Carlisle Encyclopaedia

SACRED HEART; CONVENT The nuns built what was to become Austin Friars School; foundation stone of convent school laid 16.04.1891; Nuns left for Newcastle in 1903 and convent school closed

See also Austin Friars School, Chadwick Industrial Memorial School;

1891 census; 12-13 Chatsworth Square Sacred Heart, Alice Vinall, head, along with 6 sisters; 8 female borders listed, none from Cumberland,

1901 census; Bridget Haydon, superior, 33 boarding pupils, all girls aged 8 -19; girls from all of Britain and Ireland

CN 22.08.2003 p8 Denis Perriam history of building

 

SACRED HEART OF JESUS; CONVENT

Day school

CD 1893-94 p14

 

SACRED HEART OF JESUS AND MARY

See Durranhill Convent

 

SACRED HEART OF MARY; CONVENT OF THE Northumberland Road

see also Saint Gabriel’s School

CD 1952 Ad 369

CN 18.06.2010 p9 Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary celebrate [Saint Gabriel’s Convent]. First came to Carlisle to concentrate on education

 

SADDLE INN Botchergate; in local directories from 1834 to 1837

 

SADDLE INN Fisher Street; in local directories to 1837

 

SADDLE INN Willow Holme; in local directories from 1844 to 1848

 

SADDLE LANE, North east side of Botchergate. Named in 1837 directory and last noted on the 1913 electoral register

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

Marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

1847 Directory 19 Botchergate

1880 Directory 33 Botchergate

 

SADDLE LANE, Bridge Lane [1880 Directory]

 

SADDLES

CN 23.12.1998 p7 Saddle find excites museum

 

SAFE AND SOUND SECURITY, Kingstown

CN 26.09.2014 Firms goes into liquidation. Started 2007

 

SAGAR, John Ironfounder of Botchergate

CP 19.01.1856 Sale of premises and foundry

 

SAINSBURY’S

CN 17.11.2006 p1 Proposed Sainsbury’s on Currock Rd

CN 08.02.2008 p9 Sainsbury’s set for Gates tyre store site on Scotland Rd?

CN 08.01.2010 p9 Diggers begin work on new Sainsbury’s Scotland Road shop

CN 19.11.2010 p5 Sainsbury store opens today on Scotland Road

CN 27.01.2012 p11 Site bulldozed to make way for Caldewgate Sainsbury’s

CN 12.10.2012 p4 New store in Caldewgate opened

 

SAINT AIDAN’S CHURCH Warwick Road. Designed by C.J.Ferguson; foundation stone 08.09.1899; builders Beaty Brothers; parish hall foundation stone laid 11.06.1901; large bell outside church hung in 1902 (it was cast for Highmoor House, Wigton, in 1884); brass lectern 1903; parsonage built 1904; repair of roof of South aisle 1909; vicarage heated throughout with hot air 1911; articles from Christ Church brought here in 1938

See P.Connon Shadow of an Eagle’s Wings p14 concerning St Aidan’s bell

CN 19.06.1920 p10 War memorial window for St Aidan’s; description

City Minutes 1920-21 p370 Corporation resume maintenance of gardens

CN 23.12.1950 p4 CN 20.11.1970 p10 (illus)

CN 22.09.1957 p4 Bell

CN 29.05.1957 p4 Bell

CN 30.10.1957 p6 Bell

ENS 19.08.1970 Supp. p6 Set on an island of green lawns

CN 12.10.1973 p6 Bell

CN 10.06.1988 p1 Vicar faces parish protest

CN 08.07.1988 p3 Clear out lurid items vicar told

CN 07.05.1999 p11 How the bell tolled for church

 

SAINT AIDAN’S ROAD, formerly called Waterworks Lane

City Minutes 1901-1902 p249 Avondale Tce renamed St Aidan’s Road

City Minutes 1922-23 p 393 Approval for 4 houses

City Minutes 1927-28 p 47 Approval for 2 houses

1928 Pageant Souvenir p6 of unnumbered ads; photo of houses built by E.J.Hill

City Minutes 1931-32 p222 Approval for 4 houses; owner G.Hill

CJ 11.11.1949 p1 Residents granted permission to plant cherry trees

CN 11.02.1972 p12 (illus) Waterworks at end of

CN 10.11.2000 p13 Letter concerning the felling of cherry trees

CN 28.05.2004 p3 91 year old has had allotment at St Aidan’s since 1947

CN 08.02.2008 p64 House for sale; built 1935

 

SAINT AIDAN’S SCHOOL, Lismore Place Previously called HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

see also AIDANVISION.

