Carlisle Examiner 18.11.1858 p2e Urinal
MARKET PLACE
See also Pedestrianisation; Market-Street, Market-covered-bell
Open market around Carel Cross closed 28.09.1927 when all was moved to the covered market
CN 27.01.1945 p5 (illus) CJ 15.04.1949 p5 (illus) CJ 22.11.1949 p1 (illus)
CN 16.05.1975 p6
CP 01.12.1821 p2d Sale 3 houses in Market Place, large shop; built last 25 years
1835 Nutter painting depicting Market Place [175 Years of Carlisle front cover]
Carlisle in old picture postcards views11,12 Market scenes
City Minutes 190-02 p38 Approval for underground lavatory in Market Place
Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; p99 photo of urinals
CN 15.03.1924 p9 18th century Carlisle
28.09.1927 Open market around Carel Cross closed when all was moved to the covered market
CN 10.11.1951 p4 Letters concerning deterioration and lack of amenity
CN 04.07.1958 p9 Supp All through the ages the agricultural traders have...
ENS 19.12.1962 p8 Town Hall square improvement
175 Years of Carlisle p92 photos of Market Place in 1980s
CN 06.01.1990 Supp (illus) ppxxiii,xxiv When the country folks came to town
CN 19.07.1991 p4 Street stalls go back long way
MARKET - POTATO
CIC p7
M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration p52 illustration of market
City Minutes 10.10.1899 Potato market to be held in Tait St and Abbey St
City Minutes 1900-01 p538 Move from Abbey St to Market/ Peter St; 12.10.1901
City Minutes 1905-06 p396 Removal of potato market from Tait St to Crescent
CN 31.08.2007 p34 Started some time after 1837 in Castle Street, but there were other potato markets at the Crescent and Paddy’s Market; following the arrival of trams it was announced in 1899 that it would move from Castle Street to three separate locations, Tait St, Cecil St and Abbey St; later it moved [again] to the Court side of the Crescent where it went on until the late 1930s
MARKET - POULTRY
A poultry market was held in Lowther Street. The Cumberland Pacquet reported in December 1853 that it had moved from Devonshire Street, but it had only been there as a temporary measure. D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022 p10, 2 illustrations. All the street markets had moved to the covered market by 1900
MARKET STREET
New street formed after covered market development of 1880s. The whole of the east side of the street is taken up with market buildings. There is a foundation stone on the north east side of the street; Public Markets. This stone was laid by WIR Crowder Esquire, Mayor of Carlisle, Dec 20th 1887.
MARKET - STREETS see also PADDY’S MARKET
By tradition the market was held around the Carel Cross; the 1560s map of the city shows the butchers shambles to the east of the cross; an undated map, but pre 1850, shows the Market Place and English Street area, marking the sites where each type of goods are sold [Grangerised Hutchinson]; open market around Carel Cross closed 28.09.1927 when all was moved to the covered market
CAIH p40
CIC 4-7
City Minutes 1925-6 p831 Part of Caldewgate known as Paddy’s Market tarmacked
CN 20.08.1965 p10
CN 04.07.1958 p9 Supp
1829 Parson and White p148 Market days Wed. and Sat; list of streets used
CP 09.02.1861 p1a Market for sale of butter, eggs move to New Market from 16.02
CP 09.02.1861 p1a Green/ veg. market in front of Town Hall from Green Market
CJ 26.12.1865 p3 Illustration of vegetable market
1877 photo of Lowther St poultry market; Carlisle in Camera 1 p6
City Minutes 1890-91 item 484 lists all street stalls, their business and location
City Minutes 1905-06 p396 Removal of potato market from Tait St to Crescent
City Minutes 1926-7 p699 No vending around the Cross from about this date
CN 01.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 09.06.1951 p5 Street markets
CN 15.11.1952 p11 Paddy’s Market again after 20 years
CN 20.12.1952 p4 (illus of Town Hall) Paddy’s Market and others
CN 03.01.1953 p4 Old Street markets
CJ 06.11.1953 p1 End Paddy’s Market call by traders
CN 14.11.1953 p7 Paddy’s Market doubt - is it legal?
CN 05.12.1953 p2 Paddy’s Market will continue
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p28 Photo of market
CN 05.08.1955 p8 Scattered markets, Shambles
CN 12.08.1955 p8 Markets - what was sold where
CN 16.03.1956 p10 Sands Cattle Market
CN 03.09.1965 p10 Illustration of vegetable market
CN 20.08.1965 p10 Illustration of potato market
CN 19.09.1975 p1 Brunton Park market
CN 19.12.1975 p1 Brunton Park market
CN 24.12.1975 p15 Brunton Park market
CN 06.01.1990 Supp xxiii When the country folk came to town
CN 19.07.1991 p4 Street stalls go back long way
CN 09.07.1999 p5 Farmers get own mart
CN 23.07.1999 p9 (illus) Back to future for farm foods
CN 09.06.2000 p7 Council backs farm markets; city centre likely
CN 06.04.2001 p9 History of Paddy’s Market
CN 05.04.2002 p9 Continental market in city centre
CN 03.05.2002 p13 Letter concerning continental market; was it properly licensed?
CN 29.08.2003 p1 Great Food Fair; continental and Cumbrian market
CN 06.01.2006 p20 1954 photo of market
MARKET - SUNDAY
CN 02.11.1973 p16 Sunday market at Blackwell Racecourse
CN 16.11.1973 p1 Sunday market at Blackwell
CN 23.11.1973 p7 (illus) Sunday market at Blackwell
CN 18.01.1974 p7 Sunday market at Blackwell
CN 01.03.1974 p21 Racecourse market
CN 25.10.1991 p1 Racecourse rides into Sunday row
CN 01.11.1991 p14 Racecourse boss blasts car boot critics
CN 22.11.1991 p1 Putting the boot in
CN 13.12.1991 p25 Boot them out - angry residents
CN 16.10.1992 pp1,12 Boot for bid to stop race sales
CN 19.03.1993 p1 Market ready for the off
CN 02.09.1994 p11 Sunday market scheme
CN 14.10.1994 p9 Sunday market nearer
CN 11.11.1994 p3 Market battle ahead
CN 09.12.1994 p19 Sunday markets backed
CN 16.12.1994 p13 ‘Yes’ to market
CN 13.01.1995 p17 3 market tenders
CN 24.02.1995 p12 8 bid for Sunday market contract
CN 17.03.1995 p5 Sunday market set to open next week
CN 31.03.1995 p5 Thousands visit market
CN 14.04.1995 p5 Rush to market
CN 10.11.1995 p17 Closure of Sunday market
CN 12.04.1996 p1 Sunday market hold up
CN 28.04.2006 p7 First Sunday market this Sunday at Rosehill Auction Mart
MARK LANE William Mark, proprietor of houses, is living on West Walls, immediately adjacent to Mark Lane, on the 1861 census
MARKS AND SPENCER 1909 opened at 70-72 English Street; First mentioned 1910-11 Carlisle Directory. 02.10.1931 opened new site on 44-46 English Street; 01.11.1935 extended to 42 English Street; 14.03.1964 escalator installed; 14.09.1979 food hall opened;
CIC2 p58 Photo of facade 1930
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p46; photo of facade of old premises
CJ 02.10.1931 p10 Ad for move to new premises 44-46 English Street
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p39 assistants on mannequin parade 1954
ENS 13.08.1977 p5 (illus) A head start for the team who dig history
CN 23.09.1977 p1 Extensions
CN 21.09.1979 pp16-17 Extensions
CN 29.09.1995 p3 Top Marks...
CN 04.07.1997 p4 M&S chief comes home to his mystery birthplace
CN 18.07.1997 p5 (illus) M&S buys Littlewoods store
CN 08.08.1997 p1 Battle to save jobs
CN 28.11.1997 p1 Marks and Spence-oz
CN 13.03.1998 p1 M&S back the city (Millennium)
CN 28.08.1998 p1 New M&S
‘CN 16.10.1998 p3 Plenty to shout about (new extension)
CN 17.09.1999 p4 Stephen takes over M&S
CN 08.10.1999 p17 New boss
CN 17.08.2001 p6 80 seater cafe opened
CN 28.09.2001 p1 £2m revamp
CN 07.12.2001 p1 (illus) New range of M&S clothing takes Carlisle by storm
CN 12.07.2002 p1 Marks and Spencer lingerie boss sacked after lewd comments
CN 17.10.2008 p3 Marks celebrates 100 years in Carlisle
MARKS AVENUE In 1925 Marks Avenue was so named after the City Surveyor who retired in 1926
MARKS COURT, 54 Port Road [1880 Directory]
So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
MARLBOROUGH GARDENS Land owned by the Duke of Devonshire and developed by his gardener Joseph Paxton; gates originally stood across the entrance to Cavendish Terrace. The Devonshire private estate ran up Stanwix Bank to Etterby Street, down Etterby Street to Etterby Terrace and back to Cavendish Terrace; street names show the family’s noble connections. The 1901 household census for Caroline Asby, Briary, Marlborough Gardens, lists a James Hayton, aged 11, boot boy domestic
See also Duke of Devonshire’s Estate
CJ 03.12.1889 p2 New street in Stanwix running from Devonshire Banks to Etterby Street is being made
CJ 15.06.1900 p6 2 semi detached villas
CJ 29.04.1902 p3 Several lots in Stanwix owned and built by Joseph Bell
CN 20.05.2011 p3 Threatened closure of Edenvale House by Anchor
MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL see RELATE
MARRIAGES
CN 01.10.2004 p8 Woman arrested over fake marriage claims to immigrant
MARSDEN, William Machine and steamloom-maker, Damside, English-gate [Jollie 1811 pp83, xvi]
MARSHALLS Scotch Street
China and glass
The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 37-9 Scotch Street. Fancy bazaar. Engraving of shop front
Guide to Carlisle Ad C178
CD 1880 Ad pxxii
CD 1884-85 Ad p269
CD 1893-94 Ad p168
MARSHALL’S TOY SHOP Scotch Street; founded 1864
CN 24.03.1961 p14 (illus)
MARSTON, Joseph
CJ 22.10.1825 p1 Joseph Marston has commenced in part of Robert Hewson’s warehouse behind the West Walls, wholesale warehouse draper
MARSTON, Thomas Hosier of this city died 17.09.1812; Monumental Inscription in St Cuthbert’s Yard
1811 Jollies directory lists a Thomas Marston, stocking manufacturer, hosier and cotton yarn and commission warehouse, Castle Street (Removed from Strong’s Lane, English Street)
MARSTON, Thomas Merchant with a shop on English Street. The shop front can be clearly seen on W.H.Nutter’s 1835 painting of the Market Square
1829 Thomas Marston is listed as hosier of English Street and Castle Street
1847 Thomas Martson, hosiery manufacturer, 6 English Street [home Etterby Cottage]
April 1849 Marston and family departs from Liverpool for the United States
01.05.1881 Thomas Martson dies in USA [see 920 MAR, Martson family history]
MARTIN BROTHERS Viaduct Yard
Plasterers
CD 1961-62 Ad p293
MARTIN, Elizabeth see MARTIN’S LIVERY STABLES
MARTIN, James 31, Botchergate;
Grocer, Tea Dealer
1851 Ward’s North of England Directory Ads p2
MARTIN, Sam Lowthians Lane; Warwick Rd, English Street
Betting shop
CD 1924 Ad p257
CD 1952 Ad p214
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p93
CD 1955-56 Ad p237
MARTIN, Thomas Devonshire Street
Guide to Carlisle Ad C178
MARTIN, William Rickergate; Gardenia Street; Blackwell Road
Joiner and contractor
CD 1907-08 Ad p117
CD 1910-11 Ad p8
CD 1913-14 Ad p8
CD 1920 Ad p284
CD 1924 Ad p255
CD 1927 Ad p277 Established 1874
CD 1931 Ad p68
CD 1934 Ad p60
CD 1937 Ad p52
MARTINDALE, F Architect
Submitted the plans for the art deco building on the east side of Lowther Street; Health Committee Minutes 22.07.1934
MARTINDALE, JH Architect
Designed Calthwaite Church, moving pulpit in St Cuthbert’s Church
CJ 31.08.1900 Conservative Clubs new premises approaching completion. Designed for Mr Watt of Knowefield by the architect JH Martindale. Block comprises two fine shops on the Viaduct. Access to the club, housed in the rooms above the shops, is via a open gallery or terrace six feet wide where a doorway gives access to a staircase. Two oriel windows face onto Backhouse Walk
CJ 21.08.1936 p8 Carlisle architects. Martindale, Yorkshireman who was Diocesan surveyor. In connection with the East Window of the Cathedral, the Rev Swann, who purchased the old buildings, which now form the electrical showrooms on Castle Street, appointed Mr Martindale as his architect, and owing to his ability and the kind thoughtfulness of the Rev Swann, the premises were so designed that the full view of the glorious East Window has been preserved for the public
MARTINDALE, Joseph Linen and woollen draper, employing 1 man and 1 apprentice, aged 35, born Dalston, home address 73-74 English Street [1861 census]
CJ 19.03.1842 p3 has a map locating the Martindale shop, one house north of St Cuthbert’s Lane
1847 Directory William Martindale 73-74 English Street
MARTINDALE, William Market Place
CP 29.01.1825 p1a Linen draper; ending of partnership with Mr Gale
MARTINDALE CHEMIST William R.Martindale, aged 62, Druggist, born Castle Sowerby, home address English Street [1851 census]
M442 p38 Business card for chemist and druggist, Market Place
1829 Directory p 161 Wm R.Martindale, chemist, English St
CP 20.12.1817 p2 Ad for W.R.Martindale, Chemist, Market Place
1847 Steel’s guide to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway; extensive ad detailing its products
CN 21.05.1999 p12 (illus) City origins of author of pharmacist’s bible
MARTIN’S BANK English Street;
CD 1934 Ad p168
CJ 21.01.1938 p10 CN 21.07.1961 p10
CJ 22.01.1937 p8 Profit increase
CJ 27.01.1939 p12 Martins Bank - encouraging expansion
MARTIN’S LIVERY STABLES Eaglesfield Abbey, West Walls
1851 Wards North of England Directory; Ads p2 Elizabeth Martin for many years
MARTLEW, Thomas 9 English St
1882 Porters Directory Ad p162 Chemist
MARY HANNAH COTTAGES see HANNAH COTTAGES
MARYPORT CARLISLE RAILWAY see RAILWAYS; MARYPORT AND CARLISLE
MARYPORT COTTAGES Railway housing was provided at Maryport cottages adjacent to the M&C line
CJ 02.04.1878 p3 Plans approved for M and C
CN 17.02.1967 p1 Maryport Cottages, Hassell Street, Petteril Terrace, Regent Street, South Western Terrace, Milbourne Street, John PLace, Randall Street; British Railways housing sell off in Carlisle; over 100 houses
CN 11.07.2003 p55 5 cottages for sale; need upgrading
MARYPORT COTTAGES RAILWAY FOOTBRIDGE Bridge dated 1929. Officially bridge number 138 on the M and C. Bridge linking a footpath in front of Maryport Cottages with a new footpath on the eastern side close to Currock House; 55m spanning 5 railway tracks. Made by Markham and Co of Chesterfield. Replaced by a new structure 120 m south. New bridge open to the public 16th September 2016, now called ‘Currock Bridge’. Old bridge demolished within 48 hours of the opening during the early hours of 18th September
City Minutes 1925-6 p719 Resolved to erect bridge in lieu of existing level crossing
City Minutes 1927-28 p462 Tender of Messr Markham accepted for footbridge
CN 09.04.2010 p9 Bridge is dangerous residents claim
CN 28.10.2016 Second Section p16; D.Perriam story of the railway bridge
MARY’S CHAMBERS
CN 03.08.1990 p8 Bringing back a taste of the good old times
MARY’S COURT, South John Street [1934 Directory]
Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
1880 Directory 41 South John Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 41-43 South John Street
MARY’S PLACE, Cumberland Street [1934 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 15-17 Cumberland Street
MARYS LANE, Rickergate
A document dated 1799 between Edward H Rowland and George Ferguson refers to streets, yet to be built by George, which included George Street and Mary’s Lane. In these streets there were to be no ‘trades of soap boiler, refiner of tallow, blacksmith, or copper-smith nor slaughter house, carriers, warehouse, bakehouse, or cotton factory worked by steam engines or anything deemed obnoxious’ [CRO5/2/52]
So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
MARYS PLACE, Solway Terrace [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 13 Solway terrace
MARY STREET, North East side of Botchergate; so named on Asquith’s 1853 Survey of City
City Minutes 1934/5 p955 Nos 14 - 32 unfit for human habitation
CN 02.02.2007 p p34 How street got its name; named in honour of Mary Snowden who lived here and whose brother owned the land
MARY STREET SCHOOL see also BRITISH SCHOOL
So named on Studholme’s 1842 survey of city
MASON, Engravers and printers of 58 Castle Street. Cathedral Printing Works. Engraving of shop front [The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87]
MASON AND RENNISON Brown’s Row, Watergate
1811 Jollie’s Directory pxvi Pipe makers
MASON AND WOOD Devonshire Street; Lowther Street
Financiers
CD 1931 Ad p100
CD 1934 Ad p108
CD 1937 Ad p84
CD 1940 Ad p86
CD 1952 Ad p401
CD 1955-56 Ad p245
MASON, Joseph, Pipe Maker, Botchergate
CP 10.01.1818 p1
CJ 28.02.1829 p3 Thomas Mason has a brother, a pipe maker. Court case riot
MASON’S ARMS Blackfriars Street; in local directory for 1847
MASON’S ARMS South John Street; in local directories from 1847 to 1907-08
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p57
1861 census William Forster, joiner and innkeeper, aged 30, from Carlisle
1891 census; John Robert Dalton, aged 50, innkeeper, bn Cockermouth
MASONS COURT, Harraby Street [1934 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory lists between 4-5 Harrbby Street, London Road
MASONS COURT, Northumberland Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 7 Northumberland Street
MASONS COURT, 3 Princess Street [1880 Directory]
MASONS GARAGE Nissan dealership taken over by Benfield
CN 19.01.1990 Supplement
CN 20.04.1990 p8 The roots of success
CN 28.10.1994 Ad supplement
MASONS MARKS
see also Cathedral, Tithe Barn
CWAAS OS Vol 5 pp132-5 Masons Marks at the Cathedral, Deanery
MASONS PLACE, Princess Street [1934 Directory]
MATALAN
CN 01.12.2000 p3 Matalan store opens in the city
MATCHBOX THEATRES Sands; built 1858; taken over by Salvation Army in 1880; demolished October 1892 [CJ 18.10.1892 p2]
See also SALVATION ARMY
Carlisle an illustrated history p78 photo of Theatre when used by Salvation Army
Carlisle Examiner 06.09.1859 p2e Application by Mr Holloway to erect theatre
CN 28.02.1958 p10 CN 26.06.1970 p14 CN 08.04.1971 p12 (illus)
CN 27.03.1987 p4 (illus) CN 03.04.1987 p4
CJ 23.03.1860 Erected by Joseph Holloway
CJ 18.10.1892 p2 History of the Matchbox Theatre and other theatrical makeshifts
CJ 25.10.1892 p2 John, Joe and James Holloway and Matchbox they built
CN 22.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 22.11.1991 p4 Old theatre was built out of wood
CN 05.11.2004 p9 History of theatre; D.Perriam
MATERNITY HOMES see also CITY GENERAL; COLEDALE HALL; CUMBERLAND INFIRMARY; GEORGE STREET MATERNITY HOME
CN 14.11.2003 p6 Story of maternity homes and midwifery; D.Perriam
MATTHEWS, F and SON Scotch Street
Gents and boys outfitters
CD 1955-56 Ad p270
MAUDLEN CLOSE Situated near Botchergate Toll Bar; to be sold in 1825 for building [CP 31.12.1825 p1]
MAUNDY SERVICE see CATHEDRAL; MAUNDY SERVICE
MAXWELL, J and W Fertiliser manufacturers
Carlisle Grammar School Memorial Register p152 John son of William Maxwell born 10.02.1851; John, Mayor of Carlisle 1902-03; John Maxwell lived at 2 Victoria Place from at least 1888 - 1915, inside this house is a glass window bearing his initials
1882 Porters Directory Ad p80 English St; Solway Chem. and Manure Wks, Silloth
CN 17.09.1938 p20 Ad
MAXWELL, R and E Warwick Road
Bakers
CD 1952 Ad p212
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p224
CD 1955-56 Ad pviii
MAYBLINS Botchergate
Newsagents
CD 1952 Ad p77
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p15
CD 1955-56 Ad p284
CN 29.03.2002 p7 Mayblins closes down
MAY DAY
CJ 09.05.1939 pp1,5 (illus) May Day rally in Carlisle
CN 31.05.1947 p5 Harraby May Day-letter
CN 29.04.1988 p4 Bid to brighten up May Day in city
CN 28.04.1989 p4 City joined in rural celebration
CN 08.05.1992 p4 City May parade was short lived
CN 09.09.1994 p7 Distress call over May Day by bank management
MAY DAY HORSE PARADE
CN 12.03.2010 p32 D. Perriam article; 270 entries in 1883 but only 16 in 1892
MAYFAIR, Stanwix 1948 G.W.Graham-Bowman. O.B.E.,M.C. [CWAAS members list, vol 48 p 236]
MAYFAIR CAFE, Scotch Street
The Lanes Remembered p 80 photo
MAYORESS BADGE
See Mayoral chain.
