Carlisle Encyclopaedia

Racecourse - Blackwell Moved from the Swifts to Blackwell where opened 28.06.1904

See also Racecourse-Swifts; Racing; Kingmoor Races; Markets -Sunday

CIC 2 p41 photo of grandstand circa 1910

CJ 24.06.1921 p5

CP 23.05.1902 p5 Plans for the new stand; drawing and description

CN 29.06.1929 p13 (illus) Tote built

CJ 13.07.1934 p5 Cumberland and Carlisle

CN 13.05.1960 p6 (illus) Alterations to racecourse

CN 02.03.1961 p1 (illus) Alterations to racecourse

CN 28.07.1961 p1 Alterations to racecourse

CN 29.09.1961 p1 (illus) Alterations to racecourse

ENS 18.01.1964 p1 Evening racing

CN 24.01.1964 p5 Night racing

ENS 20.02.1964 p1 Stalls at Blackhall

CN 22.05.1964 p11 (illus) New grandstand

ENS 01.07.1964 Supplement

CN 25.06.1965 p5 New grandstand

CJ 10.09.1965 p4 New grandstand

CN 18.03.1966 p30 Improvements

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p94 demolition of Tote buildings photo

CN 12.05.1972 p1 Starting stalls used for the first time

CN 28.06.1974 p18 (illus) First ladies race

CN 12.07.1974 p25 (illus) First ladies race

CN 30.01.1976 p6 (illus) Swifts

CN 13.05.1977 p5 Extension

CN 02.02.1979 p1 As leisure centre

CN 09.03.1979 p9 As leisure centre

CN 04.05.1979 p5 As leisure centre

CN 17.08.1990 p4 Preparing for war in city

CN 25.10.1991 p1 Racecourse rides into Sunday row

CN 01.11.1991 p14 Racecourse boss blasts car boot critics

Cumbria September 1993 p57

CN 29.04.1994 p10 Racing to ring the Carlisle bell

Cumbria Life May/June 1996 no 46 pp8-9 2A 9

Cumbria Life Sept/Oct 1998 no 60 pp40-41 2A 9

Cumbria Life August 1999 Supplement 2 A9

CN 10.09.1999 p24 Ad

CN 18.02.2000 p2 Race grandstand to reopen

CN 21.04.2000 p1 Under starters orders for Easter

CN 16.06.2000 p26 First Sunday race on18th June

CN 19.01.2001 p22 (illus) New manager Andrew Tulloch interviewed

CN 27.04.2001 p26 Councillors back new £3.5m grandstand

CN 25.05.2001 p28 Seventh meeting cancelled because of foot and mouth

CN 15.06.2001 p25 Carlisle Bell switched to Thirsk; Cumberland Plate to Gosforth

CN 10.08.2001 p24 £250,000 cost of foot and mouth to race course.

CN 17.08.2001 p26 Work set to start on new stand; demolition of old stand

CN 28.09.2001 p28 (illus) Demolition of historic grandstand; racing restarts 12/10

CN 12.10.2001 p12 Racing resumes for first time since 19th February

CN 17.05.2002 p29 £3.5m stand on schedule; photo. Named Jubilee Stand

CN 16.08.2002 p14 (illus) Grandstand almost ready; to open 26th October

CN 11.10.2002 p26 Race goers get first glimpse of new stand

CN 01.11.2002 p9 £3.5m grandstand

CN 18.10.2002 p12 Feature on new stand

CN 06.06.2003 p22 New manager John Baker

CN 01.08.2003 p31 Interview with manager John Baker

CN 10.10.2003 p23 £2.5m to upgrade racecourse

CN 23.01.2004 p23 Plan for new stables; other developments

CN 09.07.2004 p13 Letter critical of facilities and prices, toilets; p28 response

CN 07.01.2005 p2 Closure warning unless new stables built; land for housing

CN 10.11.2006 p25 £1.6m stables development opened 6 weeks ago wins praise

CN 15.10.2010 p23 Feature on John Baker, Managing Director who is leaving

CN 30.09.2011 p3 Hurdle course named after groundsman Tony Wootten

CN 12.10.2012 p31 Feature on James Westoll, Racecourse chairman

 

RACECOURSE - SWIFTS Horse racing held on Swifts since mid 16th century; 1612 reference to running of horses (VCH2 p442); Smith’s 1746 map shows the Swift’s course; course moved to Blackwell which opened 28.06.1904

See also Racecourse-Blackwell; Racing; Kingmoor Races; Turf Inn

CAIH p28 The Swifts

CN 14.02.1975 p6 CN 30.01.1976 p6 (illus)

Newcastle Courant 28.01.1737 p4b Advert for Carlisle races on Swifts

Newcastle Courant 12.01.1739 p4 Advert for Carlisle races on Swifts

CPacquet 01.07.1777 p1b Carlisle Races on 13th August

CP 15.09.1821 p1a Advert for Carlisle races on 27th September

CP 29.09.1827 p3 Report on Carlisle Races

CP 27.09.1828 p3 Report on Carlisle Races

CP 26.09.1829 p3 Report on Carlisle Races

CJ 27.06.1840 Grandstand, now Turf Inn, almost completed

CP 27.06.1840 p2a New Grand Stand to be open during race week

CJ 08.07.1921 At Swifts

CN 30.01.1976 p6 (illus) Swifts

CN 29.04.1994 p10 Racing to ring the Carlisle Bell

CN 06.01.1990 Supplement 175 years pxv When horses raced by Eden’s waters

 

RACE FOR LIFE Money raiser for female cancer research

CN 13.07.2001 p3 Fourth year in Carlisle

CN 20.07.2001 p6 (illus) Report on Sundays race; 1,556 take part

CN 19.07.2002 pp3,17 Report on race of 2,200; letter p 13

CN 18.07.2003 p9 2,733 in Race for Life at Sheepmount

CN 09.07.2004 p 17 Report on last Sunday’s race

 

RACING

See Racecourse-Blackwell; Racecourse-Swifts; Kingmoor Races

1761 Jockey, W. Smith of Coverham, Yorks., buried in city CWAAS OS Vol 2 p349

CPacquet 13.06.1780 p3 Ad for Carlisle races on 3rd July

CPacquet 04.06.1782 p3 Ad for Carlisle races on 8th July

CP 04.09.1819 p1a Ad for 1819 races

Carlisle Examiner 09.07.1859 p2c,d Carlisle Race Week

CP 09.07.1880 p7a,b Reports and winners (Cumberland Plate; Victor Emmanuel)

CJ 24.06.1921 p5 Race Week

CJ 28.06.1921 p4 Race week

CJ 01.07.1921 p10 List of Cumberland Plate Winners 1842 - 1921

CJ 02.07.1937 p9 History of the races

CJ 29.06.1943 p2 Fire worship; Race Week

CN 01.04.1950 p4 Lady’s Plate 1726

CN 01.04.1950 p4 Illustration of racing prize won in 1726

CN 08.04.1950 p5 Illustration of racing prize won in 1726

CN 15.04.1950 p4 (illus) List of entries for race in 1722

Topper Off Spring 1960

CN 24.06.1960 p10 (illus) In 1814 - handbill

CJ 26.05.1967 pp11, 24 (illus) Lonsdale ‘Silver ring’

CN 19.07.1968 p12 Racing bell

CN 15.06.1973 p1 Crown and Mitre Christmas Handicap

CN 14.02.1975 p6 Stanwix Handicap

CN 15.12.1989 p4 Sporting memories of city eating house

Cumbria September 1993 p57 A day at the races

CN 29.04.1994 p10 Racing to ring the Carlisle Bell

 

RACING BELLS Two Elizabethan racing bells, now in Tullie House, presented to winners, for illustration see Carlisle an illustrated history p28; Round Carlisle Cross, 2nd Series p152; one of the Bells dated ‘1599 HBMC’, these being the initials of Henry Baines, Mayor of Carlisle in 1599, the other has the poem ‘The sweftes horse thes bel to tak for mi lade Daker sake’

Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle; p277 extract from deeds of 21.04.1619

CWAAS OS Vol 12 pp 192-3 iIlustration of bells;

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House p18 Discussion of who Lady Dacre was. Suggestion it was Lady Jane Dacre of Whitehall, Carlisle, who died in 1575.

Victoria County History Vol 2 1905 p441

CP 25.10.1823 Rediscovery of Racing Bells

CN 19.07.1968 p12 Racing bell

CN 29.04.1994 p10 Racing to ring the Carlisle Bell

CN 03.02.2012 p32 Denis Perriam article. In 1949 the Clark of the course at Carlisle racecourse wrote that ‘I have obtained leave to have [the Lady Dacre bell] copied and since 1922 a replica has been run for every year’, the race being known as the ‘Carlisle Bell’.

CN 22.06.2012 p8 ‘World’s oldest known sporting trophies, a fact that he has been publicly verified by the Racing Post’. Replicas of the bells will be given to the winner of the race

 

RACISM

CN 16.06.2000 p13 Racist claims against Carlisle Sword, Morris and Clog Dancers

CN 25.01.2002 p3 3 on charges following racist attack at nightclub

CN 26.07.2002 p1 Chinese student in racist attack by 3 Carlisle youths

CN 28.11.2003 p3 Racism and intolerance blights county says Carlisle police chief

CN 05.12.2003 p13 Letter; Carlisle worst city for prejudice; musical taste, hair....

CN 05.03.2004 p1 Victims of race abuse in bars, clubs and streets

CN 28.05.2004 p1 British National Party, Nick Griffin, to visit city; p12

CN 01.04.2005 p1 Racist graffiti on two takeaways in city

CN 13.05.2005 p5 Only black probation officer in north Cumbria resigns after jibes

CN 13.05.2005 p6 Mother alleges racial abuse and bullying takes child from school

CN 20.05.2005 p Relief at end of 3 year ordeal; Kevin Mcknight jailed

CN 15.07.2005 p13 Racist abuse following London bombings; letter

CN 05.08.2005 p2 Community unites after race attacks following bombings

CN 12.08.2005 p1 Surge in race crime since bombings

CN 12.08.2005 pp12 Feature on Bangladesh businessman

CN 02.09.2005 p13 Letter concerning racist graffiti

 

RAC RALLY

CN 27.11.1987 p16 City bid to host rally

 

RADICAL REFORMERS

See also Chartists

CWAAS Vol 78 1978 The trade union and radical activities of the Carlisle handloom weaves

CAIH p49 Radicals; illustration of 1819 banner

CJ 25.09.1819 Radicals training and doing manoeuvres

CP 25.09.1819 p2f Fine flag made in preparation for meeting

CP 02.10.1819 p3a Meeting to take place at Coal Fell Hill

CP 09.10.1819 p2e Ad Mayor begs non-attendance at proposed meeting

CP 09.10.1819 p2f Radicals meeting; flags ready

CP 16.10.1819 p4 a-d Carlisle Radical reform Meeting; first meeting

CP 06.11.1819 p3a, p4 a-d Second meeting of Carlisle Radicals held

CP 18.12.1819 p2a Action against illegal training of persons with arms

CP 18.12.1819 p3d Swearing in of special constables; increase in cavalry in city

CJ 25.08.1838 Carlisle Radical Assn formed

CN 04.01.1985 p4 History of Carlisle Radical reformers

CN 11.01.1985 p4 History of Carlisle Radical reformers

 

RADIO

See also CFM

CN 29.10.1949 p5 Illustration of first wireless installed in Carlisle

ENS 24.08.1960 Supplement p10 May have its own station in 5 years

CN 06.03.1998 p3 Raffles

CN 19.11.1999 p3 Trinity radio station on air

 

RADIO CARLISLE/ RADIO CUMBRIA Station launched in 1973

CN 21.07.1972 p15 CN 20.07.1973 p1 CN 07.09.1973 p7(map)

Carlisle an illustrated history p91 Photos of preparing for station launch/ new HQ

CN 23.11.1973 p16 (illus) Opening

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p176 1975 photo of transmitter

Cumbria September 1977 pp314-316 (illus)

CN 15.06.1979 p1 Cutbacks

CN 21.10.1988 p12 Editorial; a reply by the Beeb

CN 21.10.1988 p25 MP attacks radio changes

CN 30.11.1990 p18 Radio station wins top award

CN 15.03.1991 p23 New home for radio

CN 07.06.1991 p9 BBC new offices

CN 16.10.1992 p25 A new image for county radio

CN 05.02.1993 p25 Countdown to the big switch on

CN 05.03.1993 p12 The voice shouting in unison

CN 05.03.1993 p 14-15 Switching to a bright radio station

CN 12.03.1993 pp9,10 Ad

Cumbria August 1993 p19 A microphone in Borrowdale

CN 24.02.1995 p3 Cash cuts threat to 5 jobs

CN 10.03.1995 p12 Radio jobs axe protest

CN 31.03.1995 p2 Maclean complains to Beeb

CN 15.11.1996 p1 Radio Cumbria to axe top producer

CN 22.11.1996 p1 Bishops back fight to stop BBC jobs axe

CN 22.11.1996 p11 Battle of wavebands

CN 13.12.1996 p1 Broadcasters lose jobs, despite public support

CN 03.01.1997 p4 Radio pair’s last chance

CN 04.04.1997 p2 Axed radio men must compete for a single job

CN 03.04.1998 p6 Ad

Cumbria LIfe Nov/Dec 1998 no 61 pp8-9 2 A9

CN 23.12.1998 p2 (illus) Radio boss denies ‘severe’ cuts claims

CN 08.01.1999 p6 6am religion slot - too early

CN 26.03.1999 p5 Radio output will not suffer

Cumbria Life no 69 pp18-21 2 A9

CN 16.01.2004 p1 Donald Scott sacked; fall in nos of listeners

CN 23.01.2004 p 13 Letters concerning the departure of Donald Scott

CN 30.01.2004 p8 Feature on morning radio show’s 10th anniversary; letter p13

CN 13.08.2004 p6 Roman altar to Goddess of Fortune unveiled at Radio Cumbria

 

RADIO ECHO - HOSPITAL RADIO

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p177 1979 photo of broadcasters

CN 30.04.1993 p13 Hospital DJ’s long service

CN 16.07.1993 p9 Hospital radio is 21

CN 13.08.1993 p25 Fund raising marathon

CN 05.08.1994 p3 Hospital radio outlaws song

CN 08.08.1997 p4 (illus) Hospital radio celebrates 25 years of cheering up patients

CN 15.08.1997 p12 (illus) Radio men reach dizzy heights on both sides of Channel

 

RADIO TAXIS Victoria Viaduct

CD 1966-68 Ad p300

 

RAE AND CO

CP 08.01.1867 p1 Clock and watchmakers opened shop at 15 English St

 

RAE, James Listed in the 1858 Carlisle Directory as photographic artist, Norman Street, Stanwix

James Rae 1825-1890 See D Perriam Stanwix p93. On the 1861 census he was a photographic artist in Dumfries

 

RAFFEL, John One of the first motor taxi proprietors. Allowed to ply for hire in June 1912, the two cabs were B1 and B31. Photo outside the Bowling Green Hotel in Denis Perriam Lowther Street p37

 

RAFFLES So named on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle

CN 08.06.2012 p 34 Denis Perriam brief history of Raffles

 

RAFFLES ESTATE

M.Forster; Hidden Lives pp 85-88 Raffles description of new estate. The Raffles site was purchased in 1926 - ninety-eight acres for ten thousand pounds - and the city architect was told to get as many houses of the non-parlour variety out of it as possible, but nevertheless to make this estate into a community with provision for a park, shops, a church and other kinds of social amenity, The specification that there were to be few parlour type houses had one labour councillor thundering that ‘the working classes are as entitled as everyone else to a parlour.’ Percy Dalton, the city architect, was also enthusiastic about the community brief - he envisaged Raffles as a miniature garden city with the required housing but plenty of green spaces, even apart from the park. The houses were to have front and back gardens and there was to be land set aside for allotments and trees lining some streets. The materials used in the houses would be of a poorer quality to that used on the Longsowerby estate. Very few houses were to have proper bathrooms. To save money, the two-bedroom houses were built with lavatories incorporated into the fabric of each house but in order to reach them the tenant had to go out of the back door and in at a separate lavatory door. Better than having to go to the bottom of the yard, or share a privvy with ten other families as many were still doing in the city, but a ludicrous economy all the same. Wash-houses were built in the same way, part of the house but not reachable from it without going outside. By 1931 91% of the heads of household in Raffles were manual workers. The average rent was 6 shillings a week, paid out of an average wage of £2 3s 2d. the clamour to be put on the Raffles estate was great, not only because of the attractive layout of the estate but also as it was near the main factories in the city - Carr’s, Buck’s, Dixon’s, Pratchitt’s. Page 149 ‘Raffles in the post-Second-World-War period, had become a different place. It was no longer spoken of in garden-city terms but an estate getting rougher and all the time for reasons no one understood. There were some problem families now living on it and some notoriously violent men. A child would come screaming to our back door, worse still, a woman herself, a woman already bleeding from a smack in the mouth, or blow on the nose.’

City Minutes 1926-7 p100 216 houses in progress at Raffles; pp 450, 519, 585, 655

City Minutes 1927-28 p267 132 houses in progress; pp397, 555, 642, 700, 827

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1928 p24 445 houses completed in year

City Minutes 1928-9 p188 approval for 133 houses

City Minutes 1929-30 p297 Contract for 138 houses in hand Raffles/Newtown

City Minutes 1929-30 p752 Tender of J and R Bell for 50 houses accepted

City Minutes 1929-30 p 752 purchase of land adjoining Raffles estate sanctioned

City Minutes 1930-31 p642 930 Corporation houses in Raffles, housing, 2,479 adults and 1,768 under 16s

City Minutes 1933-34 p 339 Provision of Community Centre on estate

25.08.1934 Raffles Community Hall opened; Carlisle The Archive Photos p103

CJ 08.03.1938 p1 Raffles Community Centre

CJ 11.03.1938 p5 Raffles Community Centre

CN 25.09.1987 p12 Editorial; problem estate

CN 26.02.1988 p20 Danger warning after city arson

CN 27.10.1989 p10 City homes boost

CN 17.11.1989 p25 City estate strives for a new life

CN 17.11.1989 p25 Hedge row storm

CN 23.02.1990 p7 Bid for a new estate spirit

CN 20.04.1990 p23 Rules change worry over homes grant

CN 04.05.1990 p27 Surgery will help Raffles

CN 18.05.1990 p3 Councillors slam Raffles delay

CN 08.06.1990 p1 Families flee estate of fear

CN 08.06.1990 p12 Not just a local problem

CN 15.06.1990 p25 Call to use to watchmen on city estate

CN 27.07.1990 p7 City estate plan to have a bank

CN 10.08.1990 p3 Row erupts over Raffles project

CN 05.10.1990 p23 Church plan to help estate kids

CN 12.10.1990 p44 New look action groups

CN 16.11.1990 p20 Estate in bid to revive action group

CN 28.12.1990 p28 Rector has faith in city estate

CN 04.01.1991 p8 It’s the only answer for Raffles

CN 25.01.1991 p23 Battle to beat crime on estate

CN 01.02.1991 p3 Raffles security move

CN 15.02.1991 p6 Estate scheme underway

CN 22.02.1991 p5 £4m boost for estate

CN 05.04.1991 p11 Youth worker for city estate

CN 05.04.1991 p10 Graham faces a real challenge

CN 02.08.1991 p5 Housing unveiled

CN 18.10.1991 p7 £4m booster for estate

CN 18.10.1991 p25 Estate group re-launched

CN 22.11.1991 p3 Reign of terror hits city estate

CN 24.07.1992 pp1,14 Raffles residents branded

CN 16.10.1992 p2 Fighting back

CN 16.10.1992 p7 Raffles no go

CN 21.05.1993 p13 Break in fewer on city estate

CN 03.12.1993 pp1,12 Raffles fits the bill for carpets

CN 04.02.1994 p15 Safety scheme success

CN 25.03.1994 p5 Centre to go

CN 03.06.1994 p14 Protest petition over road closure plan

CN 29.07.1994 p3 Drug haven to go

CN 29.07.1994 p7 Joyriders fenced off

CN 19.08.1994 p14 Down your way

CN 11.11.1994 p10 Revival in Raffles

CN 06.01.1995 p5 Teachers snub £27,000 post as head of Raffles School

CN 20.01.1995 p5 Burglars ransack house

CN 24.02.1995 p3 (illus) Police ignore Raffles ‘claim’

CN 10.03.1995 p10 Spirit of Raffles

CN 17.03.1995 p4 Empty homes bill

CN 14.04.1995 p5 £2,000 house

CN 07.04.1995 p9 Home plans anger Tories

CN 26.05.1995 p4 Drivers seek to cut long way home

CN 16.06.1995 p1 Raffles revamp

CN 08.12.1995 p5 Raffles at ease with burglar alarms

CN 05.01.1996 p1 Repairs held up as £50,000 goes to Raffles

CN 12.01.1996 p1 One way road scrapped

CN 26.01.1996 p1 Council U-turn on £50,000 repairs

ENS 02.05.1996 pp6,7 (illus) Memory lane, Carlisle

CN 31.05.1996 p1 £1m handout

ENS 01.08.1996 p6 Why did they send this killer to live next door to us?

