Carlisle Encyclopaedia

SIMPSON, J Bank Street

Accountant

CD 1884-85 Ad px

 

SIMPSON, John Lowther Street

Butcher

CD 1931 Ad p116

 

SIMPSON, John Collingwood Street; Blencowe Street; Bedford Road

Joiners and funeral furnishers

CD 1937 Ad p56

CD 1952 Ad p328

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p218

CD 1955-56 Ad p218

CD 1961-62 Ad p281

 

SIMPSON, P Denton Street

Chemist

CD 1893-93 Ad p58

 

SIMPSON, Robert Builder, aged 52, employing 8 men, born Carlisle, home address Simpson Court, Caldewgate [1861 census]

 

SIMPSON, Thomas Bricklayer, died 14.09.1823 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 211]

 

SIMPSON, Thomas

City Minutes 1926-7 p633 Licensed to operate bus service to Botcherby

 

SIMPSONS COURT, Caldewgate

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19

 

SIMPSON’S COURT, Studholme Lane [1934 Directory]

 

SIMPSON’S LANE, Studholme Lane [1880 Directory]

 

SINCERE CHINESE RESTAURANT Botchergate

CD 1966-68 Ad pii

 

SINCLAIR COURT

ENS 22.11.1977 p8 (illus)

City Minutes 1931-32 p220 2,4,6, Sinclair Ct, Bridge Lane unfit for human habitation

 

SINCLAIR, Stephen Scotland Road

Builder and contractor

CD 1952 Ad p267

 

SINGER SEWING MACHINES Scotch Street

CD 1893-94 Ad p118

 

SIX ACRE CLOSE

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

 

SIXTH FORMS

CN 17.05.2002 p1 Morton closes its lower sixth form

CN 31.05.2002 p3 Call to merge A-level teaching into one city site

CN 05.07.2002 p12 Why 6th form college could improve Carlisle poor results

CN 12.07.2002 p5 Heads attack sixth form college idea; letters page 13

CN 04.07.2003 pp1, 12 Heads fight proposed sixth form college

CN 11.07.2003 p1 Independent assessment of 6th form provision needed says MP

CN 01.08.2003 p9 Issue needs public debate says retiring education chief

CN 24.10.2003 pp1,2 Preliminary proposals published today for 6th form college

CN 24.10.2003 p13 Letter in favour of retaining 6th forms in schools

CN 31.10.2003 p12 Feature on Sixth form proposals; different views

CN 14.11.2003 p3 Series of public meetings to be held

CN 21.11.2003 p3 Passions run high at meetings; letters p 13

CN 28.11.2003 p 6 Parents at St Aidan’s 6th form debate; 7 at Morton; letters 13

CN 12.12.2003 p 13 Letters against 6th form college; p15 no decision until 2004

CN 19.12.2003 p5 MP seeks parliamentary debate on proposals

CN 16.01.2004 p13 Letter concerning proposed closure from Harraby Head

CN 06.02.2004 p1 3 Letter against amalgamation from parent

CN 20.02.2004 p 5 Sixth form planned is axed

 

SKATEPARK; Devonshire Walk

CN 17.10.1997 p4 Community bobby backs call for skatepark

CN 15.11.2002 p3 Skate parks opens on Devonshire Walk

CN 31.10.2008 p5 Park opened in 2002 and needs upgrading

 

SKATING

See also Curling; Ice Skating

Evening `News 23.12.1870 p3 Ad for a large skating pond constructed near Botcherby Lonning End. Splendid sheet of ice. Admission Gentlemen 6d

 

SKATING RINK Dukes Road; opened 1909; burned down 21.02.1920

CN 24.05.1957 p10 CN 14.06.1957 p8 (illus) CN 11.03.1966 p12 (illus)

CN 26.06.1970 p14 CN 31.01.1975 p6

City Minutes 1908-09 p462 Approval for skating rink; Worcester Roller Skating Co.

CN 02.01.1959 p10 (illus) Fire damage

CN 29.07.2005 p1 350 sq metre skating rink opens tomorrow in Willow Holme

CN 14.08.2009 p32 Denis Perriam article

 

SKELTON, Mrs London Rd, on corner of St Cuthbert’s St

Our City Our People p18 short description of shop about 1900

 

SKIDDAW ROAD

City Minutes 1905-06 Approval for laying out new estate

City Council Minutes 1930 -31 p73 Plans approved for two houses

 

SKINNERS AND GLOVERS GUILD see GUILDS

 

SKINNERS ARMS

CJ 06.02.1819 For sale

 

SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY Bank Street

CN 09.08.1968 p13 (illus) Opening

 

SKI SLOPE Durranhill camp

CJ 03.11.1967 p2 (illus)

 

SKI SLOPE Edenside

ENS 02.02.1977 p8 (illis) Skiing

 

SLACK, John Boot manufacturer, 12 English Street

W.Farish Handloom-weaver p52 John Slack, teetotaller, master bootmaker

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory; Advert opposite page 386

 

SLACK’S COURT, 18 Drovers Lane [1880 Directory]

D Perriam Lowther Street p55, illus of lane, previously called Irish Lane

 

SLACK’S COURT, 21 East Tower Street [1880 Directory]

 

SLACK’S COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 88 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 78-80 Milbourne Street

 

SLACKS PROPERY

Once known as Jollie’s Building [[Grangerized Hutchinson]

 

SLATE CLUBS

Beatys’ Northern Annual 1903 lists Carlisle and Caldewgate Slate Clubs. Their object was to provide against sickness and death; William George Osborne died 14.02.1903, stone to him erected by members of the Carlisle Slate Club, he being their chairman for upwards of 10 years [MI 15/1]

 

SLATER, P Scotch Street

Turf accountant

CD 1961-62 Ad p265

 

SLATER, P Central Avenue

Commission agent

CD 1966-68 Ad pi

 

SLATER’S BISCUIT MANUFACTORY James St; built 1852

1851 census William Slater, 28, living 16 West Walls, biscuit baker, employing 30 men, bn Bassenthwaite

CJ 12.03.1852 p3 Fire at West Walls Property used by William Slater, biscuit manufacturer. Three storey brick building belonging to the trustees of John Wilson Kay, near Irish Gate Brow, east side of West Walls

CJ 26.03.1852 p2 Warehouse and stable to let; recently used by W.Slater as a biscuit manufactory

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1861 census, aged 38, employing 44 men and 58 boys, home 1 Cavendish pl

CN 15.06.1956 p10 (illus)

CN 23.05.2003 p6 By 1869 official liquidator appointed

 

SLATER’S COTTON FACTORY Factory, opened 1804, by the Cotton Twist Company [partnership of James and John Graham, Richard Jackson, Robert Mounsey and Henry Cliffe, the latter leaving the partnership in August 1807] Mill was situated in a plot of ground between Water Street and James Street, the ends of the buildings facing those two streets. Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map. Six storeys high, forty yards long by twenty two yards in width. Burned down 10.01.1871 and nearly 200 hands put out of work [Evening News 10.01.1871 p3].

CP 08.05.1819 p3a Messrs Slater and Co of Manchester taken New Mill in city

CP 27.08.1842 Strike of operatives; spinners earn 15s to 20s per week;

1861 census John Slater JP, aged 66, cotton manufacturer employing 280 hands, home address 11 Castle St, born Manchester

10.01.1871 Slater’s Cotton Factory burnt down

CJ 10.02.1871 p4 Inquest in Pack Horse Inn on man lost in Slater’s fire

1881 census John B Slater, 41, living at 13 Chatsworth Square, cotton manufacturer employing 160 men. His wife Ellen, 37, was born in Madras. Eight children including Alice M who in 1886 married William E. D. Simpson in Brampton. William and his wife are buried in Scotby churchyard where their stone notes he was born in Cronstadt, Russia 23.03.1853 and died at Scotby 02.10.1927 and she was born Carlisle 01.05.1866 and died Carlisle 27.01.1961

CN 11.02.1966 p10 Fire of 10.01.1871

CN 04.07.1997 p10 (illus) Fires, strikes and death; life and times of a city mill

CN 16.03.2012 p34 Story of Slater’s Mill site; D.Perriam. John Slater died 03.12.1877, aged 82. Mill for sale on 03.09.1890. Eventually became a part of the Metal Box complex in 1897

CWAAS 3rd series Vol 1, 2001 pp165-174 Operated on site from at least 1808

 

SLAUGHTER HOUSE Foundation stone of Carlisle Public Slaughter House, Devonshire Walk, laid 28.10.1886; opened formally 08 November 1887

See also Railway Slaughterhouses

Sportsman Inn. In the Abstract of Title dated 1797 the inn is clearly said to be in Heads Lane in the City of Carlisle and gives a description of the premises. ‘All that freehold and Messuage or Dwelling house, Slaughter house Stables and Garden known by the sign of Guy, Earl of Warwick situate standing and being near St Cuthbert’s church in the City of Carlisle aforesaid late the...... then in the occupation of the said Isabella Head’. Her husband Thomas had been publican and butcher [Mr Stewart notes on Guy Head 1760-1800]

CJ 20.04.1811 ‘To let a commodious Public House near Saint Cuthbert’s Church, known by the sign of Guy, Earl of Warwick, consisting of a large kitchen, two parlours, two cellars and four lodging rooms and three rooms up the yard, with three stables, a slaughter house and hay loft above and a garden behind the same, besides other out houses’

1850 General Board of Health Enquiry. R.Rawlinson pp57 18 slaughter houses

Carlisle Examiner 16.07.1859 p2c Carlisle slaughterhouse returns

CJ 19.10.1860 Abattoir at Kingmoor? - letter

City Council Minutes 13.09.1865

City Council Minutes 21.08.1885 19/558 Recommend plan for new slaughter house

City Council Minutes 1885 Report to Council on public slaughter houses

City Council Minutes 1885 Appendix to above report lists local slaughterhouses

CP 11.11.1887 p6 Opening of Carlisle Slaughter House

City Council Minutes 17.05.1889 item 214 27 city slaughter houses removed

Sanitary Condition for the City of Carlisle 1927 p82 Figures for 1923-27

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1928 p82 Figures from abattoirs

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, pp44/5 photo of slaughterhouse workers

 

SLAUGHTER HOUSE Kingstown; opened 11.11.1965

CN 14.02.1964 p1 CN 10.11.1967 p1

CJ 06.11.1964 p11 Foundations laid

CN 28.05.1965 p1 manager appointed

CN 12.11.1965 pp10-11,24 (illus)

CN 28.08.1970 p1 Extensions

CN 01.09.2000 p1 Boost for farmers as abattoir opens after £650,000 facelift

 

SLAVERY

see also Black People

April 1790 Captain Giles and family returned to England from service in the West Indies. He brought with him James Anthony a young domestic slave who on arrival in England became a free man. Captain Giles retired to Carlisle where his wife’s family came from.

An Elegiac Poem on the Inhumanity and Injustice of the Slave Trade by James Pasley, Carlisle: printed by L.Smith, 1792 [J589]

Cumberland Pacquet 31.01.1792 p3 A meeting of the inhabitants of the city to petition Parliament for the abolition of the slave trade will be held on 09.02.1792

09.02.1792 William Paley, Archdeacon of Carlisle, spoke at a meeting in the city to consider a petition to Parliament for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In his Moral and Political Philosophy he wrote forcibly against the evils of the trade and as Thomas Clarkson said might therefore he considered ‘as having been a considerable coadjutor in interesting the mind of the public in favour of the oppressed Africans’. Paley also wrote a small pamphlet ‘A little treatise called Arguments against the unjust Pretensions of Slave Dealers and Holders to be indemnified by pecuniary Allowances at the public Expense in case the Slave Trade be abolished’

1818 Henry Holsted, a weaver, published Poetical Works, which contains the ‘Negro’s Complaint’, an anti-slavery poem

CP 04.02.1826 p2 List of those in Carlisle against slavery, about 40 names

CJ 04.02.1826 p2b,e Abolition of slavery in West Indies; advert and call for meeting

CJ 11.02.1826 p3a,b Anti-slavery meeting - report. Thomas Woodrow speaks

CP 11.02.1826 p3 Anti-slavery meeting in city

Cumberland Pacquet 17.07.1827 p3 John Kent son of West Indian slave appointed a policeman in city

1840 The Anti-Slavery Society Convention was held in this year. This society had been formed in 1787, a small mainly Quaker group, led by Thomas Clarkson. [Clarkson retired to a house on Ullswater for a period, becoming a friend of Wordsworth] A monumental painting by Benjamin Robert Hayden records the 1840 convention [painting now in the National Portrait Gallery] One of the delegates depicted in the foreground of the painting is George Head Head from Rickerby House. The central figure in the painting is Clarkson

CJ 20.01.1844 Yesterday in Scotch Street, at an advanced age, James Anthony, better known by the name of Toney a man of colour, who first came to Carlisle in the service of the late Captain Giles and afterwards lived for many years a servant to the late Sir Richard Hodgson. He was an American negro

James Anthony had a memorial, since removed, in St Mary’s graveyard. This read ‘Sacred to the memory of James Anthony, a native of Africa. He came to this country in 1790 in the service of William Giles, Captain in the Nineteenth Regiment of Foot and remained the respected servant of the family for upward of forty years, died January 19th 1844, aged 75 years. Also of Margaret his wife who died Nov.18 1838 aged 65’

CP 21.08.1846 p2d Lecture by escaped slave Frederick Douglass in Athenaeum. He was staying with JD Carr; See M.Forster Captains Thins and Rich Desserts; family and their times 1831-1931

CJ 07.03.1851 Ad for lecture in Athenaeum by three fugitive slaves from America

January 1854 An advert dated January 1854 appeared in the local press advertising the Cumberland Co-operative Free Labor Gingham Company, 10 Bank Street. The advert stated ‘Slavery is sustained by the purchase of its production. If there were no consumers of slave produce there would be no slaves. Ginghams made from Free Grown Cotton which are first class, and will make pretty and inexpensive dresses. It’s object is to improve the social and domestic condition of its members, and to give a helping hand in breaking the fetters of the slave.’

 

SLB CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

CN 01.06.1990 p8 Ad

 

SLEE, B Henry Street

House and sign painter

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

1882 Porters Directory Ad p 144 25 Henry St; Benjamin Slee

 

SLEE,James Henry Street

CD 1884-85 Ad p259

 

SLEE AND SON Kings Arms Lane

Printers

CD 1893-94 Ad p84

 

SLUMS see HOUSING

 

SLUPSK (Twin town in Poland)

CN 11.08.1989 p11 Youngsters aim to forge a link across the iron curtain

CN 23.03.1990 p54 Twin towns in picture

CN 06.04.1990 p13 Helping twin town

CN 13.07.1990 p25 Appeal to help twin town Poles

CN 21.06.1991 p8 City on the trail of twin town’s title

CN 23.07.1993 p19 Three way youth camp for city

CN 28.04.1995 p5 Towns urged to twin

CN 01.08.1997 p4 (illus) Foreign relations have never been more cordial

 

SMALLPOX

see also HOUSE OF RECOVERY; ISOLATION HOSPITAL

1746 Smallpox was rife in the city and between 20th January and 15th June 1746 111 soldiers guarding Jacobite prisoners were recorded as having been buried in the city’s two parishes; service in Carlisle being recorded as ‘worse than Egyptian bondage’.