City Minutes 1898/99 p 121 Recommended to accept estimate of £62
MAYOR MAKING
CJ 11.11.1843 p2h Election of Mr Bendle as new Mayor
CN 13.05.1977 p4 (illus) Jim Long
CN 20.05.1977 p5 (illus)
CN 24.05.2002 p4 Alan Toole new mayor; Jack Charlton attends ceremony
CN 23.05.2008 p19 New Mayor Jacqui Geddes
MAYORS
see also ‘LOCAL MAYORS’, MAYOR’S CHAIN, SWORDS AND MACES
R.S.Ferguson in his book ‘The Royal Charters of Carlisle’, CWAAS, 1894, says that the first mention of a mayor of Carlisle, in a document to which the Crown is a party, is in Quo Warrante of 20 Edward I, 1292, which is directed against the Mayor and commonality of Carlisle. But a subsequent charter of Edward II, in 1316, is directed to the citizens without any mention of the mayor at all , so that he may have been a mere spontaneous or voluntary creation of the citizens which the Crown did not recognise. The next charter which mentions a mayor is that of Edward III, 1353, which recites, among other things ‘...And a free guild and a free election of their mayor and bailiffs within the said city....’ The charter goes on to say that ‘the aforesaid liberties and quittances belonging to the said city they have had from time whereof memory is not’ i.e.by prescription. Now, legal memory begins from the first year of King Richard I, or 1189, and we may therefore suppose Carlisle had a mayor, bailiffs, and coroners at that time. Probably they had, or pretended to have; but they certainly had not got the full liberties claimed in this charter of Edward III, for in 1195 they are negotiating for liberty adfacienda sua negotia. A charter of the 9 Elizabeth states that it was agreed that the government of the city should be the mayor, with eleven worshipful persons of the city. That the mayor should not do any act without the assent of the majority of the eleven. The governing charter 13 Charles I, vested the election of mayor in the mayor, alderman, bailiffs and twenty-four capital citizens. He was to be elected from the aldermen. The office was annual and the election was to be on the Monday next after the Feast of St Michael the Archangel (29th September). The mayor got a yearly fee. The distinguishing mark of the Mayor of Carlisle is a white staff, which is carried to this day. When James 1st of England visited Carlisle on 4th and 5th August 1617 on his return south from Scotland he was greeted by the Mayor, Adam Robinson, who bore his white wand of office and twelve aldermen in their blue bonnets.
For list of Carlisle Mayors see 2BC 352 (vertical file)
1765-66 John Davison; 1766-67 Richard Hodgson; 1767-68 John Pears; 1768-69 John Pearson;1769-70 William Hodgson; 1770-71 Jeremiah Wherlings; 1771-72 Morris Coulthard; 1772-73 George Dalton; 1773-74 George Harrington; 1774-75 Richard Hodgson; 1775-76 William Kirkbride; 1776-77 William Hodgson;1777-78 Jeremiah Wherlings; 1778-79 Morris Coulthard; 1779-80 George Dalton;1780-81 Joseph Potts; 1781-82 Joseph Gill; 1782-83 Joseph Senhouse;1783-84 Joseph Gill; 1784-85 Jeremiah Wherlings; 1785-86 Richard Jackson; 1786-87 Sir Jospeh Senhouse; 1787-88 Joseph Potts; 1788-89 Richard Jackson; 1789-90 Jeremiah Wherlings; 1790-91 Richard Jackson; 1791-92 Morris Coulthard; 1792-93 Richard Jackson; 1793-94 Jeremiah Wherlings; 1794-95 Richard Jackson; 1795-96 Morris Coulthard; 1796-97 Sir Richard Hodgson; 1797-98 Jeremiah Wherlings; 1798-99 Richard Jackson; 1799-1800 John Richardson; 1800-01 Jeremiah Wherlings; 1801-02 Richard Jackson; 1802-03 Sir Richard Hodgson; 1803-04 Joseph Hodgson; 1804-05 Rev Thomas Lowry; 1805-06 Thomas Blamire; 1806-07 Joseph Dacre Appleby Gilpin; 1807-08 Richard Jackson; 1808-09 Rev Thomas Lowry; 1809-10 Thomas Blamire; 1810-11 Joseph Dacre Appleby Gilpin; 1811-12 George Blamire; 1812-13 John Hodgson; 1813-14 Thomas Lowry; 1814-15 Thomas Blamire; 1815-16 Sir Joseph Dacre Appleby Gilpin; 1816-17 George Blamire; 1817-18 John Hodgson; 1818-19 William Hodgson; 1819-20 Thomas Blamire; 1820-21 Sir Joseph Dacre Appleby Gilpin; 1821-22 John Hodgson; 1822-23 William Hodgson; 1823-24 Thomas Blamire; 1824-25 John Hodgson; 1825-26 William Hodgson; 1826-27 Thomas Blamire; 1827-28 William Hodgson; 1828-29 John Hodgson; 1829-30 John Hodgson; 1830-31 Rev Thomas Lowry; 1831-32 John Hodgson; 1832-33 William Hodgson; 1833-34 William Nicholson Hodgson; 1834-31.12 35 John Hodgson; 01.01.1836 - 08.11.1836 George Gill Mounsey; 1836-37 Joseph Ferguson; 1837-38 Peter Dixon; 1838-39 Thomas Coulthard Heysham; 1839-40 John Dixon; [09.11.1840 Joseph Ferguson elected Mayor but declined to make the necessary declarations]; 17.11.1840-41John Dixon; 1841-42 George Gill Mounsey; 1842-43 George Dixon; 1843-44 Robert Bendle; 1844-45 James Steel; 1845-46 James Steel; 1846-47 George Relph; 1847-48 William Stordy; 1848-49 George Dixon; 1849-50 Joseph Rome; 1850-51 John Hewson; 1851-52 Thomas Nelson; 1852-53 Peter James Dixon; 1853-54 Peter James Dixon; 1854-55 Robert Ferguson; 1855-56 Robert Elliott; 1856-57 George Mounsey; 1857-58 John Howe; 1858-59 Robert Ferguson; 1859-60 Robert Bendle; 1860-61 Isaac James; 1861-62 George Gill Mounsey; 1862-63 John Irving; 1863-64 Caleb Hodgson; 1864-65 Thomas Nanson; 1865-66 John Huthart; 1866-67 Robert Creighton; 1867-68 Isaac James; 1868-69 Alex Davidson; 1869-70 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1870-71 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1871-72 John Irving; 1872-73 Charles Penfold Hardy; 1873-74 Thomas Clarke; 1874-75 John Hargraves; 1875-76 Joseph Bendle; 1876-77 Samuel Jackson Binning; 1877-78 Samuel Jackson Binning; 1878-79 Thomas Milburn; 1879-80 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1880-81 James Robert Creighton; 1881-82 Richard Saul Ferguson; 1882-83 Richard Saul Ferguson; 1883-84 Francis Peter Dixon; 1884-85 Benjamin Scott; 1885-86 James Atkinson Wheatley; 1886-87 William Maxwell; 1887-88 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1888-89 James Robert Creighton; 1889-90 Richard Forster; 1890-91 Benjamin Scott; 1891-92 Benjamin Scott; 1892-93 James Atkinson Wheatley; 1893-94 John Corbett; 1894-95 George Coulthard; 1895-96 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1896-7 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1897-98 Francis Peter Dixon; 1898-9 George White; 1899-1900 Christopher Ling; 1900-01 John Hurst; 1901-02 Benjamin Scott; 1902-03 John Maxwell; 1903-04 Frederick William Chance; 1904-05 Francis Peter Dixon; 1905-06 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1906-07 William Irwin Robert Crowder; 1907-08 William Nanson Donald; 1908-09 William Bell Maxwell; 1909-10 William Phillips; 1910-11 Sir Benjamin Scott; 1911-12 Matthew Johnstone, died in office, Sir Benjamin Scott; 1912-13 Spencer Charles Ferguson; 1913-14 Spencer Charles Ferguson; 1914-15 Francis Peter Dixon; 1915-16 Walter Phelp Gibbings; 1916-17 Joseph Pattinson Buck; 1917-18 Betram Carr; 1918-19 Betram Carr; 1919-20 Thomas Ridley; 1920-21 Henry Kenyon Campbell ; 1921-22 Archibald Creighton; 1922-23 Robert Dalton; 1923-24 Hubert Woodville; 1924-25 Robert Burns; 1925-26 George Edward Edmondson; 1926-27 Archibald Creighton; 1927-28 Joseph Henderson; 1928-29 Thomas Gardhouse Charlton; 1929-30 Sir Robert Christopher Chance; 1930-31 Frederick William Tassell; 1931-2 Matthew Thompson; 1932-33 Herbert Atkinson; 1933-34 Ebenezer Gray; 1934-35 James Cuthbert Studholme; 1935-36 John Robert Potts; 1936-37 Richard Stanley Harrison; 1937-38 John Walker Osborne; 1938-39 Tom Dobinson; 1939-40 Matthew Thompson; 1940-41 Matthew Thompson; 1941-42 Edgar Grierson; 1942-43 Alexander C.G.Thomson; 1943-44 Alexander C.G.Thomson; 1944-45 Wilfred Goody; 1945-46 Mrs Isa Graham; 1946-47 Harold Greenop; 1947-48 Elizabeth Welsh; 1948-49 Elizabeth Welsh; 1949-50 Gerald Sheehan; 1950-51 Alfred Henry Partridge; 1951-52 George Henry Routledge; 1952-53 George Bowman; 1953-54 Alfred Clement Redvers Punnett; 1954-55 Thomas Dawson Lancaster; 1955-56 Harold Nelson Sutcliffe; 1956-57 Ritson Graham; 1957-58 Jessie Martin; 1958-59 Irving Burrow; 1959-60 William John Hunter; 1960-61 Thomas Souness; 1961-62 Thomas Logie MacDonald; 1962-63 Francis Derry; 1963-64 David Moffat Hamilton; 1964-65 Howard Glaister; 1965-66 James Smith; 1966-67 Gerard Joseph Coogan; 1967-68 Mary Kathleen Sibson; 1968-69 Joseph Jackson Bell; 1969-70 John Hayhurst; 1970-71 Noel Thomas O’Reilly; 1971-72 Herbert Fawcett; 1972-73 Archibald Caven; 1973-74 Hugh Little; 1974-75 Thomas Johnson; 1975-76 Thomas MacMillan Bisland; 1976-77 George Edward Dudson; 1977-78 James Frederick Long; 1978-79 Gordon Henry Griffiths; 1979-80 Joseph Norman David Weedall; 1980-81 Walter Sydney Bell; 1981-82 Alan Graham; 1982-83 Donald Fell; 1983-84 Trudy Whalley; 1984-85 Ian Stockdale; 1985-86 Keith Aitken; 1986-87 Harry Gallagher; 1987-88 Victor Davies; 1988-89 Cyril Webber; 1989-90 R.C.Hayhoe; 1990-91 John Amos; 1991-92 Elsie M.Coleman; 1992-93 Harold Evans; 1993-94 Jayne Armstrong Prewitt; 1994-95 James Paisley; 1995-96 Alfred Brumwell; 1996-97 Craig Johnson; 1997-98 John Metcalfe; 1998-99 Heather Bradley; 1999-00 John Collier; 2000-01 Ray Knapton; 2003-04 Judith Pattinson; 2004-05 Ralph Aldersey; 2005-06 Sandra Fisher; 2006-07 Peter Farmer; 2007-08 Elizabeth Mallinson; 2008-09 Jacqui Geddes; 2009-10 Bill Graham; 2010-11 Mary Styth; 2011-12 Barry Earp
2012 -13 Dave Wilson; 2013-14 Ray Bloxham; 2015-16 Steve Layden; 2016-17 Colin Stothard
CN 24.11.1989 p4 Parish mayors excuse for making merry
CN 28.05.1993 p5 Mayor nomination debate rekindled
CN 07.04.1995 p3 Choice of mayor move
CN 12.05.1995 p10 Let the Tories into Parlour
CN 01.11.1996 p5 (illus) Row looms as city sets aside £4,000 for mayoral gifts
CN 26.02.1999 p1 Stay at home deputy mayor has let people down
CN 26.03.1999 p7 Elected mayor too powerful
CN 21.05.1999 p5 My goal for Carlisle (John Collier)
CN 01.09.2000 p2 City gears up for decision on an elected mayor
CN 08.09.2000 p12 Opinion Who wants to be the Carlisle Mayor?
CN 25.05.2001 p17 (illus) Doreen Parsons new mayor; 415th person to hold title
CN 24.08.2001 p3 Council joins race to have Lord Mayor; p12 opinion
CN 15.03.2002 p3 Bid for Lord Mayor fails
CN 05.04.2002 p7 The job of the mayor; what Doreen Parsons does
CN 02.05.2003 p9 Judith Pattinson, next Mayor, looks forward to her year
CN 09.05.2003 p13 Letters against Judith Pattinson becoming Mayor
CN 16.05.2003 p1 Race to be Mayor; letters page 13
CN 23.05.2003 p1 Judith Pattinson keen to prove she is more than shoes
CN 02.07.2004 p 5 Ralph Aldersey 419th mayor of city took office
CN 06.08.2004 p8 Article on new mayor
CN 27.05.2005 p4 New Mayor, Sandra Fisher, chosen
CN 02.06.2006 p10 Feature on new mayor Peter Farmer
CN 22.06.2009 p14 New mayor Bill Graham
CN 27.05.2011 p4 New mayor Barry Earp
MAYOR’S CHAIN
See also Swords and Maces
The older badge and chain were in use until 1898. These were given to the city by the Carlisle Gas, Light and Coke Company. Mayoral badges and collars have no symbolic functions, their chief purpose is to add dignity to the Chief Citizen and enable him to be easily distinguished. Until 1850 Mayors of Carlisle had no badge or chain. The matter had come to a head in 1849 when the Lord Mayor of London gave a banquet in honour of the Prince Consort to which he had invited the provincial mayors. The Mayor of Carlisle attended the banquet, but with no chain of office to wear he had to hire one for the evening. This was felt to be not good enough for the dignity of the city. About this time the Carlisle Gas Company was in the process of being handed over to the city. During the period of transfer Trustees had been appointed to carry on the company and a sum of money was set aside for their expenses. But none had been claimed so when the hand over was completed this money was used to buy a Mayoral chain. This is inscribed on the back ‘Presented to the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Carlisle by the City of Carlisle Gas, Light and Coke Company to commemorate the transfer of the Gas works to the Corporation, October 1850’. The first Mayor to wear the chain was Joseph Rome when he went to the station to greet Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent, who broke her journey south at Carlisle. The chain had only arrived at 9 am that day. In 1898 the Corporation found it necessary to buy a new chain and badge of office. This was of the same design as before, but twice the thickness and properly hinged. The new chain was 18 carat gold with the City Coat of Arms in enamel, costing £140 for the chain and £65 for the badge. The following year the Corporation also bought an official badge for the Mayoress, costing £62. They were both made by the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company.
CN 12.09.1975 p6
MAYOR’S DRIVE
See also Weavers Bank, Sauceries
CP 27.05.1892 p6b Mayor’s Drive; new road from Bitts around Sorceries inspected
MAYOR’S OATH
Civic Affairs July 1963 p1 Mayor’s Oath; certainly dates from 1561
MAYOR’S SERGEANT Matthew Hind who held this office for 40 years died 18.09.1815; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard; John Wales, late Mayor’s Sergeant died 27.02.1824 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 268]; 1841 census Thomas Graham, aged 50, home Old Grapes Lane
MAYPOLE DAIRY CO Corner English St/ Victoria Viaduct
175 Years of Carlisle p 16 exterior photo
Yesterdays Shopping in Carlisle p7 Exterior view of shop at 92 English St in 1913
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p43 Interior shop photo; moved to Botchergate 1927
MAYS, A.T. Travel Agent
CN 23.02.1990 p8 Ad
CN 29.07.1994 p18 Helping to ease holiday planning
MAYSON STREET
Built by William C.Armstrong, [1858 – 1948]
City Minutes 1902-03 p461 Approval for 17 houses
MAYSON STREET MOTOR WORKS Mayson Street
CD 1952 Ad p338
MEAD, Edward 1 Botchergate
1882 Porters Directory Ad p156 Pastry cook
MEADE ROAD Harraby First appears on electoral register for 1963-64
MEADOW BREWERY see PEATTIE
MEADBROOKE, Durranhill
CN 17.12.2021 Weekend p23 New housing development
MEADOW TERRACE So named on 1837 directory; on the voters list to 1902; on the 1901 census it is adjacent to Hartington Place
MEADS 7 Devonshire Street
Hotelier
CD 1884-85 Ad p272 Late no 1 Botchergate
MEAKIN,E.W. and SON Scotland Road
Hairdressers
CD 1931 Ad p11
CD 1934 Ad p11 Catered for this area since 1899
MEALS ON WHEELS see WOMEN’S ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE
MEARNS, William Barber of Scotch St; died 11.12.1806 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]
MEASELS
Mon. Insc. St Mary’s Church [Cathedral] No5 16.03.1797 J.Harmer died of measles
City Council Minutes 1893-94 p106; 77 deaths in 1893; comparison over 20 years
City Minutes 1909-10 p372 Annual mortality 1874 to 1909
City Minutes 1914-15 p503-518 Outbreak; 33 deaths in first 5 months
City Minutes 1917-18 p 219-220 12 registered deaths
MECCA ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
CN 24.05.1974 p1 Plans to move to Carlisle
MECHANICS INSTITUTE Established 01.12.1824; closed Nov 1831; reopened July 1833; Primary object the dissemination of scientific, mechanical and other useful knowledge, amongst the operative classes. [1847 Directory] The Mechanics’ Institute had promoted the building of the Athenaeum but had to hand responsibility for its construction to a limited company of businessmen who raised the cost by public subscription, removed from Athenaeum to Fisher Street 15.03.1850; 26.04.1853 foundation stone of lecture hall laid; 31.03.1891 Mechanics Institution and Library presented to Corporation.
