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NAFFI CLUB Rickergate; Closed 1952

Mother was a firewatcher and the watching point was on top of our house at 29a Scotland Road. She also worked in the NAFFI in Rickergate, the John Peel hut as it was known. You saw all nationalities there. Us kids would go down to help with the washing up, collecting the dishes. Our wages was a chip butty. We called them frittes, that was the foreign influence. [Margaret Davies recalls]

See also Nelson Marble Works

Engineer; born Brownhouses near Annan where his father was a contractor and worked some quarries. Came to Carlisle early in life and worked as a stonemason for Mr Sanderson. Having completed his apprenticeship he left for London gaining experience in plan-drawing. About the year 1830 he started work as a marble mason in Carlisle. By 1834 the business moved to new premises situated between Crosby Street and Earl Street. Soon after he took quarries near Wetheral Station to supply his Carlisle works. At this time his brother James joined the business, eventually becoming a partner. [CN 05.05.2017 Section 2 p17]

CJ 03.04.1847 p2d Thomas Nelson wins contract for waterworks engine house

CP 09.03.1844 p1 Carlisle Marble Works; able to execute marble chimney pieces, monuments, stair cases, door and window dressings, paving and every description of marble work for interior decorations. T.Nelson

1851 census Thomas Nelson, aged 43, born Scotland, home Murrell Hill

1861 census, Thomas Nelson, aged 54, employing 1,000 men, Murrell Hill

Jnl Cumbrian Railways Assn Vol 8 No 2 May 2004 pp30-31 T.Nelson

CN 21.02.1997 details of the life of Thomas Nelson, his marble works and local railway contracts

NELSON BRIDGE Original bridge foundation stone dated 25.06.1852; Thomas Nelson was Mayor at the time and a prime mover in the scheme, he also contributed £500 to the costs; the bridge had the effect of opening up Denton Holme to housing development; bridge raised as part of the Victoria Viaduct in 1877; bridge widened 2005

CJ 25.06.1852 New bridge across the Caldew; laying foundations stone today

Carlisle an illustrated history p77 photo of 1853 commemorative stone

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p124 photo of rebuilt bridge in 1877

Perriam Denton Holme p32

CN 04.08.1967 p8

CN 16.09.2005 p8 Bridge opens with fourth lane

CN 23.09.2005 p13 Letter and photo of newly widened bridge

NELSON BRIDGE INN In local directories from 1858; closed 07.03.1971

CJ 07.12.1855 p1 Ad for a house adjoining the Nelson Bridge Hotel

1861 census, William Hetherington, Hotel keeper, aged 45, born Stapleton [1861 census]

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses, 2004, p51

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p74 Original building came down for the Viaduct and the pub moved across the road to a former grocer’s shop at the junction of Denton Crescent and Elm Street in 1875. [Map shows the location of the original building]

CN 12.03.1971 p1

CN 05.03.1971 p1 Carlisle pub to close on Sunday after 62 years

CN 31.01.1992 p4 (illus)

NELSON COURT, Denton Holme

CN 31.08.2007 p65 Advert for newly constructed development of 7 apartments

NELSON MANDELA GARDENS

CN 29.06.1990 p17 Opening of city garden on June 17th

NELSON MARBLE WORKS, Mill Street

Next to Nelson Bridge this was rail connected so that stone could be brought in from Cove Quarry just over the border and which Thomas Nelson held the lease for. As well as his major contracting work building railways, fireplaces were carved here for country houses and carved monuments for churches. Plans to build the Victoria Viaduct meant that the marble works had to move to Junction Street where it was connected to the Canal Branch. At this time, 1874, Thomas Nelson handed over the works to brother James [Perriam Denton Holme p30]

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory, ad p9; props. T and J Nelson

CN 21.02.1997 details of the life of Thomas Nelson, his marble works and local railway contracts

NELSON’S BUILDINGS John St, Botchergate; so named on the 1851 census

NELSONS COURT, 3 Blackfriars Street [1880 Directory]

NELSON STREET Murrell Hill House was built about 1850 by Thomas Nelson who gave his name to the street where it was situated; Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map; so named on 1863-5 Ordnance Survey sheet