Thomas Wilson wrote to Dr Waugh on 03.04.1746 ‘The small-pox and a fever have swept off a great number of soldiers; both these distempers are at present abated’.

29.01.1755 In a letter so dated the Carlisle Doctor James Douglas describes inoculation of Small-pox in that year [See E165 for a copy of the letter] ‘...and I hope will have the same good fortune with the numbers that have undergone that operation in the Town [Carlisle] and Neighbourhood, which are near four hundred, without loss or in the least marked’.

Hutchinson p668 Epidemic in 1779; 90 die; see following pages to 676

16.05.1782 Amey Rush died of smallpox; Stanwix parish registers

12.11.1782 Philip Thompson died of the smallpox; Stanwix parish registers

Dispensary Annual report for 1835 113 cases have been attended by the Dispensary...it may excite surprise that it should again appear amongst us and prevail so extensively, after cow pox inoculation has been so long and so generally practised

CJ 28.11.1856 p5 Letter from curate of Christchurch; girl with smallpox

CJ 05.12.1856 p5 32 smallpox patients in House of Recovery; 10 die

1872 Smallpox epidemic in city

Council Minutes 08.03.1889 MOH annual report p 26 Smallpox outbreak

CJ 10.01.1899 p3 Vaccination for smallpox; two letters

Council Minutes 1903-04 p142 Formidable outbreak of smallpox; 42 cases

CJ 11.12.1903 p6 City Council report

CJ 15.12.1903 p5 Another smallpox case at Newtown

CJ 18.12.1903 p5 Proposed smallpox hospital

CJ 27.07.1923 p10 County Medical Officer; deaths 1851 - 1920

CJ 03.08.1923 p6 Advert for vaccination

CJ 07.08.1925 p6 Editorial; popular objections to vaccination

CJ 26.03.1926 p5 Jottings

CJ 12.06.1928 Feature in Out and About column

CJ 10.05.1929 p5 Jottings on smallpox spread

CN 18.08.2000 p9 How Cumbrians helped to wipe out smallpox

 

SMITH, Henry Raven Nook

Photographic equipment manufacturers

CD 1902-03 Ad p286 His home details given as ‘camera maker, 16 Harraby Green Road, and in the business section, under Photographic Apparatus Dealers as ‘Smith Henry, Raven Nook, cameras for hire and supplied on hire purchase. [Mr Moonie]

 

SMITH, Horace W

CD 1893-94 Photographer, 16 Devonshire Street

1901 census Horace W.Smith,31, photographer, bn Scotland; home Cumberland St. Working on his own account in 1911

 

SMITH, Joseph W 22 Lowther St

1882 Porters Directory Ad p154 Plumber

 

SMITH, L

An Elegiac Poem on the Inhumanity and Injustice of the Slave Trade by James Pasley, Carlisle: printed by L.Smith, 1792 [J589]. The Cumberland Pacquet in July 1793 announced the bankruptcy of Lancelot Smith, stationer and bookseller, dealer and chapman [CN 20.03.2015 p16]

 

SMITH, Mary School started 1852 in Dacre Street before moving to West Tower Street where the school stayed for 7 years; then Fisher St, then Finkle Street in 1861 [Mary Smith Autobiography Vol 1 pp189-192]

1858 Directory Miss Mary Smith, school, 11 West Tower Street

Slater’s 1884 Directory Mary Smith, 8 Finkle Street

CN/CJ 14.02.1941 Photo of Mary Smith and class taken in 1883

 

SMITH, W.H. and SON English Street; opened 1906

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p40 photo of premises before 1928 move to new site

CD 1910-11 Ad p46

CD 1913-14 Ad p52

CJ 31.07.1964 p8

CN 23.05.2008 p3 Post Office opens in WH Smiths

 

SMITH, William

City Minutes 1926-7 p633 Licensed to operate bus to Penrith

 

SMITH, William and Son Josephs Place; Charlotte St

Slaters

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1880 Ad p3

1882 Porters Directory Ad p56 Been in business 7 years; 2 Joseph’s Place

CD 1884-85 Ad p257

 

SMITH, William Henry Herbalist

1881 census lists William Henry Smith, aged 40, herbalist, at 36 St Cuthbert’s Lane, born Blackburn. His wife Jane Ann Smith is listed as a lunatic in the Garlands hospital. He is still in Carlisle in 1901, aged 60, herbalist, off Blackfriars Street

 

SMITH’S ARMS Henry Street; in local directory for 1837

 

SMITH’S ARMS Union Street; in local directories from 1850 to 1869; also called Blacksmiths Arms

 

SMITH’S COURT, Annetwell St

1924 Carlisle Directory between 17 and 23 Annetwell Street

City Minutes 1932-33 p68 3 tenements unfit for human habitation

 

SMITH’S COURT, 12 Union Street [1880 Directory]

 

SMITH’S COURT, 25 Water Street [1880 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 25-27 Water Street

 

SMITH’S ELECTRICAL SERVICES Junction Street

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p73 Photo of relocation and opening of new premises on Junction Street 14.12.1946

CD 1952 Ad p291

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p236

CD 1955-56 Ad p240

CD 1961-62 Ad p270

CN 17.09.1938 p17

 

SMITH’S ELECTRICAL SERVICES London Road

Vehicle electrical specialists

CD 1952 Ad p394

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p222

 

SMITHS’ GUILD see GUILDS

 

SMITHS LANE Off Annetwell Street

So named on 50 inch OS map 1899 23.03.19

 

SMITHSON, Joseph Hat manufacturer, died 05.09.1851 [Christ Church Memorials no 26]

 

SMOKING

CPacquet 09.06.1829 p4 On smoking and snuff taking

CJ 25.05.1844 p4 Dr Henry, army surgeon, says smoking pernicious abuse, weakens nervous system, stints growth of young, emasculating habit, shorten days

CJ 28.10.1859 p5 The Dean on smoking. Especially sorry to see boys of 10 going about with pipes in their mouths. Moral, religious and physical influences

CJ 11.12.1860 p2 Anti-smoking meeting in city

CJ 24.10.1879 p6 Smoking in a railway carriage at Citadel; a man opposite commenced to smoke. I called his attention to the fact this was not a smoking carriage. Desisted with bad grace

CJ 10.01.1902 p6 Letter concerning boys aged 11 and 12 smoking

CJ 07.05.1926 p4 No smoking signs at Her Majesty’s Theatre

CJ 30.10.1936 p10 Cigarette machines; curfew order upon lads, in house by 9pm

CN 10.011948 p3 People smoking more. ‘Lady smokers increased greatly’

CN 14.04.1960 p9 Warning by city MOH. Cancer of lung caused by smoking, people not taking notice of government warnings

CN 13.04.1962 p13 Anti-smoking campaign in schools

CN 31.05.1963 p6 Lower deck ban on smoking on Ribble buses

CN 24.10.1969 p2 Anti-smoking campaign to start

CN 07.11.1969 p16 Don’t smoke children told

CN 09.03.2001 p8 Local attitudes to smoking through the last 150 years

CN 30.12.2005 p5 Smoking free zone from 1st January in Lanes Shopping Centre

CN 17.02.2006 p1 Local reaction to proposed smoking ban in pubs etc

 

SMT [Scottish Motor Traction]

City Minutes 1929 - 30 p 663 Licenced bus services to Edinburgh and London

 

SMT GARAGE, Caldewgate

CJ 25.10.1932 Photo of premises; sale of Bedford vans

 

SMT GARAGE Victoria Viaduct; opened 02.01.1937; under demolition 17.01.2022

CD 1952 Ad p340

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p258

CN 17.09.1938 p8 CJ 19.10.1962 p12

CJ 29.10.1937 p13 (illus) Garage opening

CN 30.08.1968 p13 (illus) In Viaduct Goods Yard

CN 02.05.1975 p8-9 (illus)

 

SMUGGLERS

CN 25.03.1950 p4

 

SNOWDEN, H.K. Bookseller

CJ 09.09.1826 p2c Taking over business of former employer John Jollie

1835 comment by a traveller for A and C Black when subscribing for the seventh edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica ‘Cockburn successor to Snowden, and from all accounts likely to do well.’ [Rafferty, K Hudson Scott, 1998 p11]

 

SNUFF TAKING

Dr Heysham, 1753-1832 . He had no tea, excepting once a year at a lady friend’s house. He took no bread to his morning’s meal, unless he had a supply of Westmorland oatcake, which he was in the habit of spreading with butter thicker than the cake itself, and adding a great quantity of salt to it. He snuffed immoderately, as his frilled shirt testified but too strongly to all men. [Lonsdale p97]

The Citizen 31.01.1823 p47 A barbarous abuse...by converting themselves into dust-holes and soot-bags under the fashionable pretext of taking snuff

CPacquet 09.06.1829 p4 On smoking and snuff taking

 

SOAPERY GUTTER Near the Citadels

CN 16.07.1971 p12

 

SOAP MANUFACTURERS

CJ 05.09.1801 p1b Soap-boilers to be let; no soapery within many miles of city now

 

SOCIAL AND LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTY

CN 03.06.1988 p3 SDP launches city branch

 

SOCIAL BAR AND CAFE, Lowther St

CN 24.12.2008 p16 New cafe bar opens [ex Robertsons shop on west side of street]

CN 02.10.2009 p7 Social Club closes

 

SOCIAL SERVICES

CN 01.11.1996 p3 Social workers to cut home care bill as service goes into red

 

SOCIETIES

CJ 16.05.1835 Growth of public buildings to accommodate

 

SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE see SPCK

 

SOLAR ENERGY

CN 29.08.2003 p3 Solar panel pilot scheme in city

 

SOLICITORS

CN 30.04.1971 p15

 

SOLRIC FABRICS

CJ 07.01.1938 p10 Local trade in 1937

J.Templeton A Carlisle Lad, 2007, pp13-4 Memories of works; liquidation 1939

 

SOLWAY BAKERY Closed January 1988

CN 08.01.1988 p1

CN 22.01.1988 p12 Crash bakery debts £169,000

 

SOLWAY BUSINESS CENTRE see PARKHOUSE, Kingstown

 

SOLWAY DYE COMPANY

See Denis Perriam Denton Holme p22

 

SOLWAY INDUSTRIAL PROTECTION LTD (R.H.Dawkins and Co) Bridge St

Safety clothing

CD 1966-68 Ad p299

 

SOLWAY LEYLAND DAF Kingstown

CN 05.02.1988 pp8-9 Ad

CN 24.04.1992 p13 Ad

CN 19.08.1992 p6 Ad

 

SOLWAY SERVICE STATION Caldewgate

ENS 20.02.1964 pp12-13

 

SOLWAY SLATE AND TILE CO

CN 05.03.2004 p17 New base at Durranhill; ad feature

 

SOLWAY STUDIO Devonshire Street

Photographer

CD 1966-68 Ad p291

 

SOLWAY TERRACE

CJ 22.08.1865 p2 20 Freehold houses, Solway Tce, Dixon St, Clifford St; built about 13 years ago, knocked down to John Slack for £2,185

CJ 02.02.1864 p3 Drainage

CN 28.06.1963 p1 Solway Terrace to come down

CN 08.05.1964 p11 Not fit for habitation

CN 11.09.1964 p8 (illus) Demolition

 

SOMERSET PLACE Adjoining Alton St, Currock; on voters’ lists between 1896 - 1948

1924 Carlisle Directory, 6 properties listed here

The 1899 50 inch OS map shows a block of 10 houses abutting onto the back of properties on the west side of Blackhall Street [now Blackwell Road] Access to the northern 5 properties [Hampton Row] would appear to be from the back lane of Grasmere Street , the southern five houses, called Somerset Place, being accessed from Alton Place

 

SONATAS Carlyles Court

Hairstylist

CN 22.03.1996 p4

 

SOPRANOS RESTAURANT Cecil Street

CN 11.05.2001 p4 New restaurant

 

SOROPTOMISTS

CN 26.07.1941 p7 City club presented with charter

CN 16.12.1966 p5 Soroptimists and builders celebrate

CN 19.07.1991 p13 Celebrating 50 years

CN 19.07.1991 p16 Looking to the future

CN 26.07.1991 p11 Worldwide flavour for city anniversary

CN 02.08.1991 p11 Soroptomists hear thought provoking talk

CN 20.09.1991 p16 Soroptomists help research

CN 08.05.1998 p16 New president at helm

CN 20.11.1998 p15 Soroptomists go gold

 

SOUP KITCHENS

There was a soup kitchen in the West End Temperance Hall. By 1861 the distribution of soup had become a regular feature of life in Caldewgate. J.D.Carr established a soup kitchen on his Caldewgate premises in 1838. Amongst the recommendations of this committee the second reads ‘that soup be delivered....twice a week on Tuesday and Friday at Mr J.D.Carr’s Mill in Caldewgate at eleven o’clock in the morning when part of the committee will be in attendance for one hour’. The soup was sold to any poor person for one penny per quart, but this trifling sum did very little to meet the expenses. Subscriptions were therefore taken from the charitably disposed. These flowed in so that the soup became free to the poor. For eight to ten weeks the soup kitchen continued but when warmer weather came and times improved the work came to an end with £10.00 in hand which was transferred to the House of Recovery [Topper Off Nov 1936 p829]

 

SOUPRANO

CN 25.06.2004 p 1 Gourmet bar opens in Green Market on Monday

 

SOUTH CROSS STREET, Boundary Road [1880 Directory]

 

SOUTH DALE STREET [1880 Directory]

 

SOUTH END CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB St Nicholas; site formerly the Golden Fleece Hotel

CN 29.10.1976 p1 CN 16.04.1992 p4 (illus)

CN 14.05.2010 p5 Founded in 1936; admits women at last

 

SOUTH-END CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY see CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY

 

SOUTH END UNIONIST CLUB London Road/ Alexander Street

ENS 16.11.1916 Opening of London Road Tavern in former premises of Club

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

 

SOUTH GEORGE STREET

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

City Minutes 1925-6 p62 Rehousing to Blackwell Rd estate

1847 Directory, Robert Street

1880 Directory Robert Street

 

SOUTH HENRY STREET The 1884 Carlisle Directory p21 says ‘Bunyan’s Lonning now known as South Henry Street’ Building on the south corner of South Henry Street and Botchergate demolished 2021

see also Bunyan’s Lonning

1880 Directory

CN 30.09.1988 p3 Helping the homeless - flats

 

SOUTH JOHN STREET Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory Currock Street across Robert Street

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p57 Photo in 1950s

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1924 p 64 Demolition of houses

City Minutes 1925-6 p62 Rehousing to Blackwell Rd estate

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 Nos 28,30,32 and 34 unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1934/5 p955 no 45, 52, 54, 56, 44, 46 unfit for human habitation

 

SOUTH JOHN STREET COOPERATIVE

28.09.1867 Died aged 62, George Barnes, 28 years their agent [MI 91/4]

 

SOUTH JOHN STREET MISSION HALL

CP 21.01.1898 p6c Church meeting

 

SOUTH OF SCOTLAND MOTOR CO

City Minutes 1926-7 p633 Licensed to operate bus service to Dumfries

 

SOUTH STREET, Botchergate Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

SOUTH VALE BRIDGE see CALDEW BRIDGE, Graham Street to Boustead Grassing

 

SOUTH VALE COURT, 114 Denton Street [1880 Directory]

 

SOUTH VALE MILL Denton Holme

D.Perriam Denton Holme p13

Erected around 1853-54; site later used as flour mill by Carr and Co; Carrs sold the mill in 23.01.1905 and the main buildings were demolished by 1914

CN 26.05.2006 p10 History and illustration of the mill

 

SOUTH VIEW TERRACE, 36 Saint Nicholas Street [1880 Directory]

 

SOUTH WAKEFIELD see WAKEFIELD

 

SOUTH WESTERN TERRACE A new engine shed on the site of the old one was built at Currock for the Maryport and Carlisle Railway in 1877 and alongside it a shed for the Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1897; railway housing for the workers was provided at South Western Terrace

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

 

SOWERBY, George Father and son, both butchers, died 18.10.1812 and 04.06.1849 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 243]

 

SOWERBY, George Kings Arms Lane

Plumber

Leading Trader of the City Ad p43 A616; established 1880

1882 Porters Directory Ad p46 7 Kings Arms Lane

 

SOWERBY, J 78 English Street

Druggist

Evening Journal 19.08.1870 Founded 1835

 

SOWERBY, Richard Butcher, died 03.10.1832 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 244]

 

SOWERBY HALL Farm near Stanwix; home of Stagg family

CN 08.04.1960 p1 CN 29.04.1960 p12

 

SOWERBY LANE East side of Botchergate, just north of Sowerby Street

1829 Directory p154

So marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2

1847 Directory 39 Botchergate

1880 Directory Irvings Place, formerly Sowerbys Lane

 

SOWERBY’S COURT, John’s Lane [1880 Directory]

 

SOWERBY’S LANE, 1880 Directory says ‘Now Irvings Place, 63 Botchergate’

 

SOWERBY STREET, East side of Botchergate; first noted on the census of 1841; on voters list to 1931

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 69 Botcheragte

So marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 73-75 Botchergate

City Minutes 1928-9 p788 31 houses unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1929-30 p650 31 houses unfit for human habitation

 

SPANIEL DOG INN, Kingstown

CJ 22.05.1877 p3 Thomas Jackson who had been doing business in the inn for several weeks under temporary licence.