Mannix and Whellan 1847 p140
D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House p45-46
CN 21.11.1958 p10
CJ 27.11.1824 p3 Establishment of Mechanics Institute in city
1829 Parson and White p146 Occupies room in Castle St
CJ 13.04.1839 p3b AGM
CP 27.06.1840 p2a Library removed to Athaeaeum
18.12.1849 Meeting decided that the wants of the institution demand more accommodation than can be obtained in this building
09.06.1851 Mechanics Institute library opened
Carlisle in Camera 1 p54 photo of Mechanics Ins building on Fisher St [from 1850]
Carlisle Examiner 06.05.1858 p3d,e Annual Meeting
Carlisle Examiner 05.06.1858 p4a,b Meeting
Carlisle Examiner 20.05.1858 p3c Proposed reform
Carlisle Examiner 25.05.1858 p3f Proposed reform
Carlisle Examiner 27.05.1858 p2f Meeting
14.09.1858 Jane wife of John Morrison, Mechanics Instit Secretary died [MI 16/4]
Carlisle Examiner 14.05.1859 p2c Annual meeting
Carlisle Examiner 14.06.1859 p2d letter
Carlisle Examiner 26.11.1859 p 3a Annual soiree
CJ 01.05.1863 p5 Death of librarian
CJ 15.05.1863 p5 Annual General Meeting
CJ 28.04.1865 p6 Annual General Meeting
City Minutes 1889-90 p232 Offer of whole of property if city adopts Library Act
CP 04.04.1890 Home for Arts and Science
CJ 15.12.1922 p7 St Mary’s Gate, new street. Through Mr Clements property at the old Mechanics Institute, of recent years used by City Surveyor
CJ 15.12.1922 p9 Mechanics Institute had been given to the city many years ago as a present. Surveyor had it for some 30 years
CN 19.01.1990 p4 A pub show that went badly wrong
CN 05.03.1999 p13 (illus) Carlisle’s Athenaeum
MEDICAL OFFICER First Medical Officer of Health Dr Elliot 1874 - 1882
Medical Officer of Health Annual Report 1969 p 5
MELBOURNE HOUSE Warwick Road
Used cars
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p262
CD 1955-56 Ad p265
MELBOURNE PARK
In May 1929 the building of a raised footpath from Botcherby to Melbourne Road at a cost of £1,500 was approved. The route of the path changed when in 1961 the course of the river Petteril was altered.
P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p112, 239-41
CN 28.05.2004 p13 Letter concerning abandoned cars
MELBOURNE PARK HOUSING SCHEME
CN 07.02.1975 p3 CN 12.09.1975 p32 CN 19.09.1975 p9
CN 26.09.1975 pp 3,12 CN 10.10.1975 p11 CN 07.05.1976
MELBOURNE ROAD I think Melbourne Road, when associated with Adelaide Street just around the corner, suggests an Australian connection. It wasn't uncommon to name streets after places in the Empire. In 1920 further streets were planned in this area, but never built. One of them was to be called Sydney Street. [see map at back of 1920 Carlisle Directory] The street was never built
City Minutes 1890-91 item 457; approval for laying out new street
City Minutes 1890-91 item 536; approval for 18 houses
MELROSE TERRACE Greystone Rd area; voters list 1894 - 1998
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT Before the Reform Act of 1832 the City of Carlisle returned 2 members. Carlisle retained this privilege under the 1832 act; by the Reform Act of 1885 Carlisle was deprived of one of its members
1294 Robert de Grenesdale Andrew de Sellar; 1301 Henry le Spencer, Andrew Serjeant; 1304 Robert de Grenesdale, Alan de Grenesdale; 1305 Alan de Grenesdale; 1307 Andrew Serjeant, Richard de Hubrickley; 1308 William Fitz Juting, Robert Grenesdale; 1310 John de Crostone, William Fitz Henry; 1311 Alan de Grenesdale Andrew Fitz Peter, Alan de Grenesdale William de Tailleur; 1313 Robert Grenesdale John Winton; 1314 Robert Grenesdale, Bernard Lecatour; 1318 Robert Grenesdale Bernard, Poulter Robert Grenesdale, Richard Fitz Ivo; 1321 John de Wilton Thomas de Calston; 1326 John Fleming Nicholas le Despencer ;1327 John Fleming, Robert de Grenesdale, Alan de Grenesdale,John da Capella; 1328 Robert de Grenesdale, Alan de Grenesdale, John de Haverington, Simon de Sandford; Robert Grenesdale, John de Harding; 1332 John Haverington, Simon Sandford; 1333 John Fleming, Adam Crofton; 1334 John de Pickering, Henry Pepir, John Fleming, Adam Crofton; 1335 Thomas Hardull, Thomas Friskington, John de Exlington, Thomas Worthfell; 1337 Thomas de Pardishow, Giles de Orreton, John de Denton, Adam Brighton; 1338 Thomas de Perdishow, Giles de Orreton, John de Exlington, Jojhn de Bargit, Robert Grenesdale, William Fitz Ivo, Thomas Baron, Thomas de Fresington; 1340 John Fleming, Adam Crofton, William Fitz Henry, Henry le Spencer; 1341 Thomas Hardgil, John Fleming; 1343 John Chapel, William Chapel; 1347 Adam Crofton, Robert Tebay; 1348 Adam Crofton Thomas Appleby; 1350 Robert Tebay, John de Haghton; 1355 William Arture, Thomas Stanley; 1357 Thomas Alaynby, William Spencer; 1360 John de Thorneton, Adam de Aglionby; 1362 William Arthureth, William Spencer; 1363 Adam Halden, William Spencer; 1364 William Arthureth, Richard London; 1365 Richard Orfeur, William Clifton; 1368 Adam Aglionby, William de Clifford; 1369 William Arthureth, John de Waverton; 1371 John de Whitlawe....; 1372 William Raughton, William Carlisle; 1373 Thomas Tayleur, Richard Denton; 1376 Richard Denton, John de Burgh; 1377 Richard Denton, John de Burgh; 1378 Robert Carlisle, John Levington; 1379 Robert Carlisle -Parker; 1382 William Osmunderlaw, John Skelton; 1383 Richard London, John de Appleby, Stephen de Carlisle, Thomas Bolton; 1384 Richard London, John Blennerhasset; 1385 William Aglionby, John Garnot; 1386 Adam de Denton, Robert de Bristow; 1387 Robert de Carlisle, William Aglionby; 1388 John de Corkeby, Nicholas Leveston; 1389 Adam de Kirkbide, --; 1391 John Monceaux, Robetr Bristow; 1392 John Roddesdale, John de Wek; 1394 John de Brugham, John Monceaux; 1396 John Helton, John Brugham; 1397 Robert Bristow, John Bristow; 1399 John Helton, Robert Bristowe; 1401 Thomas Bolton, Robert Bristowe; 1406 Thomas de Darle, William Mulcastre; 1413 Robert de Carlisle, Ralph Blennerhasset; 1414 Robert de Carlisle, William de Cardoyll; 1415 Robert Lancastre, William Bell; 1417 Robert Carlisle, William Cardoyll; 1421 William Manchestre, John Thompson; 1422 Robert Cardoyll,Richard Gray; 1427 John Helton, William Camberton; 1429 Thomas Derwent, Adam Haverington; 1430 Everard Barwick, Robert Clerk; 1432 Richard Bristow, Richard Bawleke; 1434 William Northing, Nicholas Thompson; 1435 Richard Thornburgh, Rowland Wherton; 1436 Robert Mason, Thomas Marescall; 1441 John Blennerhasset, William Buckler; 1446 Thomas Stanlaw, George Walton; 1448 Robert Carlisle, Richard Alanson; 1449 Richard Chatterley, Thomas Chatterley; 1450 Richard Alanson, Alured Maleverer; 1452 John Skelton, Rowland Vaux; 1454 John Bere, Thomas Derwent; 1459 Richard Beverley, Thomas Rukin; 1467 Henry Denton, Richard George;1473 Robert Skelton, John Coldale; 1541 William Staplyton...1547 Edward Aglionby, Thomas Dalston; 1552 Edward Aglionby, John Dudley; 1553 John Aglionby, Simon Bristow, Rober Whitley, Richard Mynsho; 1553 Richard Whitley, Richard Mynsho; 1554 William Middleton, William Warde; 1555 Richard Asheton, Robert Dalton; 1558 Richard Asheton, William Mulcastre; 1562 Richard Asheton, William Mulcastre; 1570 Robert Bowes, Christopher Musgrave; 1571 Thomas Pattinson, Thomas Tallentyre; 1584 Edward Aglionby, Thomas Blennerhasset; 1585 Henry McWilliam, Thomas Blennerhasset; 1588 Henry Scroope, John Dalston; 1592 Henry Scroope Edward Aglionby; 1596 Henry Scroope, Thomas Stanford; 1600 Henry Scroope, John Dudley; 1603 Thomas Blennerhasset, William Barwick; 1614 Henry Fane; 1620 Henry Fane, George Butler; 1623 Henry Fane, Edward Aglionby; 1625 Henry Fane, Edward Aglionby, Henry Fane, Richard Graham; 1627 Richard Barwick, Richard Graham; 1639 William Dalston, Richard Barwick; 1640 William Dalston, Richard Barwick; 1655 Thomas Filch...; 1657 George Downing...; 1659 George Downing, Thomas Craister; 1660 William Briscoe, Jeremy Tolhurst; 1661 Philip Howard Christopher Musgrave; 1679 Philip Howard, Christopher Musgrave; 1680 Edward Lord Morpeth, Christopher Musgrave; 1685 Christopher Musgrave, James Graham; 1689 Christopher Musgrave, Jeremiah Bubb; 1690 Jeremiah Bubb, Christopher Musgrave; William Lowther.... James Lowther....; 1694 William Howard, James Lowther; 1697 William Howard, James Lowther;1699 Philip Howard, James Lowther; 1700 Philip Howard, James Lowther; 1702 Christopher Musgrave, Thomas Stanwix; 1705 Thomas Stanwix, James Montague; 1708 Thomas Stanwix, James Montague; 1710 Thomas Stanwix, James Montague; 1713 Christopher Musgrave, Thomas Stanwix; 1714 Thomas Stanwix, William Strickland, Henry Aglionby....1721 James Bateman, Henry Aglionby; 1727 Charles Howard, John Hylton; 1733 Charles Howard, John Hylton; 1740 Charles Howard, John Hylton, John Stanwix....1747 Charles Howard, John Stanwix; 1754 Charles Howard, John Stanwix; 1760 Raby Vane, Howard Curwen; 1767 Lord Edward Bentinck, George Musgrave; 1774 Fletcher Norton, Anthony Storer, Walter Stanhope; 1780 Earl of Surrey, William Lowther; 1784 Earl of Surrey, Edward Norton; 1786 J. Christian, on the elevation of the Earl of Surrey to the peerage; 1787 Rowland Stephenson, on E Norton’s demise; 1790 JC Curwen, William Bradyll; 1796 JC Curwen, Sir F Fletcher Vane; 1802 JC Curwen, Spencer Stanhope; 1806 JC Curwen, Spencer Stanhope; 1807 JC Curwen, Spencer Stanhope; 1812 Sir J Graham, Henry Fawcett; 1816 JC Curwen on the death of Henry Fawcett; 1818 Sir James Graham, JC Curwen; 1820 Sir James Graham, JC Curwen; 1820 William James on Mr Curwen’s election for the county; 1825 Sir Philip Musgrave on the death of Sir James Graham; 1826 Sir Philip Musgrave, Sir JRG Graham, Bart; 1827 Colonel Lushington on Sir P Musgrave’s death; 1829 Sir William Scott, Bart on Sir JRG Graham’s election for the county; 1830 PH Howard, Colonel Lushington; 1831 Philip H Howard, William James [all entries up to this point taken from Whellan, 1860]
1832 William James and Philip H.Howard; 1835, 1837 and 1841 Philip H.Howard and William Marshall; 1847 John Dixon and William Hodgson; 1848 William Hodgson and Philip N.Howard; 1852 Sir J.Graham and Joseph Ferguson; 1857 William Hodgson and Sir J.Graham; 1859 Sir J.Graham and Wilfred Lawson; on death of Sir J.Graham Edmund Potter elected 1861; 1865 William Hodgson and Edmund Potter; 1868 Wilfred Lawson and Edmund Potter; 1874 and 1880 Robert Ferguson and Wilfred Lawson;
by the Reform Act of 1885 Carlisle was deprived of one of its members; Robert Ferguson of Morton elected 1885; 1886, 1892, 1895 and 1900; W.C.Gully elected (Liberal); F.W.Chance of Morton elected 1905, 1906 (Liberal); both 1910 elections R.D.Denman (Liberal); 1918 W.T.Carr elected (Liberal); 1922 and 1923 G.Middleton elected (Labour); 1924 W.Watson (Conservative); 1929 G.Middleton (Labour) ; 1931,1935 E.L.Spears (Conservative); 1945 E.Grierson (Labour) ; 1950, 1951 A.Hargreaves (Labour); 1955, 1959, D.M.Johnson (Conservative); 1964, 1966, 1970, Feb 1974, Oct 1974, 1979 ,1983 Ron Lewis (Labour); 1987, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005, E.A.Martlew (Labour); 2010 John Stevenson (Conservative)
CN 03.01.1964 p10 CN 01.07.1966 p5
MEMORIAL BRIDGE; RICKERBY PARK Unveiled 25.05.1922
See Suspension Bridge
MENCAP
CN 24.06.1994 p2 Mencap opens city office
CN 22.02.2008 p19 Mencap celebrates 40 years in city
MENTAL HEALTH see also GARLANDS HOSPITAL, MENCAP, CO.OPERATE
City Minutes 1926-27 p380-97 Institutional accommodation for mental defectives
MENZIES, John The Viaduct; East Tower Street
Wholesale booksellers, newsagents
CD 1920 Ad p132
CD 1924 Ad p140
CD 1927 Ad p160
CD 1931 Ad p152
CD 1934 Ad p280
CD 1937 AD p192
CD 1940 Ad p114
CN 07.02.1948 p5 Ex-manager A.Lawrence died
CN 10.03.1978 p9 (illus) Bookshop in Bulloughs
CN 30.12.1993 p1 New car park bid
CN 05.03.2010 p1 47 jobs could go at Menzies distribution centre on Port Rd
MEO COURT, 34 Crown Street [1880 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 34-36 Crown Street
MERCHANTS’S GUILD see GUILDS
MERCURY LOUNGE Kennedy Centre, Lonsdale Street
CN 10.09.1999 p5 New nightspot
MERITH AVENUE, Botcherby
P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p109
MERRIE CARLISLE
Discussion of how the city became known as ‘Merrie Carlisle’; The Life of John Heysham by Henry Lonsdale, 1870 pp 26-7
MESIOLITHIC Evidence for this period in a few flints found in dig on Castle Green [Carlisle Millennium Project ; excavations in Carlisle 1998-2001 p 6]
METAL BOX James Street and Botcherby Founded 1921 as Allied Tin Box Makers Limited, one of the four constituent companies being Hudson Scott of Carlisle which started in 1799; 1922 name changed to Metal Box and Printing Industries Limited; Edward Barlow and Sons Limited join Metal Box; 1930 became a public company; first chairman F.N.Hepworth of Hudson Scott; up to this point the merging firms had still acted with a degree of independence with a determination to maintain old identities and resist any moves to centralisation. However the threat from a vibrant American canning industry loomed. At this critical point in the early 1930s agreement was reached with the American firm Continental Can giving Metal Box exclusive rights in Great Britain for 15 years to buy container machinery from Continental Can along with rights to service and technical information. By this agreement the making of metal containers became a major British industry under Metal Box. Prior to this agreement Metal Box had little knowledge of canning technology site. A move to centralised management and planning, pushed by Robert Barlow, was inevitable. This meant that the Carlisle factory could no longer act as an independent business. In 1935 the production of Vent Hole Milk Cans began in Carlisle, to be near the condensaries at Milnthorpe and Dumfries. The installation of the Open Top line in Carlisle caused some upheaval; James Street was by now an old factory, bursting at the seams. [The Open Top line would eventually move in 1957 to the new Botcherby factory] With the approach of war it was obvious that Metal Box would play a major role in war production. They produced mess tins, army ration boxes, tins that contained a spool of wire for minefields, gusset plates for the geodetic framework of Wellington bombers, the Hawkins or 75 grenade, ammunition liners etc. In 1945 Robert Barlow succeeded FN Hepworth [now 73] as chairman of the company. Centralisation and standardisation continued across the company. Mr Hepworth was succeeded as Manager of the Carlisle works by a man not of his choosing. Clearing for Botcherby factory September 1955; first line into production at Botcherby 19.11.1956; WJ Reader in his Metal Box history comments that in the years 1953 to 1967 the structure of the Metal Box business in the UK was transformed by expansion from the original base in metal containers towards activities ranging over the whole field of packaging materials and devices from plastic film to aerosols. Competition was now on an international scale. By 1989 Metal Box had merged with Carnaud of France to form CMB Packaging; Crown Holdings took over in 1996 and renamed the Botcherby plant Crown Bevcan UK; 2017 the Botcherby Plant was producing 2.2 billion aluminium beverage cans and 6 billion can bottoms, the James St Factory now known as Crown, Cork and Seal
See K.Rafferty Story of Hudson Scott and Sons, 1998 1 BC 338
See W.J.Reader Metal Box: a History 1BC 338
P Hitchon Botcherby a Garden Village pp182-5
See also Hudson Scott
CAIH p70
CD 1952 Ad p386
City Minutes 1924-25 p644 Path to recreation field newly bought by Hudson Scott
CJ 11.05.1926 Tin box workers called out on strike
CJ 09.07.1937 p3 A year of continual expansion
CJ 01.07.1938 p5 Bonus for shareholders
17.08.1945 Local press report that Mr Hepworth was retiring from the business at the end of the month
CN 14.05.1949 p5 150th Anniversary
CJ 20.05.1949 p5 150th Anniversary
CN 21.05.1949 p5 150th Anniversary
CJ 27.05.1949 p3 150th Anniversary
CN 28.05.1949 p6 150th Anniversary
CN 28.05.1949 pp5-6 150th Anniversary – pensioners’ celebrations and dinner
CN 18.06.1949 p5 Hand bills
CJ 27.09.1949 p2 History
ENS 12.01.1955 p1 Planning new factory
ENS 24.10.1955 p1 Metal Box holds safety week
ENS 06.02.1957 p2 New factory described
CN 04.07.1958 Supplement Now there are 37 Metal Box factories
CN 27.11.1964 p1 Botcherby extensions
CN 09.10.1970 p1 Reduction of design studio
CN 24.12.1971 p12 Illustration of 1900 South African box
ENS 07.03.1977 p11 Strike
ENS 09.03.1977 p1 Deadline
ENS 12.03.1977 p1 Deadline
ENS 21.03.1977 p1 Peace hopes fade
ENS 24.03.1977 p1 (illus) 400 laid off
ENS 28.03.1977 p1 7 week strike ends
CN 10.02.1989 p4 Humble start for a major city employer
CN 23.03.1989 p1 Tests go on for killer disease
CN 26.05.1989 p1 New city factory strike
CN 09.06.1989 p23 Hope of averting full scale strike
CN 16.06.1989 p22 Metal Box row talks cancelled
CN 30.06.1989 p5 Metal Box flexible in deadline
CN 22.12.1989 p1 New name
CN 12.01.1990 p4 Top city firm began in a…
CN 21.12.1990 p4 Troops Xmas gifts
CN 28.06.1991 p7 Land sale anger
CN 27.03.1992 p27 Factory pay stays frozen
CN 06.05.1994 p2 £1.6m boost
CN 21.04.1995 p4 Soaring aluminium puts squeeze on
CN 06.10.1995 p1 Metal Box takeover ‘soon’
CN 08.03.1996 p1 More jobs could go
CN 15.11.1996 p16 Wakeful residents - noise
CN 06.06.1997 p14 McVitties £600,000 deal
CN 13.06.1997 p2 Factory to make way for £6m complex
CN 14.11.1997 p10 (illus) How they carried the can at Metal Box for 40 years