CN 30.08.1996 p3 Team sets to work

CN 11.10.1996 p4 New bid for spy cameras on Raffles estate

CN 06.12.1996 p1 Howard in city for Raffles briefing

CN 31.01.1997 p8 (illus) Campaign to put pride back into Raffles

CN 07.02.1997 p3 Skip scheme

CN 07.03.1997 p4 Rural and city communities to benefit from CCTV grants

CN 02.05.1997 p5 Raffles residents split down the middle of street in war of words

CN 30.05.1997 p3 Raffles road show all revved up

CN 26.09.1997 p3 Demolition fears loom over empty Raffles homes

CN 10.10.1997 p1 Demolition scheme for empty Raffles homes

CN 31.10.1997 p8 Story of Raffles hits the highway

CN 21.11.1997 p5 Spy cameras roll in Raffles

CN 06.03.1998 p3 Radio

CN 03.04.1998 p5 Empty homes at heart of problem

CN 11.09.1998 p7 Aerial view

CN 04.06.1999 p3 Switched on

CN 19.11.1999 p1 Rock bottom in Raffles-semi sells for £5,750

CN 24.03.2000 p13 Photo - demolition

CN 27.07.2001 p12 Wastelands of Raffles; 123 empty houses demolished in 2000

CN 12.10.2001 p6 Report says estate only flourish with residents’ commitment

CN 23.11.2001 p1 Raffles homeowners face loss after compulsory demolition

CN 01.03.2002 p25 Charles Shepherd opens boxing gym on Raffles estate

CN 06.09.2002 p5 Proposals to build 300 houses on Raffles estate

CN 06.12.2002 p12 Feature on £7.6m redevelopment of estate

CN 10.10.2003 p5 Detached homes planned for estate by Lovells

CN 02.04.2004 p5 New houses could cause divide between rich and poor

CN 28.05.2004 p6 Foundation stone for first of new 92 houses laid today

CN 18.02.2005 p15 Raffles Advice Service to close as funds run out

CN 10.06.2005 p Update on £7.6m redevelopment

CN 19.08.2005 p5 Shady Grove Rd police station opened

CN 17.03.2006 p5 92 new properties built by Lovells to form the ‘Hawthorns’

CN 14.08.2009 p7 Work underway on care village; Heysham Extra Care Village

CN 02.09.2011 pp1, 2 Notorious estate now the place to live

CN 30.08.2013 p6 Feature on the rebirth of the once troubled estate. 600 council houses demolished, 260 new houses built in last 10 years. editorial p 12

 

RAFFLES FAMILY CENTRE

CN 14.12 2007 p12 Feature on Family Centre which opened 6 years ago

 

RAFFLES ROVERS Football team, set up in 1944 by J.R.Aldersey [CN 22.08.2008 p13]

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village p215-216 Photo of team 1944-45 and 1947-48

 

RAFFLES SMITHY

CN 22.10.1971 p16 (illus)

 

RAGGED SCHOOL see Caldewgate Ragged School

 

RAGNAR BROTHERS

CN 20.08.1993 p9 New game gets off the ground

 

RAILINGS Removal for WW2 salvage

See Carlisle At War p26 1BC 9

City Council minutes 1940-41 28.02.1941 p141 Appeal

City Council minutes 1941-42 30.03.1942 p141 Complaint as to work

CN 08.03.1941 Iron railings wanted; request to private owners

CN 15.03.1941 Court House railings; war effort

 

RAILINGS; CHURCH

CN 12.10.1940 p5 Church railings removal (railings around old graves; canon law of 1605)

 

RAILWAY COTTAGES So named on the 1861 and 1871 census; in the Regent St area

 

RAILWAY HOTEL; Botchergate

1891 census; John Wallace, publican, 31, born Preston

 

RAILWAY HOTEL/ INN 104 London Road; built 1837 to serve the London Road Station of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway

CJ 16.12.1837 ‘New’ Railway Hotel

1861 census William Johnston, hotelkeeper, bn Scotland, aged 76

CP 04.10.1862 p1 Ad; Railway Hotel to be let

1891 census; Jane Little, widow, 44, hotel keeper, born Carlisle

A photograph of circa WWI shows the building had a portico

1901 census; Jane Little, aged 54, hotel keeper, bn Carlisle

05.10.1922 Joseph Blair, aged 83, died Railway Hotel, London Road [U112/5]

ENS 17.09.1970 p6 Inns of Cumbria and the Border; Railway Hotel

CN 26.02.2016 p16 section 2. June 1837 advertised as a ‘house near the railway station at Harraby calculated as an inn, newly erected’

2024 Has been closed and boarded up for many years

 

RAILWAY INN; Hewson St

1901 census; James Layden, 53, innkeeper; bn Kirklinton

 

RAILWAY PLACE, Damside [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory Sallyport to English Damside

1924 Directory lists properties 1-7

 

RAILWAYS

See C.C.Dorman Carlisle (Citadel) Railway Scene, 1971 2 BC 625

Carlisle 150 Years of Railways, Cumbria Railways Association 2 BC 625

P.Robinson Rail Centres; Carlisle, 1986 1BC 625

H.Routledge Steam City Carlisle. 2007 2BC 625

CN 05.01.1968 p8 (illus) CN 16.06.1978 p4

CJ 23.04.1875 Progress of the railway works at Carlisle; 13 new lines of railway; Messrs Ward of Glasgow the contractor

CP 23.04.1875 Progress report on vast works commenced on 05.10.1874

CP 03.12.1875 Progress report on the Carlisle Station extensions etc

CN 25.08.1928 p9 Railways in the 1860s

CN 05.10.1946 p7 History from 1838

CJ 20.02.1948 p3 (illus) Centenary of through travel

CN 20.03.1948 p5 Edinburgh to London centenary

CJ 08.10.1948 p1 (illus) Experimental diesel run

CN 01.10.1954 p10 (illus) First station

CN 15.11.1957 p10 (illus) First station

CN 04.07.1958 p10 Supplement

CN 04.08.1960 p12 Stations

CN 19.04.1974 p6 Early engines and sheds

CN 03.05.1974 p6 (illus) 19th century railway races

CN 24.05.1974 p6 (illus) 19th century railway races

CN 27.05.1977 p1 Link with Stranraer-Larne

CN 28.07.1978 p36 High speed train

CN 29.09.1978 (illus) p12 High speed trains

CN 20.03.1981 p18 History

CN 30.10.1987 p12 Editorial comment - future of rail services

CN 19.05.1989 p4 Victorian boost for city station

CN 28.07.1989 p 4 New rail link answer to travellers prayers

CN 02.03.1990 p4 Town hit by race riot

CN 09.03.1990 p10 We must not be forgotten

CN 20.07.1990 p4 Humble start to line

CN 24.08.1990 p4 Changing stations

CN 15.02.1991 p1 Axe threats to stations

CN 15.03.1991 p4 Railway boom time

CN 16.10.1992 p5 City railway depot tops for quality

CN 02.07.1993 p4 Railways role vital to city

CN 02.07.1993 p1 Paint your wagon vandals

CN 06.08.1993 p4 Railway line relied on real horsepower

CN 21.01.1994 p3 Pullman city link

CN 04.03.1994 p3 (illus) The crane is now arriving (Dalston Road)

CN 11.03.1994 p4 150 years ago

CN 25.03.1994 p3 Bridge work to hit Easter trade

CN 22.04.1994 p10 Full steam ahead in Carlisle

CN 18.11.1994 p10 (illus) Ghost trains

CN 09.12.1994 p1 Off with a bang (starlings)

CN 30.12.1994 p9 On the trains

CN 30.12.1994 p8 150 years ago (new station opened)

CN 20.01.1995 p3 Rail study backed (Visitors centre)

CN 27.01.1995 p1 Rail jobs cut

CN 27.01.1995 p10 Centenary of great railway race

CN 10.02.1995 p4 Danger embankment to be pulled down

CN 17.03.1995 p19 Full steam ahead

CN 07.06.1996 p2 Anniversary plans in train

CN 28.06.1996 p1 The train now arriving in city centre (150 anniversary)

CN 05.07.1996 p13 150th birthday treat in store for railway fans

CN 19.01.1997 p1 Cathedral train

CN 07.03.1997 p6 Steamed up over Carlisle’s 150th birthday

CN 01.08.1997 p5 (illus) Police to monitor railway bridge after yobs stone train

CN 08.08.1997 p1 (illus) Mayor’s row won’t spoil rail party

CN 08.08.1997 p2 (illus) Rail memorial gets a clean up

CN 15.08.1997 p10 Package holidaymakers took branch line to luxury

CN 10.10.1997 p3 Collectors hot on the trail of antique railway books

CN 24.10.1997 p4 (illus) City shops to lure Xmas shoppers with rail deals

CN 07.11.1997 p4 City’s rail history is theme of bonfire spectacular

CN 14.11.1997 p1 New rail freight line delayed by red tape

CN 28.11.1997 p2 Strained train bosses pledge to get better

CN 29.01.1999 p7 Day a train nearly killed a boy on Dalston Road

CN 28.05.1999 p12 Memories of the railway children

CN 11.06.1999 p27 (illus) Crowds stream to rail art show

CN 11.06.1999 p17 Rail bosses woo cyclist

CN 27.10.2000 p3 ‘We can’t cut fares, we are full’

CN 27.10.2000 p12 Steel/ railmen point the finger at neglect - massive disruption

CN 10.11.2000 p5 Rail misery continues for passengers - letters p13

CN 02.02.2001 p3 MP says Carlisle could be home for academy for railway skills

CN 29.06.2001 p5 Stone throwing incident in Carlisle; driver hurt

CN 07.12.2001 p3 (illus) Hogwarts Express pays a visit to Carlisle during test run

CN 11.01.2002 p13 Two letters concerning rotten rail service from Carlisle

 

RAILWAYS; ACCIDENTS

See also RAILWAYS; CITADEL STATION; DINWOODIE RAILWAY DISASTER

CJ 16.02.1849 p3 a-f Accident near Rockcliffe on Caledonian line; 5 killed

CJ 23.02.1849 p2h, p3 a-c Accident near Rockcliffe; inquest at Carlisle

Manchester Guardian 08.04.1856 p3 Engine explosion at Kingmoor; two killed

Manchester Guardian 10.04.1856 p4 Full account of accident, dead and injured

Manchester Guardian 25.04.1856 p3 Inquest on explosion of engine 76

Carlisle Examiner 15.10.1859 p3a Railway accident at St Nicholas

CP 02.03.1861 p4f Porter, John Turnbull, badly injured in Citadel Station

CP 01.06.1861 p5a Brakesman Joseph Porter killed on L&C near Upperby

CJ 12.11.1867 Accident of 01.11 at Canal Station; Joseph Bell, driver died 07.11

CP 03.07.1868 Supp. p1 Henry Rooke, 13, employed by M&C killed near goods station.

10.07.1870 Accident at Citadel Station; 5 killed

10.07.1870 Article by D.Perriam on accident [CN 17.10.2008 p34]

19.09.1874 Accident at Citadel St; PO sorting van involved

07.05.1875 Wigton Rd Railway bridge collapse causes accident [CN 27.03.2009 p32]

09.03.1875 Two men killed when working on Caledonian engine sheds

07.07.1880 5pm up express from Glasgow on the G and SWR ran into the 8pm NBR train from Carlisle to Silloth just north of the Citadel

CP 09.07.1880 p5e Accident north of Carlisle Station

CP 19.08.1881 p6 London Road railway accident

CP 24.09.1886 John Sharp, railway shunter, killed by wagon at LNWR yard

CP 30.11.1888 Joseph Bell, telegraph clerk, killed by train on Caledonian line

04.03.1890 Down express ran through the Citadel Station from the south before colliding with a Caledonian engine, no 62, at the northern end.

CJ 07.03.1890 pp4-6 Terrible accident at Citadel Station (04.03.1890)

CP 07.03.1890 Engraving of and report of accident; 4 killed

CJ 11.03.1890 p3 Board of trade enquiry

CJ 28.03.1890 p6 Adjourned inquest

CJ 18.04.1890 p6 Adjourned inquest

25.11.1890 North British special derailed in the early morning at Willow Holme

1 F BUR Poem by David Burn concerning the railway accident of 25.11.1890 read before the Holy Trinity Men’s Mutual Improvement Society

CP 28.11.1890 p5 Engine thrown over an embankment - driver Mark Inglis killed; engraving. Special train to Langholm

18.04.1891 12 people injured at Carlisle Station

CJ 16.11.1894 pp4-5 Citadel Station

CJ 08.01.1895 p2 Citadel Station

CP 20.08.1897 p6f LNER worker falls to death from Citadel St roof; George Moffat

CP 20.08.1897 p6f Shunter killed at Citadel St; Thomas Blain

CJ 18.01.1898 Shunter killed in Saint Nicholas Yard

CP 11.03.1898 p5a Railway accident at Saint Nicholas

25.12.1902 Locomotive crashed into Milbourne Street

29.07.1905 Henry Shillcock, foreman of the Midland Railway, accidentally killed at Durranhill Sidings [U3/7]

30.04.1907 Herbert Ivision accidentally killed Citadel Station [SMI 81/2]

City Minutes 1908-09 p146 Accident on 28.11.1908 at St Nicholas; sleepers on line

ENS 16.09.1913 p3 Goods porter killed

CJ 23.09.1913 p5 Accidents at London Road Station

CJ 01.04.1919 p3 Thomas Hudson, NBR fireman, killed at Canal Junction

CJ 15.09.1926 p2 Driver starts engine with fireman underneath - fatality

ENS 22.09.1926 p4 Express collision at Carlisle

CN 24.09.1926 p4 (illus) Citadel Station crash

CN/CJ? 24.09.1926 p7 Collision in Citadel Station

CN 07.10.1928 p8 Railway disaster

CN 07.10.1928 p16 Border train smash

CN 07.10.1928 p17 (illus) Victims of disaster

CN 03.11.1928 p6 City in mourning

CN 03.11.1928 p12 Government enquiry at Carlisle

03.01.1931 Carlisle in Camera 2 p37 photo of derailed engine

CJ 06.01.1931 pp4,7 (plan) Railway disaster at Willow Holme; 3 killed on 03.01

CN 03.07.1937 p3 Runaway trucks smash through Carrs into Caldewgate

16.08.1952 Crash at Etterby Junction reported CJ 30.08.1952 p8

ENS 14.01.1961 p7 City station rail crash

30.07.1966 H.Routledge Steam City Carlisle. 2007 2BC 625 p79 Photos of crash near Upperby yard involving Britannia 70017 Arrow

01.05.1984 Runaway trucks destroy goods avoidance bridge in Carlisle

CN 25.11.1988 Runaway rail trucks (Caused Caldewgate chaos - 26.06.1937)

CN 28.04.1989 p4 Rail crash in city

CN 29.11.1996 p4 Train chiefs step up safety after rail death crash

CN 29.11.1996 p10 The guard who put his life on the line

19.10.2022 Derailment of freight wagons at Petteril bridge closes both the Newcastle and Carlisle and Settle and Carlisle Railways. Closure expected until at least early December

 

RAILWAYS; AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF RAILWAY SERVANTS First Carlisle meeting held 01.12.1872; AGM of the National Society held in Carlisle 2nd-6th October 1911

Official Souvenir of 1911 AGM gives history of branch 1BC 625

 

RAILWAYS; BRIDGES

see also BRIDGES

November 1846 the newspaper reported that ‘works along the [Caledonian] line are progressing very well ...temporary wooden bridge over the Eden at Etterby’

CJ 09.06.1925 Footbridge at Etterby recently erected by the LMS alongside the company’s railway bridge over the River Eden. For railway employees who worked in the steam shed

1942 Railway bridge over the River Eden on the Caledonian line was doubled in width during World War Two. Stone says LMS 1942. This was for the purpose of providing an alternative route over the Eden in the event of the existing bridge being damaged

CN 27.11.1992 p4 Rail bridge was death trap

CN 31.12.2009 p2 Kingmoor Railway Bridge replaced with a temporary one

 

RAILWAYS; CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

First engine Carlisle to Beattock 26.08.1847; Glasgow to Carlisle opened throughout 15.02.1848; Caledonian engine shed immediately below West Walls, was removed in 1875 when a new shed was opened at Kingmoor, new lines being laid on the old shed site as part of station development

CJ 20.06.1846 Report on the progress of the Caledonian Railway; Kingmoor and St Ann’s

November 1846 the newspaper reported that ‘works along the line are progressing very well ...temporary wooden bridge over the Eden at Etterby’

CJ 11.09.1847 p3 b-f Opening of the Caledonian Railway, Carlisle to Beattock

CJ 18.02.1848 p3a,b Opening of the railway Beattock to Edinburgh/Glasgow

CJ 16.02.1849 p3 a-f Accident near Rockcliffe Station on 10.02.; 5 killed

CJ 23.02.1849 p2h, p3 a-c Inquest following accident near Rockcliffe

Manchester Guardian 08.04.1856 p3 Engine explosion at Kingmoor; 2 killed

Manchester Guardian 10.04.1856 p4 Full account of accident, dead and injured

Manchester Guardian 25.04.1856 p3 Inquest upon loco 76 and explosion

09.03.1875 Two men killed when working on Caledonian engine sheds

CJ 23.04.1875 Progress of railway works in Carlisle; The Caledonian engine sheds at Kingmoor are now fully occupied. The sheds which are 322 feet 6 inches in length, and 197 feet in width are constructed of wood with slate and glass roof, and brickwork rising in the interior about three feet above the ground