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

 

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

See also Basques, International Brigade Volunteers

CJ 29.07.1938 p7 Commandant of the British Contingent gives talk in city

CJ 02.12.1938 p13 Mr Roberts pays tribute to International Brigade; 6 Carlisle men

CN 01.07.2005 p13 Letter about the Carlisle volunteers

 

SPAR

CN 28.08.1987 p14 Ad Opening of new Spar shop in London Road

CN 17.09.1993 p8 Great new look - Lamb Street

CN 03.01.2003 p3 Carlisle United’s Spar shop up for sale

 

SPASTICS SOCIETY

CN 11.05.1990 p9 Charity in crisis call for helpers

 

SPA WELL River Eden

CN 03.09.1971 p14

 

SPCK; Carlisle Diocesan Society

CP 24.07.1819 p2f Anniversary; founded in 1814

CP 07.08.1819 p3a Anniversary; p1c Annual meeting

 

SPCK BOOKSHOP

CN 02.10.1992 p7 Bookshops new home

CN 23.10.1992 p8 SPCK’s new book shop opens

CN 06.06.2008 p p7 SPCK bookshop shut several weeks ago

 

SPECTRUM PREPRINT

CN 21.10.1994 p8 Ad

 

SPEDDING, Mr Pipe Maker, Ritson’s lane

1847 Directory Thomas Spedding, Caldew-side

CJ 04.02.1848 p2 Case of stealing. Hannah Spedding said ‘I help my father to polish pipes. He has a pipe kiln near Ritson’s Lane. On Jan 25th I was upstairs trimming pipes’

 

SPEDDING, David Butcher and dealer

CJ 11.04.1818 p1a Ad bankrupt

 

SPEECH THERAPY

CN 06.10.1995 p14 City MP’s anger over speech therapy cuts

 

SPEED LIMIT

Carlisle City Minutes Vol XX, 23.10.1908 pp 49-50 application for 10mph limit in city

City Minutes 25.01.1935 p248 30 mph limit in built up areas

 

SPEEDSEC Business services

CN 09.09.1988 p8 Ad

 

SPEEDWAY Harraby/Moorville

see Adrian Pavey Speedway in the North West pp23-28

D Perriam Stanwix p79 Speedway first came to Carlisle in a field beside the Harraby greyhound stadium in 1928. The next attempt was in 1937 with a track, Moorville Park, at Kingmoor. The track, despite opposition from local residents, was ready in August 1937. The only meeting was held on 18.09.1937, with less than 700 people turning up. The track, now under the Aldi store, remained visible until the 1960s

21.07.1928 Motorcyle grass track racing on ground adjacent to Harraby Greyhound track

CJ 14.09.1937 Will open on Saturday

CN 19.06.1937 p3

18.09.1937 only meeting at Moorville takes place [site behind Aldi store on Kingstown Rd]

A manuscript map of 1937 [C480] shows the location of Moorville Park Speedway track

 

SPEIGHT’S COURT, 25 King Street [1880 Directory]

 

SPENCER’S COURT, Ferguson’s Lane [1880 Directory]

 

SPENCER STREET On Asquith’s map of 1853 the east side of the street is almost complete but there are no houses on the west side

CP 03.06.1854 p1 No 2 to let

CP 03.05.1856 p1; ad for sale 19 and 20 recently erected

CJ 11.12.1863 p6 A public highway

CP 13.12.1872 p1c Ad. nos 18 and 20 for sale being new

CN 08.12.1972 p1 Preservation order

CN 14.11.2014 p18 Women’s Institute move from their home to new premises. It has been the Federation’s HQ since 1946

 

SPINNERS ARMS Court Square; in local directory for 1834

 

SPINNERS ARMS Milbourne Street; in local directories from 1858 to 1914; closed 1917

Denis Perriam Denton Holme. Took its name from the nearby Dixon’s factory. This pub belonged to the Meadow Brewery and was purchased by the Central Control Board in 1916 from the Maryport Brewery. Photo of building today

1901 census; Ruth Allsion Harding, publican, born Carlisle

CN 27.03.1992 p4 (illus)

 

SPIRITUAL LIFE

Carlisle Examiner 31.07.1858 p3e Spiritual destitution in Carlisle; letter from Bishop

 

SPIRITUALISTS

CN 03.09.1910 p5 Spirit visits at West Walls

A WW2 firewatchers map in Carlisle Library shows the Spiritualist Meeting House on the west side of Fisher Street behind Robson’s the butchers

CJ 05.10.1948 p2 Centenary of modern spiritualism

 

SPITTAL MOOR So named on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle and environs; marked on Wood’s 1821 map of city, owned by R.Connell, 1829 Directory [under Cummersdale] Richard Connell; located on Dalston Rd, at junction with Richardson St; farm called Spital Moor marked on the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map survey of 1865. When the plague threatened Carlisle in 1597 the sick were treated in isolation hospitals outside the city and were dependent on good supplies of fresh water. Wood was carried from Blackwell Wood by two wrights who spent two days ‘building the lodges at St Lawrence Well’. This temporary structure was soon abandoned but the hospital name stuck and is recalled in the placename Spittal Moor [Perriam, Denton Holme p28]

 

SPITTLE CLOSES

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

 

SPITTLECROOKE

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

 

SPITTLE DUB Now King Street, Botchergate; original name in reference to nearby leper hospital [Round Carlisle Cross series 3 p21]

CJ 03.08.1805 p1 Spittle Dub for sale; near road to St Nicholas

 

SPORT

CAIH p82

03.08.1929 26th Annual Carlisle Sports held on Carlisle United Football Ground

ENS 23.11.1976 p8 Victorian sport for all

 

SPORTHAUS The Crescent

ENS 12.09.1963 p10 Opens

 

SPORTING CLUB, The

CN 31.08.1990 p6 Ad

 

SPORTS CENTRE Strand Road; built as a Drill Hall in 1873; opened as Sports Centre by Denis Howell 09.10.1969

CN 13.05.1977 p32 CN 25.01.1980 p1 CN 11.07.1980 p5 CN 30.05.1980 p1

CN 13.06.1980 p1

Civic Affairs October 1969 p1 New Sports Centre

CN 03.02.1989 p9 Head’s plan for sports centre

CN 10.02.1989 p40 City sports transfer under fire

CN 01.09.1989 p7 New role for old sport hall

 

SPORTSMAN Bridge Street/ 21 John Street; Robert Railton, publican, aged 46, born Carlisle [1861 census]; in local directories to 1880 when publican James Wren; James Wren also given as publican of Bricklayers Arms at same address in 1880

 

SPORTSMAN INN Heads Lane; early 18th century with later additions; in local directories as the Sportsman from 1834; previously called Guy Earl of Warwick and in the early 1850s may have been called the Golden Quoit; built on the site of the former Blackfriars Convent

Thomas Head and a group of Carlisle innkeepers were in an action against the Earl of Lonsdale because their licences had been refused [they had voted against the Earl in an election] said he ‘hath for 17 years past and upwards [prior to 1786] with great regularity and Decency and without Complaint from any person...kept an inn or Public house called the Earl of Warwick in the City of Carlisle’. We can be fairly certain that from 1769, the inn the Earl of Warwick became the home of Guy Head [the artist] and it is here that he must have spent his early childhood and youth. Isabella Head [wife of Thomas and mother of Guy] was to sell the inn in 1797 to another Carlisle butcher, Joseph Sewell [Thomas was butcher as well as innkeeper]. In the Abstract of Title dated 1797 the inn is clearly said to be in Heads Lane in the City of Carlisle and gives a description of the premises. ‘All that freehold and Messuage or Dwelling house Slaughter house, Stables and Garden known by the sign of Guy, Earl of Warwick situate standing and being near St Cuthbert’s church in the City of Carlisle aforesaid late the...... then in the occupation of the said Isabella Head’. [Mr Stewart notes on Guy Head 1760-1800]

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p25 Guy Head, artist was born in 1760 in what was to become the Sportsman Inn

CJ 20.04.1811 ‘To let a commodious Public House near Saint Cuthbert’s Church, known by the sign of Guy, Earl of Warwick, consisting of a large kitchen, two parlours, two cellars and four lodging rooms and three rooms up the yard, with three stables, a slaughter house and hay loft above and a garden behind the same, besides other out houses’

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916 p102

1861 census George Ivison, aged 75, innkeper, born Carlisle

1891 census; James Monkhouse, aged 41, innkeeper, born Castle Sowerby

CIC p60 photo about 1900

1901 census Mr Monkhouse, aged 51, innkeeper, born Castle Sowerby

V.White Carlisle and its villages, p 9 drawing

CJ 22.04.1921 p7f Alterations CN 20.12.1991 p4 (illus)

09.04.1930 Child losses life in fire at Sportsman

ENS 22.01.1970 p6 Inn of Cumbria and the Border

ENS 27.08.1998 p8 Country pub in city centre

CN 11.06.1999 p15 Tragic artist who was born in inn

CN 25.02.2000 p5 Oh pussycat where have you been

CN 19.08.2011 p5 Anne Bagnall retires. Took the pub in 1974

 

SPORTSMAN’S ARMS John Street; in local directories for 1869 and 1870

; may have become the Bricklayers Arms circa 1880 and may have been previously called the Weavers Arms

 

SPORTS SOCCER

CN 07.02.2003 p18 Sports giant to open store in Scotch St

 

SPREAD EAGLE English Street/ Castle Street; in local directories to 1902-03; demolished to make way for redeveloped Crown and Mitre

Carlisle; Archival photographs p11 photo Joseph Johnston publican

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, p94

Memoirs of Charlotte Deans p20 lodged at Williams Coils circa 1787

1829 Directory p 164 John Warton, Castle Street

CJ 08.10.1858 For sale

1861 census Thomas Kirkpatrick, innkeeper, aged 26, born Carlisle

1891 census; Joseph Johnston, publican, aged 64, born Carlisle

CP 07.09.1894 Brewster sessions; the Spread Eagle

27.02.1903 closure; property demolished to make way for new Crown and Mitre

1901 census; Joseph Johnston, publican, aged 73, born Carlisle

CN 25.10.1991 p4 (illus)

 

SPREAD EAGLE LANE, 2 English Street [1880 Directory]

 

SPREAD EAGLE YARD, Castle Street [1829 Directory]

1847 Directory Head of Castle Street

 

SPRINGALL TOWER

One of the Wetheral Priory bells came to Carlisle after the Reformation and was hung upon the wall called the Springall Tower to call workmen who were making the new Citadel and mending the Castle [A.G.Loftie The History of the Parishes of Wetheral and Warwick, 1923 p88]. This tower was situated on the corner of the old walls near the Bowling Green Hotel [Grangerized Hutchinson]. Also been identified as Phillipsons Tower

 

SPRINGFIELD So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city, on very southern edge of city, a well is marked at the end of the road

 

SPRING GARDENS

D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022 p8 As early as 1713 there was a Spring Garden House which, by 1803, became the Shakespeare Tavern

CJ 13.08.1817 p1 To be let two acres of ground...containing 130 of choicest apple trees

 

SPRING GARDENS LANE see also BOWLING

D Perriam Lowther Street p54 This was a new street in the 1860s when part of the gardens were sold for development. Originally it was a through street giving access to George Street and Strand Road, but the building of Georgian Way in 1971 has turned it into a cul-de-sac. The 1896 fire station was in the lane until 1962 when it was demolished to make way for Eden Bridge House

1746 Marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle as ‘Spring Garden’

1847 Directory Foot of Lowther Street

CJ 10.10.1873 p3 Workmen constructing sewer in the bend of the lane found a lead coffin

CJ 20.03.1885 Workmen employed in excavations at the Old Bowling Green, Spring Gardens came upon a sepulchral slab [Roman]

 

SPRING SHOW Bitts Park

CN 25.04.1997 p6 10,000 set to visit council’s Spring Show

CN 01.05.1998 p3 Show attracts 10,000

CN 08.05.1998 p4 4,000 enjoy lark in park

CN 10.05.2002 p22 Glorious weather brings big crowd

CN 09.05.2003 p6 15th year of Show

 

SPROAT, Arthur Rickergate

Clogger

CN 08.01.1965 p1,3 (illus)

CN 21.07.1989 p4 Clog shop well known

 

SPROAT, J.R. Rickergate

Boot, shoe and clog

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p32 photo of shop

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916 p109

Leading Traders of the City p48 (illus)

Carlisle an illustrated history p37 photo about 1910

CD 1910-11 Ad p9

CD 1913-14 Ad p8

 

SPROAT, W and SON Lowther Street, Castle Street, Botchergate, Fisher St

Bakers

CD 1961-62 Ad p259

CD 1966-68 Ad p254

ENS 08.12.1960 p12 City bakers open 4th shop

ENS 14.03.1966 pp12-13 Merger with Silver Grill

CN 18.12.1992 p10 Ad

 

SQUIRRELS

CN 25.10.1996 p3 Seeing red over ‘grey’ propaganda

 

STACEY COACHES Willow Holme

CN 18.11.2005 p16 Owners Barrie and Carol Barnes; feature

CN 27.04.2007 p22 Carlisle coach firm Stacey’s to buy rink which will become their depot

 

