Carlisle Encyclopaedia

WADDINGTON, Thomas Burns Street

Aerated waterworks

Guide to Carlisle C178 Ad

 

WADSWORTH ROAD On electoral register from 1997-98; Mick Wadsworth was a former manager of Carlisle United

 

WAGGON AND HORSES Botchergate; in local directories to 1852; called Stagewagon in 1837

CP 31.12.1825 p1 Ad; Waggon and Horses for sale; occupied by Mrs Beck

 

WAGGON AND HORSES Bridge Street; in local directories to 1914; closed 1917 by State Management; demolished 1924 for widening of Caldew Bridge

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916, 2004 p42

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p112 Photo of pub

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1861 census; James Dinwoodie, 44, innkeeper, born Scotland

CN 17.02.1912 To let Waggon and Horses

City Minutes 03.09.1923 item 741 Purchase of property

CN 14.06.1991 p4

 

WAGGONS see CARRIERS

 

WAGGOTT, Dennis Builders

CN 22.05.1998 p17 25 years in business

 

WAKEFIELD

D. Perriam Stanwix p90 To the north and south of the Lowry Hill fields were two further farms, North and South Wakefield. Passing through different tenants the site was considered by the city council in 1925 as a possible location for a municipal golf course. Whilst it was not used as a golf course it was required for a municipal aerodrome at Kingstown in 1929. When the Kingstown aerodrome was to be extended in June 1938 the Carlisle Journal reported that notice was given to the tenants of North Wakefield farm. All was gone by April 1939. South Wakefield was for sale in 1900, the Carlisle Journal advertising this as a well-built cottage and 34 acres containing valuable beds of surface and other clay which had been worked by the late tenant Robert Simpson. Lowry Hill and South Wakefield were developed for housing by John Laings, the new estate being advertised in the Cumberland News in July 1965

A manuscript map of 1937 [C480] shows the location of and names a property South Wakefield between Kingstown and Kingmoor Roads

 

WAKEFIELD, John Banker

David Carrick, bankers, was shown on Wood’s 1821 map of city; 1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p124 David Carrick and Sons, bankers, Scotch St; became Messrs David Carrick, Sons and Starbuck; David Carrick died in 1829; by 1834 the bank had become John Wakefield and Sons; 01.03.1837 taken over by the new Carlisle and District Bank with John Wakefield as the largest shareholder. The bank at this stage was still in Scotch Street. Moved to new premises in Bank Street in 1851; 1866 John Wakefield died; and in 1896 became the Carlisle City Branch of the London and Midland Bank and then in 1898 the London City and Midland Bank [CN 20.07.2007 p34]

 

WAKEFIELD LODGE, Lowry Hill

CN 25.03.2016 p16 A document of 1815 shows that part of Kingmoor was leased to the bankers John and Jacob Wakefield

 

WAKEFIELD ROAD

Carlisle Examiner 27.12.1862 p1 North and South Wakefield for sale

A manuscript map of 1937 [C480] shows the location of and names a property South Wakefield between Kingstown and Kingmoor Roads

 

WAKEFIELD VILLA, Kingstown Rd

18.09.1946 Died William Bell of Wakefield Villa, Kingstown Rd [Stanwix MI 244/2]

 

WALDEGRAVE ROAD Longsowerby. First noted on electoral register for 1923; land in this area was formerly owned by the Dean and Chapter and streets were named in honour of Bishops of Carlisle and Chancellors of the Diocese, in this case Bishop Waldegrave. The 1924 Carlisle Directory only lists even nos 2-56

 

WALKABOUT Botchergate

CN 19.12.2003 p3 New Australian pub in Botchergate; opened last Thursday

 

WALKEMILL 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]

 

WALKER, James Nailor, died 23.11.1826 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s, Cathedral; no 459]

 

WALKER, Thomas and Co; Timber Merchant

1847 Mannix p 166 West Tower Street

CJ 07.12.1855 p1 To let Thomas Walker and Cos timber yard in West Tower Street. Also the yard in Lowther St

From 1850 - 1862 the business was carried on by Messrs Armstrong and Graham until when it was sold to Mr James Graham and subsequently became Andersons of Denton Holme

 

WALKER AND PARKER St Nicholas

Plumbers

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p270

 

WALKERS English Street

Tea rooms

CD 1893-94 Ad p182

 

WALKERS COURT

1924 Carlisle Directory lists this between 1a and 3 Charlotte Street

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 2 properties here

 

WALKER’S PLACE, Charlotte Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 51 Charlotte Street

 

WALKING STICKS

CN 02.10.1992 p1 Rob’s just champion

 

WALK MILL FIELD Warwick Road

CN 16.01.1998 p3 Licence granted for new city pub

 

WALKS Riverside walks were laid out on the north side of the Eden in 1817

See also Footpaths; Weavers Bank

Mannix Directory of 1847 p142; description of Carlisle walks

CN 03.05.1991 p7 Fun walk to help sick kids

CN 23.04.1999 p7 Tracing Carlisle’s walks

 

WALLACE OILS

CN 23.03.1990 p21 Ad

CN 23.07.2004 p21 Launched in 1982 by Derek Wallace

 

WALLACE TOTAL GAS

CN 26.04.1996 p15 Ad

 

WALLAS Family of gunmakers first noted in Wigton in 1811; Irwin Wallas traded in Wigton and Carlisle,1857 to 1873, as did William Wallas, who by 1880 had a Saturday stall in Carlisle Market Place and then a shop in Blackfriars Street circa 1906-1914, and Daniel Wallas who had a shop in Carlisle circa 1941 to 1931.

 

WALLER STREET

City Minutes 1903-04 p194 Approval for 9 houses

 

WALL FIELD, Currock City Minutes 1932-33 p 692 Purchase of the Wall Field Blackwell Rd for houses

 

WALLIS, Catherine

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

 

WALLIS, J.J. Bus services; started to Wetheral 04.08.1923; finished July 1929

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered p62

City Minutes 1923-4 p588 Licensed to operate bus service Carlisle-Wetheral

CN 03.08.1973 p6

 

WALLS

683 AD The citizens showed Saint Cuthbert the walls of the town and a remarkable fountain . He [St Cuthbert] came to the town of Lugulaia, to speak to the Queen who had arranged to await the issue of war there in her sister’s monastery. On the next day the citizens were conducting him to see the walls of the city and a marvellously constructed fountain of Roman workmanship [Venerable Bede. circa 721] Were these the Roman Walls of the civil settlement or the Roman Wall?

Built between 1122 - 1200 with later extensive repairing and re-facing, the latest work on the West Walls being 1988-89. Walls built under Henry 1st, the pipe roll for 1130 shows that work on them had only recently been in progress. [McCarthy Carlisle Castle p120a] .The walls encompassed the medieval town, joining at the north end with the walls of the Castle; the Wall was surrounded by a deep ditch, access to the gateways being by drawbridge, the outer limits of the ditch formed the city boundary; Walls demolished, except for long stretches of West Walls and part of north wall between the Castle and Castleway [opposite the Quaker Meeting House], between 1811 - 1815; in 1803 Dorothy Wordsworth commented ‘Walked upon the city walls, which are broken down in places and crumbling away, and most disgusting from filth’; On April 3rd 1828 the author Walter Scott wrote in his Journal on a visit to Carlisle 'I have not forgiven them for destroying their quiet old walls...the old gates had such a respectable appearance once'

A number of buildings were constructed against the West Walls and these were demolished in 1988. The walls then needed partial rebuilding. The foundation stones from each of the demolished buildings was incorporated into the wall, namely, 'John Dixon, Mayor, 1840', the date for the West Walls police station, ‘Thomas Milburn, Mayor, 1879', the date for the police station extension, 'The Fawcett Schools, 1850' , [in Roman numerals] and a stone recording this restoration 'Cyril Webber, Mayor, 1988'; This last stone being unveiled on 21.04.1989. A further plaque is placed beside the West Walls Sallyport gate, which was revealed after the area was landscaped and cleared in 1973; the demolition of the Central Plaza Hotel in 2019 exposed part of the medieval walls. The area within the walls was about 70 acres. Because of the roughly triangular nature of the city there were only East, West and North Walls; entrance into the city was through 3 main gates, Caldew Gate, Ricker Gate and Botchergate Gate; 1597/98 Phillipson’s Tower on city walls used to house plague victims [ CWAAS 1971, vol 71 p59, and map opp p52]

West Walls about 3,000 feet in length, the East Walls 1,380 feet in length and the

North Walls 2,000 feet [Topping p27];Todays East Tower Street and West Tower Street take their names from the towers on the North Wall. Lowther Street today, from the Citadels to the entrance into the Lanes car park, runs along the line of the East Wall

See also West Walls, Gates, Springall Tower

In 1491 Henry Wyatt, Clerk of the King’s Jewels, personally delivered 100 marks (just over £66) for work on repairs to Carlisle’s defences. This sum included money for the wooden boards for six towers along the city walls, which would appear to exclude the three city gate towers. The only surviving one is the Tile Tower on the West Wall near the Castle, flanking the Irish Gate. This was recently built when Wyatt visited and may not have needed boards. There was another tower on the West Wall, Collier’s Tower, but as this flanked the Newgate (later the English Gate) of 1542 it probably did not exist in 1491. So it is on the north and east walls that the six towers were thought to be located. At the time of Wyatt’s visit the city walls were ‘royal’ and their maintenance was the responsibility of the King, before their care passed to the Board of Ordnance in the 17th century. As the towers were later redundant they were either demolished, as seems to be the case for towers on the east wall, or let out to individuals who gave them their family name. Along the east wall, where Lowther Street is today, was the East Tower or Springald Tower [a springald was a medieval catapult which fired a large crossbow type dart], which gave its name to East Tower Street and was demolished in 1811. This was mentioned in 1523 and was repaired as Phillipson’s Tower to house plague victims. During excavations along Lowther Street to lay sewers in 1856 the foundations of towers along the east walls were found at a depth of four feet below the street. One was near to Victoria Place and the other near Old Grapes Lane. Here the city walls was found to measure six feet in width. On a map of Carlisle in 1561 two towers are shown on what is today West Tower Street, between the Scotch Gate and Castle, but was then the line of the north wall. As this wall faced Scotland it was defended more strongly with three towers and Scotch Gate. One of the towers was still there in 1714 when it was called Bee’s Turret. A lease related to part of the city dyke or ditch outside the city walls. This was to be filled in and was near Constable Bitt, later to become part of Corporation Road. The other tower may have been referred to in 1814 when building ground and houses near Rickergate were offered for sale. This sale included ‘two dwelling houses, a chair makers, garden, two weavers shops, two warehouses and other premises situate near Norton’s Turret and fronting Francis Street and now in the occupation of Edmund James, William Johnston amid others . Norton’s Turret had survived because the Scotch Gate and this part of the north wall was not demolished until 1815. There was at least one other tower between Scotch Gate and Springald Tower referred to as being near Drover’s Lane and called in 1787 Bowen’s Turret on what was later East Tower Street [Thoughts of Denis Perriam on city walls and their towers] On 16.08.1803 Dorothy Wordsworth wrote ‘Walked upon the city walls, which are broken down in places and crumbling away, and most disgusting from filth’.

Topping, G and Potter, J.J. Memorials of old Carlisle pp26-31

M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration p55 View of East Walls in 1792

CWAAS vol 76, 1976 pp 77-96 and 184-198

CAIH p10 City Walls

CJ 18.03.1960 p8 CN 14.06.1974 p6

1560s Elizabethan map of city shows walls [some broken down] and towers

Diary of D. Hodgkinson visit to city 02.06.1800, in Round Carlisle Cross, 1951 p119. After tea we walked around the walls which formerly included the whole of the town, but I conjecture there are now as many buildings without as within them. The Walls are in general very ruinous, and must now be a complete nuisance to the town’s people. There is only a parapet along one side. In some places the parapet is thrown down, in other places it is in tolerable repair, but the whole is so completely neglected that I am informed it is no uncommon practice for a person who lives near the Walls, when he wants a few stones, to get a part of the parapet thrown down by boys or otherways, and convey the stones away in the night time.

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth 16.08.1803 Comments on poor state of walls. ‘Walked upon the city walls, which are broken down in places and crumbling away, and most disgusting from filth’

CJ 07.06.1806 Walls to be entirely taken down, county court enlarged

Cumberland Pacquet 19.03.1811 English Gate demolished. The ancient south gates and arched gateway of Carlisle, founded by Walter, a Norman, in the reign of William Rufus, are taken down

Cumberland Pacquet 14.05.1811 Irish Gate removed. The demolition of the ruinous and decayed walls of Carlisle proceed with spirit. The Irish Gates are taken down, and it is expected that the Scotch Gates will be removed in a short time

1811 view of Carlisle by F.Fielding shows north walls in partial state of demolition

CJ 06.08.1814 Premises for sale, situate near Norton’s Tower and fronting into Francis Street

On Monday the workmen began to take down the Scotch Gate, the removal of which will be a very material accommodation to that part of the city

February 1815 Scotch Gate taken down [CWAAS 1976, vol 76 p192]

CN 09.12.1988 p4 Along line of the old city walls (East Walls)

CN 09.03.1990 p4 City walls destroyed after long service

CN 07.06.1996 p10 Ups and downs of city’s defence

CN 19.11.1999 p12 The walls came tumbling down

CN 04.03.2011 p32. D.Perriam on the demolition of the walls

 

WALSH COURT, Lord Street [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory between 13-15 Lord Street

 

WALSH COURT, Princess Street [1934 Directory]

 

WALSH COURT, Saint Nicholas Street [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 35-37 St Nicholas Street

 

WALTER WALL CARPETS

CN 30.07.2004 p 17 Opens in Charlotte St

 

WALTON, Jim

CN 22.09.1989 pp14-15 New identity for a long running motoring success

 

WALTON, Joseph Bootmaker, employing 4 men and 2 boys, aged 41, home address Church Street, Caldewgate, born Carlisle [1861 census]

 

WALTONS NURSERY Bellgarth Nursery, the Market

see also Bellgarth Nursery

1918 Electoral Register William, Robert and Jessie Walton

Photo of staff in 1940s Cumbria Gardens Trust Occasional Papers Vol 2 p50

CD 1952 Ad p345

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p263

CD 1955-56 Ad p244

CD 1955-56 Ad p267

CD 1961-62 Ad p289

CD 1966-68 Ad p288

CJ 20.04.1965 p9 (illus)

CN 16.02.1968 p12 Portrait of Gibson Walton

 

WANNOP, A.H. Castle Street

Dressmaking showrooms

CD 1902-03 Ad p231

CD 1905-06 Ad p88

CD 1907-08 Ad p118

CD 1910-11 Ad p148

CD 1913-14 Ad p150

CD 1920 Ad p6

CD 1924 Ad p212

 

WANNOP, William Greenmarket

Memories of Carlisle, chapter 7 photo with shop in background

 

WANSFELL AVENUE

CN 19.07.1991 p17 Street wins for sheer quality street

 

WAPPING Area around St Stephen’s Church, James Street. Today one of the sidings opposite Platform One [West side of Citadel Station] has a sign indicating that no electric trains are to be put in the Wapping sidings

ENS 28.02.1987 pp8-9 Lost world of Wapping. Thirty years ago there were two hundred families in its dozen streets supporting a thriving church, a Methodist Mission, shops, a school and a champion silver band

 

WAR CRIMINALS

CN 12.01.2001 p6 Waffen SS soldier has lived in Carlisle most of life

 

WARD AIR COMMUNICATIONS Kingstown

CN 30.07.1993 p8 Ad

 

WARDROPE, Walter 1851 census has this master stone mason, aged 40, living at No 1 Solway Street, employing 3 to 4 men, born Longtown

 

WARDS

Map published in the Carlisle Journal of 17.10.1835 shows the boundaries of the following city wards; St Cuthbert’s, St Marys’ Rickergate, Caldewgate, Botchergate

City Council Minutes 1883-84 01.12.1884 Report on rearrangement of Wards

City of Carlisle Yearbook 1930 p69 size of electorate by ward

CWAAS 3rd series Vol 5, 2005, p 219 Map showing ward boundaries 1912-1946

 

WARDS BUILDINGS; Junction Street; on 1861 census

 

WAR MEMORIAL City Centre War Memorial dedicated in 1990 by Duke of Gloucester

See also CENOTAPH

City Minutes 1918-19 p141 Report on public meeting on 26.03.1919

City Minutes 1918-19 p 596 To cooperate with scheme for purchase of Rickerby Pk

CN 17.03.1967 p15

CN 14.07.1989 p1 City war tribute plan - at last

CN 18.08.1989 p5 Memorial plan drops tradition

CN 25.08.1989 p1 War memorial plan under fire

CN 25.08.1989 p12 Think again

CN 01.09.1989 p9 War memorial takes new flak

CN 08.09.1989 p3 Old soldiers get ready to fight insult

CN 08.09.1989 p4 City war memorial

CN 08.09.1989 p6 Letters

CN 15.09.1989 p11 Peaceful end to row over war tribute

CN 03.11.1989 p25 Compromise on city war memorial

CN 10.11.1989 p29 Appeal plan for war memorial

CN 17.11.1989 p15 Backing memorial plan

CN 15.12.1989 p21 Memorial cross bid thrown out

CN 12.01.1990 p1 City call for a royal salute

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p115 photo of dedication in 1990

CN 16.11.1990 p1 (illus) Duke dedicates war memorial

 

WARREN AND WOOD LTD Kingstown Trading Estate

Poultry specialists

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p271

CD 1955-56 Ad p277

CD 1961-62 Ad p294

 

WAR VETERANS

CN 19.07.1991 p6 Old soldiers to parade through centre

 

WARWICK AND CO Lowther Street

Photographer

CD 1902-03 Ad p20

 

WARWICK, J [1855-1926] 46 Sheffield Street

Photographer

CD 1893-94 Ad p168

Carte de visite with this address noted. 46 Sheffield Street was also the address of the photographer H. Andrews. Another carte de visite has the address 82b Lowther Street, opposite Post Office, removed from Sheffield Street. Married Elizabeth, the daughter of Heskett Andrews and by 1884 was using his father-in-law’s former studio at 46 Sheffield Street. Moved his studio to Lowther Street in 1895 and then Warwick Road before retiring to Lowther Street in 1911

1884 Carlisle Directory 46 Sheffield Street

CD 1893-94 Photographer 46 Sheffield St

 

WARWICK, John Family of Masons, the father dying 25.04.1743; [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

WARWICK ROAD Street laid out as a turnpike road to Brampton 1829-30; town end at first called Henry Street; Spencer Street to Hartington Place called Cavendish Place and between Brunswick Street and Cecil Street, Bolton Place - Henry Street and Cavendish Place so named on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2; building lots for sale, also Asquith’s 1853 Survey of the city

B/CAR 333.33 Sale of 58,251,253,255 on 25.06.1913

CJ 15.04.1826 p2f Relief of poor; proposed new road Lowther St / Botcherby Bridge

CJ 22.04.1826 p2f New road English St / Botcherby Bridge; £300 subscribed

1829 Directory p154 Henry Street, Lowther Street

June 1846 Jane Greene of Cavendish Place died [Christ Church Memorials no 29]

