Carlisle Encyclopaedia
PACK HORSE INN English Street; in local directories to 1882
CP 08.12.1821 p2d For sale
PACK HORSE INN Newtown/ Colin Street; in local directories until 1870
1861 census Matthew Armstrong, aged 27, innkeeper, born Holme Low
CN 28.05.1982 Advert with photo for sale of 131 Newtown Road
CN 24.01.1992 p4 (illus)
PACK HORSE INN Water Street
1847 Directory Robert Brown
CJ 09.1858 Ad; To let Pack Horse, Water Street
CJ 03.05.1861 p5 Murder and suicide-William Horsley and Jane Davidson
CJ 20.05.1862 p1 Packhorse to let
CJ 10.02.1871 p4 Inquest there for man lost in Slater’s fire
PACK HORSE LANE So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes; back cover illus
1880 Directory 21 English Street
1891 census; 49 people listed as living in Pack Horse Lane
1901 census 26 people living in this lane in 7 households; occupations include police constable, dressmaker, mason’s labourer, cotton weaver, chair maker, labourer, general porter, butcher, hawker, farm servant, blacksmith
1934 Directory 21 English Street
CN 29.05.1964 p12 Illustration of 1895 and 1964
PADDON BECK see PARHAM BECK
PADDYS LONNIN, Kingstown
City Minutes 1934-35 p891 Demolition of cottage
PADDYS MARKET see also MARKET - STREET
When a building front has been set back a street or footpath space is sometimes available for business or marketing purposes. Such a space is in front of the Pheasant Inn. This was the site of the one-time Paddy’s Market, so named because of the large number of Irish people who lived in Caldewgate and who patronised the market for Monday morning bargains of butcher’s meat. The site was unpaved. In summertime the dust would be blown about and in wet weather puddles would form. After the building of the new covered market, Paddy’s Market, as a centre for trade and gossip, gradually ceased to exist, but there is a little outdoor trade done in potatoes and vegetables in John Street on Saturdays [Topper Off pp 863-4 Christmas 1936]
PADDY’S ROW; Kingstown; so named on 1901 census
PAEDOPHILES
CJ 01.04.1870 Letter warning against man preying on young girls in Denton Holme
CN 28.07.2000 p1 Detectives probe Carlisle porn links of depraved paedophile
CN 28.07.2000 p12 Let Cumbria see this child rapist’s face-editorial
CN 06.09.2002 p1 Challenge to judge’s sentence on child sex offender
PAGEANT 1928 A series of tableaux from Carlisle's history were enacted on Bitts Park
CJ 04.05.1928 P.G.Hudson’s costume designs
CJ 08.05.1928 P.G.Hudson’s costume designs
ENS 06.08.1928 p2 - Civic week
ENS 07.08.1928 p2 - Civic week
CN 18.08.1928 p13 Royal visit to the Pageant of Princess Mary, only daughter of George V
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p112 Photo of opening by Lord Lonsdale
Carlisle People and Places p68 2 photos of Lord Lonsdale at opening; p118
PAGEANT 1949
CN 02.08.1947 p3 To be held in 1949
PAGEANT 1951
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p113 Photo of group of performers
PAGEANT 1977 - Silver Jubilee Historical
CN 05.11.1976 p10 CN 19.11.1976 p11 CN 03.12.1976 p14 CN 10.12.1976 p32 CN 04.02.1977 p3 CN 25.03.1977 p3 CN 07.04.1977 p3 CN 06.05.1977 p9 CN 20.05.1977 p17 (illus) CN 19.08.1977 pp1,6-7
CN 26.08.1977 p1 CN 02.09.1977 pp1,3,4,8-9 (illus)
ENS 10.03.1977 p4 800 wanted
CN 09.09.1977 p4 (illus) History in Carlisle
PAGODA NIGHTCLUB, Lancaster Street
Originally built circa 1970 for Olivetti as a regional office. The architect was Ted Cullinan. Building plans in Carlisle Record Office
ENS 13.12.1976 pp6-8 Ad
CN 01.02.1980 p9 (illus)
PAINTER’S ARMS Stanwix; in local directory for 1855; Edentown 1875
PALACE CINEMA see PALACE THEATRE / CINEMA
PALACE CYCLES Botchergate; Business established as W.Lee cycles in 1934; in 1947 Herbert Lee and his father bought the business from H.Lee’s uncle and transferred the premises to the Palace Cinema site. Herbert retired in 1992 and his son Mike took over the business
CN 02.07.1999 p19 Ad
CN 20.02.2009 p15 Been in the Lee family for 60 years
PALACE THEATRE / CINEMA Botchergate; building began on 29.08.1905; opened as music hall 10.03.1906; closed as a theatre in May 1932; reopened as cinema 10.10.1932; closed December 1957; reopened 03.11.1958; closed 25.04.1970; re-opened as the Studios 14.08.1970; demolition of building summer 2004, completed by August of that year
See also STUDIOS
CD 1931 Ad p 30 Variety and musical shows
CN 03.09.1954 p10 CN 24.09.1954 p10 CN 05.11.1954 p8 CN 26.05.1967 p12
CN 13.06.1969 p1 CN 07.06.1974 p6
CJ 06.03.1906 p4
CJ 01.09.1905 p5a Building began
CJ 06.03.1906 p4 Opened 10.03.1906
CJ 11.09.1906 p4 Lockhart’s elephants, 4 in number; orchestra and Pepiscope as usual
CJ 15.01.1907 p4 Boswell’s stud of educated ponies; Pepiscope and orchestra
CJ 08.03.1907 p5 Complimentary benefit for Signor Pepi
CJ 30.04.1907 p4 Florrie Ford at Palace; ‘Down at the Old Bull and Bush’
CJ 23.07.1907 p5 Fred Karno’s comedians appearing in Mummy’s Birds [Charlie Chaplin played a minor role in this]
CJ 13.08.1907 p4 Palace staff outing. `three cheers for Mr Pepi and management’
CJ 30.08.1907 p5 Mr Pepi opening Hippodrome at Darlington, already has Tivoli at Barrow
CJ 23.07.1909 p4 Lease secured by Mac.Vaudeville Circuit
CN 20.05.1911 p6 Ad for George Formby appearing at Palace
CN 19.04.1913 p6a Wee George Wood appearing at Palace
CJ 22.11.1927 p4 Death of Signor Pepi, born near Florence
CJ 13.01.1928 p7 Rino Pepi, former lessee of Palace left £11,127
CJ 08.03.1946 p1 Illustration of staff at opening
CJ 08.03.1946 p1 (illus) Anniversary and history
CN 24.09.1954 memories of Charlie Chaplin appearing at Palace
Carlisle an illustrated history p79 Painting in 1955 by Charles Oakley
CJ 17.12.1957 p5 Closing
CJ 20.12.1957 p8 Closing
CJ 27.12.1957 p6 Closing
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p23 Two photos prior to closure
CJ 10.01.1958 p8 Closing
CN 14.02.1958 For sale
CJ 09.09.1958 City cinema acquired by Rank
CN 12.09.1958 p1 Re-opening
CN 28.03.1969 p15 Taken over
CN 24.04.1970 p1 Closing
CN 07.03.1986 p4 Sale as old theatre celebrates
CN 29.12.1989 p4 Circus days popular with city
CN 19.01.1990 p4 Entertainment at old Palace turns full circle
CN 25.10.1991 p49 Palace of varieties
CN 02.04.1993 p4 Will Fyffe promoted city boy violinists
CN 02.08.2002 p8 Music Hall days at the Palace; first manager Rino Pepi
CN 30.04.2004 pp,1,2 Palace gutted by fire; block of flats may replace building
CN 28.04.2006 p7 ‘Talkies’ neon sign restored; 40 luxury flats being built on site
CN 13.04.2007 p6 40 luxury apartments at Old Palace; prices up to 245,000
PALMER AND STORY, Norfolk Street
1860 land bought by brothers in law Nathan Palmer and George Story and works built for a finishing processes of woven cloth. At the international exhibition in 1862 they showed taffeta, silk and cotton umbrella clothes. Works extended in 1864. Trading as Palmer and Story the firm exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition in 1878. Story continued alone on this site in 1880 as George Story and Sons, George died in 1890 and his sons continued the business throughout World War One. WP Story died in 1925 and his sons continued making tailors’ linings until the building was offered for sale in 1949
D.Perriam Denton Holme p16
PALMER, George Shoemaker, died 21.05.1813 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]
PALMER, Ian Eden Place
CN 16.04.2004 p5 Grocer’s shop in Stanwix closes after 22 years
PALMER,R Botchergate
Boot and shoe maker
CD 1952 Ad p80
PALMER, Stan and Sons
CN 26.07.1991 p10 Ad
PALMER, Thomas Nailor of this city, died 11.04.17??; Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard
PALMER, Thomas, Draper, aged 26, employing 7 men, home address 3 Henry St, born Lazonby [1851 census]; aged 36 ,draper, employing 2 men and 5 boys, born Lazonby, home address Henry St [1861 census]
PALMER’S COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 67 Milbourne Street
1924 Carlisle Directory between 67-69 Milbourne Street
PALM-PRO Signwriters
CN 21.10.1994 p14 Ad signs of the times
CN 23.02.1996 p6 Ad
PANDORA
CN 02.10.2009 p18 Jewellers opens in Lanes
P AND R RADIO SERVICE COMPANY Scotch Street
CD 1961-62 Ad p95
PANTOMIME
CN 25.09.1998 p3 City’s pantomime bigger and better
CN 08.01.1999 p1 Panto future hangs in balance
PAPE AND SIMPSON Milbourne Crescent
Joiners
CD 1902-03 Ad p177
CD 1905-06 Ad p102
CD 1907-08 Ad p198
CD 1910-11 Ad p147
CD 1913-14 Ad p12
PARACHUTES W.H.Shipley made a parachute descent over Carlisle on 01.07.1890
P.Connon In the Shadow of the Eagles pp8-9 2 photos and description
Carlisle Express and Examiner 05.07.1890 p5 description of first jump
Carlisle Express and Examiner 02.08.1890 p4 2nd visit to city
PARADICE Field in Harraby so marked on 1610 Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham University, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984];
PARADISE COURT So named Paradyse in 1380
PARADISE COURT, Castle Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 15 Castle Street
1924 Carlisle Directory Carlisle Working Men’s Club here
PARADISE ROW Mentioned in 1888 as part of Edentown
PARAGON VETERINARY GROUP London Rd
CN 15.08.2008 p23 Ad
PARHAM BECK Is called Poddon Beck on Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle and environs; is called Paddon Beck on Asquith’s 1853 Survey and Parham Beck on the 1865 Ordnance Survey map; rises at GR 3654 5597, near Sandsfield Rd
City Minutes 1899-1900 p344 Culvert over Parham Beck near Peel Street
City Minutes 1926-7 p349 Repair work on culverts approved
PARHAM BECK ADULT SCHOOL AND READING ROOM Established 1853 (Whellan 1860 p131)
PARISHES
CJ 03.07.1934 p4 Parishes
CN 23.12.1950 p4 Origins
PARK, Christopher, draper, aged 39, employing 2 men and 5 boys, home address Spencer St, born Carlisle [1851 census]
PARK AND RIDE
CN 01.12.1989 p9 Two schemes to ease traffic
CN 08.12.1989 p11 Slow start for park and ride
CN 08.12.1989 p12 It’s back to the buses
CN 29.12.1989 p3 Plan flops
CN 03.10.2003 p3 Christmas Park and Ride scheme from Kingmoor
CN 21.11.2003 p6 Disappointing numbers use buses; letter p13; no use
CN 28.11.2003 p 7 Scheme under used; 441 passengers in last month
CN 05.12.2003 p Letter; research should have been done beforehand
CN 30.01.2004 p5 Ran for 53 days and attracted 2,892 passengers;
CN 13.08.2004 p5 Scheme will not run again this Christmas
PARKER, John
City Minutes 1924-25 p92 Licensed to operate bus Town Hall to Longsowerby
PARKER, John Gades Ironmonger, died 07.04.1895 [Monumental Inscription 26/22]; in directories in Botchergate from 1870. After death of J.D.Gaddes the business was carried on by his wife and son until at least 1934. A cut throat razor marked J.D.Gaddes, Cutler, called the ‘Eden Razor’ has been noted
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p76 photo
CN20.12.1913 p1f ‘Eden’ safety Razors. Parker ironmongers
PARKER, Joseph Wilsons Court, London Road, Dalston Road, Bog Road; Devonshire Street
Coal and coke merchant
CD 1884-85 Ad p277
CD 1893-94 Ad p56
CD 1902-03 Ad p288
CD 1905-06 Ad p96
PARKER, Robert Botchergate
CP 25.12.1866 p1b Takes over grocery business from George Turner
PARKER, Thomas Dalton
City Minutes 1926-7 p632 Licensed to operate bus service to Silloth
PARKER, Messrs W see THE MAINS
PARKERS COURT, north side of Charlotte St So named on the 1861 census and shown on the large scale OS map of 1863, 23.7.4, John Parker and family, cotton dyer, resident here then. Note Parks Court is on the south side of Charlotte Street. Both courts are market on the large scale 1899 OS map 23.7.4
1880 Directory 56 Charlotte Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 10-12 Charlotte Street
1934 Directory
1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 1 property here
PARK GATE West Tower Street
Electrical engineers started 1947
CD 1966-68 Ad p264
CN 24.06.1988 p16 Ad
CN 21.09.2012 p8 Based at Kingstown, 80 strong workforce.
CN 24.07.2015 p4 Obit of George Park of George Park
PARK HOUSE Kingstown
24.07.1825 Alexander Stephenson of Park-house, Innkeeper [Baptisms and Burials of St Michael’s Church, Stanwix]
CJ 22.10.1886 p1 For sale
CJ 03.01.1919 p8 Sold
CJ 07.01.1919 p5
CJ 18.01.1927 p1 For sale
CN 11.03.2005 p 16 Parkhouse Business Park; Atlantic House, first phase finished
CN 20.05.2005 p18 Solway Business Centre opens next week; £3m
CN 25.11.2005 p1 Gallo Rosso, ex Parkhouse Hotel, for sale; ad p56; picture
PARKING see also CAR PARKS; DISC PARKING; PARK AND RIDE; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC WARDENS
CN 13.07.2001 p3 Fine for disabled driver
CN 30.11.2001 p2 Clampdown on double yellow line parkers
CN 25.01.2002 p15 Disabled driver wants change to new Lanes parking scheme
CN 26.04.2002 p3 Did city councillor get parking ticket quashed? Opinion p 12
CN 13.06.2003 p2 Cars parked on pavement put blind at risk
CN 25.07.2003 p13 Letter concerning disc parking; no clear signage
CN 03.06.2005 p1 Top 10 places for illegal parking
CN 08.09.2006 p3 Grass verges to be ripped up for parking bays
CN 22.09.2006 p13 Letter; not up to council to provide parking; problems of illegal parking
PARKINS, John
1829 Directory p 162 John Parkins, Fish hook and tackle makers, Storeys Lane, Scotch St
1847 Directory p160 Three Cannons Lane, Fish hook and tackle maker
PARKINS, Thomas
CJ 26.06.1877p4 Death of Sarah wife of Thomas Parkins, fish hook and tackle maker
1847 Directory p160 7 Peascod’s lane, Fish hook and tackle maker
PARKINS, William Butcher, died 10.03.1871 [Monumental Inscription 59/22]; in directories from 1851
PARKINSON, F Castle Street
Building and civil engineers
CD 1966-68 Ad p255
PARKLANDS WOMENS INSTITUTE
CN 01.02.2008 p22 New WI set up; letter page 13
PARKLAND VILLAGE The Story development at the former Garland Hospital. Includes new houses and conversion of former hospital buildings including the Chapel [CN 29.04.2005 Story Homes Supp. p5]
PARKS
See also BITTS PARK; BRITAIN IN BLOOM; FUSEHILL STREET PARK; HEYSHAM PARK; KEENAN PARK, MELBOURNE APRK,RICKERBY PARK; UPPERBY PARK
Carlisle Octocentenary booklet pp68 -71 Parks and open spaces 1BC 352
CN 31.01.1925 p9 CN 09.07.1976 p6
CN 08.09.1989 p4 Plans for city park included a ferry
CN 29.11.1991 p11 City parks safe
CN 10.01.1997 p4 (illus) Waterloo shaped woodland, and lots more you never....