STAFFIELD HOUSE; London Road

CN 12.07.2013 p9 Homeless centre for women and families to open on Water Street next week. Replaces Staffield House on London Road which had been in operation since 1975

 

STAGECOACH BUS COMPANY

CN 22.12.1995 pp1,10 The Stagecoach arriving at platform 1

CN 23.05.1997 p5 On the buses

CN 24.04.1998 p8 Ad

CN 21.01.2005 p 13 Feature on business devastated by flood

 

STAINED GLASS

CN 01.04.1994 p19 Seven year stained glass research in print

 

STAINTON - Carlisle

ENS 21.11.1960 p11 Road bridge - two big bangs

 

STAINTON STREET, Dacre Street [1880 Directory]

 

STALKER, J Castle Street

Jeweller

CD 1905-06 Ad p78

 

STANHOPE ROAD

City Minutes 1935/36 p96 New road to be named Stanhope Road

 

STANLEY HALL Botchergate; Named in honour of the Earl of Derby, who for some years has been one of the largest customers of Harrison’s Auction Mart, the owner of the hall being Mr John Harrison; First used as a cinema about 1909

City Minutes 1903-04 p267 New building, nearly completed

CP 18.12.1903 Hall used for the first time on Wednesday 16th Dec

City Minutes 08.12.1911, item 164 Application and granting of license for cinema

CN 10.08.1956 p8 CN 11.08.1967 p10 CN 11.08.1967 p10

CN 28.01.2011 p6 Stanley Hall bought by McKnight builders for £360,000

CN 25.03.2011 p11 Works begins to transform the building

 

STANSFIELD, Ben Scotch Str, London Road, Scotland Road Fruit shop next door to Stansfield on Scotch St pulled down after collapse 14.03.1978; Standfield’s shored up and still there until at least 17.12.1978; demolition some date after this

Butchers

CD 1952 Ad p273

CD 1955-56 Ad p231

 

STANSFIELD’S BUILDINGS, Crown and Anchor Lane

McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes - photo page 5

 

STANSFIELD PLACE, Milburn St So named on the 1861 census; Daniel Stansfield, master boiler maker, living here then

1880 Directory 126 Milbourne Street

 

STANWIX 1160 Steynweuga, 1187-91 Stanwega. Name is thought to derive from steinn veggr meaning stone wall, a reference to the Roman Wall, which would have been apparent in Norman times. Stainwicks, 1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]; Incorporated into Carlisle in 09.11.1912 (Kelly 1921 p63); the centre of the Medieval village was around Kells Place and a row of 18th century cottages remain here, with their shutter brackets and inset rough stone pavement. No doubt the Roman fort and Wall provided building material for medieval village. The roads East and North ran through the village before the village was by passed by the Military Rd and Scotland Rd.

D Perriam Stanwix, 2018 The village was built within the Roman Fort. The village centred on Kells Place. What appears to be a triangular village green has Kells Place marking one side.

CP 04.02.1898 p3a Incorporation question

CP 15.04.1898 p6c Incorporation of Stanwix with Carlisle

CN 04.10.1930 p9a History of Stanwix

CJ 29.06.1934 Extension of Stanwix

CN 18.04.1953 Emperor’s own guarded Stanwix

CN 07.04.1978 p4 (illus) When Stanwix was a village

CN 23.11.1990 p23 Residents win street lights fight

CN 06.08.1993 p1 Stanwix blooms with pride

CN 20.08.1993 p6 Letter ‘Permission exists’

CN 30.06.1995 p5 Residents to protest - bypass

CN 28.03.1997 p10 Old stones tell history of the church inside a Roman fort

CN 16.05.1997 p3 Plan to prettify suburbia would boost Stanwix house prices

CN 23.05.1997 p9 Chance to give conservation plan the once over

CN 28.08.1998 p18 Aerial view - Newfield (illus)

CN 04.12.1998 p7 Nursery tale of Cinderella and Fag-Ash Lil

 

STANWIX AND DISTRICT RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

CN 09.07.1993 p3 Residents band together to fight planning

CN 19.07.1996 p1 Stanwix no. 1 resident – I’ve moved house

 

STANWIX ARTS THEATRE

CN 01.04.1988 p13 Arts concern over threat to theatre

CN 26.08.1988 p1 Too costly to close theatre

CN 09.09.1988 p20 Bid to keep city theatre going

CN 09.12.1988 p1a A new ‘stage’ for city theatre

CN 14.04.1989 p25 Last chance of revival for theatre

CN 21.04.1989 p48 Fans rally round city theatre

CN 26.05.1989 p7 College revival for theatre

CN 22.09.2000 p17 New experience - refurbishment of Theatre

CN 03.11.2000 p 27 (illus) Curtain goes up on new arts theatre

 

STANWIX BANK Cottages on bank at junction of Brampton Rd demolished in 1904

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p71 photo of old cottages on bank. D Perriam Stanwix p92 shows a painting by Thomas Bushby of the cottages at the top of the bank

D Perriam Stanwix p17 After the building of Eden Bridge in 1815 the old road to Priestbeck Bridge was redundant and a new road was cut through Stanwix Bank, the Carlisle Patriot of 04.01.1817 referring to ‘sinking the road at Stanwix’

CJ 06.06.1818 The new cut for the road to the new bridge takes off a heavy pull and shortens the road to Longtown above 100 yards

 

STANWIX BOWLING CLUB Stanwix Bowling Club opened 16.05.1901

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p76-79 4 photos of club

D Perriam Stanwix p26 On 12.02.1883 a meeting was held in the Bird in Hand, Stanwix to take into consideration the formation of a bowling green. This green opened in May 1885, the site being behind the Bird in Hand pub, now [2020] occupied by shops. Lease for the glebe field signed on 20.12.1900. New green opened on 16.05.1901. Ladies admitted May 1929. Plans approved for a new pavilion 27.03.1952

CJ 23.02.1883 invites tenders to lay out a bowling green at Stanwix

CJ 27.02.1891 The Stanwix Bowing Club on the look out for a green

CJ 25.09.1900 Meeting to discuss a new bowling green at Stanwix

 

STANWIX CEMETERY Opened 1887 after the Stanwix churchyard was declared to be totally inadequate and was closed in 1884. Mortuary chapel to the designs of Henry Higginson. Consecrated in August 1887. There are a number of interesting stones in the cemetery; Richard Charles Geddes who was lost with the Titanic; Mr Norval who was murdered in his West Walls premises in 1910. The driver and fireman killed in the 1915 Quintinshill disaster, a monument to the victims of the 25.10.1928 Dinwoodie rail crash; a stone to Priscilla Johnston, sister in law of Miles Macinnes. This stone is from the workshop of Eric Gill; Stanwix War Memorial

D Perriam Stanwix p77

CJ 14.05.1886 Tenders for the layout

13.10.1926 Consecration of further land which was to be added to the cemetery

 

STANWIX CHORAL SOCIETY

CN 28.02.1948 p5 Memorial concert - W.E.Gash

 

STANWIX CHURCH see SAINT MICHAEL’S

 

STANWIX COMMUNITY CENTRE

CN 25.06.1999 p15 Community spirit shines

CN 12.10.2007 p15 Stanwix Community Centre threatened by closure because of lack of volunteers

CN 25.03.2011 p 10 New centre dropped into place opposite school

 

STANWIX COTTAGE see LITTLE BANK

 

STANWIX CRICKET CLUB

Carlisle Examiner 08.05.1858 p3c Newly formed

 

STANWIX CROSS

Fragmentary cross head was found by Robert Hogg in March 1947 in the garden of Old Croft, Stanwix and was given to Carlisle Museum. Cross dated to 9th/ 10th century. It is probable that this is associated with the first Christian church in Stanwix

D Perriam Stanwix p9

 

STANWIX FLOWER CLUB Founded 1961

CN 15.06.2001 p10 (illus) Celebrates 40th anniversary

 

STANWIX GARAGES Scotland Road

D. Perriam Stanwix p105 photo. First licensed to store petrol in 1926 with Richard Routledge as owner. A new company Stanwix Garage Ltd was registered in 1929. The company was taken over by JJ Armstrong in 1968, they selling it to Treadfast Tyres. Garage demolished in 2008

CD 1952 Ad p341

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p256

CD 1955-56 Ad p261

CD 1961-62 Ad p285

 

STANWIX GAS November 1849 the Gas Co wrote to the Rev Thomas Wilkinson giving the terms of contract on which they would supply and light the township of Stanwix. Later that month the Rev Wilkinson and a Mr Sowerby, both representing the people of the township of Stanwix, came before the company and accepted the terms which were for the Company to lay pipes, erect lamp stands and cases, light and maintain the lamps [there to be no less than 27 lamps, 3 of which to go on Eden Bridges] The township to pay the sum of £60.00 towards the cost of installation. The work to be done by July of 1850 [Ca/C10/4/2 Gas Committee Minute Book 1843-1851]

 

STANWIX GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY

CN 28.04.2006 p5 Lay flowers on Tait children's graves at Stanwix

 

STANWIX HALL Opened 23.12.1909 on Cheviot Road

D Perriam Stanwix p28 Measures 90 feet by 30 feet, has a lofty boat shaped roof...two dressing rooms beneath the stage, a gallery seating 150 and total accommodation estimated from 750 - 1,000. A picture house in the Stanwix Hall was advertised in the Carlisle Journal 25.10.1912. The picture house was a failure and the hall was up to let in December 1912. Replaced by semi-detached houses in 1935

CN 31.10.2003 p7 Early history and use as cinema

 

STANWIX HOME FOR FRIENDLESS GIRLS Formed 1871. The annual report for 1882 stated that the ‘home shall be maintained by donations and annual subscriptions for the purposes of receiving and instructing destitute girls from the age of 11 years and upwards. ...That those girls shall be eligible who have lost one or both of their parents, or who are otherwise destitute...That the girl shall receive religious instruction from a clergyman and be taught all kinds of household work, washing, ironing, needlework, reading, writing, and the rudiments of arithmetic’.

D Perriam Stanwix p33 No 1 Thornton Road home for Friendless Girls between 1874-1912, having trained 226 girls for domestic service. Building now [2020] demolished and replaced by flats

1880 Directory Is situated at Stanwix, and is for the benefit of young girls who have lost one or both parents. It is managed by a committee of ladies. Matron Miss Bell

1882 Annual Report said that on average there were 20 inmates in the home. Girls had been placed in service and three of the older girls had emigrated

CJ 16.02.1883 Since 1871 95 girls received

1901 census; Thornton Rd, eleven girls listed here, aged 7 - 13, the majority from the Carlisle and district area, Mary Smith, matron

CN 28.04.1972 p8

 

STANWIX HOUSE Church Street; early 19th century for Richard Lowry; then part of College of Art; but redundant in 2015. 1861 census William Provost, Major and staff officer, aged 37; 18.09.1898 died Charlotte Lowry, youngest daughter of Richard Lowry of Stanwix House. Stanwix MI 135/1. Hubert Lowry, aged 40, schoolmaster, born Gloucester [1901 census]

D Perriam Stanwix p98

CJ 15.06.1906 Stanwix House formerly the property of the late Rev CH Lowry and lately occupied by the Rev Hubert Lowry, who ran it as a preparatory school, has been purchased by Sir Benjamin Scott. Mr FN Hepworth will shortly become its tenant [he lived there from 1906 -1954]

CN 15.07.2005 p13 Letter says house gifted by Frederick Hepworth to city in 1954

CN 30.01.2015 p7 For sale

 

STANWIX HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

CD 1902-03 Ad p5

CP 13.01.1905 p1 Ad; run by Rev Hubert Lowry

CJ 15.06.1906 Stanwix House formerly the property of the late Rev CH Lowry and lately occupied by the Rev Hubert Lowry, who ran it as a preparatory school, has been purchased by Sir Benjamin Scott. Mr FN Hepworth will shortly become its tenant [he lived there from 1906 -1954]

 

STANWIX - HOUSING

CN 31.07.1998 p3 Stanwix swampies on alert

CN 01.08.1998 p2 Awaiting plans verdict

CN 25.09.1995 p5 (illus) Last ditch demo to save wood

CN 02.10.1998 p4 Wildlife haven plan for homes site

CN 13.11.1998 pp3,12 Wife steps in for unwell councillor

CN 13.11.1998 p11 Letter

 

STANWIX LITERARY ASSOCIATION Founded 1855

Carlisle Examiner 08.10.1859 p2f 4th annual meeting

 

STANWIX LODGE So named on 1851 census; head of household Margaret Aitkin, seamstress; Ann Boustead died Stanwix Lodge 20.07.1888 [S66/1 MI]

 

STANWIX - MEDICAL INSPECTION

CP 20.05.1898 p6c Medical officer’s inspection of Stanwix

CP 10.06.1898 p3b Medical Officers Report

 

STANWIX MEWS AND POSTING ESTABLISHMENT Church St, Scotland Rd

CD 1884-85 Ad p227

 

STANWIX OLD VICARAGE see also CHURCH STREET

 

STANWIX OLD VICARAGE 1809 incorporating part of 18th century vicarage

1948 Rev Walter Bancroft, Stanwix Vicarage [CWAAS members list, vol 48 p 232]

CN 29.06.2001 p47 (illus) For sale at £230,000

 

STANWIX OMNIBUS

Carlisle Examiner 11.09.1858 p2b Omnibus discontinued

 

STANWIX PARISH COUNCIL

CP 07.01.1898 p3b Parish council

CP 04.03.1898 p3b Stanwix Parish Council

CP 04.02.1898 p3a Lighting committee

 

STANWIX REFORMATORY see REFORMATORY

 

STANWIX RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION see STANWIX AND DISTRICT RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

 

STANWIX ROMAN FORT A fort at Stanwix [usually known as Petriana, but in 1989 Stanwix fort was identified with the name of Uxelodunum on the Rudge Cup] was built when the Roman Wall was constructed, [Wall begun 120s AD and still in progress in AD 138 when Hadrian died] ; the fort in Carlisle, at the confluence of the rivers Caldew and Eden, continued to exist [ M.McCarthy Carlisle history and guide p13]; the present day St Michael’s Church and Kells Place both lay within the boundaries of Stanwix fort; the fate of the Stanwix fort is unknown, however, given the history of other Hadrian’s Wall forts, it would be surprising if Stanwix did not continue to be occupied in some form into the latter half of the fourth century [p27]; the fort was the largest on the Wall and housed a garrison of 1,000 cavalry; slight remains of the northside wall of the fort can be seen in the car park of the Cumbria Park Hotel

CAIH p7 Stanwix Fort; map showing location

CWAAS lxxxv, 53-69

D Perriam Stanwix pp6-8

CJ 28.04.1939 p9 Excavations

CJ 12.05.1939 p1 (illus) Excavations

 

STANWIX SCHOOL Scotland Road; National school erected in 1843

D Perriam Stanwix p24 The Carlisle Journal of 07.12.1839 reported that Stanwix School was to be disposed of by Joseph Wilson, schoolmaster, who had commenced as an auctioneer and land surveyor. His school had been established for 30 years and had 60 scholars ‘at present’. The gap in education needs was filled by the construction of a National School in 1843. Closed in 1886

CJ 10.06.1843 Stanwix School-contract to build

CJ 02.08.1935 the old school buildings which are used as cottages, are to be demolished and Messrs Laing are going to widen the road and make a handsome entrance to their Knowefield estate

CN 07.10.2016 Section 2 p18 Schoolmasters house on Scotland Road all that remains of the circa 1847 school. New school built 1886. Remaining buildings on Scotland Road demolished in 1935 by Laings, leaving only the schoolmasters house today

 

STANWIX SCHOOL Mulcaster Cres; Board School built in 1886

D Perriam Stanwix p25 School opened 26.07.1886, first enlargement in 1898. The school catered for all ages but in 1940 senior pupils went to Lowther Street School

CJ 19.08.1884 Tenders invited for a new building and schoolmaster’s house

CN 22.12.1934 Article on the school magazine Stanwegian

ENS 12.10.1967 p5 (illus) Junior and Infant School

CN 30.06.1989 p15 New city school a stage nearer

CN 06.12.1991 p25 Taking school plea to top

CN 13.09.1996 p3 (illus) Head’s plea to improve wooden huts

CN 07.03.1997 p10 The Dunblane legacy

CN 23.12.1998 p5 New lease of life for huts

CN 05.02.1999 p15 Retired Headmaster goes back to open extension

CN 11.02.1999 p9 New lease of life - old classrooms

CN 25.06.1999 p15 Community spirit shines

CN 27.08.1999 p2 Treasurer admits forgery

CN 22.09.2000 p15 Hunter Davies to open new look school

CN 29.09.2000 p7 (illus) £1.2m extension opened

 

STANWIX TANDOORI

CN 16.05.1997 p3 (illus) Specials on the menu at Tandoori

CN 28.05.2010 p29 Sukur Ali opened restaurant in 1980

 

STANWIX VICARAGE see STANWIX OLD VICARAGE

 

STANWIX VILLA see HOMEACRES

 

STANWIX WAR MEMORIAL

CJ 10.06.1921 p7

 

STANWIX WORKHOUSE

Quarter Sessions Midsummer 1748. Petition from the inhabitants of Stanwix who have provided a workhouse, and are ready to receive the poor. They request that allowance and employment cease on entry to said workhouse, which is supplied by the parish. Ordered that all former Orders of maintenance do cease after ten days notice in writing from the parish officers to poor to come in.

