Carlisle Encyclopaedia

CITADEL (cont)

CN 02.03.1956 p10(Illus of goal) CN 09.03.1956 p10 CN09.08.1957 p8

CN 31.05.1974 p6

CJ 28.11.1865 p3 Alterations to gaol

City Council Minutes 12.05.1885 p5 Canon to be placed in Court House gardens

City Minutes 1925-6 p552 Reformation of prison site - 2 maps; arches on English St

CN 25.08.1928 p10 (illus) Gaol chimney demolished

CJ 29.12.1939 p5 Carlisle landmark

CJ 02.04.1949 p5 Alterations to gaol

CN 25.03.1950 Illustration of in 1855

CJ 22.04.1960 p8 Goal history

CN 07.07.1961 p10 Escapes

CN 14.07.1961 p10 Escapes

CN 19.03.1962 p12 (illus) Gaol in 1912

CN 25.11.1966 p12 Escapes

CN 13.12.1968 p16 (illus) Alterations to gaol

CN 20.02.1970 p12 (illus of demolition) Gaol

CN 01.05.1970 p14 Gaol

ENS 19.08.1970 pp4-5 Round towers that guarded the city

CN 05.02.1971 p14 Gaol (illus)

CN 31.05.1974 p6 (illus) History of the Citadel;

CN 21.06.1974 p6 Gaol

CN 04.12.1987 p4 Award for restoration work

CN 02.12.1988 p4 Citadel never served its purpose

CN 31.07.1992 p4 New life planed for city landmark

CN 25.02.1994 p1 Cash aid for Citadel

CN 25.02.1994 p5 £1.4m needed to restore Citadel

CN 13.01.1995 p16 Courts revamp - thumbs up

CN 26.01.1996 pp1,10 Citadel in line for new development

CN 14.03.1997 p10 Hard times for prisoners

CN 27.06.1997 p10 Twelve strokes of the cat’o nine tails

CN 17.10.1997 p4 Lottery plan to turn city’s courts into a tourist Citadel

CN 17.10.1997 p10 (illus) How public pressure changed city’s courthouse scheme

CN 05.04.2002 p6 D Perriam; Smirke’s scheme never carried out in full

 

CITADEL CHAMBERS; English St Designs by Oliver and Dodgshun approved in 1903; ‘mock Tudor style’; built as Victoria Hotel; taken over by State Management in 1916; 1920 sold to E.F.Fairnbairn, Cumberland County Council taking up lease also in 1920, becoming owners of the property on 03.09.1948, shops at ground level, Council offices elsewhere

See also Citadel Row

CN 06.08.2010 p9 Building up for sale for £375,000. Police HQ after flood

CN 17.09.2010 p7 Sold for £400,000

CN 04.11.2011 p72 9 city centre apartments for letting

 

CITADEL INN Peascod’s Lane; in local directory for 1858

 

CITADEL MOTORS Warwick Road

CD 1961- 62 Ad front cover

 

CITADEL PARADE

CN 23.09.1988 pp14-15 Ad feature

 

CITADEL RESTAURANT English St

CD 1940 Ad p204

ENS 09.02.1981 p1 £500 snatch

 

CITADEL ROW

See also Citadel Chanbers

D Perriam Lowther Street p14 Victoria Hotel on English Street extended into Citadel Row. It was sold in 1891 and rebuilt in an Arts and Crafts style between 1904-05 extending it even further into Citadel Row. Closed by State Control in 1920 and today [2022] known as Citadel Chambers

15.07.1772 Mary Bell of Citadel Row, Carlisle, died; Stanwix Parish Registers

CN 22.02.1957 p8 (illus)

CN 28.06.1947 p5 Mr Blakeney repairs sewing machines

CN 19.11.1993 p13 Traffic ban in Citadel Row

 

CITADEL STATION see RAILWAYS: CITADEL STATION

 

CITADEL TAVERN English Street; in local directories from 1920; site formerly occupied by the Wellington and Three Crowns

See also Annabel’s, City Diner

ENS 11.04.1964 p1 CN 27.02.1970 p1

CJ 23.12.1966 p1 Ghost who came in for a pint

CN 06.01.1967 p1 Reconstruction

CJ 13.01.1967 p15 (illus) Reconstruction

ENS 17.01.1967 p3 Removal threat to the Citadel

CJ 10.11.1967 p3 (illus) As it was in 1918

ENS 09.05.1968 p6 (illus) Restaurant - new look

CN 10.05.1968 p26 Reconstruction

ENS 19.06.1968 Supplement Birth of a new Citadel

CJ 21.06.1968 pp13-20 Reconstruction

CN 28.06.1968 p2 Reconstruction

ENS 15.12.1976 p7 (illus) Ghost

 

CITADEL TEMPERANCE HOTEL Warwick Road. The hotel later became the tramway offices

Carlisle the archive photographs p52 photo of hotel at top of Warwick Road

 

‘CITIZEN’ NEWSPAPER 1821 - 1827, 1828 - 1833

See Parson and White 1829 p145

See Bulmer 1901 p875

See Newsplan for the Northern Region 1A 072 p267

Round Carlisle Cross Vol 3 The passing of the ‘Citizen’ in 1831 pp 75-87

CP 20.10.1821 p2f G.Irwin will publish Citizen on 09.11.1821

CN 08.03.1968 p12

 

CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU Founded 1938 by the Carlisle Council of Social Service; 1982 CAB became independent body

CJ 20.10.1939 p6 CN 18.05.1973 p15

CN 02.04.1949 p5 New and enlarged basis - move to Town Hall

CN 25.01.1991 p5 Advice bureau in cash plea

CN 05.03.1993 p17 Cash boost for CAB

CN 22.10.1993 p14 CAB may save your home

CN 30.09.1994 p7 Centre to close for £10,000 expansion

ENS 11.06.1996 p3 (illus) £180,000 lottery boost for city advice bureau

CN 23.04.1999 p1 A piece of Carlisle history (foundation stone)

CN 06.08.1999 p2 CAB spreads to the web

CN 15.02.2002 p1 Manager of Carlisle CAB suspended

CN 15.11.2002 p5 Suspended boss will not be back; Paul Holborn

CN 12.09.2003 p21 Carlisle and District CAB launches website

CN 09.01.2004 p2 Botcherby to get CAB office

CN 02.04.2004 p13 Letter; Cinderella service may be on move again

CN 21.05.2004 p3 Moving to Old Post Office Court

CN 16.09.2010 p12 40 years of the CAB

 

CITIZENSHIP

CN 23.07.2004 p3 Patrick Doyle; first citizenship ceremony in Carlisle

 

CITIZENS LEAGUE; CARLISLE

CJ 21.08.1914 p4 Advert

CJ 19.11.1915 p7 Large room in Court Square has been placed at the disposal of the Carlisle Citizens League

CJ 10.12.1915 p7 Opening by Mayor

CJ 25.02.1916 p4 Soldiers using rest room; used to go to the pubs

CJ 14.03.1919 p7 Soldiers and Sailors rest room in Court Square will be closed on 12th April

CJ 21.03.1919 p7 Rest room opened later part of 1915; Court Square and one on station resorted to by one million men annually. Door never closed in 3 years

CJ 18.07.1919 p11 Soldiers and Sailors rest room, Court Square; sale of furnishings

CJ 24.10.1939 p1 Citizens League gets under way

CN 14.08.1970 p12

 

CITY ARMS English Street/ St Cuthbert’s Lane; in local directories to 1876

 

CITY CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT see LANES, INNER RING ROAD, OUTER RING ROAD

 

CITY CENTRE ROAD SYSTEM

CN 06.10.1978 p17

 

CITY CINEMA English Street; opened 04.11.1915, closed 18.06.1960. One of the great Carlisle characters of the 1950s and 1950s was the lady selling tickets. Her name was Amy and she always wore red velvet dresses that went down to her ankles, with a heart shaped neck, curled ringlets went down the back of her neck, long red fingernails. A striking Bohemian figure in post war Carlisle. It was rumoured, rather maliciously, that she had a penchant for Grammar School boys

CJ 09.02.1962 p6 (illus) CN 03.03.1972 p10 (illus) CN 11.11.1977 p4

ENS 20.06.1960 p1 City picture house - dismantling of sign at closure

CJ 29.10.1915 p4 Opening

CJ 05.11.1915 p7 Opening

CN 06.11.1915 p9 Opening

CN 13.05.1960 p1 Closure

CJ 21.06.1960 p6 (illus) Closure

 

CITY COMMERCIAL HOTEL English Street; in local directories 1873 - 1902/03

 

CITY COUNCIL

see also Civic Regalias, Council Houses; County Borough Status; Elections; Local government; Mayor; Motto, Poll tax

Carlisle is listed as one of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales regulated under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1882; City Minutes of 6th January 1913 resolved that application be made for constituting the City as a County Borough within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1888; Carlisle County Borough Order,1913 came into operation on 1st April 1914; Carlisle Extension Act, 1950 says Whereas the city of Carlisle is a county borough under the government of the mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of Carlisle. This act defines 'The 'Corporation' meaning the mayor, aldermen and the citizens of the city of Carlisle. It also refers to local acts which may be jointly cited as 'Carlisle Corporation Acts 1804 - 1950'; Cumbria Act 1982 refers to Cumbria comprising the following areas before the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 The county boroughs of Carlisle and Barrow in Furriness...

CJ 26.04.1949 p2 CJ 03.05.1949 p2 CJ 10.05.1949 p2 CJ 17.05.1949 p2

CJ 24.05.1949 p2

CJ 16.04.1937 p8 Budget speech

CN 16.07.1949 p4 Evening meetings introduced

CJ 21.04.1950 p1 Shortest ever meeting of City Council

CN 30.11.1990 p3 Strike threat over jobs axe

CN 14.12.1990 p6 Jobs demo

CN 31.05.1991 p23 City goes for title

CN 14.06.1991 p1 Blunder lets in city Tories

CN 11.10.1991 p7 Empty homes scandal

CN 22.11.1991 p4 Battle to retain democratic council

CN 08.01.1992 p9 City to get tough as cap looms

CN 19.06.1992 p9 Taking council into the country

CN 19.06.1992 p14 City moves to country

CN 11.09.1992 p16 City owes £213,000

CN 27.11.1992 p4 Slanging match over councils (history)

CN 19.02.1993 p17 Cuts hit kids

CN 23.04.1993 p15 City scores first award

CN 04.02.1994 p5 Contracts save jobs

CN 22.04.1994 p3 Carlisle tests opinion in 17 wards

CN 22.04.1994 p17 500 want city to go it alone

CN 25.11.1994 p16 Keeping you informed; statistics

CN 09.12.1994 p1 City poised to write off £400,000 debt

CN 16.12.1994 p1 Debt written off

CN 24.03.1995 p5 City loses status battle

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

CN 15.12.1995 p13 Statistics

CN 22.03.1996 p3 City council told whoppers to get cash

CN 05.04.1996 p3 Next month elections - preview

CN 03.05.1996 p12 Council cleared of malpractice

CN 24.05.1996 p2 Steady as she goes in council’s new year

CN 24.05.1996 p6 Council leader astonished over attack

CN 02.08.1996 p3 City survey

CN 01.11.1996 p5 (Illus) Row looms as city sets aside £4,000 for mayoral gifts

CN 01.11.1996 p13 City council statistics

CN 14.11.1996 p5 Planning bid councillor’s judgement was faulty

CN 29.08.1997 p2 Council writes off bad debts but chases £500,000

CN 05.09.1997 p4 Candidates chosen for city council by-election battles

CN 31.10.1997 p15 City Council statistics

CN 14.11.1997 p6 Chose a councillor at the checkout

CN 12.12.1997 p5 Money, money everywhere and not a lot to spend

CN 09.01.1998 p11 Whatever happened to the airport study?

CN 01.05.1998 p5 18 council wards up for grabs

CN 15.05.1998 p3 City considers mail order vote

CN 15.05.1998 p16 Apathy at poles and results

CN 19.06.1998 p1 New cuts

CN 14.08.1998 p3 DSO profit helps housing account

CN 04.09.1998 p10 Mayors, cabinets and our new look local councillors

CN 30.10.1998 p21 Statistics

CN 23.12.1998 p10 John Burnet column

CN 29.01.1999 p1 (illus) City ‘logo’ pagan

CN 27.08.1999 p5 200 chase job of council boss

CN 03.09.1999 p5 74 apply for £71,000 job

CN 17.09.1999 p12 Mr Carlisle - Mr Bradbury

CN 01.10.1999 p1 Peter Stybelski new chief executive

CN 19.11.1999 p18 Statistics - performance indicators

CN 11.02.2000 p2 City share of council tax to fall by £5

CN 28.04.2000 p1 Chief to retire - Viv Dodds

CN 28.04.2000 p12 Keep it in the family - elections

CN 05.05.2000 p1 Verdict on Tories - elections

CN 12.05.2000 p4 5 new kids on the blocks - election results

CN 01.12.2000 p13 Letter concerning move to cabinet style local government?

CN 15.12.2000 p3 Suggested radical alterations to running of local government

CN 15.12.2000 p12 Opinion

CN 29.12.2000 p4 Council’s Millennium grants

CN 19.01.2001 p5 Poll rejects elected Mayor

CN 23.02.2001 p7 City opts for leader and cabinet

CN 30.03.2001 p7 City Council invites tenders for management of leisure services

CN 03.08.2001 p1 Audit Commission report highlights rift between city and county

CN 03.08.2001 p14 Letter; local government rift between city and county

CN 21.09.2001 p3 City Cabinet meets for the first time this week

CN 12.10.2001 p13 Letters concerning war between the city and council

CN 07.12.2001 p13 Letter concerning city and county councils failure of poor

CN 18.01.2002 p3 Report on low morale and absenteeism of council workers

CN 01.03.2002 pp8, 12 12 days each year sick leave for city council workers

CN 08.03.2002 p13 Letter; following report Are heads to roll at Civic Centre?

