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VALENTINOS RESTAURANT Abbey Street

CN 29.07.1994 p8 Ad

VALLUM GARDENS, Burgh Rd

CN 21.03.2008 p81 30 houses built by Story Homes

VALLUM HOUSE HOTEL

CN 27.05.1994 p8 ad

VANDALISM

D Perriam Stanwix p74 In 1952 John Laing took over what they called the Moorville Brickworks. It seemed production ceased in 1956 but buildings were still standing in 1962 when six boys broke 93 windows in ‘John Laing’s premises at Moorville’.

ENS 20.03.1962 p1 Vandalism on Morton estate

ENS 10.10.1962 p1 War on teenage vandals

CN 19.10.1962 p10 Vandalism at new Keenan Park

CN 06.04.1990 p1 Vandals blitz nature site

CN 06.04.1990 p12 Louts who thrive on vandalism

CN 09.08.1991 p1 Terror at the shops

CN 31.01.1992 p1 Vandal attack put firm at risk

CN 10.12.1993 p1 Dogs patrol OAP name (Petteril House)

CN 15.04.1994 p1 New vandalism outbreak hits Botchergate and cemetery

CN 26.05.2000 55 vehicles vandalised in one night

CN 29.06.2001 p6 Yobs kills animals with gun at Kingmoor Nature Reserve

CN 20.07.2001 p1 Vandals attacks allotments

CN 19.10.2001 p17 Friends of Engine Lonning set up to protect against vandals

CN 30.11.2001 p8 Irishgate Bridge lifts target of vandals

CN 05.03.2004 p1 Vandalism hits local schools; windows broken

CN 21.05.2004 p9 vandalism at cemetery forces earlier closing of grounds

CN 28.05.2004 p 13 letter concerning burnt out cars in Melbourne Park

CN 10.09.2004 p1 Vandals tip cars on roofs

CN 13.01.2006 p5 Police winning the battle to keep teen gangs in line

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

CN 25.08.2006 p3 Teen yobs at Lewis Court in Denton Holme

CN 23.02.2007 p 12 Feature on vandalism and anti social behaviour on Currock estate

CN 14.03.2008 p9 Tennis dome in Bitts Park vandalised after 3 weeks

VANTAGE Pharmacy

CN 04.12.1992 p10 Ad

VASEY CRESCENT

CJ 12.03.1937 p4 Photograph

VASEYS Scotch Street, Fisher Street

Auctioneer and valuer; Furniture store

CD 1920 Ad p68

CD 1924 Ad p276

CD 1927 Ad p308

CD 1931 Ad p244

CD 1934 Ad p312

CD 1937 Ad p146

CD 1940 Ad p162

CD 1952 Ad p256

CD 1955-56 Ad px

CD 1961-62 Ad p97

CD 1966-68 Ad p268

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

CN 18.11.1977 pp23-25 (illus)

CN 25.09.1987 p8 Furniture store Victoria Viaduct; Ad feature

CN 16.03.1990 p48 Shop owner dies

CN 06.12.1991 p1 Store takes on 20 extra staff

CN 10.03.2006 p6 Malcolm Vasey, Chairman, dies; established 116 years ago

VASEY’S STYLE STORE Lancaster street

Furniture store

CN 14.09.2001 p15 After 110 years of service closed for reorganisation

VAULTS see LANES VAULTS

VE DAY CELEBRATIONS

CJ 11.05.1945 pp1,5 (illus) CJ 15.05.1945 p2 (illus) CN 12.05.1945 pp5-6

ENS 07.09.1984 p4 General

CN 28.04.1995 p1 Woman’s 50 year vigil

CN 28.04.1995 p8 Tea and cake

CN 05.05.1995 p1 Veterans boycott VE Day service

CN 05.05.1995 p3 Prince Philip guest of honour

CN 05.05.1995 pp10-12 The day we won the war

CN 13.05.2005 p13 Photo of VE day celebrations in Lawson St

VEHICLE WATCH

CN 10.11.1989 p7 Car sticker scheme gets into top gear

CN 18.05.1990 p10 Putting the brakes on car thefts

CN 18.01.1991 p7 Joining up

CN 10.01.1992 p3 Vehicle watch success

VENEREAL DISEASE

City Minutes 1917-18 pp 232-236 Public Health Regs 1916

VERO AND CO English Street

Hatters and hosiers

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p2 Late T.W.Borthwick, 59 English Street

Leading Trader of the City p26 Ad A616

CD 1902-03 Ad p226

CD 1905-06 Ad p77

CD 1907-08 Ad p84

CD 1910-11 Ad p13

CD 1913-14 Ad p45

CD 1920 Ad p190

VETERAN MOTOR TRICYCLE

CN 25.03.1950 p4 (illus)

VEVERS COURT; Annetwell Street Jane Vevers, proprietor of houses, aged 60, living in the court in 1861 [1861 census]