CP 02.02.1856 p1c Modern built dwelling for sale

CP 30.04.1864 p1 Ad; No 7 Cavendish Place to let

CP 06.03.1874 p1 Ad; 12,14,16 Brunton Place for sale; recently erected

CJ 15.04.1881 p6 Walk along Warwick Road, visits Chatsworth Square and Brunton Place

Council minutes 05.02.1883 18/607 Recommend whole street named Warwick Rd

CJ 23.01.1883 p2 City surveyor has commenced planting avenue of trees; Little and Ballantynes 32 limes, 61 sycamores and 61 black Italian poplars

CJ 29.06.1883 p4 ed The rough road has been superseded by as level a piece of turnpike as you could wish to see anywhere and resembling the splendid roads about London parks more than a highway near a provincial town; a broad level footway laid with fine chips of Threlkeld stone has replaced the dirty old sloping cinder park

CJ 26.10.1888 p4 editorial Planting trees on streets; Warwick Road and Broad Street

CJ 11.02.1896 p3 Trees planted on Warwick Road

Council Minutes 1902-03 p495 Resolved to renumber Warwick Road

CJ 31.12.1918 Deeds of Cavendish House, no 83, dated 1832 for T.Woodrow

City Minutes 25.01.1935 p251 Recommendations for renumbering Warwick Road from Petteril Bridge to the city boundary

Carlisle an illustrated history p87 photo of present day Cavendish Hse

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p166 Flooded in 1968 - photo

CN 09.07.1971 pp11-13 (illus) Repairs

CN 25.08.1972 p6 State of in 1828

CN 20.07.1973 p6 (illus) About 1930

ENS 29.08.1978 p5 A pub crawl into history

CN 07.02.1992 p1 300 jobs in store for city

CN 16.01.1998 p3 Licence granted for new city pub

CN 21.08.1998 p3 (Illus) Arson hotel - Kingfisher Estate

CN 18.12.1998 p25 Soccer - history

CN 25.02.2000 p1 Bid to build big hotel on site of drug den

CN 12.10.2001 p13 Letter; permission for 6 houses behind 280 Warwick Rd

CN 13.06.2003 p8 No funding for housing scheme behind 280 Warwick Rd

CN 26.09.2003 p7 Story of the circus ground at top of Warwick Road

16.04.2005 Demolition in progress on 259 Warwick Rd, Carlisle United club shop latterly, first property on east side of road leading to Carlisle United ground

CN 03.11.2006 p30 D.Perriam; birth of Warwick Rd

 

WARWICK ROAD; BRUNTON PLACE see also Brunton Place

Would appear to now be the block nos 239-273 Warwick Road; no 247 has a plaque inset into gable end with the date 1847; all this block appears on Asquith’s 1853 map of the city

B/CAR 333.33 For sale 20.12.1907

CN 08.04.2016 p16 Section 2 Story of 240 Warwick Road

 

WARWICK ROAD; CAVENDISH HOUSE Built for Rev Thomas Woodrow, maternal grandfather of Woodrow Wilson, President of the USA. Visited by the President when he came to Carlisle in 1918

CJ 31.12.1918 Deeds of Cavendish House, no 83, dated 1832 for T.Woodrow

Carlisle an illustrated history p87 photo of present day Cavendish Hse

CN 18.11.2011 p19 For sale. Peter Dance owner

 

WARWICK ROAD; CONGRESS GROUND

B/CAR 333.333 For sale 23.07.1924

City Minutes 1925-6 p175 Proposal to erect 4 shops on Congress Hall site

CN 06.02.1970 p12

 

WARWICK ROAD PETROL STATION; 421559 Never reopened after the January 2005 floods. Site under demolition week before and during week 21st February 2008. Site now a car wash [2023]

 

WARWICK ROAD SCHOOL

CP 16.12.1870 80 children attending Mr Irving master

 

WARWICK SQUARE First noted on 1881 census

CP 24.03.1882 p1 To let no 6 Warwick Square East

 

WARWICK SQUARE NURSING HOME

Established as Carlisle and North of England Trained Nurses Home at 18-19 Warwick Square in 1900. By 1924 the home was known as the North of England Nursing Home. The evidence of a birth certificate in 1929 giving this as place of birth suggests it was a maternity home at this time. By 1952 it had become Warwick Square Nursing Home, 19 Warwick Square, and it remained at this address until at least 1955-56

CD 1952 Ad p212

 

WARWICK STREET

George Smith’s 1752 Map of the Soccage Lands of Carlisle calls the area which is today Corporation Road, Warwick Street and Dixon St, Battle Holm and Hangmans Close. No houses are marked on Hangmans Close or Battle Holm The name Battle Holm is apparently meant to indicate battle in a judicial sense

 

A published map of 1815 of Carlisle shows an unnamed road extending from the southern end of the new Eden bridges, built 1812-1815, connecting to Finkle Street and so through Annetwell Street, Caldewgate and all points west.

 

Woods 1821 Map of Carlisle shows this road and names it the ‘New Road’. It was built across Corporation land, hence the later name. The 1821 map marks the land to the north of the New Road as ‘Properties of the Corporation’; that to the south of the road being owned by the Duke of Devonshire. An area around here is still called ‘Hangmans Close’ on the 1821 map. The 1844 Directory map still calls it The New Road and there are no buildings shown on it except at the elbow with Rickergate. By the time of the 1851 census the New Road has become Corporation Road

 

Peter Dixon had the Shaddongate Cotton Mill. Dixon expanded his textile works in 1849 and built additional works in the West Tower Street area. New streets were laid out. Warwick Street was laid out in 1855 [Dixon’s had a cotton factory at Warwick on Eden]. His name is remembered in the adjoining Peter Street, first noted on the 1861 census and Dixon Street, first noted in the Carlisle directory of 1858

 

The buildings on Warwick Street were demolished in 1939 to make way for the new fire and police stations which were opened on 16.08.1940 and 17.04.1941 respectively. On the south side of Warwick Street, opposite the fire station, were built attractive cottages for permanent members of the fire brigade. The main contractor for the two new stations was John Laing. The buildings are faced in Greenlaw stone from Northumberland and the architect was Percy Dalton.

 

In 1964 some of the houses in this area were declared unfit for human habitation, the Cumberland News of 08.05.1964 saying that inspectors had found some houses in the area were without internal water and inside toilets. There was a public inquiry and the Cumberland News in September 1964 reported that an appeal by property owners against demolition had been rejected by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and a total of 95 properties on Corporation Road, Dixon St, Dacre St, Solway Terrace and Clifford St were to be demolished

 

Castleway, part of stage two of the inner ring road, officially opened on 27.03.1974. The construction of the road was over parts of the west end of Corporation Road as well as what was Solway Street, Solway Terrace and Dacre Street. Dixon Street and Clifford although still there in name today lie under Castleway.

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

CJ 23.12.1938 p8 Demolition of buildings

Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p59 photo, demolished 1939

 

WARWICK TERRACE, Off Warwick Road, six properties listed here in the 1924 Carlisle Directory

 

WASH AND GAS

CN 21.06.1991 p20 Ad p20

CN 01.11.1996 p14 Wash and Gas - at your service

 

WASTE DISPOSAL

See also Recycling

CN 01.12.1989 p3 Recycling in pipeline

CN 25.09.1992 p1 Waste plan raises stink

CN 02.10.1992 p1 No dustbin claims firm

CN 09.10.1992 p17 Friends attacks on incinerator

CN 16.10.1992 p1 MP refuses to speak

CN 30.10.1992 p27 Council gets ready for a waste battle

CN 30.10.1992 p27 Waste firm hits at critics

CN 06.11.1992 p1 Boost for waste plant campaign

CN 06.11.1992 p5 Incinerator plan firm hits back

CN 13.11.1992 p12 The burning issue

CN 20.11.1992 p1 Greens say no to secret talks

CN 27.11.1992 pp6,16 Letters

CN 08.01.1993 p1 Reject waste burners says FOE

CN 15.01.1993 p9 Report clears waste plant

CN 05.02.1993 p15 Waste plant war of words goes on

CN 05.02.1993 p6 City waste plan comes under fire

CN 05.03.1993 p3 Incinerator plan traffic worry

CN 07.05.1993 p25 New turn in battle over incinerator

CN 30.12.1993 p3 Waste site on the move - Rome Street

CN 25.02.1994 p25 Waste plant will be in Cumbria

CN 23.08.2002 p13 Letter critical of Council’s approach to waste management

 

WASTE GROUNGS

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]

 

WASTE PAPER RECOVERY

See also Recycling

CJ 19.05.1942 p1 Tentative plans proposed

CN 01.12.1989 p3 Recycling in pipeline

 

WATER see WATER SUPPLY

 

WATERGATE LANE Near John Street; so marked on Wood’s 1821 map of city

CJ 31.05.1817 p1 Cotton Mill at Water-Gate Lane, erected in last 14 years containing 24,480 Mule spindles, six storeys

Pavey Lands and Tyle Close for sale. Fields situate in Watergate Lane now in occupation of John Carr as tenant [CP 03.07.1819 p1]

CJ 13.01.1827 p3 Saint Cuthbert’s Parish not repairing Watergate Lane

The Citizen 04.01.1828 p3 Repair of Water Lane

CJ 05.04.1828 p3 Vestry meeting; liability of township to repair road

CJ 17.05.1828 p3 Repairing and paving Water Lane to Mr Brown’s Barn

CJ 23.09.1826 p1f Ad. 22 dwelling rooms newly built for sale

CJ 07.03.1856 p5 Ordered to pave Water Street – ‘street so little used’

 

WATER LANE, Court Square [1829 Directory]

1847 Directory Court Square

 

WATERLOO FOUNDRY Waterloo Foundry, Water Street, west side of station [location 1851,Ward’s Directory]; so named on the 1860s 50 inch survey of Carlisle on the corner of Wood Street and Water Street; 1847 Directory Thomas Burgess Waterloo Foundry; marked on Asquith’s large scale map of Carlisle dated 1853; 1901 Waterloo Foundry, St Nicholas Street [Bulmer 1901], moving there following the enlargement of the railway station [CWAAS OS vol 6 p430]

See also ; Burgess and Hayton; Daniel Clark; White Brothers

CN 23.12.1977 p4

 

WATERLOO HOUSE; St NIcholas 1901 census Mary Hayward aged 63 living here, a relation of Daniel Clark, ironfounder, at the Waterloo Foundry

1918 Electoral Register Waterloo House Daniel Clark Hayward

CN 19.05.2010 p64 Grade two Georgian property for sale, photo, £295,000

 

WATERLOO INN

CN 13.07.1979 p1

 

WATERS, J Scotch Street

Milliner

Leading Trader of the City p44 Ad A616

 

WATERS BUILDINGS

CP 07.07.1832 records the death, from Cholera, of Mrs Eliz Collins of Water’s Buildings, aged 40

 

WATER STREET Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

See also Watergate Lane

CJ 08.10.1831 p3b Building ground and dwelling houses now in occupation of James Steel and George Raper

1847 Directory Water Street, Water Lane

City Minutes 1931-32 p70 Nos 37,39, 41 and 43 unfit for human habitation

CN 21.08.1964 Compulsory order; 82 year old fights order

 

WATER SUPPLY When St Cuthbert visited Carlisle in 685 AD he was shown a marvellously constructed fountain of Roman workmanship. The Romans had built a bath house at Edenside. Exceptionally well preserved drains were found here in 2021. Roman street drains excavated in Annetwell Street may be seen in Tullie House Museum. Street drains can be seen in their original place in the Tullie House gardens. Before 1848 all drinking water in city from rivers, wells or water carts. In addition there were springs at the foot of the bank below St James Church. On the 1st edition OS maps of the 1860s this is marked as Seven Wells Bank. On a map of 1746 Hysop Home Well is identified near Edenside. As Carlisle was besieged many times over centuries of Border warfare it was essential that the city had access to water sources inside the walls and inside the Castle and Citadels. Excavations in Old Grapes Lane uncovered a well which dendrochronology dated to AD1193-6. The new Citadel fortification had a well which was rediscovered in 1883. This well was dug at the same time as the new Citadels as both bear the same mason’s marks. The Cathedral had a least 3 wells inside the building, one near the High Altar was discovered in 1967. Another near the entrance is dated to the 1120s and was recently excavated. The well is 32 feet deep. It was covered over in the 19th century. The strata of sandsone is a water purifier. Annetwell Street is St Ann’s Well, first noted in 1540. A map in CWAAS transactions shows 5 medieval wells in the Annetwell Street area as well as 3 post medieval wells. Three wells were discovered with the demolition of the Crown and Mitre in 1902. One of the main public wells was in the Market Place; over the well was a building supported on pillars called Carnaby’s Folly. In 1633 the Court Leet Rolls ordered that the well in the Market Place shall be repaired and made with a pump and stone trough. [Municipal Records p287]. The site of this well has been forgotten but it was opposite the shop of Messrs Thurnams, it may have been the well that St Cuthbert was shown. Up until the second half of the 19th century there was no understanding of bacteria and water borne diseases. The Dormont book of 1561 prohibits any person casting dead dogs, cats and other rubbish in the common wells within the city. It also prohibits middens or dunghills within 12 feet of the wells. In 1832 Cholera came to the city, but there was no understanding in the medical world that this was a result of contaminated water. Cholera was thought, amongst other things, to be caused by miasmas, putrified air rising from graveyards, dunghills, privvies and the filth of poverty. There were 265 deaths from Cholera in the city between June 13th and November 18th 1832. From 01.04.1848 water was extracted from the River Eden and pumped from pumping station at Stony Holme [ photo of Stony Holme pumping station in Carlisle the Archive Photographs p79] into a reservoir at Harraby Hill for public consumption; ‘The height of the uncovered reservoir will be forty feet above the level of the flagging of the gaol, being the highest ground in Carlisle. With such a pressure as this elevation will produce, the houses, even in this district, may be supplied to a height of 35 feet above the ground’ .[Mannix 1847 p144] In 1850 The General Board of Health commented in its report on the city ‘The common well water in Carlisle was scarcely fit for the lowest class of animals...No water is fit for drinking, but is, in fact, pernicious to health’. In Brewery Row the 1850 report noted that there is only one privvy for twenty families and this has not been cleaned out since built. Prior to the Carlisle Waterworks Company the only reservoir in the city was a tank on top of the Gaol; prisoners in the treadmill shed turned a huge mill wheel with their feet, pumping water from a deep well into the roof tank. This was the sole source of water in case of fire in the city. This source was also used for cleaning the streets]. The Carlisle Water Company Prospectus in 1846 estimated water use at 10 gallons per person per day. The reservoir would contain a 10 day supply, 2,800,000 gallons. The Annual General Report of the Carlisle Water Company for 1848 stated that it had 1,467 customers from houses paying under £10 a year rent, for a total income of £306 8s 0d [about a penny a week rent] and 330 houses with a rent above £10 a year, income £148. Other income for the Water Company came from inns, stables, breweries, water closets [numbering 22] street cleaning, public buildings, baths [numbering 11] locomotive and other engines. The following year there were 2,619 properties under the £10 a year rent, and 467 above it. There were 49 water closets supplied in the city. In 1850 the numbers of properties were 3,285, 542 with 106 water closets. The Carlisle Journal of 08.12.1865 reported on a meeting of the town council concerning making an offer for the civic purchase of the water company. It was said that the original promoters of the company had intended the works for the benefit of their citizens and not as a financial speculation. Of late the undertaking had fallen into the hands of people who regarded it as an eligible investment. Acquired by Corporation in 1866. 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’. A new scheme replacing the Stoneyholme pump had been discussed since the 1890s. New suggested sources of water were the Caldew, Mosedale, Glendermakin but it was eventually decided upon the River Gelt which had organically pure water. Gravity fed, it would take water to the city in only a few minutes. The capital outlay of the scheme was £130,000. The new scheme was needed as Carlisle was a growing population, some of the higher parts of the city had insufficient pressure to be served by Harraby Hill. Also the pumping machinery at Stoneyholme was old and in need of constant attention. Geltsdale Reservoir began 1902. Purification by slow sand filters and pressure filters and sterilisation is carried out at Geltsdale. The purified water is conveyed, by gravity, by two sixteen inch diameter pipes to the Cumwhinton Service Reservoir six miles away. This reservoir has a capacity of five million gallons. From here water is conveyed to the city. 16.08.1906 inauguration of water supply from Geltsdale Reservoir for city; opening speeches were cut short because of a violent storm, the mayor of Carlisle saying that ‘another supply had been turned on’. When the Geltsdale supply was brought on tap in 1906 the daily consumption in the city was one million gallons. The works were designed to ultimately supply 2.4 million gallons daily. August 1909 the Geltsdale Reservoir completed becoming the main supply for the city. The Harraby Hill reservoir was turned into allotments, the retaining walls of the reservoir can still be seen today [2024]. 1956 Carlisle Corporation Water Order allowing abstraction of 4 million gallons per day from the River Eden. An intake on the River Eden was constructed near Wetheral, an underground pumping station adjacent to the intake would take water to a purification plant at Cumwhinton Service Reservoir; 22.05.1962 Waterworks Augmentation Scheme officially opened at Cumwhinton Treatment Works. A further reservoir capable of taking 5 million gallons was constructed at High Brownnelson, 74 meters high. The Carlisle Journal 07.07.1961 ran an article on the slums of Carlisle. It stated that few of the houses in Elm Court and Denton Crescent have running water. Housewives were shown getting water from an outside communal tap. Even today the northern terracing of Carlisle United’s ground is known as the Waterworks End [a reference to the former pumping station at Stoneyholme]

See also WELLS

CAIH p67 Water

Local Government Octocentenary Brochure pp 25-29 1BC 352

Topper Off Summer 1949 p2

Topper Off Easter 1950 p48

CJ 16.05.1865 p3 CJ 06.10.1865 p4 CJ 13.10.1865 pp4,6

CJ 07.11.1865 p3 CJ 21.11.1865 p3

CN 14.10.1950 p4 CN 06.01.1951 p5 CN 27.08.1954 p10 CN 13.05.1955 p10

CN 21.10.1955 p10 CN 28.10.1955 p10 CN 11.11.1955 p10

CN 02.12.1955 p10 CN 27.01.1956 p8 (illus) CN 29.06.1956 p1

CJ 13.07.1956 p1 CN 13.07.1956 p1

CP 13.06.1818 p3 Letter about formation of a water company. Inconvenience experienced by a great majority of the inhabitants from a want of soft water in their houses. ...the expense which they are laid under to have it brought from the river in carts

1820 see G.Topping Memories of Carlisle p135 Pumps and wells

CP 30.11.1839 pp2,3 Letters about supply and problems

CJ 30.11.1839 p2 Water leader, Robert Armstrong aged 70, drowned filling barrels in Eden

CJ 23.08.1845 p3 Supply of water depends entirely on public or private wells. There is a tank at the gaol, forms sole reservoir...for cleansing streets and fires.

That the common well-water used in Carlisle was scarcely fit to be used by the lowest class of animals! Several experiments he had tried since he came to the town had failed, owing to the extreme impurity of the water. In the water from the pump in the Fish-market, the saline matter is as 1 to 350; and in the pump at the Lion and Lamb, as 1 in 477. No water is fit for drinking, but is in fact, pernicious to health, which contains more than 1 in 1,000 of saline matter.....The former mode of supplying the town was by pumps, and by carts carrying barrels. The carters charged one halfpenny for two tins-full, holding about four gallons, or 6d per cask of 100 gallons. At first we had some difficulty in inducing people to dispense with private pumps.