CN 04.09.1998 p10 (illus) Tin can dynasty
CN 01.10.1999 p1 Pay out to worker
CN 23.01.2004 p8 Name of Metal Box disappears
CN 21.10.2011 p6 Feature on Crown Bevcan and their Botcherby Works; employs 335 people and is a 24 hour operation. Make cans for Heineken, Coca Cola, Britvic, Bulmers
METCALF, Joseph Builder, employing 29 men and 4 boys, aged 36, home address Princess Street, born Carlisle [1861 census]
METCALF, Robert Builder, employing 23 men, aged 49, born Westward, home address Princess Street [1851 census]
METCALFE PLANT HIRE
CN 03.09.1999 p15 Ad
METCALFE, J. and R. Princess St
see Metcalf, Joseph and Robert
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p7 Builders
METCALFE, John Botchergate
Tobacconist, hairdresser, newsagents
Carlisle Museum has a shop sign in the shape of a Turkish gentleman smoking a pipe. This is described as coming from Metcalfe, Tobacconist, Botchergate. A coloured postcard is on sale of the figure [2009]
CD 1952 Ad p376
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p277
METCALFES COURT, 30 Court Street [1880 Directory]
METCALFE’S COURT, Princess Street [1934 Directory] ] J and R Metcalf[e], builders, lived in Princess Street circa 1851/ 61
1880 Directory 30 Princess Street
METCALFE STREET First mentioned in 1871 census; J and R Metcalfe were Carlisle builders in this period and built this street [Perriam Denton Holme p37]; EWS [Emergency Water Supply] painted in large yellow letters date from WWII and were to direct fire fighters to emergency water supply
CP 23.08.1872 p1 Ad; To sell 2 newly erected houses
21.08.1902 Jane Young died Caldew View, Metcalfe Street [Mon. Ins. 24/28]
CN 09.09.1966 p1 (illus) Developed
City Council Minutes 1896-97 p408 Approval for 9 dwellings
METHODISM The Methodists first met in a barn in Abbey Street. First Fisher Street Chapel built 1785/6. New chapel opened on the other side of Fisher Street in 1817. John Wesley visited Carlisle on the following occasions-1764, 1765, 1770, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1780, 1781, 1784, 1786, 1788 and 1790. On 2nd June 1790 he preached in Carlisle. In his journal he wrote of the occasion ‘house would not near contain the congregation, and the word of God was with power’. He also wrote ‘the work a little increases here’ [CWAAS ns Vol 47 pp195-7]; chapel built in Fisher Street 1785 (opposite side of street to present site); charitable trusts for the Methodists 43, 58, George III, 1 George IV, Primitive Methodists of Willow Holme 7 George IV [CWAAS ns Vol 2 p356]; new chapel built in Fisher Street in 1817 [Parson and White 140]
Primitive Methodism in the Carlisle Circuit Past and present 1807-1907 M760
CN 01.05.1954 p10 CN 29.11.1957 p10 CN 06.12.1957 p12 CJ 10.03.1967 p7
CJ 16.11.1839 p2g Primitive Methodist Chapel, Willow Holme - reopened
CJ 06.06.1902 Upperby Primitive Methodist Church; new chapel opened
16.06.1907 Camp meeting in city celebrating Primitive centenary
CJ 11.10.1932 p4 Origins in Carlisle of Primitive Methodism
CN 13.06.1958 p2 Circuit formed
ENS 07.11.1958 pp9,10 At Currock
METHODIST CENTRAL HALL Methodist Chapel opened 03.11.1817; new organ at Wesleyan Church Fisher Street 21.10.1835; Fisher Street Chapel last service 22.01.1922; foundation stone of new chapel laid April 1922 ; Opened 12.04.1923
CN 27.12.1957 p6 CN 05.04.1963 p10 CN 11.09.1970 p10 (illus)
CN 06.04.1973 p13
Carlisle an illustrated history p42 photo of 1817 chapel
Carlisle Examiner 18.10.1859 p2d Wesleyan Chapel Fisher Street reopening
Carlisle People and Places p97 Photo of laying foundation stone in 1923
CJ 13.04.1923 pp 4,7 (illus) Opening ceremony
CN 14.04.1923 p12 Opening ceremony
CJ 24.05.1927 During excavation which are going on for the completion of the Central Hall a water hole of Roman construction was found; six feet deep. [today, 2011, this well, now tiled in, remains full of water in the basement.]
CN 10.04.1948 p5 25th anniversary
CJ 19.04.1948 p2 25th anniversary
CN 28.02.1969 p13 (illus) Redecoration
V.White Carlisle and its villages, p 11 drawing in 1987
CN 07.10.1988 p13 Plaque records history
CN 25.04.1997 p9 £90,000 plan to adapt church for disabled on course
CN 02.12.2005 p3 Final service on Sunday; spiralling costs
CN 09.12.2005 p1 Last service in church pp1,3 [illus]
CN 22.06.2007 p83 City Methodist Hall for sale
CN 16.08.2013 p19 Sold at auction for £116,000
METHODIST CHAPEL CECIL STREET see CECIL STREET METHODIST CHURCH
METHODIST CHAPEL CURROCK ROAD see CURROCK METHODIST CHURCH
METHODIST CHAPEL GRAHAM STREET see GRAHAM STREET METHODIST CHAPEL
METHODIST CHAPEL LOWTHER STREET see LOWTHER STREET METHODIST CHAPEL
METHODIST CHAPEL UPPERBY see UPPERBY PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL
METHODIST CHAPEL CALDEWGATE Opened 08.10.1865; congregation transferred to new building on Wigton Road; see below
CJ 03.10.1865 p2
Carlisle in Camera 2 p32 view of Sunday School on outing
METHODIST CHURCH HARRABY Society was formed in 1946 and met in Cavaghan and Gray’s canteen
CJ 05.11.1948 p1 (illus) Prefabricate erected
CJ 16.11.1948 p1 Opening
CN 20.11.1948 p5 Opening
CN 12.03.1976 p1 Church Hall
CJ 17.06.1958 p1 New organ
CN 29.02.2009 p15 Church closes after six decades; last service 6th Jan
METHODIST CHURCH MORTON Opened 14.12.1963
CJ 20.12.1963 p6 (illus) Opening
METHODIST CHURCH UNION STREET/RYDAL STREET Foundation stone of Sunday School laid 24.09.1880; services held here until church built next door, foundation stone of which laid 31.07.1890; opened 1891; church closed August 1990 when the congregation merged with Methodist Central Hall, Fisher Street; building demolished October 1991
CN 03.02.1995 p4 Youth club gone but not forgotten
Over the Garden Wall; life of Donald Scott pp 9 - 11 photos and description
METHODIST CHURCH WIGTON ROAD Foundation stone 21.06.1928; opened 06.06.1929
See also above Methodist Chapel Caldewgate which was its predecessor
CN 05.05.1928 Artists impression of proposed design
CN 27.11.1998 p13 £150,000 appeal to chop top off leaky tower
METHODIST CHAPEL WILLOWHOLME, Chapel Street 1825 scheme for launching erection of chapel in Willow Holme; chapel opened for public worship in 1826; congregation moved to new Cecil St Chapel in 1852 Charitable Trust for Primitive Methodists of Willow Holme, 7 George IV [CWAAS ns Vol 2 p356]
Primitive Methodism in the Carlisle Circuit Past and present 1807-1907 p18 M760
1829 Primitive Methodists have a small chapel in Willow Holme [P&W 1829 p140]
Jefferson, S History...Carlisle, 1838, p275 Small building
CJ 16.11.1839 p2g Primitive Methodist Chapel Willow Holme reopened
MFI St Nicholas Gate
CN 11.07.1997 p1 MFI’s Half million pound facelift
MICHELANGELO English Damside
Restaurant
CN 18.08.1989 p8 Ad
CN 16.07.1999 p16 (illus) Ad
CN 28.03.2008 p75 For sale; established 20 years
MICKLEY COAL COMPANY Bank Street
Coal merchants
CD 1934 Ad p324
CD 1937 Ad p270
CD 1940 Ad p144
MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY Held their meetings at Tullie House before WW1
CP 18.02.1898 p5b
MIDDLEHAMS BUTCHERS Newtown Road
CN 07.09.2007 p6 Business bought from Cyril Middleham by Kevin Bell and Scott Barton. Business began here in 1898 by Frederick Middleham
MIDDLETON, Isaac Whitesmith and grocer, aged 47, employing 5 men, home address 1 Crosby Street, born Cows Hall, Cumberland [1851 census]
MIDLAND BANK English Street and Court Square; English Street bank dated 1898, architect Thomas Taylor Scott (re-facing of 1849 building originally for the Carlisle City and District Banking Company which the London and Midland Bank took over)
For history of the Bank Street branch see David Carrick
CD 1931 Ad p320
CN 24.02.1951 p4 CN 26.02.1965 pp9-11
CJ 01.09.1865 p5 Court Square, new bank
CJ 31.07.1896 London and Midland Bank take over Carlisle City and District Bank
CJ 28.08.1896 London and Midland Bank take over Carlisle City and District Bank
CJ 26.02.1897 Planned alterations to Bank Street building
CP 17.09.1897 p6f Extensive alterations begin
CJ 23.06.1899 Reopening of Bank Street bank after alterations
CN 31.03.1928 p9 New office in Caldewgate
CJ 26.02.1965 Special supplement
CN 16.06.1967 p15 (illus) Alterations to English Street bank
CN 05.06.1970 p5 Court Square fire
CN 09.03.1993 p5 Ad
CN 13.09.1996 pp1,10 Midland turns its back on Botchergate
MIDLAND BOOT REPAIRING COMPANY Kingstown Trading Estate
Footwear repairers
CD 1952 Ad p265
MIDLAND BUS SERVICES
City Minutes 1929-30 p660 Licensed to operate to Glasgow and Blackpool
MIDLAND COTTAGES see PETTERIL TERRACE
MIDLAND RAILWAY TAVERN Botchergate; in local directories from 1876 to 1894
CP 20.10.1893 Refusal of the licence of the Midland Tavern
MIDWINTER’S Portland Place; Botchergate
Caterers
CD 1952 Ad p261
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p224
CD 1955-56 Ad p224
CD 1961-62 Ad p263
CD 1966-68 Ad p260
MIDWIVES 1861 census - Mary Dodd, aged 62, midwife, home address 35 Water St
CJ 15.11.1959 p2 Death at hands of midwife at Kingstown
CJ 03.07.1885 p6 Alleged manslaughter by midwife. Mary Irving, midwife so negligently and ignorantly performed her duties so as to bring about the death of Mrs Spencer
CJ 14.07.1885 p2 Released by order of Home Secretary
CJ 14.06.1895 p5 Conference in Carlisle
CJ 05.07.1895 p5 Drawing up rules. Untrained ignorant women who often seriously injure mother and child and do not even know when it is necessary that a medical man should be called in.
CJ 08.02.1916 p6 Woman fined as uncertified midwife from Upperby
CJ 08.10.1929 p4 Mrs Lacy Thompsons view of midwifery
MILAN TERRACE, Shaddongate
1924 Carlisle Directory Lists houses 1-15
MILBOURNE, John Thomas Tailor, aged 41, employing 1 man and 2 boys, born Carlisle, home address Devonshire St [1861 census]
MILBOURNE ARMS INN Milbourne Street; built 1852-53 with later alterations
Hotel
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses, 2004, p48
So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19
CIC p29 View in about 1902
CP 07.01.1854n p1 Milbourne Arms Hotel to let; newly erected
CD 1880 Ad pxxxviii
1901 census; George Edward Edmundson, aged 39, bn Liverpool
CN 29.07.2005 p5 Pub reopens after January floods; landlady Brenda Jardine
CN 14.09.2007 p1 Milbourne Arms closes; publican blames smoking ban
CN 13.06.2008 p3 Milbourne Arms reopens
CN 18.12.2009 p7 Pub bought by Linton Tweeds
CN 21.05.2010 p17 Owner Keith Walker. Fully refurbished. New opening hours 10am - 4pm
MILBOURNE COURT, Denton Holme
City Minutes 1935/36 p64 1,2,6,7, and 8 unfit for human habitation
Milbourne Court, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 40-42 Milbourne Street
CN 16.05.2008 p63 For sale
MILBOURNE CRESCENT Milbourne Dixon family of Denton Foot owned land in this area; so named on 1871 census.
MILBOURNE STREET The Milbourne Dixon family of Denton Foot owned the land in this area [CWAAS ns vol 67, 1967 pp206-228]; walking down this street we see on the left and right terraced housing, some of which dates back to the 1840s; many of the houses were built by speculative developers and you can easily detect the different builders work by roof lines, joins in the housing line and different styles of brickwork; most of the houses in the street were originally two dwellings, a central lane taking you through to the rear of the property, which had its own front door, each property having one room downstairs and one room upstairs and today these have been knocked into one property; in the past these houses would share a common dry closet and common pump in the yard behind. Laing’s original yard was on Milbourne Street next to the Woolpack Inn
Perriam Denton Holme p34
CP 11.12.1852 Ad For sale 6 new houses in Milbourne Street
Asquith’s 1853 survey shows the street complete on the west side but with only two buildings on the east side
City Minutes 1893-94 p 334 Approval for corrugated iron mission hall
City Minutes 1935/36 p64 32 - 42 unfit for human habitation
CN 17.02.1967 p1 Maryport Cottages, Hassell Street, Petteril Terrace, Regent Street, South Western Terrace, Milbourne Street, John Place, Randall Street; British Railways housing sell off in Carlisle; over 100 houses
CN 14.01.2005 p13 Milbourne Street and the Great Flood
MILBOURNE STREET MISSION HALL
City Minutes 1893-94 p 334 Approval for corrugated iron mission hall
D.Perriam Denton Holme, p40 1894 corrugated-iron mission hall built to accommodate 250 people
MILBOURNE TERRACE
CP 07.01.1854 p1 To be sold 12 houses
MILBURN AND CHISHOLM London Road
Newsagents
CD 1966-68 Ad p286
MILBURN, Mr Coach builder Business taken over by Thomas Nixon and in turn by the Proud brothers so about 100 years old [CP 31.12.1891 death of W.Proud]
MILBURN, Thomas Builder, aged 36, employing 10 men, born Wetheral, home address Charles St [1861 census]
MILBURN, William Newsagents on London Road
CN 23.12.2011 p10 Obit of Bill Milburn who started his news agency in 1963
MILBURNS COURT, 17 Princess Street [1880 Directory]
MILBURN MOTORS
CN 27.06.1953 p3 Advert for Milburn Motors, Airport Trading Estate
MILBURN ROW Shaddongate; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
MILBURNS BUILDINGS, Shaddongate [1829 and 1847 Directories]
MILES MACINNES COURT, Stanwix; built on site of Miles MacInnes Memorial Hall in 1987. Miles MacInnes lived at Rickerby House and was a director of the LNWR
MILES MACINNES MEMORIAL HALL; Stanwix Foundation stone 03.08.1910; opened 16.02.1911; hall closed 1986 and replaced by flats 1987. Miles MacInnes lived at Rickerby House and was a director of the LNWR
D Perriam Stanwix pp30-31 Built on the glebe field at a cost of £1,830
CN 18.01.1957 p8 CN 16.11.1962 p10
V.White Carlisle and its Villages p32 drawing in 1987
Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p115 exterior photo
MILITARY HOSPITALS First World War;
see Chadwick Auxiliary Hospital; Fusehill Hospital; Murrell Hill Auxiliary Hospital
The War Work of Auxiliary Hospitals..of Cumberland..., 1921, [F52]
CN 28.10.1916 p5 Government hospital at Carlisle
CN 04.11.1916 p5 Government hospital at Carlisle
CN 11.11.1916 p4 County staff required
CN 08.02.2002 p6 World War I military hospitals in city
MILITARY ROAD
D Perriam Stanwix p94 The 1745 Rebellion had shown the need for better road communication between Newcastle and Carlisle. A new road was given Assent on 22.05.1751 for ‘laying out, making and keeping in repair a road proper for the passage of troops and carriages from the city of Carlisle to the town of Newcastle upon Tyne’. The first section of the road was to extend from John Boustead’s house on Stanwix Bank to the two ash trees at the west end of Park Broom Lane. The road was 27 feet wide including ditches at each side. The road was completed throughout in 1758 and the part nearest the city is Brampton Road today
MILITIAMEN see HADRIAN’S CAMP
MILKMEN
Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p49 Martha Wilson delivery woman in 1930s
J.Templeton A Carlisle Lad, 2007 p10 photo of M.Mallinson and his milk delivery cart about 1932
CN 11.11.2005 p49 Photo of Sarah Hodgson on milkround in 1966
CN 03.12.2010 p36 Denis Perriam article on history of milk delivery
MILK SUPPLY
CN 01.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
MILLAM MEADOWES
1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]
MILLAR, James London Road
Builders
CD 1920 Ad p52
CD 1952 Ad p271
Cumberland Directory 1954 p226
General contractor for the Harston Wards which were opened at the City General Hospital 9th July 1954
CD 1955-56 Ad p226
CN 17.09.1938 p19 Ad
MILLAR AND FARISH 18 Rickergate
1882 Porters Directory Ad p162 Haberdasher
MILLAR’S COURT see MILLER’S COURT
MILLBURN MOTORS Kingstown Trading Estate
CD 1952 Ad p280
MILLENNIUM FUND
See also Carlisle 2000
CN 24.08.1990 p9 Guiding city to greener future
CN 18.01.1991 p17 Cash cuts rejected
CN 17.01.1992 p7 Parishes call for share of cash
CN 23.09.1994 p7 Sky’s the limit
CN 21.10.1994 p10 2000 AD
CN 13.10.1995 p10 Carlisle 2000, the dream takes shape
CN 08.12.1995 p6 City leisure plan backed
CN 22.12.1995 p4 Boost for £14m gateway project
CN 16.02.1996 p13 Carlisle towards the Millennium
CN 14.06.1996 p1 Council moves towards 2000
CN 26.07.1996 p5 Carlisle businesses pledge £200,000
CN 09.08.1996 p3 City appeal tops target
CN 22.11.1996 p3 £36m computer project crosses major hurdle in bid for cash
CN 21.02.1997 p5 Carlisle’s £6m scheme (jobs)
CN 05.12.1997 p10 (illus) Spanning the century
CN 12.12.1997 p5 Young architects’ bridge designs to go on display
CN 23.01.1998 p4 Millennium campaign angers counsellor
CN 23.01.1998 p4 Millennium Bridge (illus)
CN 27.02.1998 p3 David King’s 5 minutes of glory
CN 13.03.1998 p1 Marks and Spencer back the city
CN 17.07.1998 p1 King in new protest
CN 07.08.1998 p12 Whoever pays the piper
CN 14.08.1998 p10 (illus) 2000 and one space oddity
CN 14.08.1998 p11 letter
CN 04.09.1998 pp1,11 letters; King v Council
CN 28.08.1998 pp1,12 Ex colonel takes pot shot at plans
CN 28.08.1998 p13 letters
CN 04.09.1998 p1 King v Council
CN 04.09.1998 p11 letters
CN 11.09.1998 p1 Thousands vote in protest
CN 11.09.1998 p13 letters
CN 18.09.1998 p1 £5m U turn
CN 18.09.1998 p11 letters
CN 25.09.1998 p1 London talks over Millennium clash
CN 25.09.1998 p13 letters
CN 02.10.1998 p11 Letters
CN 16.10.1998 p18 Millennium controversy could bring in the punters
CN 30.10.1998 p5 You’ll learn to love the pyramids
CN 06.11.1998 p12 City of dreams
CN 13.11.1998 p1 Stone me a spire with a ...