CJ 09.06.1925 Footbridge at Etterby recently erected by the LMS alongside the company’s railway bridge over the River Eden. For railway employees who worked in the steam shed

1942 Railway bridge over the River Eden on the Caledonian line was doubled in width during World War Two. Stone says LMS 1942. This was for the purpose of providing an alternative route over the Eden in the event of the existing bridge being damaged

CN 27.11.1992 p4 Rail bridge was death trap

CJ 19.04.1949 p2

CN 09.09.1994 p8 150 years ago - Lancaster, Carlisle, Caledonian

 

RAILWAYS; CANAL BRANCH/ SHED/ MOTIVE POWER DEPOT

See also; ; CROWN STREET STATION

D Perriam Denton Holme p50. It was intended that a goods only branch would extend from the London Road Station to the Canal Basin and work began on this in 1834 ready for opening on 09.03.1837. This required a number of bridges and large embankment and the contractor was George Grahamsley. At first this brought coal and lime from the Brampton collieries for export along the canal. The stone bridge over the Caldew collapsed in 1846 and had to be replaced by a temporary wooden structure and then by successive girder bridges. Closure in 03.08.1969 and track lifted 1970

CJ 22.03.1834 To be let; masonry and works between Basin and London Rd; ad

CJ 31.01.1860 To be let by tender levelling Canal Station yard, Carlisle Silloth and Port Carlisle Railway. C Boyd engineer. 12,000 cubic yards of earth

CJ 07.06.1861 Tenders invited for new stables and other works at Canal Station

CJ 27.08.1861 Port Carlisle annual report. New coal and lime vaults and goods shed in course of erection at Carlisle

CJ 15.01.1869 NBR vaults to let Canal Station

CN 29.07.1950 p5 Canal Goods Depot to be closed

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p60 Wigton Rd and Denton Street bridges

City Minutes 1971-72 p761 NCL Depot Canal Bank; conversion of existing building approved

ENS 24.06.1974 Denton Street railway bridge demolished on 23.06.1974

Cumbrian Railways Association Circular no 13, 1/ 1979 Canal Loco. Shed history

CN 08.12.1978 British Railways have asked Carlisle planners for permission to build a light industrial estate in the old Canal goods yard in Carlisle

CN 03.04.1987 p21 Railway bridge over Caldew demolished (1984)

CN 29.01.1999 p7 Day a train nearly killed a boy in Dalston Road

 

RAILWAYS; CHANNEL TUNNEL see CHANNEL TUNNEL

 

RAILWAYS; CITADEL STATION Designed by William Tite

See also RAILWAYS; ACCIDENTS

See D.Perriam Carlisle Citadel Station, 1998 2BC 625 The route through Carlisle between England and Scotland was built by two companies - the Lancaster and Carlisle railway and the Caledonian Railway. It was hoped that the two existing railway companies, the Newcastle and Carlisle railway and the Maryport and Carlisle, would use the station and contribute towards the cost, but agreement could not be reached. The L and C and the Caledonian formed a committee to oversee the building of a station which they would jointly fund. A site was chosen beside the former Citadel, then converted into the courts, and this became the station’s name. Demolition began in 1846 of the gas works and a marble works which were relocated along with many slum properties.

Opened 10.07.1847; First class waiting room has a magnificent fireplace with the Latin motto which translates to ‘make us always remember this place, 1848’. Total cost of the new station £53,000; first used by Maryport and Carlisle 02.04.1851; 1851 census James Spiers, Railway Station, Court Square, aged 45, Superintendent of Railway Station, born Scotland; 1854-5 a carriage shed and additional offices added; 1861 an act for the enlargement of the Citadel station; first used by Newcastle and Carlisle Railway 01.01.1863; October 1878 work begins on enlarging the station to almost twice its original size; 04.07.1880 footbridge in use for the first time; 20.07.1881 new island refreshment rooms opened electric light installed 09.02.1899; roof re-glazed 1901; ticket barriers permanently erected in 1938; second footbridge removed in 1942; overall roof removed 1957-58; 1973 new powerbox comes into use; 06.05.1974 electrification of line through Carlisle to Glasgow; ticket barriers removed in 1984; new ticket office opened 07.04.1989

Illustrated London News 25.09.1847 pp203-4 Illustration

CN 25.06.1954 p8 (illus) CN 02.07.1954

CJ 13.03.1847 p2e Foundation stone laid by Mr Hemberow; 300 men at work

CJ 10.09.1847 p2 Ad Citadel Station now open

30.09.1848 Queen Victoria makes her first journey south through Carlisle. She took refreshments in the station

CJ 10.10.1851 Report of Queen Victoria passes through the station

29.06.1853 Joint Station Committee agree that ‘an illuminated clock be provided for the clock tower’

30.06.1858 Katherine Jones born Residence, Citadel Stn [Mon. Ins. 127/37]

CP 02.03.1861 p4f Porter, John Turnbull, badly injured in Citadel accident

CJ 14.05.1861 Proposed extension of Citadel Station

CP 18.05.1861 p7a,b Proposed extension; Railway Bill, Select Comm. report

CJ 07.04.1863 Lord Palmerston stops here and promenades the platform

21.08.1867 Queen Victoria has her breakfast in station and waits an hour for a change of carriage

10.07.1870 Accident at Citadel Station; 5 killed

CP 19.09.1873 p4 Carlisle Citadel Station

19.09.1874 Accident at Citadel St; PO sorting van involved

CP 23.04.1875 p5d Extensions; vast scheme in progress

10.10.1875 Thomas Jones died at Residence, Citadel Station. [Mon. Ins 127/37]

CJ 13.02.1880 There are now 300 hands engaged of whom 160 were masons

15.11.1888 Queen Victoria’s journey from Ballater to Windsor passes through the Citadel, arriving at 11:30pm and departing at 11:50pm

04.03.1890 Accident at Citadel Station; four killed

CJ 07.03.1890 Carlisle is the terminus of no fewer than eight distinct lines, worked by seven separate and independent companies, all making use of one and the same station. Each of these seven companies has its own engine shed and its own goods depot

18.04.1891 12 people injured at Carlisle Station

CP 20.08.1897 p6f LNER worker killed in fall from roof; George Moffat

CP 20.08.1897 p6f Shunter killed at Citadel Station; Thomas Blain

CP 04.03.1898 p3a Introduction of electric light

27.12.1898 Gales blow out 90 square feet of roof glass

1901 census; William Haythornthwaite, Railway Superintendent living at Station

30.04.1907 Herbert Ivision accidentally killed Citadel Station [SMI 81/2]

CJ 16.08.1910 The station staff of 230 including eight inspectors, six foremen and eighteen signalmen, under Mr Campbell the Superintendent, assisted by Mr Bell, the Night Superintendent. Total number of 361trains on a single day believed to be a record day

04.08.1911 4,297 people to Silloth, breaking previous records

CJ 14.03.1922 Glasgow man severely injured at Citadel Station

09.07.1923 George V and Queen Mary greet Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands at the Citadel Station where they took refreshments

CJ 07.05.1926 Stranded American tourists pictured at the Citadel Station during the General Strike

CJ 24.09.1926 Crash at Citadel Station

CJ 27.11.1934 Photo of porter attending the first class fire

CJ 05.07.1935 Picture of youths employed to sell chocolates and sweets from trays along the station platforms

CJ 12.07.1935 Signalmen Crosthwaite and Hutton at work in number 5 signal box

CJ 24.03.1936 Photo of spring cleaning the railway station

CN 14.06.1947 p5 Citadel Station 100 years celebration

CN 21.06.1947 p5 Illustration from Illustrated London News

CJ 08.08.1947 p1 Proposal for centenary celebrations

CN 31.05.1947 p5 Proposals for centenary celebrations

CJ 26.08.1947 p2 History of railways in Carlisle

CJ 29.08.1947 p3 History of railways in Carlisle

CN 30.08.1947 p3 Centenary

CJ 02.09.1947 p1 Historic Exhibition - centenary celebrations

CJ 05.09.1947 p4 History of the railway in Carlisle

CJ 05.09.1947 p5 Celebration of railway men

23.02.1948 new British Railways livery seen in Carlisle for the first time

CN 03.01.1948 p5 Citadel station nationalisation

CN 15.08.1953 Citadel conversion to electricity

CN 17.09.1954 p11 New roof; first phase of a much larger scheme

CN 24.09.1954 p11 (illus) New roof

CJ 26.11.1954 Photo of new Diesel Multiple Units on 24.11.1954, for the trial run to Silloth

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p143 Photo of Eisenhower in early 1960s

CN 25.11.1955 Workman prepares the station clock tower for repairs and cleaning

CJ 14.02.1958 Erecting new platform canopies

CJ 18.02.1958 Erecting new platform canopies

CN 06.06.1958 Frank Sewell paints the coats of arms over the station entrance

07.06.1958 Temporary exhibition of historic railway vehicles in the station

ENS 04.04.1963 Station master, Mr Leslie, welcomes well behaved train spotters

CN 17.01.1964 Photo of painting the metal roofwork

30.12.1967 Steam locos ceased to be used on trains in Carlisle

11.08.1968 Final farewell gesture to national withdrawal of steam; special train run to Carlisle pulled by 70013, Oliver Cromwell

CN 12.05.1972 p1 Closing part

CN 10.11.1972 p8 (illus) Historical

CN 05.04.1974 p6 Citadel Station history

CN 11.04.1974 p6 Citadel Station history

07.05.1974 Queen arrives at the station on the day of switch to electrification

CN 10.05.1974 p6 (illus) Citadel Station roof

CN 21.01.1994 p18 Carlisle railway station a winner

CN 16.09.1994 p10 Great debate 150 years ago where to site new station

CN 23.09.1994 p10 Hitches hit opening of station

CN 14.10.1994 p17 Station on track for major prize

CN 22.08.1997 p10 (illus) 300 navvies began the creation of a splendid station

CN 26.09.1997 p14 Saga of the station now standing...

CN 19.02.1999 p9 Rusty pipes leaking gallons at station

CN 04.04.2003 p7 Citadel clock fitted with radio receiver and automatic regulator

CN 16.05.2003 p13 Letter; clock 3 hours fast

CN 06.02.2004 p17 Pigeons trapped in nets allowed to starve to death

CN 18.12.2009 p3 Memorial unveiled in waiting room to signalman Willie Taylor, who acted to avoid disaster with runaway train on 01.05.1984

CN 30.04.2010 p15 How station will look after £550,000 revamp

CN 08.04.2011 p2 Revamp unveiled on platforms five and six [N and C, S and C]

CN 11.08.2017 p6 Renewal of main roof. £14.5m project

 

RAILWAYS; CROWN STREET STATION Opened 30.12.1844; closed 17.03.1849

Railway Magazine August 1963 pp 575 - 579 (illus)

See also Railways; Maryport and Carlisle Railway

D Perriam Citadel Station p3 The M and C opened into London Road station on 03.05.1843. They soon built their own station at Bogfield, near Currock Road. This wooden building was moved to Crown Street in 1844. John Dobson, the Newcastle architect, when asked to design a replacement stone building, advised them to await plans for a new joint station which they could then enter. This was agreed with the L and C in 1846. Compensation negotiations dragged on into 1848. However, George Hudson, leased the M and C from 01.10.1848 and unless he was paid £70,000 he refused to honour the arrangement. An enquiry ensued and the Coroner found in favour of the L and C, which took forcible possession on 17.03.1849, promptly demolishing the station. This was dubbed the Battle of Crown Street. The M and C then had to use London Road again until a new line enabled them to enter the Citadel Station in 1851

CJ 23.03.1849 One hundred men armed with crowbars, shovels etc rushed from the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway...tearing up the rails...gutted the temporary wooden station...and carried off the whole building

 

RAILWAYS; CURROCK RAILWAY YARD

CN 02.11.2007 p19 Talks over future of closed yard; work already transferred to Kingmoor

 

RAILWAYS; DENTON HOLME GOODS YARD

D.Perriam Denton Holme p53 A new joint goods depot was to be built in Denton Holme, traffic coming in from the Goods Avoidance Line. Tenders were invited in September 1880 for a goods shed and office building with a goods yard behind Milbourne Street. All was completed for use in 1882.

CP 22.07.1881

 

RAILWAYS;DURRANHILL LOCOMOTIVE SHED

CN 15.02.1936 p19 To close

 

RAILWAYS; ELECTRIFICATION

ENS 03.12.1959 p1 Rail engineers plan ahead

ENS 26.09.1964 p1 Electric trains for city

CN 10.04.1970 p8 (illus) Electrification

CN 26.03.1971 p3 (illus) Electrification

CN 03.12.1971 p8 (illus) Electrification

07.05.1974 Queen arrives at the station on the day of switch to electrification

 

RAILWAYS; FLYING SCOTSMAN

CN 10.05.1947 p5 CN 17.05.1947 p5

 

RAILWAYS; GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN

Junction with Caledonian line at Gretna opened 23.08.1848

 

RALWAYS; GOODS AVOIDANCE LINES

D.Perriam Denton Holme p52. With the proposed Settle and Carlisle line plans were made to cope with increased freight traffic passing through the city. It was decided that freight should bypass the station and new lines would carry goods over the Caldew and through Denton Holme. Work began in 1875 for completion in 1877. The railway crash of 01.05.1984 closed the line. The former railway was used as riverside footpath and this was opened in 1995

 

RAILWAYS; HIGH SPEED TRAINS

CN 16.09.1977 p3 High Speed Trains

CN 29.09.1978 p12 (illus) High Speed Train

 

RAILWAYS; HORSES

CJ 04.07.1950 pp1,3 (illus)

CJ 07.07.1950 p2 (illus) Brasses

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p41 1954 photo of railway horses

 

RAILWAYS; HOSTELS see BALMORAL COURT, HILLTOP MOTOR HOTEL

 

RAILWAYS HOUSING

see also Caledonian Buildings

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

 

RAILWAYS; KINGMOOR LOCOMOTIVE SHED

See also RAILWAYS; KINGMOOR RAIL DEPOT

D.Perriam Stanwix p58 Kingmoor Engine Shed. The Caledonian engine shed was originally on the Town Dyke below West Walls. A decision to build a new shed at Kingmoor was taken and work on this was in progress in May 1874. The Carlisle Journal of 12.02.1875 reported that the Caledonian Railway had occupied their new shed at Kingmoor, large wooden building of six bays to house 40 locomotives. This was replaced by a brick structure in 1915. Under British Railways with the withdrawal of steam Kingmoor was gradually run down to closure in 1968. A photo in the Cumberland News of 14.02.1969 shows the start of the pulling up of eight miles of track which had served the former shed

Memory of the yard by Robert Barnham who in 1960 began an apprenticeship of Mechanical Engineering with British Rail to begin Employment Certification and Indentured by Chief Clerk Parker Haughan, to complete the apprenticeship in 6 years time. My salary began at two pounds nine shillings per week, minus five shillings and seven pence National Insurance. Beginning at the top of the hill where the road bridge crosses the main line is the former master’s house where Mr Fulton lived. Lower down at the main entrance was the former boarding house for booking off duty firemen and drivers from Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester for a night’s sleep. Mr Rice was the Operations Manager and Pat Creighton the Foreman. Water was pumped directly from the river Eden to an elevated reservoir behind the houses known as Caledonian Cottages. At this height gravitational pull provided a perfect distribution of water flow to awaiting engine tenders at the maintenance sheds far below. My memory recalls the presence of many forms of steam locomotion, The Black Fives, The Moguls, the Clans. Standing at the official entrance one was greeted by the recovery train and its carriages and accompanying crane [built by Cowans Sheldon] I once had the pleasure of accompanying the crew to the Kirkby Thore Gypsum works to recover a derailed carriage; putting it safely back on the track was a balancing act. In 1963 I went with a recovery snowplough to release a trapped train near Kirkby Stephen and seeing myself sliding down a deep embankment. Then standing back whilst the engine with snow plough fitted hit the snowdrift at full speed, showering snow everywhere. Stepping out of the warm carriage onto the platform with my shiny new shovel ready to dig out the snow. ‘Where do I start digging?’ ‘There lad ‘. What I thought was the platform was in fact snow feet deep above the track. I got double pay as it was a Sunday. Many famous steam train came to Kingmoor, I had the privilege of making small adjustments on the Flying Scotsman and Mallard. Tat, tap, tap, ding, or dung? This was the first sound made when an engine arrived back from duty. Inspector Frankie Pratt with a 4oz hammer on a three foot shaft would be tapping the wheels, big and small ends nuts bolts and any other fixation to find any loose or cracked fitment. Looking for oil leaks, steam leaks or anything else which failed the engine fit for duty. He played the engine like a xylophone. I can still hear the voice of Alfie Glendinnig say to me ‘Can you hear that?’ From standing ten yards away to a shunting diesel electric. ‘What?’ said I. ‘The worn tappet bush’. ‘No, you’re just having me on!’ We stripped the engine down, to find a worn tappet rod bush just as Alfie had said. ‘Soon you’ll be able to do that lad’, and I did. Alfie was very talented and one whom we all benefitted from. Training was never formal beyond one day a week at Carlisle Technical College for our certificate in Mechanical Engineering from the City and Guilds Institution. As apprentices at Kingmoor we were in awe of the engineer’s skills. Atmospheric pressure and vacuum. I had no idea about these principals before entering Kingmoor. I soon had it drummed into me. The same with wet steam and super-heated steam followed by the re-use of exhaust steam. Other names of former workmates come to mind; Victor Kilpatrick, Malcolm Edgar, Putty Richardson, Selby Simpson, Ralph Jackson, Dickie Armstrong, and Johnnie Scott. Pancho and Chippy brightened up our day; ‘Hey lad bring me a bucket of steam from the store will you’ and a ‘wire netting oil can’. How do you get water from an unpressurised tender into an already pressurised boiler one would ask. So the serious learning of science and physics began. I recall the blacksmith’s shop. Willie Watson has placed a buffer securing bar into the hot flame. Bobbie Wardle his striker is turning up the blower. The temperature is rising trying to achieve a hot cherry red, when Willie will place the bar onto the anvil, Bobbie will strike at the nod of Willie’s head, ping, bang, bang. A shape is formed and compared with the template, returned to the fire and struck again and again. Job done, Replacing parts from the store was unusual; damaged or broken fitments on steam engines were generally bespoke and unique to its host. Bang, thud, the steam hammer at work, shaking the building. Bobbie was realigning a bent shaft. Splash as John Dearling quenched his newly made copper pipe for an engine sander spray. He was making it soft and annealed in order that it would be shaped into a new form on its host engine. The general workshop was capable of working to a very high standard. Brother engineers Ronnie and George Cookson and Pop Carruthers were leaders in their field. It was regular practice to remove all wheels for re-profiling the steel tyres and resizing the shafts; new pistons and new piston rings and decarbonising. All major work. There was also Alec Lamb, David Wilkinson and Clifford Barnfather all excellent engineers who passed on their knowledge to the apprentices. There was the diesel shed with the sound of the newly tuned injectors running. The warmth of the primitive coal fired steel framed stoves that lined the walls. The windy and wet inspection pits with casual sodden wet deposits of ashpan clinker that I once crawled along with my carbide lamp. The floors dressed with a covering of wooden redundant rail sleepers. The rain leaking from broken windows above, the remainder blackened with soot. My overalls heavy on my body, weighed down by oil and ash deposits and its only Wednesday, two more days before I can get clean dry replacements. We actually sustained, without thinking, filthy dirty cold, windy and wet dangerous conditions, breaking every rule in today’s health and safety handbook. No electric lighting in the pits below the engines, only portable carbide lamps, where a small piece of carbide was placed in water and screwed tight in a chamber creating a gas which was combustible when lit. Hot ash dropping down one’s neck at any time without warning. Unprotected hot steam pipes. Asbestos was cut from steam glands by hand without any masks. We could see the asbestos in abundance dancing in the sunlight. No eye protection for the grinder, no ear protection, no hearing protection, no toe protection [I bought myself some in 1962. Removing a tender spring from housing, I was inexperienced, levered the spring, it dropped two feet onto my foot, crushing my toe protectors] .The unsavoury smell between engine and tender where the driver and fireman relieved themselves; fantastic pieces of engineering but lacking basic facilities. On my first day at work I needed the toilet, there were no doors on the cubicles and no toilet paper. I reported this to the office; ‘Did you bring a newspaper with you to work today lad?’ ‘No’ I answered, ‘Then look around the benches and find if anyone’s left one and cut it into squares’. And there were the British Rail management in their bowler hats, station staff, drivers and firemen were all provided with uniforms but not the engineers. Every workplace has its characters. War-Lass, a phrase used to address his wife; he was a joiner from the North-East. He used to repair footplate floors with his axe as his only tool. Albert McHugh singing his arias. Dougie Dowie, the bookie runner. There was Wonga, apparently from Australia. His fore finger was missing as he had tried to align a bolt hole with his finger and missed. ‘Happy’ relit the engine fires, I never saw him smile once. Tony the Craw frey Wigton who was a great comedian. Sally from the canteen made great egg and bacon sandwiches. Arthur Sinclair, chef and crane operator who also made good sandwiches, Squeak with his tight fitting boots. One of the sights was a full carriage of Shilbottle coal being lifted off the rails and deposited into the coal tower hopper, ready to feed the engine tenders. The wires twang and the empty wagon resonates as it returns to the rails, clouds of dust explode everywhere and we run gasping for air. Then the office and the small hatch from where I received my paltry £2/9s, with deductions, every Friday at noon

