Carlisle Encyclopaedia

UGANDAN ASIANS

CN 08.12.1972 p3 Ugandan asians in Carlisle

 

UKRAINIANS

Ukrainians came to Britain after World War Two as displaced people; if they had returned home they would have been under Communist rule.

A Carlisle branch of the Ukrainian Association of Great Britain opened in Grosvenor House on the corner of Warwick Square in 1957. On January 8th 1965 the club sent a letter to the city council asking if there were any objections to their use of the former St Bede’s Catholic Church and house for new premises. In March of that year plans were approved for alterations for the new use; function room, kitchen, coffee room.

ENS 18.11.1957 p3 Ukrainian social club opens - Grosvenor House

City Minutes 1964-65 p857 Letter concerning use of former church

City Minutes 1964-65 p1199-1200 Plans approved

CN 07.10.1988 p44 Plaque marks a milestone for exiles

CN 30.03.1990 p5 (illus) Ukrainian dancers

CN 06.12.1991 p11 Ukrainian flag flies high

CN 14.11.1997 p3 Ukrainians celebrate fifty years

CN 07.05.2004 p3 Feature on Ukrainian community; originally 85 members, now only 15, but some English have joined. Hundreds of men were bought to British Labour camps after the war. We started up while we were in Smalstown Camp near Longtown. To help each other through the difficult transition period they set up a club

CN 14.01.2005 p11 Ukrainian Club refuge during Great Flood

09.04.2016 Northern Soul night to mark the closure of the club

 

UNADOPTED ROADS

CN 30.11.2001p3 Councillor fills in holes; 160 un-adopted roads in city

 

UNDERWOOD’S Crown Works; Peter Street; William Underwood, aerated water manufacturer, died 01.05.1890 [Monumental Inscription 148/27]

Mineral water manufacturers

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p31; photo of advertising float

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p46 photo of their delivery cart

D Perriam Denton Holme p66 Carlisle born William Underwood returned to the city in 1880 to establish the firm of Underwood’s Mineral Water Company and in 1881 the company was in Trafalgar Street. The move to Junction Street came in 1888 with new buildings but William died on 1st May 1889 aged 54 and his wife Frances was left to manage the business. She planned and built the Crown Works on Junction Street in 1899. Responsibility passed to her eldest son John Ewart Underwood but he died in 1914. David Underwood took on the management of this and his own business in Maryport. On the death of Frances in 1919 the firm was for sale and saved as a going concern by Thomas Underwood. When bankruptcy threatened in 1925, Sarah Elizabeth Underwood, wife of Thomas, took on the business and overs saw the transfer to Peter Street in the 1930s. At a later date the firm was taken over by Michaels of Eastriggs

CD 1902-03 Ad p11

CD 1952 Ad p254

CD 1955-56 Ad p220

CN 25.04.2008 p36 D.Perriam’s article on firm; formed 1880 last mentioned in 1990 telephone book

CN 02.05.2008 p13 Letter from William Underwood reminiscing

 

UNDERWOOD SECRETARIAL COLLEGE Viaduct Chambers

CD 1952 Ad p22

 

UNEMPLOYED ASSOCIATION, CARLISLE

ENS 15.12.1931 p2 Letter asking for donations for children's Christmas party

 

UNEMPLOYMENT see EMPLOYMENT: LABOUR EXCHANGE

 

UNEMPLOYMENT GRANTS FUND

CN 29.07.1977 p4 History after First World War

 

UNICORN King’s Arms Lane; in local directories to 1837

1841 census; Old Unicorn, James Tait, aged 45, publican and bookseller

CP 18.12.1841 Ad; for sale ‘long established’ sign of Old Unicorn

 

UNION COURT, 24 king Street [1880 Directory]

 

UNION COURT The Lanes; certainly in existence by 14th century (Carlisle a frontier city p16). Since as late as 1829 this lane was known as Elliot’s Lane [named as such on Wood’s 1821 map].Roman and Medieval Carlisle; the northern Lanes, excavations 1978-82, vol 2. The medieval and post-medieval period. Page 286