CN 18.11.1998 p1 £5m U turn and Friday night pantomime
CN 18.11.1998 p11 letters
CN 27.11.1998 p3 Sponsors get a glimpse of Millennium ...
CN 15.01.1999 p3 ‘Friends’ fiasco refuel Millennium row
CN 11.02.1999 p1 Millennium row referee named
CN 19.02.1999 p1 Petition over Carlisle’s ‘pagan’ millennium logo
CN 15.03.1999 p1 Let’s bury the hatchet over project
CN 19.03.1999 p1 Bishop backs Millennium project
CN 19.03.1999 p2 Churches plan 23 feet cross near Border
CN 16.04.1999 p20 New bells will ring millennium
CN 21.05.1999 p2 Tory balancing act on pyramids
CN 28.05.1999 p1 Scrap glass cylinder
CN 04.06.1999 p1 (illus) Millennium bridge faces large overspend
CN 02.07.1999 p12 How to get rid of two bits of glass
CN 02.07.1999 p5 (illus) Knife edge decision over pyramid
CN 09.07.1999 p1 Millennium greenhouse as bad as pyramid
CN 16.07.1999 p1 Glass pyramid only option
CN 23.07.1999 p1 Decision put to people
CN 23.07.1999 p5 36 hour party
CN 23.07.1999 p10 comment
CN 30.07.1999 p1 (illus) Cathedral bells
CN 30.07.1999 p1 17 days to better the pyramid
Cumbria Life August 1999 issue 65 Supplement 2A 9
CN 06.08.1999 p3 New cost blow to projects
CN 13.08.1999 p2 Carlisle under siege
CN 10.09.1999 p1 (illus) Options revealed
CN 24.09.1999 p3 (illus) David King’s last stand
CN 01.10.1999 p3 Thousands state choice
CN 15.10.1999 p1 12,000 names reply
CN 08.10.1999 p1 9,000 homes respond
CN 22.10.1999 p1 King claims victory
CN 29.10.1999 p3 Millennium vote
CN 12.11.1999 p1 Race to get Rotunda ready before 2001
CN 19.11.1999 p3 After the pyramids - Irish Gate begins
CN 03.12.1999 p3 Cash aid unlikely for Rotunda
CN 10.12.1999 p1 £300,000 extra for bridge but none for Rotunda
CN 31.03.2000 p7 Giant crane to lift new bridge
CN 18.02.2000 p1 Magic wand for ‘rotunda’
CN 25.02.2000 p3 Sandstone covering for rotunda
CN 17.03.2000 p2 Rotunda changes on the agenda
CN 07.04.2000 p1 (illus) Midnight move (Irishgate Bridge)
CN 14.04.2000 pp1,11 (illus) Civic Trust slates bridge (Irishgate Bridge)
CN 15.09.2000 p1 More Roman finds; Millennium Gallery dig on Castle Green
CN 22.09.2000 p1 Millennium Gallery; English Heritage speaks out over dig
CN 22.09.2000 p13 Letters concerning Roman finds on Castle Green
CN 22.09.2000 p12 Roman Gold
CN 29.09.2000 p1 Victory claimed in battle to save ruins
CN 29.09.2000 p12 Opinion about Roman remains found on Castle Green
CN 29.09.2000 p13 Letters concerning Roman remains found on Castle Green
CN 20.10.2000 p3 Tories under fire over projected Hadrian’s Bridge
CN 27.10.2000 p5 Future of Hadrian’s Bridge in balance; letters p13
CN 08.12.2000 p1 Hadrian Bridge victim of revolutionary design; opinion p12
CN 15.12.2000 p3 Council agree to scrap bridge unless it can be built for £1.49m
CN 05.01.2001 p8 Letter from David King concerning Millennium debacle
CN 12.01.2001 p3 Bridge’s fate to be decided next week
CN 19.01.2001 p5 Council seeks formal approval to scrap Hadrian’s Bridge
CN 19.01.2001 p13 Letters concerning Hadrian’s Bridge
CN 26.01.2001 p3 District Auditor to study Millennium project
CN 26.01.2001 p12 Leader on District Auditor and Millennium Project
CN 26.01.2001 p13 Letters concerning Hadrian’s Bridge
CN 02.02.2001 p7 (illus) Architect battles to save bridge
CN 09.02.2001 p1 Architect Richard Rogers makes plea for bridge
CN 16.02 2001 p1 Millennium Commission told city to try and build bridge
CN 16.02.2001 p12 Editorial
CN 23.02.2001 p3 Bridge will cost City Council £1.2m more than it has
CN 23.02.2001 p13 Letters concerning Hadrian’s Bridge
CN 02.03.2001 p7 Future of bridge to be decided next at Tuesday council meeting
CN 02.03.2001 p13 Letters
CN 09.03.2001 p5 Bridge finally scrapped; increased costs on Millennium Gallery
CN 06.04.2001 p5 Millennium projects; District Auditor says no one to blame
CN 20.04.2001 p9 District Auditor report a ‘whitewash’
CN 27.04.2001 p13 Letters concerning district auditors ‘whitewash’
CN 08.06.2001 p5 Rotunda lettering not ‘blasphemous’
CN 20.07.2001 p13 Why site investigations begin only as gallery nearly finished?
CN 27.07.2001 p1 Tullie House Millennium Gallery to open on Tuesday
CN 03.08.2001 p3 (illus) Millennium Gallery opens
CN 08.02.2002 p 13 Letter concerning the Gateway City Project
CN 22.02.2002 p13 (illus) Rotunda bland and featureless; letter
MILLER, F Port Road
Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 72 View of shoemaker outside shop
MILLER, Jacob Crown Street
Scrap merchant
CD 1961-62 Ad p279
CD 1966-68 Ad p297
MILLER, John E Chapel Place, Milbourne Street
Demolition contractors
CD 1952 Ad p252
CD 1955-56 Ad p218
CD 1961-62 Ad p28
MILLER, Joseph Durdar, Long Island Yard
Horse slaughterer
CD 1893-94 Ad p56
MILLER, W.C. Lancaster Street
Dealer in horses
CD 1893-94 Ad p132
MILLER’S COURT/ MILLAR’S COURT Robert Street; first noted on the 1851 census and there until the 1937 Carlisle Directory; in 1851 a Sarah Miller, China dealer, aged 40, is head of household at 12 Robert St, immediately adjacent to Millar’s Court
1880 Directory 32 Robert Street
1880 Directory 30 Robert Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 30-32 Robert Street
City Minutes 1934/5 p955 Two tenements unfit for human habitation
City Minutes 1935/36 p58 3,4,5, 6 and 7 unfit for human habitation
MILLERS COURT, 6 Garden Street [1880 Directory]
MILLERS COURT, Upperby A 1904 photo shows piggeries etc situate in Barrock Square, and abutting upon the top house in Millers Court. The liquid filth from the pigstye forms a pool and soaks into the foundation of house no 4 Barrock Square [Photo in Record Office, Carlisle]
MILLETS, English Street
CN 09.10.2009 p7 Outdoor shop closes
MILLHOLME AVENUE
see above MILLAM MEADOWES
City Minutes 1925-6 p121 Rehousing South John and South George Streets
MILLHOLME BANK, Upperby Road So named Middelholm in 1377
19.05.1863 died Joseph Hewitson of Mill Holme Bank [UMI 73/5]
1924 Carlisle directory listed under Upperby Road
MILLHOLME TERRACE So named on the electoral registers to 1935, after that became part of Boundary Road, being that part of Boundary Rd between South Dale Street and Millholme Avenue
MILLICAN, Jonathan Grocer, aged 34, employing 2 boys, home address 1 Wilfred Street, born Abbey Holme [1861 census]
MILLICAN, Joseph Shoemaker died 01.12.1807; [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]
MILLICAN, William and Margaret
D Perriam Lowther Street Before 1930 Millicans had a bus station on East Tower Street. Photo
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p97 Photo of bus and East Tower St bus station
City Minutes 1923-4 p588 Licensed to operate bus service Carlisle-Hethersgill
City Minutes 1926-7 p631 Licensed to operate bus service to Hethersgill
MILLIKEN, J Market Place
Bookseller/ printer. Produced an important series of volumes, namely Dr Heysham’s ‘Observations on the Bills of Mortality in Carlisle.....’ published annually from 1782 - 88
Title page from ‘The Muse’s Pocket Companion’, 1782, 1785 [J 150]
MILL RACES
See also Denton Holme Mill Race, Corporation Mill Race
CAIH p34 The City Mills
CAIH p35 Denton Holme Millrace
CN 20.08.1993 p4 memories of the Dam
CN 13.06.2003 p6 Polluted Little Caldew/ Denton Holme Millrace; history
MILLS
See also Abbey Mill; Borough Mill; Botcherby Mill; Castle Mill; Corporation Mill, Denton Mill; Harraby Mil; New Mill, Upperby Mill
CN 17.07.1998 p13 Gretna wedding solves mystery of 2 Forsters
CN 29.10.1999 p13 Mill owner fought back - Denton Holme
MILL STREET On the census from 1851
CIC p33 photo
CJ 25.06.1852 Mill St suddenly sprung up into a sort of new town
MILTON STREET; POETS CORNER Local name for area in Caldewgate; Byron Street, Milton Street, Burns Street and Scott Street; all demolished in slum clearance and industrial development, save for one house on Byron Street (March 2001).
So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
MINERVA INN Court Square; in local directories 1834 to 1848
MINERVA INN Shaddongate/ Caldew Brow; in local directories to 1858
MINGINS, George Hat Manufacturer, died 14.05.1862 [Mon Ins 42/38]; 1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p136 G.Mingins hat manufacturer, Old Grapes Lane; in 1811 directory
MINIATURE RAILWAY EXHIBITION Bitts Park
CJ 29.08.1947 p1 CJ 02.09.1947 p1(illus) CJ 16.09.1947 p3
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (Merged to become DEFRA) Eden Bridge House
See also Eden Bridge House; Bitts Park
CN 26.05.2000 p5 Threatened closure of Eden Bridge House
CN 16.06.2000 p5 Threat of closure of Carlisle office employing 250 people
CN 21.07.2000 p22 MAFF staff in Carlisle to learn of their fate
CN 28.07.2000 p28 MAFF looks to brighter future after winning survival battle
CN 07.09.2001 p1 DEFRA strike at Eden Bridge House
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE
CJ 11.03.1947 p2 District office to be established in Carlisle
MINK
CN 16.07.2004 p3 First mink seen in Carlisle
MINNS, T Thomas St, Denton Holme
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p119 Photo of grocer’s shop in 1890s
MINNS, T. and J Lowther Street
Wine and spirit merchant
Circa 1889 Joseph Walton Hope sold his wine and spirit business on Lowther Street to T and J Minns
CD 1905-06 Ad page yellow 50
CD 1907-08 Ad p60
MINORIES GARAGE Warwick Road
CD 1966-68 Ad p284
CN 30.01.1970 p1 CN 26.01.1990 p10 Ad
CN 08.12.2000 p14 40 jobs to go as Minories pull out of Carlisle
MINT The discovery of a rich vein of silver at Alston was followed by the establishment of a mint in Carlisle. From 1130s to 1208 silver pennies minted in city; coins also minted here by David I of Scotland to 1153 when city in Scotland; 1247-48 to facilitate Henry III re-coinage, and during the Civil War in 1645. Closure of the Mint in 1206 when the silver was exhausted.