CJ 23.02.1962 p7 Fire

 

RAILWAYS; KINGMOOR RAIL DEPOT Work began in1967 on a new diesel depot to serve Carlisle. The diesel era brought the demand for more modern facilities and the old steam shed at Kingmoor was eventually to be closed from January 1st 1968. At the same time the new Kingmoor diesel maintenance depot opened. The new facility handled all routine maintenance for diesel locomotives and multiple units and examinations of electric locomotives. With privatisation and the introduction of the High Speed trains in 1997 the BR depot was largely redundant. This was reopened as Direct Rail Services HQ on 21.09.1998. A brochure in 2013 stated that DRS was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the company established in 1995 as a lynch pin supplier of transport and associated services to the nuclear industry

D Perriam Stanwix p59

CN 13.10.1967 p1 CN 27.10.1967 p5 CN 10.11.1967 p1

CN 17.11.1967 p1 CN 24.11.1967 p12 CN 22.12.1967 p1

CN 11.02 1994 p4 25 years ago lifting of rails

H.Routledge Steam City Carlisle. 2007 2BC 625 pp15-28 Photos of Kingmoor MPD in 1950s and 1960s

 

RAILWAYS; KINGMOOR MARSHALLING YARD see RAILWAYS; MARSHALLING YARD

 

RAILWAYS; KINGMOOR RAILWAY HOSTEL see BALMORAL COURT

 

RAILWAYS; LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY

See also West Coast Main Line; Sunday trains; Upperby Shed

First sod cut 12.07.1844; trial 11.12.1846; opened 17.12.1846 to London Road Station; services transferred to Citadel Station 01.09.1847; 10.09.1859 meeting of shareholders of the L&C approve proposal to lease L&C to LNWR

Brian Reed Crewe to Carlisle Chapter 9 and 10 pp116-147

CN 25.04.1953 p6

CJ 12.01.1839 p2c,d Penrith and Carlisle Railway; resolution and report of meeting

CJ 11.11.1843 p1f Ad; resolved the line by way of Kendal, Shap and Penrith; pp3,4

CP 09.03.1844 Meeting in Lancaster to consider a draft of a bill for making a railway from Lancaster to or near Carlisle

CP 18.12.1846 p4 Opening

CJ 19.12.1846 p3 b-g, p4 (illus) whole page; Opening

CJ 09.01.1847 p2a Carlisle to Penrith timetable

CJ 30.01.1847 p2g Slaughtered sheep to London market same day by L&C

CJ 13.03.1847 p2a,b Timetable alterations to L&C trains

CJ 10.04.1847 p2e Travelling Post Office in L&C on 8th May

CJ 19.04.1949 p2

CN 05.12.1969 p8 Building

CN 30.12.1993 p4 Carlisle-Lancaster 150 years

CN 09.09.1994 p8 150 years ago Lancaster, Carlisle, Caledonian

CN 20.12.1996 p10 The first train from Carlisle to Penrith - and it was late

 

RAILWAYS; LOCOMOTIVES

‘City of Carlisle’ built 1939, withdrawn 1964; 01.05.1963 ‘Kings Own Royal Border Regiment’ named; 07.12.1978 ‘City of Carlisle’ named; 20.09.1997 ‘Carlisle Cathedral’ named;

CN 09.06.1936 Naming of Border Regiment

CN 15.07.1988 p21 Naming ceremony ‘Carlisle Currock’

ENS 29.11.2000 p14 (illus) ‘City of Carlisle nameplate’ for sale by Crown and Mitre

CN 08.12.2000 p13 Letter concerning sale of nameplate ‘City of Carlisle’

CN 02.02.2001 p12 (illus) City of Carlisle locomotive - D.Perriam article

CN 31.03.2006 p9 ‘Carlisle Cathedral’ name plate will be unveiled at Tithe Barn

 

RAILWAYS; LONDON ROAD STATION See RAILWAYS; NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY

 

RAILWAYS; MAIL TRAINS 22.05.1838 Post Office announces the mail to Carlisle to be despatched tonight for the first time by the London and Birmingham Railway

See also Travelling Post Office

The Philatelist Vol 16 no 11 August 1950 Carlisle Mails - history

The Philatelist Vol 16 no 12 September 1950 Carlisle Mails - history

 

RAILWAYS; MARSHALLING YARDS Kingmoor Marshalling Yard opened 1963; down yard closed 1972; up hump taken out of use 1982

See Railways: Railways; Kingmoor Rail Depot

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

See also Railways; Kingmoor Rail Depot

CN 03.11.1967 p15 CN 15.09.1962 p3

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p56 photo of levelling the site in 1959

CN 20.11.1959 p1 New marshalling yard

CJ 04.12.1959 p1 New marshalling yard

ENS 03.02.1960 p3 Marshalling Yard work at Kingmoor

CJ 18.03.1960 p9 (illus) New marshalling yard

ENS 12.11.1960 p1 £250,000 contract

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p57 Photo of progress in 1961

CJ 03.02.1961 p3 (illus) New marshalling yard

CN 03.08.1962 pp1,7 New marshalling yard

CJ 17.08.1962 p6 (illus) New marshalling yard

CN 17.08.1962 p11 (illus) New marshalling yard

CJ 10.05.1963 Kingmoor Marshalling Yard; will it be a White Elephant?

CN 31.05.1963 p13 New marshalling yard

ENS 04.06.1963 p1 Yard open

CN 10.11.1967 p13 (illus) New marshalling yard

CN 11.09.1970 p1 (illus) Kingmoor Yard - clocking bell

CN 27.02.1981 p1 (illus) Kingmoor marshalling yard

CN 27.02.1987 p19 Planned closure

CN 16.06.1989 p13 Talks with BR on old yard

CN 23.03.1990 p16 Attack on rail sell off

CN 15.11.1991 p27 Railway sidings plan

CN 06.12.1991 p48 Marshalling yards plan on show

CN 24.07.1998 p5 Nuclear waste could be stored at yard

CN 08.10.1999 New lease of life as a storage depot for 80,000 tons of ballast

 

RAILWAYS; MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY

Wigton to Carlisle Bog Street opened 10.05.1843; opened throughout 10.02.1845; first used Citadel Station 02.04.1851

D Perriam Carlisle Citadel Station The M and C opened into London Road station on 03.05.1843. They soon built their own station at Bogfield, near Currock Road. This wooden building was moved to Crown Street in 1844. John Dobson, the Newcastle architect, when asked to design a replacement stone building, advised them to await plans for a new joint station which they could then enter. This was agreed with the L and C in 1846. Compensation negotiations dragged on into 1848. However, George Hudson, leased the M and C from 01.10.1848 and unless he was paid £70,000 he refused to honour the arrangement. An enquiry ensued and the Coroner found in favour of the L and C, which took force able possession on 17.03.1849, promptly demolishing the station. This was dubbed the Battle of Crown Street. The M and C then had to use London Road again until a new line enabled them to enter the Citadel Station in 1851

CJ 17.06.1921 p10 CN 10.10.1975 p6 CN 24.10.1975 p? CN 27.02.1976 p6 CN 05.03.1976 p6

CP 14.02.1845 p4 Opening of Maryport and Carlisle

CJ 06.02.1847 p3a Letter complaining about Martinmas hirings; no extra carriages

CJ 06.03.1847 p2g,h, p3 a-d Half yearly meeting; most populous ever attended

CJ 27.03.1847 p2b Timetable from 19.03.1847

CJ 27.03.1847 p2f Complaint; 3rd class carriages ‘cattle vans’

CJ 10.04.1847 p2e,f Report from Railway Times on M&C half yearly meeting

CJ 25.02.1848 p2c Arrangement for M&C to use Citadel St in next few days

CJ 23.03.1849 p2 Railway warfare at Crown St

04.10.1874 First sod of new Maryport passenger line at Carlisle cut

CJ 03.09.1852 p2 On point of completion excellent goods warehouse and 40 coal cellars on Crown Street

CP 03.12.1875 Carlisle Station extension; new engine shed constructed

CJ 06.07.1875 p3 Plans for M and C engines sheds

CJ 05.05.1876 p5 Old M and C engine shed has been demolished and a new one built, to hold about 8 engines, nearly opposite Holme Head

CJ 27.05.1921 p4 Accident at Bulgill

CJ 23.07.1940 p2 Centenary

CJ 20.02.1945 p2 History

CJ 06.03.1945 p2 Railway relics

CN 20.07.1990 p5 Humble start to line

CN 27.07.1990 p4 Stephenson lines first engineer

CN 27.01.1995 p10 150 years ago Maryport and Carlisle

CN 10.02.1995 p10 A pioneer railway line

CN 17.02.1995 p10 Weather put a damper on celebrations

 

RAILWAYS; MISSION HALL East Tower Street; opened 05.02.1910; began about 1890 in the first class waiting room in Citadel Station

D Perriam Lowther Street p53 photo

CJ 29.06.1894 p4 Railway Mission Meeting in City Hall; overflowing

CJ 27.10.1905 p7 Sale of work to raise funds; 400-500 people now members

CJ 17.09.1909 p5 Foundation stone laid by Mrs Chance

CJ 08.02.1910 p8 Opening of new hall

V.White Carlisle and its villages, p 13 drawing in 1978

CN 26.02.1960 p10 History of the mission in 1880s

 

RAILWAYS; NATIONALISATION

CN 29.11.1947 p5 Nationalisation

CN 03.01.1948 p5 Citadel station nationalisation

 

RAILWAYS; NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY

See also ; Canal Branch; Railways; Newcastle and Carlisle Railway; London Road Goods Station

Station so marked on the 1853 Asquith’s map

History of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway 1824 - 1870 Bill Fawcett, 2008

D Perriam Carlisle Citadel Station; p2

Greenhead to Carlisle, London Road opened 19.07.1836; opened throughout 18.06.1838; Newcastle and Carlisle Railway first used Citadel Station on 01.01.1863

CJ 05.04.1949 p2 CJ 12.04.1949 p2 CN 25.02.1950 p5

CJ 14.01.1826 p3d Letter concerning position of bridge over Eden

CJ 12.04.1828 p2 Newcastle and Carlisle Railway

CJ 21.09.1833 Ad Tender to form part of line near River Petteril

CJ 16.07.1836 Opening of line to Greenhead next Tuesday

CJ 23.07.1836 p3 a-f Opening of the line from Greenhead to Carlisle

CJ 12.01.1839 p2h Effects of high winds on railway

CJ 23.03.1839 p3,b,c Report of AGM

CJ 13.07.1839 p2g Increase in traffic astonishing; indication of pre railway traffic

CJ 04.05.1844 Explosion of boiler in station yard, London Road

CJ 20.03.1847 p1 Ad for tenders for portions of the line to Alston

CJ 27.03.1847 p3a,b N&C annual meeting

Carlisle Examiner 04.09.1858 p3c N&C and Citadel Station

Carlisle Examiner 16.04.1859 p3a N&C to use Citadel Station

Carlisle Express 27.12.1862 p1 From Jan 1st 1863 passenger trains will arrive and depart from the Citadel Station

CJ 03.05.1864 Serious fire at London Road Station

CJ 01.06.1881 p1 Tenders to erect engine shed and goods shed at NER London Rd

CJ 19.08.1881 Removal of first Carlisle railway station in order to make room for new offices and goods warehouse and engine shed which the NER are about to erect at London Rd

CJ 30.08.1881 p2 Movements of staff; old buildings being demolished

CP 19.08.1881 p6 London Road railway accident

City Minutes 1908-09 p146; 28/11/08 sleepers placed on line at St Nicholas

CJ 15.07.1921 p4 Proposed Carlisle Brampton Railway

CN 03.03.1961 When Kingmoor opens only London Rd to remain open

CN 10.06.1988 p4 Historic day in local railway annals (150th anniversary)

CN 24.08.1990 p4 Changing stations

CN 17.03.1995 p19 Full steam ahead

CN 30.07.1999 p20 Rise and fall of the locomotive Rocket

CN 21.07.2000 p9 Denis Perriam; London Road Station (illus)

CN 07.09.2001 p3 Driver shortage on N&C line leads to replacement by buses

CN 14.06.2002 p5 First class ticket Carlisle to Warden dated 1836 at auction

CN 16.04.2004 p14 Arriva Trains Northern lose franchise

CN 12.08.2011 p28 Story of the 1830s bridge linking the NCR station and the Canal Basin

19.10.2022 Derailment of freight wagons at Petteril bridge closes both the Newcastle and Carlisle and Settle and Carlisle Railways. Closure expected until at least early December

 

RAILWAYS; NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY; LONDON ROAD GOODS STATION

Railway goods shed and office building to the designs of the NER architect William Bell. The original passenger station became a goods depot after NER trains began to run into the Citadel Station. These buildings were demolished and a new goods depot in 1881

CJ 01.06.1881 p1 Tenders to erect engine shed and goods shed at NER London Rd

CJ 19.08.1881 Removal of first Carlisle railway station in order to make room for new offices and goods warehouse and engine shed which the NER are about to erect at London Rd

CJ 30.08.1881 p2 Movements of staff; old buildings being demolished

CN 03.03.1961 When Kingmoor opens only London Rd to remain open

Cumbrian Railways no 178, May 2021 pp416-7 Discussion of recent planning application; photos

October 2021 The building is under conversion

 

RAILWAYS; POLICE 1851 census lists John Kent ‘Railway Police’, 44, home address 1 Crown Street, born Hesket, and William Armstrong, ‘Railway Police’ aged 44, home address Old Marble Works, Crown St, born Gibralter

 

RAILWAYS; PORT CARLISLE RAILWAY Opened to goods 22.05.1854; opened to passengers to Carlisle Canal Station 22.06.1854; services transferred to Citadel Station 01.07.1864; branch from Drumburgh to Port Carlisle closed 01.06.1932

See also Canal; Railways-Silloth

CN 25.11.1950 p4 CN 20.03.1964 p14 (illus)

CJ 23.02.1954 p1 Road widening

CN 27.02.1954 p3 Road widening

CN 13.08.1993 p4 (illus) Cottage memories

CN 14.06.1996 D Perriam on the history of the line to 1914 explaining the use of Dandy coaches, No 1 having been built for the North Berwick branch and coming to Port Carlisle in 1859

CN 04.02.2000 p16 Threat to Solway railway remains

 

RAILWAYS; ‘ROCKET’ see ‘ROCKET’

 

RAILWAYS; ROYAL SCOT

CN 25.11.1933 photo of Driver Gilbertson and Fireman Jackson

CN 09.12.1933 p9, 18 (illus) Carlisle Fireman and Driver go to USA with Royal Scot

CN 21.02.1948 p4 Royal Scot - revival of name

 

RAILWAYS; SAINT NICHOLAS CROSSING see also RAILWAYS; ACCIDENTS

Carlisle Examiner 04.09.1858 p3c,d Most dangerous to public

 

RAILWAYS; SETTLE AND CARLISLE

First passenger traffic 01.05.1876

CN 19.04.1974 p10 (illus) Settle and Carlisle line

CN 04.05.2001 p7 125th Anniversary

CN 22.02.2002 p6 9.49am Leeds Carlisle will not be restored until June

CN 16.04.2004 p14 Arriva Trains Northern lose franchise

CN 04.03.2016 p1 Massive landslide will close line for 12 months. Slip at Eden Browns, Armwathwaite

CN 07.04.2017 p23 Resumption of normal services. Flying Scotsman marks the day

19.10.2022 Derailment of freight wagons at Petteril bridge closes both the Newcastle and Carlisle and Settle and Carlisle Railways. Closure expected until at least early December

 

RAILWAYS; SILLOTH LINE

Silloth to Drumburgh opened 28.08.1856; services transferred from Carlisle Canal Station to Citadel Station 01.07.1864; closed 06.09.1964

04.08.1911 4,297 people to Silloth, breaking previous records

CJ 13.05.1921 p4

CJ 01.06.1928 Sister Lillie pictured with a group of poor children whom she took to Silloth on the train

CJ 26.11.1954 p1 (illus) Diesel train to Silloth

CN 26.11.1954 p1 (illus) Diesel train to Silloth

CN 15.08.1997 Details of camping coaches at Silloth and their fate

 

RAILWAYS; SLAUGHTERHOUSES

City Minutes 1919-20 p231NER/Midland Slaughterhouses; license only to Dec 21

Sanitary Condition of City of Carlisle 1920 p 102

Sanitary Conditions of the City of Carlisle 1919 p99 Closed by Ministry of Food

City Minutes 1921-22 p92 NER/ Midland licence extended for 3 months; p352

City Minutes 1921-22 p487 Midland renewed; no renewal for NER

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1927 p82 Figures for last 5 years