CN 05.01.2001 p8 Parks department aims for a Green Flag award
CN 15.07.2005 p3 Steve Crabtree, head of Parks, retires
PARK’S COURT, south side of Charlotte Street [1934 Directory]
Note Parker’s Court, Charlotte Street, is on the north side of the street. Both courts are marked on the 1899 large scale OS map 23.7.4
1880 Directory 63 Charlotte Street
1924 Carlisle Directory lists Parks Court between 13-15 Charlotte Street
1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 3 properties here
PARLIAMENT Henry Summerson says there was only one Parliament held in Carlisle. Edward 1st arrived at Lanercost, a sick and failing man, on 29.09.1306. On 03.11.1306 writs of summons were sent out convoking a Parliament to be held in Carlisle. The opening day of the Parliament was 20.01.1307. After two short adjournments Parliament opened on 25.01.1307. The stated purpose of the Parliament was to provide for a government for Scotland. Edward entered Carlisle on 12.03.1307, after spending 4 nights at Linstock Castle as the guest of the Bishop of Carlisle. It’s most likely that he entered via the Rickergate which had only recently and on his orders received a grisly ornament in the form of a Scottish head. Perhaps it was the decaying head of King Robert’s brother Alexander, executed a month earlier. Personal summonses were sent to the Prince of Wales, 10 earls, 76 barons and other leading laymen, 20 bishops, 44 abbots, 15 justices, and other important royal servants. Also present were representatives of the commons. Not everyone turned up or sent representatives in their stead. It seems reasonable that 350 – 400 lords, churchmen, commons travelled to Carlisle in 1307. This number should probably be multiplied by 5 fold for servants, attendants etc, making a possible 2000 people in total, perhaps doubling the city’s population. People were housed in private houses and inns, as well as outlying villages. The Prince of Wales stayed in Wetheral Priory, the Archbishop of York in Rose Castle. The Parliamentary sessions were held most likely in the Castle. Local petitions were presented, pleas for aid put forward. Seven statutes were promulgated at the Carlisle Parliament, but none were to do with Scotland, even though this was the ostensible reason for the Parliament. Also attending was Peter the Spaniard, nuncio of Pope Clement V who publicly excommunicated Robert the Bruce. Parliament broke up around the end of March 1307 but petitions still had to be seen to and the royal clerks were in the city until early July, and of course the King was still in the city. Edward died at Burgh by Sands on July 07.1307 [Henry Summerson Edward I at Carlisle; King and Parliament in 1307, 2011]
J.Duckworth Lecture on the Carlisle Parliaments of Edward I, 1930
CJ 09.04.1965 p8
PARLIAMENTARY BILLS
CN 23.03.1990 p4 Reform bill celebrated by artisans
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATING SOCIETY
D,Perriam Carlisle Remembered p122
CJ 13.12.1946 Formed
CN 25.01.1947 p6 Revival
PARLIAMENT BAR Lonsdale street
CN 21.12.1986 p16 Ad feature; opening
PARRS COURT,
1880 Directory 24 Bridge Street
PARRS COURT,
1880 Directory 23 John Street
PARR’S COURT
1880 Directory Blue Anchor Lane, now Parr’s Court
PARTCO
CN 25.09.1981 pp26-7 Ad
PARTRIDGE PLACE Named after council member A.H.Partridge
PASCHE EGGS
CN 29.03.1947 p5
Cumbria Life issue no 33 March/April 1994 pp16-17 2A 9
CN 14.04.1995 p12 Easter eggs made Cumberland famous
PASSPORT OFFICE
CN 29.02.2008 p19 New office at Kingmoor busy start
PATENTS LIBRARY In West Walls in 1855
CN 03.12.1971 p16
PATERNOSTER ROW By the cathedral. Paternoster Row first noted 1541. Number 3 probably early 18th century; The Stephensons lived at 4 Paternoster Row in 1893, two storeys built of red brick with stone columns on either side of the door. There was one bay window onto Paternoster Row. This house was built circa 1855. His work premises joined onto his house with an arched opening between the two parts. A description of the family and servants at this time is given in Margaret Forster’s book Hidden Lives as her grandmother was a live in servant; number 7 late 18th century; number 9 and 42 Castle St 1799 deeds with later alterations; Wall surrounding Cathedral rebuilt on 28.07.1808; heightened 1838 to prevent bodysnatching; demolished 1930
1847 Directory
Mary Slee Older Carlisle p18 (illus)
CN 12.11.1949 p5
CJ 23.03.1855 Construction of no 4 and 5
1930 Carlisle in Camera 1 photo of street in 1930; Cathedral wall un-demolished
City Council Minutes 1930 -31 p98 Scheme for widening road and taking down wall
CN 14.04.1960 p8 (illus) About 1900
CN 15.01.1965 p12 (illus) Wall surrounding Cathedral
CN 20.08.1971 p7 (illus) Garden
PATERSON, J.Rutherford Devonshire Street
Wine merchant
CD 1902-03 Ad p2
PATIENT CARE AND CALL CENTRE Hilltop Heights
CN 11.01.2002 p14 (illus) Official opening of the call centre
PATON, Mr and Mrs D
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p9 Deportment, dancing, pianoforte
PATON’S Rosehill
Mercedes Benz dealer
CN 04.05.2001 p16 Top selling Mercedes Benz car dealer
CN 15.02.2002 p20 Paton’s Mercedes dealership is to change hands
PATON’S GARAGE Blackfriars St
CD 1961-62 Ad p286
CN 08.08.1969 p21 Advert with picture
CJ 19.10.1962 p13 Jack Paton, a native of Dumfries, has been in Carlisle for 26 years. Four years ago he moved into up-to-date premises in Blackfriars Street. There he and his two sons, Bill and Bob, specialise in Mercedes-Benz and Volvo cars
PATRON SAINT
CN 05.03.2004 p13 Letter claiming St Nicholas city’s patron saint
PATTINSON, Chemist and druggist
The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 41 Botchergate ‘The sign of the stag’s head above the door’ .Established 1831
PATTINSON, Ann Grocer, aged 44, employing 14 men and boys, home address I George St, born Morland, Westmorland [1861 census]
PATTINSON, Daniel Common Brewer, West Walls [Jollie 1811 pp83, xviii]; Wood’s 1821 map shows Messrs Connell and Pattinson’s Brewery below West Walls
CJ 13.08.1817 p1 Common brewer bankrupt
CN 27.05.2011 p34 Erected Brewery circa 1794; Daniel Pattinson died 13.01.1819; son went into partnership with John Connell; Brewery on West Walls still owned by the family in 1860 when it was let again
PATTINSON, Edward and Co Warwick Road
Insurance brokers
CN 26.02.1999 p12 Ad
CN 26.01.2001 p3 Insurance broker goes into liquidation
CN 20.05.2005 p4 Obit of D.Pattinson; firm started 1968 sold 1995
PATTINSON, I and M New Market
Florists, fruiterers
CD 1952 Ad p300
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p242
CD 1955-56 Ad p244
PATTINSON, J and Son Tailors, Laws Lane
Selections from the Cumberland Ballads of Robert Anderson, ed Geo Crowther, 1904, advert p 64. Established over 50 years
PATTINSON, J.H. St Nicholas
Boot and show repair depot
CD 1920 Ad p231
PATTINSON, James Joiner and cabinetmaker, aged 46, employing 4 men and 2 boys, born Carlisle, home address 4 Bartons Court [1861 census]
PATTINSON, John Caldewgate
Cotton manufacturer
CJ 12.08.1826 p2b Cotton manufacturer and grocer; stock in trade for sale
PATTINSON, M.H. The Crescent
Chemists
CD 1893-94 Ad p4
PATTINSON, Richard Caldewgate
M442 p49 Business label for grocer and druggist
CP 02.10.1874 p1 For sale business premises occupied by Messrs Richard Pattinson and Company, and consisting of a large grocer’s and druggist shop, warehouses, tobacco spinning manufactory, tallow chandlery situated in Church Street, Caldewgate. Occupied by this company for upwards of 44 years. The present sale is made by the trustees of the will of the late R.Pattinson.
PATTINSON, Simon Druggist, resident at Brunton Place, aged 44, born Carlisle, employing 2 apprentices [1851 census]
PATTINSON’S COURT, King Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 26 King Street
1924 Carlisle Directory Between 24-26 King Street
PATTINSONS COURT
1880 Directory 15 Mary Street
PATTINSON’S COURT, William Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 6 William Street
1924 Carlisle Directory lists between 6-8 William Street
City Minutes 1935-36 p181 Nos 1-3 unfit for human habitation
PATTINSONS LANE
1880 Directory 18 St Cuthbert’s Lane
PATTINSON’S SCHOOL English St
CP 16.12.1870 20 children attending, A.J.Pattinson mistress
PATTISON, Daniel Brewer; died 13.01.1818; Monumental Inscriptions St Cuthbert’s Yard
PAVEMENTS AND PAVING
22.10.1649 We desire that all streets within this citty (wherein the decayes are) may be paved and amended [Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p289]
24.10.1665 We desire that Mr Maior would please to take speadie course to cause ye pavements that are in decaye within the cyttie and liberties to be repaired. [Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p295]
1820 see G.Topping Memories of Carlisle pp134 Caldew cobbles in Botchergate , footpath flagged
Carlisle Express and Examiner 12.02.1881 Before the Sanitary Authority. Mr John Nicholson complaining of the very bad state of the Currock new road, arising from landslips. Mr Milburn said there was a hole in the footpath big enough to bury a horse
CJ/CP 25.09.1889 Carlisle Health Committee. Mr John Nicholson of Currock Villa complaining of the dreadful state of Currock Road; never cleaned or watered. When the weather is dry and a little wind gets up, persons passing along the road were almost blinded with dust; in winter wet weather made the footpaths in places unpassable
City Minutes 1922-23 p 671 Wood block paving at St Albans Row removed
CN 25.08.1928 p9 Paving and lighting 1860s
CN 31.03.1995 p10 150 years ago - wooden blocks
PAVEY LANDS and Tyle Close for sale. Fields situate in Watergate Lane now in occupation of John Carr as tenant [CP 03.07.1819 p1]
PAVIFIELD
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]
PAYNE-MIX Concrete producer; formed 1996
CN 28.03.2003 p22 Ad feature
PEACE CELEBRATIONS; WORLD WAR ONE; 19.07.1919 official day of celebrations throughout the district
A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p 48 photo of Charlotte St celebrations
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p112 St John’s Upperby celebrations photo
PEACE MEDALS; given to Carlisle children on 18.09.1919
City Minutes 1918-19 p363 produced by Elkington and Co
CN 07.11.1969 p14 (illus)
PEARCE, Joe
CN 23.04.2004 p4 Obit of Caldewgate butcher
PEARS, John
Quarter Sessions Petitions Christmas 1733-34. Petition of John Pears of the City of Carlisle - petition to seek subscriptions for his relief. Was ’reduced to the Lowest Ebb’ some years ago by various business losses; eg £300 being his cargo’s value in a shipwreck, also a wheat crop swept away by a flood of the River Eden; and now £60 (he ‘not Discouraged’, but borrowing) for barley and malt in the Betty of Rockcliffe (Harrison, master) stranded last October off Allonby on voyage to Whitehaven for better price; abandoned by her crew, she drifted to the Scottish shore and broke up.
PEARS, John Currier, died 02.07.1809 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]
PEARSON, James H. Old Post Office Court
Stocks and shares
CD 1902-03 Ad p229
PEARSON, Robert Currier, died 22.12.1816 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard, the Cathedral; no 107]
PEARSON, T and Co Annetwell Street
Electrical engineers
CD 1952 Ad p292
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p236
CD 1955-56 Ad p238
CD 1961-62 Ad p270
CD 1966-68 Ad p264
PEARSON, Tom Crown Street
Tailor and clothier
CD 1893-94 Ad p58
PEARSON, William Tailor, aged 24, employing 3 men, home address Castle Street, born Carlisle [1851 census]
PEARSON AND VIPOND Old Post Office Court
Shipping and emigration agents
CD 1924 Ad p16
CD 1927 Ad p14 (Established 1879)
CD 1931 Ad p108
PEARSON’S Old Post Office Court
Travel agency
CD 1920 Ad p9
CD 1934 Ad p120
CD 1937 Ad p100
PEARSONS English Street, Scotch St, Globe Lane
Wines and spirits
CD 1880 Ad pxxxiv
PEASCODS COURT,
1880 Directory 2 South George Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed before 5 South George Street
PEASCOD’S LANE English Street; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city. John Peskod appears in the accounts of the city poll-tax in 1377. Roman and Medieval Carlisle; the northern Lanes, excavations 1978-82, vol 2, p286
CJ 20.04.1822 p2d Houses in Peascod’s Lane to be sold
1851 Report of General Board of Health....Carlisle; R.Rawlinson 1BC 625 p52; drain from a slaughterhouse runs into
1880 Directory 7 English Street
1901 census lists 114 people living in 5 households. Two of the properties are lodging houses, one in the occupation of Helen Fuller and the other Thomas Harding. Occupations of people in the lodging houses include; labourers [aged 77, 72, 66, 65 and 63 amongst others] shoemaker, paper hanger pedlar, joiner, showman, drover, hawker, butcher, blacksmith, groom, poet [Jimmy Dyer] striker in iron trade, barber, lodging house keeper.
1934 Directory
PEASCOD’S LANE New lane opened 26.10.2000
PEATTIE, Andrew Brewer, aged 49, employing 5 men, born Scotland, home address English Damside [1851 census]; brewer, aged 61, employing 6 men, home address English Damside, born Scotland [1861 census]; Morris, Harrison and Co’s 1861 Directory p34 refers to Andrew Peattie, brewer, West Walls Brewery; Andrew Peattie of the Meadow Brewery died 14.05.1865, aged 64 [MI 96/4]; Isaac Peattie of Meadow Brewery, Carlisle, youngest son of Andrew Peattie died 22.11.1881 aged 37 [MI 96/4]
Meadow Brewery is marked on the first edition 50 inch OS maps on what was Union Street
PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
City Minutes 1934/35 p99 List of places where crossings to be painted; p761
PEDESTRIANS ARMS Newtown Road; in local directories from 1869 when it was called the Pedestrian Arms; 1876 to 1920 directories refer to it as North British Railway Inn; the 1921 directory refers to it as ‘The Pedestrians’, the name it retains. Building demolished some years ago and site remains vacant [2023]
CJ 05.01.1968 p3 (illus)
CN 11.02.1994 p4 City pub sign seeker
PEDESTRIANISATION Town Hall Square
CN 24.08.1973 p8 (illus) CN 11.07.1975 p3 CN 18.07.1975 p1
CN 01.08.1975 p32 CN 10.10.1975 p27 CN 12.03.1976 pp1,11- plan
ENS 30.03.1976 p4 (illus) CN 23.07.1976 p17 CN 01.10.1976 p9
CN 17.12.1976 p9
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p75 photo of 1976 work
CN 15.07.1988 p9 Scheme would hit business
CN 12.05.1989 p5 Work will mean city traffic no-go area
CN 19.05.1989 p3 Trees moved in city scheme
CN 02.06.1989 p3 City stores fear pedestrianisation
CN 10.11.1989 pp1,52 Hitting traffic chaos for six
CN 10.12.1989 p1 Warden goes to war
ENS 02.04.1996 p6 (illus) How do you want city to look? asks council
CN 12.05.2006 p22 Plans to make Botchergate a pedestrian area on Saturday night
PEDRONE, John
CJ 23.07.1836 p2 Set up in business as jeweller and optician in market place
CJ 27.08.1836 p2 Lists his stock
PEDRONE, Ludivico
J.Penfold Clockmakers of Cumberland p70
M442 p3 Business card for L.Pedrone; optician, looking glasses, barometers...