VIADUCT HOTEL Built 1887; demolished 1970 to make way for Tesco’s store

Leading Trader of the City Ad p25 A616

Carlisle an illustrated history p64 Photo of hotel

CP 11.11.1887

1891 census; Ann Ion, hotel manageress, 27, born Cumwhitton

1901 census; Viaduct Temperance Hotel, Mary Smith, 38, manager, born Carlisle

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p22 Photo of hotel in 1958

CN 18.07.1969 p13

CN 20.03.1970 p14 History

CN 10.04.1970 p2 (illus) Demolition

CN 16.01.2004 p6 Built as temperance hotel

VIADUCT HOUSE

CN 16.11.2007 p7 6 storey building for sale at one million pound plus

VICEROY RESTAURANT, Shaddongate

CN 20.10.2006 p6 Voted one of top 100 curry houses in country; opened 1991

CN 28.05.2010 p29 Sukur Ali opened restaurant in 1991

VICKERS, Raymond

City Minutes 1926-7 p633 Licensed to operate bus service to Holme Head

VICTORIA FOUNDRY, Denton Street

see Messrs George Graham, Porter Brothers

VICTORIA, QUEEN; STATUE Victoria Park; by Thomas Brock RA; unveiled 07.07.1902 by Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein, the late Queen’s son in law. . Bronze on Aberdeen grey granite. the inscription on the front of the plinth reads Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland Empress of India born May 14th 1819 died January 22 1901 In memory of a great Queen a good woman a friend alike to rich and poor who for sixty three years reigned over a prosperous and worldwide empire. This statue is erected by the citizens of Carlisle in admiration of her noble life and character. There are four bronze reliefs, Empire, Education, Science and Art and Commerce. On 29.03.1901 a sub-committee of Carlisle City Council inspected the statue by Thomas Brock, erected to the Queen at Hove for the Diamond Jubilee. They interviewed Mr Brock with a view to obtaining a replica of the statue for Carlisle. Mr Brock agreed to accept the commission for a fee of £1,500. The cannon placed by the statue was removed in 1938. In 1945 the statue lost a hand which was not replaced. By March 1962 the monument was described as being in a shocking state, as green as the grass that surrounds her. In 1972 her left hand and orb were in storage, since restored and later still given a cover of thick brown paint

Carlisle in Camera 2 p22 Photo of unveiling

CJ 13.06.1902 Description

CJ 08.07.1902 p4 Memorial to Queen Victoria

CJ 09.03.1962 p6 (illus)

CN 19.10.1973 p1 (illus) Statue of Queen Victoria

CN 26.10.1973 p6 (illus) Statue of Queen Victoria

VICTORIA London Road; pub in local directory for 1858

VICTORIA AND UNION HOTELS English Street and Citadel Row

Guide to Carlisle C178 Ad

VICTORIA HALL Foundation stone laid 18.12.1873; built by Messrs Charles Armstrong; opened 26.10.1874; renamed Her Majesty’s Theatre and Opera House 1879

CP 02.10.1874 p4f Rapidly pushing towards completion; opening date fixed for 26th October; description of works

VICTORIA HOTEL English Street and Citadel Row; in local directories from 1850 to 1914; designs by Oliver and Dodgshun for new building approved in 1903; ‘mock Tudor style’; built as Victoria Hotel; taken over by State Management in 1916 and sold in 1920 to E.F.Fairbairn who leased what is now called Citadel Chambers to Cumberland County Council

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory; ad p19; Aaron Martin moved from Angel

1858 Kelly Aaron Marton Victoria Hotel , 40 English Street

1861 census Richard Johnston, aged 54, hotel keeper, aged 54, born Carlisle

CD 1880 Ad pxxxvi

CD 1884-85 Ad pxi

1891 census; Margaret Little, hotel manageress, 35, bn Stapleton

CP 15.07.1898 Offered for sale; now under Andrew Tait

1901 census; Andrew Tait, aged 34, hotel keeper, born Scotland

CN 07.02.1992 p4

CN 09.05.2008 p 34 D.Perriam history

VICTORIA INN; Irish Gates see ROYAL VICTORIA

VICTORIA LEAGUE (of EMPIRE FRIENDSHIP)

CJ 26.05.1950 p6

VICTORIA LODGE; Currock Road

V.White Carlisle and its Villages p34 drawing in 1996; home of Thomas Bushby

VICTORIA MEWS Entered from north side of Lonsdale Street. Marked on OS 23.03.25, second edition

CN 25.02.2002 p8 Built 1879; sold in 1919 for wool store; site next to bus garage

VICTORIAN PANTRY The Lanes

See also VICTORIA, Queen; Statue of

CJ 08.07.1902 p4 Memorial of Queen Victoria

City Minutes 1922-23 p107 Proposed tennis court at Victoria Parks

CN 05.10.1990 p4 A tribute to Queen

CN 19.05.2010 p34 D.Perriam; article on former channel, now sunken gardens. Wood’s map of 1821 marks a pond here

VICTORIA PLACE So named on 1841 census; 1842 Studholme’s map shows one property on north side, 2 on south side

D Perriam Lowther Street.p47 In 1841 James Steel had a house built for him on Victoria Place. Designed by TJ Cox most of the houses in the street followed this design. Illus of elevation of his house]. Block on south corner with Lowther Street built by the architect CJ Ferguson, his studio and office were on the upper floor.