1847 Directory

The Lanes Remembered p 96 photo

1891 census 110 people living in this lane

1901 census; 102 people living in this lane in 20 households; occupations include servants registry, postal clerk, domestic servant, corporation carter, railway porter, railway van-man, railway labourer, ring spinner, coachbody maker, domestic cook, baker, coach painter, farm labourer, tin factory worker, cloth weaver, wood sawyer, drainer, tailor, woollen weaver, labourer, currier, dressmaker, carter, butcher, gardener, milliner, caulker maker, painter, wheelwright, machine girl.

1934 Directory, 51 Scotch Street

 

UNION INN/ HOTEL Citadel Row; in local directories from 1850 to 1894

1861 census Union Hotel, Richard Hoyle, innkeeper, aged 35, born Preston

CP 24.07.1868 p1 Ad; For sale in occupation of John Armstrong

1880 Directory 51 Scotch Street

 

UNION INN Irishgate Brow; in local directories from 1858 to 1861

 

UNION NEWS ROOM English Street; building opened in 1831; ground floor occupied by News Room, first floor by Carlisle Subscription Library

CIC p22

New Guide to Carlisle 1821 p55 Subscription News Room; agitation to join library

CN 17.08.1990 p4 (illus) News Room was a great asset to city

 

UNION OF POST OFFICE WORKERS CLUB Lonsdale Street

CN 15.12.1978 p10 Opening

 

UNIONS see also AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF RAILWAY SERVANTS; GMB; STRIKES

See Amalgamated Soc. of Railway Servants Official Souvenir 1911 pp26 1BC 625\

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

 

UNION STREET Back to back houses dated from the 1820s; street laid out by the Union Building Society [hence the name]; slum clearance for council housing and street name changed to Rydal Street

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

CP 27.05.1854 p5 Open ditch or sewer running through street; noxious

City Minutes 1928-9 p665 nos. 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103 and 105; demolition order

City Minutes 1934-5 p537, 869 Union Street to be called Rydal Street

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p92 photo of old housing in 1937

Carlisle an illustrated history p89 photo of housing in 1937

 

UNITARIAN CHAPEL Unitarian lectures began in the Temperance Hall, Carlisle in 1872, Sunday Services followed in 1883 and Rev WH Lambelle became a minister in Carlisle in 1885, and was the prime mover in the building of the chapel which was constructed on James Street in 1889. The chapel proved over ambitious for its congregation, and lasted in use by them only from 1889 to 1912. Thereafter Unitarian services were transferred to the former Academy of Arts on Finkle Street, and in the course of time to even smaller premises on Lorne Street, prior to the winding up of the congregation in 1957. the James Street property became an extension for electricity works; today part of Carlisle Enterprise Centre [See Rev WH Lambelle A Short Account of the Unitarian Congregation of Carlisle, to the time of laying the Foundation Stone. Manuscript, Carlisle Record Office] Dr Martin Pulbrook has suggested that there was a short-lived first wave of Unitarian Dissent in Carlisle, which lasted for upwards of one hundred years, perhaps significantly less. The reasons for the failure of the first wave being in essentials the same as the reasons for the failure of the second wave 1872 - 1957; the area was simply too isolated, and perhaps too pro-establishment. Dr Pulbrook suggests the first wave can be traced to 1738 when there was controversy amongst the Presbyterian congregation in the city. This fits in with the date of the Kendal Chapel of 1720. Pulbrook suggest the first wave of Unitarian Dissent lasted from circa 1733 to circa 1800, the date of the death of the minister Robert Mylne

Carlisle in Camera 1 p34 Photo of rear; built 1889

City Minutes 1910-11 p438 Trustees agreed Corporation offer to buy church

CJ 24.02.1950 p5

CN 07.01.2000 p12 Chapel mystery solved 50 years too late

CN 03.01.2014 p14 Denis Perriam article. Foundation stone laid May 1889, moved in 1913 and building became part of the electricity station