CJ 20.06.1829 p1 Ad; jeweller, optician opening
Cumberland Pacquet 29.05.1832 p3 Married at Preston Lodivico Pedrone, jeweller, to Miss Lucy Justice of Preston
CP 04.10.1834 Ad About to decline business
CN 11.07.2014 p16 Article by D.Perriam on Pedrone family
PEEL, Thomas 78 English Street
1847 Directory Thos. Peel, 87 Market Place
1861 census Peel, Thomas, Draper, aged 53, home address Peile’s Court , English St, born Wigton
CP 10.01.1863 Ad; Drapery business for sale; conducted for upwards of 26 years
Monumental Inscription in Caldbeck graveyard records a Thomas Peel, draper of Carlisle, died 04.03.1863 aged 59. By this stone’s proximity to John Peel’s stone and other Peel stones I would suggest he is a member of this family.
18.07.1872 Letter of this date refers to Peel the draper, 12 English Street [Dear Mary, E.Gedling letters of a 19th century Caldbeck Family]
PEEL’S COURT
1880 Directory 73 Botchergate
PEEL’S COURT
1880 Directory 20 Garden Street
PEEL’S COURT, Water Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 69 Water Street
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 71-73 Water Street
PEEL’S AMERICAN OPERA TROUPE
Carlisle Examiner 21.09.1858 p2c In Carlisle
PEEL STREET
City Minutes 1898/99 Approval for 12 houses
City Minutes 1925-6 p62 36 council houses rehousing Queen St and Rigg St
PEIL’S COURT, Water Street
City Minutes 1932-33 p68 Four tenements unfit for human habitation
PENAL LAWS
CP 23.09.1887 p6 CP 30.09.1887 p6 CP 11.11.1887 p7
PENDRICH, J Sherrington’s Court, Scotch St
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p 10 Joiner and builder
PENGUIN CONFECTIONERY CO LTD
See also TEASDALE AND CO LTD
CN 27.02.1970 p1 Merger?
CN 25.06.1971 p21 Takeover?
CN 15.09.1972 pp1,3 (illus) Fire
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p158 photos of Penguin fire
CN 22.09.1972 p3 Fire
CN 23.08.1991 p11 City factory hopes for sweet news
CN 10.12.1999 p3 Hopes rise
CN 26.05.2000 p21Ad Success is sweet for Penguin
CN 17.11.2000 p14 Penguin back in receivership
CN 01.12.2000 p1 Hopes rising for Penguin jobs - 48 potential buyers
CN 22.12.2000 p5 Bright future for rescued factory; buyers House of York
CN 12.02.2003 p2 Up for sale, 85 jobs safe; Fravigar offer
CN 23.01.2004 p14 Penguin factory potential buyer is taken over
CN 30.01.2004 p5 Set to shut down at end of March
CN 03.03.2006 p15 Senator homes begin demolition of ex Penguin works
CN 28.04.2006 p6 Demolition continues as ‘urban village’ planned on site.
CN 17.11.2006 p9 Rejection of flats plan at Penguin site; plan ‘too intensive’
PENNINE WAY SCHOOL - Pennine Way Infants and Pennine Way Junior schools were both opened on 20th May 1958 by Sir Edward Boyle MP. Infants and Junior merged to form Pennine Way Primary School 31.09.1997
CN 23.05.1958 p3 Opening of new school
CN 18.01.1991 p9 Share head bid for city school
CN 20.03.1992 p3 Parents cash bid in school crisis
CN 15.05.1992 p1 Cash or quit school threat
CN 19.07.1996 p1 Schools to merge
CN 07.02.1997 p6 School goes to the races to raise cash
CN 27.05.2016 p8 New Community Centre opens; Pennine Way Primary School and Community Centre under one roof. Also has a community cafe, library...
PENNINGTON BARBERS Corner of Junction Street and Shaddongate
D Perriam Denton Holme p107; photo
PENNY SAVINGS BANK
Carlisle Examiner 23.11.1858 p4b Ad
Carlisle Examiner 29.03.1859 p2c
31.01.1879 Utility of Penny Banks in schools. Letter signed MS [May Smith]
PENSIONERS see AGE CONCERN; OLD AGE PENSIONERS;
PENSIONERS RIGHTS GROUP see OLD AGE PENSIONERS
PENSIONS
CN 28.06.2002 p1 Cumberland, Metalbox, Pirelli shut salary schemes; opinion p12
PENTHOUSE AND PAVING
CN 07.02.1992 p23 City firm back in business
PEOPLES DISPENSARY FOR SICK ANIMALS
CN 31.07.1992 p27 Pets charity anniversary funds bid
CN 21.08.1992 p11 Incredible journey to raise funds
PEPPERMINT PARK London Road
Women’s fitness club
CN 24.05.1996 p2 Ad Supp
PERCIVAL, R Ltd Lowther Street; started running services on 02.07.1921
Coach trips
City Minutes 1921-22 p556 List of omnibuses with plate numbers
City Minutes 1923-4 p589 Licensed to operate bus services Carlisle/Brampton...
City Minutes 1926-7 p632 Licensed to operate bus services
CD 1924 Ad p264
PERCIVAL, Richard Crown Street
Coal merchant and furniture remover
CD 1893-94 Ad p84
PERCIVAL, S.R. and J Crown Street
Coal merchants and haulage contractors
Leading Trader of the City Êp61 Ad A616
PERCY ROAD First noted on electoral register for 1923; land in this area was formerly owned by the Dean and Chapter and streets were named in honour of Bishops of Carlisle and Chancellors of the Diocese, in this case Bishop Percy
City Minutes 1934-5 p422 Approval for 38 houses on Percy Road for Laing’s
PERIODICALS
CN 13.08.1971 p12 Old periodicals
PERKINS Fish and chip shop Portland place/ Cecil Street; George Perkins took over the business in 1918 from his father John who founded the business here in 1912; taken over by George’s son Leslie, who died in 1967; then moved out of family when sold to Harry Tinnion, potato merchant [CN 11.11.2005 p4]
PETER STREET BUS STATION/ DEPOT see UNITED BUS SERVICES/ STATIONS
PETRIANA Roman fort unearthed at Old Croft, Stanwix. Recent research suggests that the Roman name for the Stanwix fort was Uxelodum
CAIH p7 Stanwix Fort
CN 04.10.1940 p1 CN 07.09.1940 p5 CN 28.09.1940 p4
CN 28.06.1947 p5
PETROL CRISIS September 2000
CN 15.09.2000 p1,4,5 (illus) Details concerning local blockade and effects
CN 10.11.2000 p1 farmers and hauliers scrap city fuel protest
CN 17.11.2000 p3 Protest was a success says Carlisle man (rally in London 14.11)
PETROL LEAKS see POLLUTION
PETROL STATIONS
CN 03.02.1995 p5 Paramedics warn of petrol station scheme
PETS AT HOME London Rd
CN 26.05.2006 p17 Opens doors tomorrow
PETTERIL, River
By 1961, following regular flooding over the years, it was decided to change the route of the river Petteril behind Greystone Road and through Melbourne Park and on 8th September 1961 the Cumberland News published a photo of the new river and the old dry river channel. A severe flood in October 1961 caused considerable damage to the new course of the river. The flood banks on the west side of the river leading from Melbourne Road, around the back of Greystone Road to Botcherby Bridge and from Botcherby Bridge on the east side of the river around the Kingfisher Park estate were raised following the 2005 inundation and are again being raised [2020/21] following the 2015 floods
Carlisle in Camera 1 p41 Photo of river near pumping station
City Minutes 1894-95 p180 Instruction to straighten river from Pumping Station
CN 08.09.1961 p9 (illus) Improvement scheme
CN 23.02.1968 p10 Bridge
PETTERIL BANK Erected 1829 for John Fawcett; 1886 bought by Ralph Littler, CB, QC, of Palmer’s green Middlesex; later leased by Lady Gillord 1907-23; bought by Captain Frederick Francis Parker; 1936 bought by council along with 6 acres of land; evacuees used house during the war; 1942 - 1948 children's home, transferring to Aglionby Grange; acquired in 1951 by County Council; disabled workshops. Today [2023] Carlisle Archive Centre and Registrar’s Office
CJ 14.11.1829 Theft of tools from workman ‘now working on a new building’
1851 census John Fawcett, aged 54, barrister at law, born Carlisle
East Cumberland News 02.10.1909 Petteril Bank Estate for sale
CN 10.09.2004 p8 Lady Gillford took house in 1907 until 1923; history
CN 18.02.2005 p6 Plan to move Archives Office here
PETTERIL BANK So named Petterall-Bank in 1695
CN 24.09.1999 p8 When Carlisle went to the dogs
CN 25.02.2000 p15 Petteril Bank revamp talks
PETTERIL BANK COMMUNITY CENTRE
CN 10.05.1991 p8 Ad
PETTERIL BANK ESTATE This council estate was laid out in the 1930s and early 1940s; Welsh Rd, Lightfoot Drive and Haig Rd first appearing in the 1938-39 voters’ list. [Elizabeth Welsh and George Lightfooot were local councillors]. In the Carlisle Directory for 1940 Burnett Rd, Gillford Crescent, Blundell Road, Hayton Rd, Harris Cres, Semple Rd and Baird Rd first appear [William Harris and Joseph Hayton were local councillors James Baird was Deputy Town Clerk, Allan Semple Carlisle Medical Officer and J.E.Blundell the recently retired Gas Engineer to the City]; In the voters’ list for 1946-7 Atkinson Crescent first appears [ Herbert Atkinson was a local councillor]; in 1947-48 Dale End Rd, Woodsghyll Drive and Ridgemount Rd first appear. Holmacres Drive appears in 1948-9 and Meade Rd appears in 1963-64. George VI postbox stands in front of the parade of shops on Petteril Bank
CJ 02.11.1937 p3 Haigh homes for ex servicemen; 6 ready at Petteril Bank
CJ 24.09.1937 p1 Opening of
CJ 06.05.1938 p9 Shops at Petteril Bank
CJ 14.04.1939 p4 City council’s dilemma
CJ 21.04.1939 p9 Reasons for empty houses at Harraby; too far from city
CN 02.03.1979 p7 Playsite
CN 09.12.1994 p18 Down your lane
PETTERIL BANK SCHOOL The school was originally housed in collection of prefab huts [because of shortage of materials] put up in 1943 with a life expectancy of 10 years; in 1972 the huts were still in use; Miss Eite who taught there for 37 years recalls that when the wind came from a particular quarter rain would come straight through the window frames of the huts; the school opened on 11th October 1943 with 255 pupils on the roll. The new school opened, on the same site, on 6th December 1972 with 338 pupils on the roll; when the new school was opened rain immediately came through the flat roof in places. Miss Hamilton was the first head followed by Mr R. Howe who was the head from 1953 until at least 1967, followed by Mr N.Vipond, then Mr J.Baxter
Educ. Com. Pro 16.11.1943 item 25 4 acres on Burnett Rd for site for Harraby Sch.
CN 10.09.1954 p1 First day at school
Carlisle Journal 26.05.1967 Feature on the school; overcrowded, poor toilets, makeshift buildings; 350 pupils in school
CN 29.01.1993 p9 School gets new classrooms
CN 28.03.1997 p1 Parents petition to remove 5 year old boy
CN 25.07.1997 p3 Petteril Bank School; what the inspectors said; failed Ofsted
CN 25.07.1997 p1 Failed school pledges discipline crackdown
CN 10.07.1998 p5 Head says fond farewell
CN 09.10.1998 p17 Fortune favours the bold
CN 28.03.2003 p15 Continued improvement for once failed school
CN 05.12.2003 p12 Position in school tables; school details contrasted with Scotby
CN 14.10.2005 p3 Official status as extended school
PETTERIL BANK YOUTH CLUB
CN 27.12.2002 p2 Youth Club temporarily shut for 2 months
PETTERIL BRIDGE
see also Botcherby Bridge; Harraby Bridge
CN 23.02.1968 p10
PETTERIL BRIDGE INN Warwick Road, opposite the Bee Hive; in local directories from 1855 to 1914
1861 census Joseph Glaister innkeeper, aged 32, born Carlisle
1891 census Charles Barker, aged 54, victualler, bn Todmorden, Yorkshire
CN 10.01.1992 p4
PETTERIL BRIDGE TERRACE Dated 1895 and so named on plaque; now a part of Warwick Road, being the first block east over the River Petteril on the road to Newcastle
CRO Ca E4 14223 Plans dated 19.11.1894 for 12 new houses on Warwick Rd for the Carlisle Steam Laundry Co; Johnston brothers architects
1924 Carlisle Directory lists nos 1-13
PETTERIL CANTEEN
CN 16.10.1992 p4 Coping with wartime food rationing
PETTERIL HOUSE, Botcherby
CN 29.01.1927 p9b Mr and Mrs Land celebrate their golden wedding at Petteril House, Botcherby
PETTERIL HOUSE DAY CENTRE
CN 24.04.1987 p40 opening
CN 10.12.1993 p1 Dogs patrol OAP home
PETTERIL RESTAURANT South Henry Street
CN 16.01.1943 p5 Opening
CN 06.03.1943 p5 Second British restaurant to be opened in Carlisle
PETTERIL ROAD, Upperby From some date after 1924 this became St Nininans Road
PETTERIL STREET
City Council minutes 12.01.1883 18/570 approval for laying out new street; same minute gives approval, also to Mr Ferguson, for laying out of the adjacent River Street
PETTERIL TERRACE Now part of Warwick Road, but place name still in evidence 2005, being house opposite Greystone Rd as it debouches into Warwick Rd; only one dwelling listed under Petteril Terrace on 1891 census
1847 Directory
PETTERIL TERRACE London Road; first mentioned on 1881 census; built by the Midland Railway for their workers along road to their Durranhill engine shed; general view in Carlisle in Camera 2 p 24; part of street also known by name Midland Cottages between 1902 - 1933
CN 17.02.1967 p1 Maryport Cottages, Hassell Street, Petteril Terrace, Regent Street, South Western Terrace, Milbourne Street, John Place, Randall Street; British Railways housing sell off in Carlisle; over 100 houses
10.11.2014 Blue Plaque erected on the front wall of 8 Petteril Terrace, Lieut Collin’s VC former home
PHEASANT INN Church Street; originally row of three houses of late 18th century date, now with extensive alterations; appears as The Pheasant in 1873 Directory
Olive Seabury The Carlisle State Management Scheme, 2007 p69 for 2 photos; p70-71 for ground and first floor plans
26.05.1917 Opened for business; no formal ceremony
31.05.1917 Mayoress was invited to open first floor reconstruction
ENS 17.01.1990 p12 Ad feature; refurbishment
ENS 21.01.1999 p1 Japanese bank now owns pub
ENS 25.10.2000 Closed pub is to be restaurant; pub closed for more than year
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Founded 1839; folded 1841?