City Minutes 1898/99 p 405 approval for 10 houses

D.Perriam Denton Holme. No 47 built by Robinson Bell as his own house to the designs of John Hodgson, front elevation drawing [see J and R Bell]

D.Perriam Nelson Street p101 No 63 [Garwick] was the home of Margot White who in 1937 married the Blackshirt leader William Joyce. They fled to Germany just before the outbreak of the war where Margot broadcast to the UK, and she was dubbed as Lady Haw Haw

NELSON TERRACE Greystone Road area; on voters list 1899 - 1912 [Today, 2017, terrace ending at no 143 Greystone Rd]

NEOLITHIC PERIOD By 4,000 BC people were living in the Carlisle area; a neolithic stone macehead was found at Harraby in 1849 and a neolithic stone axe head was found at Botcherby in 1934; both are illustrated in Carlisle an illustrated history p3; plough marks, evidence of this period found during dig on Castle Green [Carlisle Millennium Project; excavations in Carlisle 1998 - 2001 p6]

NESTLES

There was a proposal to build a Nestles factory for condensed milk at Wigton in 1928. Nestles was to build a receiving station at Carlisle ‘to which milk will be consigned until the Wigton factory is ready for work’. The Carlisle Journal announced in August 1928 that a start had been made at Carlisle. The site is in that part of the Maryport and Carlisle Goods Yard known as the Bog Sidings, entered from Crown Street and Currock Road. The Journal further announced that negotiations have been opened by Nestles for a fast express train to run from Carlisle to London daily with a supply of milk. First the milk was pasteurised at the Carlisle depot. The Wigton factory came to nothing but plans for a Nestles plant at Dalston were approved in 1958 and the move from Carlisle was made in May 1962.This meant an end to milk being sent from Carlisle to London. [CN 02.03.2007]

NETS Kingstown

Truck parts distributor

CN 18.03.1988 pp16-17 Ad

NEVIN’S FRUIT SHOP Botchergate

CN 04.05.1979 p21 Closure

NEVIN, William Cordwainer, aged 54, employing 5 journeymen and 1 apprentice, born Scotland, home address Johns Place [1861 census]

NEW AIR see AIRPORT; CARLISLE

NEW BANK LANE English Street to Blackfriars Street; So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city; closed 1935

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p39 Name from New Bank established in 1803 in English Street. It had been newly laid out in the 14th century to give access to the Blackfriars Convent. Originally the lane was named after the Bladesmith family through whose land the lane was cut, but over the years it has had various names including Theatre Lane. 1829 first police station, with attached fire engine station, was built in the lane

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 38 English Street to 9 Blackfriars Street

City Minutes 1902-03 p518 Permission for bridge over lane to connect business

City Minutes 1934-5 p 867 Application to stop up lane

CN 08.04.1960 p12 CN 20.08.1971 p14

CN 07.12.1990 p4 Controversy over loss of a lane

NEW BREWERY COMPANY Brewery Row, Shaddongate. New Brewery established 1774; State Management stopped brewing here in 1917; buildings demolished in 1973/ 4

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894-1916, 2004, pp13-16

01.09.1834 William Ross of New Brewery died [Holy Trinity Memorials no 41], aged 77. This stone still erect in Holy Trinity churchyard [2010]

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1880 Ad pxvii ; established 1774

CD 1884-85 Ad p256

CD 1905-06 Ad p87

CD 1902-03 Ad p225

CD 1907-08 Ad p124

CD 1910-11 Ad p125

CD 1913-14 Ad p117

NEW CARLISLE CARRIAGE CO.LTD Victoria Mews, Lonsdale Street

Posting masters and carting contractors

CD 1913-14 Ad p20

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY see RAILWAYS; NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY

NEWCASTLE BUILDING SOCIETY. Located under Crown and Mitre on English Street, now [2023] in former Wheatley’s the jewellers building on English Street

CN 24.09.1993 p8 Ad

NEWCASTLE STREET, Caldewgate; other local street names in this area, Hawick St, Silloth St; in local directories from 1880 and in 1879 John William Laing born at no 21

Carlisle an illustrated history p73 photo of no 21 Newcastle Street

NEW CHINTZ SHOP Bridge Street

Soft furnishings

CD 1952 Ad p88

NEW COMMERCIAL INN 78 English Street [two doors south of coffee house house]; in local directories from 1850 to 1852