High School for Girls became under comprehensive system St Aidan’s in September 1970. Richard Rose Academy replaced NCTC and St Aidan’s School September 2008 on NCTC Harraby site where they will be based for 2 years before moving back to a new building on the St Aidan’s Lismore Place site. 2009 demolition of old High School for Girls buildings. The Sixth Form is remaining on the city centre site. End of 2010 relocation to new £31m site on Lismore Place

Civic Affairs October 1970 p1 New mixed school; opened 26th August

CN 11.12.1987 pp1,3 Closure threat

CN 05.10.1990 p44 School merger move

CN 15.02.1991 p23 Resignations over school opting out

CN 17.05.1991 p6 Awards for two schools

CN 03.04.1992 p18 Top marks...

CN 10.05.1996 p3 St Aidan’s future guaranteed

CN 16.05.1997 p5 (illus) Sporting dream comes true with £500,000 grant

CN 03.07.1998 p15 Sporting dream

CN 01.12.2000 p1 (illus) Becomes a regional centre for sporting excellence

CN 12.01.2001 p19 (illus) Advertising feature for school

CN 21.09.2001 p5 First specialist sports college in county opens at St Aidan’s

15.07.2008 School closed transferring to Harraby at the new Richard Rose Academy which opens in September

CN 08.05.2009 p11 Demolition begins on St Aidan’s, Lismore Place

CN 19.06.2009 p7 Demolition of Saint Aidan’s - photos

CN 26.06.2009 p10 Demolition of Saint Aidan’s - photo

 

SAINT ALBAN’S CHAPEL Near St Alban’s Row; earliest reference to it in the Pipe Roll for 1201 [CWAAS ns vol 76 p95]; chapel demolished in 1549

Slee, M Older Carlisle p15

CN 08.02.1936 p11

CN 25.11.1988 p4 A medieval chapel caused controversy

 

SAINT ALBANS ROW So named in 1660; numbers 4-16 4 houses in a terrace now shops, early to mid-18th century with later alterations; the front of number 4 is hidden by the 1717 extension to the Old Town Hall, but the ground floor shop window is visible through the archway under the extension. The 1861 census records in the household of Robert Orman, fishmonger, St Albans Row, an 11 year old servant, Mary Atchinson, born Scotland

Slee, M Older Carlisle p15 (illus)

Carlisle in Camera 2 p18 Photo about 1900

City Minutes 1922-23 p 671 Wooden paving blocks removed

City Minutes 1929-30 p143 Consider stopping through traffic

CN 28.11.1958 p10 (illustration of circa 1900) CN 02.02.1962 p10 (illus)

ENS 14.01.1964 p1

 

SAINT ALBAN’S WALK

CN 25.05.1990 p5 Shopping mall to open soon

CN 13.05.1994 p4 Centre evicts traders

CN 05.08.1994 p5 Book store targets city centre

CN 05.08.1994 p3 New shop in store

CN 12.08.1994 p5 Tenants soon

CN 03.03.1995 p5 Toy store to take over

 

SAINT AND CO

CN 14.11.2008 p20 Saint and Co will take over AJS Accountants

 

SAINT ANDREWS CHURCH

CN 14.11.1975 p9 Merger with Church of Scotland and United Reformed Church

 

SAINT ANDREWS CHURCH; Wood Street, Botcherby; opened 25.07.1890 at a cost of £600; red brick to designs of Henry Higginson. Previous to this a movable wooden church was erected here in 1888, being removed when the new church opened in 1890

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp145-150

See also Bramerton Lodge Chapel

CJ 16.11.1888 p8c Tender for a movable wooden church at Botcherby

CJ 30.11.1888 Details of the size of the church

CJ 06.08.1940 p3 Golden jubilee

CN 20.07.1990 p5 Celebrating city church centenary

CN 17.08.2007 p7 Money pores in for church roof appeal

CN 02.11.2007 p7 St Andrews Church reaches appeal total of 7,000 pounds for repairs