Round Carlisle Cross Vol 1 p79-81
CJ 09.11.1839 p2h Carlisle Philharmonic Society; first concert
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Founded 1891
See obituary of W.W.R.Binning CN 25.01.1936
Carlisle from the Kendall Collection p129 Montage photo of cast for 1891 show
PHILLIPS, James Bonnell’s Lane; Lowther’s Lane, English St
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p12 Aerated waters moved from Bonnell’s
1861 census James Phillips, aged 44, soda water manufacturer, employing 4 men and 2 boys, home address 10 Chiswick St, born Carlisle
PHILLIPS, M and E Botchergate
Wool shop
CD 1952 Ad p398
PHILLIPS AND ALLEN Lowthians Lane
Aerated water
Guide to Carlisle Ad C178
CD 1884-85 Ad p259
PHILLIPSONS BYTE
1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham Univerity, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]
PHILLIPSONS HILL
1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham Univerity, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]
PHILLIPSONS TOWER, City Walls Used to house plague victims in 1597/8 [CWAAS 1971, Vol 71 p59 and map opp p52]; ‘must be at the angle where the north and east curtain walls used to meet, and where East Tower and Lowther Street now meet’ [CWAAS OS Vol 13 p189]. Also been identified as Springall Tower
PHILP, William S Moorville Garage
Motor engineers
CD 1952 Ad p343
CD 1955-56 Ad p264
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p261
PHOENIX INN Rickergate; referred to in Memoirs of Mrs C.Deans p16, kept by Nathaniel Jeffferson
PHOENIX LEATHER WORKS English Damside
Erected about 1877; when offered for sale in October 1879 the newspaper stated that it was erected three years earlier by George Bewley. Bought by J and W Story who used it as a leather works, alongside their premises in Wigton. Ceased trading as a leather works October 27th 1913. Various uses after this. 2017 it is Bodytek Fitness Centre [CN Supp p16 17.03.2017]
Post Office Directory 1873 p56 Ad A28
CN 20.12.1913 p1c To sell or let Phoenix Leather Works, English Damside
PHOENIX PRINT AND DESIGN
CN 20.08.1993 p8 Ad
PHONOGRAPH Demonstrated in city in 1890
CN 16.09.1988 p4 Phonograph was a marvel of age
PHOTOGRAPHERS- EARLY
See also, Andrews, Austin, Bannister, Bell, G, Burns, Butt, Caledonian Photographic Company, Cochrane, Creighton, Dodgshon, Farrer, Fido, Fisher, Groves and Little, Haughan, Higgins, Hornsby, Kidd, Lamonte, Little, R, Monk, Morrison, Mundell, Murray, Ostell, Porthouse, Rae, Benjamin Scott, Smith, H.W., Stoud, J, Studio North, Tassell, Taylor, Warwick, Whaite, Wilkinson,
See also CARLISLE AND COUNTY AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
CWAAS Third Series vol 22 Ian Moonie Amateur photographic groups based in Carlisle 1885 – 1914 pp147-162
CN 09.09.1950 p5 CN 16.09.1950 p5 CN 23.09.1950 p5 CN 14.10.1950 p4
CN 21.10.1950 p5 CN 28.10.1950 p4 CN 04.11.1950 p5 CN 11.11.1950 p4
CN 03.03.1967 p12
CJ 23.09.1843 Ad ‘For a short time only’ Daguerreotype at 38 English Street
CJ 20.12.1845 Daguerreotype equipment for sale; apply Mr Fisher, Athenaeum
CJ 04.08.1849 p2 Ad for itinerant photographer Monsieur J.J.Ponder in city
CJ 05.09.1851 Mr Tilloch, photo. artist opened at Mr Sewells, 61 Scotch St
Carlisle an illustrated history p74 copy of 1857 street photo, earliest surviving
1861 census Matthew Fisher, photographic artist, aged 32, Caledonian Tce
CJ 28.02.1881 p1 Photographic studio at Denton Holme for sale
PIANO SHOP Crosby Street
CD 1952 Ad p353
PICKERING, Joseph London Rd
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p2 Sculptor and ornamental carver
PICKERING AND CREIGHTON London Road
Engineers and millwrights
CD 1880 Ad pxxxi
CD 1884-85 Ad p246
PICKFORDS West Tower Street
Removers
CD 1952 Ad p301
PICKFORDS TRAVEL
CN 22.07.1988 p25 Ad
PIERI BROTHERS
A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p41 Photo of sweet shop of Denton St
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p104 photo of ice cream seller
PIERI’S FISH AND CHIP SHOP Denton Holme
1939 Register lists at 110 Denton Street Alfred, Elda, Alfred junior and Ronald Pieri. Alfred born 08.11.1898 is listed as a fish and chip dealer. Alfred born 08.07.1917 and Ronald born 23.10.1921 are listed as fish and chip shop assistants
D Perriam Denton Holme p91 Photos of Denton Holme shop. Alfredo Pieri was interred in World War Two as an Italian national. He was drowned when internees were being transported to Canada; their ship, SS Arandora Star, was sunk by a German U-boat in the Atlantic on 02.07.1940
Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen pp21, 34 Description and photo 1920s
CN 07.09.1984 (illus) Family had fish and chip shop in suburb since 1917
PIERRE’S BISTRO Lowther Street
CN 08.06.2001 p14 Bistro for sale; Mr and Mrs Stewart heading for Spain
CN 30.04.2004 p18 Sold to Elizabeth Noble and Helen Nugent
CN 25.06.2004 p3 Restaurant opens on Monday
PIGEONS
CP 04.11.1892 p7 Carlisle Dog, Poultry and Pigeon Show; 3rd in 10 years
CN 28.07.1972 p6 In Denton Holme
CN 14.04.1995 p3 City Hall in flap over pigeon feed
CN 05.01.1996 p7 Stiffer rules to ban pigeons from city
CN 05.04.1996 p13 City research may help cure rare lung disease
PILGRIMS
CN 06.06.1997 p4 Pass through Carlisle
CN 13.06.1997 p9 Tony helps run big pilgrimage
PILLAR BOXES First in mainland UK Botchergate 19.10.1853 (CAIH p63)
CN 15.04.1955 p8 CN 27.05.1955 p8 CN 15.08.1958 p8 CN 28.12.1962 p8
CN 31.07.1964 p10 CN 28.11.1969 p14
Carlisle Examiner 03.02.1859 p2e Pillar post box from Charlotte Street to Scotch St
City Minutes 1923-24 p72 Approval for box corner Bank/Lowther Streets
CN 18.12.1987 p4 City scored a postal history first
CN 22.12.2000 p15 Lismore Street Victorian post box and other boxes
CN 26.09.2014 p15 Denis Perriam article
PILLAR TELEPHONES
CN 07.02.1942 p5 Direct communication with city police HQ
CJ 10.02.1942 (illus) How to use them
CN 14.02.1942 (illus) Direct communication with city police HQ
PILL BOXES
At the bottom of Well Lane, Stanwix, a WWII pill box covers the Brampton Rd
Junction with Well Lane. Box built in 1941/42 as part of the Western Command Stop Line 18 which ran from Pooley Bridge to near Brampton. Box of an individual design rather than one of the standard reinforced concrete designs. It has been camouflaged as part of a stone built garden wall. It is situated to guard the exit road from Rickerby Park. The pill box is included in a 1949 illustration of Brampton Road by Brian Fawcett, demonstrating that it remains unchanged. The south east face is constructed of red sandstone blocks with a string course, to match the garden wall to either side, but standing taller.
PILLORY Removed from near Market Cross 1790 (CAIH p24 with illus)
09.08.1684 ‘Two Scotch pedlars pillory’d’ Bishop Nicolson’s Diaries; CWAAS NS Vol 1, 1901, p16
Smith, L Carlisle Directory and Guide...1792 p10
CAIH (illus) p24, p39 shows pillory on city map of 1560s
Nelson, Elizabeth Around Carlisle p4 photograph 1BC 9
CN 18.08.2006 p11 Used in April 1814 in city
PINEAPPLE INN see CARLISLE ARMS
PINEGROVE HOTEL London Road; dated 1877 with initials SB on the facade. The SB stands for Sam Boustead who owned the Red Lion Hotel and ran a bacon curing business
CD 1961-62 Ad p278
CN 03.02.1995 p4 Hotel plans to expand
CN 12.09.1997 p15 Ad The Pinegrove Hotel’s Wedgwood suite is perfect.
PINK FIG, Carlyle Court
CN 21.05.2010 p21 Closes down after 6 months; top end homeware
PINK PANTHER RECORDS Globe Lane; Chapel Street
Set up by Tom and Dave Foster; taken over by Keith Jefferson
CN 09.05.2003 p3 To let sign goes up at long established record shop
CN 25.07.2003 p8 Owner urges prospective buyers to step forward
PIONEER Printed and published in 1818 and ran to 4 numbers
PIONEER FOODS Started 1878 by Robert Thornburn; Burgh Road; Fisher Street; Devonshire Street
Wholesale food distributors
1879-1979; 100 Years with Pioneer
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p248
CD 1952 Ad pp272, 308
CD 1955-56 Ad p3
CD 1961-62 Ad pii
CN 01.11.1963 p12
CN 17.09.1938 p19 (illus) Ad
ENS 05.10.1963 p1 New warehouse may have to be demolished (Burgh Road)
ENS 21.10.1963 p1 City food firm in takeover
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p50 Photo of Fisher Street shop
CN 08.11.1974 pp15-17 Ad
CN 27.03.1987 pp26-27 Ad feature
CN 15.04.1988 p16 Ad feature Pioneer spend £100,000 on new look centre
CN 31.01.1992 p1 £300,000 Euro Bill dished up, p12 comment
CN 25.09.1992 p3 Family affair for city firm
CN 16.10.1992 pp4,6 Supplement; County firm hooks a contract
CN 27.11.1992 p7 Food firm £300,000 expansion
CN 05.03.1993 p3 Exhibition on the menu
CN 28.05.1993 p24 City food firms growing market
CN 16.07.1993 p13 Pioneer on trail of new standards
CN 15.10.1993 p11 Firm expands
CN 19.11.1993 p25 City food firm wins top contract
CN 18.02.1994 p9 Big new contract brings more jobs
CN 15.07.1994 p3 £500,000 expansion
CN 07.10.1994 p5 City firm clinches schools contract
CN 10.03.1995 Supplement
CN 17.03.1995 p4 Firm tastes success on a plate
CN 24.11.1995 p1 Turkeys for free
CN 26.01.1996 p15 Pioneer - food firm can’t stop blazing trail
CN 05.04.1996 p1 New jobs at Pioneer
CN 05.07.1996 p9 (illus) Pioneers Harry picks winner
CN 26.07.1996 p6 Pioneers clean bill of health
CN 03.01.1997 p12 Inspectors praise Pioneer standards
CN 17.01.1997 p3 (illus) Midnight butcher hangs up his apron
CN 06.06.1997 p1 14 new jobs on menu
CN 19.12.1997 p12 3 straight ‘A’s for Pioneer
CN 17.04.1998 p9 Pioneer beats beef crisis
CN 24.07.1998 p14 Pioneer to open new £1m depot
CN 18.09.1998 p16 Pioneer expands again
CN 05.03.1999 Supplement
CN 03.11.2000 p14 23 new jobs created as pioneer wins contracts
CN 09.03.2001 Supplement; 12 pages
CN 29.11.2002 p17 Andrew Jenkins steps down as MD in favour of son
CN 07.03.2003 Pioneer Supplement; celebrating 125 years; founded 1878
CN 22.08.2003 p18 Employs more than 250 people
CN 18.11.2011 p 8 Feature
PIPE MAKERS
See also; Samuel Hamilton; Joseph Mason, John Murray; Anthony Nelson, James Pringle; Spedding
1811 Jollie’s Directory pxvi Mason and Rennison, pipe makers
CJ 17.02.1838 p2 Pipe manufactory, Colliers Lane
CN 04.02.1972 p12 List of
CN 23.01.2004 p7 D.Perriam article about local clay pipe manufacturers
PIPER, E.T. Lowther Street
Estate agent
CD 1880 Ad pvi
PIRELLI Dalston Road
Slippers, tyres
CJ 19.08.1966 p12 CJ 26.08.1966 p9 CN 26.01.1968 p5
CJ 02.02.1968 p11 (illus) CN 23.02.1968 p3 CJ 23.02.1968 p23 (illus)
CN 10.10.1975 p15 (illus)
CN 15.07.1966 p20 Opened in city
ENS 10.08.1966 p1 Go-ahead for site
CJ 12.08.1966 p3 Factory near Cummersdale
CN 12.08.1966 p20 (illus) Factory near Cummersdale
ENS 16.08.1966 p1 Go ahead for site
CN 16.09.1966 p1 Objections
CN 16.09.1966 p8 (illus) General
CN 14.07.1967 p11 Contract
ENS 21.09.1967 p7 Illustration of building - part built
CN 17.11.1967 p1 Nelson Street
ENS 15.05.1968 p11 New factory (illus)
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p45 1968 and 1969 photos of factory
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p46 Photo of slipper department
ENS 25.11.1976 p1 New jobs blow
CN 29.06.1973 p1 Proposed social club
CN 14.12.1973 p4 (illus) Opening of social club
ENS 04.08.1977 p1 Pirelli dispute at the double
ENS 08.08.1977 p1 (illus) Tyre men in walk out again
ENS 15.08.1977 p1 Pirelli faces mass lay-off
ENS 16.08.1977 Safety boost for Pirelli
ENS 13.09.1977 p11 Strike
ENS 19.09.1977 p1 Pirelli peace
CN 06.07.1990 pp7-9 Tyre giant with a firm grip
CN 16.10.1992 Supp p8 Survivors of stormy days
CN 22.01.1993 p20 Factory blaze
CN 29.07.1994 p3 Carlisle man to head tyre giant
CN 13.01.1995 p5 Efficiency - Japanese style
CN 19.05.1995 pp1,10,12 Pirelli tyres tread road to fortune
CN 06.10.1995 p12 (illus) Tyre men win top Japanese award
ENS 20.04.1996 p7 (illus) Watchdogs take a healthy interest in tyre plant
ENS 23.07.1996 p1 Pirelli boss death threat
CN 23.08.1996 p1 Pirelli cash for United
CN 24.01.1997 p1 Pirelli workers strike vote over 100 time’ row
CN 07.02.1997 p12 New Pirelli man - John Nixon
CN 14.02.1997 p30 Pirelli pin-ups palazzo parade
CN 28.03.1997 p12 Markets left stunned as profits leap
CN 29.08.1997 p1 Pirelli double boost
CN 03.04.1998 pp1,12 Plants victory
CN 13.11.1998 p4 Your workers are wonderful
CN 05.02.1999 p1 Pirelli lay off 450 for one day
CN 01.12.2000 p14 CBI group tours Pirelli factory
CN 23.03.2001 p5 Customs raid Pirelli; smuggled cigarettes
CN 22.06.2001 p14 (illus) Pirelli to spend £7m on extending factory; first sod cut
CN 03.05.2002 p20 TUC boss John Monks visits factory where 900 work
CN 24.05.2002 p1 Pirelli plan to build massive warehouse on Dalston Rd challenge
CN 21.06.2002 p5 50 new jobs at Pirelli warehouse; planning permission given
CN 09.08.2002 p6 Archaeological dig at site of new development
CN 17.01.2003 p14 £5.8 expansion at Pirelli plant; first sod
CN 28.02.2003 p16 Pirelli wants 6,500sq feet extension to factory
CN 01.08.2003 p14 Warehouse opened; factory specialises tyres for 4 wheel drive
CN 04.03.2005 p1 Plan to build 120m metre high windmill
CN 11.03.2005 p13 Letters concerning proposed turbine
CN 15.04.2005 p1 Pirelli’s plan for factory in Romania no threat to Carlisle
CN 03.06.2005 p5 12 objectors and 99 supporters for giant wind turbine
CN 15.07.2005 p8 Independent report backs wind turbine
CN 19.08.2005 p 13 Letter concerning letters of support for development
CN 26.08.2005 p 13 Letter saying decision to allow turbine a massive error
CN 17.02.2006 p5 Site needs to cut costs to remain competitive
CN 26.05.2006 p1 Go ahead to erect 45 m mast to collect wind data for proposed turbine
CN 30.06.2006 p6 Photo of 45m mast which will measure wind speeds
CN 02.02.2007 p23 Wolfgang Meier, head of Carlisle operations, speaks
CN 30.01.2009 p14 Pirelli shuts factory Feb 24 - March 4th; global economic crisis
CN 26.06.2009 p9 Pirelli to shut factory for another 5 days
CN 05.08.2011 p6 Feature on factory; 850 workforce
CN 17.07.2012 p17 Came in 1969; £20m investment for new eco tyres. Makes 10,000 tyres per day
CN 05.10.2012 p1 Pirelli worker dies at plant
PIRELLI RALLY
CN 31.08.2001 p21 Rally switched to Gateshead after 24 years based in Carlisle
CN 20.05.2005 p10 10,000 motor fans expected in city for Rally
PITT CLUB To celebrate the birthday of that illustrious statesman and patriot the late right honourable William Pitt who had courage to stem the torrent of revolutionary principles [French Revolution] which threatened to overwhelm the venerable fabric of our constitution and to shake the very foundations of the social edifice [CP 03.06.1815 p1e]
24.06.1814 Rules agreed upon at meeting in Crown and Mitre
CP 03.06.1815 p1e List of elected members; President the Earl of Lonsdale
CP 15.05.1819 p1c Sixth anniversary of Pitt Club will be celebrated
Round Carlisle Cross Vol 3 The Carlisle Pitt Club pp 51-56