 

RAILWAYS; SLEEPER SERVICES

CN 17.03.1995 p9 End of line for sleeper

CN 19.05.1995 p6 Sleeper to go

 

RAILWAYS; SPORTS AND ATHLETICS CLUB (GILLFORD PARK)

CJ 15.10.1965 p15

CJ 28.11.1947 p1 Acquisition of sports ground

CN 22.05.1948 p5 Gillford Park opened

CJ 25.05.1948 p3 Gillford Park opened

 

RAILWAYS; STATIONMASTERS/ SUPERINTENDENTS

James Spiers 1847-1853; Thomas Jones 1853-1875; Edward Preston 1875-1888; William Jamieson 1888-1897; William Haythornthwaite 1897-1910; Nicol Campbell 1910-1932; W Soden 1932-1939; T Creighton 1939-1943; HS Turrell 1943-1946; F Shelley 1946-1952; TC Richards 1952-1958; James Leslie 1958-1966

Images of Carlisle Cumberland p61 Photo of Jimmy Leslie, last stationmaster

CJ 28.07.1967 p2 List of stationmasters from Campbell-Shelley

 

RAILWAYS; STEAM

CN 05.01.1968 p8 (illus) Last steam train

 

RAILWAYS; STRIKES

ENS 30.05.1955 p1 935 city railmen on strike

CN 12.12.1997 p3 Christmas shoppers face strike as rail union delivers ultimatum

 

RAILWAYS; SUNDAY TRAINS

Carlisle Examiner 04.09.1858 p3d,e

Carlisle Examiner 07.10.1858 p2d Sunday trains on the L&C

Carlisle Examiner 19.10.1858 p3b Sunday trains on the L&C

 

RAILWAYS; TOTAL OPERATIONS PROCESSING SYSTEM (TOPS)

CN 31.10.1975 p18

 

RAILWAYS; TICKETS

Cumbria April 1967 p34 (illus) First ticket machine

 

RAILWAYS; TIMETABLE

CN 26.02.1988 p7 Big boost in train services (new timetable)

 

RAILWAYS; TRAVELLING POST OFFICE

See also Mail Trains

CJ 10.04.1847 p2e Travelling Post Office in L&C on 8th May

1861 census W.Elphinstone, 30, letter sorter travelling PO, home 14 Portland Pl

CN 29.03.2002 p22 Carlisle’s Travelling Post Office to be phased out

CN 09.01.2004 p12 Last service tomorrow

CN 21.05.2004 p5 May return after problems with air and road deliveries; p7 pic

 

RAILWAYS; UPPERBY RAIL DEPOT

CN 10.11.1967 p1 CN 17.11.1967 p1 CN 24.11.1967 p12 CN 22.12.1967 p12

H.Routledge Steam City Carlisle. 2007 2BC 625 pp28 - 34 Photos of Upperby MPD in 1950s and 1960s

CN 05.01.1968 p8 (illus)

ENS 25.03.1963 p1 Closes

ENS 08.08.1964 p1 Rail crash

CN 21.06.1991 p19 Railway action

CN 28.06.1991 p3 Jobs safe - British Rail

CN 23.12.1993 p1 Standing station

CN 19.08.1994 p1 Fight is on for 100 rail jobs

CN 09.09.1994 p12 Freight hope for line

CN 11.11.1994 p1 Rail talks enter second day

CN 18.11.1994 p10 (illus) Ghost train

CN 18.11.1994 p15 Last ditch rail depot talks fail

 

RAILWAYS; UPPERBY SHED

Carlisle Journal of September 1847 mentions a Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Shed; roundhouse built 1948 and demolished 1978 [CN 09.09.2005 p6]

British Railways Illustrated Vol 14, no 10 July 2005 pp416 - 425 Rebuilding Upperby Shed [1940s onwards]

 

RAILWAYS; VIADUCT GOODS YARD

Carlisle in Camera 1 p48 Photo across yard

 

RAILWAYS; VICTORIA VIADUCT

Opened 20.09.1877

 

RAILWAYS; VIRGIN TRAINS

See also West Coast Main Line

First Virgin cross country service in Carlisle from Edinburgh 06.01.1997

CN 10.01.1997 p5 When Branson’s Virgin rolled into Carlisle

CN 24.10.1997 p4 (illus) City shops to lure Xmas shoppers with rail deals

CN 28.11.1997 p2 Strained train bosses pledge to get better

CN 27.10.2000 p3 We can’t cut fares we’re full; Virgin

CN 10.11.2000 p5 Virgin hits back and gets its own fares wrong

CN 15.06.2001 p13 Letters complaining about Virgin service on West Coast Line

CN 13.07.2001 p1 Virgin cuts London fare

CN 13.07.2001 p12 140mph trains for 2002 on WCML; but present service awful

CN 03.05.2002 p3 Better service promised with Pendolinos, but prices will rise

 

RAILWAYS; WAVERLEY LINE

First sod from Carlisle to Hawick cut 07.09.1859; 01.08.1862 line opened throughout; closed 06.01.1969

CJ 15.01.1861 Building of bridge over Eden

CJ 12.06.1863 Train started from Kingmoor to Edinburgh saving one quarter of the fare of the third class ‘because of the exorbitant charge of the Caledonian Railway for the transit over their loop’

CN 14.10.2005 p13 Letter concerning reopening of line

CN 27.08.2010 p5 Call to reopen Carlisle’s disused Waverley viaduct; letter p13

 

RAILWAYS; WEST COAST MAIN LINE

See also Lancaster and Carlisle Railway; Virgin Trains

CN 31.05.1947 p5 (illus) Carlisle to Euston

ENS 26.09.1964 p1 Electric trains for Carlisle

CN 31.01.1997 p3 MPs alarm at tycoons bid for West coast line

CN 27.10.2000 p3 It’s time to renationalise Railtrack says MP after week of delays

CN 27.10.2000 p12 Story behind 179 cracks on Carlisle Glasgow line

CN 01.12.2000 p5 Only 5 Saturday trains to London from Carlisle - normally 10

CN 05.10.2001 p3 Glimpse of Virgin’s tilting train, Pendelino, at Citadel Station

CN 12.10.2001 p14 (illus) Tilting trains on trial in Cumbria

CN 21.06.2002 p3 Line closed after derailment at Gretna of timber wagons

CN 11.10.2002 p3 Decision to restrict speed to 125 mph after upgrade criticised

CN 03.09.2004 p1 New timetable on 29.09; Carlisle-London 3hrs 23mins

CN 31.03.2006 p5 Fastest Carlisle to London 3 hrs 13 minutes; but they want under 3 hrs

CN 29.09.2006 p20 New speed record; non-stop Glasgow to London, 3hrs 55 mins

 

RAILWAY TAVERN Botchergate; in local directories 1869 to 1914; closed 1917

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, pp76-7

CN 13.09.1991 p4 (illus) CN 29.11.1991 p4 (illus)

 

RAILWAY TAVERN Collier Lane

 

RAINBOW SOFT PLAY see LOWTHER ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

 

RAINE, Robert and Co Botchergate; Warwick Road

Born Edenhall. Gunsmith and fishing tackle [Robert Raine set up in business in circa 1915; after his death in 1943 the business was sold to C.L.Atkinson, who continued to trade under the name of Raine; Cyril Atkinson traded until 1990]

M.Edwards Our City Our People p23 Short memory circa 1900

All About Carlisle 1934 Ad p63 At the sign of the record Eden salmon 56 lbs

CD 1952 Ad p311

CD 1966-68 Ad pp96, 266

Carlisle Natural History Society Vol xiii, p117

 

RAINFALL see WEATHER

 

RAISELANDS ROAD CHILDRENS HOME

CN 24.11.2000 p2 Children’s home is closed down for refurbishment

 

RAMSAY, T 54 Castle Street

M442 p38 Business cards for chemist and druggist

 

RAMSHAY LANE, Botchergate On the 1851 census a William Ramshay, retired grocer, aged 71, born Alston, is living here; a Botchergate placename noted on the 1841-1871 census returns

 

RANDALL COURT, Randall Street [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory lists after 35 Randall Street

 

RANDALL PLACE, 4 Randall Street [1880 Directory]

 

RANDALL STREET So named in 1858 directory; Randall was the maiden name of Mrs Charlotte Dixon, who gave her name to Charlotte St

City Council Minutes 1898/99 p70 Approval for 6 houses

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

 

RANDLESONS LANE; North-east end of Botchergate, between Russell Street and Saddle Lane. So marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2

1861 census Agnes Randleson, 39, living Randlesons Lane, proprietor of houses, born Longtown.

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 31 Botchergate

 

RANGE

CN 20.07.2007 p 20 Leisure and garden centre to open on July 20th

 

RAPE

CN 09.08.1991 p7 County rape crisis helpline

 

RAPER, Geoge Mon. Insc. St Mary’s Church [Cathedral] No68; builder of this city died 01.09.1820

 

RAPER, George 14 London Road

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p11 cabinetmaker, upholsterer

1861 census, cabinet maker, 20, employing 4 men, bn Carlisle, home London Rd

 

RAPER, Thomas Stonemason employing 2 apprentices, aged 45, born Carlisle, home address London Road [1851 census]; stone cutter, aged 55, employing 2 men, born Carlisle, home address London Road [1861 census]

 

RAT CATCHER

CJ 22.05.1942 p3 Carlisle’s rat catcher ‘called up’

 

RATCHFORD,J.C. Newtown Road

Catering services

CD 1952 Ad p277

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p231

 

RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION Founded January 1963; disbanded February 1964

CN 28.02.1964 p3 CJ 20.03.1964 p8

 

RATES

See also Council Tax

CN 12.11.1938 p13 Letter complaining of high rates in city

 

RATHBONES BAKERY Durranhill; formerly Robertsons

CN 25.02.2005 p1 Bakery employing 196 burns down

CN 08.04.2005 p3 ‘Unfair dismissal’ claims

CN 07.10.2005 p3 Compensation for workers

CN 14.10.2005 p2 Staff may never get payout as bakers is in administration

 

RATHBONE CHARITY

CN 12.03.2010 p7 New centre opened in Lorne Street for children with learning difficulties

 

RATIONING

CN 16.10.1992 p4 Coping with wartime food rationing

 

RATS

City Minutes 1920-21 p 627 Advertise bounty of 2d per rats head killed in city

Sanitary Conditions of the City of Carlisle 1930 p96 Rats and mice destruction in city

CN 31.10.2008 p21 Rat infestations in Carlisle up 142%

 

RAVEN, Dalton Attorney at law Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

RAVEN NOOK

1880 Directory

City Minutes 1930-31 p323 Purchase of land at Raven Nook for £300

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

City Minutes 1934-5 p92 28 dwellings in progress of erection

 

RAVEN NOOK STEAM LAUNDRY see Carlisle Steam Laundry

 

RAVEN NOOK WOOLLEN MILL Greystone Rd; foundation stone laid 27.05.1850; 21.02.1851 machinery set in motion.

See Hargraves Mill

Carlisle an illustrated history p36 engraving of mill

North Cumberland Reformer 07.01.1892 p6 New Year festivities at Raven Nook Steam laundry

CJ 14.07.1893 p8 Raven Nook Mill to let, as occupied by Carlisle Laundry Company and known as the Raven Nook Woollen Mill

CN 02.11.2001 p7 Rise and fall of Carlisle woollen mill

 

RAVEN STREET

City Minutes 1891-92 p 306 Approval for new street

City Minutes 1898/99 p 342 approval for 13 houses

 

RAY, William Joiner, aged 29, employing 10 men, home address Etterby St, born Stanwix [1851 census]

 

RAYSON, George Joiner employing 1 apprentice, aged 29, born Dublin, home address Brook Street [1851 census]

 

RAYSON, George Soda water and lemonade manufacturer, aged 52, home address 133 Botchergate, born Aglionby [1851 census]

 

RAYSON’S COURT, Brook Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 11 and 35 Brook Street

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 9 -11 and 35-37 Brook Street

1955-56 Carlisle Directory 2 properties listed between 37-41 Brook St

 

RAYSON’S COURT, 5 Drover’s Lane [1880 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory lists after 3 Drovers Lane

 

RAYSON’S COURT, Garden Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 7 Garden Street

 

RAYSON’S COURT, South John Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 37 and 47 South John Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 35-37 and 49-51 South John Street

 

READING SEE LITERACY

 

READING ROOMS

See also BELLE VUE READING ROOM; BREWERY ROW ADULT SCHOOL AND READING ROOM; CALDEWGATE WORKINGMENS READING ROOM; DUKE STREET READING ROOM; JOHN STREET CALDEWGATE WORKING MENS READING ROOM; LORD STREET READING ROOM; KINGSTOWN READING ROOM; LIBRARIES; PARHAM BECK ADULT SCHOOL AND READING SCHOOL; SHADDONGATE ADULT SCHOOL AND READING ROOM; TRINITY BUILDINGS READING SCHOOL

Whellan 1860 p 131

B.Graham Nineteenth Century Self-Help in Education - Mutual Improvement Societies; case study; the Carlisle Working Men’s Reading Rooms, 1983, 71pp

CN 11.08.1967 p10 CN 03.12.1976 P6

CN 13.07.1990 p4 Memories of reading rooms

CN 10.08.1990 p4 Reading room with a place in history

 

READING TRUST LTD Bank Street

Financiers

CD 1931 Ad p236

CD 1934 Ad p150

 

READS Top of Botchergate beside the MIdland Bank

Tailors

The manager’s son told me that circa 1960, he, the son, was taken on in the firm as an errand boy. He was there for a year. Suits were made to measure, including tweeds for women. Only the Manager was allowed to measure the women. Measurements were sent to the Reads work in Leeds to be made up. The finished goods were returned to Carlisle. Any minor adjustments were sent, via the errand boy, to Mr Seminara, local tailor. Mr Seminara was an Italian POW who stayed on in the city. When it was suggested to the manager that monthly payments should be taken he replied ‘No, the suits would have worn out before they were paid off’.

CD 1952 Ad p78

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p264

CD 1955-56 Ad p268

CD 1961-62 Ad p290

 

READY MIXED CONCRETE Kingstown

CN 30.07.1971 p16 (illus)

 

REAH BROTHERS, Motor Agents, 3 Lonsdale Street

Serviced up market cars such as Armstrong Siddeleys [listed in the 1955/56 and 61/62 Carlisle Directories]. A former office employee recalls ‘Reah’s was basically a garage, Armstrong Siddeley approved. Armstrong Siddleys were few and far between in Carlisle. The building must have been a house at one time, with the front taken out to make a business. The original stairs were there, and the office would have been a bedroom, and still had one of the old fireplaces. There was another floor above that but I never went there. The whole thing was extremely dingy. The mechanical work was done in some buildings in the yard. They were probably stables back in the day, and the cars had to drive through an archway from the street [Kangol in Carlisle p5]

 

REAL ALE

CN 07.07.2000 p13 Three letters concerning availability of Real Ale in city

 

REAY, Ernest William Fruit and Veg grower with stall in market

CN 26.06.2009 p4 Obit; he took over the business from his father

 

REAY, J Portland Square; Lismore Street, Broad Street;

Newsagent and stationer

CD 1902-03 Ad p288

CD 1905-06 Ad p130

 

REAY, J Lismore Street, Broad Street

grocer, baker and confectioner

CD 1905-06 Ad p13

 

REAY, John English Street, Lowthians Lane, Botchergate

Wine and spirit merchant

CD 1884-85 Ad p269

 

REAY, William, potato dealer, Willow Holme, 1924 Carlisle Directory. Known locally as Tattie Reay. He’d come around with his horse and cart shouting ‘Tatties’. Personal recollection that he had a farm in Willow Holme and in the 1930s drove his cattle over Caldew Bridge on the way to the Devonshire Walk slaughterhouse. [There was less traffic in those days]

 

REAY and ARMSTRONG Denton Street

Newsagent and stationer

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p276

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p17; interior photo of Reay’s newsagents, 1951

 

RECHABITES CENTENARY

CJ 21.11.1950 p2

 

RECORDERS Farrer Herschell 1873 - 1880; Leofric Temple 1881 - 1891; Alexander Henry 1892 - 1904; Ernest Page 1904 - 1929; Edward Wooll 1929 - 1963; Desmond Bailey 1963 - 1965; George Bean 1965 - 1969; Michael Maguire1970-71

Judge Robert Leech 1985-6; Judge Alistair Bell 1990 - 98; Judge Paul Batty 2012 - 2015

CN 24.02.2012 p3 Tradition revived with honorary Recorder installed

Civic Affairs October 1963 List 2 BC 352; mentioned in Elizabethan bye-laws

CJ 25.10.1963 p8 CN 25.10.1963 p12 CJ 29.11.1963 p10 CN 29.11.1963 p10

 

RECORDS see MUNIMENTS

 

RECYCLING

See also Waste Disposal

CN 01.12.1989 p3 Recycling in pipeline

CN 23.02.1990 p12 City looking into waste recycling

CN 17.07.1992 p7 City set for recycling bonanza

CN 20.11.1992 p18 New recycling points in action

CN 08.04.1994 p7 Let’s recycle that fridge say council

CN 03.01.1997 p5 Turn your Xmas tree into compost

CN 11.07.1997 p15 Green groups waste warning

CN 14.11.1997 p1 (illus) Where there’s muck there’s grass

CN 28.09.2001 p9 Garden waste recycling scheme at Wilowholme

CN 25.01.2001 p6 ‘Green Box’ pilot scheme begins in Carlisle on Monday

CN 01.02.2002 p16 12 tonnes of rubbish recycled in one day with new scheme

CN 24.05.2002 p3 Greenbox scheme too successful; some cutbacks

CN 22.08.2003 p5 Expansion of green box scheme to 38,000 households

CN 12.03.2004 p7 Greenbox recycling scheme to be expanded

CN 26.11.2004 p6 First plastic recycling bank in city

CN 10.03.2006 p6 15,000 plastic bottles recycles per day

CN 04.01.2008 p 6 After Christmas 150 cars per hour at Boustead Grassing

CN 21.01.2011 p9 Televisions and bicycle recycled at Boustead Grassing

 

RED BANK COTTAGES, Currock Road [1880 Directory]

 

REDBANK FIELD

CITY MINUTES 1893-94 p 346 sale to Glasgow and South Western Railway Co. This sale raised £3,700, monies which went towards the new Tullie House development

 

RED BANK ROAD

City Minutes 1892-93 item 180; approval for formation of new road

City Minutes 1893-94 p 244 approval for 15 houses

 

RED BANK SQUARE

1924 Carlisle Directory lists 2 properties

 

RED BANK TERRACE, Off Currock Road

1924 Carlisle Directory lists 1-29 and 2-20

 

RED COW Caldcotes; in local directory for 1858

 

REDCREST Coach holiday specialists

CN 12.01.1990 p8 Ad

CN 11.01.1991 p8 It’s a ticket to ride

CN 18.08.1995 p14 Ad

CN 16.01.1998 p18 Heading for the Costa Brava? Go by supercoach

CN 28.04.2000 p11 Families star in TV show

CN 19.08.2005 p 2 Calls in receivers with debts of £600,000

 