CAIH p19, p30 illustration of 1645 coin
Carlisle; history and celebration M. Constantine p36 Illus of Henry I coin minted in city
CN 08.03.1947 p3 CJ 25.01.1949 p2
CN 24.03.2006 p52 [illus] Three rare Norman coins struck in Carlisle sold at auction
CN 29.09.2006 p14 2 silver pennies minted in city between 1136 - 1140s sell for £4,830
MIRACLE PLAYS A performance of a miracle play is first recorded in the city in 1345, the reference to the play is an incidental one [Records of Early English Drama; Cumberland, Westmorland and Gloucestershire, 1986 p17]
MISON’S TV and RADIO Victoria Viaduct
CN 29.11.1991 p14 Ad
CN 25.11.1994 p21 Ad
MISSIONARY MEETINGS
See also Church Missionary Society
CP 22.04.1898 p6b Carlisle Association
MISS SELFRIDGE The Lanes
Womens’ clothing
CN 26.05.2000 p2 Closing
MISTER MINIT Fisher St
CN 22.03.2002 p6 Closes down
MITCHELHILL, James Grocer and tea dealer, aged 39, employing 2 men, home address 60 English Street, born Longtown [1851 census]; aged 49, employing 1 apprentice, home address English St, born Longtown [1861 census]
MITCHELL, Hugh Mason, died 18.05.1836 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 151]
MITCHELL, J Printer in Carlisle in 1798 and printed in that year an edition of Relph’s Poems with wood cuts by Thomas Bewick; appears to have moved to Newcastle [CWAAS OS Vol 14 p20]. In 1798 Mitchell began publication of one of the earliest Carlisle periodicals, ‘The Satellite or Repository of Literature’, but the venture proved short lived and only ran for 6 issues
MITCHELL, John Butcher of this city died 23.10.1826; Monumental Inscription in St Cuthbert’s Yard
MITCHELL, BELL, DONALD and Co Calico Printers; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784
MITCHELL DRYERS Denton Holme
See also PRATCHITTS
In 1859 William Pratchitt joined John Blaylock to establish in Denton Holme the Company of Blaylock and Pratchitt as Iron and Brass Founders, manufacturing railway equipment, steam engines, grinding mills, pumps and church bells. Four years later, John Pratchitt joined the company which became Pratchitt, Blaylock and Pratchitt changing to Pratchitt Brothers on the death of John Blaylock in 1877. The company continued with the main products of steam engines, both stationary and powered pumps, mills etc, including the manufacture of shells during the First World War. In the 1920s it became the principal subcontractor to the innovative LA Mitchell Group based in Manchester; Mr L.A.Mitchell becoming a director of the company in 1929. The company continued in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s manufacturing industrial drying plant and timber plants with Mr Mitchell taking over as managing Director in 1947 having taken a controlling interest in the Company. Involvement in the Intensive Mixer Industry started in 1964 and in 1965 the design team of LA Mitchell (Dryers) moved from Manchester to the works in Carlisle and a new test centre was built following the take over of the Mitchell group by APV, with the company becoming known as APV Mitchell Dryers Ltd. In 1994 the company was acquired by the Lodge Group and renamed Mitchell Dryers. On 2004 a management buyout effected by the company directors and control of the company returned to the Carlisle works. In 2010 40 people are employed in the company, covering sales, design, projects, administration, test centre and manufacturing of dryers and intensive mixers. The product range covers the design, manufacturing and installation of a wide range of rotary dryers and calciners, conveyor band dryers, thermo venturi dryers, tray dryers, pressure vessels and autoclaves, fluid bed dryers, tray dryers and the manufacture and overhaul of intensive mixers for the rubber and plastics industry. Mitchells is the leading UK manufacturer of drying and intensive mixing machinery and the company’s product range can be found in operation all over the world [Company brochure]. The works closed in 2016
ENS 11.04.1996 p3 (illus) Wagons Roll; Giant load to leave city
CN 25.08.2006 p15 Make industrial dryers; privately owned; Tom Fleming Managing Director
MITRE COURT, Charlotte Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 79 Charlotte Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 29-31 Charlotte Street
1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 2 properties here
MITSUBUSHI CENTRE Lancaster Street
CN 30.10.1992 p14 Ad
MITTON REFRIGERATION Cecil Street; East Norfolk Street
On 23rd January 1950 the Carlisle City Council agreed to raise the restriction on the Cecil Hall for use only for religious purposes and permit the premises to be used as offices and other limited business purposes; Alf Mitton formed Refrigeration (Mitton) Ltd in 1950 - 'operating from the church premises which the firm still owns in Cecil Street, Carlisle' [1999]
CD 1952 Ad p365
CN 04.06.1999 pp14-15
ML SPORTS BAR Kennedy Centre, Lonsdale Street
CN 17.08.2001 p3 New bar opens with lap dancing
MOBILE LIBRARY see LIBRARIES
MOBILE TELEPHONES/ MASTS see TELEPHONES
MOBILE ‘X’ RAY UNIT FOR RUSSIA
CN 03.10.1942 p5 Public appeal to be made
CN 10.10.1942 p5 Ideas for money raising
CN 14.11.1942 p5 Cheque handed over
MOCK MAYORS see LOCAL MAYORS
MODEL ENGINEERING see CARLISLE MODEL ENGINEERING SOCIETY
MODES DE PARIS
Wedding trousseaux
CD 1880 Ad p100
MOFFAT, J Beech Grove North
Private hire
CD 1952 Ad p382
MOFFAT’S COURT, Charles Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 15 Charles Street
1880 Directory 19 Charles Street
1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 3 properties here
MOFFAT’S YARD 1851 Report of General Board of Health....Carlisle; R.Rawlinson 1BC 625 p52 One privy for 28 families
MOFFATT,W Devonshire Street
Money lender
CD 1893-94 Ad p76 established 1860
MOFFET, John, and Son Lonsdale Street, Crosby Street
Joiner and cabinet maker; home furnishers
C/CAR 333.333 Sale of property 19.07.1910 (illus)
1851 Ward’s Northern Directory Ads p3; John Moffet; joiner, Annetwell St
1861 census, John Moffet, aged 42, born Carlisle, home Annetwell St
CD 1880 Ad pxlv
CD 1884-85 Ad p272
CD 1893-94 Ad p24
Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p22 Ad, 2 Lonsdale Street
Whitehaven News Calendar 1901; ad p335 established 1835
CD 1902-03 Ad p290
CD 1905-06 Ad inside back cover
CD 1913-14 Ad p156
MOFFITT BROTHERS English Street; Scotch Street
Hosiery; ladies and gents outfitters
Carlisle in Camera 1 p17 photo of facade of Moffitt Brothers, 12 English St
CD 1937 Ad back iii
CD 1952 Ad p347
CD 1955-56 Ad p6 5 and 7 English Street and 67 Scotch Street. Established 44 years
CD 1961-62 Ad p5
MOFFITT, Eric Cecil Street
The Man’s Shop
CD 1966-68 Ad display card
MOLLY IN WOODS LANE, Newtown [1880 Directory]
MONK, Joseph [1852-1932] Photographer, aged 39, born Reigate, home 4 Devonshire Walk [1891 census]; Photographer, aged 49, born Reigate, home address 29 Sheffield St [1901 census] Died in Carlisle 31.03.1932
Carte de visite noted with the address Viaduct Studio, Charlotte Street
CD 1893-94 Ad p 68 , Viaduct Studio, Charlotte Street
MONKCLOSE ROAD
City Minutes 1899-1900 p148 Approval for 20 houses
MONKHOUSE Important family of clockmakers who were in business from around 1726 to 1819 when their English St shop closed; business taken over by George Moss but the Monkhouses still lived and worked in Carlisle in a dulsatory fashion until 1826, when James Monkhouse died
See J.Penfold ‘Clockmakers of Cumberland’, pp38-40
MONKHOUSE, Thomas and George Linen-drapers; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784
MONTREAL STREET
City Minutes 1900-01 p 326 Approval for new street
MOOD Botchergate
Nightclub
CN 22.06.2001 p5 Named Britain’s Entertainment Venue of the Year
MOODY YOUTH SOCIAL THEATRE see THEATRE LOWTHER STREET
MOORE, J.H. Bridge Street
French polisher
CD 1952 Ad p87
CD 1955-56 Ad p242
MOORE, John Sodawater, lemonade and ginger beer manufacturer, aged 30, home address 3 Collier Lane, born Dalston [1851 census]
MOORE, Joseph English Street
Grocer
Carlisle Diocesan Directory 1872; ad late James Routeldge
MOORE, Thomas Wharton Motor engineer; Fisher Street garage established in 1920, Lowther Street garage from 1936. Thomas Moore, born Maryport, died in 1954 and he was succeeded by his son Ronald as Managing Director. He sold the business in 1957 to SMT
1924 Carlisle Directory Motor engineer Fisher Street, home 4 Tullie Street
CJ 06.04.1937 p2 Theft from garage
1955-56 Carlisle Directory 70 Lowther Street
MOORE, W Bank Street
Confectioner
CD 1880 AD pxv
MOORHOUSE ROAD
City Minutes 1935/36 p117 Approval for 6 houses
MOOR PLACE, St Anns Hill
7 houses [as part of a 74 housing estate built for Carlisle Corporation] were built on Moor Place by local builder EJ Hill being completed and occupied by September 1921. . Clough Williams-Ellis described the whole estate as ‘The new style, Corporation built houses on the Stanwix Estate. Light, air and flowers’. [CWAAS , 2016, Vol 16 p62-4]
1924 Carlisle Directory lists 7 properties
MOORVILLE Kingstown. The Carlisle Extension Act of 1950 added Moorville, Kingstown and Greymoorhill to the city. [2BC 352 6879]
D Perriam Stanwix p76 The deeds for 12 Kingstown Road between 1803-1924 show this was called Moorville before changing it to Kingstown House. Otherwise there is no antiquity to the name which derives from Kingmoor. Photo of Moorville in 1909
175 Years of Carlisle p43 photo of Moorville about 1910
CJ 02.08.1889 Tender to build seven houses at Moorville for John Elliot, clothier
MOORVILLE BRICKWORKS see KINGMOOR BRICKWORKS
MOORVILLE PETROL STATION
D. Perriam Stanwix p105 photo. Approved 23.02.1954 for T Hodgson
MOORVILLE TERRACE, Scotland Road
A manuscript map of 1937 [C480] shows the location of and names Moorville Terrace
1924 Carlisle Directory lists 12 properties here
MOOTA BUTCHERY
ENS 30.03.1976 Supplement Comes to Carlisle
MORLAND, J Newsagents
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p38 Photo of newsagent’s shop front
MORLANDS
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]
MORLEY STREET So named on 1871 census; Edward Taylor Morley was the city surveyor who died in December 1876. New street named in his memory [CN 24.12.2010 p29]
CJ 21.11.1879 p5 Morley St laid out in 1877
City Minutes 1890-91 item 193 Approval for 12 houses
MORLEY STREET SCHOOL see ROBERT FERGUSON SCHOOL
MORMONS New chapel dedicated 20.08.1967 in Langrigg Road
20.12.1897 Minutes of the Carlisle Board of Guardians. Declined a Latter Day Saint application to hold services at Fusehill Street and a Sunday class at Harraby Hill
CJ 28.12.1963 p4 CJ 13.05.1966 p7
CJ 20.09.1938 p1 Return to Carlisle
CN 12.09.1958 p10 Campaign of 1922
CN 30.10.1964 p10 (illus) Church building
CN 05.03.1965 p12 In 1845
CJ 25.06.1965 p1 (illus) Church building
CJ 18.08.1967 p9 New building
CN 25.08.1967 p12 New chapel
CN 13.09.1991 p2 Chapel jubilee
CN 26.02.1993 p23 Mormons aid family tree searchers
MORPETH, John Solicitor, died 16.06.1839 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 144]
MORPETH AND THOW Saw mill and bobbin manufactory; John Morpeth, aged 32, bobbin manufacturer, employing 6 men and 6 boys, born Carlisle, home address 5 John’s Place [1861 census]
CP 15.12.1871 p1Their premises on South Henry Street to let
MORRIS DANCERS
CN 09.06.2000 p1 ‘Racist’ Morris group could lose bookings
CN 16.06.2000 p13 Racist claims against Carlisle Sword, Morris and Clog Dancers
CN 23.06.2000 p13 Morris dancers not racist
CN 30.06.2000 p1 Morris men dance on after row over racism
MORRISON, H.J. St Nicholas Street
Engineers
CD 1952 Ad p293
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p239
MORRISON, John Photographic artist
CJ 2 February 1855 an advertisement intimating that ‘Mr Morrison’s Photographic Rooms, Mechanics Institute, Fisher Street will in future be open only on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday’
1855 Slaters Directory, Fisher Street
1858 Kelly’s Directory, Mechanics Institute, Fisher Street
MORRISON, William Botchergate, Salt and guano warehouse
1851 Ward’s Northern Directory Ad p 13
MORRISONS SUPERSTORE Opened 06.09.1988
CN 12.02.1988 Cash call over store misery
CN 02.09.1988 pp8-9 Ad feature
CN 15.12.1995 p1 Facelift for store
ENS 25.06.1996 p1 (illus) Big facelift in store for city supermarket
ENS 29.06.1996 p1 100 jobs in store
CN 27.09.1996 p13 (illus) Morrisons disturbing early morning peace
CN 07.02.1997 p12 Bobs back
CN 14.02.1997 p1 Getaway car spotted weeks before raid
CN 07.03.1997 p1 (illus) Video clue to the thugs in Morrison robbery
MORROW, William 91 Denton Street, butcher’s
D.Perriam Denton Holme Photo p94
MORTON So named Morton in 1214 containing the two elements mor=moor, waste, upland, fen and tun=enclosed piece of land, homestead village; Morton Head and Newby, Population in 1780 27 houses, 27 families, 57 men, 67 women The LIfe of John Heysham by Henry Lonsdale p34;
MORTON COMMUNITY CENTRE Official opening of Community Centre 29.4.1967
See also Morton House
1 BC 374 and B/CAR 374.38 Opening brochure
ENS 27.10.1966 p13 Morton Youth and Community Centre
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p31 Photo of opening ceremony
CN 25.01.1991 p6 Community folk on their toes
CN 13.09.1991 p6 Community Centre with something for everyone
CN 11.03.1994 p4 Presentation to public - 50 years ago
CN 04.08.2000 p15 Ofsted praise staff for nursery’s progress
CN 18.04.2003 p9 Hopes to restore parkland; re-establish paths, the ha-ha...
CN 18.09.2009 p13 Letter concerning upgrading of Chances Park
CN 07.12.2012 p17 Sundial unveiled in transformed Chances Park to Ruth and Mary Chance. Sisters cut the first sod of the redevelopment in 2009
MORTON COTTAGE Mid 18th century with later additions. Originally known as Kell House but when it was offered to let with 60 acres in August 1827 it was referred to as Morton Cottage. The Gales took over the house in about 1831 and they were there until 1914. The house was then bought by Michael Young, a horse dealer, previously of Currock House. He in turn sold it to Mr King of Wigton Hall and the adjoining farm, also called Morton Cottage, was let to Messrs W.Irving and Son. Later William Wilkinson lived there and in 1989 it became a residential care home
1829 Directory p 172 John Watson
1847 p 172 Directory Gustavus Gale Esq
CP 28.09.1850 p2a Farm at Morton Cottage to be let; convenient house
1851 census Morton Cottage Gustavus Gale, Proprietor and houses, aged 61
1851 census Morton Cottage James Errington, Farmer, aged 36
1861 census Morton Cottage Thomas Irving labourer, 41
1861 census Morton Cottage Gustavus Gale, retired draper, born Lowestoff
1865 Gustavus Gale died here; [Grammar School Memorial Register p 111]
12.02.1865 memorial inscription at Kirkandrews on Eden graveyard records death of Gustavus Gale of Morton Cottage and of Johanna Gale, his daughter, of Morton Cottage on 03.06.1905
B/CAR 333.333 Sale of; 14.12.1914
CN 24.10.2008 p36 History of the house by D.Perriam
MORTON COURT 22 Flatlets for old people opened January 1967
MORTON ESTATE
ENS 22.08.1957 p5
ENS 20.03.1962 p1 Vandalism on Morton estate
ENS 03.02.1965 Supplement
Civic Affairs July 1969 p2 Housing development at Morton West
CN 03.01.1997 p13 (illus) Morton’s name goes back to mediaeval days
CN 07.03.1997 p14 Aerial view
CN 24.07.1998 p6 Aerial view
CN 23.10.1998 p7 Council braced for clash on homes
CN 03.09.1999 p5 Campaign steps up to fight against 1,000 homes
CN 10.11.2000 p1 Morton development of 2,500 houses holds - public consultation
CN 01.12 2000 p5 City councillors urged to accept Morton masterplan
CN 01.12.2000 p13 Letter against housing development
CN 08.12.2000 p1 Morton masterplan put on hold
CN 15.12.2000 p6 Morton plan; protesters scent hope
CN 22.12.2000 p1 Plans to build 1,000 new homes at Morton to go ahead
CN 12.01.2001 p5 Morton plan ‘will hit city house sales’
CN 26.01.2001 p4 Councillors asked to approve 5 Morton planning applications
CN 09.02.2001 p1 Planning applications for 1000 new homes heard in 4-6 weeks
CN 09.02.2001 p12 Opinion on Morton Masterplan
CN 22.06.2001 p5 (plan) 1000 homes; council likely to take first step to approve
CN 20.07.2001 p13 Letter; Morton housing plan has implications for Denton Holme
CN 31.01.2003 p5 Councillors to study findings into 1,000 new homes scheme
MORTON FARM
1918 Electoral Register George and Mary Messenger
MORTON HEAD Marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle
08.07.1762 Christenings, St Mary’s Parish registers; J.Gilbertson, Mortonhead
CPacquet 11.08.1807 p1 Ad Morton Head estate for sale; T.Snowden tenant
1861 census Robert Barton, farmer of 115 acres, 58, born Dalston
CJ 09.08.1870 p2 Morton Head Farm occupied by Robert Barton; farm north and west side of square, east and south are residence of Major Ferguson
MORTON HOUSE/ MANOR Built some time after 1807 for the Forster family who had banking interests in the city; sold 1837 following the Forster’s bankruptcy and bought by John Studholme; the 1837 advert described the property as ‘The Mansion, which comprises large Drawing and other entertaining Rooms, with numerous Bed Rooms, good Kitchens, Cellars, and other Conveniences, is situate upon a gentle eminence, with a Lawn in front of 12 Acres, commanding picturesque and interesting views (rarely to be exceeded) of the City of Carlisle, the vales of Eden and Caldew...and with regard the Shrubberies, Pleasure Grounds, and Gardens surrounding the Mansion, it is only necessary to say they were arranged under the direction of Mr Gilpin, the celebrated landscape gardener’. [in 2010 two magnificent Turkey Oaks stand in the grounds of the house. Their girth suggests they may belong to the Gilpin design] 04.07.1853 bought by Joseph Ferguson, textile manufacturer. In 1828 he had established a dyeing and beetling [beetling was a process to obtain a soft, silky finish to cotton goods] works at Holme Head. The 1871 census records that Robert Ferguson, son of Joseph, was living at Morton with his sister and five servants. He is described as a Manufacturer (Ferguson Brothers) employing 436 hands. During the American Civil War Robert Ferguson paid a visit to the USA and there he became acquainted with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of ‘The Song of Hiawatha’. On 11th June 1868 Longfellow paid a visit to Morton. Robert Ferguson was MP for Carlisle and Robert Ferguson School in Denton Holme was named after him. Robert Ferguson’s died in 1898 but before that date his nephew Frederick William Chance was living at Morton. In 1873 F.W.Chance joined the Holme Head business and in 1878 he became a managing partner. The 1881 census records his living at Morton, aged 28, with his wife Mary, a cook, a parlour maid, a house maid, a kitchen maid and a groom. By the 1891 census the household had expanded with fifteen people living at Morton. Robert Ferguson had moved back in with his nephew Frederick. Frederick and Mary Chance now had four young children, Andrew, Robert, Frederick and Eleanor. The rest of the household was made up of a governess, head nurse, under nurse, cook, upper housemaid, under housemaid and kitchen maid. F.W.Chance was also elected MP for Carlisle; In 1920 the house passed to Sir Robert Chance and on 26.02.1944 he offered it to the City for community use, one of the conditions of the gift being that the park should never be built upon; the Chance family stayed at Morton until Sir Robert died in 1960; On 29th April 1967 Lady Chance officially opened Morton Community Centre; the gardens had a magnificent display of daffodils, 10,000 in number, which were killed when the Corporation gardeners mowed them back as soon as they had died back. In the 1920s and 30s the narrow strip of woods extended down to opposite where Wigton Rd Catholic Church is situated today. In the park were cottages for the gardener and chauffeur. The building of Dunmail Drive by John Laing circa 1936-38 ended these woods [memories of gardens from A.F.S.Chance who was brought up at Morton]
See also Morton Community Centre
Citizen 01.12.1829 p578 Viewed with great delight the seat of the Forsters and its surrounding grounds and plantations