1850 General Board of Health Enquiry. R.Rawlinson pp63 Report on water supply p64

CJ 30.01.1847 p3a-b Carlisle Water Company Annual Meeting

CJ 20.03.1847 p2f Ad; Waterworks; contract for engine house and filter beds

CJ 03.04.1847 p2d T. Nelson contract for engine hse; Mr Head to contribute

CJ 13.01.1865 pp4,6 Transferred to city

CJ 07.04.1865 p5 Visit to Bowscale and Scales Tarns

CJ 12.05.1865 p6 Discussion

CJ 08.12.1865 p6 Council purchase of water works

CJ 17.07.1868 p4d Completion of new waterworks

City Council Minutes 1885-86 24 page pamphlet at rear

City Council 09.12.1886 p29 Extension to waterworks to be opened 10.12.1886

City Council Minutes 1885/86 Short Sketch of the Carlisle Water Supply

City Council Minutes 1891-92 pp279-288 Report on increased demand for water

City Council Minutes 1893-94 p194 Reasons for increased demands for water

City Council Minutes 1893-94 pp 208 -09 Instances of poor water supply in city

City Council Minutes 1896-97 p 486-518, 3 proposed schemes

CP 11.02.1898 p7a Corporation Water Bill

CP 11.02.1898 p3c Water schemes; petition against Carlisle Bill

CP 25.02.1898 p5a Carlisle water Bill

CP 18.03.1898 p6a,b Water Bill

CP 13.05.1898 p5d,e; p6 a-e Carlisle water Bill passed; decision of committee

CJ 06.01.1903 p4 Inhabitants obtained water from wells or from water carts that were filled in the Eden near the Sands, or in the Caldew near Collier’s Lonning; or they took water by cans direct from those rivers. The water obtained from the wells was generally bad and that water from the carts cost purchasers a penny for 8 gallons. The Snowdens were the chief water carriers. Days of water carriers indeed drawing to an end

City Minutes 1905-06 p521 Turning on the supply for the city

CJ 17.08.1906 pp5,6 Water turned on; history of water schemes

M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration pp90-1 Photo of opening ceremony

City Minutes 1928/9 pp696-727 Report on increasing filtration plant and pressure

CJ 12.12.1939 p1 Demand for water in Carlisle

CJ 15.05.1942 p4 Water scheme

CN 02.07.1949 p5 1847 first pipe water inaugurated

ENS 04.01.1956 p1 City’s water scheme

ENS 06.02.1956 City reservoirs half empty

ENS 05.06.1956 p1 City faces another water crisis

ENS 05.07.1960 p1 Water ‘take over’ confirmed

CJ 08.07.1960 pp1,9 Extension into Border area

CN 08.07.1960 pp1,7,10 Extension into Border area

CN 22.07.1960 p13 Extension into Border area

CN 10.02.1961 p1 (illus) Cumwhinton works

Civic Affairs April 1961 p1 The Water Department

Civic Affairs July 1962 p1 Cumwhinton Augmentation Scheme officially opened

CN 25.05.1962 p3 Augmentation scheme

CN 24.01.1964 p11Tunnel under Eden

CN 11.02.1972 p2 (illus) Water Works

CN 11.10.1974 p40 City ignores threat of pollution

CN 22.11.1974 p1 Pollution could soar

CN 11.12.1987 p4 Waterworks moved to preserve a view

CN 14.10.1988 p4 Water supplies not fit for animals

CN 22.02.1991 p4 100 years ago

CN 04.04.1997 p10 The day Carlisle got tapped water, all for a penny a week

CN 13.09.2002 p8 Extra water from Eden needed to safeguard Carlisle Supply

CN 15.11.2002 p14 City water quality improvement; part of £20m upgrade

CN 10.10.2008 p34 D.Perriam. Waterworks history. Engine delivered 55,000 gallons of water per minute

 

WATERTON COURT, Durranhill; named after Canon Waterton

CN 20.08.2004 p79 Development at converted Durranhill House

 

WATERTON HALL Warwick Square; named after Canon Waterton

City Minutes 1901-02 p302 Approval for new hall

23.09.2007 Hall under demolition at this time; Story the builders to put up housing on site and build a new parish hall for nearby Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Church, referred to as the New Waterton Hall

 

WATERWAYS

CN 20.08.1993 p4 Memories of the Dam

 

WATERWORKS LANE, so named on the second edition 25 inch OS map, circa 1899; becomes St Aidans Road on the 3rd edition map , circa 1924. Lane leading to the former pumping station at the north end of the lane

 

WATSON, C.G. Bridge Street

Hairdresser and tobacconist

CD 1952 Ad p88

 

WATSON, Thomas Castle Street

India rubber and leather gloves

CD 1880 Ad pxl

 

WATSON, Thomas Castle Street

Painters and decorator

1861 census, Thomas Watson, home Bird in Hand Lane, Castle St, aged 31

CD 1880 Ad pxxx

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p37 Photo showing exterior

 

WATSONS, 17 Scotch St Clogger

1901 census; 3 East Tower St, Betsy Watson, clogger, widow, aged 62, born Carlisle

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p41 Photo of T.Watson outside shop, 1925; closed 1979

Carlisle a photographic recollection; J.Templeton photo of East Tower St shop p21

Carlisle in old picture postcards view 33 East Tower St corner

 

WATSON STREET

David Thomson and his brother Alexander, plumbers and contractors, were extensive property owners, and Thomson Street, Alexander Street, Watson Street and Brook Street were built by them. [CN 05.07.1924 p15]

City Minutes 1890-91 item 193 approval to lay out new street

City Minutes 28.04.1893 item 475 Approval for 16 dwelling houses

Over the Garden Wall; life of Donald Scott pp 7-8 Life in Watson St in 1930s

 

WATSON’S COURT, Princess Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 23 Princess Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 39-41 St Nicholas Street

 

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

1880 Directory 39 Saint Nicholas Street

 

WATSON’S LANE

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

WATT, J and W Caldew Garage, Metcalfe Street

CD 1966-68 Ad p274

 

WATT, John and J.W. Tea Merchants

Carlisle; Archival photographs p12 photo of shop on Glover’s Row

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p40 Ad Top of Bank Street

 

WATTS COFFEE SHOP Bank Street; founded 1865; moved to Bank Street from Glover’s Row in 1897

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection pp7,11

Alan Porter Carlisle Golf Club 1908 - 2008 p 51 Portrait of Harry J.Watt

V.White Carlisle and its Villages p22 Drawing of shop

ENS 25.03.1939 p2 John Watt Advertised opening 13.07.1865 at 87 Green Market

Cumbria Life Sept/Oct 1992 p45 2A 9

CN 02.12.1994 p5 (illus) City goes expresso bonkers

CN 06.09.1996 p4 Watt a display - ad

CN 24.01.1997 p17 Old shops and a way of life gone for ever

Cumbria Life February 2000 p110 2A 9

CN 23.02.2001 p1 (illus) Quarrel with tenant; Ashley Kendall v Marzley Johnstone

CN 31.10.2003 p1 Owner Ashley Kendall to retire

CN 16.04.2004 p8 Early family history; founded by brothers James and John Watt

CN 15.07.2005 p13 Letter correcting above article

 

WATTS COURT, 11 Mary Street [1880 Directory]

 

WATTS VICTORIAN COFFEE SHOP Lowther Street; becomes Townhouse tea and coffee rooms May 2001

CN 18.05.2001 p7 Marzley moves to new premises

 

WAUGH, Fred

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

 

WAUGH, George Green Market

M442 p22 Business receipt for grocer and tallow chandler

 

WAUGH, John Leather merchant, died 10.04.1818 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 204]

 

WAUGH’S COURT, 68 South John Street [1880 Directory]

 

WAUGH’S LANE East side of Botchergate between East Street and Sowerby Lane

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

1880 Directory 108 Botchergate

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 102-104 Botchergate, west side

1934 Directory Waugh's Lane, 102 Botchergate

 

WAVERLEY BRIDGE Newtown

CN 26.06.1998 p3 Repair work to start

CN 14.08.2009 p7 Work underway on care village

 

WAVERLEY ROAD

City Minutes 1932-33 p 415 Approval for 4 houses; owner A.Hoodless

City Minutes 1934-5 p 956 Approval for 4 houses. Owner J.Johnstone

ENS 19.01.1966 p8 Road conditions

 

WAYNE LEE MOTOR SPORT

CN 24.05.2002 p17 Rally car business started

 

WCF FUELS

CN 12.03.1993 p20 Ad

 

WEALLS COURT, Hewson Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 4 Hewson Street

1924 Carlisle Directory 4 Hewson Street

 

WEALLS COURT, Margaret Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 12 Margaret Street

1924 Carlisle Directory after 12 Margaret Street

 

WEATHER Record for 24 hours of rainfall possibly 2.9 inches on the 16.10.1967 9am to 17.10.1967 9am; 3.5. inches falls in 24 hour period in city, 11/12th October [CN 14.10.2005 p]

See also Floods

Dr Carlyle kept an account of the quantity of rain which fell on Carlisle during a period of twenty years, namely, from 1757 to 1776. During this period the greatest quantity which fell in one year was 31.801 inches, the medium being 24.71 inches. Mr Pitt made the mean quantity of rain fallen in Carlisle, from 1801 - 1824, 30.571 inches The Life of John Heysham, by Henry Lonsdale pp31-32

1757 G.Carlyle began his rainfall record at Carlisle [CWAAS ns Vol 48 p138]

1801-1824 Weather stats pp21-5 General Board of Health Report, 1850, 1BC625

25.05.1807 Thermometer at 85 General Board of Health Report, 1850, p21 1BC625

17.01.1814 Thermometer at -2 General Board of Health Report, 1850, p21 1BC625

CP 01.12.1821 p3b Height of Eden scarcely greater; worst storms since 1789

CP 09.02.1822 p3 Storm and flood; exceeded blast of 1st December

CJ 07.09.1826 p2e Monthly rainfall figures for Carlisle; January - August

CJ 12.01.1839 p2f,g Worst storm in living memory

CJ 06.02.1847 p3e Meteorological journal for city; Jan 1847, rain, temp

CJ 12.12.1856 p8 Great Flood at Carlisle; greatest flood since 1822

CP 22.01.1875 Destructive storm; most intense since 1839; chimneys down

26.01.1884 Severe gales in city

18.02.1892 Thermometer 11’5 degrees below zero in city

31.01.1895 Severe frost in city

CP 17.01.1896 Severe gale; Cathedral suffered considerable damage

CP 22.03.1907 Great Storm; Eden at Caledonian Bridge 17 feet 10 inch

City Minutes 1910-11 p401 Monthly rainfall at cemetery 1900-1910

City Minutes 1911-12 pp428-431 Meteorological Statistics

City Minutes 1912-13 pp501-505 Meteorological Statistics

City Minutes 1913-14 pp618-623 Weather Statistics; rainfall etc

City Minutes 1914-15 pp 481-486 Weather statistics

City Minutes 1915-16 p287 Rainfall statistics

City Minutes 1916-17 p 257 Rainfall statistics

City Minutes 1917-18 p 250 Rainfall statistics - Carlisle Cemetery

City Minutes 1918-19 p306 Rainfall statistics

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1919 p 90 Rainfall statistics for 1919

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1921 p14 Rainfall statistics for 1921

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1922 p 14 Rainfall statistics for 1922

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1923 p11 Rainfall statistics for 1923

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1924 p 14 Rainfall statistics for 1924

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1926 p 20 Rainfall statistics for 1926

CJ 21.09.1926 Great floods; heaviest rainfall for 25 years in city

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1927 p20 Rainfall statistics for 1927

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1928 p 20 Rainfall statistics for 1928

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1929 p20 Rainfall statistics for 1929

1930 Report of Sanitary Administration for Carlisle p 26 Rainfall statistics for 1930

1931 Report of Sanitary Administration for Carlisle p 17 Rainfall statistics for 1931

1932 Report of Sanitary Administration for Carlisle p 18 Rainfall statistics for 1932

CJ 04.01.1946 p1 Rainfall for 1945

CN 06.04.1946 p5 Temperature and hours of sunshine

CN 18.05.1946 p5 Figures for 1946

CN 13.06.1946 p5 Hours of sunshine

CN 17.08.1946 p5 Hours of sunshine

CN 21.12.1946 p7 Figures for 1946

CN 05.02.1949 p5 Mild January

CN 05.03.1949 p5 Mild February

CN 07.05.1949 p5 April rainfall

CN 25.06.1949 p5 Heat wave

CN 29.10.1949 p5 2.95 inches rainfall in 24 hours

CN 07.10.1950 p5 September 6.27 inches; previous records

CN 12.02.1988 p24 Worst storms for 20 years

CN 18.01.1991 p3 Snow snarl ups sparks roads row

CN 08.11.1996 p3 Victims hit by freak storm count cost

CN 29.11.1996 p1 Hundreds without power as freezing weather takes its toll

CN 06.12.1996 p5 (illus) Blizzard wizards praised

CN 12.09.1997 p4 Salt scouts plan to keep winter roads snow free

CN 05.12.1997 p5 (illus) The week of 100 accidents

CN 10.11.2000 p7 The day the rains came down

CN 01.03.2002 p8 Week of bad weather; one of wettest Februarys ever

CN 10.01.2003 p1 Icy weather shuts local schools; 7 days of freezing weather

CN 08.08.2003 p1 Temp. peaks at 31C last Tuesday

CN 13.08.2004 p 3 Double August rainfall in 4 days

CN14.10.2005 p1 3.5. inches falls in 24 hour period in city, 11/12th October

January 7th 2010 River Petteril frozen over at Botcherby Bridge

December 26th 2010 River Eden frozen across in Rickerby Park

CN 10.12.2010 p3 Lowest daytime temperature in city since 1960s minus 7.9C at highest

 

WEAVERS

See also Cotton industry, Dixon’s; Handloom weavers

CP 20.02.1819 p1 Power looms for sale; 62 pair of Patent Looms...

CP 08.05.1819 p3a Weavers displeasure at price of gingham; send us to America

CP 22.05.1819 p3c Letter concerning the poor quality of gingham now produced

CP 29.05.1819 p2b Petition to House of Commons concerning plight of weavers

CP 29.05.1819 p3 c,d Appeal concerning wretchedness of weavers in city

CP 05.06.1819 p3b,c Meeting between weavers and employers; no compromise

CP 12.06.1819 p3b Dispute between weavers and employers

CP 19.06.1819 p3b 1,500 weavers employed in city and neighbourhood

CP 26.06.1819 p3a,b Weavers still hold out for more wages

CP 03.07.1819 p3d Handbill from Weavers Committee

CP 24.07.1819 p3a-c Greater part of men silently returning to work

CP 11.09.1819 p 4b,c Letter concerning causes of national distress

CJ 13.05.1826 p3c Letter concerning plight of weavers; reasons for distress

CJ 20.05.1826 p3c Letter concerning plight of cotton weavers in city

CJ 20.05.1826 p3a Distress in city mainly in cotton manufacturing

CJ 03.06.1826 p3b Letter about plight of weavers; rejection of statement on wages

28.06.1838 Mr Head of Rickerby slaughters heifers for starving weavers

CP 03.08.1861 p8 Letter from Richard Brown; Sec. of the Soc.of Carlisle Weavers

CJ 15.12.1863 p3 Emigration

CJ 24.10.1865 p2 Grievance meeting

CN 22.03.1924 p9 18th century Carlisle

CN 24.01.1992 p4 A squalid life for weavers

CN 31.01.1992 p4 City election rioting quelled by army

CN 07.02.1992 p4 Repeat performance by rioting weavers

CN 21.08.1992 p4 Turbulent times in battle over wages

 

WEAVERS ARMS John Street; in local directories from 1850 to 1861; may have become afterwards the Sportsmans Arms Inn and then the Bricklayers; 1861 Joseph Gallery, innkeeper, aged 40, born Carlisle

 

WEAVERS ARMS Shaddongate; in local directories from 1837 to 1869; Thomas Jackson, innkeeper, aged 63, born Pryor Rigg [1861 census]

 

WEAVERS BANK AND CASTLE WALK Work started on the new Eden Bridges in 1812, this included confining the river in a single north channel. The old southern channel was to be filled in, but it was still necessary to cross the muddy bed by a bridge of 5 arches completed in 1816. To ensure that the river was confined to the northern channel two embankments were constructed on either side of the north bridge, so cutting off the southern channel. The Swifts embankment on the east side extended in an L shape to form an effective flood barrier. This is there today, an embankment footpath from the bridge to the Turf Inn. On the west side the embankment extended to the Castle [aiming at what was St Mary’s Tower. The course of the embankment today [2021] would be the footpath to the east of the tennis courts]. Constructed 1816-19 by unemployed weavers. This was known as Weavers Bank and retains that name today, although more than half the bank on the west side is now lost in the levelling to create Bitts Park. [ the full extent of the bank can be seen on Woods and Asquith’s, 1st edition large scale OS maps] At the same time Devonshire Walk was laid out and this was extended around the foot of Castle Bank to link with the new bank, forming a continuous pathway to Eden Bridge. The main purpose after providing a job creation scheme was to form a dam to prevent flooding in the low lying area of Rickergate. This became a popular promenade for citizens. Repairs and heightening were required in 1857 and, as this coincided with a depression in the textile industry, weavers were again employed in stabilising the bank. It was decided to plant trees on both sides of the Weavers Bank. This was done in December 1871, 1872 and 1873, Little and Ballantyne providing the saplings. Today the embankment from the bridge follows the river to the Sheepmount Bridge before skirting the railway and joining Devonshire Walk. This flood bank extension was called the Mayor’s Drive and is so named on large scale OS maps of Carlisle, the Carlisle Patriot of 27 May 1892 reporting that the new road from Bitts around Sorceries was inspected. The 1892 Mayor’s Drive extension around the Sauceries made it possible to form a ‘People’s Park’ on the Bitts.

CP 15.02.1817 Proposal for a walk on the Castle’s north side. Scheme to employ the labouring poor.