 

 

UNITED BISCUITS see CARRS

 

UNITED BUS SERVICES/ STATIONS United came to Carlisle in January 1931 with the takeover of the Emmerson service between Newcastle and Carlisle; County Garage, Duke St their first terminus; 1935/36 they acquired property in Peter St on which they built their own garage, becoming operational in 01.05.1937; United used Peter Street depot as terminus until it opened Scotch St depot on 12.09. 1938; United services transferred to Ribble on 05.01.1969, at which time the Peter St depot closed and was ultimately demolished; on 06.03.1971 remaining former United services transferred to Lowther Street Bus Station

City Minutes 1929 - 30 p 664 Licensed bus services

City Minutes 1935-6 p300 Proposal for depot between Lowther Street and Scotch Street provided the Corporation approved the under mentioned bus services

Carlisle an illustrated history p80 Copy of painting in 1955 of bus station

 

UNITED KINGDOM INDEPENDENT PARTY

CN 25.10.1996 p4 UK Independents seek to launch county party

 

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

Formed by the unification of the Congregational [Charlotte Steet] and Presbyterian [Fisher Street] churches

see St George’s United Reformed Church

 

UNITED SERVICES CLUB

M.Dickens Those Were the Days p33 Opened new club rooms in October 1950

ENS 29.08.1987 Club set to move into former cinema in Botchergate

ENS 22.02.1988 Club plans to revamp former Studios Cinema

 

UNITED STATES VINTAGE CAR RALLY

CN 03.09.1954 P9

 

UNITED UTILITIES see NORWEB

 

UNITED YEAST PARTY Fisher Street

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p286

 

UNITERIAN CHURCH; Viaduct See Unitarian Chapel

 

UNIVERSITY

1617 Local merchants petitioned James 1st on his visit to Carlisle to have a nobleman living in the city, [a complaint against the absent governor, Earl Francis], to have a university in the town, one of the King’s council meeting at York to be in Carlisle, licence to transport wool. But nothing happened, the court being very short of money