CJ 17.06.1837 Sale notice for residence of John Forster
14.09.1847 John Studholme of Morton Head, died aged 60; MI Grinsdale Church.
CP 30.04.1853; For sale on 4th July, owned by late Mr Studholme
CJ 20.05.1853 p1 ad For sale; pleasure grounds at Morton Head laid out by Gilpin
1861 census Robert Ferguson, aged 43, cotton manufacturer, born Carlisle
CJ 09.08.1870 p2 Morton Head Farm occupied by Robert Barton; farm north and west side of square, east and south are residence of Major Ferguson
CJ 13.03.1903 p5 Obit of John Studholme whose father moved to Morton in 1839 when he bought the estate from the Trustees of Messrs Forster; died New Zealand
02.08.1905 F.W.Chance of Morton died [MI 20/55]
CJ 04.08.1905 Death of Mrs Chance, lived at Morton for 30 years
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p123 photo of Mr Chance outside in 1909
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p31 Facade of house in 1961
CN 16.07.1999 p13 Morton’s key role in history of Carlisle
MORTON INFANTS AND JUNIOR SCHOOL Amalgamated to form Morton Park Primary School on 31.08.1993
City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p2 Photo of Morton Park Primary School erected 1957 1BC 370
CN 22.02.1991 p1 Schools merge
CN 12.04.1991 p5 Parents win school fight
CN 27.02.2004 p5 Troubleshooter appointed for failed school
CN 07.10.2005 p8 Faces closure and merger with Newlaithes; only 88 pupils
CN 28.10.2005 p1 Morton Park faces closure; 76 on roll, 300 places
CN 11.11.2005 p13 Letter from vice chairman of governing body
CN 03.02.2006 p2 Inspectors say school has ‘deep-seated weaknesses’
CN 03.03.2006 p6 Morton Park to close in summer due to falling numbers
CN 09.06.2006 p5 Final school photograph; closes July 18th
MORTON LEA Wigton Road
CN 18.07.2003 p49 For sale £269,000; built in 1929 for local auctioneer
MORTON LODGE Beside Morton Manor on 1861 census; John Saunders, gatekeeper; 1901 census, no 1 Morton Lodge Joseph Steel, butler, no 2 William Hodgson, gardener, no 3 Joseph Bell, coachman
MORTON MANOR see MORTON HOUSE
MORTON METHODIST CHURCH Opened 14.12.1963
CJ 20.12.1963 p6 (illus) Opening
MORTON PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL see MORTON INFANTS AND JUNIOR SCHOOL
MORTON SECONDARY SCHOOL Opened 28.08.1968; September 2008 taken over by Richard Rose Academy; The new Richard Rose Academy was the first state school in England to be run by a person without teaching experience. Peter Noble was a former NHS manager [Daily Telegraph 23.01.2009 p2]
ENS 21.09.1967 p7 Illustration
CN 30.08.1968 p14 (illus) Opening
CN 20.09.1991 p9 Confidence booster for women
CN 25.09.1992 p25 Noel’s gunge tank claims its victims
CN 26.02.1993 pp1,3,10 172 in janitor job scramble
CN 05.03.1993 pp1,12 Tough task – janitor’s job
CN 08.07.1994 p5 School earns a new life line
CN 26.08.1994 p5 Supplement; Morton puts the community first
CN 18.12.1998 p10 Fighting back from failure
CN 16.04.1999 p1 Meningitis jabs for pupils
CN 07.05.1999 p10 Master motivator-Roger Ashton
CN 31.03.2000 p18 Ad
CN 29.09.2000 p1 New Head at Morton £70,000 job for Michael Bell
CN 20.10.2000 p12 (illus) A head’s start - Michael Bell
CN 24.11.2000 p1 Improving Morton taken off list of failed schools
CN 09.02.2001 p17 Bright future as Morton sails through Ofsted test
CN 23.03.2001 p17 Morton’s five most senior teachers fight to save jobs
CN 08.06.2001 p1 5 senior staff lose their jobs
CN 11.01.2001 p15 Morton school gets two new deputies
CN 17.05.2002 p1 Morton closes its lower sixth form; opinion p 12
CN 19.07.2002 p3 £750,000 mounting debt of school
CN 26.07.2002 p3 Charges for supply staff added to debt crisis
CN 09.01.2004 p1 Morton and Harraby may have to close because of falling births
CN 16.01.2004 p13 Letters concerning closure of two schools
CN 27.02.2004 p1 Morton head goes on sick leave after sacking two teachers
CN 26.03.2004 p1 Police station to be set up in school
CN 02.04.2004 p9 Headteacher Michael Bell resigns
CN 24.11.2006 p2 Morton School failed by school inspectors
CN 05.02.2010 p15 Demolition of school begins
CN 11.06.2010 p18 New work begins on rubble of demolished site
CN 09.09.2011 p20 Purpose built complex opened. Old Morton school will be demolished
CN 30.09.2011 p14 Old School demolished
MORTON STREET, Caldewgate Plans agreed by council 13.06.1865. On the east side are Carrs former stables and canteen. The frontage of their buildings includes a glass roundel in the design of the Star of David [by accident or design] In the 1924 directory nos 2-70 and Carlisle Bread and Flour Company Ltd and McCubbin, Wm, stables
MORTON SUNDOUR LTD Established Denton Holme works in 1900; In Three Generations of a Textile Family, p 124 it says Carlisle was chosen by the firm as it wasn’t too far from its headquarters in Ayrshire, it had excellent railway communications, it had a wide variety of established textiles, both in wool and fine cotton products, and at the time there was a surplus of female labour and there was factory space available; p 125, it says that Morton’s chose Mr Donald’s Mill to move into in circa 1899. It was then in a somewhat dilapidated state. It had been built as a cotton weaving and dyeing mill (cotton dyed by the natural indigo process had been sent from it to the four corners of the world), and therefore the building was basically suitable, although it had to be entirely re-roofed, and it stood on over forty acres, in part of which some expansion might be possible. It also included a terrace of employees houses. It had a fine old beam engine, housed in a handsome sandstone building and with an immense fly-wheel, which supplied all the power, and which the writer still remembers in action. Courtaulds took over the company in 1963
See Solway Dye Works also Denis Perriam Denton Holme p22
See also Courtaulds
See Three Generations of a Textile Family 1 H MOR
See Sundour Shuttle, staff magazine 1935 - 1957
CJ 16.12.1913 p7 Photo of the largest carpet made
Fire of 28.12.1914 causes £50,000 worth of damage at carpet manufacturers
CJ 01.01.1915 Denton Hill Works Fire. Photo of shell of burnt out factory
C.Hussey, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, 1931, says Lorimer designed factory at Carlisle after fire
CJ 11.02.1921 p6 Sir Robert Lorimer entrusted with the design of the County War Memorial in Rickerby Park. He carried out the reconstruction of Messrs Morton’s factory in Denton Hill after the fire
CJ 20.07.1923 p6 Large new buildings; 3 storeys will take 6 months to complete
CJ 04.09.1923 p5 Health Committee. Sir Robert Lorimer’s additions to factory at Lorne Cres
CD 1927 Ad page front iii
CJ 07.01.1938 p10 CJ 18.10.1949 p2 CJ 25.10.1949 p2
CJ 03.08.1928 Supp. Morton Sundour fabrics
CN 14.10.1950 New dyeing process
CN 16.03.1956 p10 Story of a challenge that was beaten
CN 04.07.1958 Supplement p13 Ayrshire weaver set up in Carlisle
Evening News 19.02.1962 Extract from 1914 firelog
ENS 18.03.1963 p1 Losses of £74,000
ENS 05.10.1963 p1 £136,000 takeover
CJ 11.10.1963 p5 Taken over by Courtaulds
CJ 13.12.1963 p10 Sports pavilion
CN 26.02.1965 p1 Amalgamations
CJ 26.02.1965 p1 Amalgamations
ENS 13.02.1967 p1 £250,000 expansion
CN 15.10.1971 p8 History
CN 29.07.1994 p10 Textiles success story
CN 20.07.2001 p9 (illus) Murrell Hill Colour Works; D.Perriam
CN 15.06.2012 p36 D.Perriam; Story of carpet production. 1912 massive carpet for Belfast City Hall, 109 feet by 46.5 feet; entirely hand made.
MORTON TERRACE
City minutes 1903-04 pp268,334
1924 Carlisle Directory, off Wigton Road/ Balfour Road
MORTON, A Fire of 28.12.1914 causes £50,000 worth of damage at carpet manufacturers
MORTON, Joseph Attorney at law Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784
MORTON, M and W.J. Globe Lane
Shoe repairers
CD 1952 Ad p373
MORTON, Thomas Dentist died 24.11.1943 [MI 270/64]
MOSES, William Fuel injection specialists
CN 20.11.1992 p12
CN 18.03.1994 p14 Ad
MOSS, A.B. 71 and 73 English Street
Printers
CD 1880 Ad p1 back, successor to T.W.Arthur
CD 1884-85 Ad p246
MOSS, Ann Pawnbroker employing 1 assistant, born Carlisle, aged 64, home address John Street, Bridge St
MOSS, William Chemist and druggist, employing 10 apprentices, home address 74-5 English Street, born Carlisle [1861 census]
MOTEL see CREST MOTEL
MOTHERS UNION
CJ 04.10.1938 p5 400 women at Carlisle
CJ 07.10.1938 p6 (illus) 400 women at Carlisle
MOTOR CARS see MOTORING
MOTOR COLLISION REPAIRS Morton Street
CD 1952 Ad p87
MOTORCYCLING
CN 16.04.1987 p4 Pioneering days
CN 03.07.1992 p3 Rules change hits city motorcycle company
CN 11.07.1997 p9 £2,594 for leukaemia research
CN 19.09.1997 p1 Hopes for buried treasure
CN 10.04.1998 p18 Yamaha specialists Stewart roar into town
CN 31.10.2003 p8 Botcherby youngsters want own motocross course at Rosehill
CN 14.11.2003 p5 Botcherby Motor Project look at former rail freight yard by N&C
CN 12.05.2006 p9 Menace of motor cycles on fields behind Holme Head
MOTOR HOUSE, Lowther Street
See also Barnes Border Garage
CN 24.12.2021 p18 D.Perriam. Plans were submitted and approved in October 1915 for architect George Dale Oliver to build a brick garage with slate roof, this being occupied by Austin Castiglione. The Carlisle Journal reported in May 1918 that Castiglione had been called up and he was selling the Motor House. His successor was William Barnes and the name changed to Barnes Border Garage
MOTORING Registration ‘HH’ first used 01.04.1914
See also; Speed Limit; Road Accidents
1895 first car in city, steam powered designed by W.T.Carr and built by J.Sumner of Leyland (CIC2 p46) ; first car built in city by James Fendley
James Hodgson purchased one of the earliest cars in Cumberland from the original owner Theodore Carr. He formed the County Garage Company, becoming managing director. He patented a windscreen with curved glass to deflect the wind. He formed the County Windscreen Company which had branches in London and Coventry, withdrawing from the garage concern. When Ford began manufacturing in this country Hodgson made all the windscreens for several years until the company erected its own plant. In 1914 he staged Carlisle’s districts first motor car gymkhana, three or four days later war broke out [obit James Hodgson 09.03.1948 p1]
CN 19.06.1964 p10 (illus)
CN 03.09.1949 p5 (illus) 1st in Carlisle
CN 10.09.1949 p5 (illus) 1st in Carlisle
MOTORWAY Carlisle bypass section of the M6 Motorway (Golden Fleece to Greymoorhill) officially opened 15.12.1970; Penrith Carlisle section opened officially 01.07.1971
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News pp72-72 Photos of opening and building
MOTTO OF CITY ‘Be Just and Fear Not’; from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII; first suggested for city by G. G. Mounsey (RS Ferguson’s ‘Hutchinson’, p729 - 2A 9)
Round Carlisle Cross 2nd series p153 origin suggested
CWAAS OS Vol 6 pp1-14 Armourial bearings of the city of Carlisle
CP 06.01.1821 p2d Quotation above banner of Carlisle Patriot
MOULDER’S ARMS Botchergate; in local directories to 1852
MOULDER’S ARMS Currock Street; in local directory for 1880; closed October 1916
ENS 02.11.1916 Closure
CN 03.01.1992 p4 (illus)
MOUNSEY, George Attorney at law 21.08.1762 St Mary’s parish registers, christenings, George Mounsey, attorney at law; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784
MOUNSEY, H.W. Newtown Road
Stationer, newsagents, lending library
CD 1952 Ad p378
MOUNSEY, BOWMAN AND SUTCLIFFE Solicitors
CN 26.02.1988 p11 Ad; amalgamation to become Mounseys
CN 05.12.2003 p14 Taken over by Crutes; Mounseys dates from 1730
MOUNSEYS COURT, Corporation Road [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory Mounsey’s Square, 82 Corporation Road
1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1 and 2
MOUNSEYS COURT, English Damisde [1880 Directory]
MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB
CN 06.04.1990 p3 Bikers riding high
CN 12.04.1990 p21 (illus) Mountain bike club ride out in Lakeland
MOUNTAINEERING see CARLISLE MOUNTAINEERING CLUB
MOUNT FLORIDA, Botcherby So named on 1901 census
MOUNT PLEASANT, Blackwell Road
1924 Carlisle Directory lists properties 1-20
MOUNTING STONES
CN 08.02.1991 p4 Pub that had city’s last mounting stone
MOUNT PLEASANT POST OFFICE
CN 05.04.1996 p14 Ad
MOURNING WAREHOUSEMAN Victoria Viaduct
Funerals
CD 1880 Ad p100
MR CONSTRUCTION Established 2000
CN 16.05.2003 p16 Business goes into liquidation
MR PICKWICK’S COFFEE HOUSE Lanes Opened July 1985
CN 26.07.1985 p8 (illus) Opening
CN 30.10.1992 p9 Jim’s the man at the top
CN 18.06.1999 p16 Ad
‘MUCKLE TOUN BELL O’CARLISLE’ J.B.Penfold Clockmakers of Cumberland pp18-22; Muckle Bell was the bell on which in later years the town clock struck the hours, this bell was made about 1400, but a clock is first definitely mentioned in 1651; a new clock was ordered in 1722 from John Sanderson of Wigton and this was in use for the next 180 years, when Potts clock replaced the old Sanderson’s one; the Muckle Bell was still the bell on which the town hall struck until at least 1883
CWAAS OS Vol 7 p239-44
CN 10.05.1947 p5
MUIRS COURT, Denton Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 130 Denton Street
MULCASTER CRESCENT Laid out in 1884 on land previously owned by James Mulcaster
MULCASTER HOUSE Brampton Road; built late 18th century with early 19th century additions for James Mulcaster; 1821 map has the name of Mr Mulcaster next to it; James Mulcaster died here in 1832, he was an eminent pawnbroker aged 80 formerly of Grosvenor Square, London; the 1884 Directory lists the Misses Bell as householders; 1891 census Mary J Bell head of household. She is a spinster living with sisters and nieces, including a married sister Georgina Harrison. James son of late James Bell of Mulcaster House, died 28.11.1893 [Stanwix MI 162/1] Miss Bell is still head of household in 1901, aged 58, born Carleton, Cumberland. The 1924 Carlisle Directory lists a Mrs G.Henderson as the householder; 1934 Directory A.J.Caird, surgeon.
D Perriam Stanwix p97
Newcastle Courant 22.08.1829 Married at Stanwix Henry Armstrong of this town to Elizabeth Musgrave daughter of late William Bell, Esq and grand-daughter of James Mulcaster Esq of the former place
CJ 27.06.1879 Advert seeking relatives of James Mulcaster
CN 21.05.2010 p62 For sale at £750,000
CN 14.09.2012 p p72 For sale £550,000; seven bedrooms, three bathrooms
MULLENS COURT, 29 Crosby Street [1880 Directory]
MULLENS COURT, Water Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 44 South John Street to 51 Water Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 47- 49, 51-53 Water Street
MULLINDER, William Hairdresser, Market Place. In directories 1811 - 1829
MUNCASTER, Edward Botchergate; English Street
Ironmongers
Leading Trader of the City Ad pp58-59 A 616
Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p32 photo
1861 census Edward Muncaster, Botchergate, plumber, aged 42, born Carlisle
1901 census; William D.Muncaster, plumber and ironmonger, aged 51, bn Carlisle
CD 1920 Ad p66
CD 1924 Ad p76
CD 1927 Ad p80
CD 1961-62 Ad p3
CD 1952 Ad p77
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p251
CD 1955-56 Ad p256
ENS 10.06.1986 p1 (illus) Closure
MUNCASTER, W.D. Ironmonger
Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p14 57 and 59 Botchergate
MUNCASTER PLACE; Upperby Noted in the directories between 1884 - 1902-03
MUNDELL, J [1814-1880] Photographer, Carlisle and Silloth
Carte de visite noted, artist, Carlisle and Silloth. Born Kirkcudbright, by 1866 he was manager of the Caledonian Photographic Co, Denton Street, having previously worked for the photographer Matthew Fisher in the city centre. Mundell lived in Charlotte Street and was still in Carlisle in 1871, but was a photographer in Silloth by 1875. When he died he was living in Myddleton Street
1870 Carlisle directory Charlotte Street; not noted in the 1869 or 1873 directories
Died Myddleton St, Carlisle 02.06.1880
MUNGO JAXX East Tower Street
Hairdresser
V.White Carlisle and its villages, p12 drawing in 1998
CN 28.03.1997 p14 Hair salon shock
MUNIMENTS
See also Archives
City Council Muniments Com. 08.11.1883 Report on finding records and papers
CN 30.05.2003 p8 Story of keeping public records
MUNRO’S COURT, Saint Nicholas Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 43 Saint Nicholas Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 43-45 St Nicholas Street
MURALS
CN 04.07.1997 p13 (illus) Pupils capture city’s history on mural
MURCHIE’S COURT, South Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 20 South Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 16-18 South Street
MURDERS
See also Hangings
CJ 09.09.1826 p2f, 3a Murder of Mary Brown by Philip Tinning at St Nicholas
CJ 16.09.1826 p3a Murder of Mary Brown
CJ 04.11.1826 p2e,f Murder in Ritson’s Lane of Jane Myers by John Reay
12.03.1827 Execution in city of Philip Tinning for murder of Mary Brown
CJ 05.09.1835 p4 Inquest on Joseph Burney; charge of murder on John Dixon
08.06.1847 John Thompson arrested for murder of his wife
CJ 07.08.1847 pp2,3 Trial of John Thompson
CJ 14.08.1847 p2 Thompson confesses to murder
21.08.1847 John Thompson executed for poisoning his wife at Carlisle
Carlisle Examiner 07.12.1858 p2c Newborn female - child murder?