Ward’s North of England Directory 1851 p12 Ad; Elizabeth Harker

NEWFIELD Stanwix

CN 28.08.1998 p18 Aerial view

NEWFIELD GRANGE, Kingstown; so named on 1901 census

George Graham Hetherington, Newfield Grange, died 13.12.1901 [SMI 255/1]

01.05.1906 Thomas Henry Threlkeld died at Newfield Grange. Memorial inscription in Kirkoswald churchyard

D Perriam Stanwix p85 Built by Charles Armstrong as his own house. No sooner had he completed the house than he went bankrupt. Bought by George Graham Hetherington, auctioneer. Sold in September 1902 to JJ Forster of Messrs Saul, solicitors for £1,000

CJ 18.03.1887 Modern mansion recently built by Mr Armstrong for sale

CJ 15.03.1918 Will of John Black of Newfield Grange

1934 Directory George L Armstrong ‘Newfield Grange’

10.05.1961 application for change of use from agricultural dwelling to house with accommodation for overnight travellers and drivers, approved 28.07.1961

East Cumberland Gazette 14.07.2005 Newfield Grange Motel could be demolished to make way for 30 apartments

CN 21.11.2008 Feature on new development

CN 14.08.2009 p70 Kingstown development

NEWFIELD HEAD., Kingstown

D Perriam Stanwix p85 Illustration of the farm with passing track which was formerly the Roman road running from Stanwix fort to Netherby and Birrens. Newfield was mentioned in a 1567 document. In the parish registers for 20.10.1707 baptism of Margaret Holyday, daughter of John, late of Newfield. Also a baptism of 26.05.1754 for Grace, daughter of Peter Heslop of Newfield Head

NEW GRAPES LANE So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city

1880 Directory 79 Scotch Street to 38 Lowther Street

1901 census; 18 people living in lane in 4 households; occupations include skinner’s labourer, butcher’s errand boy, charwoman, butcher, ostler, meat canvasser, dressmaker’s apprentice, fish dealer, bill poster, housekeeper

1934 Directory Scotch Street

NEW INN Backhouse Walk/ English Damside; in local directories from 1847 to 1902-03; James Slee, innkeeper and bookbinder, born Armathwaite, aged 40 [1861 census]; Mary McCourt, innkeeper, born Ireland [1901 census]

NEWLAITHES AVENUE Newlaithes Hall was on this site; avenue on voters list from 1959

NEWLAITHES HALL So named Neulathes in 1435; name means ‘new barns’

; Edward son of Edward and Ann Bowman died Newlaithes Hall 23.06.1790 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 286]

CWAAS vol 90, 1990

CP 14.09.1816 p2a Newlaithes Hall for sale; Mr Bowman present tenant

Mannix and Whellan 1847 Directory - William Brown, farmer

1851 census William Brown, aged 63, Farmer

1861 census William Brown, 73, farmer of 200 acres, born Orton

21.01.1864 William Brown of Newlaithes Hall died [Monumental Inscription 17/26]

Bulmer 1901 Directory - Lowther Brown, farmer

15.10.1916 Lowther Brown of Newlaithes Hall died [Monumental Inscription 17/26]

City Council Minutes 1957/58 Demolished

1918 Electoral Register Mary Ann, Nichol and William Brown and George Richardson

CN 24.02.1989 p4 Old hall was popular place for outings

CN 09.08.1996 p10 (illus) Farm that became city’s first council estate

NEWLAITHES INFANT SCHOOL Opened September 1965

CN 07.10.1966 p24

CJ 01.10.1965 pp18,23 (illus) Opening

CN 12.04.1991 p5 Parents win school fight

CN 31.12.1992 p7 Piloting way into Europe

CN 27.02.2015 p2 School celebrates 50 years

NEWLAITHES JUNIOR SCHOOL

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p85 1994 photo of winning gymnastics team