RED CROSS Day centres at Barn Close, Stanwix and Petteril House, Harraby

CN 24.04.1987 p40 Opening

CN 24.08.1990 p4 Volunteers manned the ambulance

CN 31.08.1990 p13 Hospital aid plea

 

REDFERN COURT, Upperby Road Presumably a reference to the State Management architect Harry Redfern

CN 05.06.2015 p25 New development on the site of the former pub the Rose and Crown

 

REDFERN INN Etterby Opened 01.10.1940; named after State Management architect Harry Redfern; designed by Joseph Seddon and built by J and R Bell

CJ 27.09.1940 p1 Opening

CN 28.09.1940 p5 Opening

CJ 04.10.1940 p3 (illus) Opening

Renaissance of the English Public House pp77-78 layout plan of new pub

V.White Carlisle and its Villages p33 Drawing in 1988

Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 pp 181 - 183

 

REDFERN PUBLIC HOUSES Harry Redfern was the Architect to the Central Control Board/ State Management Districts; he designed the following pubs in Carlisle; Apple Tree, Rose and Crown, Coach and Horses, Magpie, the Crown in Stanwix, Malt Shovel, The Crescent, The Cumberland, Horse and Farrier, Cumberland Wrestlers the Earl Grey and the new part of the Green Bank Carleton [Concerning Green Bank see Renaissance of the English Public House p69] ; the Redfern Inn was designed by Joseph Seddon, assistant to Mr Redfern

 

RED GABLES Chatsworth Square; built 1884 for William Hudson Scott, architect G. Dale Oliver; became a school which closed December 1966. Now [2024] flats

CD 1952 Ad p370

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p275

CD 1955-56 Ad p282

CD 1961-62 Ad p296

CJ 30.06.1967 p1 CN 14.07.1967 p12 CN 10.02.1956 p8

CJ 01.05.1885 Acceptance of design for exhibition at the Royal Academy

Building News 13.11.1885 Illustration of design

1891 census; William Scott, 48, printer, bn Carlisle, 4 living in servants

CJ 18.01.1907 William Hudson Scott dies here

1928 Pageant Souvenir; ad Boarding and day school for girls aged 6-18 years

CJ 01.02.1963 p4 Nursery school

ENS 04.10.1966 p1 Red Gables to close

CN 07.10.1966 pp9,12 Closing of school

CN 02.06.1967 p1 For Technical College

CN 16.10.1987 p36 School reunion

 

REDHEAD late HODGSON Devonshire Buildings

Stock broker

CD 1884-85 Ad p258

 

RED LION HOTEL Botchergate; Death notice in the Cumberland Pacquet January 1789 ‘At Brampton, Robert Bick, master of the Red Lion, Botchergate, and common carrier between that city and Brampton’; present hotel built 1894-96; renamed in 1990 County Hotel

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 27 photo of hotel circa 1900

CN 09.08.1974 p7 CN 24.01.1975 p17 CN 18.04.1975 p3

CN 09.04.1976 p1 CN 30.09.1977 p1 CN 20.02.1981 p11 CN 17.07.1981 p1

CN 20.03.1990p4 (illus)

1820 see G.Topping Memories of Carlisle pp132-3 for description in 1820

CJ 27.06.1801 To be let old accustomed house without the English Gates. James Henderson tenant

CJ 07.04.1810 At the house of Peter Edgar known by the sign of the Red Lion...all that large and commodious house situate at the head of Botchergate

CJ 14.04.1810 c1b To be sold

CJ 06.01.1827 p3 John Boustead, butcher, Red Lion Inn, died

1829 Directory p164 Mary Boustead

CJ 19.03.1931 p2 Mrs Boustead; theft of sack of grain

CJ 02.09.1837 Red Lion for sale

CJ 03.07.1847 p3 Rowland Boustead, landlord Red Lion, died aged 43

Wards North of England Directory 1851; ad opposite p 386; Mr Birney

CWAAS, series 2, vol 39 p146 Will of Rowland Boustead of Botchergate, innkeeper and butcher leaving all his property to his brother James

CP 23.12.1854 p1 Ad; Sam Boustead entered in; hotel patronised for 40 years

Carlisle Examiner 29.05.1858 p2 Red Lion recently rebuilt

1861 census Samuel Boustead, butcher and hotel keeper, aged 53, born Carlisle

CJ 24.04.1874 p4 George Hoadby enters

CJ 23.05.1884 p8 Red Lion extensions; tenders invited

CJ 13.06.1884 p8 Red Lion Billiard Room. Alterations now complete

Ca/E4 12227 Alterations, plans, sections, elevations of front door for Samuel Boustead

Ca/ E4/ 1642 1884 New shops and additions to Hotel; sections and elevations

CJ 14.09.1894 p5 Important hotel extension

CJ 29.05.1896 p5 Journal of Decorative Art referring to the remodelling and embellishment of the Red Lion Hotel by Mr Boustead. Mr R.Westray has to be accorded credit for one of the most elaborate and harmonious interior decorations, executed entirely in enamelled tile work of Doulton ware that can be seen in the county. Long description

1901 census August Krside, manager, born Germany

CJ 18.08.1903 p6 Red Lion portico approved

CJ 25.07.1913 p3 Red Lion and all West Walls and Harraby property for sale. No bids

CJ 26.09.1913 p7 62-74 Botchergate, Mr Boustead’s Red Lion unsold

D/Mil/Mounsey 153 Sale particulars of Harraby House and the Red Lion Hotel 1913

DX/ 132 Sale catalogue Red Lion , wine stores, restaurants, five shops, 5, 7, 11, 13, and 15 Botchergate

CJ 31.07.1914 p7 Sam Boustead died 05.05. ;left over £35,194. Sons Samuel and Rowland hotel managers of Botchergate

CJ 28.01.1916 p4 out of all recognition as the inn with the thatched roof in the days of Mary Boustead

CN 29.11.1957 Letter recalling the hotel in the days of Samuel Boustead.

CJ 27.01.1967 p7 Hotel loses star in ratings

CN 28.09.1973 p6 (illus) Billhead

CN 15.03.1974 p1 (illus) Site redeveloped

ENS 10.01.1978 p5 A piece of history

CN 14.08.1981 p20 Redevelopment

ENS 25.09.1986 p1 Quit threat to 40 tenants

ENS 30.09.1986 p1 (illus) Take over by finance company

ENS 22.10.1986 Bedsit tenants told not to pay any more rent to Peter Warwick

ENS 20.11.1986 p3 Owner of Red Lion pub owes £40,000; bedsits above pub row

ENS 08.10.1987 Red Lion sold for £250,000 to 3 local businessmen

ENS 14.04.1993 p1 Boarded up premises on Botchergate affect hotel business

CN 15.03.2002 p20 Sold to Cairn Hotel in 01/1999 after bankruptcy in 1993

CN13.06.2014 p15 Denis Perriam article

 

RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE Without the English-gates

CJ 27.06.1801 p3e Old accustomed house to be let

 

REDMAYNE, S and SONS Tailors; Botchergate, Bank Street, English St; Carlisle shop opened 1878; trade name Durafit

1928 Pageant Souvenir p30 of unnumbered pp; founded by Samuel Redmayne

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p16; photo of English St shop circa 1930

CD 1952 Ad p77

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad pxvi

CD 1955-56 Ad p1

CD 1961-62 Ad p1

John Peel Jottings nos 42,43 1A 9

CJ 07.01.1938 p1

 

REDNESS HALL see GUILDHALL

 

RED STAMP STORE corner of Denton St/ Thomas St

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p15; photo of interior

 

REED and BELL Annetwell Street

Department store

CD 1952 Ad p287

CD 1955-56 Ad p239

CD 1961-62 Ad p268

CD 1966-68 Ad p279

 

REED MILLICAN AND CO Glass merchants

ENS 12.08.1964 p8 CJ 14.08.1964 p10 (illus)

ENS 29.04.1957 p3 Fire

 

REED, J.H. and SONS Edward St, Howe St

Joiners, builders

CJ 03.01.1905 Obit of John Hutton Reed who died at Aglionby Street. Started work on his own about 27 years ago in South Street. Some four years afterwards he moved to Edward Street. He did the joiners work of a large number of buildings in the city including the Lowther Street Board Schools, Ashley Street and Brook Street Infants School, the Electric Lighting Station, the Corporation stores and stables at Bousteads Grassing, the Model Lodging House in Lowther Street, the Bowling Green Hotel, and the Fire Engine Station in Spring Gardens Lane. He erected the new pavilion on the golf course at Silloth, and was engaged in the building of Saint Martin’s Hall at Brampton, and in the alterations and additions which were made to Hayton Hall, Nunwick Hall, Penrith and Netherhall [Cumbria Family History Society newsletter no 145 p6]

CD 1931 Ad p279

CD 1934 Ad p128

CD 1937 Ad p110

CD 1940 Ad p50

CD 1952 Ad p328

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p252

CD 1955-56 Ad p258

CD 1961-62 Ad p281

CD 1966-68 Ad p279

May 1927 Responsible for joinery work at Apple Tree, Lowther Street

 

REED, John Butchers

Carlisle the archive photographs p53 photo of shop on 48 Lowther St

 

REED’S LANE, Rickergate [1847 Directory]. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

REED’S NEWSAGENTS Shadygrove Rd

CN 30.04.2004 p18 Newsagents acquired by Mills Group

 

REEVES, W.H. and SON Scotland Road

Joiners; funeral directors

CD 1931 Ad p315

CD 1934 Ad p313

CD 1937 Ad p177

CD 1940 Ad p320

CD 1952 Ad p252

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p243

CD 1955-56 Ad p247

CD 1961-62 Ad p280

CD 1966-68 Ad p278

 

REFLECTOR or CARLISLE ESSAYIST Printed and published by John Jollie

CJ 04.02.1818 p1a Ad First issue to be published

 

REFORM BILL 1819

CN 23.03.1990 p4 Reform bill celebrated by artisans

 

REFORMATORY Stanwix; Cumberland Reformatory opened October 1854; closed 1883; It consists of a chapel, schoolroom, dormitory, workshop, store room etc. The industrial training consists of farm work, gardening tailoring and shoemaking. There is a brass band in connection with the institution [1880 Directory]. Reformatory building today [2023] used by Art College

D Perriam Stanwix p104 Set up by George Head Head, the reformatory was to house 30 to 40 of the worst young scamps in the north drawn from an area not only covering Cumberland and Westmorland but also parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. To qualify for entry the boys had to be previous offenders who had been to prison. They had to be under 16 and stay in the reformatory for no less than 2 years and no more than five. The first governor was Mr Connell. Boys were taught gardening, farm work, shoemaking and tailoring. With the opening of the Cumberland Industrial School at Cockermouth the Carlisle Journal reported in December 1882 that Mr MacInnes has given notice of his intention to discontinue the Stanwix Reformatory. From 1855 to 1881 the reformatory received 291 boys; of the 282 discharged 71 were sent to employment or service, 136 to friends, one emigrated, three went to sea, 17 enlisted, nine discharged on account of disease and two are incorrigible, 19 transferred, nine died and 15 absconded, nine being transferred before the school closed

CP 27.12.1862 p5 CN 04.01.1957 p8 ENS 11.05.1984 p4

Carlisle Examiner 25.11.1858 p2d Details of Reformatory

Carlisle Examiner 28.12.1858 p3 b,c Christmas Day

Carlisle Examiner 05.07.1859 p2e Inquest on sudden death of Reformatory Master

CJ 04.01.1861 41 in annual visit

1861 census George Crowther, Governor, 40 inmates aged 13 – 18

CJ 21.09.1880 Assault on governor; see below

CJ 09.10.1880 Mutiny in Reformatory. Eight boys charged with conspiring to assault George Crowder, the governor of Stanwix Reformatory. A lad named Clyde who had run away a few weeks ago, had been captured and flogged, the prisoners planned an attack upon the governor. They secreted sticks in their bedrooms, and when the Governor entered to read to them turned out the gas and violently assaulted him, rendering him insensible after threatening murder

Penrith Observer 05.10.1880 Boys remanded in custody

Lancaster Gazette 23.10.1880 Boys found guilty

CN 04.05.1956 p10 Built as reformatory for boys

CN 06.07.1984 p22 Reformatories were ruled with a rod of iron

CN 09.02.2001 p9 Story of Reformatory; article by Denis Perriam

CN 09.02.2007 p37 Stanwix Reformatory by Denis Perriam

 

REFUGEES

See also Basques; Bosnian refugees

ENS 15.08.1945 p1 and following Photos of refugees arriving from Prague;

CJ 17.08.1945 p1 WW2; Child survivors of the Holocaust arrive at Crosby airport

M.Gilbert Never Again; history of the Holocaust, Harper Collins, pp156-7 Excellent quality photographs of 1945 refugee children arriving at Carlisle airport

CN 19.01.2007 p34 Holocaust refugee recalls his arrival at Carlisle in 1945 in film

CN 14.02.2003 p8 Belgian refugees housed at Rickerby House; 26.11.1914 44 arrive

2023 Refugees currently being housed in former Cumbria Park and Hill Top Heights hotels

 

REFUSE

See also DUST CARTS

CJ 16.11.1888 p5 Levelling of Bitts; tip for rubbish is now on the Bitts

Council Minutes 17.05.1889 item 214 p 147 1,690 ashpits in city

City Minutes 1903-04 p187 Brick fields, Botcherby and Sheepmount now used

City minutes 1910-11 p417 Areas refuse tipped

Sanitary Conditions of the City of Carlisle 1919 p 85 Details of refuse collections

Sanitary Conditions of the City of Carlisle 1930 p95 Removal and disposal of house refuse

1931 Report of Sanitary Administration for Carlisle p 76 Staff of 46 for refuse removal and disposal

CN 30.06.1989 p27 Fury as 70 jobs to go in bins

CN 17.11.1989 p1 Too few binmen claims ex-boss

CN 22.02.1991 pp1,10 Bin firm may dump Carlisle

CN 08.03.1991 p25 Bin cleaning won’t stop

CN 17.01.1992 p3 Law threat in battle of bins

CN 07.02.1997 p5 Skip scheme

CN 26.4.2002 p6 History of refuse collection in city

CN 30.09.2005 p1 Weekly collections may be scrapped

CN 07.10.2005 p13 Letters concerning threatened reduction in collection

CN 16.06.2006 p21 Switch to fortnightly collections from next year

CN 29.12.2006 p1 240 litre wheelie bins, fortnightly delivery; scheme start mid March

CN 12.01.2007 p17 6,000 city homes will still get weekly collection; terraced housing

CN 06.04.2007 p3 New rubbish collection routines; fortnightly wheelie bins

2023 Fortnightly collections; one week black wheelie bin for general household rubbish and green wheelie bin for garden waste [garden waste collection in the winter months less frequent] and other week green sacks, one for newspapers, one for plastics and green box for tins and glass bottles

 

REGAL CINEMA Caldewgate. First noted in the 1934 Cumberland Directory

CJ 09.02.1962 p6 (illus) CJ 30.03.1962 p1

CN 07.10.1994 p12 Fury over nightclub plan

CN 14.10.1994 p13 Club plans dropped

 

REGENT STREET Off Blackwell Road. First noted on the 1851 census

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

 

REGENT TERRACE; by Gloucester Rd Noted on the electoral registers from 1895 - 1906

 

REGIONAL ASSEMBLY

CN 16.08.2002 pp1,3 Carlisle would lose out in regional assembly for North West

CN 23.08.2002 p13 Letters concerning North East/ North West debate

 

REGISTRY OFFICE Portland Square

CN 26.03.1993 p3 On the move

CN 18.03.1994 p4 Last wedding at old registry office

CN 01.04.1994 p2 Smart new registry office in business

CN 18.10.1996 p1 Rethink over register office closure

CN 13.09.2002 p4 Margaret Paddock leaves after 35 years as a registrar

CN 17.02.2012 p23 New Registry Office opens at Lady Gillfords with first wedding

 

REID, William Bank Street

Ladies and children's outfitters

CD 1902-03 Ad p285

CD 1920 Ad p62

CD 1924 Ad p252

 

REID FURNITURE Crown Street

CN 06.02.2004 p14 New manager, Caroline Charlton, 2nd anniversary last month

 

REID’S COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 140 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 138-140 Milbourne Street

 

REIVER HOUSE in the grounds of the Cumberland Infirmary to close as a community hospital [CN 06.06.2014 p1]

 

RELATE

CN 15.03.1991 p7 Marriage guidance aid plea

CN 03.03.1995 p14 Helping the young when parents split

 

RELATIONSHIPS

CN 01.11.1996 p10 Young free and sad?

