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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 Mens 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 Cuthberts 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’dBishop Nicolsons 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 Asquiths 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 Asquiths 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 Woods 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 Asquiths 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 months 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 Laings. Bob Franklin and his assistants in Laings 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 Asquiths 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 Cuthberts 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 Asquiths 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