12.04.1861 William Horsley murdered in the Pack Horse Inn, Carlisle
CJ 03.05.1861 p5 Water Street; W.Horsley and J.Davidson-murder and suicide
Round Carlisle Cross Vol.1 pp125-137 The Durranhill murder 22.11.1861
CP 28.12.1861 Durranhill Crossing Murder; apprehension of suspect
15.03.1862 William Charlton executed for murder of Jane Emmerson at Durranhill
14.11.1887 William Hunter executed for murder of Isabella Steel at Raffles
ECN 28.01.1888 p6,a,b; p8f Murder of Mrs Glaister; husband’s suicide
CP 27.01.1888 Wife murder and suicide; Richard Glaister and wife
CP 25.03.1892 p6 List of executions that have taken place in Carlisle since 1800
05.11.1910 Murder of Alexander Norval
CN 28.01.1911 Trial of Archibald Norval for murder of father at West Walls
CN 12.11.1938 p13 John Daymond
CN 19.11.1938 p10 John Daymond
CJ 20.01.1939 pp1,7 John Daymond
CJ 23.04.1940 p1 Isaac J. Wardle
CJ 26.04.1940 p1 Isaac J.Wardle
CN 27.04.1940 p5 Isaac J.Wardle
CN 18.05.1940 p6 Isaac J.Wardle
CJ 21.05.1940 p3 Isaac J.Wardle
CJ 24.05.1940 p3 Isaac J.Wardle
CN 25.05.1940 p6 Isaac J.Wardle
CJ 28.05.1940 p3 Isaac J.Wardle
CN 19.01.1946 p7 Death sentence at Cumberland Assizes, Carlisle, on E.Prescott
ENS 15.04.1957 p1 City woman murdered in her shop (Jane Duckett)
ENS 16.04.1957 p1 Courting couple might have clue
ENS 17.04.1957 p1 Man accused of Tait Street murder
ENS 22.05.1957 p1 Vickers faces charge of capital murder
ENS 23.05.1957 p1 Vickers tells of encounter in cellar
CJ 24.05.1957 Trial of J.W.Vickers for murder in Tait St of Jane Duckett
ENS 27.05.1957 p1 Vickers; date of execution
ENS 23.07.1957 p1 Vickers executed at Durham
CN 16.08.1963 p1 (illus) Charles Street murder of 14.08.1963
CJ 16.08.1963 p1 (illus) Charles Street murder
CJ 04.10.1963 pp 1,5 Accident plea by defence in Charles Street murder
CJ 11.10.1963 p7 William Berwick sentenced to life for Charles St murder
ENS 06.09.1969 p1 Death of Mrs Jean Millicent Bates of 325 Pennine Way under investigation
ENS 08.09.1969 p1 Leslie Bates charged with the murder of wife
CN 25.04.1980 p3 Mrs Sylvia Campbell
16.09.1980 Mysterious death of Sheila Nixon in city
ENS 04.01.1983 p1 Keith Nicholson charged with murder of Wendy Hall
CN 31.12.1987 p3 Murder of Lawrence Frith on Boxing night
CN 22.01.1988 p19 Murder of Lawrence Frith on Boxing night
CN 05.10.2001 p1 Scott Cassidy charged with murder last weekend of G. Cassidy
CN 17.10.2003 p8 Adrian Hull loses appeal 7 years after conviction for city murder
ENS 21.10.2003 pp1,3 Baby stabbed to death in pram in Scotch Street
CN 24.10.2003 pp1, 3 Shahajan Kabir accused of baby murder
CN 31.10.2003 p3 Accused in court; father of baby Hassan Dominic Martin
29.05.2004 murder of Emilio Herbert Schweighart at Lister Ct
CN 04.06.2004 p3 Murder charge man in custody
CN 02.07.2004 p1 Strangling of Lisa Flannagin on about 20th June
CN 23.07.2004 pp1,3 Kabir trial for murder of Hassan Martin
CN 20.08.2004 p1 Second post mortem on Lisa Flannagin
CN 10.09.2004 p1 Home Secretary seeks increase in sentence on Kabir
CN 17.09.2004 p5 Jimmy Atkinson, stabbed in Bitts Park. Grecian and Hanlon
CN 29.10.2004 p5 Kabir’s sentence increased
CN 05.11.2004 p1 Kieran Grieve charged with murder
CN 13.05.2005 p3 Trial of Hanlon and Grecian for Atkinson murder
CN 20.05.2005 p2 Further report on Grecian trial
CN 27.05.2005 p2 Hanlon and Grecian sent to prison for life
CN 27.05.2005 p John Sutton trial for murder of Emilio Herbert Schweighart
CN 03.06.2005 p15 John Sutton gets life
CN 15.07.2005 p2 Kieran Grieve on trial for murder of Lisa Flanagan
CN 22.07.2005 p2 Murder trial verdict on Mr Grieve considered by jury
CN 29.07.2005 p3 15 years for Kieran Grieve
CN 02.05.2008 p11 Edward Clemins of Carlisle on charge for strangling his uncle in Morton
CN 04.02.2011 p5 Joseph Howard stabbed to death on January 16th; inquest opens
CN 24.05.2013 p1, [Late Final] Three convicted of murder of Piotr Kulinski, of Arnside Rd
CN 12.07.2013 p1 Luke Hollingsworth found dead at home at Etterby Lea Road
CN 20.06.2014 p1Jamie Armstrong found guilty of murdering Luke Hollingsworth
CN 19.06.2015 p1 Schoolboy Jordan Watson murdered at Upperby
CN 15.01.2016 p1 Jordan Watson’s murder trial
CN 05.02.2016 p1 Jordan trial jury out for third day
15.09.2016 Murder of Melinda Korosi at Orton Road
CN 03.03.2017 p5 Trial of Miklos Verebes for the murder of Melinda Korosi
CN 31.12.2021 p5 Ryan Kirkpatrick murdered in Carlyles Court on 18.09.2021
Two suspects Kane Hull and Liam Porter
MURPHY’S COUNTY HAIR CUTTING ROOMS English St
Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1872; ad
MURRAY,David London Road
Boot and shoe maker
CD 1893-94 Ad p138
MURRAY, Elizabeth Laundress, aged 55, unmarried, employing 4 women, home address the Hilltop, London Road, born Arthuret [1861 census]
MURRAY, Miss J 9 Lancaster St
1882 Porters Directory Ad p158 Dress and mantle maker
MURRAY, James Tailor, aged 42, employing 1 man, home address 5 Union Ct, Globe Lane, born Carlisle [1851 census]
MURRAY, John Clay pipe manufacturer
CJ 25.01.1887 p4 Theft of pipes from his works on Junction Street. 4th time his kiln broken into
North Cumberland Reformer 01.06.1893 p3 Fire in portion of old mill occupied by Mr Murray as pipe manufactory; over-heating of a kiln in which pipes burned
CJ 28.11.1893 p4 Plans approved to alter buildings, formerly pipe works
CN 23.01.2004 p7 First appeared in 1884 directory and there to 1906 directory
MURRAY, R Photographer
1884 Directory 11 Close Street
CH 1893-94 Photographer 11 Close St
Died 11 Close St 02.12 1898 photographer
MURRAY, William Scotch Street
Ironmonger and plumber
CD 1880 Ad pxxix
MURRAY’S COURT, Harraby [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 3 Harraby Street
1924 Carlisle Directory lists between3-4 Harraby Street, London Road
MURRELL HILL ‘...granted to Morvin whose son Harvy gave the same in frank marriage to Gwercius Flandrensis with Muriell his daughter and therefore the demense was called Harvys Holme until the Dentons of Cardew became lords therof and the upper part of that demense is called to this day Murrell Hill from the said Muriell’ [CWAAS 1968 p73]
MURRELL HILL AUXILIARY HOSPITAL Opened 25.03.1915 closed 27.03.1919
The War Work of Auxiliary Hospitals.of Cumberland..., 1921, pp40-42
MURRELL HILL BRICK KILN
D Perriam Denton Holme p56 When William Matthew Wilman, a bricklayer, died in 1684 an inventory of his possessions included £10 for ‘half the Murrell Hill Brick Kiln’. Bricks had been made here at different periods as there were good deposits of clay. In 1854, under the ownership of Thomas Nelson, a brickworks was constructed here. This was beside the Canal Branch and a siding serviced the works. In the 1870s Nelson converted the works to a sawmill and on 01.07.1891 this was let to Thomas Niven. The site became the car park for the Cumberland News
MURRELL HILL FOOTPATH
City Minutes 1901-02 p83
MURRELL HILL HOUSE Nelson Street; built about 1850 for Thomas Nelson; house appears on Asquith’s 1853 survey; 1861 census shows Thomas Nelson, aged 54, railway contractor employing 1,000 men living here; John Hewetson Brown died at his residence here in August 1898; acquired in 1900 by the Morton family; no one living here on 1901 census; 25.03.1915 became a Red Cross auxiliary hospital, closing on 27.03.1919. 1920 became a recreation centre for Morton Sundour workers; During World War 2 it was used for housing troops and then by the ATS; demolished 1967 to make way for Courtaulds factory
Perriam Denton Holme p31
CN 04.08.1967 p8 CN 11.08.1967 p10 CN 25.08.1967 p10
Carlisle in Camera 1 p28 photo of house in 1920s
CJ 14.07.1967 p12 Murrell Hill Gardens; bulldozers move in to reveal ruins which were once part of the original fabric of Carlisle Cathedral; suggested ‘ruins’ came here after 1850s Cathedral restoration; picture
CN 12.12.1997 p10 (illus) Muriel’s wedding gift decided name for hill
CN 28.07.2000 p7 (illus) Used old Cathedral stonework to build folly in garden
MURRELL HILL ROAD Road from Shaddongate south; now part of Dalston Road, but so named from at least 1837 to 1900
MURRY NEET see BLACKWELL MURRY NEET
MUSE BROTHERS, John and Harry, Photographers
The earliest reference to Muse Brothers, as photographers, was a decision by Carlisle City Council, in 1895/96, to turn down their application for permission to erect a sign in front of their English Street premises. Harry died of typhoid fever, at 9 Eden Terrace, Stanwix, on 17 July 1900, at the age of 25 and on 5 September of that year, ‘the working plant, utensils, stock etc., of the Late Harry Muse, photographer and artist’, was auctioned by Robert Dalton. [Mr Moonie].
MUSEUM COURT
Carlisle Directory 1924 between 18-20 Finkle Street
MUSEUM INN Belle Vue; in local directories from 1876
Irving Blaylock was a publican with an interest in natural history. He had a large collection of stuffed birds and other animals in cases in his public bar. He was a landlord around 1900 and his most celebrated exhibit was a piglet with eight legs preserved in formalin [Carlisle Natural History Society vol xiii, p124
1930s description in A Carlisle Lad by J.Templeton, 2007, p8, photo circa 1908
ENS 19.02.1970 p6 Inns of Cumbria; the Museum
ENS 13.06.1989 p16 New look at Museum
MUSEUMS [Prior to Tullie House] Carlisle Museum dates from 1835 when it was founded by Carlisle Literary and Philosophical Institute; later transferred to Athenaeum; the collection seized in 1860 for non-payment of rent; collection bought and given to Corporation who housed it in Finkle Street where it fell into disuse; with George Head Head’s death in 1876 the city council felt they no longer had an obligation to honour their previous arrangement to preserve the Museum given by this gentleman; in 1877 a committee of working men took it over; opened to public 24.07.1877; closed for cleaning and reopened 18.04.1878; 1891 transferred to the new building in Tullie House; no provision for its upkeep until the adoption of the Museums Act in 1900
See also Athenaeum; Carlisle Literary and Philosophical Institute; Tullie House Museum; Finkle Street- Academy of Art; Guildhall
D Perriam and D Ramshaw , Carlisle’s First Leaning Centre, Tullie House, 2016 pp 40-41 Story up to 1875, pp 48-51
CJ 16.04.1835 Carlisle Literary and Philosophical Society meet in the Main Guard. The society was to hold lectures and found Carlisle Museum there.
CJ 10.02.1838 The Literary and Philosophical Society has already collected the nucleus of a good museum
04.10.1841 Meeting to transfer the Museum from the Philosophical Society to the Mechanics Institute
CJ 07.11.1846 Letter complaining the state of disorder and confusion with no systematic arrangement, no order, no taste in the museum
CJ 09.02.1849 Museum short of funds and must sell the collection unless something is done
CJ 15.07.1864 p4 Watson’s in Rickergate; Johnstone’s in Botchergate
CJ 12.07.1872 City Surveyor to make arrangements for the removal of the museum from the Athenaeum
Carlisle Express 10.08.1872 Contents of the museum presented to the citizens of Carlisle by Mr Head are now arranged in the old school of art Finkle Street
CJ 28.01.1873 Letter regretting the state of the museum in Finkle Street, damp and hidden away
09.04.1875 Letter bemoaning state of Finkle Street museum which at present costs £15 per annum and is going to ruin
CJ 13.04.1877 Memorial presented to the Mayor by 135 working men and one woman desirous to see a museum established on the foundations of the nucleus presented to the city by George Head Head and beg us to make use of for the remaining unexpired term of the lease the museum located in the Artists’ Academy, Finkle Street
MUSGRAVE, E Court Street
Joiner and contractor
CD 1893-94 Ad p80
MUSGRAVE’S COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory Between 5-7 John’s Place
MUSGRAVE STREET
City Minutes 1933-34 p 307 Approval for houses Musgrave St and Esther St
MUSGROVE, E.S. English Street
Drapery establishment
CD 1884-85 Ad p266
MUSGROVES COURT, 5 John Street [1880 Directory]
MUSHROOM ELECTION
Between 1759 and 1784 no new ex gratia freemen were made, but several of them, such as Sir James Lowther, Major Farrar and Humphrey Senshouse, voted at contested elections. During this time the freemen appear to have had litigation with the corporation on various points. In 1784 the position of affairs was this: there has for upwards of two hundred years been disputes between the freemen, who were members of the eight city guilds, and the corporation, not alone as to the right to make ex gratia freemen but on other points; and the corporation was only restrained in its own view from making such freemen by an order of its own, and a bond dated twenty-five years back. On the 11th and 28th October, 1784, the corporation unanimously - for the few dissenters stayed away- repealed the orders and bye-laws of 1759; they repealed also all orders and bye-laws requiring admission to a guild prior to admission to the freedom of the city, and all orders and bye-laws made to take away or limit the power of the common council to make freemen. On the 29th of October the corporation made Mr Norton and several other persons freemen and on the 30th they made no less than one thousand one hundred and ninety-five, the names being taken from lists supplied by the agents of the earl, for Sir James Lowther now had that title, one agent handing in a list of five hundred of his lordship’s colliers. Between 1688 and September 1784 one thousand five hundred and twenty persons had been admitted freemen of Carlisle; between September 1784 and February 1785 one thousand four hundred and forty-three were admitted to that dignity, of which eight hundred and thirty-one were sworn in, coming up to take their oaths in droves headed by the Lowther agents. These new freemen soon became famous under the name of ‘mushrooms’, a name apparently even then of some antiquity as applied to ex gratia freemen. The mushrooms not only had no qualifications on the ground of either birth or servitude, but they had none on any other ground. Had the Earl raised his mushrooms among the inhabitants of Carlisle, he might have defended his doings on the ground that he was only going back to the ancient limes of the constitution, and abolishing unfounded restrictions which had grown up. Probably this view never entered the Earl’s head. The Earl found a quarrel existing that had existed for centuries, and he took advantage of it by taking the corporation side against the guilds, and made that body his tool for his own end. At the two bye election for Carlisle for 1786 and the general election of 1790 the mushroom electors of course swamped the genuine ones; but their rights were hotly contested before committees of the House of Commons, and in the law courts. The two select committees appointed in 1786 and 1787, evaded laying down the law on the matter and were content to strike out the mushroom votes and seat the second candidate in the poll, but a third in 1791, settled the question for ever by deciding that ‘the right of election for the city of Carlisle in the county of Cumberland, is in the freemen of the said city, duly admitted and sworn freemen of the said city, having been previously been admitted brethren of one of the eight guilds or occupations of the said city, and deriving their title to such freedom by being sons of freemen, or by service of seven years’ apprenticeship to a freeman resident during such apprenticeship within the said city, and in no others’. Excluded from the franchise prior to the reform bill of 1832 were all householders unless they belonged to the craft guilds. The bankers and manufacturers of Carlisle, the Forsters, the Lambs, the Carricks, the Fergusons, the Stoddards, the Mounseys and the Loshes, had no voice at the parliamentary or municipal elections; neither they nor their ancestors had practiced any trade which would qualify them for admission to the craft guilds and owing to the encroachments of the craft guilds nothing would give them the franchise. [Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle pp39-40]
MUSHROOM HALL Fisher Street; town house of the Earl of Lonsdale
Carlisle an illustrated history p52 1776 plan of house
D Perriam Stanwix p5
CP 23.12.1887 p6a Demolition to give access to new covered market
CN 21.11.1958 p10
CN 04.01.2013 p28 Brigadier Stanwix’s house and garden was a property on the east side of Fisher Street acquired by Lord Lonsdale [then Sir James Lowther] in 1784 and was later called Mushroom Hall. The house had been built by William Nicholson in 1706. Mushroom Hall is a reference to the famous Mushroom election which Lonsdale was notoriously lined with. The 1821 Carlisle Guide says ‘On Fisher Street we meet with a handsome mansion, the property of the Earl of Lonsdale and the town residence of William Hodgson where his majesty’s judges of assize are generally accommodated during their stay on the circuit’. Demolished in 1887 to make way for the covered market
MUSIC see also CATHEDRAL ORGAN AND ORGANISTS
14.08.1787 Assize Concert in Carlisle
CPacquet 06.05.1800 Charles Dibdin performs in Carlisle
09.09. - 11.09.1807 Carlisle Music Festival held in the Cathedral and Assembly Rooms
MUSICAL SOCIETY, CARLISLE
CN 23.10.1998 p27 Still in a song after 70 years
CN 27.07.2001 p13 Letter concerning the founding of the society
CN 17.08.2001 p14 Letter about the origin of the society; 2 so named societies
CN 10.10.2008 p7 Celebrates 80 years
MUSIC CLUB
CJ 12.05.1942 p1 Formed in city
MUSIC FESTIVAL Started 17.04.1896
CJ 08.06.1937 p2 CJ 08.04.1938 p7 CJ 12.04.1938 p5
CN 21.03.1958 p12 CN 10.03.1967 p12 CN 27.02.1970 p12
CP 29.04.1898 p7a,b Music Festival
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p85 photo of festival in Drill Hall in 1909
14.09.1918 died David Hodgson, founder of Carlisle Musical Fest. [Mon Ins 163/23]
CJ 13.03.1931 p13-15 Photo supplement of various winners
CJ 05.02.1937 p10 Hunt for an adjudicator
CJ 19.03.1937 p12 Choirs and instrumentalists
CJ 23.03.1937 p2 Kathleen Ferrier winner of Rose Bowl
CN 11.03.1950 p5 Preparations for 50th anniversary
CJ 24.03.1950 p5 Jubilee
CN 25.03.1950 p9 (illus) Golden Jubilee
CJ 28.03.1950 p3 Golden Jubilee
CJ 31.03.1950 p5 Comments
ENS 19.03.1956 p1 56th Music Festival
CN 14.04.1972 p6 Illustration of Margaret Wakefield plaque
CN 17.06.1988 p1 City music festival face axe
CN 17.06.1988 p4 City festival had humble beginning
CN 24.06.1988 p15 Big rush to rescue festival
CN 17.03.1989 p3 Great start to music festival
CN 23.03.1989 p10 Festival ends on high note
CN 23.03.1990 p18 One of the best
CN 19.03.1993 p16 City music festival success
CN 26.03.1993 p16 City music festival results
CN 15.02.1996 p10 Joy across the generations
CN 21.03.1997 p2 Results
CN 06.03.1998 p5 Festival for young talent
CN 13.03.1998 p10 All the world’s a stage
CN 23.10.1998 p27 Still in song after 70 years
CN 12.03.1999 p10 Facing the music
CN 10.03.2000 p10 Tunes of glory
CN 17.03.2000 p14 Results
CN 15.03.2002 p9 Results; Festival cancelled last year because of F&M
CN 19.03.2004 p8 Festival in St Cuthbert’s Church last week
CN 18.03.2005 p6 Festival results
CN 17.03.2006 p6 Music Festival results
CN 14.03.2008 p24 Report
CN 13.03.2009 p6 Report
CN 12.03.2010 p10 Report
CN 18.03.2011 p 10 Festival results
CN 23.03.2012 p20 Festival results
CN 15.03.2013 p8 Results
MUSLIMS
CN 25.06.1999 p2 Muslim plan for prayers
CN 04.11.2005 p1 Muslim group start breakaway mosque
CN 25.03.2011 p1 Man who burned the Koran in city centre could face jail
MYDDLETON STREET
Joseph Simpson, artist, lived in this street moving there after 1887
Carlisle City Minutes, June 1880 p135 Formation of street
MYDDLETON STREET BOWLING CLUB Subscription Bowling Club moved here in 1879
Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; p107 photo of bowling green
CN 04.07.2008 p17 Old photo of club
CN 16.11.2012 p32 Bowling green opened in 1866 on a site on the west side of Spencer Street. By 1879 land taken for housing and they moved to Myddleton Street
MYERS AND BOWMAN LTD London Road
CD 1952 Ad p340
MYHILL, S.F. AND SON Botchergate
Cycle specialist
CD 1952 Ad p84
MYRIORAMA
CN 25.11.1994 p10 100 years ago citizens flocked