 

RELIEF OF MAFEKING CELEBRATIONS

CN 18.09.1987 p4 An historic celebration

 

RELIEF ROAD see BYPASS

 

RELIGION

Carlisle Examiner 19.10.1858 p2f Religious make up of Carlisle in 1769 - letter

CP 10.01.1873 Statistics of Church and Dissenters in Carlisle

CN 25.06.1999 p2 Muslim plan for prayers

 

RELPH, George and Henry 68 Scotch St

M442 p23 Business receipt for linen and woollen draper

 

RELPH, Henry Linen and woollen draper employing 3 boys, aged 21, born Carlisle, home address Chapel St [1861 census]

 

RELPH, James Draper; son of Henry Relph, the father being for many years draper at corner of East Tower St and Rickergate Brow; son started business on his own in the English St former premises of Thomas Dugdale; died 29.05.1894 aged 45 [Obit of James Relph CJ 29.05.1894]; 1891 census James Relph , 42, general draper, home Victoria Place, born Carlisle

 

RELPH, John

CP 13.11.1819 p2 Ad Woollen draper bankrupt

 

REMAND HOME

CJ 08.05.1942 p3 For Carlisle

CN 09.05.1942 p3 Provision for within the county

 

REMAP

CN 03.06.2005 p2 Group make gadgets for disabled wins award

 

REMAX Lowther Street

CN 19.01.2007 p24 Opens; selling properties abroad

 

REMEMBRANCE SERVICES see ARMISTICE DAY

 

RENAISSANCE VISION

CN 27.01.2006 p1 Details of proposals to be unveiled by John Prescott

CN 03.02.2006 p3 Residents in Corporation Rd fear their properties will be demolished

CN 10.02.2006 p13 Letters concerning Renaissance Vision

CN 03.03.2006 p1 Public support for Renaissance proposals

CN 08.09.2006 pp1,3 and 12pp supplement Details of Renaissance plan unveiled

CN 22.09.2006 p6 Residents plead to planners, ‘Don’t knock down our homes’

CN 29.09.2006 p5 1500 people give views on Renaissance project; p13 letter against

CN 12.01.2007 p5 Corporation Rd resident won’t budge, even for the ‘Renaissance’

CN 02.02.2007 p14 Renaissance project plans unveiled

CN 09.02.2007 p5 Consultants raise doubts about council’s ability to carry through Renaissance project

CN 23.02.2007 p9 Rickergate residents fight to save homes from ‘Renaissance

CN 07.03.2008 p45 Labour demand Renaissance rethink

CN 11.04.2008 p11 Government inspector’s report critical

CN 02.05.2008 p1 Council buys first properties under Renaissance scheme

CN 16.05.2008 p 12 Feature on Renaissance scheme

CN 18.07.2008 p1 New Renaissance chief calls for rethink on plans

CN 15.08.2008 p5 David Cameron in city; he says ideas for renaissance should come from the people

CN 12.09.2008 p1 Save our Streets campaign. Confirmed that Renaissance scheme plans to bulldoze streets has been dropped

CN 09.01.2009 p12 Feature on what happened to the Renaissance scheme

CN 21.08.2009 p13 Letter concerning the Renaissance scheme

CN 22.01.2010 p 5 Renaissance bill so far is £6.6 million

CN 12.02.2010 p1 Renaissance scheme should be wound up; feature pp 4-5

CN 18.06.2010 p1 Carlisle Renaissance initiative about to be wound up

CN 15.10.2010 p3 Final bill for Renaissance scheme £8m

 

RENAULT TRUCKS CARLISLE Kingstown Industrial Estate

CN 16.02.2001 p14 named Renault’s Service Dealer of the Year

 

RENEE’S BEAUTY PARLOUR Junction Newtown Rd/ Lawson St

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p12; 1937 exterior view

 

RENNIE

Carlisle an illustrated history p37 illus of longcase clock by Rennie

1829 Directory p167 James Rennie, Scotch St., watch and clockmaker

1851 census, James Rennie, watchmaker, born Carlisle, home 11 Scotch St

 

RENNIE’S COMMERCIAL TEMPERANCE HOTEL; Market Place

1861 Morris, Harrison and Co ad p12 Established 1853, late Duncan’s

 

RENNI[E]SON’S COURT, Robert St

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 Nos 1,2 and 3 unfit for human habitation

1880 Directory 8 Robert Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 2-8 Robert Street

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 Nos 1,2 and 3 unfit for human habitation

 

RENNISONS LANE, Botchergate [1829 and 1847Directories]

 

RENTON TRANSPORT

CN 25.02.1994 p3 Manager sacked by his father

 

RENTS TRIBUNAL - for the North West

CJ 10.01.1947 p3 First sitting

 

RENUCCI’S FISH AND CHIP SHOP Denton Holme

The 1939 Register lists Feruccio Renucci at 112 Denton Street, born 15.10.1901 as a fish and chip dealer. Argene Renucci, born 18.04.1909 is at this address as a fish and chip shop assistant. Umberto Ennini, bn 09.05.1919 is also here as a fish and chip shop assistant

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen p21 1930s description

 

RENUMBERING OF HOUSES

CN 05.10.1973 p6 Renumbering of houses in 1891

CN 31.05.1991 p4 Number changes

CN 07.10.2011 p34 Castle Street was renumbered in the 1870s, no 10 becoming no 17

 

RESERVISTS

CN 11.10.1968 p12 (illus)

 

RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION see STANWIX AND DISTRICT RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

 

RESURRECTION MEN

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 8 pp134-140

CN 15.01.1965 p12 CN 04.02.1977 p6

CP 29.11.1823 p2 Stanwix church yard

CP 13.12.1823 pp2,3 Exhumation of dead bodies

CP 20.12.1823 p3 Letter. On Saturday a grave was opened in St Mary’s churchyard, when it was found that the body of a soldier, who had belonged to the 65th Reg, lately recruiting in the city, had been carried off

CP 20.12.1823 p2 Resurrection men

CP 27.12.1823 p3 Leaving Carlisle

Erland Fenn Clark Truncheon Their Romance and Reality, 1935, pp132-3 Photo of watchmen’s truncheons carried by the donor whilst guarding the St Mary’s Churchyard against ‘Body Snatchers’, 20.75 inches. Now in Carlisle Museum

CJ 12.03.1831 p3 Resurrection men made appearance in the neighbourhood. Strict watch kept in churchyards in our city; they have been unable to do their business here, but on Tuesday week 3 men disturbed in Stanwix churchyard by a friend of the late Samuel Boustead of Rickerby buried that day...only part of the earth removed and made off.

ENS 05.08.1978 p8 (illus) The grave robbers

CJ 21.02.1933 Registers show that on one night 4 watchmen were set for body snatchers

CN 30.03.1990 p4 City on alert for body snatchers

CN 04.06.1999 p9 City’s own invasion of bodysnatchers

 

REVENUE

CN 24.05.1974 p6 In 1836

 

REX CINEMA/ BINGO Denton Holme; originally called the Star when opened in 1912. It became the Rex Cinema in 1938

See also Star Cinema

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p77

CIC2 pp42-43

CJ 21.06.1960 To close

CJ 26.01.1962 p1(illus) Bingo and cinema

ENS 02.04.1962 p1 Rex goes over to ‘Bingo’

CJ 06.04.1962 p9 Total bingo

CN 13.07.2001 p6 Carlisle woman wins £34,000 at Rex

 

RHYTHM OF LIFE Events Management Company

CN 26.08.2005 p 22 Turnover up 50%; founded 1997

CN 31.10.2008 p2 Becomes Rhythm Group after going into administration

 

RIBBLE BUS SERVICES Ribble arrived in city summer 1929; 31.08.1931 bus services in Carlisle taken over by Ribble; opened new bus station on Lowther Street 07.06.1935; new garage opened Willowholme on 05.11.1986; Ribble Bus Services taken over in city by Cumberland in 1986

City Minutes 1929-30 p661 Licensed services listed

01.11.1931 Ribble took over local bus services

CN 22.10.1976 p44

CN 16.01.1998 p11 A transport of delight for surviving Ribble drivers

 

RIBBLE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB

CN 18.01.1936 p6

CJ 10.09.1948 p3 (illus) War memorial tablet

 

RICHARD III BOARS HEAD BADGE - DEVONSHIRE WALK

CN 05.08.1950 p4

 

RICHARD ROSE ACADEMY Replacing NCTC and St Aidans School September 2008 on NCTC Harraby site where they will be based for 2 years before moving back to a new building on the St Aidan’s site. The Sixth Form is remaining on the city centre site. The Richard Rose Academy is also taking over Morton School. End of 2010 relocation to new site on Lismore Place

CN 09.10.2009 p14 Building work starts on Richard Rose Central Academy [ex St Aidan’s site]; Kier Construction

CN 08.10.2010 p16 Lismore Place building will be handed over on Christmas Eve

CN 07.01.2011 p5 Years 10 - 13 welcomed into £31m new building

 

RICHARDSON, George Timber merchant, aged 43, born Langley, Durham, home address St Nicholas [1851 census]

 

RICHARDSON, J Scotch Street

M442 p4 Business card for Tailor

 

RICHARDSON, J 3 Botchergate

CP 23.08.1872 p1 To sell business and stock of late Mr J.Richardson, watchmaker

 

RICHARDSON, J and R Devonshire Walk

Engineers

CD 1884-85 Ad pvi

CD 1893-94 p214 Ad for C.H.Bray, Devonshire Walk, late J and R Richardson’s

 

RICHARDSON, John Winnowing machine maker employing 3 men and 2 boys, aged 36, born Chollerton, home address Brunton Place [1861 census]

RICHARDSON, John London Road

Corn and seed dressing machines

CD 1893-94 Ad p138

 

RICHARDSON, Joseph Warwick Road

Fish game and poultry

CD 1924 Ad p286

CD 1927 Ad p296

 

RICHARDSON, Joseph T Fisher Street

Upholsterer and cabinet maker

CD 1905-06 Ad p9

 

RICHARDSON, Thomas English Street

Ironmonger and jeweller

CP 31.07.1819 p2d Commencement of business

 

RICHARDSON, William Ironmonger, aged 43, employing 2 assistants, born Whitehaven, home address 13 English Street [1851 census]

 

RICHARDSON, William English Street

Ladies and Gents tailoring

CD 1902-03 Ad p32

 

RICHARDSON’S COURT, 29 Brook Street [1880 Directory]

 

RICHARDSON STREET First noted on 1894-5 electoral register; Carlisle Health Committee minutes of 23.12.1892 refer to J and M Richardson who were owners of land in this area

CJ 04.02.1876 p8 Tenders for making road 100 yards from Norfolk Street to foot of road to Carlisle Cemetery

City Council 16.04.1886 19/724 Houses on street to be called Richardson St

City Minutes 1928-9 p442 Cemetery Rd to become continuation of Richardson St

Denton Holme Childhood, Babs Cullen photo p28-9; street in 1930s

 

RICHARD STREET Gave access from Milbourne Street to Brewery Row; in directories from 1858 and in voters’ list to 1960

City Minutes 1935/36 p64 1 - 11 unfit for human habitation

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p117 Photo of slum property in 1937

 

RICHMOND, E and P Lowther Street

Dentist

CD 1880 AD pxxviii

30.05.1884 E.P.Richmond died 76 Lowther St [Monumental Inscriptions 7/14]

 

RICHMOND GREEN Morton West Housing Estate

CN 06.08.1971 p1 (illus)

CN 02.09.1994 p11 Street row councillor may not stand again

 

RICHMOND HALL Fisher Street; built as Saint Mary’s Parish Rooms; named in honour of the late Canon Thomas Richmond, Canon Carlisle Cathedral and opened by his sister Lady Kennedy. Following renovation it opened as the Brickyard on New Year’s Eve 2002

CN 24.02.1951 p9 (illus) CN 04.11.1955 p10 CN 09.04.1965 p1

CN 04.12.1970 p16 CN 11.12.1970 p12 CN 13.10.1978 p4

CJ 07.12.1906 p6b Laying of foundation stone by Lady Kennedy

CP 07.12.1906 p3 Laying of foundation stone

CN 21.03.1997 p1 Late hours permit

 

RICKERBY

Richard’s farmstead, first noted 1246. English Heritage Listed Buildings site says Rickerby was an estate given by Henry 1st and other land to Richard Tilliol in the early 12th century. It is recorded as Ricardeby in the Calendar of Inquisitions in 1237. Remains of a shrunken medieval village dating from the 11th to the 13th centuries were uncovered during excavations in 2002 next to Rickerby House

 

RICKERBY HOUSE A large part of the nucleus of the estate was formed by the purchase of John Richardson and then his son William who made his fortune in the City of London and used the money to improve the estate in the late 18th century. An indenture dated 1771 appears to record the beginnings of Rickerby House and estate, referring to a house lately erected with a garden and stable. English Heritage listed building site says the landscape park was laid out as the grounds of Rickerby House, a Greek-Revival mansion built in around 1835 around an early or mid-18 century brick house. It is suggested it is 1835 for the banker George Head Head, built around an 18th century brick house. The architect is perhaps Christopher Hodgson. A section of the garden was known to the family as Gurney Terrace, a nod to Head’s second wife Sarah Gurney, daughter of the famous banker and niece of Elizabeth Fry. George Head Head and his wife had no children so the estate was left to a cousin of Mrs Head, Miles MacInnes.

MacInnes married Euphemia Johnston, grand-daughter of Elizabeth Fry’s sister, Hannah. One of six cousins Head felt that MacInnes had been proved and tested and would run a Christian home.1876 - 1909 owned by Miles MacInnes; his son Miles MacInnes inherited and died in Feb 1914, the house being sold to Mason Scott for £7,000. Mason Scott died in May 1916 and the house was offered for sale on October 28th 1916, but did not reach its reserve. Tenders were invited in April 1919 for additions and alterations to Rickerby House which had been purchased by the United Services Fund as a home. It was stated in Feb 1921 that it would be used for children of ex-servicemen who needed a holiday in the fresh air. House again offered for sale in May 1932 and was later bought on behalf of Mr Shepherd Walwyn, with the intention to start a prep school for boys. The school moved to Ecclefechan in the early 1950s and work was undertaken to turn it into a secondary school by Cumberland Education Committee, and Eden School was officially opened on 20.07.1953. The school closed on 31st August 1993. The building was eventually turned into luxury flats [CN 14.05.2010 p32] by Fred Story

See also Eden School; Rickerby Park

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 3 Rickerby House and Park pp46-51

Hutchinson Vol 2, 1794, p584 Mr Richardson built a neat house, laid out gardens

CN 24.07.1970 p14

CP 29.12.1821 p1e Mansion of Richardby to be let; also nineteen acres of rich land

CPacquet 29.05.1832 p1 Ad Manor and Mansion of Richardby; full description of the house....two peach houses, double vinery....of glass.....melon and cucumber beds. Formerly the residence of the late James Graham

14.06.1832 Sale at Bush Inn; bought by Mr Head

CJ 24.10.1865 p2 Owned by G.H.Head

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p77 photo of north lodge in 1835

CN 21.04.1923 Rickerby House and Park

CN 11.01.1957 p8 (illus) House

CN 24.07.1970 Laying out of trees; tries to date house

Country Life 31.08.1989 ‘Dukery of Carlisle’, A .Taylor

CN 29.08.1997 p4 (illus) Knighton’s plan for 15 new homes

CN 27.09.2002 p1 Rickerby House; housing development up for sale; ad p57

CN 08.11.2002 p49 Rickerby House gatehouse for sale

CN 14.02.2003 p8 Belgian refugees housed here; 26.11.1914 44 arrive

CN 28.03.2003 p3 Rickerby Gardens development; prices start from £175,000

CN 14.05.2010 p32 Denis Perriam article on the house

CN 11.05.2012 p8 Feature on house which is for sale for £595,000. Part of Fred Story Rickerby Gardens development which involved renovating the house, converting extensions of 1879 into apartments. Now called Rickerby Manor the property for sale has four bedrooms, entrance hall, library, magnificent staircase, drawing room, dining room, kitchen and spacious first floor landing

 

RICKERBY HOUSE SCHOOL

Private school started 1932 then circa 1953 moved to Ecclefechan and Eden School opened

 

RICKERBY LIMITED Botchergate; Currock; founded 1880 by Joseph Rickerby from Blennerhasset who worked for the firm of Haughton and Thompson, 14 Botchergate, which he eventually bought; 2005 head of company Paddy Rickerby

Agricultural engineers

CD 1955-56 Ad p220

CN 17.06.1977 p13 (illus) CN 30.05.1980 pp11-17 (illus) CN 04.12.1981 p12

CN 28.01.1966 Special supplement (illus)

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p48 Interior and exterior views of new works

CN 26.04.1985 p14 (illus) Horticultural department

CN 09.06.1989 p16 Ad The firm that helps growers harvest a profit

CN 08.06.1990 p10 Farming systems go on trial for all to see

CN 19.04.1991 p11 More city jobs in fuels move

CN 07.06.1991 p18 Story of success down on the farm

CN 25.10.1991 p50 All systems go

CN 25.06.1993 p22 Open day for cereal growers

CN 24.11.2000 p3 Rickerby’s fined £4,000 over safety

CN 02.02.2001 p18 Proposed restructuring

CN 27.06.2003 p18 Deals worth £1.25m; restructuring pays off; 120 year old firm

CN 11.03.2005 Supplement celebrating 125 years

CN 22.01.2010 p 3 Blaze at Currock works

 

RICKERBY PARK Part of estate of George Head Head with a lodge on the junction with Brampton Road, now [2021] demolished. It has been suggested that the lodge was demolished to allow room for the bus servicing Eden School to turn in from Brampton Road. The lodge was in place in an illustration of 1949. The surviving west lodge bears Heads coat of arms and his motto Study Quiet, which is taken from St Paul’s letter to the Thessolonians. The adjoining gateposts is incised Eden School. The east lodge, formerly the Botchergate toll house taken down and moved here; subsequently demolished. It has been suggested that the estate grounds were planted with trees to show the disposition of forces at the Battle of Waterloo. There is no evidence to support this claim; the idea perhaps arises from the fact that James Reginald Torrin Graham, late of Rickerby, served with the Royal Scots when aged 16 at the Battle, the memorial in Stanwix church saying that he was in the charge of the heavy brigade. George Head Head and his wife had no children so the estate was left to a cousin of Mrs Head, Miles MacInnes. One of six cousins Head felt he had been proved and tested in running a Christian home. Bought for the City by Carlisle Citizens League 20.09.1920 ‘in memory of those who gave their lives in the Great War 1914 – 1918’; Suspension Bridge opened 25.05.1922, same date as Cenotaph unveiled; Rickerby Park Garden entrance Memorial unveiled 21.12.1933.

See also Cenotaph; Rickerby House; Suspension Bridge

D Perriam Stanwix p18

Round Carlisle Cross 3rd series pp46-50 Rickerby House and Park

CN 17.09.1938 p17 CN 04.01.1957 p8

CJ 24.10.1865 p2 Owned by G.H.Head

CP 07.11.1873 Find of lead lined oak coffin in Rickerby. Mr Head’s workmen through Rickerby Lodge

175 Years of Carlisle p52 photo of entrance into Park from Brampton Rd 1910?

CJ 22.03.1918 p4 Large number of the larger trees in grounds surrounding Rickerby House have recently been felled; but the appearance of the place has not suffered

City Minutes 1919-20 pp146-7 Report on purchase of Rickerby Park

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

CJ 31.12.1920 p7 Uncovering old road at foot of Greeny Bank. Work starts on Rickerby Park

City Minutes 1920-21 pp77-78 Question of roads and other works

City Minutes 1920-21 pp 339, 595-598 Report on progress of works in park

CJ 08.02.1921 Work for unemployed in Rickerby Park. Roadway along bottom of Greeny Bank. Banked to keep above flood level

CJ 08.04.1921 p6 Rickerby Park new road now completed. Not started on Cenotaph yet

CJ 12.05.1922 p8 Rickerby Park appeal

CJ 14.07.1922 p6 Paths in Rickerby Park to Cenotaph

CJ 27.10.1922 pp7,9 Asphalt path in Rickerby Park. Letter; Has Sir Robert Lorimer been consulted?

CN 21.04.1923 Rickerby House and Park - including landscaping of park in 1832

City Minutes 1924-25 p644 Path to recreation field newly bought by Hudson Scott

CJ 15.06.1928 Photo of re-weiring on Rickerby Park

CJ 14.06.1929 p7 Weiring of Eden; Stoney Holme and Rickerby Park

CJ 01.10.1929 p2 Photo of work on sewage scheme in Rickerby Holme

CJ 29.10.1929 p4 Footpath Greeny Bank Estimated cost of laying out £160

CJ 09.09.1930 p5 Proposed garden entrance from Eden Bridge

City Minutes 1930-31 p95 Letter printed from RG Collingwood. Roman finds Rickerby park

City Minutes 1930 -31 p196 Entrance to Rickerby Park from Eden Bridges; E.P.Mawson

asked to furnish layout and plan

City Minutes 1931-32 pp17 - 27 Report from E.P.Mawson on the site and proposals

CJ 05.12.1933 p4 The new garden entrance. Old material used - red sandstone from gaol, pergola stone from bridge parapet - slate from houses removed to make way for Margaret Creighton Gardens

CJ 22.12.1933 pp8-9 (illus) Opening of Ornamental gardens

CJ 17.03.1939 p13 Letter. What is going to be done about the ARP trenches so hastily dug 6 months ago and left unfinished? At the moment Greeny Bank is disfigured by ditches and stacks of timber. They are flooded and useless.