See also Polytechnic; St Martins College

CN 30.04.1965 p11 CN 18.03.1966 p8 CN 07.06.1968 p1

CN 11.10.1974 p9 CN 20.12.1974 p8 CN 27.12.1974 p1

CJ 23.01.1948 p1 Proposal

CN 15.01.1965 p11 Possibility

CN 06.03.1992 p21 Recruiting city campus lecturers

CN 20.03.1992 p7 University campus

CN 05.06.1992 p22 Council gives priority to student digs

CN 09.10.1992 p7 Forging a link with the future

CN 09.10.1992 p3 Launching a new era for the city

CN 03.12.1993 p5 Students win your long battle

CN 24.06.1994 p1 Way paved for city university

CN 01.07.1994 p17 Angry lecturers bin new work contracts

CN 01.07.1994 p16 Carlisle College and University make history

CN 19.08.1994 p12 Elite campus

CN 30.09.1994 p3 Up market university

CN 07.10.1994 p1 Sally Army aids students

CN 07.10.1994 p5 Cathedral link forged

CN 28.10.1994 p3 Cashing in on campus

CN 13.01.1995 p5 Campus deal with market abandoned

CN 14.07.1995 p6 University bid

CN 16.08.1996 p3 Student plan for new license...more noise

CN 08.11.1996 p5 University pledge – we’ll open in city next year

CN 28.03.1997 p2 New boss

CN 18.04.1997 p1 14MU hold up won’t deter college

CN 06.06.1997 p5 MP wants city centre excellence

CN 20.06.1997 p1 Professor

CN 21.11.1997 p7 An honour for John on Varsity students big day

CN 13.03.1998 p1 College may buy hospital site

CN 27.03.1998 p1 Campus expansion

CN 31.07.1998 p5 Expansion hits snag

CN 02.10.1998 p7 Campus launches new care degree

CN 09.10.1998 p12 University challenge

CN 13.11.1998 p19 New campus - top of the class

CN 05.02.1999 p6 Campus opens up for a day

CN 16.07.1999 p15 Growing degree ceremony switches to sands Centre

CN 28.01.2000 p17 Students meeting gets great new look

CN 08.12.2000 p3 £2.8m campus centre to go ahead

CN 18.05.2001 p5 Uni.of Northumbria; Carlisle Campus-new resource centre

CN 19.04.2002 p16 Chris Bonington will open new resource centre on May 13th

CN 10.05.2002 P1 £3.2m library opened in Milbourne Street

CN 17.05.2002 p19 Chris Bonington opens £3.2m library

CN 30.08.2002 p1 University of Northumbria ready to leave city; opinion p12

CN 06.09.2002 p3 Silence over University closure

CN 06.09.2002 p13 Letter concerning threat of University leaving

CN 22.11.2002 p12 Why we need a University for Cumbria; editorial

CN 16.05.2003 p1 University of Cumbria in 3 years

CN 11.07.2003 p1 Head of Northumbria Uni. Carlisle Campus quits over closure

CN 25.07.2003 p8 Uni committed to city; only pull out if suitable provider found

CN 09.07.2004 p1 In comes Central Lancashire out goes Uni of Northumbria

CN 06.08.2004p1 Delay in handover until September

CN 13.08.2004 p13 Halls of Residence bought by Impact Housing

CN 03.09.2004 p13 Letter concerning Carlisle’s University Halls of Residence

CN 16.09.2005 p1 University of Cumbria to be based in Carlisle

CN 23.09.2005 p12 Feature on proposed new University of Cumbria

CN 05.05.2006 p1 St Martin’s College and Cumbria Institute of Arts to merge in August 2007 to form new University of Cumbria; University of Central Lancashire agree to hand over to new university Carlisle and Newton Rigg campuses

CN 06.10.2006 p1 New University unveils plans for new city centre HQ

CN 02.08.2007 pp1,5 Amalgamation of St Martin’s College, University of Central Lancashire and Cumbria Institute of the Arts to form University of Cumbria

 

UNMARRIED MOTHERS see ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS

 

UPPERBY

Upperby is first noted as a placename in about 1164 when it is called Hobrihtebi, by 1592 this has become Upperbye. The first element is a personal name Hubert added to which is by meaning a village or hamlet. In 1348 the men of the village of Upperby were excused from paying a tithe to the King ‘because the Scots had so frequently destroyed their lands and goods’. Upperby water corn mill described in 1449 as ‘totally wasted and destroyed by the Scots’. 1608 windmill mentioned in Upperby. 1610 Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham Univerity, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984] shows Uprightbye towne; Population in 1780 20 houses, 21 families, 35 men, 54 women The LIfe of John Heysham by Henry Lonsdale p34;. The population of the township in 1801 = 119, 1811 = 228, 1821 = 340, their being 51 houses and 71 families. Upperby Cooperative Society formed 22.08.1829. On the 1841 census there are 454 people living in the district of Upperby, of these 88 give their occupation as weavers [in the main I presume handloom weavers]. The 1829 Directory lists two damask and lined manufacturers in the township, Alex Robinson still being there in 1847. The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway which runs through the parish opened on 17.12.1846. R Briggs, writing in the Carlisle Journal in 1899 recorded ‘For several years I have seen the Upperby women in the summertime dragging their weary way with their load of water from the river up the hill to their dwellings, a very considerable distance’. The 1906 Directory describes Upperby as a ’pretty village’. In 1912 an article in the paper referred to Upperby at present being spoiled by a lot of tenantless and decaying properties. The local artist Thomas Busby, who lived in Upperby, recorded many clay house with thatched roofs, some derelict, pre Great War. Upperby became a part of the city in November 1912. The 1924 Ordnance Survey map shows little development in Upperby, the area retaining a rural feel, the centre of the village being around the cross roads of Lamb St/ Upperby Rd/St Ninians Rd.; there was significant council house building in the Upperby and Currock areas both pre and post WWII. After 1924 Henderson Rd, Holmes Av and Mount Pleasant Road are built [all council housing]; these streets first appearing on the electoral registers for 1928. Buchanan Road, again council housing, first appears in the electoral register in 1924, Sewell Rd [council housing] in 1926. Pre 1939 1268 council houses were built in Upperby and Currock; between 1939 to 1958 another 580 were built in Upperby and Currock. The 2002 population estimates show 5523 people living in Upperby Ward. In 2001 of the 2401 households in Upperby 908 households were local authority rented, 508 owned outright, 730 buying, 75 housing authority rented, 59 privately rented, 121 other