PIZZA EXPRESS Lowther St; opened summer 2000
CN 28.05.2004 p4 Carlisle chef judged 2nd best in whole chain
PLAGUE According to a plaque in St Andrews Church, Penrith 1,196 people died in Carlisle during the Plague of 1597/98, this figure probably includes an area surrounding the city as the city’s population was only about 1300. When the plague threatened Carlisle in 1597 the sick were treated in isolation hospitals outside the city and were dependent on good supplies of fresh water. Wood was carried from Blackwell Wood by two wrights who spent two days ‘building the lodges at St Lawrence Well’. This temporary structure was soon abandoned but the hospital name stuck and is recalled in the placename Spittal Moor [Perriam, Denton Holme p28]
J.Hughes The Plague in Carlisle CWAAS 1971, Vol 71 pp 52-63
Carlisle and Cumbria p34 Bishop Roger Whelpdale 1419-23, whose bequest of £200 probably endowed another chantry, dedicated to St Roche, in Carlisle Cathedral. St Roche was the patron saint of plaque victims
See also Phillipson’s Tower
PLAGUE STONE
CN 03.06.1977 p6 Up his a down date
PLANNING see DEVELOPMENT
PLANT, W.M. Rosehill Industrial Estate
CN 18.06.1999 p19 Ad
PLAQUES see HISTORIC PLAQUES
PLASKETT and FERGUSON London Road
Joiners and funeral furnishers
CD 1884-85 Ad p271
1891 census; Joseph Plaskett, 37, builder and joiner, home 4 London Rd
PLATE
See also City Council-plate and insignia
Ferguson, R.S. Old Church Plate of the Diocese of Carlisle pp285 -91 Plate belonging to the Guilds of Carlisle A16
PLAYGROUNDS
City Minutes 1920-21 p 646-651 Provision of playing and recreation grounds
CN 22.06.2001 p17 Carlisle may get playground for disabled children
CN 30.08.2002 p7 Plan for Stanwix playground scrapped because of ‘flashers’
CN 06.09.2002 p13 Letter concerning the siting of playgrounds
CN 01.10.2004 p8 Vandals target Kingfisher Park playground
PLAY RAFFLES
CN 30.10.2009 p11 Play Raffles Charity to close. Started in 1995
PLEASANT PLACE, Lord Street [1934 Directory]
1880 Directory 27 Lord Street
1924 Carlisle Directory between 27-29 Lord Street
PLEASANT SUNDAY AFTERNOON,CARLISLE
CP 02.07.1897 p3g Annual trip to Isle of Man
PLEASURELAND see UPPERBY PARK
PLOUGH INN, Greymoor. Was there until 1847, but in 1848 the Carlisle Journal advertised to let The Galaor Inn, Grimoor Hill. License withdrawn sometime after 1863
PLOUGH INN Located at the top of Mount Florida; Botcherby; in local directories from 1869 to 1873
P Hitchon Botcherby; a Garden Village pp164-5
CJ 24.04.1854 Old established beer shop in Botcherby to let
PLOUGH INN Caldcotes; in local directories from 1850 to 1914
CN 14.01.1950
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916, 2004 p37-8
So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
1861 census Margaret McCutcheon, innkeeper, aged 47, born Scotland
1901 census; Robert Burns, victualler, aged 49, bn Scotland
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p110 Photo in 1902; Robert Burns licensee
Topper Off Easter 1950 p48 Old Plough now Carrs men’s and pensioners’ club
Topper Off Summer 1955 (illus) Demolition of Old Plough
CN 22.11.1991 p4 (illus)
PLOUGH MONDAY
CN 10.01.1992 p4 Thoughts of Spring
PLUCKHOLME
1610; so called on the Survey of the Soccage lands of Carlisle, [original in Howard of Naworth Archive, Durham Univerity, ref C49/1. See Northern History Vol XX, 1984]
PLUME OF FEATHERS Scotch Street/ Plume of Feathers Court; in local directories to 1869
PLUME OF FEATHERS COURT Scotch Street; in the directories between 1844 and 1858. Its exact position is shown on the fold out map in the back on Robert Rawlinson’s Report to the General Board of Health...Carlisle, 1850
PLUNKETTS Town Hall
CN 06.01.2006 p3 Photo of shop front in 1957
POCKET THEATRE
CN 29.01.1988 p40 Pocket Theatre on stage county wide
CN 02.11.1990 p1 Drama out of Pocket
CN 21.12.1990 p9 Curtain falls on grants row
CN 18.01.1991 p23 New director
CN 13.03.1992 p8 Pocket launch for new work
CN 17.07.1992 p10 Living in each others pocket
CN 04.12.1992 p1 Threat to city theatre
CN 30.07.1993 p10 A final curtain fear facing theatre world
CN 29.10.1993 p6 Letters
CN 29.10.1993 p12 Comment
CN 29.10.1993 p3 Stabbed in the art
CN 26.11.1993 p6 Pocket Theatre; why grant axed - 3 letters
CN 17.12.1993 p1 Stars back Pocket money appeal
CN 17.12.1993 p10 Comment
CN 23.12.1993 p7 Arts board rejects pleas for Pocket
CN 12.08.1994 p8 Show still goes on
POETS CORNER Local name for area in Caldewgate; Byron Street, Milton Street, Burns Street and Scott Street; all demolished in slum clearance and industrial development, save for one house on Byron Street (March 2001).
POINTER DOG Kingmoor; in local directories from 1869 to 1876; also called the Dog
Dog Inn, Kingstown, 1874 may be the Pointer Dog of the same year and the Spaniel Dog Inn of 1877 [so marked on the OS map of 1865]. This became the Kings Arms Inn by 1879. The Kings Arms closed in 1917 [D Perriam Stanwix p82]
POINT ON TRACKWORK Rail maintenance business
CN 30.06.2000 p16 (illus) Expansion
POLESTAR PRINTWORKS see WEB OFFSET
POLICE It seems a temporary police force was at first set up as at the close of 1822 the Carlisle Journal stated that there was a call for ‘carrying on an establishment of eight policemen which had been for the two preceding years supported by subscription’. However an Act of Parliament hadn’t been obtained to set up a force, perhaps because of cost, and the Journal went on to say that they ‘had no right to stop any person at any time of the night in the public streets on any pretence whatever.’ Carlisle City Police Force established 1827 by Act of Parliament making the force permanent, [CN 10.09.2010 p34] (CAIH p24); merged with Cumbria police force 01.04.1967
Chief Constables Benjamin Batty 1827-1831; Robert Brown 1831-1839; John Graham 1839-1844; John Sabbage 1844-1857; George Edward Bent 1857-1873; Walter Hemingway 1873-1876; George MacKay 1876-1904; George Hill 1904-1913; Eric Herbert de Schmid [later called Spence]; Archibald Kennedy Wilson 1928-29; Andrew Alexander Johnston 1929-1938; Wiliam Henry Lakeman 1938-1961; Frank Edgar Williamson 1961-1967
Bob Lowther Watching Over Carlisle; 140 years of the Carlisle City Police Force 1827 - 1967. 2011
See also Crime; Closed circuit television; Riots
Carlisle Octocentenary Booklet pp 49-53 The Watch Committee 1BC 352
D Perriam Stanwix p101 Law and Order
CP 06.01.1821 p2c Ad Men for police officers for city; by order of magistrates
CP 06.01.1821 p4 letter; necessity for police establishment in this city
CP 03.02.1821 p2f Establishment of public office for protection of property, peace
CP 22.12.1821 p1f Considering continuing Police Establishment for another year
CJ 19.04.1823 Workmen busily employed fitting up a Police Office in the Town Hall
13.07.1827 Police Act put into execution; Mr Batty superintendent [P&W 1829 p130]
Cumberland Pacquet 17.07.1827 p3 John Kent son of West Indian slave appointed a policeman in city
CJ 06.01.1885 Assault on a policeman at Kingstown
CP 09.02.1839 p1b Advert for people desirous to be police officers
Carlisle Examiner 27.09.1859 p3b letter ‘Where’s the Police?’
Carlisle Examiner 04.10.1859 p2e letter in response to letter of 27th September
City Council Minutes 1898/99 p236 Rates of pay for constables, sergeants...
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p63 Photo of police band 1905
City Minutes 1915-16 p143 Names of 40 city policemen serving at front
CN 25.08.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 01.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 02.02.1946 p5 History
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p155 Photo police motorcyclists in 1950s
ENS 28.03.1962 p1 More police for Carlisle
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p155 Photo police on parade 1962
CN 10.06.1966 p12 (illus) About 1893
CN 17.06.1966 p12 About 1893
CN 16.09.1966 p1 (illus) New beat system
CN 31.03.1967 p8 (illus) History
CN 28.04.1967 p1 (illus) New badge
CN 10.01.1969 p12 (illus) Band about 1905
CN 04.01.1974 p4 (illus) Band circa 1890
CN 10.06.1988 p4 Watchmen were start of police
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p156 photo of armed police outside courts
CN 20.04.1990 p4 Police were targets of rioting
CN 20.04.1990 p4 Birth of an effective city force
CN 29.07.1994 p10 150 years ago
CN 26.08.1994 p7 Call for reunion of old city police
CN 16.09.1994 p7 Officers on patrol down Carlisle’s memory lane
CN 24.02.1995 p3 Police ignoring Raffles claim
CN 11.10.1996 p1 Five police calls a night about pests
CN 21.02.1997 p3 Cumbria police use C.S.spray ‘every day for two months’.
CN 05.09.1997 p4 Police promise to frightened witnesses
CN 03.10.1997 p5 (illus) Police chief outlines vision of future
CN 17.10.1997 p4 Community bobby back call for city skatepark
CN 02.01.1998 p4 Business as usual at Christmas for the emergency teams
CN 16.01.1998 p5 (illus) Force’s very special man (and woman) hunt
CN 30.10.1998 p1 Terror on the streets
CN 19.11.1999 p1 Extra police promised after 3 nights of violence
CN 04.02.2000 p1 New powers to chase gangs off streets
CN 22.12.2000 p10 Policewoman on duty at Christmas
CN 30.11.2001 p1 review of decision to close police station from 8pm - 8am
CN 07.12.2001 p12 Policing situation in city
CN 15.02.2002 p5 Hours station opened to be increased
CN 29.03.2002 p9 Black railway policeman (1841 census)
CN 05.04.2002 p5 Carlisle police station stays open till midnight from Monday
CN 16.01.2004 p3 Police back on bikes after 25 years
CN 13.02.2004 p5 PC Mac Maguire, community policeman, moves into College
CN 26.03.2004 p1 New police stations in Morton Sch and Harraby
CN 27.08.2004 p3 Community police station opened in Harraby
CN 08.10.2004 p5 First street wardens; Police Community Support Officers
CN 07.01.2005 p3 Community police station to open on Welsh Rd on Jan 24th
CN 14.01.2005 p8 The police in the great flood
CN 11.02.2005 p5 Portable cells being considered
CN 25.02.2005 p1 Cases dismissed as files lost in floods
CN 04.03.2005 p5 Rising city crime causes removal of chief Brian Horn
CN 24.06.2005 pp1, 12 police consider moving HQ to Houghton
CN 05.08.2005 p5 Second community police station opens in Raffles
CN 19.08.2005 p5 Shady Grove Rd police station opened
CN 07.10.2005 p1 1,000 objections to plan for police cells at Houghton
CN 21.10.2005 p 1 Councillors vote against police plans for cells at Houghton
CN 18.11.2005 p31 Letter concerning level of policing in city centre; from police
CN 10.02.2006 p9 Feature on Carlisle beat policeman who arrested 369 in one year
CN 12.05.2006 p6 Work to start on Police cells at Rathbone’s burnt out factory, Durranhill
CN 14.07.2006 p3 Cumbria police merger with Lancashire off
CN 24.11.2006 p9 New police cells at Durranhill opened
CN 06.02.2009 p7 New city police station at Durranhill Ind Estate takes shape
CN 22.05.2009 p5 Official opening of Durranhill Police Station
CN 24.09.2010 p1 Police move into Civic Centre from Citadel Chambers
POLICE DOGS
CN 05.12.1997 p12 Police dog Rocky’s award from the guv
POLICE STATION; COUNTY HQ; ABBEY STREET, EARL STREET;WARWICK SQUARE
CJ 17.09.1897 p5 Grosvenor Hse sold to Chief Constable of County
CJ 14.01.1898 p5 Quit Lowther St HQ for Warwick Sq
Bulmers 1901 Directory Chief Constable Sir John Dunne, Warwick Square West
CJ 25.07.1905 Gives date of move here by County Police HQ
1924 Carlisle Directory 32 Abbey StreetCounty Constabulary Office
CN 06.03.1964 p1 Closure
CJ 03.04.1964 p12 In Abbey Street closed 31.03.1964
POLICE STATION; COUNTY HQ; EARL STREET Purpose built 1862
POLICE STATION; DURRANHILL Official opening 21.05.2009
POLICE STATION; RICKERGATE; Official opening 17.04.1941
CN 12.06.1937 p21 (illus) Sketch of proposed police and fire station
CJ 11.06.1937 p7 New police and fire station
CN 12.06.1937 p21 Plan
CJ 18.04.1941 pp1,5 (illus) Opened
CN 19.04.1941 p3,5 (illus) Opened
08.01.2005 Station flooded out
CN 09.03.2007 p2 Rickergate station sold to court services for £650,000
POLICE STATION;CITY POLICE OFFICE 8 WEST WALLS; occupied 1840; marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
CJ 18.05.1839 p3 c Ad New police lock up and offices
CJ 18.05.1839 p3g Town Council Minutes: West Walls best location
CJ 13.07.1839 p 3a,b Police lock up and offices
CN 25.01.1963 p10 (illus) In West Walls
POLICE WOMEN
City Minutes 1916-17 pp82-84 Women patrols; policewomen sworn in
CN 16.06.1944 pp4-5 For Carlisle
CJ 07.07.1944 p4 Not for Cumberland
CN 08.02.2013 p32 Uniformed policewoman to be seen on city streets for first time during the Great War. Disbanded after war. Two women police officers appointed during the Second World War but they only stayed a little while. June 1947 the Chief Constable reported the appointment of two policewomen. By 1958 five policewomen in the city
POLIO
City Minutes 1911-12 p139-158 Further report on outbreak of 1910
POL-JACK
CN 30.11.2007 p10 Polish deli opens in Fisher Street
POLLARD’S COURT 8 Jane Street [1880 Directory]
POLL BOOKS - 1868
CN 24.06.1950 p4
POLL TAX
CN 04.12.1987 p3 Poll tax will cost city £500,000
CN 28.10.1988 p25 Another poll tax blow for the parishes
CN 14.10.1988 p40 City to take on staff for the poll tax
CN 20.01.1989 p1 Paying the poll tax
CN 20.10.1989 p27 Brake on city poll tax bills
CN 03.11.1989 p20 Attack on poll tax
CN 17.11.1989 p3 Tenants poll tax warning
CN 03.08.1990 p3 Poll tax crackdown
CN 10.08.1990 p7 Poll tax cases go to court
CN 02.11.1990 p5 Labour tax rebels row
CN 28.12.1990 p1 Labour tax rebels await boot
CN 25.01.1991 p5 Poll tax non-payers unite
CN 25.01.1991 p7 Tougher line
CN 25.01.1991 p13 A vote of confidence
CN 08.02.1991 p7 Resign call to poll tax rebels
CN 22.02.1991 p23 Decision on poll tax levels
CN 01.03.1991 p23 £72 rise for city
CN 15.03.1991 p9 A poll tax puzzle
CN 24.05.1991 p9 Community charge explained
CN 31.05.1991 p1 Cost of poll tax blunder
CN 29.10.1993 p25 Poll tax crack down to collect
CN 17.02.1995 p3 Dodgers owe £1.4m
CN 29.08.1997 p2 Council writes off bad debts but chases half million pounds
POLLUTION
CJ 07.01.1848 p2 Smoke nuisance from pipe manufactory. Spring Garden Lane
Carlisle Examiner 27.07.1858 p3d Smoke nuisances in Carlisle
CJ 03.04.1900 p2 Bacon curer, Harraby. Prosecution ‘by an accumulation of slaughter house offal and filth in fields adjoining Petteril Banks at Harraby. There were enormous heaps composed of blood pigs feet and other un-saleable offal, 40 or 50 carloads each. Smell to be abated in one month’
CN 14.10.1916 p3 Pollution of the Caldew
City Minutes 1917-18 p358 Continual pollution of Eden/ Caldew by dye works etc
City Minutes 1919-20 p233 Pollution of Mill Race with Morton’s dye water
Sanitary Conditions of the City of Carlisle for 1921 p74 Pollution of Dow Beck ...