CP 08.03.1817 Many men said to be employed on the walk

CP 20.12.1817 Subscription opened to pay for a walk from the Castle to the Eden bridge

CP 17.04.1819 p 3a Progress embankment from new Eden Bridges to Castle Walk

CP 24.07.1819 p3a Floods held back by newly formed bank

CJ 13.05.1921 p5

CN 16.03.2001 p7 Jobless weavers gave city a riverside walk

 

WEAVERS’ GUILD see GUILDS

 

WEB OFFSET Print Works

CN 17.03.1978 p3 CN 23.03.1978 p13

CN 05.12.1980 p1 Redundancies

CN 20.11.1981 p19 Closure

CN 27.11.1981 p23 Closure

CN 23.12.1988 p23 Printworks sold

CN 01.12.1995 p16 All systems go; Ad

CN 12.03.1999 p1 11th hour bid to rescue plant

CN 19.03.1999 p3 MP in top level talks over closure

CN 25.06.1999 p2 Printworks closes

 

WEBSTER CRES So named after F.G.Webster, the Town Clerk

 

WEDDINGS

Our City Our People, M.Edwards p5 Description of wedding at Upperby in 1884

CJ 31.08.1886 p2 Food poisoning at wedding. Bride’s death

ENS 11.02.1983 p4 History

CN 15.06.1990 p1 Salute for the bride

Cumbria Life no 21 March/ April 1992 pp12-15 Old photos showing dresses 2A 9

CN 10.11.1995 p5 City brides say get me to the church

CN 24.04.1998 Supplement

Cumbria Life April 2000 pp48-9

CN 29.12.2000 p2 End of special licensing; now statutory 51 day wait

 

WEIGH BRIDGE COTTAGE Solway St; Built 1855; ceased to be used for public weighing 1941; demolished December 1964

Carlisle in Camera 1 p13 photo

CN 20.03.1964 p8 (illus)

CJ 11.12.1964 p11 (illus) Demolished

 

WEIGHTMANS’S COURT, 6 Solway Terrace [1880 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 6-7 Solway Terrace

 

WELCH’S SQUARE By the Castle

See also Welsh Square

1880 Directory 24 Finkle Street

So named on 50 inch OS map 1899 23.03.19

City Minutes 1902-03 p 214 Uninhabitable rooms because of dampness

ENS 10.07.1972 p7 Engraving of the now demolished square

 

WELDED PRODUCTS London Road

Welders, engineers

CD 1931 Ad p300

CD 1934 Ad p64

 

WELL BANK, Longsowerby On the electoral register from 1922, when only one property is listed, in 1923 there are three houses listed and Well Bank Place appears, Seven Well Bank is so named on the 1863-5 Ordnance Survey sheet; Well Flat was a field name here mentioned in the Parliamentary survey of 1650. The Carlisle Patriot of 09.09.1865 reporting on the laying of the Cornerstone of St James Church said that only one well remained and this was marked with an inscribed stone, the paper continued that in ancient times public baptisms were held here

See also Well Flatt, Seven Wells, St Lawrence’s Well

1924 Carlisle Directory lists 8 properties here

 

WELL BANK PLACE, Longsowerby

1924 Carlisle Directory lists 2 properties here

 

WELL FLATT A flat was an open field without hedges, divided into strips. Different farmers rented different strips which were widely dispersed - the idea being that farmers would get an equal share of good and bad land within a manor. This system of farming died out in the middle ages. The well part comes from the fact that the land was on Seven Wells Bank. [Perriam Denton Holme p29] Placename mentioned in quitclaim of 10.01.1360/1 [CWAAS Vol 71, 1971, p59]; place name on Asquith’s 1853 plan of city [on what is now Dalston Road] ; Arthur Parker of Well Flatt died 07.01.1885 [Monumental Inscription 430/27]

1829 Directory p172 John Wilson, Gentleman Well Flatt

CJ 06.06.1829 p1 To be sold newly erected dwelling house, out houses and farm buildings occupied by late John Wison

The Citizen 01.05.1839 p320 John Wilson of Well Flatt died aged 79

CJ 03.10.1846 A magnificent apple of the old square species has been sent to us from Well Flatt...from the orchard of Mr Mathers

1847 Directory p172 John Mathers, Well Flat

CJ 10.09.1858 Death of Miss Sarah Mathers, aged 81

CJ 29.03.1861 Fire in stack Yard, Mr Wilson

CJ 12.04.1861 Dwelling house and garden to let, apply Mr Wilson

CJ 05.06.1863 p1 Dwelling house, 3 bedrooms to let

CJ 05.07.1867p8g death ref to Cottage at Well Flatt tenanted by John Lancaster

CJ 27.01.1871 p3 John Lancaster died at Well Flatt, aged 66

15.04.1891 Charlotte Moses of Well Flatt died [MI 13/4]

CJ 29.05.1894 Obit of William Wilson, grocer, who farmed at Well Flatt

North Cumberland Reformer 02.06.1894 p2 W.Wilson died aged 80

1901 census Well Flatt Farm; Jonathan Rowe, farm worker, aged 26, born Ainstable

1901 census Well Flatt House; Esther Tinniswood, 53, bn Knottingley, Yorks

1901 census Well Flatt Cottage; Thomas Mitchell, groom, bn Dalston, aged 33

1918 Electoral Register; Well Flatt Janet and Jonathan Sander

1918 Electoral Register; Well Flatt Farm John and Martha Glendinning

1918 Electoral Register; Well Flatt Cottage Mary Ann Allison

CN 13.02.2004 p3 Well Flatt Farm sold for development; photographs

CN 20.02.2004 p13 letter; memory of My Wylie tenant farmer

CN 14.05.2004 p3 Objections to development

CN 11.02.2005 p6 Site cleared by developer Parsimmon

 

WELLINGTON St Cuthbert’s Lane; in directories to 1861

 

WELLINGTON CLUB

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 2 The Wellington 1814-1859 pp 95-103

CP 12.06.1819 p1c Ad for annual dinner of Wellington Club

 

WELLINGTON HOTEL/INN English Street; in local directories from 1844; amalgamated with the Three Crowns in 1916; Old Baronial Hall erected 1906 demolished 1916

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916, pp84-6

1841 census; James Bell, innkeeper, aged 35

CP 03.06.1854 p1 Wellington Inn to let; rebuilt of white stone in the last year

CP 26.05.1855 p1 Ad Mr Holywell entered into Wellington Inn opposite Gaol

1861 census Ann Holywell, aged 55, innkeeper, born Wigton

1891 census; John Nicholson, wine merchant, bn Buckabank, aged 41

1901 census; Joseph Bouch, manager wine and spirit stores, aged 33, bn Liverpool

CJ 01.12.1916 Offer Dean and Chapter the old oak in the Baronial Hall which came from St Mary’s Church when it was in the nave of the Cathedral. The oak in question formed the communion rail in the old church of St Mary’s where Sir Walter Scott was married

ENS 05.10.1916 Amalgamated with Three Crowns

CN 06.08.1949 p5 (illus) Baronial Hall Oak

CN 20.08.1949 p5 Baronial Hall Oak

ENS 19.06.1968 Supplement; Birth of a new Citadel

CN 31.05.1991 p4 (illus)

CN 12.05.2000 p12 Hearts of oak in cathedral’s pubs and church

 

WELLINGTON PLACE see VICTORIA ROAD

1924 Carlisle directory listed under Warwick Road

 

WELL LANE, Stanwix Named after a well in this area. At the bottom of the lane a WWII pill box covers the Brampton Rd

 

WELLS Before 1848 all city drinking water supply from wells, water carriers or taken direct from the rivers

See also Water, Hyssop Holme Well; Fountains

Itm yf any person or persons hereafter caste any maner of corruption as deyd dogs catts nolt [black cattle] hornes or any other thinge corrupte in any of the comon welles wthin this citie or doe lye any myddinge, doonghill towards any of the said comon wells or wthin xii feet thereof....Domont Book of 1561 [Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle pp64-5

Jefferson,S; History and Antiquites of Carlisle, 1838, p83 Market place draw well

CWAAS NS Vol 3 p414 3 wells founded during reconstruction of Crown and Mitre

CN 03.09.1971 p14

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House pp20-21 The well in the Market place was fitted with a close cover and a lock over a wall a yard high. In 1710 a lease was granted to John Carnaby to build a house or shop over the old well with sufficient and convenient way and passage for inhabitants to fetch and take water at all times. Carnaby was to provide chains and buckets for taking and drawing water. The building over the wall was popularly known as Carnaby’s Folly. No view of this building survives

D Perriam Stanwix p21 Before a piped water supply Stanwix inhabitants had to reply on local wells in the village and district. See Well Lane and Stanwix Bank which had a water pump on the bank. Many of the larger houses in Stanwix had their own wells

1804 Long covered up well in Sewell’s Lane found. 27 feet in depth and two bronze Roman vases found in the bottom [Ferguson’s Hutchinson p590]. Supposed to be a well under the east wall of the Guildhall, could this be the one Saint Cuthbert saw? [Ferguson’s Hutchinson p590]

CJ 11.07.1807 p3d Near this city, two men stupefied with drink let go windlass and friend precipitated to bottom of well

CJ 18.03.1837 p3 James Scott, sinker and pump borer, died Water St aged 46

CJ 22.08.1840 p2 A well sinker in descending Scotch Street well and overcome with fumes; pulled out alive

That the common well-water used in Carlisle was scarcely fit to be used by the lowest class of animals! Several experiments he had tried since he came to the town had failed, owing to the extreme impurity of the water. In the water from the pump in the Fish-market, the saline matter is as 1 to 350; and in the pump at the Lion and Lamb, as 1 in 477. No water is fit for drinking, but is in fact, pernicious to health, which contains more than 1 in 1,000 of saline matter.....The former mode of supplying the town was by pumps, and by carts carrying barrels. The carters charged one halfpenny for two tins-full, holding about four gallons, or 6d per cask of 100 gallons. At first we had some difficulty in inducing people to dispense with private pumps. 1850 General Board of Health Enquiry. R.Rawlinson pp63 Report on water supply p64

CJ 20.06.1851 p3 Workmen engaged in excavating the foundations of a new house in Stanwix find two ancient walled wells; Roman pottery at bottom, two corn grindstones. Close to the well discovered when digging the foundations of Mr Farrer’s house not 40 feet away; in this was found a beautiful cameo set in silver. Wells 60 feet deep to procure water

CP 02.02.1861 p4 When the waterworks were instituted, most persons were persuaded to stop up their wells, upon a statement that the pipes were so constructed that no frost could affect them. Many wells likely to be reopened

CJ 08.09.1865 p5 Seven wells bank

1883 Well found in the flagging of the footway before the door into the Court House. Four feet in diameter and 36 feet deep. Marked on a 1741 plan of city in British Museum [Ferguson’s Hutchinson p590 with map]

The Geology of the Carlisle, Longtown and Silloth District, 1926 notes on page 96 the following wells; Brewer Yard, New Brewery, Shaddongate, sunk about 1774, capacity 10,000 gallons per diem; field adjoining Old Brewery, Bridge Street, sunk in 1756, capacity 18,000 gallons per diem; Brewery Yard, Old Brewery, Bridge Street, sunk in 1756, capacity 18,000 gallons per diem; Messrs Carrs, Caldewgate. This well was deepened recently from 197 to 312 feet, yield 84,000 gallons per diem.

CJ 24.05.1927 During excavation which are going on for the completion of the Methodist Central Hall a water hole of Roman construction was found; six feet deep. [today, 2011 this well, now tiled in] remains full of water in the basement.]

CN 09.07.1949 p5 Deepest well in the country 870 feet - Lakeland Laundry

CN 08.11.1963 p12

CN 27.10.1989 p4 Ancient well gets a clean up

CN 03.12.1999 p15 From church (St James) to plague

CN 08.02.2008 p34 History of wells in city; D.Perriam

 

WELLS, Miss Lonsdale Street

Dress and mantle maker

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

1882 Porters Directory Ad p144 M.Wells 23 Lonsdale St

 

WELLSPRING VICTORY CHURCH Began July 1992; bought an old warehouse in Tyne St for centre

 

WELL WELL WELL Mineral water

Mineral water

CN 01.02.2002 p16 Bottled firm opens distribution centre at Kingmoor Park

 

WELSH, John Tailor of this city 12.06.1844; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard

 

WELSH HOUSE, Harraby Old peoples home

CN 19.08.1966 p11 (illus)

 

WELSH ROAD, Harraby First appears on the 1938-39 Electoral Register. Elizabeth Welsh was a local councillor

 

WELSH’S SQUARE; Finkle Street

See also Welch’s Square

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 24-30 Finkle Street

 

WENDY HOUSE NURSERY Blackwell Road

CN 20.11.1998 p16 Opening

CN 27.11.1998 p13 Wendy is our darling

 

WERRIEHOLME

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]

 

WESLEYAN METHODISTS see METHODISM/ METHODISTS

 

WESLEY OWEN

CN 05.02.2010 p7 Christian bookshop on Fisher Street closes

 

WEST CUMBERLAND FARMERS

See also WCF

CN 05.05.1967 p9 (illus) CN 02.04.1976 p15 (illus)

CN 16.04.1987 p19 Annual report

CN 07.10.1988 p19 WCF profits get 9% boost

CN 18.01.1991 p9 WCF sells off gas division

CN 25.01.1991 p7 Depot closure ‘secrecy’ row

 

WEST END BOWLING CLUB

D.Perriam Denton Holme p97 The official launch of the West End Club was held on 04.12.1889 in the schoolroom next to St James Church. Agreement had been reached with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to lease a field next to Goschen Road for the green. The Carlisle Journal of 03.06.1890 reported on the opening of the green on Friday. The turf was obtained from Maryport and the first President was Nathan Palmer. The place with the pavilion cost £350, and the capital had been raised in £1 shares. the membership was limited to 80. In 1990 a centenary history of the West End Club was published

 

WEST END DAIRY John Street

Ice cream

CD 1952 Ad p88

 

WEST END DYERS AND CLEANERS Silloth Street, Warwick Road

CD 1952 Ad p290

 

WEST END TEMPERANCE HALL Church Street/ Wigton Road

Foundation stone laid 11.02.1861

The Chartists had a small room at 6 John Street. Here papers and pamphlets were available for their members. By 1847 the organisation had run its course and was about to be discontinued. In October of that year a meeting was held to consider using the room as a working men’s reading room. This suggestion was adopted and a committee formed and rules adopted which stated that the organisation would be non- political and non-religious. It was also decreed that no man could hold office unless he was in receipt of a weekly wage for his support. The subscription was to be one penny a week. Membership quickly reached 150. The society flourished then interest waned. The committee sought the help of Dr Elliott and others. Their advice and assistance was accepted without relinquishing their independence. As the numbers increased their room became inadequate. In the summer of 1860 a committee was appointed to look into the cost of building larger premises. An area of land opposite his factory was donated by J.D.Carr. Plans were adopted and the building was up by the next autumn. Two committees had been formed, a reading room and a temperance committee, and the building was designed to serve both ends. The ground floor was arranged to give a temperance hall, a caretaker’s cottage and a small room to be used as a soup kitchen adjoining. Upstairs was the lecture room, reading room and library well stocked with a variety of book on various topics

[Topper Off Sept 1936 p790-91 with engraving of the Temperance/ Reading Room]

CN 17.11.1961 p12 (illus)

CN 19.01.2001 p9 When ‘Down with drink became the battle cry’

 

WEST END TEMPERANCE SOCIETY Formed 26.05.1860

 

WESTERN COURT, 2 West Walls [1880 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory lists before 2 West Walls

 

WESTERN SMT Closed their Lonsdale Street depot/ station which they had shared with the Caledonian and used Lowther Street Bus Station from 1968; closed their Carlisle depot in 1981

 

WESTMINSTER BANK Devonshire Street

CD 1931 Ad p10

 

WESTMORLAND COURT On electoral register from 2002-03

 

WESTMORLAND STREET

CAIH p35 Denton Holme Millrace

Perriam Denton Holme p36 Denton Holme estate. On the formation of the Cumberland Cooperative Benefit Society in 1851 a resolution was passed to ‘support the industrial classes of Carlisle’. The object was to ‘purchase land...and apportion it to allotments suitable for building...at the price it cost the society’. This could be done by members paying as little as 6d per week for a plot which would cost £25. Land was purchased by the society from Joseph Rome in 1852 and ‘the ground was assigned by ballot to 71 members.....and by the end of 1854 a considerable number of houses had been erected in Westmorland, Cumberland and Dale Street as part of the project’

CJ 21.11.1879 p5 Westmorland St laid out in 1877

 

WEST OF SCOTLAND UPVC WINDOWS

CN 25.08.1989 p10 Ad

 

WESTRAY, Robert, Decorators of 64 Lowther Street [The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87]

 

WESTRIGG ROAD CHILDREN’S HOME; Morton

CN 17.09.2004 p5 Report on home closed for restructuring

 

WEST TOWER STREET So named in reference to the towers upon the city walls

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map. No houses marked on street

Carlisle Examiner 13.12.1859 p3c Temporary Church - Church of England

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p74 1970 and 1979 photos of street

CN 12.11.1993 p8 Quality Street from Market to Carlisle

 

WEST TOWER STREET SPIRIT VAULTS In local directories from 1861 to 1913/14

 

WEST TOWER STREET TOWER TAVERN

City Minutes 1918-19 p92 Withdrawal of licence

 

WEST VIEW Northumberland Road

Boarding and day school

CD 1893-94 Ad p14

CP 07.02.1896 p8a West View, Northumberland Rd, boarding and state schools for ladies; conducted by Misses Thorpe

CD 1902-03 Ad p5

 

WEST WALLS

See also Sally Port; Town Dyke Orchard; Walls

A number of buildings were constructed against the West Walls and these were demolished in 1988. The walls then needed partial rebuilding. The foundation stones from each of the demolished buildings was incorporated into the wall, namely, 'John Dixon, Mayor, 1840', the date for the West Walls police station, ‘Thomas Milburn, Mayor, 1879' , the date for the police station extension, 'The Fawcett Schools, 1850' , [in Roman numerals] and a stone recording this restoration 'Cyril Webber, Mayor, 1988'; This last stone being unveiled on 21.04.1989. A further plaque is placed beside the West Walls Sallyport gate, which was revealed after the area was landscaped and cleared in 1973. More of the West Walls has been revealed following the demolition in December 2019 of the Central Hotel

CAIH p10 City Walls

CWAAS 1976, lxxvi pp 77-79, 184 - 198

CN 26.06.1970 p14 (illus) CN 14.06.1974 p6 CN 12.04.1985 p4

CP 26.04.1823 Part of wall by former Irish Gate demolished to make way for house

CJ 22.10.1825 p1 Joseph Marston has commenced in part of Robert Hewson’s warehouse behind the West Walls, wholesale warehouse draper

CJ 24.01.1851 letter complaining against church to be built below West Walls

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

CJ 31.12.1852 p3 Mr Armstrong’s whippery, West Walls, damaged by gales

1876 Victoria Viaduct constructed destroying more of West Walls

CJ 15.03.1878 p8 Armstrong and Hargreaves; partnership dissolved by mutual consent. Woollen manufacturer, 31 West Walls

CJ 25.05.1883 p1 Nos 15, 17, 17a, 19, 21 and 23 West Walls. Containing five dwelling houses and other large premises ‘the whole of this property in which a large whip and girth-web manufacturers was for many years carried on’

CJ 19.07.1887 p2 For sale, but no successful bid. Lots included three-storey building recently used as a whippery manufactory by Messrs Insole and Grimby

19.08.1887 Tenders required for converting the old whip manufactory, West Walls, into six dwelling houses

CJ 18.10.1889 p1 43 West Walls for sale; four storey warehouse, 33 feet frontage

CJ 26.09.1916 p5 41 West Walls bought by TP Bell’s for £360

Sanitary Condition of Carlisle 1926 p71 8 houses demolished for Caldew Bridge

Carlisle in Camera 1 p44 photo of buildings at West end of St, demolished 1924-26

CJ 18.03.1960 p8 This is the story of West Walls

CJ 28.06.1968 pp16-17 dilapidated state of West Walls

1973 area immediately below West Walls landscaped

CN 23.03.1990 p4 Dean who saved West Walls

CN 19.11.1999 p12 The Walls come tumbling down

CN 26.05.2000 p8 Dean who couldn’t stand the din

CN 30.11.2001 p10 Stonemasons preserve Cathedral wall bordering West Walls

CN 09.12.2005 p7 Scaffolding for 47-51 will have to come down after 18 months

CN 11.02.2011 p30 History of vaulted chambers on West Walls under what is today the Green Room Theatre. Vaulted chamber marked on the large scale OS map. A medieval structure connected to the Blackfriars Monastery. See Lysons 1819 for engraved plan