CJ 15.07.1921 p5 CJ 14.10.1938 p10 CJ 21.10.1938 p10

CJ 28.10.1938 p10 CJ 04.11.1938 p10

CPacquet 14.05.1782 p3 Ad for estate at Upperby; also Upperby Mill

Carlisle Examiner 10.09.1859 p3a Upperby flower show and bazaar

CP 14.01.1898 p5e Archdeacon Diggle on religious education

CJ 09.01.1912 p4 A correspondent tells me that those who have not seen Upperby have not missed much. At present it is spoiled by a lot of tenantless and decaying properties. Schoolhouse now used as one of Dalton’s factory buildings

CJ 26.04.1921 p2a War memorial - in cemetery

CJ 05.11.1940 p2 Poplar trees in Upperby Vicarage cut down

CJ 05.01.1962 p3 Sitting stone

CJ 03.08.1962 p7 (illus) Lamb Street cottages demolished

CN 01.10.1971 p14 Early

CN 01.10.1971 p14 Village Hall

ENS 22.08.1973 p1 Brian Douglas overcome by fumes in sewer; dead man working at Michael Thompson’s Yard at Saint Ninians Road

CN 08.03.1974 p6 (illus) Mock mayors

CN 15.03.1974 p6 Mock mayors

CN 29.03.1974 p6 Historical

CN 10.08.1990 p4 City suburb was village King gave away

CN 03.02.1995 p3 Homes ‘yes’ likely

CN 14.07.1995 p1 Upperby folk streets ahead

CN 10.11.1995 p7 City calendar turns back the pages

CN 17.04.1998 p7 Aerial view

CN 19.05.2006 p5 Crackdown on Currock and Upperby Estates; 120 vandal incidents in 6 months

CN 02.05.2008 p7 132 new homes at Upperby, near land where workmen and two children died from methane gas which leaked from former dump; land between Brisco Meadow, Cammock Cres and West Coast Main Line

CN 01.08.2008 p11 Lamb Street Post Office closes last Wednesday

 

UPPERBY BRIDGE Built 1888. At Christmas 1888 it was reported that the new bridge has been completed and will soon to open to traffic. The want of a bridge over the River Petteril at Upperby had been keenly felt, and almost every year people narrowly escaped being drowned whilst attempting to cross the ford during floods. The LNWR had a goods wharf near the ford and in agreement with Mr RDM Little who gave them land to extend their siding the LNWR subscribed £250 towards the cost of a bridge over the Petteril. The total cost was estimated to be about £800

CN 16.02.1968 p12 CN 06.05.1988 p4

CP 25.02.1898 p3a,b Rebuilding and raising causeway of Upperby railway bridge

CN 08.05.1992 p4 Public paid up to build bridge

 

UPPERBY CEMETERY Opened July 1881

See also Cemetery and Funerals

 

UPPERBY CHURCH see SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

 

UPPERBY COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

Upperby Cooperative Society formed 22.08.1829

Rule 2
The Association shall be composed of persons of good character, who are desirous to coalesce for the attainment of the equal enjoyment of the necessaries and conveniences of life, which are to be possessed by industry and moral rectitude; and to secure the same to their children, by conforming their minds to principles of cooperation