City Minutes 1925-26 pp300-03 Report on smoke nuisance; railways and chimneys
CJ 19.12.1939 p4 Carlisle anglers complain of river pollution
CJ 20.08.1965 p7 Petrol leak in sewers
CN 11.10.1974 p40 City ignores threat of pollution
CN 22.11.1974 p1 Pollution could soar
CN 01.07.1988 p4 Council were forced into clean up
CN 06.04.1990 p1 Vandals blitz nature site
CN 15.11.1996 p16 Wakeful residents – can’t blame Metal Box for noise
CN 20.04.2001 p15 Air polluted by burning pyres; foot and mouth; letter
CN 21.01.2005 p5 Nitrogen Oxide exceeds limits on polluted Scotland Rd
CN 06.07.2007 p9 Nitrous Oxide gas from exhaust fumes on Scotland Rd above government levels
CN 17.10.2008 7 Traffic pollution rises in city. Warwick Rd new nitrogen dioxide hot post
POLYTECHNIC
See also University
CN 17.11.1989 p11 County poly hope
CN 16.03.1990 p5 No to county poly
CN 19.10.1990 p17 What a to-do over the poly
CN 23.11.1990 p12 Polytechnic nearer
CN 28.03.1991 p32 Clash feared over city poly
CN 31.05.1991 p3 Poly lecturers get a taste of Cumbria
CN 18.10.1991 p11 Deadline for poly
CN 14.02.1992 p13 New poly in print
POMEROYS RESTAURANT Lowther Street
CN 11.10.1996 p4 Pomeroys city bistro dishing up in style; p14 Ad
POOL’S COURT, 18 Charlotte Street [1880 Directory]
POOR
See also Handloom weavers; Weavers; soup kitchens, Longsowerby, Raffles, Workhouse
1561 Dormont Book Itm that noe vacaboundes ne valeant beggars shalbe sufferit to goe wthin this citie openly onles such pore and impotent persons shalbe allowed by the mayr and counsale according to the statute mayd in that behalf which pore persons to haue tokens and badges declaring that thei be allowed by the mayr and counsell and others to be punyshed by the mayr and balife according to sttaute [Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p 71
Quarter Sessions Petitions Easter 1709 Petition of Jane Railton of Carlisle St Mary’s, widow - compel her parish to honour her relief order for 6d per week and a house. Has had nothing from them for over a year (Arrears £1 6s 8d) and has been very sick all Spring, and is not yet able to work
1710 Midsummer Quarter Sessions petitions. Mary Johnstone of Carlisle petitioned that her husband has been pressed by Capt Mansers’s men. One child not two years old and another in the womb, hence cannot work, needs relief timeously
Quarter Sessions petitions, Easter 1734 Petition of Mary the wife of ‘James Correy, a miller at Harraby Mill’ - poor relief. Her husband is hired to ‘Thomas Little, miller at Harraby’, and gets but 15d a Week and his ‘Victuals’, they have four young children to bring up, the house rent to pay and would starve ‘were it not for her Neighbours who every one made Small Assistance’. Certificate of 6 of her neighbours
Easter 1751 Quarter Sessions petitions. Petition of Margaret Coulton for assistance. Her husband was in the Army ‘since infancy’, with small pension from Chelsea Hospital, but now a lunatic needing constant care. Has no place of settlement although lived in St Mary’s, Carlisle, for many years. Ordered 3s a week till withdrawn by some JP
CJ 17.01.1818 p2 Poverty in Carlisle; individual story
CP 27.10.1821 p3a Dreadful degree of filth in poorest houses
CJ 15.04.1826 p2a,b,f Ad for the relief of the poor; list of proposed work for poor
CJ 15.04.1826 p3a,b Report of meeting on behalf of the distressed poor of Carlisle
CJ 22.04.1826 p2f New road English St / Botcherby Bridge; relief of poor
CJ 29.07.1826 p2a Relief of poor; subscription list
CJ 29.07.1826 p2c,d,f, p3a,b Report of meeting for poor
CJ 23.12.1826 p3b Poverty in the city - beggars
CJ 11.04.1865 p3 Inquest details on Jane Wallace aged 38. Jury conducted up a dark, narrow stair with squalid, crowded singled roomed tenements at every turn. No furniture in room of deceased except bed or bench on which the body laid. Room adjoining was scarcely better supplied. Shoemaker, drunkard, lived with her 5 years
CJ 24.07.1885 p6 Letter; 2 rooms, mother father and 5 children, 22, 16, 9, 6 and 3. 3 girls in bed at 10am. Horrible den. One of the foulest dens ever seen
CJ 04.10.1895 p7 Letter concerning the poor in city. A few days ago in passing through that portion of the town known as Jollies Buildings the faces of some of the poor women appeared to me enough to move a heart of stone. One woman especially, with scarcely any clothing upon her, and a poor puny infant at her breast, was sitting on a doorstep. She fixed upon me a look more like that of a wild animal than a human being
CJ 19.03.1886 p3 Examples of hardship in city
North Cumberland Reformer 26.10.1893 p4 Filthiest house in Carlisle, Scott’s Court Rickergate. Stench was fearful, 3 sickly and emaciated children, eldest 6. Baby 16m and half the weight it should be. Walls washed in blood from the quantity of slain vermin
CJ 20.03.1896 p7 Inquest on death of a child. Floor strewn in broken glass, ashes and dirt. None of the children washed, sickly and weak. Room had a bad smell, mice ate food
CJ 19.01.1900 Dinners for poor children in Caldewgate and Rickergate
CJ 05.01.1926 p2 Poor children’s dinner in market, photo
CJ 01.10.1926 p5 Jottings. Beggars getting worse
CN 03.05.1996 p5 Living costs force more OAPs into poverty trap
CN 26.09.1997 p4 MP drafted in to fight for a British Gas bonus for poor
CN 07.12.2001 p13 Letter concerning poverty in Carlisle; council failure
POORHOUSE see FUSEHILL STREET WORKHOUSE; HARRABY HILL WORKHOUSE; SAINT MARY’S WORKHOUSE
POOR LAW Carlisle new Poor Law Union came into being 02.05.1838
POPLAR VILLAS see ST JAMES ROAD
POP2THE PARK
CN 12.08.2005 pp11, 29 7,000 strong crows for pop event
POPULATION
During the second and third centuries it would probably be safe to assume a non military [ie excluding the two forts in Carlisle and Stanwix] population as numbering in the hundreds rather than thousands [M.McCarthy, Carlisle history and guide p24]; 1377 plausible estimated population=1400/1500 (Summerson, Medieval Carlisle p308); 1534 = 1700 ‘ a not implausible figure’ (Summerson Medieval Carlisle p513); ‘In 1597 and 1598 it is stated that 1,196 persons died of the plague in Carlisle, being about one third of the whole of the inhabitants’ (Mannix 1847 p105) however CWAAS 1971, vol 71 p53 states population of Carlisle in 1597 cannot have been more than about 1,300, based on a city householders count of 323; CWAAS 1971, Vol 71 p53 quotes letter to Sir John Lowther dated 1685 that states the population was 1,790 in 309 households; 1688= 5,060 (Denton- Mannix 1847 p 105); 1716= 2,000 (Brown Willis- Mannix 1847 p105); 1763 = 4,158* (Hutchinson p667). In July 1763, at the request of D Littleton, Bishop of Carlisle, the inhabitants were numbered with great care, and the city and suburbs contained 1059 families, and 4158 inhabitants. The Life of John Heysham by Henry Lonsdale p33; 1772 about 4,000* ( T.Pennant; a tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 ); 1780=6,299* (Hutchinson opp. p674). In January 1780, a very careful and accurate survey was made by Mr Stanger and Mr Howard, under Dr Heysham’s own inspection, when there were found in the district before surveyed [1763] 891 houses, 1605 families and 6,299 inhabitants. The LIfe of John Heysham by Henry Lonsdale p 33-4; 1796 = 8,716* (Hutchinson opp. p 674); 1801=9,521; 1811=11,645; 1821=14,531*; 1831=20,006; 1841=23,012; 1851=26,310; 1861=29,417*; 1871=31,049*; 1881=35,866*; 1891=39,176*; 1901=45,478*; 1911 = 46,420*; 1921= 52,710*; 1931= 57,304; 1951=67,798; 1961=71,101; 1971=71,582; 1981=71,493; 1991=69,831; 2001=68,280
City Minutes 1916-17 p215 Estimated yearly populations 1887 - 1916
CJ 17.12.1937 p5 Child population increasing
CN 28.11.1942 p5 Carlisle to lose County Borough status
CN 06.11.1992 p9 Spotlight falls on the county
* figures checked
PORNOGRAPHY
CN 05.05.2000 p1 Porn factory in semi
PORT CARLISLE see RAILWAYS; PORT CARLISLE. CANAL
PORTER, G and J.F Old Foundry
M442 p34 Advert for cast iron goods
PORTER, George Ironfounder and master, aged 42, employing 47 men, home address 3 West Walls, born Carlisle [1851 census]
PORTER, R.W. and R Blackfriars Street, Denton Street. Name changed to Porter Engineering, see below
Cast iron goods
D Perriam Blackfriars Street p22-3 Porters Foundry. Brothers Richard, William and Robert Porter, plumbers, braziers and tin-plate workers advertised in the Carlisle Journal in 1804 ‘to inform the public that they had established a foundry for casting iron and brasses. In October 1831 the brothers declared bankrupt but Robert’s sons George and Francis Porter, had set up a separate firm manufacturing ‘wrought iron heel plates’ and they purchased the Blackfriars site. On 01.07.1834 a new partnership of Porter, Hinde and Porter was formed for 21 years, between the existing partners and George Hinde; he had already been an iron and brass founder and married Elizabeth Porter, a sister of one of the partners. Porters foundry was sold in 1881 and they moved to Denton Street
A street lamp at the entrance to Aikton Church is stamped Porter Brothers [seen 2009]
1811 Jollie; Carlisle Directory p xviii iron and brass founders West Walls; p83
CP 03.06.1815 p1 Advert; entrance to their foundry and ware-rooom is now through the premises in Blackfriars Street