NUMBER 53

CN 20.04.2007 p p76 53 West Walls for sale

 

WEST WALLS BREWERY

see also Peattie, Andrew

CJ 08.05.1847 p2c West Walls Brewery for sale; long established

CP 02.10.1874 p1 For sale, now in occupation of Mr William Murray as tenant

CJ 26.02.1875 p5c West Walls Brewery bought by Christopher Ling

CP 10.12.1882 p1a Ad; for sale

 

WEST WALLS VICARAGE FOR SAINT CUTHBERTS

CN 31.12.2009 p11 Rev Keith Teasdale takes over from Rev Pratt. New Vicarage on Saint Aidans Road. Old Vicarage was sold

 

WETLANDS

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]

 

WHAITE, T.G. Photographer; opened photographic studio at 43 Bank St in June 1887; 1895 studio taken over by Drinkwater Butt [CN 27.05.2005 p7]

August 1891 an advert in the paper announced that Drinkwater Butt had taken over the photographic business of T.G.Waite. [CN June 12th 2009 p32]

D Perriam Stanwix p93 TG Whaite 1834 - 1895, born Manchester had a studio on Bank Street but lived in Etterby Street from where he emigrated to the USA

 

WHALE Displayed in Carlisle in 1839

CN 20.08.1971 p14

 

WHARTON, J.J. Mary Street

Whitesmiths

CD 1880 Ad pxl

CD 1884-85 Ad p279

 

WHARTON, John Surgeon and bonesetter of Rickergate

CJ 15.04.1826 p1b Ad

 

WHARTON, Joseph

City Minutes 1925-6 p159 Licensed to operate bus service to Dalston

 

WHARTON, Stan Kingstown

Garage

CN 26.06.1981 p24 (illus) New garage

 

WHARTONS COURT

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 29-31 Brook Street

1955-56 Carlisle Directory 1 property listed between 29-31 Brook St

 

WHEATLEY, James A English Street

Jewellers; Founded in 1828 by Thomas Wheatley, father of James A Wheatler who took over the firm in 1860. Centrally situated the handsome clock that surmounted the building was regulated daily by current from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Double fronted house, there was a second show room upstairs, this was approached by a fine staircase six feet wide and lit by two stained glass windows [this description is from Carlisle, illustrated. 1892, pp33- 35]. In 2009 the stained glass window [perhaps a transfer on the glass?] was still there, observable from the lane behind the Friars Tavern on Devonshire Street. Below the window is a door guarded by an outer iron barred gate, wrought into the iron work are the letters JW. In 2009 Wheatley’s is still a jewellers. From the inside the stained glass window has the following words made into the design ‘Paris Exhibition 1867, Honourable Mention’. In the centre of the design are the letter JW interwoven, separating the letters C and P on either side. One stained glass is apparently still boarded up. Today [2023] Newcastle Building Society have taken these premises. The building retains many original features

see also Time Ball

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 Engraving of shop front, 65 English Street

1861 Cumberland Directory Ad-first page of ads; late Thomas Wheatley C177 [see also below]

CD 1902-03 Ad pp79,81

CWAAS NS Vol 4 p360 J.A.Wheatley, died 28.04.1903, son of Thomas Wheatley

CD 1905-06 Ad p74

CD 1907-08 Ad p75

CD 1910-11 Ad p82

CN 09.06.1923 Obit of J.P.D.Wheatley. He carried the business on until about two years ago when he disposed of it to Messrs Grant and Son

 

WHEATLEY, Thomas Castle St; 31 English Street

Jewellers; established business in 1828 and it was his son Mr J. A. Wheatley [see above] who took over the business in 1860

M442 pp3, 14, 49 Business card for Thomas Wheatley silver and goldsmith

1834 Pigot’s Directory Thomas Wheatley, 34 Castle Street, jewellers

CP 02.07.1842 p1a Old established house opposite the Bush

 

WHEATSHEAF Rickergate

CJ 22.11.1845 At St Mary’s Church on the 17th inst, Mr John Beck, innkeeper, Rickergate, to Mrs Mary Graham, Etterby Street

CJ 22.11.1845 Announcement that John Beck is moving to the Three Crowns

1847 Directory William Bell, victualler, 24 Rickergate

1891 census; Agnes Mitchinson, aged 49, innkeeper, born Castle Carrock

CP 15.07.1898 For sale; vendor Misses Matthews of Thackmire

CN 02.12.1911 Ad For sale

CN 03.02.1912 Ad; For sale

ENS 02.11.1916 Closed October 1916

See references to John and Mary Beck in John Bainbridge Knockupworth; story of a family, 2019

 

WHEATSHEAF LANE, Rickergate. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

WHEELER Corner North Street and Denton Street. Grocers

D.Perriam Denton Holme Photo p94

 

WHINNEY HOUSE

1918 Electoral Register Hephzibah, James, William Herbert and William Campbell

23.10.1925 James Carruthers died here [MI 206/63]

 

WHINNEY HOUSE ROAD On electoral register from 1973

 

WHIP AND THONG MAKERS

1772; T.Pennant; a tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides ‘It is noted for a great manufacturer of whips, which employs numbers of children’

CJ 31.12.1852 p3 Mr Armstrong’s whippery, West Walls, damaged by gales

CJ 25.05.1883 p1 15, 17, 17a, 19, 21 and 23 West Walls. Containing five dwelling houses and other large premises ‘the whole of this property in which a large whip and girth-web manufacturers was for many years carried on’

CJ 19.07.1887 p2 For sale, but no successful bid. Lots included three-storey building recently used as a whippery manufactory by Messrs Insole and Grimby

CN 07.05.1971 p16

 

WHIPPERY LANE, 35 Rickergate [1880 Directory]

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

WHITAKER and BLAIR LTD Denton Street

Radio and television engineers

CD 1961-62 Ad p37,303

CD 1961-62 Ad p294

CD 1966-68 Ad p30

 

WHITE, George Botchergate

Grocer

CD 1880 Ad pxxv

 

WHITE BROTHERS Lancaster Street, Waterloo Foundry

Ironfounders

CD 1952 Ad p323

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p252

CD 1955-56 Ad p255

 

WHITE COW Blackfriars Street; in local directories to 1834; same inn as White Ox

 

WHITE COW INN Corporation Rd. Mary Kelly, beer house keeper, aged 66 born Ireland [1861 census]

 

WHITE COW, Cobden St Rachel Dawson, 57, innkeeper, born Dalston [1861 census]

 

WHITE DOG INN, Edentown in 1871

 

WHITE ELEPHANT SHOP Lowther St; St Cuthbert’s Lane; London Road

CN 07.11.2003 p4 Cumbria Surplus to close Nov 29th; history

 

WHITEHALL

D Perriam and D.Ramshaw Carlisle First Learning Centre; Tullie House, 2016, pp9-12 Whitehall existed on the site of the present Tullie House and can be traced back to the late 13th century. Thomas Tullie rebuilt the house, which we know today as Tullie House

 

WHITE HART HOTEL East side of English Street, just south of Bank Street; demolished 1874

Carlisle an illustrated history p64 Engraving of the hotel

1829 Directory p164 Launcelot Brown

1841 census; Isabella Nicholson, innkeeper, aged 35

1851 Wards North of England Directory; ad

1851 census Innkeeper Isabella Nicholson, aged 49, born Kirklinton

1858 Kelly’s Mrs Isabella Nicolson, 18 English Street

1861 census Innkeeper Isabella Nicholson, 58, born Kirklinton

CP 30.04.1864 p1 Ad; To let Mrs Nicholson’s old established hotel; 20 bedrooms

CJ 01.09.1874 Demolition of the building makes great progress

CN 19.12.1969 p12 (illus) CN 19.03.1971 p14

CN 01.06.1956 p10 (illus) About 1850

CN 21.06.1991 p4 (illus) Pubs of yesteryear

 

WHITE HART LANE, Between English Street and Lowther Street [debouching opposite Lonsdale Street]

So named in the 1829 Directory. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map and on the OS large scale maps of 1863 but the 1899 OS map shows the area built over. The 1850 Board of Health map appears to call this White Lion Lane

1847 Directory

 

WHITEHEADS Botchergate

Bicycles

CN 21.04.1989 p8

 

WHITE HORSE INN English Street/ White Horse Lane/ Blackfriars Street; in local directories to 1884 Rebuilt by JW Watt in 1891 and renamed the Bush Vaults. All closed under the Central Control Board in 1916

1861 census Hugh McGrath, innkeeper, aged 43, born Ireland; Blackfriars St

Feb. 1891 Rebuilding of White Horse [CWAAS OS Vol 12 p57]

ENS 02.11.1916 Closed October 1916

 

WHITE HORSE LANE, English Street [1829 Directory]

1847 Directory

The White Horse Inn was on the Blackfriars side perhaps giving the lane its name.

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1880 Directory 90 English Street to Blackfriars Street

 

WHITEHOUSE PUB Formerly the Crescent- Warwick Road

CN 29.11.1996 p14 (illus) Dray horses reopen historic city pub

CN 24.09.1999 p1 New plan for nightclub

CN 12.08.2005 p6 Gay friendly pub hopes to reopen next month

 

‘WHITE LADY’ OF CARLISLE CASTLE

CN 19.08.1944 p5

 

WHITELEY, William English Street; opened 22.11.1963

Furniture store

CN 22.11.1963 Special supplement

 

WHITE LION English Street moving to Lowther Street in 1849 to make way for new bank; in local directories to 1873

CJ 03.08.1805 p1 For sale at house of T.Graves, sign of White Lion,

CP 04.02.1809 p2 Death of Thomas son of Mr Hayton Innkeeper

1829 Directory White Lion, English Street, James Reed

1841 census; White Lion Inn, English Street, Jane Reed, innkeper, aged 45

1847 Directory White Lion, 16 English St, Jane Reed

1858 Directory Mrs Jane Reed, White Lion, 35 Lowther Street

CJ 01.12.1868 p4e Died at the White Lion Inn, Lowther St Mrs Jane Reed, aged 76

1873 directory 68 Lowther St Mrs Eleanor Hetherington

 

WHITE LION LANE, English Street [1829 Directory] Between English Street and Lowther Street [debouching opposite Lonsdale Street]

1847 Directory and marked on the 1850 Board of Health map. This appears to be also named at times White Hart Lane. The 1899 OS map shows the area built over.

 

WHITE OX Blackfriars St; in local directories for 1837 to 1844; same inn as the White Cow

 

WHITE OX, Durdar

1884 Bulmer Directory Low Blackwell, Richard Moore, victualler White Ox

CN 19.05.2010 p 17 Bought by Franco Bertoletti for £170,000. Closed 12/2008; now planned to convert into a house

 

WHITE OX English Street; in local directories to 1837

CP 31.03.1821 p3d William Morley fined for allowing gambling

 

WHITE OX INN Blackwell; demolished April 1904.

CP 29.04.1904 p5a It was no doubt quite an undesigned coincidence that the publication of the centenary edition of the works of Robert Anderson, the Cumberland Bard, and the demolition of the house of Johnny Dawston at Blackwell which had been famous because it was the scene of Bleckell Murry-Night should have occurred in the same week. Yet so it was. Last week when the earliest copies of the Centenary edition were being issued from the press the workmen were busy demolishing the White Ox public house, which had been the property of the Old Brewery Company, who intend erecting an up to date inn upon the site. There has, we believe, never been any doubt that the White Ox was the scene of the rustic revelry so graphically described by Anderson. Our readers who are acquainted with the poem will remember the four lines towards the close of the Murry-Neet

The last o’December, lang may we remember

At five o’ the mworn, eighteen hundred and twee

Here’s heath and success to the bave Johnny Dawston

An’ monie see meetings may we leeve to see

That Johnny Dawston was the landlord of the house is established by an obituary which appeared in the columns of the Patriot just sixty years ago, or to be quite exact on the 16th March 1844

At Blackwell, near this city, on the 3rd inst, Mrs Nancy Dalston, at the advanced age of 81 years, widow of the ‘braw Johnny Dawston mentioned in Anderson’s well-known ballad of Blekel Murry-Night. She had been landlady of the village inn near sixty years, and was much respected.

If Nancy Dalston was the landlady for about sixty years, she must have been in the house before the French Revolution broke out in 1789, so that the White Ox, which has now been levelled with the ground, must have been a licensed house for something like one hundred and twenty years and possibly a good deal longer. Before the premises were demolished a photograph was taken on behalf of the Old Brewery Company, and it is probable that those who care for a picture of Johnny Dawston’s house may be able to obtain one.

For a photo of the old pub see Selections from the Cumberland Ballads of Robert Anderson, edited by Geo Crowther, 1904, p38

CN 22.08.1969 p12 (illus)

CN 14.02.1992 p4 (illus)

 

WHITE OX INN Parham Beck

CJ 30.04.1858 Ad; old established inn for sale

 

WHITE OX INN St Nicholas/ corner of Woodruffe Terrace; in local directories from 1880 to 1920

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 pp66-7

Mural done by Kate Norris to brighten up the corner; her mural recalling the history of the building which had long ceased to be a pub

CJ 16.02.1877 Sale of the White Ox

CP 02.03.1877 p4d Sale of White Ox

CP 05.10.1894 Licensed house for sale

 

WHITE’S COURT, 13 Lord Street [1880 Directory]

 

WHITE’S COURT, South Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 14 South Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 12-14 South Street

 

WHITE STAR INN see Star Inn

 

WHITE STAR MOTORS LTD

City Minutes 1927-28 p628 Licensed to operate bus service to Raffles

City Minutes 1929 - 30 p 665 Licensed bus services to Raffles, Bowness

CN 01.06.2012 p36 Star on side of buses. Firm founded by James Barron Harrison on 01.11.1927. Ribble acquired the company on 01.11.1931. Photo of bus.

 

WHITE’S TYPING SERVICE Crescent

CD 1966-68 Ad p263

 

WHITE SWAN INN English Street; demolished in 1883

1829 Directory p164 William Henderson

1858 Kelly J.Thomlinson, 55 English Street, White Swan

1861 census James Taylor, aged 57, born Castle Sowerby

Carlisle a photographic recollection, J.Templeton; p49 1877 view; H.Simmons

CN 29.05.1959 p14 (illus) About 1877

CN 08.02.1991 p4 Pub that had city’s last mounting stone

 

WHITE WEY Cobden Street/ Newtown; in local directories from 1852 to 1858

1858 Kelly’s W.Gilbertson Newtown, White Whey

 

WHITFIELD, J and SON Lorne Street

Chain, hame and caulker manufacturer

CD 1880 Ad pxxx

 

WHITFIELD AND HOWE Lorne Street

Clog makers, hand chain makers

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered pp116-117

D Perriam Denton Holme p62 Established by Joshua Whitfield in 1829 the firm was first in Carlisle Square before moving to Mary Street. Joshua’s son, John, submitted plans in September 1872 for a house and workshop on the newly laid out Lorne Street, to be known as the Lorne Works, for the purpose of manufacturing chains and caulkers. By 1895 it was William Whitfield and Sons and in 1899 the partnership was formed of Whitfield and Howe, Howe having been a coach builder. The firm continued coach building on Lowther Street. Sold to Mr Fidler and in turn Mr James Harrison took it over. The firm closed down shortly after 1958, the buildings being demolished and an extension for Pratchitts built.

CJ 24.09.1909 p5 New ambulance van completed for city by Messrs Whitfield and Howe

CJ 28.05.1954 p1 (illus) CN 21.05.1971 p12

CN 25.01.1947 p5 An old local industry; handmade chainmaking still carried put, they also produce hames for horses

 

WHITLOW, William English Street

Hotelier

CD 1884-85 Ad p271

 

WHITRIDGE, I.F. 34 Scotch Street Whitridge succeeded Jefferson and Messrs Cowards succeeded Whitridge in 1857

Circulating Library which is in directories from 1844; they issued catalogue in 1845 (M629)

CP 02.07.1842 p1b Taking over bookselling business of S.Jefferson, his cousin.

1851 Ward’s Northern Directory p18 of ads

1851 census Isaac F Whitridge, 33, employing 7 men, bookseller/printer, bn Carlisle

 

WIGHTMANS COURT, Solway Terrace [1934 Directory]

 

WIGTON ROAD

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

Carlisle in Camera 2 p26 View of Wigton Rd about 1910

City Minutes 1918-19 p157-8 Purchase of fields on north-west side for housing

City Minutes 1924-25 pp113-115 Report on progress of Wigton Rd housing estate

City Minutes 1925-26 pp62-3,121,180-1, 323, 457, 541 Progress of estate

CN 18.04.1969 p15 Footbridge

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p33 erection of footbridge over road in 1969

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p60 Wigton Rd Railway bridge photo

CN 14.10.1994 p18 Down your way

CN 20.11.1998 p19 Aerial view

CN 14.07.2000 p2 Cycle and pedestrian crossing, Queensway; footbridge to go

CN 10.08.2001 p5 32 year old footbridge removed (10/11th Aug.) outside Morton school

no 21, the Lilacs; Manse for Caldewgate Methodist Chapel. Rev Bramwell Evens lived here from 1917-1919

 

WILD BOAR Caldew Brow; in local directory for 1829

 

WILD, LOWTHIAN AND FERGUSON 33 Scotch Street

CP 18.08.1855 p1 Ad; employed a new cutter from London

 

WILD VELVET CLUB Atlas Works, Denton Holme

CN 25.07.2003 p3 Call for closure of sex club

CN 21.11.2003 p5 Club set to officially reopen

 

WILFRED STREET; Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map. No buildings on either side of street

 

WILKIN’S COURT; Caldewgate On the census from 1841 and last noted on the electoral registers in 1952; a John Wilkin is noted as a wine and spirit merchant at the adjacent 32 John St in the 1847 Directory

 

WILKIN’S COURT, John Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 15 John Street

 

WILKINSON, C. Scaleby Castle, a poem. Carlisle, printed by C.Wilkinson, west side of the Market Place, 1808 [J 156]

 

WILKINSON, Florence Dance and ballet teacher

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p108 1972 photo of class

 

WILKINSON, J Photographer

Family portrait of circa 1900 bears the address 48 [may be 43] Bank Street

 

WILKINSON, Rev Thomas

Newcastle Courant 18.12.1830 Rev Wilkinson, Stanwix, receives young men to be educated in Greek and Latin

 

WILKINSON, Thomas 74 London Road

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p37 Photo of butcher’s shop in 1920s

 

WILKINSON, W.R. Fisher Street

Plumber

CD 1952 Ad p356

CD 1955-56 Ad p277

CD 1961-62 Ad p49

CD 1966-68 Ad p293

 

WILKINSON, W.R. Fisher Street

Paint and wallpaper shop

CD 1966-68 Ad p289

 

WILKINSON’S Kingstown Road

Grocers

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p6

 

WILKINSON’S COURT, 23 Brook Street [1880 Directory]

 

WILLIAM AND GLYN’S BANK 37 Lowther Street. Was William Deacon’s Bank and became Royal Bank of Scotland. Photo D Perriam Lowther Street p30

 

WILLIAM DEACON’S BANK. Planning permission granted to convert 37 Lowther Street to bank in 1955. This became William and Glyn’s Bank and eventually the Royal Bank of Scotland

 

WILLIAM JAMES INN Willow Holme/ Bridge Street; in local directories from 1847 to 1910-11; also known as the ‘Billy James’; named after radical MP William James who was returned for Carlisle in 1820

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916, 2004 p 41

So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19

CJ 09.06.1896 p3 Origin of the name

1901 census; John Harkness, publican, aged 40, born Scotland

 

WILLIAM RUFUS 10-16 Botchergate

CN 22.10.2004 p3 Pub to open on Sunday

 

WILLIAMS, John Paternoster Row

Horticultural engineers

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

1882 Porters Directory Ad p96 E,G.Brash successor to John Williams

 

WILLIAMS AND AIREY

CN 01.02.2008 p20 Solicitors set up business in city

 

WILLIAMSON, Thomas Port Road Thomas Williamson, aged 50, tanner, died 15.10.1904 [MI 125/29]

Carlisle in Camera 2 p27 View of entrance to Williamson’s Tannery

1901 census; Thomas Williamson, home Inglewood, Dalston Rd, 46, bn Harrington

CN 08.10.2004 p6 (illus) Occupied by Williamson from circa 1880 - 1930

 

WILLIAM STREET, 105 Botchergate [1880 Directory]. East side of the street

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1924 Carlisle Directory Between 105-107 Botchergate listing houses 4-36. The following Courts come off the street; Alpha Ct, Beta Ct, Gamma Ct, Delta Ct, Pattinson’s Ct, Eta Ct, Zeta Ct, Huntington Ct.