Number 1, south side, built late 1830s;

1847 Directory Robert Bendle, 1 Victoria Road, Attorney

1873 Directory Mrs Bendle no 1

no 2, north side appears on the 1841 census; occupied between about 1888 - 1915 by John Maxwell, fertiliser manufacturer, a window inside the house bears his initials;

CP 20.11.1852 p1 Ad; To let no 2 ‘modern built dwelling house’

CP 14.10.1865 p1d Number 2 Victoria Place to be let

no 3 plans dated 1841, house designed by Thomas Cox for James Steel, editor of the Carlisle Journal

1873 Directory no 3 James Steel

5 and 7 added by 1851

No 7 1855 Slater’s Directory Judith Jackson, day and boarding school

nos 4-18 ,even north side, built 1852-54; deeds for no 4 dated June 1854; appear on Asquith’s map of 1853

no 18 1861 census John Thomlinson, cotton manufacturer, born Dalston, aged 25

no 18 1871 census Mary Simpson, aged 70, landowner, bn Carlisle

no 18 1873 Directory Misses Jackson

no 18 1881 census Sarah Jackson, aged 62, bn Pewsey and her sister Mary Jackson, aged 61, born Wigton, aged 61, no occupations

no 18 1897 Directory Misses Jackson

no 18 1902-03 Directory R.S.Kirk, painter and decorator

no 18 1907-08 Directory Mrs I Preston, dressmaker

no 18 1910 Directory Mrs Isabella Preston, dressmaker

no 18 1920 Miss Preston, dressmaker

no 18 1924 Miss Preston, dressmaker

no 18 1929 Directory Dr David J Foley

no 18 1952 Directory Dr David Foley

no 18 1961-2 Directory Auxilliary Fire Service Club

no 18 1966-8 Directory Auxilliary Fire Service Club

CJ 28.05.1852 Mr Pattinson has commenced building several houses in Victoria Place

CP 19.09.1863 p1 Ad No 7 Victoria Place to be let

CP 21.09.1877 p1 To let No 7 Victoria Place in occupation of owner Mrs Armstrong

CJ 13.02.1883 New houses in Victoria Place completed

CN 07.07.1972 p6 carved heads on buildings

CN 25.11.1994 p20 Down your Lane

CN 10.09.1999 p9 The making of Victoria Place; D.Perriam

VICTORIA ROAD Botcherby; nos 35-43 built 1830s and 1840s as Wellington Place which is now part of Victoria Road; retained original name up to the 1931 electoral register

CP 02.02.1856 p4b No 3 Wellington Place to let [now Victoria Road]

CN 23.10.1920 p12 No 5 Wellington Place for sale and market gdns opposite

City Minutes 1929-30 p675 Renumbering of houses agreed

VICTORIA STEAMER/ VICTORIA STEAM PACKET INN see ROYAL VICTORIA

VICTORIA VIADUCT Opened by Princess Louise 20.09.1877; integral to the construction of the Avoiding Goods Lines was a new viaduct to take traffic over them. This was a joint venture between the Corporation and railway companies. Work began on the Corporation portion on 18.11.1875, the contractor being Thomas Boustead Nelson. Robert Ward for the railway began on 15th November. There was demolition of property on Denton Crescent and Charlotte Street

Carlisle in Camera 1 p32 Photo of opening by Princess Louise

Carlisle an illustrated history p77 Photo of opening day in 1877

CJ 31.08.1900 Conservative Clubs new premises approaching completion. Designed for Mr Watt of Knowefield by the architect JH Martindale. Block comprises two fine shops on the Viaduct. Access to the club, housed in the rooms above the shops, is via a open gallery or terrace six feet wide where a doorway gives access to a staircase. Two oriel windows face onto Backhouse Walk

B/CAR 333.333 Sale of property 16.06.1919

City Minutes 1925-6 p552 -3 Proposed reformation of prison site - 2 maps

CN 26.03.1970 p14

CJ 27.08.1946 p2 History of Victoria Viaduct

ENS 20.09.1977 pp6-7 (illus) History

CN 26.05.1995 pp16-17 Ad feature for shops

ENS 02.04.1996 pp11(illus) We didn’t ask for these Viaduct lights

ENS 08.04.1996 p5 (illus) Cabbies see red over new lights

ENS 19.06.1996 p1 Traffic light road rage boils over

ENS 26.06.1996 p13 Admit your mistake and give us back a roundabout

22.05.2018 Viaduct closed to all traffic, pedestrian and vehicular because of the poor condition of the Central Plaza Hotel