CP 09.10.1819 p2e Ad; Commenced making gas light apparatus
1821 Wood’s map shows the foundry on West Walls
CP 09.06.1821 p1e Recently erected a forge
CJ 24.12.1831 p2 Bankruptcy advert
CJ 31.03.1832 p2 Extensive manufacturing premises for sale, situated at Damside
1882 Porter Brothers move to the Victoria Foundry, Denton Street, from their Blackfriars site.
PORTER ENGINEERING Denton Street
Ironfounders and engineers, previously called Porter Brothers. Dissolved 1998
CD 1952 Ad p293
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p239
CD 1955-56 Ad p241
CD 1961-62 Ad p271
ENS 12.07.1966 Supplement
CN 21.06.1996 pp16-17 Advert 1806-1996
CN 14.04.2000 p12 History
PORTER, HINDE AND PORTER Engineers
M442 p6 Business card for engineers
1851 Ward’s North of England Directory Ad p17; Old Foundry, Blackfriars St
PORTER, Miss see NORTH OF ENGLAND NURSING HOME
PORTER, Misses 1-2 Poplar Villas, St James Rd
Slater’s 1884 Directory St James Road
CP 07.02.1896 p8a Girls boarding and day school; principals Misses Porter
PORTER LONING
1649 We order that the loining without the towne yet within the liberties called Porter loning may be wthin twenty days clensed by those leighbo who adiogn upon it sub pena
[Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p 290)
PORTERS AND WAUGH, Messrs Wood yard near Scotch Gate [Jollie 1811 p82]
PORTLAND CENTRE Botchergate
CN 16.09.1988 p15 Ad
CN 23.09.1988 p13
CN 02.06.1989 p21 Garden centre plan grows
CN 28.12.1990 p1 Super office plan for 600 job
CN 10.01.1997 p5 Club surrounded
PORTHOUSE, Martha Photographer
D Perriam Stanwix p93 was on Scotland Road on the 1901 census with a studio in the city centre
The earliest reference, to either Robert or Martha’s involvement as studio photographers, appears in the Carlisle City Housing Committee minutes, of 19 August 1904, ordering him to remove a portable studio, which he had erected at 2 Goodwin Terrace, off Blackwell Road.[Mr Moonie]
PORTLAND PLACE
CP 16.02.1850 p1 Ad; 12 new dwelling houses in Portland Place
Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map; buildings only on south side of street
PORTLAND PROPERTIES
CN 28.12.1990 p1 Super office plan for 600 jobs
CN 06.03.1998 p1 Daughter tells of worry at crashed Portland
CN 30.03.2001 p6 Collapsed firm fraud claims probed by police
PORTLAND SNOOKER CLUB
CN 04.03.2011 p11 Currock snooker club up for sale. Previously in Botchergate where it opened in 1982
PORTLAND SQUARE The square is shown as laid out on Asquith’s 1853 map but there are no houses built;
So marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2; building lots for sale
Carlisle Express 27.12.1862 p1 Building land fronting into Portland Square
No 27 dated 1864;
No 15 dated 1881; Boarders to the Carlisle and County High School for Girls were housed here
CP 05.12.1873 p1 Ad; 9 Portland Square; recently built
CP 28.01.1874 p1a To be let a dwelling house; use of Square Garden
CP 21.09.1877 p1 Ad; To let no 3 ‘ also use of pleasure grounds in front’
CP 18.05.1883 p1 Portland House for sale; now occupied by first tenant
ENS 12.04.1960 p7 Portland Square protest at car park scheme
ENS 13.04.1960 p3 One month’s reprieve
CN 14.04.1960 pp3,9 (illus) Car park in gardens
ENS 22.06.1960 p5 60 minute argument on Portland Square
CN 27.09.1960 p1 (illus) Car park in gardens
CN 24.12.2021 Weekend supplement p4 The next stage of Portland Square’s development
PORTLAND SQUARE GARDENS
So marked on 1845 map D/ MBS Box 30/2; building lots for sale
CJ 11.03.1870 Mayor inaugurates by planting a tree in each corner
City Council Minutes Vol lxiii 1962-63 p70 Position concerning taking over
City Council Minutes Vol lxiv 1963-64 p579 Taking gardens over
PORT ROAD Road leading to Port Carlisle; proximity to Carlisle Canal; so named on Asquith’s 1853 map
Carlisle in Camera 2 p27 View in the 1890s
PORT ROAD BUSINESS PARK
CN 07.09.2001 p18 Business Park up for sale for £4.3 million
PORT ROAD DAIRY
CN 20.12.1913 p1c For sale old established milk business
PORT ROAD PUMP
CN 22.10.1965 p10 CN 29.10.1965 p12 CN 05.11.1965 p10
PORT ROAD RAILWAY BRIDGE
City Minutes 1902-03 p44 Narrowness of roadway a hazard; death of W.Rogers
14.06.1914 Old Port Rd railway bridge came down to be replaced
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p108 photo of railway bridge
Memories of Carlisle Chapter 1 Photo of Port Road railway Bridge
CN 02.11.1973 p6 Bridge
CN 09.11.1973 p6 Poem about the bridge
CN 16.11.1973 p6 (illus) Bridge
CN 27.11.1992 p4 Rail bridge was death trap
PORT ROAD TANNERY Operated from pre 1880 [Mr Tinniswood] to about 1925
see Williamson Tannery
CN 08.10.2004 p6
PORTSCENE Warwick Road
CN 09.02.2007 p24 Building consultants in city help with design of new medical centre in Oldham; established 15 years ago by Mark Duncanson
CN 16.09.2010 p16 Portscene building consultants merges with Jack Coulson partnership of Leeds and Newcastle
POST, The Lowther Street; built 1863 for Her Majesty’s Office of Works; formerly Post Office; became the Gretna Tavern in 1916 then subsequently Shambles, Finnegans
CN 12.12.1986 Ad feature; Victorian style pub opens in city
CN 19.12.1997 p10 (illus)
POST BOXES see PILLAR BOXES
POSTCARDS see NICHOLSON AND CARTNER, THURNAMS
POST CODES Introduced 19.01.1970
POST JOHN’S LANE
1880 Directory Now Brown’s Lane 67 Castle Street
POSTLETHWAITE, W Castle Street
Draper
CD 1880 Ad pxli
POST OFFICE 1785 first mail-coach to run into Carlisle; Post Office in St Cuthbert’s Lane; moved to Old Post Office Court 02.05.1840 [Marked on Studholmes 1842 map]; General Post Office opened 1863 on Lowther Street; extension into next door Athenaeum opened 26.01.1874; The Post Office began to operate the telephones in 1912 and new enlarged premises were required. Warwick Road GPO opened Sunday 27.02.1916; the new premises were erected at a cost of 25,000 pounds, on a site formerly known as Barton’s yard. The main contract was awarded to Laing’s. Bob Franklin and his assistants in Laing’s Milbourne Street yard carved the fluted columns for the neoclassical facade. The front of the building faced with worked stone from the Blaxter quarries in Northumberland. The new building was to the designs of Mr Wilkinson of His Majesty’s Office of Works. The public counter was on the ground floor in horseshoe form; the top of the counter being in fine mahogany. Warwick Rd GPO closed 2008 and opens inside WH Smiths. Warwick Rd GPO redeveloped and opened as the Halston Hotel in 2014
See also Belle Vue Post Office; Coaching; Denton Holme Post Office, Pillar Box
Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
CAIH p63 The Post Office
D Perriam Lowther Street p18
CN 31.12.1949 p3 CJ 18.08.1950 p5 CN 19.08.1950 p5
CN 26.08.1950 p4 CN 10.01.1975 p6
CPacquet 07.12.1785 New arrival and despatch of mails
1810 Picture of Carlisle and Directory p 114 Post Master George Sewell
1811 Jollie p82 Post office situated in St Cuthbert’s Lane
1821 New Guide to Carlisle pp72-73 Arrival and departure of the Mails
CP 18.08.1821 p3c Post Office transferred to Blackfriars St, opp. Ferguson’s Lane
CJ 23.11.1839 p3b Carlisle post office premises
CD 1840 p61 New post office in course of construction in James Court
1842; Studholme’s map of city shows and names Post Office off Friars Ct
1860 Description of Post Office in 1860 p17 Round Carlisle Cross, 2nd Series p17
CP 25.02.1898 p4g Increased postal services
CJ 25.07.1899 Additional storey to be added in September
CJ 29.02.1916 p8 Opening of new PO on Warwick Road with drawing of facade
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p87 Photo of Warwick Rd sorting office in 1924
CN 22.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CJ 11.02.1938 p4 Refurbishment of GPO
CN 19.06.1946 p6 Telegraph service and machines
The Philatelist Vol 16, no 11 August 1950 Carlisle Mails - history; RG Woodall
The Philatelist Vol 16 no 12 September 1950 Carlisle Mails - history; RG Woodall
ENS 21.05.1963 p1 GPO Carlisle - new look
ENS 19.11.1963 pp6-7 GPO facelift
ENS 21.09.1967 p7 Illustration of new building - partly built
CJ 23.02.1968 p12 (illus) GPO Repeater Station, London Road
ENS 19.08.1970 Supp p8 GPO has mini art gallery
CN 16.08.1974 p6 (illus) Band circa 1900 and general history
CN 18.12.1987 p4 New postal service at Christmas - parcel post
CN 25.01.1991 p23 City battle to save sub PO
CN 22.02.1991 p15 Post office reprieve
CN 05.07.1991 p7 Post Office axing sub office
CN 12.07.1991 p20 City joins fight to save Post Office
CN 04.10.1991 p1 Fight for Post Office goes on
CN 15.11.1991 p16 Pensioners at war over Post Office
CN 02.04.1993 p27 Benefits switch will hit sub Post Offices
CN 23.12.1993 p7 Christmas mail tops £16m
CN 11.03.1994 p10 How they brought the post to old Carlisle
CN 29.04.1994 p5 Changing times - foreign currency
CN 02.09.1994 p3 First class post - Denton Holme
CN 16.12.1994 p1 First class post
CN 23.12.1994 p3 It’s the mystery mail mountain
CN 25.05.2001 p1 Carlisle postal workers call off strike
CN 28.09.2001 p8 1848 envelope sent from Carlisle fetches £1,500 at auction
CN 29.03.2002 p22 Carlisle’s Travelling Post Office to be phased out
CN 14.02.2003 p7 Moorhouse Road post office earmarked for closure
CN 25.04.2003 p3 Moorhouse Rd Post Office closes
CN 25.07.2003 p5 Eldon Drive Post Office in Harraby closes
CN 31.10.2003 pp1,2 Botchergate and Stanwix post offices under threat
CN 07.11.2003 p13 Letter concerning threatened closure to Stanwix PO
CN 14.11.2003 p5 Newsagent bids to save Stanwix PO
CN 20.04.2007 p1 Close Warwick Rd Post Office and move services to WH.Smiths!
CN 27.04.2007 p15 Workers face redundancy or relocation to WH Smiths
CN 21.03.2008 p3 Botcherby and Denton Holme Post Offices to close
CN 23.05.2008 p3 Post Office opens in Smiths
CN 20.06.2008 p19 Botcherby PO only one saved
CN 01.08.2008 p11 Denton Holme and Lamb Street Post Offices close
CN 09.12.2011 p6 Feature on Junction Street sorting office
04.07.2014 p1 GPO on Warwick Road now the Halston hotel
POST OFFICE CLUB Lonsdale Street
CN 15.12.1978 p10 Re-opening
CN 21.11.2003 p1 Club bought by Ron Wood; to become a night club
POST OFFICE COURT, English Street [1847 Directory]
POST OFFICE; JUNCTION STREET SORTING OFFICE
To be completed January 1983; earlier sorting office on this site
CN 15.08.2008 p6 Junction Street sorting office celebrates 25 years this week
CN 09.12.2011 p6 Feature on Junction Street sorting office
POST OFFICE REPEATER STATION London Road
See also GENERAL POST OFFICE REPEATER STATION
ENS 05.11.1964 p3 (illus)
ENS 26.09.1964 p1 Rescue
POTTER, Edward Brushmaker, aged 42, employing 2 men, home address 24 Scotch St, born Taunton [1851 census]
POTTER, George Jewellers; next to Crown and Mitre
Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 68 1930s view of shop front
CN 22.04.1960 p12
POTTER, J.J. Gawthorpes Lane, Bridge Street
Blacksmith; metalworkers
CD 1961-62 Ad p259
CD 1966-68 Ad p256
POTTER, John Corner of Duke St and Shaddongate
Bootmakers
CD 1907-08 Ad p80
CD 1952 Ad p264
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p226
CD 1955-56 Ad p226
CN 12.09.1958 p2 Obit of John J.Potter; also author of ‘Memories of Old Carlisle’
CD 1961-62 Ad p96
ENS 27.10.1994 p35 Picture of shop and feature; closed about 1967
POTTER, W Scotch Street, Lowther Street
Tobacconist
City Minutes 1921-22 p75 Hole in the Wall property recently acquired by W.Potter
CD 1952 Ad p192
V.White Carlisle and its villages, p5 drawing of Potters in 1981
POTTER, William
City Minutes 1924-25 p93 Licensed to operate bus Town Hall to Longsowerby
POTTERIES, The So named on 1861 census, four households, including occupations of ‘potter fireman’ and ‘potter’; listed after Harraby Hill Workhouse
POTTER’S PLACE 58 Shaddongate [1880 Directory]
1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 56-58 Shaddongate
POTTERY see CARLISLE POTTERY
POTTS, Joseph Grocer Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1781 and 1784
POULTRY see Dogs, Poultry and Pigeon Show
POULTRY MARKET - see MARKET, POULTRY
POVERTY see POOR, WORKHOUSE
POWELL and GAYNOR Devonshire Street
House furnishers
CN 25.01.1935 p11 Ad Shortly to open; for years with W.Wright, Highmore Hse
CD 1952 Ad p319
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p249
CD 1955-56 Ad p253
CD 1961-62 Ad p43
POWER CUTS
CN 15.02.1947 p5
CN 09.01.1998 p1 Power failure forces operations to be cut
CN 24.03.2000 p5 Power cut still a mystery
CN13.02.2004 p1 Hundreds of home in Kingstown blacked out twice
CN 20.02.2004 p3 Fifth power cut in city in fortnight
POWER STATIONS Electric Lighting Station, James St, switched on 11.05.1899; this closed when a new power station opened in 1927 at Willow Holme; Willow Holme Power Station demolished 1988
See also Electric light
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p125 Photo of interior of James St Power Station
Carlisle in Camera 1 p36 Photo of James Street Station
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p160 photo of Willow Holme works in 1970s
CN 23.04.1999 p3
CN 16.04.1999 p3 Last gasp bid
CN 05.11.1999 p5 Fears over power station site
CN 28.04.2000 p3 Disaster waiting to happen
PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE TO CUSTODY [PAC]
CN 11.06.2010 p7 Charity moves to new premises in Lowther Street
PRACTICAL CAR AND VAN RENTAL Lamplugh Street
CN 29.05.1998 p12 Ad
PRAISE TOGETHER
CN 17.05.2002 p14 Third Christian event at Sands on 19.05.2002
CN 24.05.2002 p23 (illus) Praise together event
CN 13.06.2003 p8 Event at Sands last Sunday
CN 14.05.2004 p17 5th Praise Together at Sands
PRATCHITT BROTHERS LTD Denton Iron Works; Blaylock and Pratchitt founded in 1859 on Long Island Ironworks site; later became Pratchitt, Blaylock and Pratchitt; 04.02.1863 purchase of new site in Denton Holme, which became Denton Ironworks; became APV Mitchell Dryers.
D.Perriam Denton Holme p61 Firm of Blaylock and Pratchitt was formed in 1859 producing ticket dating presses for railways under Edmundson’s patent at the Long Island works. As the firm expanded a new site was purchased in Denton Holme on 04.02.1863, work on the erection of Denton Iron Works starting immediately. Fixed and portable steam engines were their speciality but all kinds of pumping equipment machinery was manufactured. Early contracts included ironwork for railway stations on the CK and PR and NBR from Carlisle to Langholm. They received a Royal Warrant from Edward VII for pumping installations at Sandringham in 1904. Later the firm was known for its industrial dryers and was taken over by LA Mitchell. New offices were erected in 1967 and the works closed in 2016
See BLAYLOCK; MITCHELL DRYERS
Pratchitt Brothers Ltd; 100 years of Engineering, 1959
CJ 07.01.1938 p10 CJ 05.01.1960 p4 CN 30.01.1970 p28
CD 1952 Ad p293
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p237
CD 1955-56 Ad p296
CD 1961-62 Ad p40
Carlisle Examiner 10.02.1859 p1a Ad Blaylock taken into partnership with Pratchitt
Engineer 01.04,1870 p188 Pumping Engine for Maryport Waterworks
ENS 12.01.1960 p2 History
CN 31.03.1967 pp10-11 (illus) Extensions
CN 20.05.1988 p4 Steam wagon built in city
CN 27.05.1988 p4 City firm who built steam wagon
CN 29.04.1994 p12 Firms buy out talks
PREGNANCY see BIRTHS
PREHISTORIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN
CJ 27.08.1948 p1 Carlisle as venue for meeting
CJ 07.09.1948 pp1-2 Carlisle as venue for meeting
CJ 10.09.1948 p4 Carlisle as venue for meetings
PREHISTORY see MESIOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC; BRONZE AGE
PREMIER ELECTRICAL Denton Holme
CN 04.12.1998 p12 Ad
PREMIER REPROGRAPHICS LTD
CN 03.06.1988 p25 Ad
PRE-NORMAN see BRONZE AGE; NORTHUMBRIAN CROSSES; ROMANS; VIKINGS
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Warwick Road; 26.09.1862 laying foundation stone; opened 10.05.1863; united with Charlotte Street Congregational Church and Fisher Street Presbyterian Church to become United Reformed Church in 1973
see also United Reformed Church; Saint George’s United Reform Church
CJ 12.05.1863 Opening of new free Church of Scotland on 10th
CJ 23.10.1945 p2 Mentioned in ‘The Brethren’ by Beattie
CN 03.02.1961 p10 CN 23.10.1970 p10 (illus)
CJ 12.05.1863 p3 Opening
CJ 08.02.1867 p5 New minister
19.11.1918 Rev Howie Boyd dies, 45 years minister of this chapel
CJ 08.03.1921 p5d,e Mural tablet erected to war dead and former minister H.Boyd
PRESBYTERIANISM
See also Etterby Presbyterian Mission Hall; Fisher Street Presbyterian Church Newtown Presbyterian Mission Hall; Charitable Trust for Presbyterians 1 George IV, for Scotch Presbyterian Chapel 5 William IV [CWAAS ns Vol 2 p356]
CWAAS 3rd series Vol 9 2009 pp111 - 130 development of Presbyterianism in Carlisle from 1648 - 1736
CWAAS 3rd series Vol 12 2012 pp199 - 216 The English Presbyterian Meeting, Fisher Street, Carlisle 1736 - 1809
CN 19.03.1949 p5 Fusion with Congregationalists
PRESCOTT ROAD First noted on electoral register for 1928-9; land in this area was formerly owned by the Dean and Chapter and streets were named in honour of Bishops of Carlisle and Chancellors of the Diocese, in this case Chancellor Prescott
PRESERVATION SOCIETY see CARLISLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY
PRESS GANGS
1710 Midsummer Quarter Sessions petitions. Mary Johnstone of Carlisle petitioned that her husband has been pressed by Capt Mansers’s men. One child not two years old and another in the womb, hence cannot work, needs relief timeously
CN 15.10.1999 p12 How press gangs stopped at nothing
PRESTON, Mrs 4 Victoria Place
1882 Porters Directory Ad p106 Millinery and dressmaking
PRESTON, John Devonshire Street
Dress-mantle and millinery
CD 1893-94 Ad p10
CP 07.02.1896 p1f John Preston, late of Devonshire St, taking over the long established business of Mr Joseph Rome, 69-73 Scotch Street. Business will continue under the name of Joseph Rome
PRETTY THINGS St Cuthbert’s Lane
CN 04.07.2003 p3 To close down after 20 years in business
PRETTY WOMAN Corporation Road
CN 28.02.2003 p7 Jean Irving proprietor
PRIESTBECK BRIDGE Over River Eden see EDEN BRIDGE
D Perriam Stanwix A breach of the River Eden in 1570, along the line of the former Priest Beck, formed a new second channel below Stanwix Bank, hence the construction of the Priestbeck Bridge in 1601. The bridge was built after attempts were made to stem this new flow with an embankment. This was washed away in floods.