 

STAPLETON’S VENNEL

Roman and Medieval Carlisle; the northern Lanes, excavations 1978-82, vol 2, p57. The medieval and post-medieval period. It has been suggested that the little lane which used to run between Union Court and Hodgson’s Court could be identified with Stapleton Vennel, a lane on the east side of Scotch Street that appears in title deeds and other documents from the late sixteenth to late eighteenth centuries. However the same source suggests that Stapleton Vennel was Union Court. Perhaps named after the Stapletons of Edenhall, a notable family who held several properties in the city during the middle ages p286

 

STAR Fisher Street; in local directories from 1844 to 1861

 

STARBUCK, Scotch Street

CN 16.05.2008 p21 Starbucks opens on Scotch Street

 

STARCHER’S ARMS Irishgate; in local directory for 1829

 

STAR INN Botcherby; closed 03.12.1933 and Magpie opened next day

Carlisle in Camera 2 p25 photo in 1920s

P Hitchon. Botcherby A Garden Village pp165-167 On the corner of Warwick Road and Victoria Road and today known as the Warren Guest House [2019] It was called the Dixon’s Arms, it then became the White Star Inn and finally the Star Inn

Carlisle Express and Examiner 07.09.1861 Application for a spirits licence denied

CP 20.08.1869 p1 Ad; Long established inn for sale

1891 census; Ann Hamilton, innkeeper, aged 57, bn Carlisle

1901 census; Ann Hamilton, aged 66, publican, born Carlisle

CN 12.07.1991 p4 (illus)

 

STARLINGS

CN 30.09.1988 p1 Starlings drop health men in it

CN 21.10.1988 p13 Waiting for the starlings to fly

 

STAR MUSIC HALL Rickergate, between the Blue Bell Inn and Peter St; opened 25.06.1877 by Denis McCauley

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

City Minutes 1934-5 p855 City in negotiation with the owner of the Star Hall, Peter Street, in connection with the new police and fire station

CN 10.12.2004 p6 Story of Music Hall

 

STAR PICTURE HALL Opened 03.02.1912; in 1933 became The Rex

See also The Rex

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p77 Silent film were shown accompanied by a single pianist. One commentator stated ‘this attracted factory workers and shop girls who didn’t have to dress up to attend such places’. The first manager, Alf Norton, left in July 1912. After a fortnight closure for redecorating the picture house reopened on July 26th with Leon Gould in charge. As well as hiring in films Gould commissioned films - one being the Works and Workers of Denton Holme. Gould was able to purchase the property in 1922 and at his death in 1927 his wife, Annie, continued with the assistance from daughters Renee and later her husband, Bertram George. Sound was introduced in 1932 and the Star was leased to Graves Cinemas Ltd in 1933, the name changing to the Rex in 1938

CIC pp42-43 pictures of exterior and interior in early 1920s

CN 15.08.1975 p6

CJ 06.02.1912 Opened Saturday

 

STARTERS Hadrians Camp

Driving school

CN 29.04.1988 p50 Ad

CN 06.05.1988 p8 Ad

 

STARWAY STORES Upperby

CJ 26.08.1966 p13 (illus) Opened

 

STATE MANAGEMENT Headquarters 19 Castle Street The bill to set up The Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) received the Royal Assent on 19.05.1915; on July 26th 1915 the Board’s first Order came into operation, restricting the sale on drink in the cross-channel port of Newhaven, from where munitions were constantly sent to France; in the autumn of 1915 it was decided to build the largest of the new munitions factories at Gretna; the first navvies arrived in Autumn 1915 and by June 1916 the number of navvies engaged upon the work was more than 10,000; on 22.11.1915 there was issued a drink restriction order applying to Carlisle amongst other border areas; the seriousness of the drink problem in Carlisle caused the Board to purchase all licensed premises including 4 breweries [ excluding certain hotels and licensed restaurants] between July and the end of 1916; The Board’s business was to acquire efficiency – ‘where .....it is expedient for the purpose of the successful prosecution of the present war that the sale and supply of intoxicating liquor in any area should be controlled by the state’; Harry Redfern was appointed as chief architect to the Central Control Board with George Walton as his assistant C.F.A. Vosey designed the Board’s badge [see title page of Olive Seabury The Carlisle State Management Scheme, 2007]; In 1938 the scheme was described as thus ‘the object of the undertaking is to carry on the licensed business in this area in the most efficient manner, to supply the reasonable demands of the public under improved conditions, and to take all possible steps to eliminate excess. To this end a large number of redundant houses have been closed; all incentives to excessive drinking have been removed; food has been provided at licensed premises, with rooms set apart for such purpose; all houses have been placed under disinterested management; many houses have been reconstructed and others have been improved. The results are seen in the increased sobriety in the city and the improved appearance of the streets’ [Kelly's 1938 Cumberland Directory p71] Licensing (Abolition of State Management) Act 1971, dated 27.07.1971; ENS 11.10.1972 p11 reported that the Woolpack was the first pub to be sold off; majority of premises for sale by tender, closing date 13.11.1972

See also Drink

See J.Hunt City under the Influence, 1971 1BC647.94

see Renaissance of the English Public House pp57-79 Public house design

see Olive Seabury The Carlisle State Management Scheme, 2007

CAIH p86

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle First Learning Centre; Tullie House p85 1956 painting of interior of brewery

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p247 Hotels

CD 1955-56 Ad p251 Hotels

CD 1961-62 Ad pxiii

CD 1966-68 Ad p 275

CJ 17.06.1921 p10 CJ 24.06.1921 p4 CJ 26.07.1921 p5 CJ 02.08.1921 p5

CN 05.01.1968 pp1,20 CN 12.01.1968 p1 CN 09.05.1975 p9

CN 07.11.1975 p7 CN 28.11.1975 p5 ENS 02.06.1986 p14

ENS 07.06.1986 p4

CN 22.05.1915 p10 Carlisle license extinguished and licensing restrictions

CN 22.05.1915 p11 The public and the drink problem

CJ 28.09.1915 p4c The national drink bill

CN 01.07.1916 p4 The Control Scheme

CN 01.07.1916 p5 The Bishop on State Control

CN 01.07.1916 p5 State public houses

CJ 04.07.1916 p4 Official details of the Carlisle Scheme

CN 08.07.1916 p4 First state tavern and list of inns to be acquired outside city

CN 08.07.1916 Drunkenness in Carlisle

CN 15.07.1916 p4 The Carlisle Experiment

CN 15.07.1916 p5 Inauguration of State Control

CN 15.07.1916 p7 The farmers drink

CN 05.08.1916 p3 Brewery and further licensed houses taken over

CN 26.08.1916 p4 The Carlisle Experiment

CN 02.09.1916 p3 Carlisle local committee

CJ 08.09.1916 p4 Decrease of drunkenness

CN 09.09.1916 p3 First meeting of local committee

CN 09.09.1916 p5 Judging the Carlisle Experiment

CN 07.10.1916 p4 The ‘Off Trade’ in Carlisle

CN 07.10.1916 p5 Reconstruction of Inns

CN 14.10.1916 p4 Sir R.Allison and State Control

CN 14.10.1916 p4 The finance of the scheme

CN 14.10.1916 p5 Sir R.Allison’s views

CN 18.10.1916 p5 Licensed victuallers demands

CN 28.10.1916 p5 Letters columns

CN 04.11.1916 p5 Progress of the Carlisle Scheme

CN 04.11.1916 p5 Opening of a state coffee house - Longtown

CN 04.11.1916 p4 Parliament and the Carlisle Experiment

CN 04.11.1916 p4 The convictions for drunkenness

CN 18.11.1916 p6 Carlisle latest state taverns

CN 18.11.1916 p7 London Tavern opening

CN 25.11.1916 p5 Carlisle Experiment

CN 02.12.1916 p7 Control Board and its critics

CN 02.12.1916 Control Board and by laws

CN 02.12.1916 Control Board and rates

CN 16.12.1916 p11 Carlisle Experiment; number of licensed premises

CN 30.12.1916 p5 The state and the drink trade

City Minutes 1916-17 p101 List of premises closed in 1916

City Minutes 1917-18 p 88 List of premises closed in 1917

CN 06.01.1917 pp5,9 The state and liquor trade

CN 06.01.1917 p5 Prohibition of spirits

CN 20.01.1917 Partial prohibition in Carlisle

CN 27.01.1917 p7 Drunkenness in Cumberland - are statistics reliable?

Meeting of the Cumberland Standing Joint Committee at Carlisle

Mr Dixon in seconding the adoption of the quarterly and annual reports of the Chief Constable of the County said he saw that convictions for drunkenness were very much reduced in 1915 and 1916 and this, the Chief Constable attributed in a great degree to the actions of the Liquor Control Board. Mr James Watt wondered if the police, particularly within the city, did not wink at cases of drunkenness. He heard this every day and his experience of Carlisle was that drunkenness was greater today than before the Liquor Control Board came. It made him wonder if the Chief Constable’s figures were reliable. Chief Constable said ‘cooking’ the statistics was a serious accusation. Mr Watt said that under the Liquor Control Board it was generally supposed that the police were not as anxious to look after drunken men as before

CN 27.01.1917 p7 Prohibition of spirits and less drink

CN 10.02.1917 p5 Whisky prohibition

CN 24.02.1917 p5 No spirits on Saturdays

CN 24.02.1917 p5 Finance of the Carlisle experiment

CN 03.03.1917 p3 Prohibition during the war

CN 03.03.1917 p5 Prohibition by consent

CN 03.03.1917 p5 Prohibition during the war

CN 17.03.1917 p5 Dear drinks at Carlisle

CN 24.03.1917 p3 Extension to West Cumberland

CN 31.03.1917 p3 Bars open all day

CN 07.04.1917 p3 Prohibition or state purchase

CN 21.04.1917 p3 Spiritless Saturdays

CN 21.04.1917 p4 No treating

CN 21.04.1917 Ban of spirits

CN 28.04.1917 p5 No whisky at weekends

CN 12.05.1917 p3 Boards report on Carlisle

CN 19.05.1917 p2 Temperance party and state purchase

CN 19.05.1917 p2 Extension to West Cumberland

CN 19.05.1917 p2 Carlisle Experiment

CN 19.05.1917 p3 Nationalisation of drink

CJ 25.05.1917 pp4,7 State management - Maryport

CJ 01.06.1917 p5 Decline in drunkenness and bar prices

CJ 15.06.1917 p4 The attack on the Control Board

CJ 21.06.1921 p2 Temperance Crusade

CN 28.09.1929 p9 Odds and Ends

CJ 05.02.1937 p6 No tax on profits

CJ 02.03.1937 p5 State taverns

CJ 30.03.1937 pp4,5 General Spears

CJ 09.04.1937 p8 Temperance women

CJ 07.05.1937 p11 Bottle and a jug - poem

CJ 14.05.1937 p4 Reply to above poem

CJ 17.09.1937 p1 Mr Matriers attacks

CJ 17.09.1937 p9 Reasons for visit

CJ 29.10.1937 p8 State Control profits

CJ 15.04.1938 p3 State Management latest hotel - Silloth

CJ 28.02.1939 p1 No liquor after 11

CJ 30.04.1939

CJ 01.12.1939 p1 Local scheme report

CN 10.01.1942 p5 Profits for 1941

CJ 13.01.1942 p3 Number of premises in Carlisle

CN 26.07.1941 p6 Liquor scheme

CJ 16.07.1943 p1 Profits for 1938,39,40 and 1941

CJ 17.08.1945 p1 Pint tankards go on shelf

CJ 10.09.1948 p4 Visit of Home Secretary

CN 08.01.1949 p5 Drunks figures increase

CN 08.01.1949 p7 One publican at least was inspired

CN 15.01.1949 p5 State beer in insipid

CN 25.03.1950 p7 Mr Roberts suggestion to the drink trade

CJ 23.03.1954 p1 New tax on tips angers staff

CJ 26.03.1954 p5 Drink licenses levy

CN 06.04.1956 p8 (illus) Striking scenes in Carlisle

CJ 15.07.1958 p12 Inn manager and wife fined

CJ 15.08.1958 p7 Six managers sacked by Home Office

ENS 20.08.1958 p1 12 pub managers to get quit notice

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News pp130-3 Photos of Old Brewery in 1960s

ENS 05.03.1960 p7 Two ways to solve problem

ENS 09.04.1960 p1 Mr Butler answers about state pubs

ENS 11.04.1960 p7 End monopoly

ENS 23.06.1960 p9 Machines will tell whether you are fit to drive

ENS 25.06.1960 p7 Chief Constables differ on value of pub reactor meters

CJ 08.07.1960 p11 Women in pubs

CN 18.06.1965 p1 Wider sales

CJ 22.10.1965 p1 50th anniversary

CN 12.11.1965 p3 Profits down

CN 03.12.1965 p11 (illus) Artist’s impressions of new pubs

CJ 07.10.1966 p8 The unpalatable pint

ENS 12.10.1966 Supplement

CN 14.10.1966 p14 State pubs plan worth investigating

CJ 28.10.1966 pp13-19 (illus) History

CJ 16.12.1966 p15 List of prices

CN 23.06.1967 p1 Government review

CN 07.07.1967 p20 Tenancies

ENS 12.11.1970 p6 Crown Inn - regular halt for soccer fans going to matches

ENS 08.03.1976 p8 (illus) Exhibition at Tullie House

CN 17.03.2000 p12 Rise and fall of Carlisle brewing business

 

SELL OFF Licensing (Abolition of State Management) Act 1971, dated 27.07.1971; ENS 11.10.1972 p11 reported that the Woolpack was the first pub to be sold off; majority of premises for sale by tender, closing date 13.11.1972

CN 22.01.1971 pp1,15 CN 29.01.1971 pp1,13

CN 05.02.1971 pp1,15 CN 19.02.1971 pp9,36

CN 26.02.1971pp1,13,14 CN 26.04.1971 p9 CN 04.06.1971 p30

CN 11.06.1971 p3 CN 11.06.1971 p1 CN 18.06.1971 p1

CN 25.06.1971 pp9,19,21 CN 27.08.1971 pp3,9 CN 05.11.1971 p1 CN 12.11.1971 p15 CN 26.11.1971 p15 CN 03.12.1971 p1

CN 10.12.1971 pp1,22 CN 17.12.1971 pp1,8

CN 30.06.1972 p1,7 CN 07.07.1972 p9 CN 28.07.1972 pp3,11

CN 04.08.1972 p7 CN 11.08.1972 p9 (illus) CN 18.08.1972 pp1,14

CN 01.09.1972 pp15,28 CN 08.09.1972 pp7,32 CN 15.09.1972 p1

CN 15.09.1972 p17 CN 22.09.1972 p7 CN 29.09.1972 p11

CN 03.11.1972 p13 CN 17.11.1972 p11 CN 24.11.1972 p9

CN 08.12.1972 p13 CN 22.12.1972 pp1,9 CN 15.02.1974 p1

CN 19.04.1974 p1 CN 26.04.1971 p9

CN 11.12.1970 p24 Closure?