CN 05.07.2002 p3 Fears of shake up of staff after review. Tullie Hse head goes

CN 02.08.2002 p6 City council ignores own planning rules; maladministration

CN 11.03.2005 p3 Maggie Mooney appointed new chief executive

CN 10.03.2006 p6 Review into city council accounts

CN 12.01.2007 p13 Letters concerning proposed unitary authority;p13 feature

 

EXPENSES

CN 03.07.1992 p1 £342,000 expenses for county councillors

CN 19.08.1994 p12 £75,000 expenses

CN 02.07.1999 p4 Expenses list

CN 14.09.2001 p1 City Council leaders 75% pay rise; opinion p12

CN 24.06.2005 p5 City councillors put in claims for £315,000

 

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

CN 30.10.1998 p21

CN 19.11.1999 p18

 

PLATE AND INSIGNIA

CP 09.04.1880 Carlisle Corporation plate and insignia

CN 20.07.1946 Silver cup with inscription ‘Corp. of Carlisle 1727 AD’

 

WOMEN

CN 31.10.1953 p8 First woman to stand in municipal elections 1911

CN 03.05.1987 p10 Women councillors

 

CITY CYCLE CO Botchergate

CD 1902-03 Ad p12

CD 1905-06 Ad p110

CD 1907-08 Ad p136

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; p33 photo of City Cycle Co 1890s

 

CITY DINER English Street; formerly the Citadel

ENS 12.04.1986 City dinner take over

 

CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL Fusehill St

See also Cumberland Infirmary

Built 1863-4 as Union Workhouse (CAIH p44); under the Local Government Act of 1929, Boards of Guardians were abolished and the Fusehilll Institution was transferred to Carlisle Corporation. The section of the Institution which were the sick wards were used more and more for general hospital purposes, and under powers contained in the Public Health Act 1936, the Corporation appropriated this separate building for hospital purposes and gave it the name the City General Hospital. Thus within the same curtilage was the Fusehill Institution and the City General Hospital, both administered by the Corporation. First matron of the City General was appointed in 1937. On the 1939 Register there are 155 people listed, including staff, under Fusehill Street, Public Assistance Institute, 2 Broad Street, Carlisle. In June 1940, Fusehill Institution became an acute emergency war-time hospital catering solely for service and other war casualties; the chronic sick and non-sick cases in the Institution were transferred elsewhere. After the war the Institution resumed admission of the aged and chronic sick. In 1946 there was a greatly increased need for maternity beds in the area and the city council arranged for the ear, nose and throat work and gynaecological work to be transferred from the City General to the Institution. The City General was then adapted for maternity cases and its name changed to the City Maternity Hospital; for a temporary period the name City General Hospital was not associated with any hospital building in Carlisle. The passing of the National Health Act in 1946 and the appointment of the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board resulted in both the Institution and the City Maternity Hospital being included in the group of hospitals placed under the control of the East Cumberland Hospital Management Committee whose administrative functions began on 5th July 1948. The change of control saw the disappearance of the title Fusehill Institution as the building was renamed City General Hospital; schemes of improvement were put in place and a decision to build a geriatric department, the Harston wards, on the Broad Street end of the site was made. Building work began on 1st October 1952 and work was completed on the 56 bed extension in May 1954, these additions raising the bed compliment to 200. The Harston Wards were officially opened on 9th July 1954

ENS 10.07.1954

CJ 19.10.1937 p1 Alleged 70 hours work at Fusehill Hospital

CJ 20.06.1939 p1 Fusehill to be war hospital

CJ 23.06.1939 p12 Fusehill to be war hospital

CJ 04.04.1950 p1 City General hospital Reserve (Civil Defence)

ENS 01.01.1960 p2 City chest hospital closed

CN 20.06.1969 p14 City maternity hospital

Carlisle People and Places p57 Photo of City Maternity staff; 1960s

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p181 Photo of Matron,J.C.Harper

CN 07.06.1974 p8 Photo of patients and staff of City General in 1918

CN 09.11.1990 p25 Hospital closure petition

CN 22.01.1993 pp1,12 Blackout babies born by torchlight

CN 01.10.1993 p7 £55,000 hospital appeal

CN 17.02.1995 p10 Exposed security gaps

CN 13.03.1998 p1 College may buy hospital site

CN 27.11.1998 p5 Give us our room to grieve (childbirth deaths)

CN 24.03.2000 p8 How the palace of the poor became the City General

CN 14.04.2000 p3 Portrait of an end of era - closure of city maternity hospital

CN 26.09.2003 p3 Obstetrician Josephine Williamson dies; feature

 

CITY HALL Castle Street; Opening of reconstructed City Hall 26.11.1956. Premises originally auction rooms and were acquired by corporation in 1892 as an addition to Tullie House

CIC2 p13

CJ 02.11.1956 p6 CN 02.11.1956 p9 CN 23.11.1956 p1 (illus)

CJ 18.10.1887 New auction rooms to be called City Hall

CJ 02.03.1888 new hall some time in course of erection for Mr Dalton

ECN 21.04.1888 p7e Opening of new City Hall, Castle St for Mr Dalton

CJ 10.07.1903 The hall was purchased to enable the Corporation to make a much needed extension to Tullie House

CN 23.11.1956 illustration of altered facade

CN 12.09.1958 p1 Alterations

 

CITY MATERNITY HOSPITAL see CITY GENERAL

 

‘CITY OF CARLISLE’ ship

CN 23.02.1946 p5

 

‘CITY OF CARLISLE’ Engine nameplate; Stanier Princess Coronation class Pacific no 46238 built in Crewe in 1939. Destreamlined 1947 and withdrawn from service in 1964. One nameplate in Tullie House, other nameplate was in Crown and Mitre Hotel and sold at auction 09.12.2000 (ENS 29.11.2000 p14)

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p62 46238 photo of loco

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p62 Unveiling new City of Carlisle crest 1995

CN 08.12.2000 p13 Letter concerning sale of locomotive sign

 

CITY OF CARLISLE ORCHESTRA

CN 27.11.2009 p14 Conductor John Hammond steps down after 33 years. Previously called Eden Concert Orchestra

CN 29.06.2012 p32 50th anniversary concert

 

CITY PICTUREHOUSE see CITY CINEMA

 

CITY PRESERVATION SOCIETY

See also LANES

CN 10.11.1972 p13 CN 06.12.1974 p6 CN 02.04.1976 p24

 

CITY RESTAURANT Opposite Gaol

CD 1884-85 Ad p272 under new management of Mrs R Carruthers

 

CITY VAULTS INN Fisher Street; in local directories 1861 - 1921

City Minutes 1921-22 p 157 Closed 15.01.1921

 

CITY WALLS

See also WALLS, WEST WALLS

CAIH p10

CN 17.01.1997 p10 When the walls that defended the city were breached

 

CIVIC CENTRE 135 feet high from ground, 11 storeys high, general contractor John Laing [Civic Affairs No 2 pt1] construction of reinforced concrete, externally clad in white mosaic and exposed aggregate panels of grey-green Kentish flint are under-scored with plinths of pink mosaic which are in keeping with the red sandstone theme of other buildings in the city [Team Spirit April 1964] ; Opened 12.03.1964, architects Charles Pearson, Son and Partners, Manchester. Octagon under demolition October 2021

D Perriam Lowther Street p57 The 1956 model of how the Civic Centre would look originally incorporated a new Civic Hall, which was never built. There had been plans for a new Town Hall going back into the 19th century. Slum clearance made a large area in Rickergate available for development.

CJ 02.08.1957 p7 (illus) CN 02.08.1957 p6 (illus) CN 16.08.1957 pp1,6

CJ 13.03.1964 pp7-9 (illus) CN 13.03.1964 Special supplement (illus)

Civic Affairs No 2 p1 (illus)

Team Spirit November 1962 p8 (illus)

Team Spirit April 1964 pp4-5 (illus) Tower block 93 feet X 79 feet and 146 feet high

ENS 31.07.1957 p1 (illus) New Town Tall - winning design

ENS 23.09.1957 p5 Civic Centre criticism answered

ENS 28.02.1962 p5 Start on building (illus)

ENS 11.04.1962 p19 New view of skyline (illus)

Cumberland News Images of Carlisle p10 Photo of construction beginning in 1961

ENS 12.02.1963 p1 (illus) Civic Centre probe

ENS 19.10.1963 p3 Civic party climbs 230 steps

ENS 21.10.1963 p7 (illus)

ENS 11.11.1963 p1 May get local furnishings

ENS 12.03.1964 p1 Mayor opens Civic Centre

ENS 25.03.1964 p1 Coins in the fountain

CN 26.11.1993 p1 Efficient money

CN 10.02.1995 p5 Burglars grab cash from Civic Centre

ENS 15.04.1996 p5 (illus) Para Andy shows off his nerves of steel

ENS 17.04.1996 p1 Fergies down and out

CN 19.04.1996 p1 Tax theft sparks Civic Centre review

CN 01.11.1996 p1 The building with 874 panes in the neck

CN 21.03.1997 p10 Foundations dig

CN 26.09.1997 p4 Bulldoze Civic Centre before they preserve it

CN 14.11.1997 p1 (illus) Flatten the Civic Centre

CN 14.11.1997 p10 High risks ahead

CN 21.11.1997 p3 Build the new Civic Centre HQ in Botchergate

CN 21.11.1997 p11 (illus) Bulldoze the Civic Centre, scrap the airport, forget ...

CN 28.11.1997 p10 Civic dissenters

CN 05.12.1997 p4 New Civic HQ could cost £11m

CN 23.01.1998 p12 Secrets that lurk beneath the Civic Centre

CN 22.10.2004 p3 Branded monstrosity by RIBA president

08.01.2005 Civic centre inundated by great flood

CN 04.02.2005 p3 Staff will return to Civic Centre next week

CN 21.04.2006 p5 reopens after floods

CN 20.11.2015 Property sales pp10-11. For sale the Octagon building after police vacate

CN 04.08.2017 p13 Long letter in favour of the Civic Centre building

 

CIVIC MOMENTOES

CN 13.08.1965 p10 (illus)

 

CIVIC REGALIA

See MAYOR’S CHAIN, SWORDS AND MACES

 

CIVIC TRUST Founded 15.07.1965

CJ 16.07.1965 p1 CN 16.07.1965 p11 CJ 08.10.1965 p14

CN 09.06.1972 p1 Lanes

CN 30.09.1988 p1 Trust hits at DIY houses

CN 03.03.1989 p40 Project teams win Civic Trust awards

CN 12.01.1990 p11 Trust look at city area

CN 02.02.1990 p23 Civic Trust awards

CN 12.03.1993 p22 Co-tops Trust awards

CN 08.02.2002 p12 Civic Trust’s likes and dislikes on city buildings

 

CIVIC WEEK

ENS 06.08.1928 p2 Awards

ENS 07.08.1928 p2 Awards

CN 11.01.1991 p4 Right royal visit as city relived history

 

CIVIL DEFENCE Chertsey Hill HQ

ENS 26.10.1959 p5 Mayor opens new HQ

 

CIVIL WAR Carlisle besieged by Scottish Covenanters under General Leslie from October 1644 for 9 months; after surrender Scottish forces held the city until 1647; the city came under Royalist control for a brief period in 1648.

Defensive earthworks or stockades were built by the Scots at strategic points around the city in 1644, near Newtown to the west, at Stanwix to the north, Botcherby to the east and Harraby to the south, near Gallows Hill and at various other sites. The number of the besiegers was reckoned about 4,000 foot and horse and the defenders at 700 men under the command of Sir Thomas Glemham [estimated figures by Tullie]. It was a siege of containment and attrition, the Scots not once assaulting the walls. Skirmishes were fought over cattle that pastured in the fields outside the city and there were raids on the Scottish works. The suburbs were destroyed by the defenders giving them a field of fire, Botchery Mill having said to be burnt by the Cavaliers. It seems likely, in the light of repairs to the walls that the Scots kept up a steady bombardment of the city. Throughout the siege raiding parties from the city seized grain, horses and cattle; on April 3rd 1645 the beleaguered garrison raided Scotby carrying back cattle, the Royalists succeeded in driving 42 head of cattle into the city with the loss of one horse and one cow, a great bog at Durranhill preventing the Parliamentarians from reaching them [Isaac Tullie] In response the Scots built another earthen works at Caldcotes Bank, where Port Road Industrial estate stands today. Early in the siege the Royalist garrison decided to collect all the coin and silver plate in the city in order to produce siege coins to allow business within the city to continue. Food ran short; men ate at first horses and then rats and dogs interspersed with cows flesh when a successful raid brought some cattle in. In April 1645 the Parliamentary committee in Cumberland and Westmorland resolved to take over the siege of Carlisle. The Scots declined to withdraw but after some quarrelling the Scots and English agreed to cooperate. The English were keen to press the siege and get rid of the Scots. The city looked for relief, it was promised, but none came. On June 14th 1645 the king suffered a crushing defeat at Naseby. On 23rd June the citizenry told Glemham they could endure no more and at last the defenders asked for terms. On June 25th the articles of surrender for the city were agreed, with terms honourable to the garrison, the soldiers marching out on June 28th to be replaced by a Scottish garrison. The English Parliament was not at all pleased that Scots had taken possession of the city. The Scots sat tight before they began to depart on 20th January 1647.