13.12.2019 Central Plaza under demolition

17.01.2022 SMT Garage on Viaduct under demolition

VICTORY PAGEANT

CJ 22.06.1945 p1

VICTORY THANKSGIVING

CN 19.05.1945 p7 (illus) Bitts Park

VIEWFIELD HOUSE, Stanwix

22.01.1906 George Dove, JP, MIME, of Viewfield Hse, died

VIKINGS The Danes moved north from their winter base in Repton into Northumbria and began a takeover of the Northumbrian kingdom under their leader, Halfdan; they sacked Carlisle probably in AD 876 [M.McCarthy Carlisle history and guide p37]; a 10th century Viking cemetery was found immediately adjacent to the west end of the Cathedral [p38]

Carlisle an illustrated history p8 Illus of Viking battle axe found in Denton Holme

CN 26.12.1991 p1 Viking axe discovered

CN 03.01.1992 p4 Reminders of Viking past

CN 10.01.1992 p4 Cup and ring marks

VILLAGE CINEMAS Botchergate; opened 30.06.2000

CN 23.06.2000 p7 (illus) The cinema experience you won’t want to miss

CN 30.06.2000 p5 (illus) New complex opens

VILLA LOBORATORY Colliers lane

C.T. Cardno was the owner and George Cardno the office manager. There was an entrance to Collier’s Lane via the lane between Timpsons and Pullars Lane. Polish was boiled in large tubs on a gas ring. In circa 1944-45 tub fell over and ignited the contents. They spilled and ran into the lane and blocked drains in Botchergate when solidified. Villa Loboratory also manufactured head-ache tablets. These were called Embex. This was done on the first floor near the office. This information was authenticated by Mrs M.Tuer who worked in the Office and Mrs I.Dennnard who worked in the Factory

VIOLENCE see BOTCHERGATE-LAW AND ORDER; CRIME; FOOTBALL VIOLENCE; RIOTS

VIOLINS

CN 05.03.1993 p7 City made violins on the market

VISION EXPRESS The Lanes

Opticians

CN 19.04.1996 p4 New city shop, 11 jobs

VISITORS CENTRE see TOWN HALL VISITORS CENTRE

VISUAL LINK COMPANY; Kingstown

CN 22.10.2010 p4 Obit of Roger Weeks; started by his father Eric, son Roger joined and took over in 1961. Set up Visual Link Co with Richard Bell

VISUL SYSTEMS

CN 08.09.2006 p22 Tactile paving, owner M and C Donald

VITA GRASS COMPANY Kingstown

Seaweed fodder production

CJ 18.04.1950 p3

CJ 18.07.1950 p3 History and processing

VIVALDI ITALIAN RESTAURANT Lowther Street

CN 29.09.2000 p8 Ad feature

CN 28.04.2006 p14 Matteo Marras puts business up for sale. Opened by F. Bertoletti

VIXEN East Tower Street

Fashion store

CN 09.11.2001 p15 Ad feature

VJ DAY

CN 09.06.1995 p3 Dozens respond to our appeal

CN 02.06.1995 p3 More events planned

CN 16.06.1995 p6 Cumbrians respond to appeal

CN 23.06.1995 p3 City readies itself

CN 18.08.1995 pp1,10-11 Six remember war heroes

CN 25.08.1995 p1 VJ even brings generations together

CN 18.08.1995 p25 A night to remember

CN25.08.1995 p19 Letter

CN 01.09.1995 p1 Old soldiers moving VJ speech

VOLUNTARY ACTION see CARLISLE COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE

VOLUNTEER BUREAU Supports voluntary organisations

See also Carlisle Council for Voluntary Services

CN 07.06.2002 p19 Spencer Street office refurbished

CN 02.06.2006 p9 Plans for £1m voluntary centre in city

VOLUNTEERS see also CARLISLE VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS; CARLISLE ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS

Easter Monday 1860 March to Gosling Syke; first donned uniform

CJ 29.05.1894 Obit S.J.Binning; connected with volunteers 1860 - 1890

CP 21.08.1868 Great Volunteer Review in Carlisle at Swifts next week

VYNNE DINNER (XMAS DINNER) Named after Charles Vynne who instigated the dinners in 1872 [CN 31.07.2009 p30]

ECN 29.12.1888 p6a Vynne dinner for old poor folk in city

CP 30.12.1897 p7a Vynne dinner

CN 09.09.1950 p5 CN 16.09.1950 p5 CN 23.09.1950 p5 CN 21.10.1950 p5