ENS 19.01.1971 p1 SMS Ends - break up planned

ENS 20.01.1971 p1 I will fight SMS decision; Carlisle MP

ENS 21.01.1971 p1 Labour MP’s rap decision on SMS

CN 22.01.1971 p1 To be sold off

ENS 23.01.1971 p1 SMS pub managers to meet top union man

ENS 25.01.1971 Managers warn of wage strike

ENS 26.01.1971 p1 City campaign to stop sale of SMS

ENS 27.01.1971 p1 Profits doomed SMS in city by £90,000

CN 29.01.1971 p1 To be sold off

ENS 30.01.1971 p1 Campaign formulated to fight SMS decision

ENS 02.02.1971 p1 City council to meet on SMS

ENS 04.02.1971 p1 Question on SMS

ENS 04.02.1971 p7 Best pubs outside SMS

ENS 10.02.1971 p1 Council decide on SMS

ENS 10.02.1971 p1 Takeover bid at special meeting

ENS 24.02.1971 p1 SMS vote plan by socialists

ENS 27.02.1971 p1 MP’s at Labour meeting on SMS

CN 12.02.1971 p13 Council refuse to finance

CN 05.03.1971 pp8,9,12

CN 12.03.1971 p2

CN 19.03.1971 p1 N.Adams resignation

CN 19.03.1971 p3

CN 02.04.1971 p3

CN 23.04.1971 p3

CN 30.04.1971 p3

CN 07.05.1971 p2

CN 14.05.1971 p3

CN 21.05.1971 pp1,3

CN 28.05.1971 p1

CN 03.12.1971 p1 Sale starts

CN 13.10.1972 Woolpack; first privately owned pub

CN 12.01.1973 pp1,9,32 Takeover

CN 19.01.1973 p13 Takeover

CN 26.01.1973 pp5,9 Takeover

CN 30.03.1973 pp1,4 Dates breweries take over individual pubs

CN 01.11.1974 p40 Prices paid by breweries in take over

CN 08.11.1974 p3 Prices paid by breweries in take over

CN 28.11.1975 p5 Closure pay

CN 20.02.2009 p13 Letter concerning final closure date of the Scheme. which finished in 1973, although closure bill 1971

 

STATUTE OF CARLISLE 1307

CJ 09.04.1965 p8

 

STATUES

See also Border Reiver Statue, Cathedral; Dean Close; Cathedral; Goodwin; Cathedral Waldegrave; Courts [for statue of Major Francis Aglionby] Cracker Packers, Creighton Memorial, Cross, Dyer, Jimmy, Hughie McIlmoyle, Lonsdale Statue, Saint Bede’s, Steel Statue, Upperby Park [two swans taking off from the water] Victoria, Queen

CN 04.10.1996 p10 (illus) Off with their heads; the moving statues of Carlisle

 

STAUNTON DRIVE, Garlands Estate One of a series of streets in this area named in connection with Woodrow Wilson whose mother was born in Carlisle in 1826. The President was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1856

 

‘STAY AT HOME’ HOLIDAY WEEK

CJ 05.06.1942 p3 Games committee programme of events

CN 06.06.1942 p3 Programme of events

CN 06.06.1942 p5 Merrie city again

CN 04.07.1942 p3 An outstanding success

 

STEAD McALPIN Thomas McAlpin was born in Wigton in 1777; 1827 he married May Stead; 1835 Thomas McAlpin decides to go into business on his own, twenty one calico printers, including his brothers, and seven indigo pencillers left Wigton, where they had worked under McAlpin for Messrs Ferguson, Halliley and Co; the new company, known as Thomas and Hugh McAlpin and Co was established at the Cummersdale works, renting a property from Forsters, a Carlisle firm of bankers and manufacturers; since 1965 a part of the John Lewis Partnership

See ‘The Gazette’ John Lewis Partnership Vol 67 No 31 pp721-7

See Memories of Carlisle 4pp section at back of book 2BC 9

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p51 Two photos of staff

CJ 07.01.1938 p10 CJ 27.03.1942 p4 CN 11.10.1949 p2 CN 14.06.1957 p8 CN 01.02.1985 p4

CJ 30.04.1878 Cummersdale prints for Paris Exhibition

CP 03.05.1878 p5 Exhibition design by Mr Dresser shown in Paris

CN 04.07.1958 p13 Supplement

CJ 18.04.1950 p1 Trolley invention for use in block printing

CN 18.04.1953 p6 History

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p43 1960s interior photo of screen printing

CN 10.12.1965 p24 Taken over by John Lewis and Co

CN 12.06.1970 p1 Extensions

CN 08.12.1989 p1 Village lorry fears

CN 29.12.1989 p3 Factory row move

CN 17.07.1992 p4 Bun fights and beer at work

CN 17.07.1992 p4 A mystery is solved

CN 11.03.1994 p1 10% bonus at Steads

CN 10.03.1995 p1 Workers get 12% bonus

CN 08.03.1996 p1 400 workers pick up £1,600 windfall

CN 06.12.1996 p5 Budget hits Stead ‘partners’ in the profits bonus

CN 07.03.1997 p1 (illus) Stead McAlpin workers pick up a £2,000 bonus

CN 14.11.1997 p3 Old dye mill infill plan is put on hold

CN 13.03.1998 p1 Workers £2,000 bonus

CN 10.03.2000 p3 Pay bonus for print workers

CN 30.06.2000 p16 Steads invests £6.2m in Carlisle plant

CN 09.03.2001 p3 Stead workers to suffer big drop in annual bonus

CN 08.03.2002 p5 Steads cuts bonus again; difficult trading

CN 05.04.2002 p11 Managing director retires after 47 years; Trevor Allison

CN 20.09.2002 p18 Cut in bonus for 400 workers after fall in profits

CN 14.11.2003 p5 78 jobs to go to save costs

CN 28.11.2003 p1 Redundancy list revealed on Monday; owned by John Lewis

CN 12.03.2004 p2 Bonus for 250 workers equal to 6 weeks work

CN 11.03.2005 p1 7 weeks pay bonus for 265 staff

CN 19.08.2005 p1 Steads axe 62 workers after factory losses £20m in 5 years

CN 26.08.2005 p12 Former boss, Trevor Allison, says firm can recover

CN 26.08.2005 p22 New interim managing director, Martin Poppleton

CN 07.09.2007 p2 Sold to Apex Textiles

CN 03.04.2009 p5 Stead’s goes into administration

CN 10.04.2009 p1 Stead’s plight

CN 01.05.2009 p1 Various parties interested in Steads. 65 people still working there

CN 22.05.2009 p1 Stead workers told agree to sale or close

CN 29.05.2009 p1 Steads faces closure after management buyout fails

CN 20.04.2012 p1 Bought by Stephen Soper in 2009 and powering ahead

 

STEAD SIMPSON AND NEPHEWS English Street

Tanners and curriers

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

 

STEAM ENGINE Beerhouse at Halfway Houses, London Rd, so named in 1837; may have become the Samson Inn

 

STEAM MARBLE WORKS

Post Office Directory 1873 p57 Ad A 28

 

STEED Junction St

CN 17.12.2004 p3 Bespoke tailor opens in Junction St; Edwin deBoise

CN 26.08.2005 p6 Helen Cowperthwaite does the women’s tailoring

 

STEEL, James N Viaduct Chambers

Auctioneers

CD 1961-62 Ad p258

 

STEEL, John Botchergate, Boundary Road, Salisbury Rd; Blackwell Rd

Butcher

CD 1924 Ad p232

CD 1927 Ad p240

CD 1931 Ad p104

CD 1934 Ad p302

CD 1937 Ad p189

CD 1952 Ad p78

CD 1955-56 Ad p15

 

STEEL AND TULLY Rickergate

Wine and spirit merchants

CD 1880 Ad pxxxiv

CD 1893-94 Ad p156

 

STEEL BROTHERS English Street

Block makers, lino setters, photo finishers

CD 1940 Ad p228

 

STEEL BROTHERS West Walls

Publishers of the Carlisle Journal; printers

CD 1961-62 Ad p288

CD 1966-68 Ad - colour supplement

 

STEELE, W.R. Electrical engineers

CN 28.10.1988 p20 Ad feature

CN 11.01.1991 p16 The farmers friend Ad

 

STEEL STATUE Town Hall Square; erected 16.March 1859; sculptured by W.Woodington in Sicilian marble and with a pedestal of pale grey Dabeattie granite; moved during pedestrianisation 06.08.1989; Steel was editor of the Carlisle Journal and Carlisle Mayor. Inscription reads James Steel Mayor 1845 and 1846. Cleaned and repainted in 2008 and repainted in 2012. David Cross has suggested that the white marble is not a suitable material for northern Europe. The Carlisle Patriot commented on the monument to the rival newspaper’s editor that it was ‘detrimental to the convenience as well as the beauty of the city’, and its erection was a ‘foolish act encumbering the newly acquired open space’. By the mid 20th century this space was also shared with underground public toilets.

CJ 01.10.1858 CJ 18.03.1859 p8 (illus) CN 26.03.1959 p8

CJ 26.02.1960 p6 (illus) CN 23.02.1973 p6 CNÊ20.02.1976 p9 (illus)

CN 27.02.1976 p6 CN 05.03.1976 p6 CN 02.04.1976 p5 (illus)

Carlisle Examiner 05.03.1859 p2c Pediment in place

Carlisle Examiner 15.03.1859 p2a,b Inauguration tomorrow

Carlisle Examiner 19.03.1859 p2c Inauguration

CN 05.02.1971 p3 (illus) Defaced

ENS 14.02.1976 p3 In way of progress

ENS 17.03.1976 p3 Mayor still in the cold

CN 16.09.1988 p3 Statue on move

CN 18.11.1988 p4 Controversy over statue

CN 18.08.1989 p23 Facelift for city statue

 

STEEL YARD

CN 03.06.1977 p6

 

STEPHENSON, Edward Glazer

1851 Directory. Ad 38 Blackfriars Street [after page 82 at back]

 

STEPHENSON, James Botchergate

CP 24.09.1897 Failure of Carlisle grocer James Stephenson

 

STEPHENSON, Swinburn 5 Earl St and Old Bush Lane

1882 Porters Directory Ad p146 Glazier, painter and decorator

 

STEPHENSON, W and CO Paternoster Row

Painters and decorators; wallpaper shop

The Stephensons lived at 4 Paternoster Row in 1893, two storeys built of red brick with stone columns on either side of the door. There was one bay window onto Paternoster Row. This house was built circa 1855. His work premises joined onto his house with an arched opening between the two parts. A description of the family and servants at this time is given in Margaret Forster’s book Hidden Lives as her grandmother was a live in servant

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p3 Painters, glaziers

1861 census William Stephenson, painter and glazer, aged 32, home Portland Pl

CD 1907-08 Ad p10

CD 1910-11 Ad p10

CD 1913-14 Ad p6

CD 1920 Ad p246

CD 1924 Ad p84

CD 1927 Ad p88

CD 1931 Ad p186

CD 1934 Ad p132 Established 1855

CD 1937 Ad p56

CD 1940 Ad p80

CD 1952 Ad p349

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p267

CN 14.04.1960 p8 Illustration about 1900

 

STEPHENSON’S COURT, 20 Crosby Street [1880 Directory]

 

STEVENS, J Blackfriars Street

General dealer

CD 1893-94 Ad p40

 

STEVENS BROTHERS Knowe Terrace

Decorators and electricians

CD 1924 Ad p28

 

STEVENS OF CARLISLE East Dale Street

Saw manufacturers

1920 - 1924 Carlisle Directories 21 Mary Street

1931 - 1934 Earl Street

1937 - 1940 Keys Lane

1952 - 1968 East Dale Street

CD 1966-68 Ad p295

 

April 1970 Cumberland News has an obituary of R.F.Stevens, head of the firm

1971 Telephone Book, Lancaster Street, but they do not appear in the April 1972 local telephone book

 

STEWART, Alexander Belle Vue

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p31 photo of shop

 

STEWART, B Botchergate, Scotch Street

Stationer, bookseller, wholesale newsagent

M.Edwards Our City Our People p21

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 Engraving of shop front, 36-8 Botchergate

1891 census; Barwise Stewart, bookseller and newsagent, 63, bn Carlisle

CD 1902-03 Ad p2

 

STEWART, G Lowther Street

Ladies and gents outfitters

CD 1893-94 Ad p231

 

STEWART, J and M Lowther Street

Confectioner

CD 1952 Ad p282

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p233

 

STEWART, James Architect, died 30.04.1874, [MI 23/1], son John, also architect, died 18.05.1879 [MI 23/1]; James in local directories from 1847; 1851 census James Stewart, aged 48, architect, home address Eaglesfield Abbey, born Scotland; 1853 extension to Priors Tower/Deanery by James Stewart; 1852-54 St Mary Magdalene, Gilsland by James Stewart; 1848 St Mary, Rockcliffe by James Stewart; 1854 Presbyterian Church Fisher Street by James Stewart

Ca/ E4/2775 Warwick Street; 1852, architect Jas Stewart for Peter Dixon

 

STEWART, John Viaduct

Motorcycles

CN 10.04.1998 p18

 

STEWART, Michael Millholme Terrace

Iron merchant

CD 1907-08 Ad p160

 

STEWART, Roderick Victoria Place

Hair artist

CD 1966-68 Ad p272

 

STEWART, W Botchergate

Chemist

CD 1952 Ad p84

CD 1955-56 Ad p233

CD 1961-62 Ad p264

 

STEWART, William Shaddongate

Grocer and provision merchant

CD 1893-94 Ad p170

 