D Perriam and D.Ramshaw Carlisle First Learning Centre; Tullie House, 2016 pp 13-16

See also Siege coins; Siege of 1644-45

Tullie, Isaac Siege of Carlisle

G.Topping Memories of Old Carlisle pp32-44

CAIH p30

CN 10.11.2000 p9 Cromwell’s Main Guard in Market Place

CWAAS OS Vol 7 pp48 - 63 Carlisle during the siege of 1644-4

Round Carlisle Cross Volume 7 The Siege of Carlisle in 1644-45 pp11-28

CJ 11.01.1949 p2 CJ 18.01.1949 p2

 

CLAN MOTORWAYS LTD

City Minutes 1927-28 p622 Licensed to operate Newcastle/Glasgow via city

 

CLAPPERTONS Lowther St

Taxi cabs

CD 1920 Ad p146

 

CLARENCE STREET Off Richardson Street Appears on the electoral register from 1896-7

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists two properties here

 

CLARK, D Waterloo Foundry, Water Street, west side of station [location 1851]; 1851 Ward’s North of England Directory p8 ad; late Thos.Burgess; 1851 census Daniel Clark, aged 38, iron and brass founder employing 12 men, born Kirkbride, home address Wood Street [near Water St]; Daniel Clark, aged 48, iron and brassfounder, aged 48, employing 16 men and 5 boys, born Kirkbride, home address Waterloo Foundry [1861 census]; Daniel Clark died 09.01.1880 [Mon. Ins 36/7]; 1901 Waterloo Foundry, St Nicholas Street [Bulmer 1910], the foundry moving there, and taking with it its name, following the enlargement of the railway station [CWAAS OS Vol 6 p430].The D.Clark name is still to be seen on many drain covers in the city. At the entrance to Burgh by Sands Church is a cast iron lamp post marked D.Clark, Carlisle [2007]. According to an advertisement I have seen the Exors of Daniel Clark were contracted to supply Cumberland County Council with metal guide and mile posts. Daniel Clark’s daughter, Mary Ann, married a George G Hayward. On the 1911 census she is a widow, head of household at Waterloo House, St Nicholas. Living with her is her son George Clark Hayward, aged 36, iron founder/ molder. At 31 Arthur Street in the city is a Daniel Clark Hayward, aged 33, foundry manager. On the 1939 Register George Clark Hayward is living at Broad Street, Carlisle, and is described as an iron founder/ mechanical engineer

CD 1931 Ad p304

 

CLARK, John Devonshire St

Photographers

CD 1966-68 p290

 

CLARK,R. and C. Kingmoor Road

Newsagents

Strong lad wanted for strong lass; pp69 H. Davies memories of shop in 1950s

CD 1952 Ad p377

 

CLARK,R.N. Greenmarket

Chemists

CD 1952 Ad p277

 

CLARK and Son Bank St

Tailors

CD 1893-94 Ad p38

 

CLARK BROTHERS Seed merchants

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 Stanwix Nursery Grounds and 36 Lowther Street

Moved from Lowther St to Scotch Street in 1872

The Lanes Remembered pp16-17 memories of business in 1950s and photo of Scotch St shop front; also p21 photo

1891 census; William Clark, seed merchant, born Scotland, aged 48, home Chatsworth Square

CD 1920 Ad p12

CD 1924 Ad p8

CD 1927 Ad p10

CD 1931 Ad p48

CD 1934 Ad p40

CD 1937 Ad p40

CD 1940 Ad p40

CD 1952 Ad p344

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p262

CD 1955-56 Ad p266

CD 1961-62 Ad p94

CD 1966-68 Ad p297

CN 14.08.1964 p10 (illus of 1875)

 

CLARK DOORS Willow Holme then Kingmoor Park

CN 21.03.2003 p5 Wins contract for doors for Welsh Millennium Centre

CN 28.11.2003 p 18 Firm established 1973; bought out by management team 1991

CN 04.06.2004 p14 Last minute order for Greek Olympic games this summer

CN 21.01.2005 p 13 Feature on business devastated by flood

CN 04.11.2005 p14 Annual turnover 4m; Hong Kong order

CN 23.09.2011 p6 Feature on company

 

CLARKE, Robson Bleaching concern, St Cuthbert’ Lane [Jollie 1811 pp 83, xi]

 

CLARKE, Thomas Currier, aged 43, employing 6 men and 1 apprentice, home address 7 the Crescent, born Sebergham [1851 census]

 

CLARKE AND CARTMEL

Mr Cartmel, who held the office of City Treasurer for nearly 40 years was born on 19.09.1814, his father having settled in the city, and carried on a business as a tanner. `He served his apprenticeship as a tanner with his relative Mr James Cartmel and in 1836 commenced business on his own in premises in Irish Damside which he had inherited. After managing the tannery on his own for some years he entered into partnership with Mr Thomas Clarke, currier, and under the name of Clarke and Catmel, the two trades were carried on together. [Obit of Isaac Cartmel CJ 25.09.1888 p2]

 

CLARKE’S COURT

Slee, M Older Carlisle (illus) p9

30.05.1899 Robert Dalton offered for sale property which formed the former Crown and MItre Hotel and the property behind which included, as Lot 5, Clarke’s Court and Doninson’s Court. Clarke’s Court stood on the Crown and Mitre car park

 

CLARKES PLACE, Charlotte Street [1934 Directory]

 

CLARK’S COURT 70 Charlotte Street [1880 Directory]

 

CLARK’S COURT 22 South John Street [1880 Directory]

 

CLARK’S COURT 32 Saint Cuthbert’s Lane [1880 Directory]

 

CLARK’S COURT, 28 Saint Cuthbert’s Lane [1880 Directory]

 

CLARK’S FIELD, Scotland Road

CN 16.01.2009 p9 Part of sports field may be built upon for medical centre

 

CLARK’S GARAGE St Nicholas

Motor repairs

CD 1931 Ad p315

 

CLARKSONS Motorcycles

CN 15.05.1992 p16

CN 03.09.1993 p14 End of road for city bike business

 

CLARKS SHOP, Kingmoor Road. Photo D.Perriam Stanwix p106

 

CLASSIC MODELS Lowther Street

CN 11.09.1987 p6 Ad

 

CLASSICS, Castle Street

CN 16.01.2009 p6 Shop to close

 

CLASSIC WORLD OF FITNESS Chapel Street

CN 12.09.1997 p12 New gym

Cumbria Life March/April 1999 No 63 2A 9

 

CLAY DAUBBINS 1820 see G.Topping Memories of Carlisle pp133-4 for mentions of clay daubbins

 

CLAY PIT

City Minutes 1933-34 p 70 Worked out clay pit behind Henderson Rd given to city by Laings

 

CLEGG and Sons 22 Scotch

Wallpaper shop

CD 1966-68 Ad p290

 

CLEMENT PLACE, Blackwell Rd Noted between 1891 - 1906

 

CLEMENTINA TERRACE

City Council Minutes 1896/97 p 170 Approval for 6 houses

 

CLEMENTS,J Castle Street; Castle Street shop demolished 1925 to make way for new St Mary’s Gate

Dealers

Carlisle in Camera 1 p55 60 Castle St; photo of shop in 1902

CD 1902-03 Ad p53

 

CLEMENTS ANTIQUES Fisher Street

Antiques

CN 18.01.2002 p3 Firm closes after 115 years; founded 1887 in Castle St

 

CLEMITSON, Thomas Silk mercer and draper, aged 32, employing 5 men, born Cargo, home address 28 English Street [1851 census]

 

CLERGY

CJ 17.06.1938 p7 Diocesan conference

CJ 27.09.1946 p5 List of vicars and clergy in Carlisle Diocese and District

CN 07.06.1991 p5 Service makes history

CN 21.02.1992 p10 Crisis for the clergy

CN 21.02.1992 p5 Cash call in recession hit church

CN 16.04.1992 p7 Making vows again

CN 08.04.1994 p20 Two women priests for city's largest parish

CN 04.10.1996 p4 Clergy rally to end women priests

CN 19.02.1999 p1 Catholic priest bans ancient throat blessing ceremonies

 

CLERK, John and Co Cotton manufacturers; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784

 

CLERKS OF THE PEACE John Nanson 1877-1891; A.H.Collingwood 1892-1929; F.G.Webster 1930-1944; H.D.A.Robinson 1945-1968; W.Hirst 1969-71

 

CLIFFE, Henry Cliffe and Co, Damside, Spinning mill, [A Picture of Carlisle and Directory, printed for and by A.Henderson, in the Market Place, 1810, p116] Cotton twist mill and muslin manufacturer, West Walls [Jollie 1811 pp 83, xi]; took over works from his father in law William Wood about 1807; business closed in 1817 [CN 14.04.2006 p11]

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

 

CLIFFORD STREET

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

 

CLIFTON STREET On 1908-09 voters list

City minutes 1909-10 p531 Approval for 9 houses

 

CLIFT STREET

City Minutes 1893-94 p 331 Approval for laying out new street

City Minutes 1898-99 p96 Approval for 6 houses

City Minutes 1933-34 p372 Permission for 10 houses

 

CLOCKMAKERS

See Penfold ‘Clockmakers of Cumberland’ 1B 681

CN 07.12.1990 p4 Aussie’s county link

 

CLOCKS, Public

See also Cathedral Clock; Town Hall Clock

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

CN 12.10.1973 p6

CP 16.10.1903 p6 Dedication of new tower clock in Stanwix Church

CJ 17.11.1933 p5 A novel invention

ENS 27.11.1999 p13 (illus) New MM clock; Our Lady and St Joseph’s

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

 

CLOGGERS

CJ 24.09.1948 p2 CN 08.01.1965 p1 (illus)

1811 Jollie’s Directory pxii John Dalton clog maker

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p53 ‘clogger’ Graham in 1930s, Denton Holme

We wore black clogs to school, you could be heard a mile off, leather tops and a clasp to fasten them. You’d have iron caulkers on the soul which would get worn down and need replacing. You’d go to Dodd’s on Port Road, he’d charge you a penny for one clog or three ha’ppence for two. [memory of lady who went to St Bede’s School circa 1934

CJ 08.04.1938 p8 Clog making

CJ 09.03.1943 Potters, Watsons, Sproats

CN 21.07.1989 p4 Clog shop

CN 14.01.2005 p18 Thoughts on clog wearing in city; D. Perriam

 

CLOSE CIRCUIT TELEVISION

CN 21.01.1994 p15 Spy camera bid to beat crime

CN 24.06.1994 p12 Security fact finders on camera

CN 28.10.1994 p15 City's security award

CN 16.12.1994 p7 Work starts on spy cameras

CN 27.01.1995 p5 Car park camera plan

CN 03.02.1995 p3 Spies switched on

CN 02.06.1995 p1 Camera scheme

CN 17.11.1995 p7 Long eye of the law reaches further

CN 02.02.1996 p8 Private firm wants spy camera tested

ENS 02.05.1996 p5 Spy cameras cut shop crime by half

CN 18.10.1996 Cameras set to catch court vandals

CN 25.10.1996 p6 Villages may get spy cameras and security guards

CN 21.03.1997 p5 In court

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

CN 04.08.2000 p3 Camera success at crime troublespot - Five Roads End

CN 17.11.2000 p5 Call for CCTV cameras at crime hit Kingstown complex

CN 16.08.2002 p12 Does CCTV cut crime? Carlisle has 38 cameras

 

CLOSE COTTAGES 1924 Carlisle Directory lists under Well Lane, Stanwix

 

CLOSE STREET Two streets Tait Street and Close Street recall two of our Deans [CJ 05.05.1914]; first named in the 1880 Carlisle Directory

CN 19.01.2007 p75 8 new apartments for sale, opposite church at west end

 

THE CLUB see A.F.S.CLUB, Victoria Rd

 

CLUB 35 In ex Liberal club premises 2008- 2013.

 

CLUCAS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 112 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 110-112 Milbourne Street

 

CLUTTERBUCK, WILLIAMS and MAWSON Solicitors

CN 30.04.1971 p15

 

CLYDESDALE BANK Bank Street; built for Clydsedale Bank in 1878 by Messrs Charles Armstrong

CJ 31.03.1874 p2 Sale of site of

CJ 24.04.1875 p5 Scottish banks in England

CJ 14.03.1879 Progressing; great ornament to Bank St

CN 25.12.1948 p5 (illus) Coat of Arms

CJ 24.02.1950 p3 Clydesdale and North of Scotland bank coat of arms

CN 03.02.1995 p9 Banks £1m deposit

CN 13.10.1995 p9 Clydesdale £1m deposit`

CN 20.10.1995 p7 New manager appointed

CN 27.10.1995 p11 Bank branch rolls out the service

CN 03.11.1995 p15 £1m bank branch offers £1m loans

CN 16.02.2001 p14 Clydesdale Bank on move to English Street

CN 27.04.2001 p16 Opening of new premises on English Street on 23.04. ad p19

CN 06.10.2006 p18 Official opening of new branch at Kingstown

 

CLYDESDALE HOUSE, Currock

William Finlay died Clydesdale House Currock, 31.12.1913 [MI U86/4]

 

CMB BEVAN see METAL BOX

 

CMD Ltd Heads Lane, Shaddongate

Milk distributors

CD 1952 Ad p330

 

CN GROUP Media group

See also Cumberland News

CN 13.04.2001 p17 Group takes over two more radio stations

CN 13.05.2005 p18 CN Radio owns 8 commercial stations across UK

 

COACH AND HORSES INN Blackfriars St

Photo showing premises in D.Perriam Blackfriars Street, p13

1829 Directory p 163 Joseph Hall

1861 census Mary Willis, innkeeper, aged 42, born Wigton

1891 census; James Barker, 31, innkeeper, born Sheffield

1901 census James Barker, innkeeper, aged 41, born Sheffield

ENS 02.11.1916 Closure

 

COACH AND HORSES INN Kingstown; new building completed 10.08.1929 to the designs of Harry Redfern; builders J.and R.Bell of Carlisle; sold 13.11.1972

CJ 03.04.1857 p1 Beer house to let

1901 census; William Bainbridge, 49, bn Crosby on Eden

CIC2 p60 Photo of old pub

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection; p96 exterior of new pub

Renaissance of the English Public House p68 layout plan new pub; opp p76 photo

Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 p142-5

Spectator 20.09.1930 ‘Charming old brick inn with a small garden of stocks, gladiolas and roses’

CJ 29.10.1929 p2 photo of completed inn

CJ 24.11.1936 Close up of SMS sign as exhibited in London

CN 18.10.1991 p4 (Illus)

CN 16.07.1976 (illus) p 27 Ad feature

ENS 05.09.1979 p3 Pub toasts local legend Jos

CN 22.01.2010 p 67 For sale; photo

CN 29.01.2010 p 4 Obit of Alex Parker, ex Everton and Scotland footballer, who was landlord at the Coach and Horses for 13 years before retiring in 1997

 

COACH CUISINE

CN 24.01.1997 p12 David’s new link in food chain

 

COACH GUARDS

CJ 08.03.1949 p2

 

COACHING First mail coach to run into Carlisle 1785; last mail coach ran from Carlisle to Hawick 31.08.1862

CN 13.03.1948 p5 CN 15.08.1958 p8 CN 07.02.1975 p6

CPacquet 16.05.1780 p1New post coach Carlisle, Leeds, London; in three days

CPacquet 16.05.1780 p1New post coach Carlisle, Doncaster, London; three days

CPacquet 07.12.1785 Arrival and despatch of mails

Universal Directory 1793-98 p630-1 List of mail and stage coach; fares

1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p 117-8 List of mail and post coaches

1811 Jollie’s Directory pvi list of various coaches departing city

CP 08.05.1819 p1b Ad for the Regulator to Liverpool and Manchester

CP 20.11.1819 p2b New coach ‘The Royal Pilot’ to Manchester, London, Liverpool

15.11.1820 died J. Johnston, Guard London Mail, Mon Insc St Mary’s [Cathedral];

CP 24.11.1821 p3a Carlisle to London now with only one night out of bed

CP 01.12.1821 p3b Mail coach leaves Carlisle 11am arrives Newcastle 7.30pm

1821 New Guide to Carlisle pp72-3 Arrival and departure of the Mails; list

25.08.1829 MI High Hesket Churchyard; Joseph Schollick, mail coach contractor and coach maker died after a short illness 25.08.1829 aged 43

CJ 08.03.1949 p2 Coach guards

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

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

CN 28.02.1986 p4 When city was centre for mail coaches (Crown and Mitre)

CN 30.12.1988 p4 Coaching trade that lost to railways

CN 27.10.1989 p4 Memories of city mail coach kings

 

COACHING INNS AND SERVICES

CN 10.01.1975 p6 07.02.1975 p6

 

COACHMAKERS ARMS Rickergate; in local directories 1847 - 1855 [Stephen Davidson says this was the Durham Ox, both before and after these dates]

CJ 29.08.1856 Ad for sale, Coachmakers Arms formerly Durham Ox

 

COAL DISTRIBUTION CENTRE Botcherby

CN 24.04.1970 p1

 

COBBLERS

CN 21.06.2002 p3 Thompsons closes after 150 years; very few shoe repair shops

 

COBDEN STREET Radical sympathisers named this street after Richard Cobden MP [CAIH p49]

 

COCHRANE, T.H.