CN 10.08.2012 p7 Dwindling numbers at church. Vicar Steve Donald drafted in to revitalise church

 

SAINT ANDREWS PARISH HALL Stood near Grice’s Croft/ Co-Op where Sinclair Court is today [2018]

P Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp150-152

CJ 13.12.1949 p2 Dedicated

 

ST ANN’S COURT, Stanwix

CN 18.08.2006 p72 Magnus Homes in final stage of conversion of listed building

 

ST ANN’S CRESCENT, Kingmoor

14 houses [as part of a 74 housing estate built for Carlisle Corporation] were built on St Ann’s Crescent by local builder EJ Hill being completed and occupied by September 1921. Clough Williams-Ellis described the whole estate as ‘The new style, Corporation built houses on the Stanwix Estate. Light, air and flowers’. [CWAAS , 2016, Vol 16 p62-4]

 

SAINT ANN’S HILL HOUSE House perhaps named after Ann, wife of Mr Graham whom he married in 1806;Judges Lodgings in 1951

D Perriam Stanwix p48 Charles James Graham may have named the house after his future wife, Ann Clareson, whom he married 01.01.1806 in Stanwix Church. Charles Graham died in the house in 1847 and his wife a year later. House passed to Reginald Graham. His daughter Fanny Eliza married in 1842 William Wordsworth, son of the poet. The addition of Saint is first noted in 1856. The Wordsworths left the house in 1870 and after changing hands was bought by Mr Drinkall in 1893. Carlisle Corporation bought the house in 1948 with the intention of using it for an old peoples’ home, instead it became the judge’s lodgings in 1951. After 1975 the building was acquired by Austin Friars School as a dormitory. In 2005 it was sold and converted into flats

Cumberland Pacquet 26.04.1796 ‘House in Etterby St on the banks of the Eden’ ?

CJ 26.09.1801p1b Charles Graham of Ann’s Hill

CJ 15.07.1809 Mr Graham of Ann’s Hill

1834 Pigots Directory Charles Graham, Anns Hill

CJ 15.07.1853 p1f sale of furniture on behalf of J.Kirklinton Saul

1858 Directory referred to as St Ann’s House

1861 census William Wordsworth, aged 50,

CP 22.04.1870 Sale of house with W.Wordsworth [Poet’s son] in occupation

CJ 24.03.1893 Bought by Mr Drinkall; residence of late Mr Page

CN 10.07.1948 p3 Bought by Carlisle Corporation for old peoples home

CN 10.04.1970 p14 Poet’s local links

CN 18.06.1993 p4 Convent controversy laughable

CN 26.08.2005 p62 St Ann’s House; for sale ad; photograph

CN 04.11.2005 p1 House sold for £1m plus

CN 23.11.2007 p67 St Ann’s for sale 650,000 pounds

 

SAINT ANN’S HILL

D Perriam Stanwix p49 Map shows fields for sale in 1909

CJ 22.10.1873 Sale of estate

B/CAR 333.333 Sale 12.10.1909

 

SAINT AUGUSTINE’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Parish founded in 1947 when Father Kelly of the Lancaster Diocese was sent to Stanwix; passed into the hands of the Augustinian Community when Bishop Flynn asked them to start a school in the city. Father Cotter [arrived 1950] and Fathers Twomey [arrived 1950]; parish hall built in 1952 which was used for mass as well as social functions. By 1957 this arrangement was inadequate and efforts were started to build a church for the parish. In 1960 a wooden hut which could seat about 100 was moved from Spadeadam during Holy Week and was erected and decorated by the parishioners between Good Friday and Easter Monday. The Hut’ was never intended as anything more than a temporary building until a more permanent building could be built. Father Carrick carried forward these plans and a new permanent church was opened in 1979. The building had cost £100,000. In 1995 the Augustinian Community handed back the Parish to the care of the Diocese of Lancaster. The redundant Social Club was sold to McCarthy and Stone to build apartments; the church being extended to provide increased capacity, a social room, an office, meeting room, storage and new toilet facilities.