1830 printed rule book

Amalgamated Soc. of Railway Servants 1911 Souvenir pp 38 - 47 History to 1911

The Producer July 1929 vol XIII no 7 pp167-9 Details of history of Upperby Coop

CJ 03.10.1944 p2 Upperby store established 1829

CN 02.09.2005 p8 History of early cooperatives in city

 

UPPERBY GALA

CN 02.06.2000 p18 First Upperby Gala since regeneration oh Hammond’s Pond

CN 19.05.2006 p21 20th anniversary Upperby Gala

 

UPPERBY INSTITUTE Opened by Alderman Nicholson 26.12.1922; the building also contains 4 dated stones 08.11.1922 [A Creighton, Mayor of Carlisle laid this stone 08.11.1922; Alderman R.Dalton, same date, Lady Gillford, same date] The newspaper refers to it on the opening as Upperby Reading Room and Institute and hopes it will cater for the recreative side of the village

 

UPPERBY MEN’S INSTITUTE

CN 24.02.1978 p36 CN 30.03.1979 p1

 

UPPERBY MAYOR The chain of office of the Upperby Mayor is now in the Tullie House Museum collection. The chain appears to be part made up of watch chain and bottletop

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered p124 Mock Mayor of Upperby

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

UPPERBY MILL

1244-45 reference to the payment to the sheriff for a license for a mill there, probably not the first. In 1427 Upperby Mill was totally wasted and in 1449 it was described as ‘Totally wasted and destroyed by the Scots’. Rebuilt 1474. Still there in 1829 when the death of the miller, Thomas McKnight, was noted. In September 1852 it was reported that Frank Bewley was entangled in the wheel at Upperby Mill and that the villagers heard his screams. Mrs Bewley stopped the wheel and the poor man got out ‘awfully mangled’. The newspaper thought there was ‘hope of recovery’. A little after this the mill was converted to grind alabaster. Steam laundry with chimney built alongside in 1897. Laundry continued until 1936 and in that year David Thompson submitted plans for a building yard there.

CN 15.08.2008 p36 Earliest mention 1244-45; later this site became County Laundry and Lakeland Laundry

 

UPPERBY PARK On the first edition large scale Ordnance Survey sheet of 1865 only fields with a small pond are shown in this area; in 1884 the land belonged to the Charles Bromley Brick and Tile Works; by 1897 John Johnston, brickmaker, and Hammond and Son, nurserymen and florists are present; on the 1901 Ordnance Survey map Brick Field and Brick Field Cottage are placenames here, the land is marshy and there are now several irregular ponds; Mr Hammond saw the old brick/ clay pits as ripe for leisure development as a lake; opened by Archie Hammond on Whit Sunday 1923; 1928 Mr Hammond died and in 1931 the city bought the 28 acres for £1,850; known as Pleasureland and afterwards Hammond’s Pond; cafe opened 01.04.1961. Sculpture of two swans taking flight installed 31.05.2022. These were the result of a gift of money from Ann Clarke, a member of the Friends of Hammonds pond. The sculptress was Clare Biggar Limited. Carlisle Model Engineering Society, established 1936, run trains on the circular track in the summer months at Upperby Park. On June 5th 2022 they resumed service after a two year absence during the Covid 19 pandemic. On this first service for two years they had 250 passengers at a charge of 50p each

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered pp90-92

Hammonds Pond was a children’s playground. But before the council took it over we had to pay 2 pence to get in when you came in by Blackwell Road gate. It belonged to a farmer, his house was in the field on the left handside of the path and the brick factory was in the right handside of the field [where the Hospice is today] , then down the path was a little sentry box and a man there gave you your 2 pence ticket to go into the park. Where the miniature railway is today there was a grandstand and Saint Stephens Band used to play here and that green was covered with boards, and for sixpence you could have a dance. It was lovely in the summer and of course there were monkeys in cages and birds, and a cafe - a real meeting place [EM Braithwaite Memories]