CD 1893-94 Photographer 32 English St

 

COCKBAIN Tool manufacturers

Moulding with makers name noted

 

COCKBURN, John

CJ 21.09.1833 p1b Printing, bookselling, bookbinding and stationery

Stone still erect in Holy Trinity churchyard to a John Cockburn, Fisher Street, died 14 Sept 1835

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

CN 09.10.2009 p32 Denis Perriam. John had a printing works at the Castle end of West Tower Street. The painted sign is still visible on the brickworks ‘Carlisle Print Works’

 

COCKBURN, John and Alexander

CN 09.10.2009 p32 Clay pipe manufacturers [tobacco] on Shaddogate. At least there in 1826. See also John Cockburn printer

 

COCK FIGHTING /PIT 1785 Sir James Lowther erected cockpit in a court on the west side of Lowther Street, where it stood until 1876. Cockfighting banned nationally in 1835 and 1849

see Burgess and Hayton

D Perriam Lowther Street p34 Cockpit taken in 1834 by Thomas Burgess as an iron and brass foundry when in partnership with Thomas Insall. James Dand was in possession by 1839. Illustrations

Newcastle Courant 29.01.1725-26 That a main of 31 cocks will be fought 1st - 4th March

CROP D/Mho/Vol 3 Dean and Chapter lease book p155 In Castle Street ‘lately built’ at Mr George Lindow’s burgle, now sold for £15.00, 1776

CPacquet 25.04.1780 Cock fighting a poem, signed BM Denton HIll, Gosforth

CJ 29.03.1828 Cock fight at Stanwix, prize 20 guineas

CWAAS OS Vol 9, 1888, p377; p380 references to modern references

CROP Ca/E4/2602 Cock Pit, Lowther Street. Andrew Littleness joiner’s shop on site of old cock pit, 1877

CN 18.01.1930 p9 CN 05.04.1952 p4 (illus) CN 05.12.1953 p8 (illus)

CPacquet 25.06.1782 p3 Ad for cock fight at Grapes Pit, Carlisle

CN 04.03.1977 p6 (illus)

 

COCKLES ROW Now known as Citadel Row [1880 Directory]

See also Cuckold’s Row

 

COCKPIT YARD; Lowther St 1851 Report of General Board of Health....Carlisle; R.Rawlinson 1BC 625 p52 pigsties and innumerable nuisances

 

COCOA AND COFFEE HOUSE CO Viaduct

First Cocoa Room opened in Botchergate June 1878

CP 11.11.1887 p7 Opening of

CN 26.03.1970 p15

 

COFFEE

CN 02.12.1994 p5 City goes expresso bonkers

 

COFFEE HOUSE see CROWN AND MITRE

 

COFFEE HOUSE LANE, 6 English Street [1880 Directory]

 

COGAN Hairdresser and Tobacconist, Viaduct Buildings on Randall Street

D.Perriam Denton Holme Photo p92

 

COIAS CAFE, Lowther Street. run by Anna Coia circa 1909. Photo in D Perriam’s Lowther Street, p28

 

COINS

CN 01.10.2004 p3 Silver coins struck in city 900 years ago found in French hoard

See also MINT, SIEGE COINS

 

COLEDALE HALL Newtown Road; built 1810 for Henry Fawcett MP for Carlisle

Carlisle an illustrated history p52 modern day photo of house

1746 Smiths map of Carlisle and the countries adjacent marks a Cowdle Hall in Newtown

CJ 29.04.1921 p11 CN 16.05.1936 p6

CPacquet 10.10.1809 p3c ad Cowdale Hall estate, Newtown Road for sale

CJ 26.05.1810 p4 Laying of foundation stone of Cowdale Hall

CJ 06.03.1819 p2 Coldale Hall for sale; newly erected mansion

CP 13.03.1819 p1 Newly erected Coldale Hall for sale; Joseph Ferguson, tenant

W.Farish Handloom Weaver p17 Rev J.Wilson’s School at Coaldale Hall, 1829

1834 Pigot’s Rev.Jonathan Wilson, Caldale Hall; gentleman’s boarding school

CJ 28.02.1846 Internal alterations

1847 Directory p 153 George Mould Esq of Coldale Hall

CP 28.09.1850 p2b To be let or sold; recently enlarged; chequered marble floor

Manchester Guardian 11.06.1851 Ad p1For sale on 23rd June; detailed description

1861 census Jonathan Dodgson Carr, biscuit maker, bn Kendal

31.10.1873 David William Fairlee, aged 14, died Coledale Hall [MI 35/4]

08.01.1901 James Fairlee died Coledale Hall [MI 74/4]

1901 census Elizabeth Carr, aged 66, bn Carlisle

1918 Electoral Register Frances and Tom Armstrong

16.11.1919 Tom Armstrong died Coledale Hall [MI 46/60]

City Minutes 1925-6 p96 Application for use of hall for Friendless Girls

ENS 11.01.1926 To be home for friendless girls

CJ 16.05.1939 p3 Public learning to appreciate...

CJ 26.03.1943 p3 Extension opened

CN 27.03.1943 Opening of St Mary’s Home by Bishop on 24.03.1943

CN 03.04.1998 p6 Chequered history

CN 24.01.2003 p6 Girls home opened 1926; previous existence St Mary’s Home

CN 06.02.2009 p32 George Mould, railway contractor lived here for 7 years from 1845. He made many improvements

 

COLEDALE HALL FARM

1901 census; Thomas Gillespie, farmer, aged 50 bn Bewcastle

14.11.1914 Elizabeth Gillespie died Coledale Farm, Newtown [Mon.Ins 102/37]

1918 Electoral Register James Telford Coledale Farm Cottage

Carlisle The Archive Photos p105 1923 photo before demolition in 1924

 

COLEFELL HILL Belle Vue

CN 20.06.1997 p13 Aerial view

 

COLEMAN,E.C. South St

Joiners

CD 1952 Ad p326

CD 1955-56 Ad p258

CD 1961-62 Ad p279

 

COLEMAN, Thomas Gunsmith

Flourished in Irishgate 1790 - 1810

Jolie’s 1811 Directory p xi armourer, irishgate

 

COLLEGE OF ART Founded 1856 in Finkle St [but roots may be said to go back to 1823 when Academy of Art founded in Finkle Street, see Finkle Street Museum, Academy of Art], moved to Tullie House 1893, moved to Homeacres, Brampton Road, in 1951; new buildings officially opened 09.10.1963; famous students at college include Winifred Nicholson, John Bratby [1955-56 on the staff as a travelling scholar] and Conrad Atkinson

see also Art School; Finkle Street Museum; Academy of Art

D Perriam Stanwix p103 Carlisle School of Art moved to Homeacres in 1950 but the 1951-52 prospectus stated ‘the former premises of the School at Tullie House have been retained’. There was never enough room at Homeacres and this was partly addressed by using the former Rickergate NAFFI in 1954. On 09.10.1963 the first phase of an extension on Tarraby Lane was opened by Sir Charles Wheeler. At a meeting on 08.02.1966 it was agreed to change the name to the Carlisle College of Art and Design. The College expanded into Stanwix House and on 10.06.1969 Shirley Williams opened the second phase of the extension. With the creation of a new county in 1974 this became the Cumbria College of Art and Design. On 06.03.1998 the Cumberland News reported on a proposed £4.5 million college expansion to include halls of residence. This, the newspaper stated was ‘since it was granted university status last year’. As the Cumbria Institute of the Arts this became the Brampton Road campus of the University of Cumbria

CJ 18.11.1949 p5 Compulsory purchase of Homeacres

CN 19.11.1949 p7 Compulsory purchase of Homeacres

CN 22.10.1949 p7 Illustration of Homeacres

ENS 10.10.1950 Photos inside after move of Art College

CN 13.07.1956 p1 Centenary

CN 07.12.1956 p1 (portrait) Mr Skelton to leave

CN 04.10.1963 p15 (illus) Extension

CN 11.10.1963 p15 (illus) Extension

CJ 11.10.1963 p12 (illus) Extension

CN 17.04.1970 p5 Joint advisory committee

CN 12.11.1971 p8 (illus) Activities

CN 09.11.1990 p9 Squeeze on at Art College

CN 19.04.1991 p9 College offers a new course

CN 26.07.1991 p11 Art College crisis is averted

CN 03.07.1992 p17 Magazine bid to cut sex risk

CN 09.10.1992 p9 City college is going up market

CN 16.10.1992 p16 College is growing by degrees

CN 29.01.1993 p17 Part time posts to go at College

CN 01.10.1993 p23 College of Art is 500 not out

CN 18.02.1994 p11 Profile of principal David Vaughan

CN 06.10.1995 p8 (illus) Art students live in college

CN 05.04.1996 p4 College new music course

CN 25.10.1996 p4 College wing £400,000 for computer class

CN 17.01.1997 p1 (illus) College to be Cumbria’s own university

CN 24.01.1997 p5 (illus) Media cry out for Cumbria trained animators

Cumbria Life May/June 1997 issue 52 pxii (supp) 2A 9

CN 06.03.1998 p1 £4.5m College expansion

CN 07.07.2000 p1 College bans student art work as pornographic

CN 27.07.2001 p9 £5m development finished; now 1,200 full time students

CN 22.04.2005 p5 £800,000 ceramics centre planned in old Stanwix Reformatory

CN 06.04.2007 p6 Review of Art College history back to 1822 when a Society for the Encouragement of Art was founded in the city

CN 13.07.2007 p33 College to be absorbed into new University of Cumbria next month; display of work by old students

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

 

COLLEGIATE SCHOOL Removed Bank St to Castle St 28.05.1882

1882 Porters Directory Ad p98 AD 1881; John N.Bissell

 

COLLIER, T Bookbinder

Carlisle Express 27.12.1862 p1 Removed from the Green Market to 49 Fisher St

 

COLLERS CLOSE see also Colliers Lane

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]

 

COLLIER, Thomas Green Market

1861 Directory Morris, Harrison and Co Ad p18 Bookbinder, paper ruler

 

COLLIERS LANE So named Collers Close in 1610; probably derived from a personal name; the name of Colier, who was tenant of a parcel of land in this area, survives to this day in Colier’s Lane [CWAAS OS Vol 6 p147, 143]; Colliers Tower on the west curtain wall, a little north of the English Gate, the name survives in Collier’s Lane, which before the Court Houses and Station continued much further north than at present [CWAAS OS Vol 13 p188]

CP 07.07.1832 records the death from the Cholera outbreak of Robert and Alexander Wilson of Collier Lane, aged 5. These two children were twin brothers; they were uncommonly cheerful the evening before they died; they took ill nearly together and expired about the same time.