CJ 06.02.1940 Two pedestrians killed by lorry during black-out hours

City Minutes 1945-46 p430 Huts on Rickerby Park adjoining Stanwix Bank. Military to remove as soon as possible

City Minutes 1946-47 p85 Greenay Bank gun position. Huts should be removed; strong disapproval of them remaining p266 Military hoped to remove buildings at an early date

CN 02.12.1955 p10 Purchased 1920?

CN 09.12.1955 p10 Purchased 1920?

CN 09.10.1959 Photo of last of groynes [wire cages with rocks in] being completed to prevent erosion by River Eden

CN 24.07.1970 Discusses laying out trees in park

CN 14.08.1970 p12 Citizens League bought Park for City

CN 04.11.1988 p13 Treasure trove two set for a windfall

CN 22.02.1991 p1 Show moves to Rickerby Park

CN 19.07.1991 p1 Big show switches onto success

CN 16.08.1991 p3 No cash to buy ground

CN 23.08.1991 p13 Bids for park site

CN 08.01.1993 p7 Park’s jumps within the law

CN 10.06.1994 p1 Bid to revamp city’s Rickerby

CN 30.06.1995 p10 Jobless created city park 70 years ago

CN 01.11.1996 p17 (illus) City leisure boss angry over horse trial switch

CN 30.05.1997 p4 Speed limit

CN 11.07.1997 p15 Clean this muck from our lovely park, says locals

CN 07.12.2001 p13 (illus) Foot/ cycle bridge over Brunstock Beck in place

CN 05.03.2004 p3 Campaign to reduce speed limit through park

CN 14.11.2008 p7 Work underway to restore Eden Bridge Gardens

CN 22.05.2009 p25 Farmer says sheep keep grass down and public must be responsible with their dogs

CN 26.06.2009 p13 Letters concerning cattle in Rickerby Park

CN 23.10.2009 p1 Five year plan to restore park

CN 02.04.2010 p11 Verges damaged by cars, joyriders race on park

CN 30.04.2010 p14 Vision to revamp Rickerby Park

CN 25.02.2011 p22 New iron gates installed to two entrances to park

CN 09.09.2011 p3 Stone circle erected. Seven stones tell story of how the geology formed

CN 25.08.2017 p9 Suspension Bridge closed for vital repairs.

 

RICKERGATE In Vico Ricard noted 1206, from the personal name Richard; documentary evidence points to the existence, from at least the late twelfth century, of a medieval suburb at Rickergate, immediately outside the Scotch Gate [Summerson, 1993 p83] In the Middle Ages Scotch St was a part of Rickergate, which extended from the Market Place in the town centre to the bridge across the river Eden [McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes p65]; The gate tower was used as a city prison from as long ago as 1296 suggests Henry Summerson; the gate tower would have been built of stone. Each night the gates were closed against intruders; the wooden gates were renewed in 1430 and they were reinforced by three iron chains themselves secured by five iron staples. In 1563 it was found ‘needful that Rickergate have a new roof and be covered with lead and thereupon a platform’. There were regular payments by the city to the jailer of Rickergate prison. During the 1745 Rebellion on hearing the rebels had marched out of Edinburgh the gates were immediately walled up, both on the outside and inside of the wooden gates. In the aftermath, heads of executed Jacobites were exhibited over the Scotchgate in 1746. Total abandonment of prison in 1808. February 1815 Scotch Gate taken down [CWAAS 1976 vol 76 p 192] Map published in the Carlisle Journal of 17.10.1835 shows the boundaries of the following city wards; St Cithbert’s, St Marys, Rickergate, Caldewgate, Botchergate

Carlisle: excavations at Rickergate, 1998-9, CWAAS, 2011

see RENAISSANCE PROJECT

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916 p105-117 Pubs

Topping, G and Potter, J.J. Memorials of Old Carlisle p27

CN 02.12.1960 p12 CN 24.02.1961 p10 CN 14.06.1974 p6 CN 28.06.1974 p6

CN 01.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s

City Minutes 1928-9 p361 houses unfit for human habitation

CN 12.05.1951 p5 (illus) In 1860

CN 25.11.1960 p12 Circa 1900

Images of Carlisle p9 Photos of Rickergate in 1960 and 1961

CN 10.03.1961 p12 (illus) In 1901

CN 13.03.1964 pp 4,6 Supp Early Rickergate; demolition for Civic Centre

CN 11.11.1966 p12 (illus) In 1901

CN 26.09.1969 p14 (illus) Early

CN 24.06.1977 p6 (illus) NAFFI Club and John Peel Hut

ENS 17.05.1986 p4 Illustrations

CN 07.09.1990 p4 Street was busy in times long gone

CN 18.01.1991 p4 Veterans memories of a busy old street

CN 28.10.1994 p19 Down your way

CN 04.11.2011 p34 D.Perriam article on history of gate. City prison from as long ago as 1296

 

RIDGEMOUNT ROAD Harraby First appears on electoral register for 1947-48

 

RIDLEY AND DIXONS LTD Pack Horse Lane

Wholesale druggists

CD 1952 Ad p279

 

RIDLEY, Ashton Bridge Street

Stationers

CD 1920 Ad p20

 

RIDLEY, Dawson Lazonby Terrace

Our City Our People p18/9 Description of shops

 

RIDLEY, E Castle Street; Rickergate

Milliner

CJ 18.04.1818 p2c Ad, move from Castle Street from Rickergate

 

RIDLEY, Thomas English Street, Botchergate; Scotland Road

Chemists

Leading Trader of the City Ad p30 A 616

CD 1893-94 Ad pp29-32

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p4, 9 English Street

CD 1902-03 Ad p3

CD 1905-06 Ad p5

CD 1920 Ad p50

CD 1924 Ad p116

CD 1927 Ad p136

CD 1931 Ad p192

CD 1934 Ad p292

CD 1937 Ad p88

CD 1940 Ad p102

CD 1952 Ad p278

CD 1955-56 Ad p235

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p40

CD 1961-62 Ad p45

1891 census; Thomas Ridley, 35, chemist and druggist, home 9 English St, bn Hayton

CJ 14.05.1937 (Back of issue - with Coronation news)

1924 Ridley’s Calendar [an annual publication which ran for many years] Directors Thomas Ridley and Thos M Ridley. Premises at 9 English Street and 6 Botchergate and also taken over the old established chemist’s business of W.H.Younghusband, 14 King Street, Wigton

CN 17.09.1938 p17 Advert

ENS 16.01.1961Supplement New home - history

CN 08.11.1991 p23 GP chemists hit by drug firm collapse

CN 08.11.1991 p11 59 jobs to go

CN 29.11.1991 p5 Redundancy cash for axed workers

CN 06.12.1991 p14 Job loss cash plan

CN 30.08.1996 p1 Old chemists dispense with city shop

 

RIDLEY, W.H. Mount Pleasant Road

Grocers

CD 1952 Ad p308

 

RIDLEY ROAD In 1928 Ridley Road was named after Alderman Tom Ridley, the chairman of the Housing and Development Committee

 

RIDLEY’S HOTEL AND CAFE Botchergate

City Minutes 1932-33 p578 Alterations; owner Mrs Alderson

CD 1952 Ad p315

 

RIDLEYS LANE, Caldewgate

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

RIFLE VOLUNTEERS see CARLISLE VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS

 

RIGG, George Denton St, Butcher Market

Butcher

CD 1893-94 Ad p72

CD 1910-11 Ad p110

 

RIGG, J.F. Castle Street

Umbrella and parasol manufacturer

1847 Directory John Rigg, umbrella manufacturer, 56 Castle Street

1858 Kelly’s Cumberland Directory John Rigg, umbrella maker, 56 Castle St

1873 directory James Rigg, umbrella maker, 50 Castle Street

CD 1880 Ad pxi; established 1814

Bulmer’s 1901 Directory Joseph Foster Rigg, umbrella maker, Brown’s Lane, Fisher St, home 3 Dixon St

 

RIGG, John Mercer of this city died 16.08.1820; Monumental Inscription in St Cuthbert’s Yard

 

RIGG STREET

17.01.1832 Elizabeth Robinson of Rigg Street; Stanwix Death Registers

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 31 Church Street to 22 Shaddongate

Carlisle in Camera 2 p28 View of street about 1900

City Minutes 1925-6 p62 Rehousing to Peel Street

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1928 p24 11 houses completed

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 No 22 unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1931-32 p357 Renumbering of houses in Rigg Street

CN 14.01.2005 p11 Rigg St and the Great Flood of 08.01.2005

 

RIMINGTON BROTHERS Abbey Street

Stores, furnishings, tools, machinery

CD 1893-94 Ad p2

CD 1902-03 Ad p12

CD 1905-06 Ad p110

CD 1907-08 Ad p136

 

RING ROAD Stage 1, Hardwicke Circus and Georgian Way, of the inner ring road began in 1969 and was opened in 1971; stage 2 Castleway was opened in 1974; stage 3 and 4 were abandoned after this

See also BYPASS; OUTER RING ROAD

CAIH p94 RING ROADS

CN 07.11.1969 p2 (illus) CN 07.02.1975 p7 CN 14.02.1975 pp1,11

CN 02.05.1975 p11 CN 23.09.1977 p8 CN 07.10.1977 p8

ENS 18.10.1978 p10 (illus) CN 09.03.1979 p17 CN 16.03.1979 p3

ENS 02.04.1964 p1 Ring Road

ENS 16.05.1964 p1 City choc a bloc

CN 01.12.1967 p14 Inner

CN 18.12.1970 p1a New Harwicke Circus comes into use for the first time today

CN 03.11.1972 p7 (illus) Feature

CN 23.03.1979 p11 Plan

CN 25.09.1981 p3 Outer abandoned

 

RINTONS TEA

CJ 20.11.1964 p7 (illus)

 

RIOTS

Cumberland Pacquet 04.08.1795 p2 Riot over price of corn

Cumberland Pacquet 04.08.1795 p3 Arrest

CP 10.06.1826 p3 Inquest on Isabel Pattinson and Mary Birrell

CP 23.09.1887 p6 Children's riot

CN 28.12.1929 p7 A Carlisle riot (century ago)

CN 27.01.1989 p1City riot case 4 found guilty

CN 03.02.1989 p4 Rioters took over the Market Place

CN 03.02.1989 p10 Keeping law and order

CN 03.02.1989 p14 Crackdown on the city rioters

CN 05.05.1989 p11 City police heroes are honoured

CN 20.04.1990 p4 Police were targets of rioting city mob

CN 17.08.1990 p4 Rioting children shocked city

CN 17.08.1990 p5 City riot in the 19th century

CN 24.01.1992 p4 A squalid life for weavers

CN 31.01.1992 p4 City election rioting quelled by army

CN 07.02.1992 p4 Repeat performance by rioting weavers

CN 21.08.1992 p4 Turbulent times in battle over wages

CN 19.11.1999 pp1,4 3 nights of violence - Currock

 

RIPPONS Warwick Road

Solicitors; established 1975

CN 15.06.2001 p1 Ceases trading

CN 07.12.2001 p1 Probe into Legal Aid money at Rippons; solicitor sought

CN 15.03.2002 p1 Carlisle solicitor claims his partner bankrupted him

 

RISING SUN Rickergate; licence expired February 1907

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916 p106

CJ 29.01.1858 Ad; To let Rising Sun at lower end Scotch Street; open over 50 years

1901 census; Robert Thom, innkeeper, aged 35, born Scotland

CP 05.02.1907 Local Licensing session; 5 fewer pubs than last year

CN 19.07.1991 p4 (illus)

CN 18.02.2011 p32 D.Perriam; history of the pub... First mentioned circa 1807 when the owner was a Gilkerson. Property demolished circa 1929 when new labour exchange being built.

 

RISK MANAGEMENT CENTRE

CN 23.08.1996 p7 Ad

CN 05.03.1999 p3 Award winning company goes bust

 

RISTORANTO ADRIANO Rickergate [formerly the Malt Shovel]

CN 21.05.2004 p8 Ad feature on new restaurant under Franco Bertoletti

 

RISTORANTE ROMA

CN 29.01.1993 p1 Franco plans a granda Roma

 

RITCHIE, George Howard Place; Etterby Scaur

Pianoforte specialists

CD 1952 Ad p212

CD 1955-56 Ad p277

 

RITSON and FOSTERS Henry Street, Warwick Road

Coal merchants and furniture removers

CD 1902-03 Ad p3

 

RITSON Toffee manufacturer

Carlisle Examiner 25.07.1857 p3c Carlisle toffee for Spain

 

RITSON, Fletcher Abbey Street

Chemist and optician

1901 census; Fletcher Ritson, 44, chemist, home Nelson St, born Carlisle

CD 1902-03 Ad p174

CD 1905-06 Ad p109

CD 1907-08 Ad p117

CD 1910-11 Ad p86

CD 1913-14 Ad p78

 

RITSON, John 27 Fisher St

1851 Ward’s Northern Directory Ads p5; confectionery; late Mrs Hornsby

CN 02.04.2010 p34 John Ritson, confectioner, supplied bridecake for HM banquet at Balmoral in Feb 1858

 

RITSON, John Crown St, Cecil Street

Coal merchant and removal vans

CD 1893-94 Ad p66

 

RITSON, William Basketmaker, aged 46, employing 1 man, home address Grapes Lane, born Carlisle [1851 census]; aged 57, employing 1 man, home Carlyles Lane, Castle St [1861 census]

 

RITSON’S LANE, Irishgate Brow [1847 Directory]

 

RITSON’S LANE

27.04.1827 Mary Boyd of Ritson’s Lane; Stanwix Death registers

 

RIVER PLATE FRESH MEAT CO

CN 21.02.1992 p4 (illus) Hunt for shop location

CN 28.02.1992 p4 (illus) Old city butchers shop is located

 

RIVERS

See also Caldew; Eden, Petteril

CN 14.10.1916 p3 Pollution of the Caldew

CN 30.08.1991 p23 Focus on rivers

 

RIVERSIDE HOUSING

After taking over the stock of 7,200 council houses in Carlisle, Riverside, a Liverpool-based social housing charitable registered society, set up the Carlisle Housing Association (CHA) in 2002. In a bid to cut costs in April 2009 it was decided to merge CHA with six others in the North-West, trading as Riverside Housing

 

RIVERSIDE RECRUITMENT Started 1991

CN 09.08.1991 p14 Ad CN 26.01.1996 p39 Ad CN 26.09.1997 p6 Ad

CN 07.09.2001 p17 Ad feature; 10 year celebration

CN 04.03.2005 p6 Feature on Richard Dixon who runs company with Nick Stobbs

CN 21.10.2005 p 42-3 Feature on Riverside Recruitment

CN 04.11.2005 p14 New offices for business after flood

 

RIVER STREET

City Council minutes 12.01.1883 18/570 approval for laying out new street; same minute gives approval, also to Mr Ferguson, for laying out of the adjacent Petteril Street

CP 07.10.1887 For sale recently erected house

 

ROAD ACCIDENTS

See also speed limit

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

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

City Minutes 1924-25 p165 179 accidents caused by cars, carts; 5 fatal

06.09.1929 PC Bell run over and killed by car

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

Chief Constables Annual Report for 1932 p5 276 road accidents in city in 1927, 583 in 1932

CN 22.04.1994 p1 Action pledged on student death road

CN 22.04.1994 p10 Comment

CN 08.08.1997 p1 (illus) Second child on bike killed

CN 15.08.1997 p1 (illus) Two children dead in a week but road safety tests slip

CN 11.12.1998 p1 Teddies and tears in the rain

CN 23.07.1999 p4 Don’t let others suffer

CN 15.10.1999 p1 Cleaners told to scrub out tributes to Cheryl

CN 24.09.2004 p1 Child cyclist killed on Wigton Rd

CN 06.01.2006 p5 Lowther Street revamp after spate of accidents

 

ROAD AND TRACK

ENS 02.02.1967 p9 Ad

 

ROADS

See also BYPASS; BOTCHERGATE - TRAFFIC; RING ROAD; UNADOPTED ROADS; STREET CONSTRUCTION; TOLL; STREETS; TURNPIKES

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

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

CN 16.10.1943 p5 Roads link cultural centre

CJ 27.08.1948 p4 Old road better Carlisle and Penrith

CN 10.11.1989 pp1,52 Hitting traffic chaos for six

CN 10.11.1989 p52 (illus) The road ahead

CN 17.11.1989 p10 Keeping the city moving

CN 01.12.1989 p9 Two schemes to aid the traffic chaos

CN 08.12.1989 p48 Roads plan man invited to talks

CN 23.03.1990 p16 Cutting road toll

CN 05.10.1990 p5 City roads petition is growing

CN 16.11.1990 p44 City industry protest grows

CN 18.01.1991 p3 Snow snarl up sparks roads row

CN 21.10.1994 p1 Castle road tunnel

CN 02.12.1994 p13 Relief road gets go ahead - Botchergate

CN 30.06.1995 p5 Residents to protest - Stanwix

CN 14.07.1995 p4 Big roads change on way

CN 25.08.1995 pp1,10 Eden Bridges busier

CN 06.10.1995 p3 City’s road rage reserved for water workers

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

CN 22.03.1996 p3 City council told whoppers to get cash

CN 04.10.1996 p1 First came road rage... new comes highway happiness

CN 13.06.1997 p1 Road plan privatised

CN 08.08.1997 p3 (illus) The day the bottom fell out of Harold Wilson’s car in Carlisle

CN 24.07.1998 p5 Road plans ‘threat’ to city centre traders

CN 04.02.2011 p3 Poor state of city roads after harsh winter

 

ROAD SAFETY

CN 26.01.1990 p1 Kids dice with danger on road

CN 15.08.1997 p1 (illus) Over worked police wind down kids cycle training

 

ROAD SAFETY WEEK

CJ 10.08.1948 p1 Proposal

CJ 13.08.1948 pp3,5 Proposal

CJ 27.08.1948 p1 Proposal

CJ 03.09.1948 pp1,2 Programme

CJ 17.09.1948 pp1,3 Programme

CJ 21.09.1948 pp1,3 (illus) Programme

CJ 24.09.1948 p1 (illus) Programme

CJ 28.09.1948 pp1,2 (illus) Programme

 

ROADWORKS

See also Traffic schemes

CN 16.11.1990 p1 Roadworks to order

CN 16.11.1990 p10 Roadworks go user friendly

CN 01.12.1989 p1 More roadworks to hit city

CN 19.01.2001 p7 Roadwork chaos as cable companies dig up roads

CN 16.08.2002 p1 Chaos on Warwick Road and Wigton Road

CN 06.12.2002 p1 6 weeks of road misery - major maintenance work

CN 13.12.2002 p5 major roadworks rescheduled

CN 09.01.2004 p3 Three months of disruption; 2 way traffic in Crescent

CN 29.10.2004 p1 Road chaos following roadworks; more to come

CN 10.02.2006 p1 Major disruption as Lowther Street dug up; replacing Victorian mains

 

ROAN, J and E 63 Castle St

1851 Ward’s Northern Directory Ads p3; dressmaking, business of late Miss Watson