CN 29.07.1960 pp2,6,7 (illus) CN 13.07.1979 pp9, 24 (illus)

CN 28.03.2014 p23 Facelift for the church

 

SAINT AUGUSTINE’S SOCIAL CLUB Date stone 11.11.1952

CN 14.1.2008 p11 Social club to close; not generating enough money

 

SAINT BARNABAS CHURCH Laying of foundation stone of Mission Hall on Newtown Road 05.10.1898 and opening service 11.06.1899; laying of foundation stone of new church on different site on Shady Grove Road 05.10.1935; on 09.06.1936 new church consecrated; architect of new church J.Seely and P.Paget, built by John Laing to serve the new Raffles housing estate; bell from Mardale church transferred to Saint Barnabas. One of three churches built to commemorate the octocentenary of the foundation of the diocese of Carlisle. Furniture in the chancel of the new church given in the memory of archdeacon D.F.Campbell, killed in a motor car accident [Prelates and People p458]. First vicar at new church CML Bouch. The Mission Hall has served its purpose well as a place of worship but with new organisations formed, congregations and Sunday School attendances increased and the capacity of the old church was frequently taxed to the uttermost

Margaret Forster Hidden Lives p114 ‘...it wasn’t like a real church like St Mary’s, or St Paul’s, at all. A real church should be old and built of stone and have a spire and stained glass windows. This one looked more like an hotel with its flat front and its rendered cement walls - it lacked dignity, it was flashy. It was meant to have a fresh, original look, in keeping with the garden-city image behind the whole concept of Raffles. But to Lily, and many others, the stark design and the glare of the scraped ivory-white cement was too brutal. The newness of everything about St Barnabas’s was disconcerting, inside as well as out. It didn’t smell like a church, it wasn’t hushed and holy. There was certain pleasure in the absolute cleanliness of everything - the new, light oak wood was so smooth to touch, the shiny hymn books creaked with newness when opened - but it was not conducive to prayer. The vicar, Rev Bouch, realizing this, told his congregation it was exciting to be at the beginning of the life of a new church and it was up to them to make of it a place dedicated to the greater glory of God. St Barnabas gave them a chance to make a new start in their spiritual lives as the new houses they now lived in had given them a new start in their temporal lives.

‘There was a new vicar [1930s]...He was a pleasant, rather lazy, kind man without much charisma but he had the common touch to a remarkable degree. He went into local pubs and had half a pint of mild and was quite at ease, which is more than could be said for the other patrons who didn’t approve of the vicar joining them at all’. p127

CN 25.04.1936 p9 (illus) CN 12.09.1969 p10 (illus)

Carlisle an illustrated history p43 photo of exterior of church

CP 07.10.1898 p7a Stone laying of new mission hall, extreme end of Newtown

ENS 10.06.1936 p3 (illus) Consecration of church

CN 16.04.1949 p5 (illus) 13th anniversary of consecration of new church

ENS 08.06.1976 p3 (illus) Kids see 40 years of church history

CN 15.07.2016 p15 Church reopens after revamp

 

SAINT BEDE’S CHAPEL (Ancient) Now St James Church, Denton Holme

CJ 08.09.1865 p5

 

SAINT BEDE’S ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL December 1866 school chapel mission opened; school chapel erected in Silloth Street in 1884; enlarged 1889; old school closed 18.04.1962; new school opened off Wigton Road 14.07.1962

‘Team Spirit’ August 1962

CJ 17.04.1866 p1a To let building of first portion of school. Cory and Ferguson architects

CJ 27.04.1866 Lecture in aid of erection of new RC school in Caldewgate

CJ 07.12.1866 School opened on Tuesday by the Bishop of Hexham. The school room is sixty feet by twenty-two, with a double porch entrance for boys and girls. There is a class-room on the north side and a two-storied transept on the south side, forming at present the residence of the school keeper, and, when completed, one wing of the school-master’s house. The interior up to about four feet is of red brick, intended to be boarded, and above it is lined with white fire brick. At the east end of the building, guarded by folding doors the altar is placed in a recess. The altar which is small is covered with a white cloth with an embroidered edge and is adorned with a golden crucifix. Behind the cross and the candles is a small dark well executed oil painting, representing the adoration of the Magi. The Bishop said that on Sundays and holy-days mass would be held here and the Holy Communion administered. He said if they were faithful the day may come when they would have a noble church pointing heavenwards with its spire, and this humble building would be used solely as a school. The building had cost between £700 to £800, to the designs of Messrs Cory and Ferguson.