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map where it extends across Crown Street to Princess Street

1847 Directory

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p74 Photo 2001

 

COLLIN, George and Sons English Street

Tailors

Carlisle People and City p113 Side view of shop

CD 1905-06 Ad p9

CD 1920 ad p8

CD 1924 Ad p44

CD 1927 Ad p48

 

COLLIN, Lieut J.H. see COLLIN VC MEMORIAL SHIELD

 

COLLINGWOOD STREET

CJ 21.11.1879 p5 Collingwood St, plans for laying out in 1879

 

COLLINGWOOD VILLAS, St James Road

CP 07.02.1896 p1a No 2 for sale; Mr De Ville tenant

 

COLLINS English Street

Confectioners

CD 1952 Ad p124

 

COLLINS,J Botchergate

Tobacconist

CD 1952 Ad p387

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p280

CD 1955-56 Ad p287

 

COLLINS, James Denton St

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p23 hairdresser in 1920s

 

COLLINS AND AIKMAN AUTOMOTIVE FABRICS Milbourne St

CN 22.07.2005 p3 Parent company goes into liquidation; 37 employed in city

CN 12.08.2005 p 18 Factory set to close with lose of 37 jobs

 

COLLINSON’S PLACE, 26 Charlotte Street [1880 Directory]

 

COLLIN V.C.MEMORIAL SHIELD FOR RUNNING Schoolboys 100 yards handicap for Silver Shield in memory of Lieut J.H.Collin, the Carlisle VC, open to boys attending day school, aged between 7 and 16, residing with a radius of 6 miles of Carlisle

Carlisle an illustrated history p85 Photo of shield with 1950 winner, B.Davison

James M Robinson, Alex Proudfoot and Derek Nash Our Lady and St Joseph’s Heroes Remembered 1914-1918 p173-177 Details of the Collin VC Shield and list of winners 1919 to 1988 the last known running. Details of Lieut Joseph Collin pp29-33

CN 10.07.1970 p4 (illus) ENS 11.08.1923 ENS 07.08.1926

ENS 05.08.1919 Report of first running and who paid for shield

03.08.1929 Run at Carlisle Annual Sports

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p97 photo of 1971 winner Ian Johnstone

CN 11.11.2011 p3 Shield found. Last run for in 1988

10.11.2014 Blue Plaque erected on the front wall of 8 Petteril Terrace, Lieut Collin’s former home

June 2018 paving stone to Lieut Collin laid beside the City Centre War memorial

 

COLMORE STREET On 1910-11 voters list

 

COLORVISION

CN 18.12.1992 p9 Ad

CN 05.02.1993 p9 Colorvision deals can’t be beaten

 

COLVILLE STREET On the 1894-5 voters list

City minutes 1890-91 item 61; approval for 15 new houses

Oscar nominated director, Mike Figgis, was born in Carlisle and he came to shoot scenes in Denton Holme in 1999 for Loss of Sexual Innocence, a film loosely based on his childhood. Central to these scenes was the Colville Street area D.Perriam Denton Holme pp 104, 111

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1-61 and nos 2-56

 

COLVILLE STREET NORTH On voters list from 1901-02

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1 and 2

 

COLVILLE TERRACE First on 1897-98 voters list

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1-15 and nos 4-44

 

COMMERCE MEDIA LTD

CN 28.07.2000 p21 Ad feature

CN 05.09.2008 p19 Secure internet system developed by Stanwix firm

 

COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY TEMPERANCE HOTEL 26 English St;

1851 Ward’s Northern Directory Ads p3 established 1843; R. Duncan; by Post Off.

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p Cowin’s City Commercial; next Post Off

Carlisle; history and celebration M. Constantine p10 shows location

CJ 21.01.1913 p4 Dr James lived in the house fronting English street that was until recently the Commercial Hotel .Dr James Court is now known as Old Post Office Court

 

COMMERCIAL HOTEL see LIVERPOOL ARMS

 

COMMERCIAL NEWS ROOM Fish Market

MW 1847 p 141

CP 27.05.1854 p5 Meeting to secure newsroom; present premises to be demolished

 

COMMERCIAL OFFICE EQUIPMENT Lonsdale St

CD 1966-68 Ad p303

 

COMMERCIAL TRAINING INSTITUTES Brunswick St

Typewriting

CD 1893-94 Ad page back pink

 

COMMON, Ann Milliner and dressmaker, employing 3 girls, home address Rosemary Lane, born Carlisle [1851 census]

 

COMMON CHEST OF THE CITY OF CARLISLE

Illustrated in Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle opp p59

CN 07.06.2013 p18 Dormont book of 1561 says ‘the town’s inheritance be put in the common chest’. This chest moved to the reformed Museum in Finkle Street in 1873. Chest later transferred to Tullie House then moved in 1978 to the Guildhall.

 

COMMON LODGING HOUSES

see also Lowther House, Peascods Lane where there were two houses

1850 General Board of Health Enquiry. R.Rawlinson pp56-7 Forcing bed for vice

City Minutes 1904-05 p167 list of four houses in city

 

COMMONS, K.J. Warwick Road

Solicitors

CN1 9.10.2001 p20 Ad for opening of new law firm in city

CN 27.07.2012 p19 Celebrates 25 years; started in Workington

 

COMMONWEALTH DAY

CN 22.06.1990 p4 Empire Day

 

COMMUNISTS Someone recalls that in the 1950s they had their HQ in Globe Lane and used to paste up in the window today’s issue of the Daily Worker for people to read.

CJ 01.02.1927 p4 Communist Party Branch in Carlisle

CN 24.10.1942 p7 Stall in the market

 

COMMUNITY CENTRES

CJ 15.01.1937 p8 CN 16.01.1937 p17 CN 11.07.1969 p11 (illus)

CJ 19.03.1937 p5 Currock House

CJ 30.07.1937 p7 Currock House

CJ 03.08.1937 p5 (illus) Currock House

CN 30.01.1981 p36 Closures

CN 06.02.1981 p10 Closures

CN 13.02.1981 p1 Closures

CN 20.02.1981 p32 (illus) Saved

CN 07.02.1992 p1 Yewdale Centre opens today

 

COMMUNITY CHARGE see POLL TAX

 

COMMUNITY SAFETY OFFICERS

CN 17.09.2004 p3 Due to start in city on Monday

CN 04.02.2005 p 12 Feature on Community Support Officers in Carlisle

 

COMMUNITY WEEK

CJ 02.07.1948 p1 CJ 06.07.1948 p3 CJ 09.07.1948 p1 CN 08.05.1948 p5

 

COMPLEMENTS Fisher Street

CN 25.04.2003 p7 Tom Robinson opens chocolate shop

 

COMPLETE INTERIORS Botchergate

CN 03.06.1994 p18 Ad opening

CN 01.07.1994 p9 Ad

CN 08.12.1995 p1 Traders livid as crash firm re-opens

 

COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION see EDUCATION

 

CONEY STREET

City Minutes 1898/99 p374 Approval for houses

 

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

See also Charlotte St Congregational Church, Lowther Street Congregational Church; Cecil Street Evangelical Church

CN 19.03.1949 p5 Fusion with Presbyterians

CN 23.04.1993 p4 Celebrating 150 years

 

CONGRESS GROUND/ HALL Warwick Road, just east of St George’s Church

First hall erected in 1864; new building erected in 1880, with a seating capacity of 2,500; hall let to circuses and later used for the Church Congress held in city in 1884

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

CN 26.09.2003 p7 Story of the circus ground/ Congress Hall

 

CONGRESS HIRE SERVICE Spencer St

Car hire

CD 1934 Ad p44

CD 1937 Ad p160

CD 1940 Ad p162

CD 1952 Ad p382

 

CONISBURGH COURT Denton Holme

CN 11.07.1997 p10 (illus) Neighbours from heaven

 

CONKEY, George Shoemaker, aged 50, employing 6 men and 2 boys, born Carlisle, home address Botchergate

 

CONLONS OPTICIANS

Cumbria Life no 69 April 2000 p44 2A 9

 

CONNELL, John Merchant, died 20.11.1815; [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]

 

CONNELL, Messrs 23.11.1836 bank failed

1829 Directory Connell and Co, Bankers, Fisher Street

Newcastle Courant 26.11.1836 p3a Following the failure of Forsters bank Messrs Connell announce they are able to meet all demands

CP 26.11.1836 p2 Suspension of payment last Wednesday. Messrs Connell have proved that after paying every shilling of liabilities , they still possess a considerable surplus so no loss can accrue from their suspension

 

CONNELL, Messrs and PATTINSON Brewers; Wood’s 1821 map shows their Brewery below West Walls

 

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

CJ 24.11.1939 p1 CJ 28.11.1939 p3

 

CONSERVATION

See also Carlisle Preservation Society; Carlisle Amenities Committee

CN 24.08.1990 p9 Guiding city to greener future

CN 19.10.1990 p11 Cost of a green look for the city

CN 19.10.1990 p17 Conservation plan on the right lines

CN 21.12.1990 p7 Cash for green group

CN 28.02.1992 p3 City proves its backing green

CN 27.11.1992 p5 Going green is good business

CN 19.10.2001 p17 Friends of Engine Lonning set up to protect haven

CN 25.01.2002 p13 Letter; streets awash with unsightly traffic poles

CN 12.01.2007 p16 Problems for environmentalist who wants to put up wind turbine on house on Jubilee Rd

 

CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION

See also Primrose League

CN 28.11.1975 p1 Agent for Carlisle and Penrith and Border - Noman Dent

CN 14.02.1992 p7 Silent Tories under attack

CN 01.05.1992 p4 Earl’s view on Tory colour

CN 10.11.1995 p1 Split looms as Tory opens fire on leader

CN 17.11.1995 p1 Rebel hauled over coals

CN 24.11.1995 p1 Rebel city Tories demand ‘no confidence’

CN 01.12.1995 pp1,10 Tory chief to survive rebellion

CN 09.02.1996 p6 Ward tells rebel Tory, you’re only man for us

CN 08.03.1996 p1 Rebel Tories set to return to fold

CN 05.04.1996 p5 David Maclean’s new spokesman rejoins Conservatives

CN 10.03.2000 p1 Pressure mounts to name net-porn Tory

CN 28.04.2000 p1 Councillors fly free on Haughey’s plane

CN 12.05.2000 p1 Free flight Tories cleared

CN 19.05.2000 p1 City Tories get tough on crime

CN 09.05.2003 pp1,12,13 Local Tories infighting following lose of control of council

CN 02.04.2004 p13 Candidate for next Parliamentary election now rejected

CN 09.04.2004 p1 Rejected Kevin Newton hints at conspiracy theory

CN 28.05.2004 p1 Tory leader, Michael Howard, in city

CN 08.12.2006 p15 John Stevenson chosen as prospective candidate

 

CONSERVATIVE CLUB; Victoria Viaduct

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

See also below

 

CONSERVATIVE CLUB 78 Lowther St , on 1891 census. Central Conservative Club had commenced on Castle Street in the 1880s. The club was on the corner of Lowther Street with Devonshire Street, but moved in 1900 to the Victoria Viaduct [see above[

 

CONSERVATIVE CLUB Lonsdale Street

City Minutes 1922-23 p138 Club registered on 6th January

 

CONSERVATIVE CLUB Spencer St; opened 28.01.1966

CN 30.04.1965 p3 Illustration of artist’s impression

CN 21.01.1966 p13

CJ 28.01.1966 pp 9-11 (illus)

CN 04.02.1966 pp10-11(illus)

CN 04.03.1988 p4 Comfort in club was Tories aim

CN 11.12.1992 p20 Conservative Club is one of the best

CN 17.09.1993 p1 Tory club faces axe

CN 14.04.1995 pp1,12 Club set to ditch Tory name

CN 22.09.1995 p1 Tory hopes to save club

CN 23.05.1997 p12 New look for Conservative Club

CN 25.06.1999 p3 Resignation of steward after mystery thefts

CN 05.11.1999 p10 Half a year is a long time in pubtics

 

CONSISTORY COURT

CJ 22.06.1948 p1 To be moved from Cathedral to Fratery after 180 years

CN 21.01.1972 p14 (illus) Lowther seal

 

CONSTABLE BYTTE

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]

 

CONSTABLE STREET Denton Holme; named in honour of Mr Constable, former master at Holme Head School and Works Manager at Fergusons [Denton Magazine of Robert Ferguson School 1964-65 p5]; first mentioned in 1901-02 electoral register

City Minutes 1900-01 p117 Approval for 11 houses

 

CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION Formed 03.10.1962.dissolved August 1966

CN 05.10.1962 p22 CJ 26.08.1966 p3

 

CONTINENTAL BALLET COMPANY

CJ 19.12.1950 p2 Visit to city

 

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART OF MARY Northumberland Road

CD 1952 Ad 369

 

CONVENTS

CN 15.06.1990 p4 City girl was resistance go-between

 

CONWAY VAUXHALL

CN 16.04.1992 p50 Ad

 

COOGAN CLOSE On electoral register from 1997-98, Mr Coogan was a city councillor and alderman

 

COOK, Thomas Travel agents

CN 23.03.1990 p18 Ad

 

COOKERY DEMONSTRATIONS Queens Hall

CJ 12.03.1937 pp8-9

CJ 19.03.1937 pp 8-9 Record rush to demo

 

COOKSON, John 33 Botchergate

1882 Porters Directory Ad p44 Grocer, tea dealer

M.Edwards Our City Our People p22 Short memory circa 1900

 

COOP BUILDINGS 1901 census so named, adjacent to Cobden St

 

COOPE, James Lowther St

Oil merchant

CD 1893-94 Ad p142

 

CO.OPERATE Lancaster St; Carlisle business for people with mental health problems

CN 19.04.2002 p6 Lottery lifeline for Carlisle business

 

COOPERATIVE CONGRESS

Opens in Carlisle 30.05.1887

 

CO-OPERATIVE COURT, Bridge Street on 1918 Electoral Register

1880 Directory 30 Bridge Street

 

COOPERATIVE CREAMERY, Botcherby

P Hitchon Botcherby a Garden Village p180-81 Opened on Holywell Crescent in 1932 and closed as a milk bottling operation 29.06.1995. By 2004 it was acquired by Dairy Farmers of Britain and was used as a milk distribution centre until this business collapsed in June 2009. Demolition took place the following year. Area now housing.

CN 29.04.1966 p29 Supp p4 Grows and grows. One of the first depots in the area when it opened in 1932

ENS 16.11.2013 Protest against proposed new housing development on dairy site

 

COOPERATIVE SOCIETY Constitution drawn up 25.03.1861; 05.06.1861 first shop opened on Botchergate; new store opened Botchergate 1869; Upperby Cooperative Society formed 22.08.1829

See also CARLISLE SOUTH END COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p67 Carlisle South End Cooperative Society bought Denton Mill in 1885 and rebuilt it in 1886. They then moved their flour mill from Botchergate to the new building. In the yard were the offices of the Co-op funeral department where monumental masons worked. Near to their mill was Nelson’s Marble Works which was for sale in 1902. The site was acquired by the South End Co-op as their coal depot, accessed off Junction Street. Coal deliveries were by a siding off the Canal Branch which had previously served the Marble Works. Land fronting Junction Street was acquired by the Co-op and it was here in 1913 that a Hygenic Bakery was built using flour from the mill. The building was demolished in 1982

28.09.1867 Died 62, George Barnes, 28 years South John St Coop agent [MI 91/4]

CD 1905-06 Ad p12 South-End Co-operative Society

CD 1913-14 p142 Ad with photo of Botchergate store

CN 28.04.1961 p13 CN 07.04.1966 p10 (illus) CN 15.04.1966 p10

CN 18.09.1970 p18 CN 14.01.1972 p12 CN 30.06.1972 pp12-13

Over the Garden Wall p 67 Col. drawings of interior arcade and exterior

Carlisle The Archive Photos p 99 photo of South End Coop, Blackwell Rd, 1896

City Minutes 1899-1900 p283 Approval for new shop on Beaconsfield St

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

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

08.06.1938 Approval for plans for Cumwhinton Rd Coop CROP E4 architect A.W.Johnston

16.04.1937 died Joseph Brockbank, manager South End Coop 1923-37 [MI 47/57]

M.Forster; Hidden Lives p168-description of Botchergate Coop in 1940s

CJ 03.10.1944 p2 Upperby store established 1829

Over the Garden Wall; photo pp27, 31, 32 of 1950s Botchergate facade

ENS 06.01.1957 pp5-7 Botchergate Coop - 1st self service

CJ 14.08.1959 p4 and special supp

CJ 28.04.1961 p4 Illustration of 1903

CN 10.12.1965 p9 Change of name

CN 15.12.1967 p10 Illustration of 1894

CN 31.07.1970 p1 Merging societies

CN 14.08.1970 p9 Merging societies

CN 21.08.1970 p1 Moving to Lanes?