STEWART’S COURT, Corporation Road [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 72-76 Corporation Road

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1,2,3,4,

 

STEWART’S COURT, 36 Botchergate [1880 Directory]

 

STITT, Thomas and Son Border Bakery, Newtown Road

CD 1952 Ad p258

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p223

CD 1955-56 Ad card inset

 

STOBART, Eddie Haulage firm. Started in 1970 as a haulier based in Hesket Newmarket. In 2010 has 1,850 individually named trucks, listed on the stock exchange and employs 5,300 people. Adam Tinkler took over the firm in 2004 with the founder’s son, William Stobbart. [CN 17.09.2010 p10]

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p51 Photo of E.Stobart and truck

CN 23.06.2000 p16 Stobarts reports healthy profits as firm expands

CN 01.09.2000 p1 Police seize Eddie Stobbart records

CN 25.05.2001 p5 Stobart’s ordered to pay 81 former employees at Stamford

CN 29.06.2001 p14 Stobbart bounces back after worst year in 30 year history

CN 14.09.2001 p5 Stobbart driver wins unfair dismissal cash

CN 26.10.2001 p5 Details of success of firm

CN 17.05.2002 p8 Culture of sexism and sexual harassment at Carlisle HQ

CN 20.09.2002 p6 Stobart’s Castle Street shop moves to Kingstown

CN 10.01.2003 p16 New uniforms for drivers; blazer and tie old fashioned

CN 25.07.2003 p3 New admin centre in Merseyside; 18 Carlisle jobs lost

CN 17.10.2003 p1 Eddie Stobbart sells up; brother William take reins

CN 11.06.2004 p17 Take over on 08.02 by WA Developments (International)

CN 19.11.2004 p5 Feature on Andrew Tinkler, new owner

CN 20.05.2005 p8 Stobart’s attack decision to revoke licence

CN 16.12.2005 p14 Firm may move out of Cumbria; owners A Tinkler and W.Stobbart

CN 27.01.2006 p5 Bid to move Stobbart HQ to Carlisle

CN 24.02.2006 p17 Stodart lorries can stay on roads; EC decision

CN 14.07.2006 p16 Multi million pound deals with Tesco, Nestle

CN 15.09.2006 p5 Stobart’s train to start Tesco’s delivery; Daventry-Livingstone

CN 22.09.2006 p7 Citadel train pulls through Citadel Station

CN 21.09.2007 p2 Stobart’s goes public after merger with property fund Westbury

CN 30.04.2010 p17 Stobarts celebrate 40 years. Founded in Hesket Newmarket 23.11.1970. First named one of its trucks in 1976

CM 17.09.2010 p10 New 6 part TV series about haulier

CN 01.04.2011 p 5 Appreciation of the late Eddie Stobbart

 

STOCKDALE, Madame Elizabeth Hannah Stockdale, dance teacher, died 06.04.1940; Monumental Inscription [84/7]

 

STOCKLUND HOUSE Castle Street; 1965 houses demolished for Stocklund House

 

STOCKS

See E.Nelson p4 Around Carlisle 1 BC 9

Carlisle an illustrated history p24 Illus of stocks last used in 1827

CN 16.05.1975 p6

CN 24.03.1928 p9 Last occupant

CN 18.08.2006 p11 History of the local stocks

 

STODART, Joseph and Co Manufacturers Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

STODART, Joseph, Francis and Co Manufacturers Bailey’s Northern Directory 1781; check and cotton manufacturers, Finkle St and Fisher St [Jollie 1811 p 83]

 

STODART, Robert Manufacturers Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784; 02.03.1801 Robert Stodart, linen manufacturer, died [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

STODDART, John 1 Scotch Street

M442 pp7, 18 Business card for linen and woollen draper; successor to Mr James; John Stoddart, draper, died 02.04.1846 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 426]

 

STODDART’S COURT, 16 Port Street [1880 Directory]

 

STOKOE COURT On electoral register from 1997-98; Bob Stokoe was a former manager of Carlisle United

 

STONE

CN 27.10.2000 p9 Where building stone came from for various Carlisle buildings

 

STONY HOLME So named Stanyholme iuxta Petrell in 1530

CJ 14.06.1929 p7 Weiring the Eden at Rickerby and Stony Holme

CN 26.06.2009 p71 Land for sale. In the hands of Carlisle United for many years. 110 acres on flood plain, north of Warwick Road, adjacent to Tescos store

 

STONY HOLME GOLF COURSE see GOLF COURSE; STONY HOLME

 

STORDY, D.J. London Road

Hairdresser

CD 1952 Ad p312

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p245

CD 1955-56 Ad p250

 

STORDY’S COURT, King Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory King Street

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 49-51 King Street

 

STORDY’S SQUARE, King Street [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 37-39 King Street

 

The STORES English Street

Grocers and provision merchants; Cafe

CD 1924 Ad p246

CD 1927 Ad p272

 

STOREY’S COURT, Duke Street see STORYS COURT

 

STOREYS LANE, Scotch Street [1829 Directory]

1847 Directory

 

STORY, George and Son Cotton merchants; established 1860

1860 land bought by brothers in law Nathan Palmer and George Story and works built for a finishing processes of woven cloth. At the international exhibition in 1862 they showed taffeta, silk and cotton umbrella clothes. Works extended in 1864. Trading as Palmer and Story the firm exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition in 1878. Story continued alone on this site in 1880 as George Story and Sons, George died in 1890 and his sons continued the business throughout World War One. WP Story died in 1925 and his sons continued making tailors’ linings until the building was offered for sale in 1949

D.Perriam Denton Holme p16

CJ 07.01.1938 p10 Local trade in 1937

 

STORY CONSTRUCTION Founded by Fred Story in 1987

CN 27.08.1999 pp16-17 An epic story

CN 13.10.2000 p12 Success story

CN 24.05.2002 p22 One of UKs fastest growing businesses

CN 02.08.2002 p7 Company fined for breaking pollution rules

CN 12.03.2004 p19 400 Workers given chance to buy shares

CN 16.07.2004 p13 Story of the company

CN 12.05.2006 p16 two new directors; Ian Sewell and Barry Little

CN 18.08.2006 p72-3 Story Homes development in city; Shaddon Mill, Mcllmoyle Way

CN 21.03.2008 p81 Hanson Place and Vallum Gardens built by Story Homes

CN 02.12.2011 p6 Feature

CN 31.08.2012 p5 £150m development at Crindledyke, Carlisle; work begins

 

STORY PAINTING GROUP, Kingstown

CN 06.04.2012 p21 Started in Silloth, moved to Maryport in 2000 then Carlisle

CN 17.08.2012 p1 Ceased trading but staff absorbed into main trading division Story Decorating Group

 

STORY RAIL Subsidiary of Story Construction

CN 26.09.2003 p16 John Latham new MD

CN 25.03.2005 p18 Formed inhouse signalling and telecoms dept; 268 staff

 

STORYS COURT, Castle Street So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19

 

STORY’S COURT, Duke Street [1934 Directory]

1871 census lists a George Coulthard, aged 45, handloom weaver

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

1924 Carlisle Directory entrance beside the Duke of York Inn

 

STORYTELLING

Cumbria February 1996 p28 I want to tell you a story

 

STOUD, Joseph Photographer

Slater’s 1869 Directory 119 Botchergate

 

STRAITON’S COURT; St Nicholas; in the directories from 1884, last noted on electoral register in 1965; on the 1901 census a James Straiton, aged 42, plateplayer is given at 22 St Nicholas, the property immediately adjacent to Straiton’s Court

1880 Directory 22 Saint Nicholas Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 20-22 St Nicholas Street [James Straiton still listed at no 22 St Nicholas Street

 

STRAND ROAD named in the 1891 census

CP 17.01.1896 Gales; one of chimneys of houses now being erected blown down

CN 24.04.2009 p61 No 7 Strand Road for sale; feature

CN 19.06.2009 p57 1 Strand Road for sale; feature

 

STRATHCLYDE AVENUE

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

 

STRATHCLYDE HOUSE Wigton Road; built 1885; formerly Carlisle and Border Counties Home for Incurables; chapel added 1894; cancer wing 1895; smoking room 1917

The hospitals of Cumberland A841

See also HOME FOR INCURABLES, CARLISLE AND BORDER

Carlisle an illustrated history p45 photo of exterior

1901 census; 29 patients aged 16 to 84; Eleanor Hudson, matron

CJ 28.05.1940 p3 CN 21.07.1961 p10

CJ 21.05.1937 p7 Home for incurables

CJ 19.05.1942 p2 Committee to become affiliated to British Hospitals Assn.

CN 03.01.1948 p5 Matron Miss Dix

CJ 21.05.1948 p3 Government to take over control

CN 22.05.1948 p7 Government to take over control

CN 01.02.1991 p15 Shock closure of city hospital

CN 14.06.1991 p6 Home sale

 

STRAWBERRY FIELDS VINTAGE SHOP; Citadel Row

CN 12.12.2014 p5 Death of owner Dave McGovern

 

STRAWBERRY TERRACE Edentown. An Edentown Nursery was opened in this area by EF Fairbairn in 1853

CP 30.04.1864 p1 Ad; To be let two newly erected houses

 

STREET ART

See also Public Art

CN 12.09.2003 p13 Letters with photos of street art in city

 

STREET CONSTRUCTION

CP 15.07.1881 Editorial on temporary expedient of river gravel instead of setts

City Minutes 1906/07 p89 whinestone v tarmac; former laid 22 years in main streets

CN 27.10.2000 p9 Stone setts in city from Threlkeld Quarry

 

STREET LIGHTING 1766 citizens subscribe towards street oil lamps; An act of Parliament for Lighting the streets, lanes and other public passages and places within the City of Carlisle, and for paving the footpaths and otherwise for improving the said city and suburbs was passed in the 44th of George III, 1804 [Parson and White 1829 p129] 19.01.1805 Carlisle lighted by 400 oil lamps; 1820 town gas introduced; first electric street lighting May 11th 1899

See also Electric light, Gas

CN 07.06.1947 p5 CN 27.08.1954 p10

CJ 18.09.1819 Carlisle Gas Lights; regulations and charges

CJ 02.09.1826 p2f Why our streets not lighted at night

CJ 02.12.1826 p3c Letter concerning imperfect street and shop lighting

The Citizen April 1830 p656 In 1830

CN 25.08.1928 p9 In the 1860s

City Minutes 1931-32 pp716 -719 Report on lighting of main streets

CJ 05.04.1940 p1 Extension of street lighting

CJ 25.01.1944 p1 (illus) Laying the first electric light cable in English Street in 1898

Civic Affairs January 1961 p3a,b Street lighting since the war

CN 23.11.1990 p23 Residents win street lights fight

CN 19.01.1996 p8 Street lights dim

CN 08.03.1996 p2 Lights cut cash but there’s no cash

 

STREET NAMES

CJ 29.01.1943 p4 CJ 02.02.1943 p2 CJ 02.03.1943 p2 CN 15.07.1977 p4

CJ 05.05.1914 Article by ‘Rover’

CN 19.05.1989 p4 Naming of city streets

CN 22.06.1990 p4 Giving names to city streets

CN 24.12.2010 p29 Meaning of street names in Denton Holme; D.Perriam

 

STREET PATTERN

CWAAS Vol 76, 1976 pp 77- 96 The topography of Medieval Carlisle

D Perriam and D.Ramshaw Carlisle First Leanring Cente; Tullie House, 2016 p7 Diagram showing the early Roman Street pattern. The street pattern surrounding Tullie House [Castle Street, Abbey Street, Paternoster Row and Annetwell St] was a creation of the Norman period

 

STREETS

See also Renumbering

CN 15.03.1924 p9 18th century Carlisle

CN 07.09.1990 p4 Street was busy in times long ago

 

STREET SWEEPS

CP 07.06.1850 p1 Ad; tenders for sweeping, cleaning and watering streets

City Minutes 1919-20 p24 Proposal to buy Clayton mechanical street sweeper;

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p40 1930s photo horse drawn street sweep

 

STREET TRADERS

CN 05.10.1973 p6 In 1891

 

STRIKES

See Amalgamated Soc. of Railway Servants Official Souvenir pp26 on; 1BC 625

CP 27.08.1842 Strike of Slater operatives; spinners earn 15s to 20s per week;

CP 15.04.1865 p4b Strikes in building trade in city continue

CJ 03.04.1866 p2 Strike of masons, joiners, shoemakers, tailors and weavers

CJ 17.04.1866 p2 as above

CJ 20.04.1866 p5 as above

CJ 24.04.1866 pp2,3 as above

CJ 04.05.1866 pp5,6 as above

CJ 11.05.1866 pp5,7 as above

CJ 15.05.1866 p2 as above

CJ 08.06.1866 p5 as above

CJ 12.06.1866 p4 as above

CJ 15.06.1866 p5 as above

CJ 19.06.1866 p3 as above

CJ 22.06.1866 p6 as above

CJ 12.04.1867 p9 Hatters strike; Carrick and Son

CP 07.12.1877 Cabinetmakers resumed work after several months on strike

CP 07.08.1891 p6c Oven boys strike

CN 21.04.1917 p3 Tramways strike

CN 28.04.1917 Tramways strike

CJ 07.05.1926 Stranded American tourists pictured at the Citadel Station during the General Strike; also photos of volunteers moving essential supplies

CJ 11.05.1926 Tin box workers called out on strike

CJ 21.11.1947 p1 Strike at State Brewery

CJ 25.11.1947 p1 Strike at State Brewery

CJ 28.11.1947 p1 Return to work at Brewery

ENS 30.05.1955 p1 935 city railwaymen on strike

ENS 22.07.1957 p1 Bus strikes

CN 02.05.1958 p10 Carters strike of 1913

ENS 03.10.1962 pq It’s solid say NUR

ENS 28.02.1976 p1Hospital strike

CN 16.02.1979 p4 Strike in 1911

CN 30.06.1989 p5 Strike threat move

CN 22.06.1990 p4 Women to the fore in epidemic of strikes

CN 30.11.1990 p14 Strike fails to stop £7m in cuts

CN 07.09.2001 p1 DEFRA strike over equal pay

CN 19.07.2002 p5 Unison strike last Wednesday; industrial discontent

CN 15.11.2002 p1 Fireman’s strike

CN 22.11.2002 p1 Fireman’s strike

 

STRINGER, W Scotland Road

Tobaccos and confections

CD 1934 Ad p5

 

STRING OF HORSES English Street; in local directories to 1869

1821 New Guide to Carlisle p76 John Carruthers

CJ 29.01.1858 To let; String of Horses, Corn Market

1858 Directory Thomas Graham String of Horses, 51 English Street

CJ 28.10.1859 To let; String of Horses, Market Place

1861 census Abraham Barker, innkeeper, aged 29, born Castlesowerby

 

STROKE CLUB

CN 27.05.1977 p5 Launched

 

STRONG, John 46 English Street; building demolished to make way for Marks and Spencer in 1931

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 55 Scotch Street, grocer and tea dealer

1901 directory; John Strong, grocer, 46 English Street

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p118 photo of shop

 

STRONG, John Castle Street

Fishing tackle, gunsmiths

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p240

CD 1955-56 Ad p242

CN 13.01.1956 p1 Closing down

 

STRONG, Robert Castle Street

Fishing tackle [Robert Strong, then John Strong, then John and Robert Strong traded in Carlisle as gunsmiths and fishing tackle makers from circa 1893 to 1957]

CD 1893-94 Ad p64

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 67 Shop front

 

STRONG, Robert Ceylon Tea Warehouse; 46 English St

Carlisle; Archival photographs p20 1931 photo before compulsory purchase

 

STRONG, W Arcade

Ladies and gents tailors

Leading Trader of the City Ad p40 A 616

 

STRONG, W.F. Citadel Row

Optician

CD 1924 Ad p36

CD 1927 Ad p34

 

STRONG’S BUILDINGS; Bridge Street. Mr Strong’s property is marked on Wood’s 1821 map

1851 R.Rawlinson Report of the General Board of Health...Carlisle p51; 200 people greatest filth, contains more than 200 people

CJ 06.09.1850 Report of assault at Strong’s Buildings, Caldewgate which had begun as an argument amongst three Irish people

 

STRUTS COSTUME, Chapel Street

04.01.2013 p16 Expands. Set up 27 years ago. Party costume

 

STUART’S COURT, Saint Nicholas Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 22 Saint Nicholas Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 31-33 St Nicholas Street

 

STUBBS BUILDINGS, English Damside; so named on the 1841 census

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

STUBBS, George and Son Builders of Denton Holme

CN 08.07.2005 p4 Death of George Stubbs; obit.