CP 16.12.1870 Total nos on register 248, in attendance 174

1930s Memories of a lady who attended the school in the 1930s when it was in Caldewgate. The infants had a coal fire, as you moved up through the school the heat was provided by radiators, except they didn’t give out much heat. Each pupil had a slate and slate pencil, class size about 40, no school uniform. Teachers recalled were Mr Rudden and Mr Smith. Discipline was enforced with corporal punishment, a ruler across the hands. The priests came into the school, and when he or the head entered the classroom the whole class stood up. The priest would ask each member of the class if they had been to mass on Sunday and she recalled being terrified when the priest said that Hell’s fires awaited those who didn’t go to mass regularly. We always walked to school and back from or house in Marks Avenue. We wore black clogs to school, you could be heard a mile off, leather tops and a clasp to fasten them. You’d have iron caulkers on the soul which would get worn down and need replacing. You’d go to Dodd’s on Port Road, he’d charge you 1 penny for one clog or three happence for two. One of our classmates, Sylvia McNesby died of consumption. Our class went down to her home in Byron Street to see the body, the small coffin was open upon a table. Beside the coffin was a saucer of salt. Was this to ward off the evil spirits? I also recall that when one of the priests died we paraded up to the cemetery for the internment. It was a long walk from the school

CN 24.03.1961 To build new school

CN 19.04.1962 p1 Last day at old St Bede’s school

CN 13.07.1962 p10 (illus) Opening of new school on Wigton Road

ENS 16.02.1963 Licensed club opens in old school; Carlisle Young Men’s Society

ENS 05.03.1996 p6 (illus) Kids ‘run daily risk’ over poor parking

CN 09.09.2005 p3 School takes in 10 new pupils from Poland

CW3 xi p261 Survey of disused club prior to demolition, originally an infants school built in 1866; part of a complex of educational buildings adjacent to St Bede’s Church

 

SAINT BEDE’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Original school chapel built on Silloth St 1866 [see above] ; school chapel built in Silloth Street 1883 ; foundation stone of new church on Wigton Road laid 25.01.1959; consecration 24.11.1959; opened formally 08.05.1960. High on the facade of the Wigton Road church is a statue of St Bede holding a quill in his right hand and is writing in a small book in his left hand. Behind is a halo with the letters GLORIA/ INRI. This larger than life statue was made with the support and assistance of Josefina de Vasconcellos. The sculptor was Ophelia Gordon Bell

CN 30.01.1959 pp1,7 (illus) CJ 10.05.1960 pp1,5 (illus)

CN 13.05.1960 pp6-8 (illus) CN 20.02.1970 p10 (illus)

CN 15.04.1950 p4 Ghost

CN 06.03.1987 p40 Opening of new community centre

CN 05.06.1987 p4 (illus) 1920-21 football team

CN 19.02.1999 p1 Catholic priest bans ancient throat blessing ceremonies

CN 22.05.2009 p7 Golden jubilee of St Bede’s

 

SAINT BEDE’S SOCIAL CLUB

CN 27.02.2009 p10 Social club closed for 3 months because of rowdy behaviour

 

SAINT CHRISTOPHER’S HOUSE Carleton

CN 16.12.1977 p14 (illus) Opened as restaurant

 

SAINT CUTHBERTS

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

 