CN 08.03.2013 p3 Celebrates 50 years

NEWMAN SCHOOL see CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL

NEWMARKET ROAD

City Minutes 30.03.1893 item 400 Approval for laying out new road

NEWMARKET TERRACE

City Minutes 30.03.1893 item 400 Approval for laying out new street

NEW MILL

1474 Deed records three city mills; Borough Mill, New Mill and Castle Mill [Summerson, Medieval Carlisle p540]

NEWSBOYS WALK

CN 23.07.1971 p14 In 1903

NEWSPAPERS

See also; Borders on Sunday; Carlisle Examiner; Carlisle Journal; Carlisle Patriot; Citizen; Cumberland News; Evening News and Star

CAIH p90

Newsplan 1A 072

CN 01.09.1951 p5 CN 08.09.1951 p5

CN 22.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s

ENS 01.12.1977 p8 (illus) Sir John Burgess on newspapers

CN 26.01.1990 p4 Celebrating birth of city chronicle

CN 01.06.1990 p4 First century paper

CN 07.12.1990 p3 Jobs lost at papers

CN 29.09.1995 p1 Paper folds after 5 issues (Borders on Sunday)

CN 18.10.1996 p5 (illus) Read all about it - we produce a special free newspaper

CN 03.09.1999 p2 Cumberland News group merger 2 city companies

CN 04.02.2000 p12 When Thackeray refused a Carlisle editorship

NEWS ROOMS see UNION NEWS ROOM; COMMERCIAL NEWSROOM

NEWSVENDOR’S BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT INSTITUTION – ‘OLD BEN’

CJ 12.10.1948 p3 Revived

NEWTOWN

1746 So named on Smith’s map of the countries adjacent to Carlisle

Population in 1780 16 houses, 19 families, 40 men, 52 women The Life of John Heysham by Henry Lonsdale p34;

CPacquet 22.08.1780 p1 Ad for lease of farm at Newtown, one mile west of city

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

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

NEWTOWN HOUSE Built 1840s; Newtown Road; Thomas William Carr lived here and his son William Theodore Carr built an observatory in the garden [The Topper Off, March 1931, p2]; Mary Carr, living on own means, aged 38, born Scotland [1901 census] 1924 Carlisle Directory Mrs MD Carr. No 241 Newtown Road; house boarded up at August 2023

NEWTOWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

CN 29.10.1971 p12

NEWTOWN LAKE/ POND; just west of Coledale Hall Farm

CP 11.05.1877 p7a Objections to draining of Newtown Lake

CN 04.02.2011 p30 Draining carried out in 1881; replaced by troughs

NEWTOWN PHARMACY Newtown Road

CN 14.07.1995 p6 Ad

NEWTOWN PLACE, Cobden Street to Newtown [1880 Directory]

So marked on Asquith’s map of 1853

NEWTOWN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION HALL

CJ 27.10.1911 Opened 26.10.1911

NEWTOWN ROAD

See also Ash House

175 Years of Carlisle p20 view circa 1900 looking west

175 Years of Carlisle p61 view circa 1920 to Coledale Hall in distance

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; views 56 and 57 Newtown Road

City Minutes 1900-01 p41 Road from Newtown to Ashley St named Newtown Road

City Minutes 1934/5 p955 Nos, 65 - 83 unfit for human habitation

CN 30.09.1994 p18 Down your lane

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p170 1997 photo of snow covered road

CN 08.05.1998 p7 Aerial view

NEWTOWN SCHOOL Erected 1915

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p53 1928 kids

City Minutes 1913-14 p524 Approval for infants school

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

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

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

CJ 29.04.1919 p5 Committee urge military authorities to hand over schools used by them as hospital and return to education as soon as possible

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

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p78 1955 class photo

CN 19.03.1993 p13 School staff attacked

CN 28.09.2001 p7 New sports and arts centre backed by councillors

CN 31.05.2002 p3 £450,000 grant for new sports and arts facility

CN 05.12.2003 p5 Added value performance boost school up league

CN 09.09.2011 p3 Fiona Manual new head. Promises fresh start after inspector’s criticism