ENS 16.04.1977 p1 Blaze drama, Botchergate

CN 14.08.1987 p3 Coop Superstore Warwick Road - government go ahead

CN 01.12.1989 p4 Coop venture keeps going

CN 21.01.1994 p4 How the first Coop came

CN 21.01.1994 p15 Animal free food on Coop’s shelves

CN 28.10.1994 p15 Coop handy bank pulls out of city

ENS 01.04.1996 p1 18 jobs go as Coop closes

ENS 02.04.1996 p1 Four years for teenage armed robbers

ENS 16.04.1996 p5 (illus) Mystery surrounds fate of sold Coop site

CN 04.10.1996 p5 Cumbrian Coop boss moves on and hands over healthy .........

CN 24.01.1997 p1 County Coop shuts down city HQ

CN 20.06.1997 p3 Makes way for pub

CN 25.07.1997 p1 Coop blaze; firemen look again at arson

CN 15.05.1998 p10 From a co-operative past to a Woodrow Wilson future

CN 01.12.2000 p7 New Co-op plans for a supermarket at Morton

CN 02.09.2005 p8 History of early cooperatives in city

 

COUNTY STORE

CN 26.04.1991 p6 Ad

CN 16.06.1995 p1 Food Giant up for sale

CN 16.06.1995 p10 Death knell of a store

CN 18.08.1995 p1 New shops hope

 

FUNERAL SERVICES

CN 14.01.1994 p17 Ad

CN 16.10.1998 p9 Ad

CN 04.06.1999 p11 Ad

 

COPELAND, M Etterby Road

Grocers

D.Perriam Stanwix p107 Photo of shop on the corner of Etterby Road and Scaurbank Road in 1957

CD 1952 Ad p308

 

COPPING Crown St

Watchmaker and jeweller

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p282

CD 1955-56 Ad p289

 

COPY CONSULTANTS

CN 13.11.1987 p3 Milestone for a city firm

CN 08.09.1989 p10 New HQ a launch pad

CN 22.06.1990 p27 Jobs as firm moves

CN 18.01.1991 p7 Take over

 

CORBETT, John Home address Warwick St; whitesmith employing 2 men, aged 28, [1861 census]

John was the son of Jane and John Corbett, tinsmith living in Botchergate in 1851. John senior was born in 1810 and he had a brother Thomas who had his own business as a tinsmith on Lowther Street. John junior was baptised in St Mary’s on June 7th 1832. His obit in 1903 says he carried on a considerable business in Corporation Road as tinsmith, bell hanger and manufacturer of heating equipment. He was elected Mayor in 1893-4. He was succeeded in the business by his son, also John born 1856, who continued in charge until his retirement in 1917. The business then passed into other hands, he dying in April 1939 [CN 04.09.2015 p16]

 

CORBETT, John Corporation St

Heating engineers

CD 1880 Ad pxxxi

CD 1952 Ad p315

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad inside back cover vi

CD 1955-56 Ad p292

CD 1961-62 Ad pxxv

CD 1966-68 Ad p293

CN 17.09.1938 p20 Ad

 

CORBETT, T Lonsdale St

Glass and china merchant

CD 1893-94 Ad p140

 

CORBETT, Thomas 56 Lowther Street

See also John Corbett

Ward’s North of England Directory 1851; ad p10 Whitesmith, bell hanger; Thomas Corbett, whitesmith and bellhanger, aged 38, employing 6 men and 4 apprentices, home address Spencer St, born Carlisle [1851 census]; aged 48, whitesmith and brass founder, employing 8 men and 4 boys, home address 4 Spencer St, born Carlisle [1861 census]

1861 Directory Morris, Harrison and Co Ad p19 56 Lowther St Bell hanger

 

CORBETT, Thomas Lonsdale St

Marble and monumental mason

Guide to Carlisle Ad C178

CD 1884-85 Ad p265

CD 1893-94 Ad p128

 

CORKSCREW WINES, Viaduct

CN 03.10.2008 p11 Laurie and Jenni Scott retire after 18 years. D.Ogden and Liz Hardwick take over

 

CORNERWAYS GUEST HOUSE, Warwick Rd

CN 13.02.2004 p16 Sold; The Coggans take over from the Fishers

 

CORN EXCHANGE English St; Victoria Viaduct

CN 21.07.1961 p10 CN 09.01.1976 p6

 

CORN PRICES

Cumberland Pacquet 04.08.1795 p2 Rises caused riot; p3 advert

 

CORONER

Dr Robert Elliot to 31.12.1882; 01.01.1883 - August 1898 John Hewetson Brown; H.R.Lonsdale 1899-1901; H.B.Lonsdale 1902-1914; Thomas Slack Strong 1915-1947; Thomas S. Strong 1948-1983 [from 1974 post title coroner for North East Cumbria]; Ian Hugh Morton 1983-

CN 30.06.200 [1/2/3] p12 How A coroner weighs the evidence - Ian Morton

CN 24.12.2003 p3 Coroner Ian Morton moves office to Portland Square

CN 02.12.2005 p5 Ian Morton retires

CN 06.10.2006 p15 Plans to axe North Cumbria Coroner; currently David Osborne

CN 20.10.2006 p3 Row over proposed closure of Carlisle Coroner’s office

CN 06.04.2007 p18 Carlisle now likely to retain Coroner’s Court; at least on part time basis

CN 27.04.2007 p5 Coroner’s office will cease to exist in Carlisle from Monday; letter p13

 

CORONETS

CN 02.06.1989 p4 Rival seaside concerts

 

CORPORATION see CITY COUNCIL

 

CORPORATION BAY AND DAMCOURSE So named on Cole’s 1805 map of Carlisle

Carlisle Examiner 11.11.1858 p2d

 

CORPORATION BRIDGE END MILL

Shown on a map of circa 1781 powered by the Corporation Mill Race beside Caldew bridges [Grangerized Hutchinson]

 

CORPORATION MILL So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city on what was to be site of Citadel Station; see also Borough Mill

 

CORPORATION MILL RACE

Shown on Smiths 1746 map powering a wheat mill, fulling mill and Castle Mills.

Ran to the East of the River Caldew and on a map of circa 1781 it is shown powering Brumwells Cotton Stampery, Corporation Borough Mill, Fulling Mill, Corporation Bridge End Mill and Corporation Castle Mill [Grangerized Hutchinson]

 

CORPORATION ROAD

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.

 

Wood’s 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 ‘Hangman’s 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 St although still there in name today lie under Castleway.

CJ 14.11.1846 p3 Matthew Reid died Corporation Rd

WO 44/195 26.04.1849 Corporation Rd being sold for building plots

CN 02.09.1966 p8 Reminiscences of about 1910 onwards

CN 12.01.2007 p5 Corporation Rd resident won’t budge because of proposed Renaissance plan

 

CORPUS CHRISTIE

The craft guilds took part in the great celebration of Corpus Christie. In medieval times the celebration would begin early in the morning when the guilds with their banners and candles would assemble in Saint Mary’s churchyard. Probably they carried with them the images of their patron saints [in 1887 the shoemakers still possessed an image of Saint Crispin] or men would be dressed up to play the characters. High Mass would be celebrated within the Cathedral, and then to the strains of solemn music, a long drawn procession of prior and canons and ecclesiastics of high degree would wend down the Norman aisles and emerge from the western door. As the pyx containing the consecrated bread was borne past under its magnificent baldachino or canopy, every head would be bared; then would succeed, radiant in jewellery and stiff in brocade, a life size image of the patroness of the city, the blessed Virgin Mary; the guilds with their banners, would fall into the rear of the procession, and the pageant would wind in and out of the narrow streets of the quaint old city, past a background of half-timbered and gaily painted houses, to witness in the market place the performance of a miracle play. And to wind up the enjoyment of the day the butchers guild would find a wretched bull or two to be baited in the bull ring under the windows of the guild chambers in the Redness Hall

[Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle pp25-6]

 

CORRIE, Henry New Market St

Butcher

CD 1907-08 Ad p125

CD 1952 Ad p162

 

CORRIE, Joseph Master tailor, aged 46, employing 4 men, born Wigton, home address Ramshays Lane, Botchergate [1861 census]

 

CORRIE, Joseph 36 York St and Canal Station

1882 Porters Directory Ad p156 Coal merchant

 

CORRIE, Pultney Rickergate

Cycle agents

D Perriam Lowther Street p33 Pultney Corrie born in Carlisle in 1856. Tobacconist then in 1893 advertised as a cycle agent in Rickergate. Then moved to a shop under Lowther House where he remained as a cycle dealer until 1931. Photo of exterior of shop

CD 1893-94 Ad p172

CD 1902-03 Ad p226

CN 04.12.2009 p36 Photograph; by 1893 established as cycle dealer, later moved to 139-141 Lowther Street. He died in 1954

 

CORRIERI, Milbourne St

D Perriam Denton Holme p91 Photo of shop

 

CORRIE’S COURT, Milbourne St; John Corrie, proprietor of houses lived here [CWAAS ns vol 67 p218]; in the 1858 directory and listed until the 1954 electoral register

1880 Directory 70 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 64-66 Milbourne Street

 

CORRY, David Pawnbroker, Fisher St, died 14.01.1882 [Monumental Inscription 7/15]

 

CORRY, John Augustus Architect and surveyor, aged 42, home address 3 Abbey St, born Great Yarmouth [1861 census]

CJ 21.08.1936 p8 Carlisle architects; County Surveyor and Bridgemaster

 

COSMETICS

CJ 15.10.1935 p6f Dr Wadeley aversion to lipstick

CJ 15.10.1935 p4f Reply to Dr Wadeley

 

COSMO, The Harraby; opened 1962; (previously Argyll Cinema, then roller-skating arena). The ‘Cosmo’ was played by many famous groups including Jerry and the Pacemakers, George Fame and the Blue Flames, Deep Purple, Mud and the Kinks

CN 04.05.1979 p23 CN 11.05.1979 p9 CN 01.06.1979 p8 CN 13.10.1978 p7

CN 24.07.1970 pp12-13 (illus) CN 06.08.1976 p1 CN 18.11.1977 p9 (illus)

CJ 04.11.1960 Cosmo rink opened

ENS 15.12.1976 p9 Development

ENS 16.12.1976 p4 Development

CN 20.05.1977 p32 Supermarket?

CN 10.06.1977 p17 Supermarket

CN 24.06.1977 p21 Supermarket

CN 01.07.1977 p3 Supermarket

CN 25.05.1979 p1 (illus) Closure

ENS 01.11.1988 p15 Closed

CN 31.08.1990 p6 Nightclub firm bust

CN 14.09.1990 p13 Where to stroll for a drink in style

CN 05.02.1999 p6 Revellers night of nostalgia

CN 04.05.2001 p5 Avenue for sale; been in hands of ; £93,000 bid

CN 24.01.2003 p3 Cosmo building faces demolition

CN 28.11.2003 p 8 To be demolished 08.12.2003 [but not] and houses built on site

 

COSSACK INN Watergate/ Water Lane; in local directories to 1844

CP 31.03.1821 p3d William Edgar for allowing late drinking

 

COTTON SPINNERS ARMS Caldew Brow; in 1829 directory

 