PRIMITIVE METHODISM see METHODISM/ METHODISTS
PRIMARK store opens in the Lanes [old BHS store] in October 2016
CN 07.10.2016 p1 Primark store opens in the Lanes
PRIMROSE CAFE Stanwix Bank; opened 1946
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p272
CD 1966-68 Ad p258
CN 02.02.1962 p7
PRIMROSE LEAGUE (Conservative Party)
CP 13.05.1892 p5 Carlisle Primrose League annual meeting; 600 members
CN 20.03.1987 p4 CN 03.04.1987 p4
CN 30.04.1993 p4 Day that passed into history
PRIMROSE STREET
City Council Minutes 10.06.1881 Approval for laying out new street
PRINCE OF WALES Denton Street; on the first edition Ordnance Survey sheet of 1865
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p121 Photo in 1902
S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses, 2004, p50
Denis Perriam Denton Holme p76 Built as a terraced housing on the corner of Denton Street and Northumberland Street was converted sometime after 1853 to a public house’ attached to this was a later bowling green, a match being advertised there on 01.04.1870. Compulsorily purchased from the Carlisle New Brewery on 24.06.1916 by the Central Control Board. On the state sell off it became the property of John Smith and Co. Demolished and today [2023] site a car park
CJ 22.04.1921 p7f Alterations
ENS 24.02.2000 Prince of Wales boss calls time on troublemakers
CN 17.09.2004 p17 Plans for demolition and replace with housing; owner D.Byers
CN 24.09.2004 p5 Artists impression of new development
ENS 17.03.2009 p1 Prince of Wales under demolition
PRINCESS STREET Botchergate; first noted in the 1837 directory; Lord, Court and King Streets all in this area; so marked on Asquith’s 1853 map
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p32 Photo of children playing in street 1960s
PRINCES TRUST
CN 08.09.2000 p4 Local volunteer force with a community mission
PRINCIPLES English St
CN 20.03.2009 p7 Clothes shop closes
PRINGLE, John Pipe manufacturer, employing 8 men, aged 49, born Carlisle, home address Old Grapes Lane [1851 census]; in directories to 1897
CJ 07.01.1848 p2 Smoke nuisance from pipe manufactory. Spring Garden Lane
CJ 16.09.1853 p8 William Pringle, pipemaker married to Elizabeth Todd, both of Willow Holme
Carlisle Examiner 19.01.1858 p3 John Pringle ‘died from excessive drinking and want of food’.
CJ 22.01.1858 p8 John Pringle, pipe manufacturer, died in Willow Holme
CJ 19.03.1858 p5 James Pringle, pipe manufacturer, will continue the success of his late father
CJ 05.07.1873 p4 William Pringle, pipe maker of Willow Holme, let off with a caution; tipsy
CJ 18.03.1881 p1b To sell block of property, pipe manufactory
CJ 06.09.1952 Clay pipe found; details week before
CN 23.01.2004 p7 Clay pipe manufacturer in 19th century
PRINT GRAPHIC
CN 24.02.2006 p14 Print Graphic reopens after floods
PRINTING TRADE The earliest example of printing which was definitely produced in Carlisle is a large Bible produced by John Harrison of Scotch St. who began printing it in 1776. The 92 parts were issued to subscribers over 2 years. Harrison soon moved to Newcastle and then London. J. Milliken, bookseller/ printer, produced an important series of volumes, namely Dr Heysham’s ‘Observations on the Bills of Mortality in Carlisle.....’ published annually from 1782 - 88. J.Mitchell printer in Carlisle in 1798 and printed in that year an edition of Relph’s Poems with wood cuts by Thomas Bewick; appears to have moved to Newcastle [CWAAS OS Vol 14 p20]. In 1798 Mitchell began publication of one of the earliest Carlisle periodicals, ‘The Satellite or Repository of Literature’, but the venture proved short lived and only ran for 6 issues
See Dennison, Jollie; Harrison, John; Milliken, J; Mitchell, J; Thurnams, C
CWAAS OS Vol 12 pp1-21 Chapbooks printed in Carlisle; earliest 1770
1811 Jollie’s Directory pxiv Alfred Henderson, printer and bookseller
CN 19.05.1923 p12 Annual meeting of North-Western Printers Alliance
CN 06.01.1990 Supp pxxi Printers pints kept the old presses rolling
PRIOR’S KITCHEN see CATHEDRAL; PRIOR’S KITCHEN
PRIOR SLEE’S GATEHOUSE see CATHEDRAL; PRIOR SLEE’S GATEHOUSE
PRIORS TOWER see CATHEDRAL; PRIORS TOWER
PRIORWOOD CLOSE; Belle Vue On voters list from 1989; Prior Wood is a placename in this area on the 1901 census
PRIORY OF CARLISLE
Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p164 Engraving of the Seal of the Priory of Carlisle
PRIORY ROAD, Wigton Road area
City Minutes 1899-1900 p148 Approval for 20 houses
CN 27.04.2012 p8 House make over for no 1 for TV series
PRISM ARTS
CN 25.09.1998 p14 Profile
PRISONER OF WAR CAMP; Camp no 696, Durranhill
P Hitchon Botcherby a Garden Village pp198-200 with map and aerial photo
CN 25.04.2014 p16 WW2 Camp off Durranhill Road. Held German and Italian prisoners
PROBATION HOSTEL Lowther Street; formerly Bowling Green Inn
CN 26.11.1976 p10
CN 01.11.1974 p8 One time pub will serve the social misfits
ENS 01.11.1999 p25 Bowling Green Hostel 25 years old
CN 13.05.2005 p5 Only black probation officer in north Cumbria resigns after jibes
PROBATION SERVICE
CN 05.02.1993 p10 Probation offices moving
CN 25.02.1994 p25 Community scheme needs more projects
CN 11.07.1997 p1 Probation service fails test
CN 07.12.2001 p8 Probation staff in city oppose new open plan office proposal
PROCTOR, William Plumber
CP 06.08.1847 p1 Ad; moved to 49 Scotch Street
1851 Directory. Ad Gas fitter, plumber and ironmonger [after page 82 at back]
PROFILE PROMOTIONS James Street
CN 03.11.1995 p6 Ad
PROHIBITION
CN 14.04.1917 p5 City council and prohibition
CN 14.04.1917 p5 Vote for prohibition
PRONTAPRINT Warwick Road
CN 30.06.1995 p3 Centre of excellence
CN 17.04.1998 p7 Ad
PROSPECT PLACE; Stanwix On 1861 census
1880 Directory
PROSPECT TERRACE, Wigton Road [1880 Directory]
Marked on 1st ed 50 inch OS map
1924 Carlisle Directory lists even nos 2-24
PROSTITUTION
1851 census 10 prostitutes in Carlisle gaol [prisoners from wider area than city]
Carlisle Express 29.08.1865 p3 Brothel in Willow Holme
Evening Journal 30.08.1870 p1c Thomas Armstrong, Bay Horse fined for having a drunken and riotous company in his house and harbouring prostitutes
CN 18.09.1998 p3 Police keep watch on flat
PROUD, Edward Lancelot
City Minutes 1927-28 p628 Licensed to run bus service to Ainstable
PROUD, W and J West Tower Street; Joseph Proud, carriage builder, died 21.01.1893 [MI 97/1]
Coach builders
1861 census; William Proud, 44, coachbuilder, home 17 James St, bn Carlisle
Guide to Carlisle Ad C178
CD 1880 Ad pxxii; established 1770
CP 31.12.1891 Death of W.Proud, aged 82, acquired coach business of Mr Nixon who had previously succeeded a Mr Milburn, so nearly 100 years old
CN 18.04.1931 p10 Obit of W.F.Proud; business given up about three years ago
PROUDFOOT, Fred East Tower Street
Banana merchant
CD 1952 Ad p359
PROUDFOOT, James Fruitier
1891 census; aged 42, home 12 Lowther Street, bn Carlisle
PROUDFOOT AND PATTINSON South Street
Motor car proprietors; taxi hire
CD 1924 Ad p184
CD 1927 Ad p132
CD 1952 Ad p382
CD 1955-56 Ad p284
CD 1961-62 Ad p98
PROUD’S BUILDINGS, James Street Jane Proud, aged 60, widow bacon dealer, head of household in this building [1851 census]
PROUD’S COURT, James St so named on 1861 census; William Proud coachbuilder lives just around the corner on James St
1880 Directory 6 James Street
PROUD’S COURT, 15 Northumberland Street [1880 Directory]
PROVINCIAL BUILDING SOCIETY
CN 07.04.1967 p15 (illus) New offices
PROVINCIAL INSURANCE Warwick Road
CD 1952 Ad p32
PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY English Street
CD 1893-94 Ad p122
CJ 07.10.1921 p8 Opening on 29th September new offices in Carlisle
PUBLIC ART
On the Students accommodation building in Caldewgate a large mural is on the gable end facing Cadewgate. This is of the face of a young girl peering through bull rushes. Her face is decorated with designs. The art work is called All for this Earth, date 17.09.2021 and the artist is Simon de Laat. On West Walls, the Caldew Bridge end, a large mural painting of a demon barbarian attacking the Roman wall, a single Roman soldier standing defiantly with his back to us. The artist is SMUG and it is entitled Belatucadros, 4-14th May 2021. ‘This piece of artwork made possible by Peter Tyson’. On the northern gable end of Coco Mill in Lowther Street [at entrance to Pack Horse Yard] is the image of an eagle picking up a suited man in his talons, his briefcase slipping from his hand. Above it says ‘Dave knew today wasn’t going to be a good day but he didn’t expect this.’ and below the eagle ...Not again’ The piece is signed Tabby. Further into the yard is a mural entitled Joy Bound dated 19.07.2019, made possible by Coco Mill. This depicts the face of a woman with a rather distorted smile as string is bound around her face. It is in black and white. This is the work of Phoebe Bell. Harwicke Circus gardens has three access tunnels. The one to Rickergate has a raised mosaic depicting various motifs down the stairs and through the tunnel. Facing the garden is a scene representing the capture of Kinmont Willie, he is bound upon a horse. To the left, at the entrance to the tunnel to Rickerby Park is art work by Paul Leith. Facing the gardens we get a stylised panorama of the city centre with the Old Town Hall and Lanes in the background. The tunnel has Rickerby Park scenes, Victoria’s statue and the stairs and sloping walkway further scenes of Rickerby Park and Eden Bridges ending in sky larks against a blue sky. The third entrance to the Sands has art work by Rosie Cunningham, a Carlisle artist who attended Newman School. She depicts scenes from Carlisle’s history; The entrance to the tunnel is flanked by the Citadels, one on each side, then Carlisle racing bells, the Olympic torch coming to Carlisle in June 20/21 2012, Custard Creams, Carlisle Royal Mint, Rev Swann who cycles to London in 24 hours, City Coat of Arms, Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling, Mary Queen of Scots, Bishop who crowned Elizabeth 1st, Cowans Sheldon 1926 floating crane for the Japanese, Settle and Carlisle Railway, Hadrian’s Wall. Cunningham’s work is dated 2013
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE
CJ 24.06.1938 p11
CJ 18.10.1938 p3 What Public Assistance costs Carlisle
CJ 13.12.1938 p4 County Public Assistance Committee facing rising cut relief
CJ 31.01.1939 p4 Carlisle Public Assistance Committee save half penny rate
On the 1939 Register there are 155 people listed, including staff, under Fusehill Street, Public Assistance Institute, 2 Broad Street, Carlisle.
PUBLIC HALL Chapel Street; Cinema opened 1906-1956; original building Roman Catholic Church built 1824
CN 10.08.1956 p8 CJ 13.11.1956 p5 CJ 16.11.1956 pp8,16
CN 03.10.1958 p1 (illus) CN 08.07.1960 p10 (illus)
ENS 10.11.1956 p1 Oldest city cinema to close
Memories of Carlisle, chapter 1 Photo of the Public Hall
PUBLIC HOUSES
See also Hotels and inns; Coaching inns; State management
Pubs in the 16th century discussed in Medieval Carlisle by Summerson p564. In 1592 commissioners were said to have met at the sign of the Dragon in Coronet there, a common Inn
CJ 04.11.1966 p18 (illus) CN 21.11.1975 p6
CJ 09.01.1894 Inn signs; letter
CN (?) 01.01.1938 p9 Signs
CN 10.06.1966 p8 Hirings etc
CJ 28.10.1966 (illus) Old public houses
ENS 07.03.1977 p3 No cheer for city’s pubs in Egons guide
CN 28.08.1988 p15 Pubs cool on longer hours
CN 01.02.1991 p4 Ale was a cheaper drink than tea
CN 20.09.1991 p4 Church wardens checked on pubs
CN 25.03.1994 p1 That’s the spirit
CN 13.01.1995 p16 Children in bars scheme
CN 23.05.1997 p10 Lets take the kids down to the pub
CN 18.07.1997 p1 400 back pub bid to keep late licence
CN 01.05.1998 p5 Drink drive limit nail in coffin
CN 30.10.1998 p11 Raise a glass to new guide
CN 05.02.1999 p12 (illus) Any builders in the bricklayers arms
CN 05.03.1999 p3 (illus) Cheers! It’s the week that’s set to change city pub scene
CN 21.05.1999 p1 Home Office praises policing of pubs
CN 04.06.1999 p1 Police warn keep thugs out or else
CN 23.07.1999 p5 36 hour Millennium party
CN 12.11.1999 p1 Pubs on alert as big match fans head north
CN 17.12.1999 p3 Pub cut backs hit police campaign
CN 14.04.2000 p4 Drinkers call time on local pub
CN 25.04.2003 p12 Changing face of pubs in Carlisle area; feature
CN 19.12.2003 p3 Australian style pub for Botchergate
CN 06.02.2004 p6 Round up of new pubs, refurbishments and plans
CN 16.05.2008 p7 12 Pubs for sale in city; smoking ban and cost of living blamed
CN 22.01.2010 p67 Five city pubs for sale
CN 22.02.2013 p5 15 city pubs closed in last 10 years
PUBLIC TOILETS see TOILETS
PUBLIC WEIGHING MACHINE Solway Street see WEIGH BRIDGE COTTAGE
PUB SIGNS
Olive Seabury the Carlisle State Management Scheme. 2007 p165 details of the sign at the new Cumberland Wrestlers [1938]
The Arroyo pub sign used to be a painted model of a drummer boy
PUBWATCHCOVERS
Covers all 85 pubs and clubs in city centre; currently 28 people on banning list
PUGIN STREET So marked on Asquith’s 1853 survey; The Dixon family built this street in the early 1840s, at the time Pugin was building the Roman Catholic Church at Warwick Bridge, where the Dixons lived
1924 Carlisle Directory off Dalston Road
PUNTON ROAD Family name of the Watts who owned the nearby Knowefield Nursery; see Little and Ballantyne
PUPIL TEACHERS’ CENTRE see HIGHER GRADE SCHOOL
PURE ELEGANCE
CN 10.08.1990 p6 Ad
PURVES, Hal Botchergate
Photographic specialist
CD 1966-68 Ad p291