NEW YEAR

CN 30.12.1999 p7 Ballad of Blackwell Merry Neet

NICHOL, Anthony Botchergate, Chemist

M.Edwards Our City Our People p 24 Short mention circa 1900

NICHOL J and J, Willowholme

CN 21.01.2005 p 12 Feature on engineering business devastated by flood

NICHOL, Robert Botchergate

Ironmongers

CD 1893-94 Ad p48

NICHOL, ARMSTRONG, LOWE

CN 15.05.1992 p7 Firm takes a top award

NICHOLAS, Charles Hooper Fishing tackle manufacturer, aged 39, employing 1 apprentice, home address Castle St, born Lambeth [1851 census]

CJ 25.03.1853 p1 Martha Nicholas, fishing tackle maker, 58 Castle Street. Martha Nicholas flys are well known

NICHOLSON, A Lawson Street, Gawthorpes Lane

French polisher

CD 1966-68 Ad p267

NICHOLSON, Ben Kingmoor Road

CN 30.03.2007 p3 Sudden closure after 4 years trading.

NICHOLSON, JAS Devonshire Street

Emigration and general shipping office

CD 1880 Ad pxviii

NICHOLSON, Joseph Wilson Court, Castle Street

Stock broker

CD 1880 Ad pxix

NICHOLSON, T and Co

Wine and spirit stores

CD 1893-94 Ad p212

NICHOLSON, William 1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p137 jeweller, Market Place; Jeweller of this city died 14.03.1813; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard

NICHOLSON and CARTNER Castle St; English St; East Tower Street, New Market Arcade

Firm began as James Nicholson and Sons in Annetwell Street and moved to East Tower Street advertising in 1873 that they sold views of Carlisle and neighbourhood as ‘stationers, photographers and fancy dealers’. James Nicholson died in the late 1880s and some time before this date Cartner became a partner. Move to the Market Arcade in 1893. In 1896 Nicholson and Cartner were at 19 Scotch Street. With financial difficulties encountered by J Nicholson, trustees RB Nicholson and Mrs Cartner took the lease of the Market Arcade. The business was saved and in 1906 a move was made to Castle Street. List of new postcards appeared in the Carlisle Patriot in 1908 and in 1912 the firm moved to English Street beside the Cumberland News offices. In 1920 the firm had moved to the corner of Highland Laddie Lane opposite the Silver Grill. The head of the firm Robert Beattie Nicholson died in 1937

Glass, china and earthenware, postcards

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p32; photo of English St shop exterior

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p33 Castle St shop

CD 1893-94 Ad p96

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p42, ad 8, 10 and 12 East Tower Street and New Market Arcade

CD 1902-03 Ad page facing 1

CD 1905-06 Ad p262

CD 1907-08 Ad p262

CP 31.01 1908 Messrs Nicholson and Cartner have just issued a picture postcard bearing an admirable coloured view of Scaleby Castle

CP 19.06.1908 p5 Nicholson and Cartner have published 2 sets of different phases of the Border City Bowling Tournament with well defined photos. Other series Cumberland Foxhounds, Silloth Harbour by moonlight

NICHOLSON and Co Botchergate; bell at Crosby on Eden church is inscribed ‘N&Co Carlisle 1813’ [CWAAS OS Vol 7 p227]

Iron and brass founders in 19th century

1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p138 iron and brass founders, Botchergate

1811 Jollie p 82 Botchergate iron foundry

CN 23.12.1977 p4

NICHOLSON and COULTHARD, Crosby Street; Jewellers

CN 04.05.2007 p20 Launched in 1970 by Alec Coulthard and William Nicholson

NICHOLSON and RIDLEY Botchergate

Chemists

CD 1952 Ad p78

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p232

CD 1955-56 Ad p234

NICHOLSON AND SKELTON Annetwell Street, Lowther Street; partnership dissolved 20.01.1905

Spirit merchant

CN 29.04.1960 p12 (illus) CN 19.01.1973 p6 (illus)