 

STUBBS, T.J. Scotland Road

Grocer

Carlisle an illustrated history p65 photo of exterior of shop

CD 1952 Ad p307

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p244

CD 1955-56 Ad p248

CD 1961-62 Ad p274

 

STUBBS COURT, Corporation Road

City Minutes 1935-36 p181 22, 23, 24 and 26 unfit for human habitation

 

STUBBS COURT, 31 Saint Nicholas Street [1880 Directory]

 

STUBBS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 100 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 98-100 Milbourne Street

 

STUDHOLMES Scotch Street; closed 06.10.1973

Ladies outfitters

The Lanes Remembered pp47-48, 72 photos

CD 1920 Ad p64

CD 1924 Ad p170

CD 1927 Ad p192

1928 Pageant Souvenir Ad with engraving of shop facade

CD 1931 Ad p120

CD 1934 Ad p112

CD 1937 Ad p92

CD 1952 Ad p348

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p266

CD 1955-56 Ad p271

CD 1961-62 Ad p291

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p17; photo of exterior 1951

CN 06.10.1973 Studholmes closing tonight

CN 12.10.1973 p7 Closing down

CN 19.10.1973 p4 (illus) Closing down

CN 19.10.1973 p4 (illus) Mr Joseph Rome’s father and uncle had established a business on Scotch Street in 1820. In 1881 Mr Rome was able to buy the premises which he had rented; this allowed him to extensively alter the property over the years and this remained substantially the same until demolished under the Lanes development. His business closed shortly after World War One, Mr JC Studholme who had started his own ladies outfitters business on no 61 Scotch Street when he came from Wigton to Carlisle in 1900, moved his business into Mr Rome’s former premises and continued there until he retired in 1938. From then until the business closed in 1973 it was run by JC Studholme’s nephew, Mr John Studholme.

 

STUDHOLMES LANE, Caldewgate

1847 Directory Bridge Street

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 2 Church Street

1924 Carlisle Directory After 46 Bridge Street

City Minutes 1934/5 p955 No 3 unfit for human habitation

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1, 1a and 2 at 46 Bridge Street

 

STUDIO MUSIC CENTRE Fisher Street

ENS 27.09.1977 p8 Ad

 

STUDIO NORTH Photographers

CN 19.10.2012 p4 Founded by Mike Notman, who retired in 2005. Then run by his daughter

 

STUDIO 144 Botchergate

CN 24.02.1995 p14

 

STUDIO 7 James Street

Photographer

CN 02.12.1988 p14 Ad

 

STUDIOS I AND 2 Botchergate; formerly Palace Cinema; opened 14.08.1970; reopened as Studios 1,2,3, and 4 20.02.1972; closed March 1987

See also PALACE

CN 03.12.1971 p1

CN 14.08.1970 pp14-15 (illus) Opening

CN 11.02.1972 p13 Opening of Studios 3 and 4

CN 25.02.1972 p13 (illus) Feature opening of new Studios

ENS 17.02.1987 p1 Final curtain

 

STUDIO WEEKS Devonshire Street

Photographers

CD 1961-62 Ad p293

CD 1966-68 Ad p291

CN 22.10.2010 p4 Obit of Roger Weeks; started by his father Eric, son Roger joined and took over in 1961

 

STURDY, John Attorney at law Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

STYLE UNION

See also BURTON’S

CN 18.04.1997 p10 (illus)

 

SUEDE, The Crescent

CN 19.09.2008 p Bar closes following collapse of Cain Brewers

 

SUFFRAGE SHOP English Street

CN 12.11.1949 p5 CN 19.11.1949 p5

 

SUFFRAGETTES see WOMEN

 

SUGARCRAFT SPECIALITIES Citadel Parade

CN 16.07.1999 p18

 

SUITECENTRE

CN 07.08.1992 p14 Ad

 

SUITE DREAMS FURNITURE CENTRE

CN 24.03.1995 p6 Ad

 

SULLIVAN, Catherine Milliner and dressmaker, aged 36, employing 3 apprentices, home address Fisher St, born Aspatria [1851 census]

 

SUMMER HILL Harraby

City Minutes 1891-92 p261 Approval for new street

City Minutes 1891-92 p386 Approval for 24 houses

 

SUMMERS, Ann English Street

CN 14.09.2001 p1 Underwear shop opens

CN 21.09.2001 p3 Takings for first week above expectations

 

SUN Caldewgate; pub in local directories to 1855

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

SUN CHAMBERS Devonshire Street

Insurance

CD 1931 Ad p20

CD 1937 Ad p306

CD 1940 Ad p126

 

SUNBLEST BAKERY Burgh Road

CN 23.12.1999 p5 7 jobs to go

 

SUNDAY FREE BREAKFAST ASSOCIATION

CN 09.12.1955 p10

 

SUNDAY MARKET see MARKET - SUNDAY; SUNDAY TRADING

 

SUNDAY SCHOOLS

Carlisle Examiner 04.07.1857 p3 9 Sabbath schools of Carlisle - school outings

CP 09.07.1880 p7 f Sunday schools centenary

 

SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

CJ 15.01.1864 p6 First annual meeting

 

SUNDAY TRADING

CJ 16.04.1937 p9 New restrictions

ENS 21.02.1956 p1 Sunday opening hours altered

CN 16.12.1988 p21 Gunning for Sunday law breakers

CN 06.10.1989 p11 Sunday trade vote planned

CN 17.11.1989 p1 ‘No’ to shopping on Sunday

CN 01.12.1989 p12 A shambles

CN 08.12.1989 p9 Move on Sunday trade

CN 29.12.1989 p1 All about Eve for DIY

CN 03.05.1991 p5 Sunday trading is big stores aim

CN 29.11.1991 p3 Sunday supermarkets

CN 06.12.1991 p9 Sunday trading success

CN 20.12.1991 p1 Store wars dawn raid

CN 03.01.1992 p1 Stores wait to see on Sundays

CN 24.01.1992 p10 Sundays must still be special

CN 24.01.1992 p11 Bishop calls for shopping vote

CN 31.01.1992 p3 No Sunday trading

CN 06.08.1993 p5 Supplement

CN 17.09.1993 p3 Sign up for Sunday shopping

CN 17.09.1993 p12 Comment

CN 24.09.1993 p7 Lift off for big Sunday battle

CN 21.01.1994 p18 Sunday opening still vetoed

CN 19.08.1994 p7 No Sunday opening

CN 02.12.1994 p5 Sunday apathy

CN 16.12.1994 p10 Forget socks and slippers

CN 09.06.1995 p1 Churchman says Sunday shopping may be city economic saver

CN 19.03.1999 p2 ‘Next’ leads the way

CN 29.10.1999 p5 Trading on Sundays takes off

CN 31.03.2000 p1 Shop till you drop Sundays

CN 28.04.2000 p18 New era for Sunday shopping

 

SUNNYSIDE; Blackwell Rd Noted between 1880 - 1906

 

SUNRISE ASTRAL BLINDS

CN 20.04.1990 p6 Ad

CN 15.03.1991 p8 Ad

CN 06.03.1992 p14 Ad

CN 02.04.1993 p8 Ad

 

SUPA SHOPPA Botchergate

CN 28.02.1992 p10 Ad

 

SUPERDEC DISCOUNT STORE St Nicholas Trading Estate; started in Whitehaven in 1888

CN 19.04.1974 p7 (illus) Opening by Noele Gordon

CN 13.11.1987 p20 Ad

CN 27.05.1988 p46 Ad

CN 23.07.1993 p14 Ad

 

SUPERIOR SEWING MACHINES Citadel Parade

CN 08.09.1995 p6 Ad

 

SUPERSTITIONS

Our City Our People p17 Children see white horse put cross on shoe; circa 1900

 

SUPERSTORES see SHOPPING

 

SURE START Petteril Bank

CN 29.04.2005 p5 Carlisle Sure Start South moves to new building

CN 03.06.2005 p6 Carlisle blazing a trail for rest of country says minister

 

SURNAMES

CN 28.01.1972 p12 Most common

 

SURTEES COURT, 60 Botchergate [1880 Directoroy]

 

SURTEES LANE, Collier lane [1934 Directory]

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

City Minutes 1935-6 p269 1-7 unfit for human habitation

 

SURTEES LANE, 76 Botchergate [1880 Directory]

CJ 26.09.1913 p7 62-74 Botchergate. Mr Boustead property for sale, including cottages in Surtees Lane

 

SURVEYS

CN 02.08.1996 p3 City survey

 

SUSPENSION BRIDGE Rickerby Park; 330 feet in length; opening of Memorial Bridge over River Eden and Rickerby Park 25.05.1922; cantilever work by Redpath and Brown

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p79 Photo of bridge

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 60 opening of bridge

CN 27.05.1922

CJ 17.02.1950 (illus)

CN 14.07.2000 p13 Letter; fears over bridge safety

CN 06.07.2001 p1 Bridge to get £120,000 refurbishment

 

SUTTER, John 37 Lowther St

M442 p9 Business card for silversmith

 

SUTTLE HOUSE Wigton Road; built on field called ‘Suttle Close’; Suttle House marked on G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle

14.12.1820 George Blamire died here [MI St Mary’s Churchyard; no 296]

1829 Directory p172 George Blamire Esq

CJ 10.08.1839 p1c Suttle House to let

CJ 21.05.1842 p1 To be let; no more than two miles from Carlisle

1851 census Richard Pattinson, 42, grocer and druggist, born Carlisle

1861 census George Thompson, landowner, 74, born Middlesex

22.12.1866 Died George Thompson of Suttle House [Monumental Inscription 5/38]

CP 26.04.1873 p1c Suttle House for sale; owner W.S.Irving

30.03.1897 Died Richard Jackson of Suttle House [Monumental Inscription Rosley Church]

CN 30.03.2001 p21 Home of the Blamire family

CN 07.04.2006 p5 Proposed development next to Suttle House

ENS 04.05.2015 p5 Houses faces demolition after fire in March; approval sought

CN 09.10.2015 p9 Concerns raised over the demolition of the listed building.

 

SUTTON AND CO English Street

Carriers

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1880 Ad pxxxix

 

SUTTON, I.H.

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p12 purchased in 1840 by J.Hope

 

SWALLOW HILLTOP see HILLTOP HOTEL

 

SWANS

City Minutes 1899-1900 p27 Feeding the Corporation swans

City Minutes 1902-03 p 462 Boys caught stoning Corporation swans

CN 26.10.2001 p9 Four swans shot dead by air rifles; dumped at Engine Lonning

 

SWIFTE AND YE SWIFTE WYLLOWES

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

 

SWIFTHILL

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

 

SWIFTMEADE

1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]

 

SWIFTS, The So named Swyft in 1339; this was originally a stream name transferred to meadows

 

SWIFTS BANK; The Sands Constructed 1816-19; Swifts Bank commenced in Summer 1815 and completed October 1815 (Beatys Northern Almanac 1905 C3 p30). Ran from the east side of the then new Eden Bridge turning south to what became the east end of Newmarket Road. Weavers Bank was constructed on the west side of the bridge at the same time

 

SWIFTS LANE, Albert Street to Catholic Lane [1880 Directory]

 

SWIFTS RACECOURSE see RACECOURSE SWIFTS

 

SWIFTS ROVERS FOOTBALL CLUB

Former players include Geoff Twentyman and Norman Coupe, both in the squad to play Arsenal at Highbury in 1951

 

SWIFTS ROW, Rickergate [1829 Directory]

D Perriam Lowther Street p59,4 illustrations. Named after a field close to the River Eden which became Carlisle Racecourse

CJ 12.05.1865 p8

Theatre CJ 16.06.1865 p4 Theatre

1880 Directory Rickergate to the Racecourse

 

SWIMMING see BORDER CITY SWIMMING CLUB

 

SWIMMING BATHS see BATHS

 

SWING BRIDGE see SUSPENSION BRIDGE

 

SWISS COURT RESTAURANT English Street; opened 1965

ENS18.09.1965 p3 Ad

CJ 01.10.1965 p40 (illus) Opened

 

SWORD AND GREAT MACE Sword, 3 feet nine inches long, made in Milan in 1509 and purchased in 1635-6. The sword is always carried sheathed, denoting the reserve of force behind the civic powers, and always points upright being lowered to neither prince nor prelate, but to the Crown alone. It is an emblem of Civic independence, of the rights of the citizens to govern themselves, and also of the criminal jurisdiction wielded by the Mayor; mace, 4 feet 2 inches in length, presented in 1685 by Colonel James Graham MP for city. [Topping p69 says by tradition it is the gift of James II] It has the initials J.2R. Inscribed upon it is the city’s motto and Dieu et mon droit. There are also 3 sergeants’ maces of silver which measure respectively 9.75, 9 and nine and seven eights inches in length. On the bowl of the tallest is the date 1660, the date of the Restoration. On the stem are the engraved words ‘whoever wears this mace Richad. Peal hopes they will not tell lies or be a tatler’.

See also Mayor’s chain

Topping, G and Potter, J Memorials of old Carlisle pp67-69

Carlisle an illustrated history, p16 photo of mace

CP 09.04.1880 Carlisle Corporation plate and insignia

CJ 18.07.2003 p7 Sent for repair in 1882

CN 12.02.2016 p9 Accused of stealing ceremonial badge belonging to the Mayoress worth £55,000

 

SYBIL STREET

City Council Minutes 1881, 17/849; Approval for new houses on Sybil Street

City Council Minutes 1897-98 p 286 Approval for 10 houses

 

SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING CLUB, CARLISLE

CN 29.12.2006 p9 Club folds after 18 years

 

SYNOD OF CARLISLE DIOCESE Held in Carlisle 1927, 1964

CN 023.10.1964 p8 (illus)

 

SYSTEM IT Botchergate

CN 26.03.2004 p19 Ad feature for opening

 

SYSTEM TRAINING Transport and logistics training

CN 07.08.2009 p19 Set up in Carlisle in 1988

CN 24.02.2012 p18 Runs apprenticeships for young people