COTTON TRADE

See also Dixons, Handloom weavers, Weavers

Allen J Scott writing in Northern History, 2021, says that the cotton trade was established in the city over the four or five decades following the ‘45 Uprising. This was in association with complementary calico bleaching and printing operations. Hutchinson says that by the 1790s eight cotton manufactories and four printfields existed in Carlisle. By the first few decades of the nineteenth century Carlisle and its hinterland had become an established focus of cotton manufacturing, an outlier of the dominant Lancashire industry. Scott goes on to say that the reasons why Carlisle became a significant centre of cotton production remain something of a mystery and this complex subject is awaiting thorough investigation. It has been suggested that because of the woollen and linen industry in the city [First Carlisle industry Abbey Mill, fulling Mill and dyehouse, which was taken over by the Guliker brothers in 1724, going bankrupt in 1740, local parish registers refer to factory man, factory child [CWAAS vol 85, 1985 pp 187 - 191]; 1772 ‘Considerable manufacture of printed linens and coarse checks....’ [T.Pennant; a tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772] that Carlisle possessed an skilled workforce who could easily adapt to the new cotton trade. Hutchinson in 1795 wrote that ‘the waters of the Caldew and the Petteril, and particularly the former, are remarkable for the quality of bleaching white’. Parson and White in their 1829 Directory says that Calico printing was introduced into the city about 1761, by a company of gentlemen from Newcastle, under the firm of Scott, Lamb and Co. This establishment was followed by an extensive manufactory carried on by the ingenious Bernard Barton, until his premature death. The spinning of cotton by machinery was subsequently introduced by a Mr Wood. The local press reported on the opening of the Carlisle Canal in March 1823 that ‘Messrs Cowen, Heysham and Co, Carlisle, had a lot of cotton on board the Miss Douglas. She sailed from Liverpool on Sunday evening, the 9th inst, about seven o’clock, and arrived in the Canal Basin at about 3 on the following Wednesday, the 12th; on Thursday the 13th, about half-past twelve, the cotton was disembarked and sent to Messrs Cowen, Heysham and Co’s manufactory, where a part of it was almost immediately converted into yarn; by eight the next morning, this yarn was sent to Mr John Ferguson, who caused cloth to be made from it sufficient for a lady’s dress by ten on the morning of the 15th; and if mantuamaker had been set to work, some blooming Cumberland damsel might have appeared in it at church on Sunday 16th. This curious fact exhibits in a strong point of view the wonderful perfection of our manufacturing system’. The 1829 Directory states that now [1829] large quantities of cotton twist are exported from the eleven cotton mills in Carlisle and its neighbourhood which contain collectively 80,000 spindles put in motion by means of free water wheels and six steam engines. Besides the cotton mills here are ten large Gingham and Check manufactories, two bleacheries, two calico print works and five dye-houses. By the 1840s Carlisle had several mills focused mainly on spinning although power looms were being introduced. Yarn was put-out to a large number of handloom weavers in Carlisle and the surrounding district. Handloom weavers were supplied with yarn and their finished cuts of cloth purchased. Allen J Scott calculates from the 1841 census that 2,813 workers in the city were occupied in the cotton industry [ bleaching, dyeing, priting, finishing, carding, spinners, piercers, reelers, winders, warpers, handloom and power weavers and other occupations]. On the 1841 census there are 454 people living in the district of Upperby, of these 88 give their occupation as weavers [in the main I presume handloom weavers] In 1851 this figure had risen to 3,788 in the city, of whom 1,249 were identified as handloom weavers. In 1861 the total occupied in the cotton industry in the city was 3,753 of whom 110 were handloom weavers. All the cotton manufacturers were involved in putting-out operations in the mid-nineteenth century. Of the 8,000 people employed by Peter Dixon Shaddon works in the early 1840s, a total of 3,571 were out-workers engaged in handloom weaving. Many of these would be located in Carlisle and the surrounding villages but the firm was also putting out yarn to handloom weavers in the Scottsh borders and Ulster. In the mid-nineteenth century 12.7 percent of the city’s handloom weavers were born in Ireland and 12.8 percent in Scotland. In this period a significant portion of the housing stock, mainly in the Caldewgate area, served as loomshops, with facilities for weaving on the ground floor and living quarters above. In 1871 the local press reported that Messrs Donald was now only firm in city who employ handloom weavers. It has been generally stated that handloom weaving had effectively disappeared by the late 1840s but Carlisle must be an exception to this rule judging from the 1851 census returns. Scott states that handloom weaving was quite active in the city even in 1861 and it continued to linger on into the 1870s. The 1871 census lists the following handloom weavers in Duke Street; no. 33 James Foster aged 16, no 30 John Smith, no 26 Joseph Coulthard aged 45, no 24 Thomas Donowho aged 61, no 22 Hugh Dobson aged 54, no 4 John Cook aged 72, no 7 Lancelot Coulthard aged 50, no 13 Joseph Hogg aged 50, no 20 Rachel Finn aged 42, no 16 Robert Thorburn aged 53. and John Rowell aged 60. Even in 1881 there are 12 handloom weavers in Duke Street aged between 25 and 74. [This does not include Back Duke Street] There are no handloom weavers in Duke Street in 1891. The best days of the handloom weavers meant that they could lay in meat, potatoes, butter, cheese, salted meat, diligent weavers could even put something aside to build a house with garden [ Bythell The handloom weavers, 1964 p94] With the decline into poverty, there was serious destitution even before the general introduction of power looms. The cotton trade was notorious for rapid short term fluctuations of prosperity and depression. It was observed in 1811 that there were too many labourers at the trade [Bythell p107] A notice dated 03.06.1819 stated that the weavers of Carlisle and neighbourhood, on both sides of the Border would hold a general meeting in the city. ‘Our distresses alone have induced us to leave our employments...nothing but the want of subsistence that caused us to desist working’. The weavers pledged for the good order of the meeting. A popular ballads in circulation was The Carlisle Weaver’s Lamentation. This contains the verse We labour’d hard from morn to night, For our and their defence, We tr’d and toil’d with all our might, And only got twelve pence. Bulmer’s 1901 Directory says that the golden age of the cotton industry in Carlisle fell with the abolition of slavery in America. Formerly every great slave plantation took a large quantity of ginghams for its negroes and always adhered to the same patterns, Thus, when other orders were dull, the Carlisle spinners worked on for the American trade, sure of their annual orders. But the free negro demands a gaudier article; he is capricious and must be tickled and attracted by new patterns. This altered state of things, the Carlisle spinners have for various causes been unable to adapt themselves to, and it seems probable that the trade will shortly leave Carlisle, and that its streets will cease, as in great part they have already done, to re-echo to the clattering clogs of countless mill girls going to and from their work. Various branches of the cotton trade still continue to be carried on in or near Carlisle; The Mains Manufacturing Company run power-looms at Lamplugh works in Rome Street. Messrs Donald dye and weave on Denton Holme. Messrs Ferguson at the extensive Holme Head Works, weave, bleach, dye and finish [now both closed]. Messrs Stead McAlpin and Co are the only printworks now left

See also Handloom Weavers; Weavers

see also COWEN, HEYSHAM AND CO

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

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

1829 Directory p152-3 Details of history of cotton industry and present state

CN 22.03.1924 p9 18th century Carlisle

CJ 01.11.1949 p2

CN 14.02.1992 p4 Depressing days of trade cutback

CN 14.08.1998 p10 Threads of evidence point to Carlisle cotton printing

CN 06.01.2012 p32 Early history of cotton industry in Carlisle; D.Perriam

 

COTTON TWIST COMPANY see Slaters Cotton Mill

 

COULTHARD, George English St

Yeast merchant

CD 1880 Ad pxiv

CD 1884-85 Ad p277

CD 1893-94 Ad p74

 

COULTHARD, George 18 English St

Tea and coffee dealer

CD 1893-94 Ad p102

CD 1902-03 Ad p9

 

COULTHARD, Mrs Jane Anne 25 Nelson St

Carlisle in Camera 2 p55 Photo of shop front in 1909

 

COULTHARD, John Rickergate; Old Market Place

Glass, china, hardware

CD 1893-94 Ad p174

 

COULTHARD, William Castle St; Lonsdale St; Crown St; moved to Durranhill in 1947

Engineers, plumbers

CD 1893-94 Ad p209

CD 1902-03 Ad p17

CD 1905-06 Ad p144

CD 1920 Ad p280

CD 1927 Ad p172

CD 1931 Ad p228

CD 1934 Ad p190

CD 1937 Ad p196

CD 1940 Ad p202

CD 1952 Ad p269

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p229 and spine

CD 1955-56 Ad p227

CD 1966-68 Ad pvi

CJ 14.05.1937 see Coronation news

Cumbria August 1975 p247

CN 19.02.1988 p4 Firms 100 years

CN 18.03.1988 p4 Founder of firm

CN 28.05.2004 p16 Order for lubricant systems for Soviet pipeline. £5m turnover

 

COULTHARD COURT, Shaddongate

1880 Directory 39 Shaddongate

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 34-38 Shaddongate

City Minutes 1929-30 p650 5 dwellings unfit for human habitation

 

COULTHARD’S 41 Castle Street

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p37 Photo of shop facade; china, glass

 

COULTHARDS LANE East off Scotch St; so named on Cole’s 1805 map

1847 Directory

 

COUNCIL see CITY COUNCIL

 

COUNCIL HOUSES First purpose built council houses completed in 1900 at Barwise Nook (CIC p43); council housing stock transferred to Carlisle Housing Association in 2002

See also Housing; Carlisle Housing Association, Riverside Housing, Raffles, Longsowerby

City Minutes 1899-1900 pp 364-367 Regulations for workmen’s dwellings

City Minutes 1915-16 p98 Details of housing for Boustead Grassing; size, rooms

City Minutes 1916-17 pp320-324 Provision of post war housing; report

City Minutes 1919-20 pp42-43 Report of construction of 24 houses in Denton St

Carlisle an illustrated history p89 Plan of housing for Longsowerby in 1919

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1920 p 91-98; overcrowding, unfit housing

City Minutes 1920-21 pp 204-207; Tenders for Longsowerby site; Stanwix scheme

City Minutes 1921-22 p 43 Only 92 of 952 condemned housing rendered fit

City Minutes 1921-22 p428 report on progress at Longsowerby and Stanwix

City Minutes 1922-23 p60 Sanction for 60 houses at Blackwell Rd estate

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1922 pp61-2 Houses built in year

City Minutes 1923-24 pp78-79 Prepare plans for 50 concrete bungalows in town

City Minutes 1923-24 p 690-703 Housing programme for next 2 years

Sanitary Conditions for the City of Carlisle 1923 p61 -65 Houses built in year

City Minutes 1924-25 pp700-01 Applications for council housing; analysis

Sanitary Condition for the City of Carlisle 1925 pp23-6 700 houses needed

Sanitary Condition for the City of Carlisle 1925 p82-4 Crown St slums; stats

City Minutes 1925-6 pp61,120,180,322,456,540,664 Progress report on estates

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

City Minutes 1926-7 pp 220 46 houses at Longsowerby; pp 450, 519, 585, 656, 718

City Minutes 1926-7 p717 Approval to buy land for erection of houses at Botcherby

City Minutes 1927-28 p130 112 houses in progress at Raffles

City Minutes 1927-28 p130 Work commence in Botcherby immediately in New Year

City Minutes 27.02.1928 p267 32 houses in progress at Botcherby

City Mins 1927-8 p700 Progress on houses Duke St (54 houses),Longsowerby (30)

City Minutes 1927-28 p456 1262 live applicants on register; analysis

04.04.1929 2,000th council house officially opened by Sir W.Robinson

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle 1928 p24 Nos of houses built

Sanitary Condition for the City of Carlisle 1929 pp24-5 Nos of new houses built

City Minutes 1929-30 p297 112 more houses begun at Botcherby; 138 at Raffles

City Minutes 1930-31 p642 2,699 Corporation houses, housing 7,338 adults and 4,994 under 16s

CN 07.07.1934 p4 Carlisle slums

CN 14.07.1934 p12 Housing

CJ 26.03.1937 p7 CN 27.05.1960 p12

CJ 24.09.1937 p1 Petteril Bank opening

CJ 24.09.1937 p10 Central Hall speech

CJ 14.01.1939 p3 Quit notices for tenants in arrears

CJ 17.02.1939 p4 City housing and Harraby rents

CJ 14.04.1939 p4 City council’s dilemma

CJ 12.05.1939 p4 Houses in town

CJ 30.05.1939 p5 Re-housing in the city

CJ 13.10.1939 p1 Housing slowdown

CJ 12.12.1939 p1 134 houses to be completed

ENS 16.06.1960 p9 (illus) Sheer neglect - Eskdale Av and Windermere Rd

ENS 18.12.1963 p9 Council houses rents

ENS 07.11.1964 p1 Super council houses planned for city

CN 18.12.1987 p4 First council houses forced on city

CN 09.12.1988 p23 Tenants told; Watch out for yuppies

CN 15.12.1989 p1 Repair tenants to pay out of rise

CN 15.12.1989 p21 City council lumbered with houses

CN 15.12.1989 p21 £150,000 bill to brighten estate

CN 12.01.1990 p23 Carlisle rents up

CN 19.01.1990 p23 Council rent rise blow

CN 01.06.1990 p1 Home repair work sparks anger

CN 13.07.1990 p1 Rents set to rise

CN 03.08.1990 p1 Yob tenants crackdown

CN 03.08.1990 p12 Get tough but only if you dare

CN 03.08.1990 p1 Yob tenants crackdown

CN 24.08.1990 p29 Council gets thumbs up

CN 01.02.1991 p15 Council rents to rise

CN 12.04.1991 p6 Repairs delay

CN 11.10.1991 p7 Empty houses scandal

CN 14.02.1992 p15 Council rents rise

CN 20.11.1992 p21 New landlords worry for tenants

CN 20.08.1993 p17 Homes £10m not enough

CN 15.10.1993 p7 Tenants under threat

CN 15.10.1993 p15 Grants cut force up city rents

CN 03.06.1994 p13 Flushed away

CN 30.09.1994 p9 Task force chases rent dodgers

CN 09.12.1994 p5 Don’t let my baby freeze to death

CN 03.02.1995 p3 £6m deal for council

CN 10.02.1995 p13 Home repairs need £20m

CN 16.06.1995 p1 Raffles re-vamp

CN 17.11.1995 p13 Empty houses cost city £238,000

CN 15.12.1995 p12 City council sells less houses

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

CN 19.01.1996 p3 Carlisle’s £650,000 rent arrears

CN 26.01.1996 p3 Council U-turn on Raffles repairs

CN 09.02.1996 p5 £200,000 council tender waste

CN 12.07.1996 p1 Revamp snub for Currock and Upperby

CN 02.08.1996 p13 Tenants owe £1m back rent

CN 20.12.1996 p3 Spending cuts set to spell end of road for council houses

CN 03.01.1997 p2 Council row over homes sell off fear

CN 10.01.1997 p11 Who’s really to blame for council housing repairs crisis?