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, p79

NICHOLSONS LANE, Caldewgate

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

NICHOLSON STREET Blackwell; in directories from 1880

1924 Directory lists properties 2-10

NICOLL, A Scotch Street

Hatter and hosier

CD 1902-03 Ad p18

CD 1905-06 Ad p88

NICOLSON, Bishop William - Charity Fund

CN 03.01.1948 p5 CN 24.01.1948 p3 CN 31.01.1948 p5 CN 20.03.1948 p5

NIGHTCLUBS

See also ; BUSKERS; COSMO; PAGODA; FREEDOM; MOOD; ONE-O-ONE CLUB; WILD VELVET CLUB; XS

CN 10.12.1989 p1 Club man Ewbank Rumours takeover

CN 15.12.1989 p10 Act quicker on rowdies

CN 07.10.1994 p12 Fury over nightclub plan

CN 14.10.1994 p13 Club plans dropped

CN 29.12.1995 p7 Bouncers slip off old image

CN 01.03.1996 p1 Neighbours braced for clash of nightclubs

ENS 07.08.1996 p1 Road rage bouncer keeps job

CN 30.08.1996 pp1,10 Clubland bouncers go back to school

CN 31.01.1997 p14 £2m nightclub plan

CN 30.05.1997 pp1,10 Night spots win back licenses

CN 12.12.1997 p4 Sixty city bouncers graduate

CN 09.01.1998 p15 (illus) City clubwatch plan gets pat on back

CN 29.05.1998 p1 Buskers boss plans classy new night club

CN 20.08.1999 p4 Quiet as ban makes its debut

CN 17.12.1999 p12 Can night life begin at 40?

CN 16.02.2001 p5 Carlisle’s Sunday dancing regulations scrapped

CN 01.06.2001 p5 New nightclub planned for Botchergate

CN 17.08.2001 p3 ML Sports Bar opens with lap dancing

CN 23.08.2002 p7 Another nightclub planned for Botchergate

CN 25.07.2003 p3 Sex club closure call - Wild Velvet Club

CN 21.11.2003 p1 Ron Woods and Ged Crooks plan two new night clubs

CN 13.02.2004 p1 Carlisle bouncer cleared of assault outside nightclub

CN 25.06.2004 p13 Letter; too many nightclubs in city

CN 02.07.2004 p13 Letter concerning criminal past of bouncers

NIGHTINGALL ACRE

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]

NIVEN, Thomas Ltd Murrell Hill Sawmills; Lamplugh Street

Wood products manufacturer

D Perriam Denton Holme p56 In the 1870s the brickworks here was converted to a sawmill and on 01.07.1891 this was let to Thomas Niven. This firm continued to trade until 26.10.2001. The site was cleared for the Cumberland News car park

20.12.1916 Mill totally destroyed by fire

15.11.1919 Fire causes £600 worth of damage

CN 17.09.1938 p19 Ad

CD 1952 Ad p387

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p279

CD 1966-68 Ad p301

NIXON, Arthur S. Lowther Street

Contract work

CD 1966-68 Ad p257

NIXON, Jas B. Fisher St

Ladies and gents outfitters

CD 1927 Ad p181

NIXON, Thomas Coachmaker, aged 56, employing 8 men, home address West Tower St, born Grinsdale [1851 census]

CP31.12.1891 Death of W.Proud who took over this business some 40 years ago; Mr Nixon took it over from Mr Milburn, so nearly 100 years old

NIXON, Thomas J. Warwick Road

Pianoforte showrooms

Leading Trader of the City Ad p55 A616

NIXON, William Bricklayer, died 04.06.1781 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

NIXON, William W.Nixon, died 13.01.1940, set up business in 1912 in Tait Street as corn merchant and grocer

NIXON AND STRONG 56 Castle Street

1882 Porters Directory Ad p84 Fishing tackle manufacturers

NIXON ENGINEERING Kingstown

CN 24.10.1997 p4 (illus) Ten years old and still going strong

NIXONS COURT, 113 Botchergate [1880 Directory]

NIXON’S LANE, Botchergate Noted on 1871 census; in voters list to 1930

City Minutes 1928-9 p788 4 houses unfit for human habitation

NIXON’S PLACE, Milbourne Crescent [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 16 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 16-17 Milbourne Crescent

NIXSON, Paul Architect and owner of marble works; 1811 Directory p xvii Paul Nixon marble cutter and stone mason, Castle Street; 1812 - 15 built Eden Bridges to design of Robert Smirke; 1823 built 26,28,30 Castle St; marble works in Finkle Street [illustrated in Carlisle an illustrated history p51, plus portrait of Nixson] which incorporated a purpose built exhibition room, built also 1823, where 8 annual art exhibitions were held;