 

WILLIS, A.L. New Market

Butcher and grocer

CD 1952 Ad p275

 

WILLOUGHBY, James Gas fitter, plumber, brazier

1858 Carlisle Directory Ad at back Late of Carlisle Gas Works, 41 Castle st

 

WILLOWHOLME So named Holweri in 1201; ‘Werri’s holme’; Werri is a continental personal name

CN 21.05.1976 p6 CN 11.06.1976 p6

ENS 15.11.1978 p3 (illus) Muddle go round for city motorists

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p168 photo of 1982 flood

CN 17.06.1994 p10 Memories of magic lantern days in Willowholme Mission

CN 20.08.1999 p4 Sorry for Willowholme whiff

CN 17.09.1999 p11 £1.5m improvements

CN 30.06.2000 p9 Willow Holme Mill - Donalds

 

WILLOW HOLME

City Minutes 1933-34 p596 11,13, and 17 Compulsory purchase

 

WILLOWHOLME GARDENS On electoral register from 1936

CN 25.02.2005 p3 Residents claim they have been abandoned after floods

CN 10.03.2006 p1 Willow Holme Gardens to be demolished after flood

CN 01.09.2006 p3 Demolition begins on Willowholme Gardens

 

WILLOWHOLME INDUSTRIAL ESTATE Opened 1960

CN 27.08.1976 p4

CN 08.10.1971 p18 (illus) Feature

CN 11.10.1974 p40 City ignores threat of pollution

CN 22.11.1974 p1 Pollution could soar

CN 06.04.1990 p1 In pipeline; Willowholme Treatment Works

CN 20.10.2000 p6 Ex BT depot to be converted in luxury flats

CN 21.01.2005 p 12,13 Feature on estate devastated by flood

CN 09.09.2005 p15 Mixed reaction to Willowholme relocation talks

 

WILLOWHOLME MISSION Founded 1885

In Chapel Street and recently closed. Mr E.Hutchinson gave many years of useful service in the cause of temperance, adult school and mission work for the people in the area [Topper Off Nov 1937 p135]

CN 17.06.1994 p10 Memories of magic lantern days in Willowholme Mission

 

WILLOW PARK Banks Lane, off Warwick Rd

CN 28.08.1987 p10 Ad feature

 

WILLSON, Walter

175 Years of Carlisle p41 photo of grocer’s shop in Botchergate

 

WILSON, Alixander Linen draper Bailey’s Northern Directory 1781

 

WILSON, Daniel Joiner, died 17.12.1823; Monumental Inscriptions St Cuthbert’s Yard

 

WILSON, George Fusehill St and Carlisle Market; Greystone Road; Browns Lane

Hosiers

CD 1931 Ad p302

CD 1934 Ad p56

CD 1937 Ad p48

CD 1940 Ad p56

CD 1952 Ad p286

 

WILSON, Hannah Butcher, aged 52, employing her 3 sons, home address 52 Lowther St, born Carlisle [1851 census]

 

WILSON, John Scotch Street

Watchmaker and jeweller

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p2; 15 Scotch Str

CD 1880 Ad pli new premises 43 Scotch Street

 

WILSON, Jonathan Ran a gentlemen’s school at Coledale Hall in the 1829 period; W.Farish Handloom Weaver p17; Parson and White p159

 

WILSON, Malcolm Saab dealer

CN 21.06.1991 p18

 

WILSON, Robert Browns Lane; Market, Fusehill Street

Hosier and draper

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p234

CD 1955-56 Ad p236

 

WILSON, S South Henry Street

Watchmaker and jeweller

CD 1961-62 Ad pp 99, 303

CD 1966-68 Ad p305

 

WILSON, W and Son English St

Tea and coffee dealers

Carlisle in Camera 1 p19 34 English St; photo of facade

Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1901 Ad; Established 1836

 

WILSON, William Grocer, aged 36, employing 3 hands, home address Spencer St, born Carlisle [1851 census]; grocer and tea dealer, aged 46, employing 3 shopmen and 1 porter, born Great Orton, home address 10 Spencer St [1861 census]; Market Place then English Street when took his son into partnership

1891 census; William Wilson, aged 76, grocer and wine merchant, born Great Orton, home 19 Spencer St

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 W.Wilson and Son, 34 English Street

CJ 29.05.1894 Obit of William Wilson, grocer, at Spencer St, aged 80

North Cumberland Reformer 02.06.1894 p2 His son inaugurated a new system of trading in the city... to the displeasure of other tradesmen

 

WILSON, William Baker, aged 41, employing 2 men, home address Scotch Street, born Scotland [1851 census]

 

WILSON, William West Walls [ where Marks and Spencer’s Food Hall is today, 2007]. Mr Wilson, Born Dalston 01.02.1857 and died 1933, had the largest shoeing and stabling premises in city and had the contract for the railway horses which he both shod and attended in a veterinary capacity. He was a familiar figure travelling around Carlisle in his gig drawn by Mountain Maid. Mr Wilson was always immaculate in his tailored suit, with always the same buttons. They were made of bone and in the shape of a horseshoe- all his suits had these buttons; he moved to English Damside in the final years of the business when, with the growth of motoring, he required smaller premises. His home was 37 Aglionby St

General smiths;

CD 1902-03 Ad p230

CD 1905-06 Ad p11

CD 1907-08 Ad p13

CD 1910-11 Ad p12

CD 1913-14 Ad p9

CD 1920 Ad p58

CD 1924 Ad p72

CD 1927 Ad p76

CD 1931 Ad p96

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p48 photo of staff and owner at West Walls

 

WILSON AND FAULDER Denton Street; Dalston Road; Beaumont St

Plumbers

CD 1924 Ad p104

CD 1927 Ad p114

CD 1931 Ad p244

CD 1934 Ad p312

CD 1937 Ad p146

CD 1940 Ad p92

CD 1952 Ad p356

CD 1955-56 Ad p276

CD 1961-62 Ad p44

CD 1966-68 Ad p30

 

WILSON BROTHERS Colliers Lane; English Damside

Electrical and mechanical engineers

CD 1931 Ad p221

CD 1934 Ad p64

CD 1937 Ad p56

 

WILSONS COURT, West side of Castle Street between the Cathedral and Crown and Mitre. So called on Asquith’s 1853 survey

1847 Directory

1880 Directory 64 Castle Street

 

WILSON’S COURT, Caldewgate

Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

WILSON’S COURT, 92 London Road [1880 Directory]

 

WILSON’S SCHOOL West Walls

CP 16.12.1870 60 attending, John H.Wilson master

 

WILSON STREET

City Minutes 1900-01 p 246 Approval for 12 houses

 

WILTON, Alan

CN 25.05.1990 p8 Ad

 

WINDER, Miss 27 Portland Place

1882 Porters Directory Ad p148 Dress and mantle maker

 

WINDERMERE ROAD In voters list from 1936

Kathleen Ferrier sister’s Winifred moved to Carlisle with their father and eventually they moved to 23 Windermere Street where they all lived for two years, Kathleen’s, husband being in the forces.

ENS 16.06.1960 p9 (illus) Sheer neglect

 

WINDMILL

1608 windmill mentioned in Upperby.

 

WINDOWSEAL Finkle Street

CN 12.06.1987 p6 Ad feature

CN 04.03.1988 p7 Little hope of cash

 

WINDOW SHOP St Nicholas

CN 17.05.1996 p6 Ad

 

WINDOW WORLD Lancaster Street; Durranhill

CN 26.02.1987 p8 Ad feature

CN 06.03.1987 p23 Ad feature

CN 29.01.1993 p5 City firm bucks jobs trend

CN 14.01.1994 p8 Ad

CN 07.06.1996 Supplement

CN 01.04.2005 p14 part of World group (WG); moved Durranhill July 2004

CN 02.06.2006 p14 £1.5m contract; employs 45 people; also trades as Window World

 

WINDSOR CAFE, 58 Lowther Street. In the 1955-56 and 1961 Carlisle Directories

 

WINE PRESS Cecil Street

CN 25.04.2003 p32 Set up in 1998 by Glenn Mitton

 

WINTER, H.E. Lonsdale Street

Auctioneers

CD 1893-94 Ad p152

CD 1902-03 Ad p1

CD 1905-06 Ad p3

CD 1934 Ad inside cover

CD 1937 Ad front page i

CD 1952 inside front cover i

CD 1966-68 Ad p253

CN 07.09.1973 p4 Winter’s sale room closing

 

WINTER, R Fish curer, Willow Holme

CJ 04.12.1885 p8 Oldest established fish curer

CJ 25.11.1887 p8a Fish curer

CJ 17.08.1894 p1 For sale, used by Mr Winter

CJ 02.11.1894 p1 Extensive frontage to Willow Holme at the Dam Race. Robert Winter uses at present as fish curing

 

WIRELESS

CN 29.10.1949 p5 Illustration of first installed in Carlisle

 

WISDOM RECIPE

CN 20.09.1947 p5

 

WISE, Mary

CJ 08.05.1847 p1b To commence business as dressmaker, 8 Lowther Street

 

WM PLANT Rosehill

CN 07.05.2004 p20 Ad feature; celebrating 30 years of business

 

WOMAN OF THE YEAR

CN 20.08.1993 p3 Seeking a special woman

 

WOMBWELL’S MENAGERIE

CN 05.07.1974 p6

CN 01.07.1960 p10 Visit in 1836

CN 27.04.2001 p6 Wombwell’s Mengerie April 1836 visit to city

 

WOMEN

See also; Border City Swimming club [Doreen Hutton) Sex Discrimination, Cosmetics

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered, p58 First woman driver in Carlisle E.Crowther

D,Perriam Carlisle Remembered, pp123-124 First woman magistrate

War began on 26th March 1296 when the Scots made a sudden attach on Carlisle. Taken completely by surprise, which turned to confusion when a Scottish spy escaped from prison and started a fire which threatened the whole city, the burgesses owed their deliverance principally to the courage of the women folk, who kept the Scots at bay with stones and boiling water whilst the men put out the flames
Carlisle Castle page 133

Cumberland Pacquet 05.08.1777. A few days ago a young woman, dressed in man’s clothes, bound herself for three years to a master of a vessel in the Sunderland trade, and was to be paid 25l for the service. She proceeded on the first voyage to London, stood the watch and otherwise discharged the duty of a young sailor very well. By some accident, however, her sex was discovered before they returned to Sunderland where she was discharged; and is now on her return to her parents in Cumberland, in the male habit, who are entirely unacquainted with the bent of her frolic.

Cumberland Pacquet 12.08.1777 The female adventurer mentioned in our last, as discharged from a vessel in Sunderland, is now in this town; her name is Ann Church, she was born in Carlisle. A love affair was the cause of her changing her dress and after leaving Sunderland she entered with an Officer in the Impress service here; her sex being a second time discovered she is removed from on board the Tender. Last week she passed by her mother and brother (undiscovered) in Carlisle who were in mourning for her, supposing her drowned about twelve months ago. A young man in the Artillery, who, after a promise of marriage, deserted her, is said to be the occasion of this strange adventure

1860s Woman newspaper reporter; M.Smith Autobiography Vol 1 pp226-230

Cj 20.04.1844 p4 What is a woman’s proper sphere

CP 26.05.1861 p7 Education for girls

CJ 14.01.1862 p1 Lecture on duties of women. Neither men nor children can be admitted.

CJ 17.01.1862 p5 As reporters are men we are unable to give a report on lecture

CJ 13.06.1882 p2f letter concerning the hours dressmakers have to work

1891 census; Georgina Moffat, dentist, home Lowther St, bn Scotland

CJ 13.05.1870 p8 Garlands; Two male attendants wanted £25 per annum with board increasing to £27.10s in six months and £30 in a year and £1 pa after to £35. One female attendant £15 a year increasing to £20 in £1 a year

CJ 04.10.1873 pp2-3 No law to prevent women practising medicine

CJ 11.07 1873 p7 Women at university studying medicine. Classes separate from men

14.10.1884 Letter signed MS [Mary Smith] thanking the Bishop, Dr Goodwin, for his public support of women’s suffrage

25.11.1884 Letter signed MS [Mary Smith] defending women voters in the city against the charge that they have not used their vote wisely

CJ 16.06.1891 p3 Lady Carlisle on women 100 years ago and today

CJ 10.07.1891 p7 Letter concerning Women’s work

CJ 16.06.1893 p7 Move towards equal pay in the Post Office

CJ 15.09.1896 p2 Lecture in City Hall. Women in the industrial world. Attributed to change in domestic arrangements in upper and lower middle classes. Things made at home now made in factories

CJ 13.05.1898 p4 Nursing, a new field of industry for women. There are 1000s of young women tired of living a dull life at home

CJ 31.03.1899 p2 What to do with our girls?

CJ 13.12.1901 p2 The girl of the 20th century, even if she smokes a cigarette and talks slang, seems an infinitely more capable being that her grandmother was

CJ 18.10.1907 p6 Meeting of women workers. Wondered how many earned 25 shillings? One girls whispered she earned seven and six at Carrs

CJ 24.03.1911 p6 Opposition to women’s suffrage; meeting in Carlisle

CJ 04.11.1911 p2 Two letters concerning Women’s suffrage

CN 14.06.1913 Letter concerning women’s pilgrimage to London

CJ 17.06.1913 p5 Letters concerning Suffragists Pilgrimage beginning in city

CJ 20.06.1913 p5 Non militant pilgrimage; departure of Carlisle ladies

CN 21.06.1913 Northern detachment starts; 40-50 leave Carlisle Cross

Wigton Advertiser 21.06.1913 ‘Law abiding pilgrimage’ leaves city for Wigton

CJ 21.04.1914 p4 Pay for women - arguments for equality

City Minutes 1916-17 pp82-84 Women patrols; policewomen sworn in

CJ 16.10.1917 p3 Carlisle Munitions Girls Football Club v Canadian Lumberjacks

CJ 19.04.1918 p5 Carlisle Munitions Girls Football Club v Blythe Spartans

CJ 30.08.1918 p4 Equal pay for men and women and why this cannot be. Implicit understanding that the man is the supporter of the family, and women free from a similar obligation

1924 Carlisle Directory the resident medical officer at the Dispensary Kathleen R Snodgrass, MB

CJ 02.05.1930 p5 Women teachers harmful to boys

CJ 20.05.1930 p5 Are women on committees of the same calibre as men?

CJ 05.05.1933 Mrs Dixon was an active politician and one of the energetic group of Carlisle women who were pioneers in the demand for female suffrage. Her father and grandfather were handloom weavers

CJ 15.10.1935 p6e Women’s World Chess Champion plays in Carlisle. Plays multiple games

CJ 16.06.1944 pp4-5 Policewomen for Carlisle

CJ 07.07.1944 p4 Policewomen not for Cumberland

CN 31.10.1953 p8 First woman to stand in municipal elections 1911

CN 20.03.1987 p13 Ordination of women deacons

CN 03.07.1987 p3 First woman bank manager in Cumbria

CN 10.07.1987 p6 Letter concerning first woman bank manager

ENS 24.03.1988 p12 Carlisle Labour Club to vote on allowing women members

CN 15.04.1988 p10 Fair play plea- editorial

CN 13.05.1988 p4 When women entered the election fray

CN 23.09.1988 p3 First women’s Officer in Carlisle Boy’s Brigade

CN 12.05.2000 p1 Rotary admits women for first time

CN 12.10.2001 p25 Football coaching for girls aged 12 - 16

CN 13.09.2002 p1 City’s first female resident circuit judge; opinion p 12

CN 26.09.2003 p3 Obstetrician Josephine Williamson dies; First in city in 1947?