Carlisle an illustrated history p88 photo of park

CN 15.06.1973 p6 CN 09.07.1976 p6

ENS 22.07.1922 p1 Advert Pleasureland, Hammonds Park Upperby. Now open. Attractions Boating, tennis, dancing, golf putting. Admission to grounds 4d. Prop AJ Hammond

CJ 25.07.1922 Advert for Pleasureland, admission 4d

CJ 06.04.1923 p5 Photo of dancing at Hammonds Pond

CJ 29.06.1923 p12 Advert; 1st open-air carnival 5th July

CJ 06.07.1923 p7.Report. Mr Raffles orchestra. Aviary and birds added

CJ 04.06.1926 Pleasureland. Admission 2d; boating, dancing, putting, tennis

CJ 27.06.1926 Pleasureland, new recreation park; advert

CJ 30.03.1928 p1 Pleasureland.For sale 29th April. Archibald John Hammond diseased, nursery, shop and houses

CJ 01.05.1928 p5Pleasure gardens etc withdrawn at £2,500

CJ 11.05.1928 p1 Pleasureland offered for sale again

CJ 06.05.1930 p4 Three monkeys celebrated May Day by breaking out of their quarters at Pleasureland and running across some fields towards the houses on Henderson Rd, where the largest of the three marauders gained an entry into a house, jumped onto a sideboard in the kitchen and smashed nearly half a set of china before being ejected by a man armed with a clothes prop. The wire fastenings of the door of the monkey house at Pleasureland had been released, probably by the monkeys themselves. Mrs Mitchell, 31Henderson Rd, heard the screams of monkeys coming from the direction of Pleasureland and saw the monkeys running over like greyhounds towards the houses in Henderson Rd. She saw the largest of the three jump on a perambulator containing the infant child of City police constable Biggar. Mrs Biggar rushed forward clutched the baby out of the perambulator carried it into the house and shut the door. Jacko next made his way into the wash house of Mrs McGlasson. Here the monkey hopped onto the boiler with Mrs McGlasson in hot pursuit. She threw a stone at Jacko and out he came. Determined to satisfy his thirst for more adventure, Jacko ran into the back kitchen of no 41 Henderson Road, Agnes, aged 10, was washing her hands and face. The monkey jumped at her, but she gave it a blow, whereupon Jacko leaped onto a chest of draws, hopped over the table and finally came to rest on the sideboard which accommodates the crockery. Two men from Pleasureland (Mr C Hope, painter, and Mr C Trimble, an attendant) came on the scene, and the monkey was chased out of the house, and eventually made its way back to its cage. Mr Hope said they had been out many times before and have always come back, but this morning must have had a May Day fit. He said to Mr Trimble ‘If the monkey is in the house it will smash everything in the place’. The first I heard was the monkey breaking the crockery on the sideboard and he kept making hissing sounds at us. Jacko then got hold of a small jug and held it up in a threatening attitude as much as to say ‘Come near me if you dare’. I then got hold of a prop from an adjoining house and returned to no 41, where I found Jacko smashing more crockery. When he saw me with the prop he jumped and off out of the door. He then ran back across the field again and back into the monkey house.

West Cumberland Times 22.08.1931 p6 Mischievous monkey in miniature zoo

CJ 28.10.1930 p5 Escaped monkey caught after being at liberty for a month the escaped monkey from Pleasureland was recaptured by a search party at Blackwell residents who followed the monkey into an outhouse and captured him and took him back in a sack

City Minutes 1930-31 p643 Conveyance completed to city

City Minutes 1931-32 p103 Renucci and Luti; for supply of water for premises at Pleasureland