1829 Directory p166 Paul Nixon, Finkle St, Leith Walks, Edinburgh and Osnaburg Place, New Road, London, marble mills at Stonehouse, Dent, Yorkshire;

1834 Pigot’s Directory, Nixson and Denton, builders, Academy Place, Finkle St. Sometime partner with Paul Nixson, Mr Denton was a Carlisle builder; constructed the two viaducts at Wetheral on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. He also built the road bridge at Warwick which opened in January 1835, the foundation stone having being laid in April 1833. See page 58 Bill Fawcett History of the Newcastle and Carlisle railway 1824 - 1870. [2008]

CP 05.07.1823 Houses now in the course of erection by Paul Nixson

1829 Directory Nixon and Denton, builders Finkle Street

1828-30 Builder for Rickman’s Holy Trinity Church, Carlisle

Jacksons Oxford Journal 10.12.1836 p4 Bankruptcy of William Smith Denton, Carlisle builder

Newcastle Courant 23.08.1839 p3a Denton Marble Mill and Quarries at Dent in Yorkshire for sale. Marble mills lately carried on by William Smith Denton, bankrupt

January 7th 1850 Nixson, living in retirement, died at Dent. There is a memorial stone to him in Cowgill Church [CN 20.07.2012 p32 for illus of stone]

NOBLE, AH Came to Carlisle in 1924 and set up in 1926 Aerated Water Works on East Dale Street, these premises becoming Batey and Sons by 1940 after Noble’s bankruptcy in 1939

NOBLE, John Draper and tailor, aged 59, employing 20 men, home address 17 Scotch St, born Preston [1851 census]

NOBLE, John M Boot and shoe manufacturer, aged 42, employing 8 men, home address Castle St, born Carlisle [1851 census]

NOBLE, Liddy Denton Street

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p22 Description of shop

NODDER, Ikie Denton Street

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen p20 Description of ironmongers shop in 1930s

NOOK STREET

City Minutes 1891-92 p 306 Approval for new street

City Minutes 1898/99 p346 Approval for 16 houses

NORBROOK LABORATORIES

CN 22.12.2000 p12 Dr Haughey’s company buys former Scotia drugs lab

NORFOLK ROAD So named in the 1880 Carlisle Directory

CP 07.02.1896 p1a The ‘Laurels’ Norfolk Rd for sale occupied by Mr Tweedy, the owner. Erected a few years ago by late Mr William Gosling

The famous artist John Bratby [see DNB] lived at 12 Norfolk Road circa 1955/56. He painted ‘courtyard with washing’ of this house also an interior view showing his wife and child and local councillor painted for the Seasons Exhibition at the Tate. The original is now in Glasgow Museum and reproduced in D.Perriam Denton Holme p86

The Royal Observer Corps used a house on Norfolk Road as their HQ, which had been commandeered in World War Two, but with a move to a new site in 1963 this was surplus to the Air Ministry’s requirements and is now [2020] the Laurels’, a residential care home

NORFOLK STREET So named on the 1865 Ordnance Survey map; Laid out for the Cumberland Co-operative Benefit Building Society in 1853; northern county names in this area [CRO CA/E 4 2107]; EWS [Emergency Water Supply] painted in large yellow letters on wall beside mill race date from WWII and were to direct fire fighters to emergency water

Perriam Denton Holme p36 Plan of the estate which shows this street

NORFOLK TERRACE, off Norfolk Street

1924 Directory lists 8 properties here

NORMAN, William New Market

Butcher

CD 1952 Ad p162

CD 1955-56 Ad p232

NORMAN’S PLACE, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 148 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 1146-148 Milbourne Street

NORMAN STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL Formally opened 20.10.1908; nearly all the children attending St John’s Infant School entered the new school and the Head Teacher and three of his assistants were entered upon the staff of Norman Street School [City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p51 1BC 370 p51]

CN 23.10.1908 p6 Opening

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

CJ 24.06.1938 p5 Allotment holders to receive notice

City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p56 photo of Norman Street School Hall 1BC 370