CN 07.03.1997 p5 (illus) Protest over transfer plans for 9,000 homes

CN 03.10.1997 p1 Homes facelift cash

CN 14.11.1997 p1 Council house boost

CN 17.03.2000 p3 Tories vow to tackle rent dodgers

CN 08.09.2000 p1 Call for crackdown on ‘filthy’ tenants

CN 08.09.2000 p12 Opinion concerning ‘filthy’ tenants

CN 10.11.2000 p6 Housing surgeries set to close

CN 24.11.2000 p3 Future of council homes put to vote; complete sell off of stock

CN 22.06.2001 p13 Letter; transfer of housing stock to housing association fears

CN 27.07.2001 p12 The wastelands of Raffles; 123 houses demolished in 2000

CN 24.08.2001 p1 Ballot of council homes over sell off

CN 31.08.2001 p1 Problems with transfer of council houses to Liverpool charity

CN 12.10.2001 p6 Campaign against sell off city’s 7,700 council houses

CN 30.11.2001 p3 Standard to properties to be let is ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’

CN 07.12.2001 p Riverside Housing Assn criticised; proposed take over group

CN 21.12.2001 p13 Letter in support of the Riverside group

CN 29.03.2002 p1 125 houses to be bulldozed in July or August

CN 05.07.2002 p5 Threat to evict family of 10 following disruptive behaviour

CN 05.07.2002 p13 Two letters against takeover of council houses by Riverside

CN 26.07.2002 p13 Sale of council houses not a giveaway; letter

CN 23.08.2002 p1 214 majority for sell off; leaflet unfair campaign; opinion p12

CN 06.09.2002 p5 Mother and 9 children to be evicted from home in Raffles

CN 20.08.2004 p1 Sale of council houses fuels housing crisis

 

COUNCILLORS see CITY COUNCIL

 

COUNCIL TAX

CN 23.10.1992 p9 Warning over council tax

CN 04.12.1992 p1 Tax won’t go through the roof

CN 04.12.1992 p5 City roof tax no cheaper

CN 04.12.1992 p25 Council tax move to save costs

CN 11.12.1992 p7 Call not to worry over homes tax

CN 11.12.1992 p25 Compromise on tax collection

CN 08.01.1993 p23 Planning the new tax collection

CN 12.02.1993 p1 Budget blues for Cumbria

CN 17.12.1993 p1 Roof tax set to rise

CN 29.11.1996 p1 Council tax rates set to soar by up to 7%

CN 07.03.1997 p4 Council taxpayers to fork out up to 10% more

CN 05.12.1997 p4 Council tax bills to soar despite services cutbacks

CN 11.02.2000 p2 City share of council tax bill to fall by £5

CN 01.12.2000 p2 City council tax bills could raise by £30 - £90

CN 09.02.2001 p5 Carlisle council tax jumps by 6.73%

CN 23.02.2001 p13 Letters protesting against concerning rise in council tax

CN 15.02.2002 p5 Predicted bills for Carlisle

CN 07.02.2003 p1 Council tax bands announced

CN 30.01.2004 p1 Taxbands for 2004-05

CN 27.02.2004 p13 letters against increases in council tax

CN 12.03.2004 p1 Pensioner protest at increased council tax

CN 23.12.2005 p1 Council tax ready to soar by 5%

CN 13.01.2006 p1 Police handcuff 79 year old gran over council tax debts

CN 17.02.2006 p1 Council tax increase 4.8%

CN 04.03.2011 p 41 Council tax bands and charges

 

COUNTRY CAFE Lowther St

CD 1952 Ad p366

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p274

The Lanes Remembered p20 photo of cafe

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p21; Exterior view

ENS 15.12.1931 p1 Ad opening 16.12.1931

CN 26.03.1976 p1 Closure

 

COUNTRY HOUSE Lonsdale Street

Outdoor clothing

CN 29.10.1999 p6 Ad

CN 26.08.2011 p22 Moves premises to Lonsdale Street. Anthony Irving owner

 

COUNTY BALLROOM

CN 01.06.1979 p21 Fire

 

COUNTY BOROUGH STATUES Granted 01.04.1914

Carlisle is listed as one of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales regulated under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1882; City Minutes of 6th January 1913 resolved that application be made for constituting the City as a County Borough within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1888; Carlisle County Borough Order,1913 came into operation on 1st April 1914; Carlisle Extension Act, 1950, says Whereas the city of Carlisle is a county borough under the government of the mayor, aldermen and citizens of the city of Carlisle. This act defines 'The 'Corporation' means the mayor, aldermen and the citizens of the city of Carlisle. It also refers to local acts which may be jointly cited as 'Carlisle Corporation Acts 1804 - 1950'; Cumbria Act 1982 refers to Cumbria comprising’ the following areas before the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 ‘The county boroughs of Carlisle and Barrow in Furriness...

CN 03.04.1964 p8

CN 29.10.1965 p10 (plan)

 

COUNTY CLUB

See Border and County Club

Kelly 1921 p70 Formed 1869, opened 1870 in Devonshire St; then to Lowther St

1873 Directory 9 Devonshire Street

1884 Directory now at 37 Lowther Street

1910 Directory at no 24 Lowther Street [same building but street renumbered between 1906-1910

1934 Directory at 24 Lowther Street [called Cumberland County Club]

Amalgamated with Border Club in 1977

 

COUNTY CONTRACTING

CN 01.11.1991 pp16-17 Three into one will go

CN 03.03.1995 p1 Late Xmas party

 

COUNTY COUNCIL

CJ 29.07.1938 p7 New offices in Gaol site

CN 12.12.1997 Supp

 

COUNTY COURT Held at Citadel January 1833; moved to Rufus House, Castle St 22.08.1966

CN 05.08.1966 p11 (illus) CN 09.09.1966 p14

CJ 15.05.1847 p3a First of new county courts for debt recovery in Town Hall

 

COUNTY FURNITURE AND BEDDING CENTRE Victoria Viaduct

CN 15.12.1995 p14 Ad

CN 08.11.1996 p14 Furniture firm set to shut

 

COUNTY GARAGE CO LTD Botchergate; Mary St.

James Hodgson purchased one of the earliest cars in Cumberland from the original owner Theodore Carr. He formed the County Garage Company, becoming managing director. He formed the County Windscreen Company which had branches in London and Coventry, withdrawing from the garage concern [Obit 09.03.1948 p1]. Later set up a an independent garage see James Hodgson

June 2003 demolition of premises on Harwicke Circus.

CN 17.09.1938 p18 CJ 19.10.1962 p12 CN 07.07.1978 pp1,5 (illus) CN 24.07.1981 pp28-29 (illus)

Leading Trader of the City p60 Ad A616

CD 1910-11 Ad p150

CD 1913-14 Ad p78

CD 1920 Ad p54

CD 1924 Ad p236 Sole agents for Argyll, Alvis, AC, Arrol-Johntson, Durrat, Guy, Galloway, Rover, Sunbeam, Standard

CD 1927 Ad p248

CD 1931 Ad p252

CD 1934 Ad p306

CD 1940 Ad p168

CD 1952 Ad p304,333

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad back cover

CD 1955-56 Ad xv

CD 1955-56 Ad p263 Lowther Street

CD 1961-62 Ad p284 Main Ford dealer

CD 1966-68 Ad p283

CJ 14.06.1907 p5 Operate bus service Carlisle to Brampton; new premises Mary St

CJ 14.05.1937 see Coronation news

CN 29.11.1968 pp 11,15 (illus) Truck Centre opened at Kingstown

CN 06.11.1970 p17 (illus) Wins award

CN 14.04.1978 p1 Expansion

CN 09.10.1987 8pp ad feature

CN 05.07.1991 p6 Open day at County Garage

CN 03.11.2000 p1(illus) Harwicke Circus site for sale

CN 07.02.2003 p5 Dealership on move to Kingstown; CG at Circus since 1923

CN 04.03.2005 p1 CG Ford sold to Midland company GK Group

 

COUNTY HALL Court Square; part of County Hotel

CJ 16.09.1949 p1

 

COUNTY HOTEL, Botchergate see RED LION

 

COUNTY HOTEL; COUNTY AND STATION HOTEL Court Square; dated and inscribed 1852 GHH (George Head Head); architect Anthony Salvin who designed the hotel with a suite of apartments intended for Queen Victoria to break her journey to and from Balmoral, a covered way linked the hotel with the station platforms; the Queen visited the hotel with Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales in 1853 and took a meal but she never stayed here; Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map. 1866-68 extension; renamed Cumbrian Hotel 08.03.1974. In 1988 the Botchergate side of the building was refurbished and named County Hotel; Cumbrian Hotel renamed Lakes Court Hotel

See also Cumbrian Hotel; Lakes Court Hotel

CJ 28.09.1962 p1 CN 14.06.1968 p11 (illus) CJ 14.06.1968 pp12-13 (illus)

CN 15.11.1968 p14 CN 05.01.1973 p1 CN 15.03.1974 p15 CN 29.03.1974 p6

CD 1934 Ad pii

CD 1937 Ad pii

CD 1940 Ad pii

M442 p8 Business card for hotel superintendent Mr Gosling

CJ 20.12.1851 Building of the new hotel in Court Square let to tender

1861 census William Gosling manager, aged 45, born Clapham, Surrey

1891 census; Robert Koster, hotel manager, aged 42, born Germany; 12 visitors listed along with 62 live in staff,

1901 census Robert Kosler, manager, aged 51, naturalised British

CP 19.07.1907 Provision of new lounge

CN 16.04.1938 p11 Re-opening

CN 18.11.1939 p7 No restaurant bar

ENS 20.10.1962 p1 Offers accepted

CN 17.12.1965 p1 Extensions

ENS 24.05.1966 p10 (illus) New Grill Room Bar

CN 15.11.1968 p14 Dummies

CN 07.11.1969 p1 Face lift

CN 22.11.1971 p14 (illus) Dummies

CN 29.01.1971 p12 Dummies

CN 12.02.1971 p12 Dummies

ENS 02.07.1986 p10 (illus) Blaze ballroom reopens; old County Ballroom

CN 27.05.1988 p4 North’s premier hotel - history

CN 01.07.1988 p1 Hotel opens - see above

CN 22.07.1988 p14 Ad feature

CN 04.11.1988 p20 Ad feature

CN 11.11.1988 p25 New bar launched in style

CN 15.03.1991 p16 Hotel does it in county style

CN 05.02.1993 p1 Receivers called in

CN 19.02.1993 p4 City hotels of long ago

CN 09.02.1996 p14 Ad

CN 04.10.1996 p3 (illus) Hotel heritage to be restored after missing tiles retrieved

 

COUNTY HOTEL AND WINE COMPANY Court Square founded 1864

CD 1880 Ad pxl

CD 1884-85 Ad p277

CD 1927 Ad pii

CN 05.10.1962 p1

CJ 25.11.1864 p5 1st general meeting

CJ 16.05.1865 p2 Alterations

CN 17.09.1938 p18 Advert

CN 05.01.1973 p1 Improvements

 

COUNTY LAUNDRY AND WASHING CO Upperby; London Road

CD 1924 Ad p166

CD 1927 Ad p204 For 30 years family laundry

CD 1931 Ad p92

CD 1934 Ad p92

CN 29.03.1974 p6 (illus)

 

COUNTY MEWS off Lowther Street

County Hotel Stables

James M Robinson, Alex Proudfoot, Derek Nash Our Lady’s and St Joseph’s p48 Mr Graham appealed against his son’s call up saying that his son, James, was one of the only men who had at that time had a knowledge of the motor trade. At that time the business employed 16 men, ten [including James] of whom were called into the forces. James was killed in action 24.10.1918. The business was sold in 1919 and subsequently, after a further change of hands, was purchased by the Dias family of Carlisle

D Perriam Lowther Street p46 In 1869 Henry Graham bought a piece of land on Lowther Street from the Earl of Lonsdale on which he built the County Mews. His successor JW Graham sold the property in 1919 when it became Hodgson’s Garage. Property demolished in 1934. After 1935 he was on Spencer Street.

B/CAR 333.333 acc no 3263 For sale 25.02.1919

CD 1880 Ad pxx

1891 census; John Graham, cab proprietor, aged 31, born Carlisle

1901 census; John Graham, aged 42, cab proprietor, born Carlisle

CD 1913-14 Ad p10

CN 25.01.2002 p8 County Mews opened 1871

 

COUNTY MOTORS LTD Botchergate, opposite Caledonian; Rosehill; then Fiat dealership at Kingstown. After WW2 Ford were taken to court by H.Ferguson who accused them of stealing his patented 3 point linkage tractor invention. Ferguson won his legal action and decided not to share a dealership with Ford. After this date there were no dealerships with Ford. So County Motors came into being in 1948, selling Standard, Triumph and Alvis cars as well as Fergusons tractors. Mr William Dobinson was the first Chairman and I.H.Dickson was Managing Director of County Motors. The latter had previously been joint Managing Director with County Garage, which had held the Ford and Standard dealerships. County Motors had a showroom at 68 Lowther Street, built in 1958. There is a drawing of the architects design in D Perriam Lowther Street p35

CD 1952 Ad p335

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p258

CD 1955-56 Ad p262 14 Botchergate

CD 1961-62 Ad p286

CD 1966-68 Ad p285

CJ 18.03.1949 p5 CJ 19.10.1962 p13

CJ 17.10.1950 p2 1,000 tractor presentation

CN 06.08.1971 Supplement Kingstown

CN 16.06.1972 pp11-15 New showroom at Botcherby

CN 07.05.1993 p7

CN 20.05.1994 p9 Top car firm on move

 

COUNTY OPTICAL COMPANY Botchergate

CD 1934 Ad p240

 

COUNTY PUBLICITY LTD Lonsdale St

CD 1952 Ad pp222, 235, 400

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p288

 

COUNTY RECORDS OFFICE see ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT

 

COUNTY STORE see COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

 

COUNTY TRADING COMPANY

Joseph Walton Hope after selling his wine and spirit business in Lowther Street in circa 1889 began as a stocks and shares broker. He afterwards became associated with the County Trading Company which took over the business of the late Joe Todd, chemist

Bulmers 1901 Directory describes the firm as chemists, grocers, wine and spirit merchants and mineral water manufacturers, 76 English Street, 39 Blackfriars Street and 2 Church Street, and victs, Railway Tavern Botchergate, JW Hope, managing director

CN 26.11.2004 p8 Started in 1894; bankruptcy 1903

 

COUNTY WINDSCREEN CO Mary Street

See also James Hodgson; JW Hodgson

James Hodgson purchased one of the earliest cars in Cumberland from the original owner Theodore Carr. He formed the County Garage Company, becoming managing director. He patented a windscreen with curved glass to deflect the wind. He formed the County Windscreen Company which had branches in London and Coventry, withdrawing from the garage concern. When Ford began manufacturing in this country Hodgson made all the windscreens for several years until the company erected its own plant [Obit 09.03.1948 p1].

 

CN 07.08.1998 p8 Model T Fords Carlisle connection

 

COUNTY WINE COMPANY Court Square

CD 1952 Ad pp ii,106

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p28

CD 1955-56 Ad p28

CD 1961-62 Ad p304

CD 1966-68 Ad pix

 

COURSING; Caldewgate

CN 14.07.1967 p12

 

COURT, H. and R. Crown Street

Joiners and builders

CD 1884-85 Ad pxi

 

COURT, William Princess St

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p7 Joiner, builder and undertaker

 

COURT and HENDERSON Crown St

Joiners

CD 1893-94 Ad p58