CN 14.05.2004 p1 Row continues over women priests

CN 21.05.2004 p 13 Letters concerning women priests; for and against

CN 29.04.2005 p27 First woman plays for Carlisle Cricket Club; third team

CN 10.02.2006 p9 Girls allowed in Cathedral choir for the first time in 900 years

CN 26.01.2007 p1 First female head chorister

CN 08.02.2013 p32 Uniformed policewoman to be seen on city streets for first time during the Great War. Disbanded after war. Two women police officers appointed during the Second World War but they only stayed a little while. June 1947 the Chief Constable reported the appointment of two police women. By 1958 five policewomen in the city

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

 

WOMEN’S GUILD

CN 10.11.1989 p31 Celebrating 40 years of city guild

 

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE see SPENCER STREET

 

WOMEN’S LAND ARMY

CN 13.04.1946 p6 Pageant

 

WOMEN’S LEAGUE OF HEALTH AND BEAUTY Carlisle branch founded 1938

CN 13.05.1988 p9 Fitness fans jubilee year

 

WOMEN’S ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE Founded 1938; became WRVS July 1966

See Memories of Carlisle; chapter on Home Front; several photos 2BC 9

CJ 07.01.1966 p14 CN 04.09.1970 p7 (illus)

CN 31.08.1962 p7 History in Carlisle

CN 01.04.1988 p12 The few who help so many

CN 10.06.1988 p13 Fifty years of service

CN 01.12.1989 p7 WRVS call goes out for strong men

CN 09.05.1997 p3 WRVS ladies to rescue in midnight fell drama

CN 23.07.1999 p16 Help wanted, size and age no object; Meals on Wheels

 

WOMEN’S VOLUNTARY SERVICE see WOMEN’S ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE

 

WONDER MILK BAR Devonshire Street

M.Dickens Those Were the Days p77

CD 1955-56 Ad p280

CD 1961-62 Ad p38

 

WOOD, Joseph 36-38 Blackfriars Street. Picture framers and picture dealers

Billhead showing premises in D.Perriam Blackfriars Street, p15. In 1879 the building was seriously damaged in a fire. The business was taken over by John Gray and Son in 1881

 

WOOD, Tom Graham

City Minutes 1923-4 p588 Licensed to operate bus service Carlisle - Cumwhinton

 

WOOD, Walter and Co Lowther Street

Builder and coal contractor

D Perriam Lowther Street p45 Photo of building. Took over David Thomson building on Lowther Street and called the building Walwood House

CN 17.09.1938 p18 Ad

CD 1952 Ad p252 Walwood House, Lowther Street

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p218

CD 1955-56 Ad p218

 

WOOD, William Willow Holme

Woollen manufacturer

CJ 07.03.1818 p3c Fire

 

WOOD, William Cotton spinner

CJ 13.08.1817p1 To be sold cotton mill on English Damside lately occupied in succession by Mr Wood and Mr Henry Cliffe

CN 14.04.2006 p11 D.Perriam; Hutchinson mentions in 1794; Henry Cliffe, his son in law, took over the works on English Damside, about 1807

 

WOODBANK IRONWORKS, Upperby

See H.D.Bowtell Over Shap to Carlisle, 1983 p43

CJ 06.09.1949 pp2,3 (illus)

CJ 29.08.1846 Woodbank printfield taken by Mr Bouch for the making engines

CJ 29.01.1858 Cowans Sheldon purchased premises in addition Woodbank Works

 

WOODBANK PRINTING WORKS, Upperby

M442 p13 Business receipt for Harrington, Wilde and Co, calico printer, Woodbank

Cumberland Pacquet 22.08.1797 To be sold; calico printing concern

Cumberland Pacquet 31.10.1797 Printfield at Woodbank

Cumberland Pacquet 16.01.1798 Still to be sold

CJ 02.10.1802 Six new printing presses

CJ 26.11.1803 Works, waterfalls, buildings and cottages situated at Woodbank

CJ 27.03.1813 For sale; now occupied by Messrs Mounsey

CJ 16.10.1813 Printfield for sale

CP 01.03.1817 p2a Printfields [calicoes and cottons] for sale or to let

CJ 27.11.1824 p3 Suspended for several years; now in active operation

CJ 29.08.1846 Woodbank printfield taken by Mr Bouch for the making engines

CJ 23.02.1877 p1 Sale of Robert Jackson and Son artificial manure manufacturers

CN 23.12.2011 p28 Denis Perriam on history of the works

 

WOODLAND HOTEL London Road

CN 03.02.1995 p4 Hotel plan to expand

 

WOODROUFFE TERRACE Built 1850s; Asquith’s map of 1853 shows half terrace built

A London Road report in April 1830 stated. ‘a large mansion has been built adjoining Captain Halton’s beautiful residence at Botchergate Foot by JM Head’ . Banker Joseph Monkhouse Head’s land, where the new house was built, was alongside Woodruff Terrace named after Maria Woodruffe, who married his son, George Head Head, in 1833

No 8 Artist William Smallwood Winder born here in 1869 [CN 07.12.2012 p36]

CP 03.06.1854 p1 Ad House to be sold

CJ 11.12.1863 p6

 

WOODROW DRIVE, Garlands Estate One of a series of streets in this area named in connection with Woodrow Wilson whose mother was born in the city in 1826. Woodrow Wilson maternal grandfather was pastor at the Annetwell Street Chapel from 1820 to 1835 when he emigrated to the Americas

 

WOODROW’S FAMILY HOTEL 38 English St. opposite gaol, run by the twin brother of the Rev Woodrow, pastor at the Annetwell Street Chapel and maternal grandfather of the American President Woodrow Wilson

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory; ad p12

1861 census William Woodrow, aged 65, born Scotland; Temperance Hotel

 

WOODROW WILSON PUBLIC HOUSE Botchergate

ENS 11.06.1997 p7 Botchergate to get new pub

ENS 04.03.1998 p11 (illus) Chain promises to go ahead; builders begin work

CN 15.05.1998 pp4,10 Opening

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p187 photo of interior of pub

CN 29.05.1998 p10 Boozergate

CN 19.06.1998 p3 (illus) New pub success

 

WOODS BOOKSELLERS Saint Cuthbert’s Lane

CN 29.08.1997 p4 (illus) City bookshop reaches its final chapter

 

WOODS COURT, Wood Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory Wood Street [James Street]

 

WOODSGHYLL DRIVE, Harraby First appears on electoral register for 1947-48

 

WOOD’S MAP OF CARLISLE see MAPS

 

WOOD’S SQUARE, Ann Street [1880 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory between 1 and 2 Ann Street, Newtown

 

WOOD STREET, Botcherby No 7, Holme Farmhouse, north side, early 18th century with later additions; no 9 Botcherby House, north side, early 18th century; no 10, Mayfield, south side, early or mid 19th century; Number 11/13 dated with raised bricks 1700 [ photo Carlisle an illustrated history p88]; Nos 12 - 14, south side, The Grange, early 19th century, 1918 Electoral Register Thomas Henry Little; No 15 ,The Cottage, north side, probable 18th century with extensive 20th century alterations; No 16 Stable Croft, south side, early 19th century; No.18, south side, early 18th century with later alterations; no 19, the Beeches, north side, dated over entrance 1767; no 20, south side, mid 17th century; no 22, south side, mid or late 18th century; no 26, Ashleigh House, south side, early 19th century; no 28, Bramerton, south side, probably late 18th century with later additions; no 29, Church Farmhouse, north side, mid 18th century, adjacent barn probably late 18th century, dated stone HIA 1798; no 30 Bramerton Lodge, south side, early 19th century [see also Bramerton Lodge Chapel]; no 31, Orchard House, north side, mid or late 18th century; nos 32 and 34, south side, early 19th century

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp15-29

CJ 28.08.1891 p1 For sale Bramerton Lodge; reconstructed by Mr Cory under his own supervision...it is a picture to see the grand gardens and cement fruit preserving house

CJ 02.02.1906 p5 Death, aged 33, of Lindsay Ingleby Wood, of Bramerton Lodge, son of John Wood civil engineer

CJ 29.12.1916 pp1,3 John Wood, of Bramerton Lodge, Botcherby deceased. Ash Lea Cottage also for sale. John Wood, engineer on the CKPR, came to Cumberland in 1874, lived in Botcherby for 30 years

City Minutes 1915-16 p97 Nos 1 and 2 unfit for human habitation; Ashlea; p224

CRO D/Mil/Mounsey/153/379 Botcherby, Bramerton Lodge Estate plan of 1917

CJ 16.02.1917 WL Tiffen and Son, Bramerton Lodge

CN 30.12.1954 Canon Baxter, aged 88, lived at Bramerton Lodge for 14 years. In back garden .....a barn converted into a church about 1860

CN 26.03.1971 p15 (illus)

CN 23.12.1994 p23 Down your way

CN 09.01.2004 p53 The Beeches for sale - photos £230,000

CN 14.04.2006 p11 Takes its name from William Wood, manufacturer, who lived here?

CN 31.10.2008 p62 The Beeches for sale at 350,000 pounds

CN 29.07.2011 p61 No 20 for sale £135,000

CN 16.03.2012 p1 and 6 The Grange; Childrens home closes after accusations of assault and bullying. Now [2023] young adult supported living accommodation

 

WOOD STREET, Newtown [1880 Directory]

 

WOOD STREET, James Street to Water Street [1880 Directory]

 

WOODSTYLE JOINERY Brisco

CN 04.07.1997 p20 Master craftsmen who offer you furniture of distinction

 

WOODVIEW SCHOOL, Chatsworth Square [views of school on cumbriaimagebank.org.uk]

See also Miss Lattimers

Girls School run by the Miss Lattimers, assisted by art mistress Mary Slee and others

 

WOOD VIEW, Northumberland Road

Samuel Redmayne who founded the successful Wigton based tailoring firm which had branches throughout the area lived here. He died here on 14.09.1890. His wife, Ellen, died at Wood View on 28.01.1895.

 

WOOL FAIRS AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE

Council Minutes 16.06.1862

CJ 19.06.1863 p5 Unsuccessful

CN 22.03.1924 p9 18th century Carlisle

 

WOOLPACK English Street; in local directories to 1870; Francis Harrison late of the Woolpack Inn of this city died 03.10.1834; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard; Joseph Thompson, innkeeper, aged 61, born Carlisle [1861 census]

1858 Kelly’s J.Thompson, 70 English Street, Woolpack

CJ 17.11.1804 p3 Wool Pack, Joseph Bell, aged 53, Innkeeper, died

 

WOOLPACK INN Milbourne St; in local directories from 1876; first state pub to become private; renamed Biddy Mulligan’s; renamed Knight Inn. Eventual closure in 2008

CN 13.10.1972 p11 CN 18.02.1977 p9

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; p97 photo of Woolpack

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses, 2004, p49

1901 census; Mary Lawrence, victualler, aged 62, born Carlisle

ENS 11.10.1972 p11 First city state pub goes private

ENS 24.08.1977 p8 (illus) Pubs past lives on in face lift

ENS 24.08.1977 p11 (illus) ‘Cheers’ as Bobby kicks off at the Woolpack

ENS 08.01.1986 Go ahead for extension to Woolpack

CN 01.04.1988 New look for an old pub

CN 26.04.1996 p5 Swinging tune at the Woolpack

ENS 04.03.1997 Third landlord in a year at Woolpack

ENS 28.07.1997 p11 Woolpack does Irish

ENS 18.09.1997 p11 New identity for Woolpack; renamed ‘Biddy Mulligan’

ENS 20.04.1998 Irish theme pub bans Irish music which drove customers away

CN 28.03.2003 pp1,3 New management and new style

CN 09.07.2004 p5 Knight Inn closes following illness to tenants, Mrs Thompson

 

WOOLPACK LANE

1924 Carlisle Directory beside the Woolpack Inn, Milbourne Street

 

WOOLWORTH BUILDING English Street; building completed January 1933

CWAAS Vol 78, 1978 p136

CN 18.10.1991 p48 City lease costs £1m

CN 19.12.2008 p1 Staff to lose jobs as Woolies closes

 

WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

CN 26.01.1918 p5 Hastings Rashdall lectures

CJ 06.05.1921 p5 Hastings Rashdall appointed president of Carlisle branch

CN 31.01.1942 p2 Co-operates with Literary Society

 

WORKHOUSE

CAIH p44 The Workhouse

See CALDEWGATE WORKHOUSE; FUSEHILL STREET WORKHOUSE; HARRABY HILL WORKHOUSE; POOR LAW; SAINT MARY’S WORKHOUSE; STANWIX WORKHOUSE

 

WORKING CLASS

Carlisle Examiner 19.11.1859 p2e Letter concerning social conditions - drink...

Carlisle Examiner 22.11.1859 p2e,f Letter concerning social conditions

Carlisle Examiner 26.11.1859 p2,e,f, Social conditions of the working class

Carlisle Examiner 29.11.1859 p2,e,f Letter concerning social conditions

Carlisle Examiner 06.12.1859 p2f Social conditions of the working class

Carlisle Examiner 20.12.1859 p3a Letter concerning social conditions

 

WORKING MEN’S CLUB Opened in Fisher Street 26.01.1928; previously in West Walls then Paradise Court; [1924 Directory]

See also Fisher Street; number 11

CP 05.03.1875

CJ 06.11.1874 Proposed Working Men’s Club in Carlisle

CJ 13.11.1874 Formation of a Working Men’s Club in Carlisle

CP 05.03.1875 First annual meeting of Carlisle Working Men’s Club

CP 01.03.1895 Twentieth annual report

CP 08.03.1907 Annual meeting in club premises, Castle street

ENS 04.08.1971 Supplement pp1-4 Interior alterations

ENS 04.11.1974 pp 5-7 Working Men’s Club is 100 years old today

2023 In the middle of building work. Has been closed as a Working Men’s Club for several years

 

WORKING MEN’S EDUCATIONAL HALL

CJ 07.01.1953 p4 Irish Damside School - proposal

CJ 21.01.1853 p2 Letter

CJ 28.01.1853 p2 Letter

 

WORKING MEN’S READING ROOMS see READING ROOMS

 

WORKSHOPS

City Council Minutes 1896/97 p 165 List of the domestic workshops in city

 

WORKSHOPS FOR THE BLIND Started in West Tower Street in 1872; moved to Lonsdale Street 1878/9; moved to Petteril Bank some time after 1955-56

SEE ALSO CUMBRIA INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED

CJ 26.12.1873 p5c Established 15 months ago, secured premises on West Tower Street, engaged a manager and commenced business. Business consists of straw, flock and hair mattress making, woollen and cocoa mats and matting and recently basket making has been introduced. Five totally blind men employed and one nearly blind man

CJ 29.03.1878 p5 Plans examined

CJ 24.05.1878 p8 Tenders for building Workshops for the Blind

CJ 28.03.1879 p7 Workshops for the Blind

CJ 16.05.1879p7 Workshops for the blind, opening

CD 1880 Ad pv

CD 1884-85 Ad p260

CJ 03.07.1888 p2 Died aged 68 George Douglas, laboured industriously at mattress making. Followed to the grave by workers at the Workshop to the Blind and Mr Dixon, the manager. First pupil of Workshops for Blind

CJ 05.04.1892 p2 Mat making at Workshops for the Blind

Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1902 Ad; Workshops established in 1872

CD 1905-06 Ad p6

CD 1907-08 Ad p9

CJ 03.07.1908 p5 Letter about mat cutting machine requiring 6 men to work, 2 at a time whilst 4 rest. Wait to fit electric motor at cost of £15

CD 1910-11 Ad p11

CD 1913-14 Ad p11

CD 1920 Ad p11

CD 1924 Ad p128

CD 1927 Ad p148

CD 1931 Ad p288

CD 1934 Ad p183

CD 1937 Ad p190

CJ 15.12.1939 p7 Workshops for the Blind; want more wages

CD 1940 Ad p36

CJ 22.03.1940 p1 Blind employees at Lonsdale Street; parade through the streets with placards

CN 19.07.1947 Describes work for the blind, what they are making at present, plenty of work and planned extension

CD 1952 Ad p331

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p1

CD 1955-56 Ad pxxvii

CD 1961-62 Ad p85

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p57 Photo of workers at Lonsdale St

CJ 04.12.1964 p8 (illus)

CJ 19.01.1968 p11 Workshops for Blind

CN 15.03.1968 p12 History

 

WORKWARE Botchergate

CN 25.11.1994 p8 Ad

 

WORLD GROUP Lancaster St then moved 2004 to Durranhill see WINDOW WORLD

 

WORLD WAR ONE

See also Armistice Day; Botcherby War Memorial; Citizens League; Cenotaph, Collin VC; East Cumberland Shell Factory; Military Hospitals; Peace Celebrations; Peace Medals, Rickerby Park, State Management, Tank

CAIH p84 World War 1

D Perriam Denton Holme p80 Denton Holme in World War One

D Perriam and D.Ramshaw Carlisle First Learning Centre; Tullie House, 2016, p70-71

City Minutes 1914-15 p226 Belgian refugees at 11 Chatsworth Square

CJ 30.10.1914 Last night 38 Belgian refugees arrived in the city

CN 14.02.2003 p8 Belgian refugees arrived in city in 1914; 44 on 26.11.1914

CN 13.10.2006 p9 Currock WW1 War Memorial found in Howie Boyd Hall

CN 10.11.2006 p13 Letter; in 1965 sold to Church of God; photo of WWI plaque

CN 18.07.2008 p7 WWI memorial finds new home in Bishop Harvey Goodwin School grounds

CN 20.08.2010 p D.Perriam WWI hospitals in city

CN 11.10.2013 p19 £70,000 to be spent on the restoration of city war memorials

 

WORLD WAR TWO

See also AIR RAIDS; ARMISTICE; BATTLE OF BRITAIN WEEK; BORDER-HMS; BRAMPTON ROAD PILL BOX; CARLISLE-HMS; CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS; EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY; EVACUEES; HOME GUARD; MOBILE X RAY UNIT FOR RUSSIA; PILL BOXES; PRISONER OF WAR CAMP; REFUGEES; RUSSIAN ARMY; STAY AT HOME HOLIDAY WEEK; VE DAY; VICTORY PAGEANT; VICTORY; WOMEN’S LAND ARMY; THANKSGIVING; VJ DAY; WAR CRIMINALS

The occasional stray bomb fell in the Carlisle area during the war. One fell at Scotby, and a land mine at the junction of London Road and Eastern way, where the Brunswick House doctors’ surgery is today. During the War this area was used as allotments by Brooke Street School [memory from ex Brooke Street school boy].

 

Margaret Forster Hidden Lives p121 ...there was little feeling of being at war in Carlisle. As in the First World War, Carlisle was hardly touched. No bombs dropped on the city and hardly an air-raid siren was heard. Its citizens became so complacent that in 1942, at the height of the war, only one in a hundred was found to be carrying the regulation gas mask (for which slackness the whole city was reprimanded by the War Office). Carlisle City Council had at least paid heed by spending £27,250 on trenches and shelters for the schoolchildren but these were hardly used. Except for the inevitable absence of a great many men and the presence of evacuees.....Most of the evacuees came from Newcastle

 

When peace was declared there were great crowds at the Town Hall, I’d never seen anything like it, such a crowd, singing and dancing in the street. We, as children often spent the night at Grannie’s on Corporation Road. I remember I was in bed and my uncle Fred came clattering up the stairs and into the bedroom. He told me to get up. Grandma came running in ‘What are you doing?’ Fred said ‘I’m taking her to the Castle. This is a night she’ll never forget’. And I never will forget going up there with him, seeing the Union Jack flying, it was all illuminated, such a shock as we were so used to everything being in the dark. When I go past the Castle today it all comes back to me as I look up at that flag pole. When Dad came back out of the forces we hung a Scottish flag outside the house. I hadn’t seen him for three years so ran flinging myself into his arms. It was a different story for my sister, she didn’t remember him at all. There was a photo of Dad on the wall and to her that was her Dad, the photo. She wouldn’t have anything to do with the flesh and blood Dad, wouldn’t talk to him, sit with him. She’d point to the photo and say ‘That’s my Dad’. I think it was also difficult for my brother, he was 13 or 14 when Dad came home and in his absence he’d been told that he was head of the household and suddenly he was just a little boy again. When VJ Day was announced we were at Silloth. I remember we were down the Skinburness Road and a woman ran out of her house and shouted the war was over. She was a complete stranger. There was dancing and shouting and then we carried on with our holiday. When Dad came home he, as with all the discharged servicemen, was given a suit. It must have irked him, everyone in the same ill-fitting suit. I recall coming home one day and found him burning it in the garden. We had a VE Day party in a hall in Lamb Street, long trestle tables. [Muriel Kemp recalls]

 

My dad, Hugh, was evacuated from Dunkirk but he didn’t come home; he went straight to North Africa. There was a telegram at home to say he was safe. Telegrams were never good news so when mother saw the envelope she thought he was dead and feinted. I stood behind her when she fell down. She was lying on the floor of our Thirlmere St house. There was an air-raid shelter at the south of Grasmere Street where it met Thirlmere Street, there was a bit of waste ground there. It was an above ground concrete shelter. After the war it was demolished. We used to have air-raid practices at school; the school shelter was at the north end of Arthur Street. The shelters were dirty, dark and smelt. But Mam told me that if the air-raid siren went off we had to run straight home and get under the dining room table. If we were going to go we were all going to go together. I remember one ‘raid’. We mistook the all clear for the siren and stayed under the table for ages. Eventually there was a knock at the door and Uncle Ronnie, who was a captain in the Home Guard, shouted through the letterbox ‘Are you alright?’ Our cousins had a metal air raid shelter in the front room. There was never any raids on Carlisle. We didn’t know what the war was except our Dad was away. Although once Mam was taking us to a farm up London Road and the farmer’s wife asked how we’d got there, the road had been cordoned off because of an unexploded bomb. That was enough for Mam and off we ran home.