CN 23.09.1988 p6 Classrooms closure a strain on all

CN 23.07.1993 p13 A good report for city school

CN 05.12.1997 p7 Adopted by Woolworths – that’s the wonder of Norman St

CN 10.09.1999 p19 (illus) Ad

NORMANDY VETERANS see WORLD WAR TWO

NORTHAMPTON BOOT CO Botchergate, Annetwell St, Irishgate, Castle St; Wigton Road

Boot makers

CD 1907-08 Ad p104

CD 1920 Ad p164

CD 1955-56 Ad p225

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY INN Newtown Road; in local directories from 1869 when it was called the Pedestrian Arms; 1876 to 1920 directories refer to it as North British Railway Inn; the 1921 directory refers to it as ‘The Pedestrians’, the name it retains. Building demolished some years ago and site remains vacant [2023]

1901 census; James Telford, innkeeper, aged 29, bn Carlisle

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p122

CIC p47 photo taken in about 1900

CN 23.08.1991 p4 (illus)

NORTH CUMBERLAND REFORMER CO LTD West Tower Street

Newspaper publisher

CD 1893-94 Ad p92

NORTH CUMBRIA ACUTE HOSPITAL NHS TRUST Formed April 2001

CN 21.07.2000 p25 Trust merger plans to form new NCAT

CN 09.02.2001 p3 Merger means top staff will have to apply for jobs

CN 06.04.2001 p7 Top job is re-advertised

CN 04.05.2001 p15 Letters concerning site of HQ of Trust

CN 18.05.2001 p1 Accusation from consultants over siting HQ in West Cumberland

CN 18.05.2001 p12 Opinion on HQ siting; letters concerning HQ siting p13

CN 25.05.2001 p1 70 Consultants tell health chief quit politics or new job

CN 25.05.2001 p13 Letters concerning above dispute

CN 01.06.2001 p3 New HQ - Consultants; we won’t be gagged; letters p13

CN 08.06.2001 p13 Letter from Doctor at Infirmary to doctor in West Cumbria

CN 15.06.2001 p2 Consultants make formal complaint against chairman of trust

CN 01.11.2002 p5 Delay in issuing hearing aids; Trust faces £2m debt

CN 14.02.2003 p1 Trust chief executive ‘on leave’ as report critical of management

CN 21.02.2003 pp1-2 Chief executive quits; management face no confidence vote CN 28.02.2003 p1 Report published on management of North Cumbria’s hospitals

CN 07.03.2003 pp1,2 Row over report and position of chairwoman, Mrs Canon

CN 14.03.2003 p1 Chairwoman resigns; opinion p 12

CN 18.03.2005 p1 Landmark pay challenge compensates 1,500 women

NORTH CUMBRIA BUSINESS CLUB

CN 31.05.1991 p23 Business club bids to expand

NORTH CUMBRIA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT SCHEME

CN 28.02.2003 p17 Scheme expands into Allerdale area

NORTH CUMBRIA HEALTH AUTHORITY

CN 14.09.2001 p8 North Cumbria Health Authority could be abolished

CN 05.04.2002 p9 Ceases 31.03; replaced by Cumbria & Lancashire Strategic H.A.

NORTH CUMBRIA TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE see HARRABY SECONDARY SCHOOL; TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

NORTHDALE PROPERTIES

CN 07.12.1990 p12 Ad

NORTHERN BUSINESS SYSTEMS London Road

CN 25.03.1988 p10 Ad

NORTHERN BUTCHERY STORES Scotch Street; Botchergate

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p83

CD 1955-56 Ad p83

CD 1961-62 Ad p262

CD 1966-68 Ad p258

NORTHERN COUNTIES BUILDING SOCIETY Devonshire Street

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p3

CD 1955-56 Ad p230

CD 1961-62 Ad p261

ENS 15.11.1962 Supplement - opening

NORTHERN DAIRY CENTRE

CN 14.12.1990 p1 Milk firm to deliver 12 new jobs

CN 01.02.1991 p8 It’s the speedy parlour made service

CN 24.06.1994 p21 Ad

NORTHERN DAIRY SHORTHORN BREEDER’S SOCIETY

CN 10.05.1947 p7 Carlisle branch formed

NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT ROUTE

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

NORTHERN FURNISHING CO Victoria Viaduct, English Street

CD 1952 Ad p321

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p249

CD 1955-56 Ad p252

NORTHERN GAS BOARD

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