CN 27.01.1934 Photo of it drained so bottom could be levelled

CJ 27.11.1934 Photos of work on extension to pool

CJ 24.10.1939 p1 Shelter handed over

CJ 27.10.1939 pp1,5 (illus) Shelter handed over

CN 28.10.1939 p5 Upperby Park sun trap shelter

CJ 28.09.1948 p1 Miniature railway

CJ 01.10.1948 p2 Miniature railway

CJ 13.09.1949 p1 Miniature railway opened

CN 30.03.1961 p1 (illus) Cafe opened

CN 10.08.1962 Solway; Jimmy the escaped monkey, August 1931

ENS 04.08.1970 p6 Fun in the sun at Hammonds Pond

CN 15.06.1973 p6 Opening ceremony

CN 29.06.1973 p6 (illus) History

ENS 16.08.1976 p3 (illus) Getting all steamed up over trains

ENS 11.04.1978 p1 (illus) Seekers lost on city folk

CN 12.01.1990 p7 Floating a money saving scheme

ENS 01.08.1994 p1 Pond poison alert

CN 31.03.1995 p5 Poison scum shuts pond

ENS 26.03.1996 p5 (illus) Yob-hit park is picked for revamp

ENS 28.05.1996 p6 (illus) Ship shape in Upperby

CN 14.06.1996 p3 Parents in fear of children safety

CN 14.06.1996 p3 D-Day next week£1.5m plan

ENS 18.06.1996 pp6-7 (illus) Troubled waters

CN 31.01.1997 p5 Pond hopes

CN 10.07.1998 p12 £1m liquid asset

CN 19.02.1999 p29 (illus) Pond’s £1m beauty treatment

CN 24.03.2000 p11 Swan return

CN 19.05.2000 p3 (illus) Miniature railway steaming again

CN 02.06.2000 p18 Upperby gala

CN 25.08.2000 p3 Louts make park in Upperby a ‘no-go’ area

CN 01.09.2000 p13 Letter concerning vandalism at Upperby Park

CN 06.04.2001 p20 Letter; threatened at Upperby Park

CN 15.04.2011 p10 Miniature railway track re-laid. Started running in 1949

 

UPPERBY PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH Date stone of 1901

CJ 06.06.1902 New chapel opened yesterday

175 Years of Carlisle p39 Photo of their centenary in 1907

 

UPPERBY RAIL DEPOT see RAILWAYS; UPPERBY RAIL DEPOT

 

UPPERBY SCHOOL 1828 subscription set up for small school; 1847 taken over by National Society as Parochial School; 1854 new and enlarged school built, this school on St Ninians Rd features in paintings by Bushby; 1912 new school built; Upperby Infants and Junior Schools merged to form Upperby Primary on 31.08.1992.

CP 20.05.1854 p5 Upperby New Schools nearly completed

CJ 09.06.1854 Upperby New Schools. Much crowded for opening. Fully 600 people in the building. The Dean of Carlisle presided

CP 10.06.1854 p5 Upperby New Schools publicly opened

11.01.1859 died aged 64 Walter Davies for some years schoolmaster at Upperby. There is a plaque to him in St John’s Church.

Circa 1896 the local author George Topping was master at Upperby School

Carlisle The Archive Photos p102 photo of Upperby Board School in 1896

ENS 10.09.1960 p1 Fire

CN 06.05.1988 p11 History lesson to remember

CN 24.11.1989 p5 School bid wins support

CN 04.09.1992 p17 New school now open

CN 12.02.1993 p23 (illus) School worth waiting for

CN 01.10.1993 p27 School wins top award

CN 21.01.1994 p4 150 years ago

CN 13.05.1994 p4 School design honour

CN 14.02.1997 p17 Bargain hunters have a ball

CN 31.03.2000 p7 Minister opens tribute to head teacher John

 

UPTON, David

CN 07.04.2006 p10 Feature on Carlisle piano tuner

 

URBAN DRIVING SCHOOL

CN 01.03.1991 p8 Learn to drive with the best

CN 29.09.1995 p6 Ad

 

URBAN TRAIL

CN 17.09.1976 p6

 

UXELODUM

Recent research suggests that the Roman name for the Stanwix fort was Uxelodum