Muriel Kemp remembers

 

I kept up with the war pretty well, reading the Daily Express. I clearly remember the day war was declared. It was a Sunday and I was in St John’s choir, London Road. I was walking home after the service and people had their windows and doors open; you could hear Chamberlain speaking to the nation. We had two Newcastle evacuees billeted with us in Lindisfarne Street during the war. They were from very poor homes and Grandma came around and gave them a good scrubbing in the tin bath. She also deloused them. They were two brothers, the elder one being a bit of a bully. They went back home after a few months. I recall Dunkirk was a tense time, we were all convinced that the invasion was coming. I followed the Russian invasion of Finland, we were all supporting the Finns. We dug for Victory and go out and collect rosehips to make rosehip syrup. You’d get a small bounty but boy did you have to collect a lot of rosehips. I believe the syrup was full of nutrients, but you got a good scratching for it. There was an air-raid shelter opposite the tram shed and another shed at Fusehill Street. We always carried our gas masks but Carlisle was a quiet place. We’d occasionally hear the thrum of a German aeroplane, they made a different sound to us. You got used to the blackout. After choir practice we’d run around in our cassocks and jump out at people.

Brian Scott recalls

 

I was born in 1936. My father was one of the later calls ups. He was in the RASC and drove lorries off onto the Arromanche beaches in Normandy in 1944. He got pleurisy and so was at home when VE day was declared. I recall two things about that day. I got caught up in a conga that went down Scotch Street. What a crowd there was. The other thing was about mother, she hated crowds, but she was there in the Market Place that day. Mother was a firewatcher and the watching point was on top of our house at 29a Scotland Road. She also worked in the NAFFI in Rickergate, the John Peel hut as it was known. You saw all nationalities there. Us kids would go down to help with the washing up, collecting the dishes. Our wages was a chip butty. We called them frittes, that was the foreign influence. Scotland Road was very busy with convoys heading north and south. They used to stop in our lane for a brew up. Sometimes the soldiers would give us sweets or chewing gum. We never had evacuees billeted with us but we had a holiday house at Skinburness; we got Newcastle evacuees billeted there, but not for long. What a mess they made of the place, everything had to be thrown out and it made a grand bonfire on the beach. Coal was rationed. We had a black leaded grate in the kitchen and a fire in one of the bedroom. But it had to be very cold before we’d light the bedroom fire. We had an outside toilet with no light, so you can imagine the adventure of going to the toilet during the night. The toilet paper was that awful Isel stuff or newspaper cut into squares and hung on string.

Margaret Davies recalls

CAIH p92 World War 2

P Hitchon Botcherby a Garden Village pp189 -200

See David Hay Carlisle at War 1939-45

D Perriam and D Ramshaw Carlisle’s First Learning Centre; Tullie House pp94-5

Over the Garden Wall; life of Donald Scott p9-12 life for a child during the war

M.Constantine Carlisle a history and celebration p86 photo of bomber landing at Kingstown and Rome St gas holder in camouflage colours

D.Perriam Denton Holme p100 Denton Holme in WW2

D Perriam Stanwix pp64-5 Stanwix in World War Two

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

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

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

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

CN 17.08.1990 p11 Helping hand for vets

CN 26.07.1991 p7 Veterans fly flag

CN 01.11.1996 p3 (illus) Over 2,000 name roll of honour to be presented

CN 08.11.1996 p1 Cathedral to receive World War Two honour roll

CN 27.06.1997 p3 (illus) Cumbria’s farewell to Hong Kong

CN 04.06.2004 p1 Cumbria veterans return to Normandy; p12 My D-Day

CN 20.05.2011 p32 Story of army camp depot built on Bitts Park in August 1939. MAFF moved in in January 1948. One or two huts still retained for park’s dept Bitts Depot

 

WORTHINGTON PLACE, Parkland Village So named in honour of the original architect of the Garlands Hospital [CN 29.04.2005 Story Homes Supp. p5]

 

WOTHERSPOON, A.W. Bank Street

Bakers

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

1882 Porters Directory Ad p90 ‘Notes house for Swiss Buns’

 

WRESTLERS ARMS INN Annetwell Street; in local directories from 1880 to 1907-08

CJ 26.04.1895 Ad; old established inn for sale

CN 10.02.1912 Beerhouse closed

 

WRESTLING; CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND STYLE

See also Carlisle Wrestling Association

CP 15.09.1821 p1a Ad for wrestling at Carlisle races on 27th September

CJ 16.09.1826 p2e Wrestling at Carlisle Races; encouragement of old sports

CP 29.09.1827 p3 Report on Carlisle Wrestling and Races

CP 27.09.1828 p3 Report on Carlisle Wrestling and Races

CP 26.09.1829 p3 Report on Carlisle Wrestling and Races

CP 22.04.1854 p8 a-c Easter wrestling at the Crown, Botchergate

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p76 1899 Easter Sports; wrestling photo

Cumbria Life October 1999 no 66 pp 124-125 2A 9

CN 24.06.1950 p4 CN 28.03.1958 p10 illustration of belt

CN 05.10.2001 p25 Carlisle Wrestling Club still going strong

CN 12.10.2001 p24 Photos of Carlisle Academy in 1908 and 1949

 

WRIGHT, G Norfolk Street, the Market

Bakers

CD 1966-68 Ad p253

CN 11.05.2007 p4 Obit of George Wright

 

WRIGHT, Ian

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

 

WRIGHT, John Warwick Road

Car dealers

1954 Cumberland Directory Ad pxi

 

WRIGHT, Nicholas

City Minutes 1925-6 p44 Licensed to operate bus to Hesket and Aikat Gate

 

WRIGHT, Richard Builder; built Dixon’s Chimney

In February 1835 the foundation stone of Dixon’s new mill was laid and on September 11th the foundation stone for the chimney was laid and the first brick was laid on 17th September by Richard Wright.

1851 census 22 Abbey St, builder, aged 60, born Haselmere, Surrey

CP 19.09.1857 Carlisle Dispensary foundation stone; R. Wright and Sons builder

 

WRIGHT, Robert Builder, Heads Lane; died 24.11.1874 aged 43 [Monumental Inscription 103/38];

 

WRIGHT, William Manufacturer and draper, aged 65, employing 10 men, born Yorkshire, home address New Banks Lane [1851 census]; linen draper employing 4 men and 4 boys, aged 75, born Leeds, home address 10 Cavendish Place [1861 census]

 

WRIGHT, William English Street

Linen merchant; carpet warehouseman

Carlisle Diocesan Directory 1872; ad established 1838

Carlisle in Camera 1 p18 photo of shop at 36 English St, 1870s

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1893-94 Ad p70

 

WRIGHT, W and Son Highmore House English Street

Linen goods; carpets furnishings

11.10.1895 4d Ad. move from 36 to 42 English St [Highmore Hse]; opening

Yesterdays Shopping in Carlisle p13 Interior engraving of new shop

Fisher Street, Presbyterian Church Bazaar October 1899 [M183] p20 Ad

Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1901 Ad; Established 1842

CJ 31.07.1917 p3 Obit of William Wright; business started by his father W.Wright

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; p41 1917 photo of exterior

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p45 Bill head illustrated, 1915

CD 1920 Ad p156

CD 1924 Ad p176

CD 1927 Ad p198

CD 1931 Ad p84

CD 1934 Ad p72 Established 1838

CJ 04.12.1934 Close down early in new year; history of firm started in 1838

CJ 25.01.1935 p3 Ad Everything half price; last two days

CN 18.11.1988 p4 A site with history

 

WRIGHT, BROWN AND STRONG Solicitors

CP 12.08.1898 Obit of J.H.Brown; 1875 entered in to partnership with Mr T.Wright

Carlisle Directory 1934 Wright, Brown and Strong, 7 Bank Street

CN 19.02.1993 p15 Marking a link of 150 years

 

WRIGHT EXHIBITION DRY CLEANERS West Walls

CD 1952 Ad p289

CD 1955-56 Ad p238

 

WRIGHTSON, E AND SON New Market, London Road

Butchers

CD 1955-56 Ad p232

CD 1961-62 Ad p262

 

WYKEHAM HOUSE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Warwick Road; closed 02.09.1974

1928 Pageant Souvenir, ad Day and boarding school for girls, Lonsdale St. Fully qualified instruction; modern methods; individual attention; happy children; summer and winter games; dancing and music; central position; good wholesome food; moderate fees; Principal Florence Townsend

1929 Directory 11 Lonsdale Street; principal Mrs Florence Townsend

1934 Directory 127 Warwick Rd

CD 1952 Ad p368

CD 1955-56 Ad p281

CD 1966-68 Ad p296

CJ 18.03.1960 p5 CN 30.08.1974 p11

CN 29.01.1944 p5 Death of founder, Florence Townsend, BA, daughter of John Wannop, farmer, Dormansteads, Roweltown. She was interred at Lanercost

CN 12.02.1960 p10 Changes hand

ENS 14.03.1960 p7 School to change hands

CJ 07.04.1967 p9 Expansion

CN 12.02.1993 p9 Bid to recall old days

CN 26.03.1993 p12 Happiest days of their lives

CN 26.03.1993 p11 Ex pupils flock in

CN 21.05.1993 p15 Schooldays are recalled

 

WYLIE’S FLAX MILL Long Island

CJ 31.08.1839 p2e Inquest into death at mill

 

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]

 

WYVERNS RESTAURANT Lowther Street

CN 02.04.1993 p10 Ad

 

XS NIGHTCLUB - formerly Legends

CN 18.10.2002 p6 Gay night scrapped

 

YARKER, T.G.

CN 21.08.1963 Supplement Ad and history

 

YATES, Heidi Lowther Street

Beauty therapy

CN 30.06.2000 p8 Ad

 

YATES STREET

CJ 21.11.1879 p5 Yates Street laid out in 1877

1880 Directory 119 Union Street to Orfeur Street

 

YATES’S WINE LODGE English Street

CN 24.09.1993 p21 Ad

CN 23.08.1996 p3 (illus) Mayor criticises city pub...

CN 30.05.1997 pp1,10 Nightspots win back licenses

CN 22.02.2008 p1 Yates’ closes down

 

YEAST HALL or NEW HOUSES between Suttle House and Keld House on the 1861 census; James Millar 56, Cordwainer, born Cummersdale

 

YELLOW HOUSE [Presumably where supporters of the Lonsdale cause met. Yellow being the Lonsdale/ Lowther colours] see THE BUSH HOTEL

 

YEWDALE COMMUNITY CENTRE Opened 14.02.1992

CN 21.06.1991 p19 Work starts on centre

CN 07.02.1992 p1 Centre opens today

CN 22.02.2013 p8 Celebrates 21 years

 

YEWDALE SCHOOL School opened 1972

CN 23.03.2012 p25 Celebrated 40 years

CN 24.10.2014 p1 School given damning report by inspectors

 

YMCA see YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

 

YOKO SPA The Lanes

CN 18.03.2011 p 22 Spa opens; fish pedicure

 

YORK PLACE; Upperby Rd; so named on 1901 census

1924 Carlisle directory listed under Upperby Road

 

YORK SCHOOL Upperby; opened 04.04.1960; school closed 31.09.1997

A former teacher at the school said that in the 1960s/ 1970 children were graded according to an IQ Test. 110 and over was brilliant, 90-110 Average, 70-90 were called Educationally Sub Normal and this was the group that went to York School. Children with a severe handicap went to James Rennie. Johnnie Raine, ex Navy, was the deputy head. He was an excellent no nonsense teacher, blunt spoken at times but always with the pupils best interest at heart. Blunt spoken ‘Move it or you’ll get three lace holes’. He believed in teaching the children practical skills, how to use the phone, how to write a job application. He brought in people from outside to give advice about health, the tax system. One of the school inspectors suggested perhaps some creative writing would be a good idea ; ‘The only creative writing they’ll do is the football pools’.

CN 01.04.1960 p13 New school

ENS 05.04.1960 p5 School opens

CN 08.04.1960 p9 New school

CN 12.04.1991 p3 Schools teaching praised

CN 20.09.1991 p17 College bid for school

CN 20.09.1991 p13 School new look for a new term

CN 31.01.1992 p11 Challenge from special school

CN 26.06.1992 p18 Save our school battle

CN 03.07.1992 p7 Special schools fight to survive

CN 04.12.1992 p20 Protest call

CN 07.01.1994 p1 Anger as bell tolls for York School

CN 07.01.1994 p1 Mum heads fight to save her son’s special school

CN 14.01.1994 p16 Comment on closure

CN 21.01.1994 p3 Teacher’s back special school

CN 11.02.1994 p3 Head’s pupil integration warning

CN 11.02.1994 p10 Comment

CN 04.03.1994 p8 Save our school

CN 18.04.1994 p1 Don’t sweep our kids under the carpet

CN 18.04.1994 p11 Profile of headmaster

CN 27.05.1994 p14 York School go ahead

CN 22.07.1994 p4 Doomed special school receives prestigious awards

CN 14.04.1995 p3 School move

CN 19.05.1995 p5 Best of 3,000

CN 12.03.1999 p12 Centre wins praise for pupils behaviour

CN 08.09.2006 p12 Gillford Centre Pupil Referral Unit - 70 pupils

 

YORKSHIRE HEATING SUPPLIES Durranhill

CN 16.01.1970 p16 (illus) CN 09.10.1970 pp12-13 (illus)

 

YORK STREET, Hawick Street to Newcastle Street [1880 Directory]

 

YOUNG, Charles Henry

City Minutes 1923-4 p588 Licensed to operate bus service Carlisle-Botcherby

 

YOUNG, John Cecil Street

Veterinary surgeon

CD 1893-94 Ad p12

 

YOUNG, Michael Currock House

Horse breeder

1901 census Currock House, aged 46, bn Cockermouth

Carlisle The Archive Photos p101 Photo of Michael Young on horse, about 1910

Whitehaven News Annual; ad p358 late of Cockermouth

 

YOUNG, O. and M. Scotland Road

Newsagents

CD 1952 Ad p377

1954 Cumberland Directory Ad p277

 

YOUNG, Walter Lowther Street

Tailor

CD 1905-06 Ad p102

CD 1907-08 Ad p86

CD 1910-11 Ad p72

CD 1913-14 Ad p66

 

YOUNG, William Durham House, St Aidans Road

Horse dealer

CD 1902-03 Ad p247

CD 1905-06 Ad page yellow 67

CD 1907-08 Ad p189

CD 1910-11 Ad p193

CD 1913-14 Ad page pink 153

 

YOUNG FARMERS CLUB

CN 21.02.1948 p3 Farm forum

 

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Established 1855; Burton Buildings; new Fisher Street premises opened 20.01.1968

CN 17.04.1970 p1 CN 29.05.1970 p1

Carlisle Examiner 29.07.1858 p3d YMCA annual meeting

Carlisle Examiner 14.05.1859 p2c Carlisle YMCA - 3rd Annual General Meeting

CJ 15.02.1938 p5 YMCA convention at Carlisle

CN 04.05.1940 p3 New hut

CN 07.11.1942 p3 Gift plaque unveiled by Mayor

CJ 29.02.1944 p1 New hostel opened

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p22 Photo in 1952

CN 16.07.1965 p1 Development

CN 29.10.1965 p1 New premises

CN 19.11.1965 p1 Development

CN 17.12.1965 p1 In Brook Street School

ENS 23.04.1966 p3 £22,000 spent

CNÊ19.01.1968 p25 (illus) New premises

CN 26.01.1968 p5 Opening of new premises

CN 29.11.1968 p5 New hall

CN 07.03.1969 p5 Sports centre appeal

CN 08.04.1969 p12 Fund organiser

CN 02.11.1990 p4 When the YMCA were cup champions

CN 06.01.2012 p15 YMCA to run Shaddongate community centre to help the homeless

 

YOUNGS COURT, Robert Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 22-30 Robert Street

 

YOUNG’S LANE English Street; so named in the 1829 directory. The lane is so named on Asquith’s 1853 large scale map of the city, being immediately south of Highland Laddie Lane, linking Blackfriars Lane and English Street.

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p16 shows the lane today [2021]

 

YOUNG’S LANE Rickergate; in the 1834 directory; on the voters list to 1939

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1847 Directory

1880 Directory Rickergate

1924 Carlisle Directory between 33-35 Rickergate

 

YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

CN 13.01.1940 p3 CJ 26.04.1940 p1 CN 27.04.1940 p4

CJ 25.10.1940 p1 (illus) CJ 01.11.1940 p1 (illus) CN 02.11.1940 p5

CJ 09.01.1940 p2 War need

CN 15.11.1941 p6 Anniversary

 

YOUTH CAMP

CN 23.07.1993 p19 Three way youth camp for city

 

YOUTH CENTRE

CJ 09.04.1948 p2 Prospects

CJ 16.09.1948 p4

 

YOUTH CLUBS

See also Caldewgate Boys Club

CN 30.04.1993 p1 Keep kids off streets

CN 14.05.1993 p1 Brick brings vicar onto youth centre

CN 14.05.1993 p13 Youth clubs debt process

CN 27.12.2002 p2 Petteril Bank Youth Club temporarily shut

 

YOUTH ENQUIRY SERVICE

CN 18.10.1996 p5 Drop out fears for youth help centre

CN 07.08.1998 p9 Race to save cash starved YES centre

 

YOUTH HOSTEL Etterby House

CJ 12.04.1968 p11 (illus)

Cumbria June 1963 p102

CN 16.08.1991 p7 Hostel for sale

 

YOUTH ZONE, Victoria Place

CN 13.11.2009 p7 Michael Owen backs idea

CN 26.02.2010 p6 Building work begins on Victoria Road site

CN 23.07.2010 p13 Letter about Carlisle Youth Zone; p13 photo of construction site

CN 21.01.2011 p10 Construction of 5m building well under way; photos

CN 29.04.2011 p21 Youth Zone opens

CN 17.06.2011 p6 Opens fully

 

ZATOPEC Restaurant

See also Taylors Modern Restaurant

CN 20.09.1991 p14 Ad

CN 23.10.1992 p9 Youngsters enjoy taste of Mexico

CN 28.07.1995 p6 Ad

CN 17.01.1997 p17 Restaurant boss turns to a whole new world of food

 

ZELLER, Henry Rickergate

Butcher

CD 1893-94 Ad p156

 

ZEPPELIN see HINDENBERG; GRAF ZEPPELIN

 

ZERO PATH

CJ 05.01.1900 p6a Carlisle Race Stand Co; form Zero path

 

ZETA COURT William Street, Botchergate; name for a Greek letter of the alphabet; there was also Alpa Court here; first mentioned on the 1861 census; on the voters’ list to 1963

1880 Directory 24 William St

1924 Carlisle Directory lists between 24-26 William Street

 

ZIONISTS

CN 02.06.1967 p12

 

ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM INN Finkle Street; in local directory for 1858

Derived its name from mounted specimens on display [Carlisle Natural History Society, vol xii, p124

 

ZORBAS TAVERNA Warwick Road

CN 23.08.1996 p16 Ad

CN 16.08.1996 p17 If it’s not all Greek