SAINT CUTHBERT’S CHURCH Church first mentioned in 1138; Demolition of old church commenced 01.01.1778; today there is one stained glass window in the church which contains medieval glass from the old church; rebuilding commenced 13.01.1778; opened about 22/23 September 1779, there having been a delay because of storm damage; dated 1778 on weather vane; the builders were Messrs Hayton, Lowthian and Lowrey; present Vicarage on West Walls, but previously on Botchergate, near Christ Church ; graveyard railings erected in 1823 to help prevent body-snatching; first lit by gas 04.10.1835; graveyard closed 28.02.1854; alteration 1880; organ renovated 1883; interior restored 1885; Mrs Nelson’s window 1886; gravestones cleared in 1888; church repainted 1894; new residence in Eaglesfield Abbey 1897; electric light installed, new vestry, organ etc October 1902; new choir seats and removal of pulpit October 1905; new organ 1905; rooms secured on West Walls as Parish Hall 1911; reredos and chancel panelling 1914; complete redecoration July 1920; Parish Hall reconstructed and fitted with electric light 1921; repairs and alterations for heating 1922; addition to Parish Hall 1923; vicarage repaired and redecorated 1923; graveyard laid out as garden 1969; moving pulpit made in the workshop of George Black, Carlisle [obit 26.10.1929 p10] St Cuthbert’s remains today the corporation church and has a designated seat for the Mayor and fitments to accommodate civic regalia carried in procession to the church, previous to 1649 the official city church had been St Mary’s in the nave of the Cathedral

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p231-34 Founded in the seventh century suggests Canon Weston

CJ 27.07.1962 p9

1703 Bp Nicolson’s The Diocese of Carlisle pp101-02 1703 description

1778 Effigies removed during rebuilding to Ainstable CWAAS OS Vol 15 p417

Jefferson, S History ...Carlisle, 1838, pp269-70 Bishop Nicolson’s 1702 description

BIshop Nicolson wrote; Sep 24 [1703] On the West End of the Tower [without] is a new Coat of Arms, clap’d under an old Helmet and Crest, thus subscrib’d

Arma Johannis Aglionby Arminger

The Quire here has nothing of that Decency in it which one would hope for so near the Cathedral and (its proprietors) the Dean and Chapter. The North End of the Communion-Table is clogg’d with a high Tombstone, of no body knowes who; nor are any there any Rails above the Steps. The Roof is also in great disorder. On the East of the South Stals are (I think) the Stapletons Arms; supported by a Mermaid and bearing this Motto: Servite Dno in Letitia. In the Body of the Church the Seats are mostly very ruinous and irregular: the pulpit ill-placed; and the Reading-Pew (under it) narrow and inconvenient. In the North Isle, over against the middle window (in which are the Aglionby’s Arms in Glass) lyes a Man in Armour, with his wife by his side; and over her:

Orate pro Anima Katarine Denton que

obijt A.Dni. 1428

In the same Isle, nearer the Ascent towards the Altar, is an old Remnant of a carved Seat, which has probably been brought hither from the Abbey-Church at Holm Cultram; bearing these two Gothic Letters R.C. and a chain’d Bear with a pastoral Staff through a Miter, and underneath Chamber. In the Vestry stands an old Cupboard (of the same fashion with that in the Cathedral already mentione’d) of Prior Gudebour’s gift; as appears by the two Initial Letters of his Name, with a P [for Prior] engrafted on the former, thus PG. Here’s a good Chest for the Books and Vestments, with the Communion Plate ,etc which are well enough. The register begins at 1603. Both the Church yards in the town are fenceless and in great Disorder the Grave stones shabby or broken; the Graves unlevell’d; etc

Cumberland Pacquet 01.09.1778 Recording building

Cumberland Pacquet 21.09.1779 Recording opening

10.12.1786 James Boswell wrote in his diary that he accompanied Mayor Jeremy Wherlings to a service. Dr Carlyle’s son preached and Boswell was ‘wonderfully content’

1789 There is a memorial stone just inside the church. The stone, behind glass reads ‘J Grencapo who died 1789 aged 27. He was brought to Carlisle from the West Indies by a vicar of this parish, but died of pneumonia’

Hutchinson,Vol 2, 1794, pp640-1; Detailed description of boundaries of parish

CJ 25.05.1822 p1c Ad for two sittings

The Citizen 02.01.1824 p20 Letter. Writer asked to move on by pew holder although there was sufficient room

CJ 14.05.1825 Proposed new railings

CJ 28.05.1825 Proposed new railings

1850 General Board of Health Enquiry. R.Rawlinson p86 Burials 1828-1849

04.12.1851 Rev Fawcett died; preached here for 50 years; Mon Inscr inside church

CWAAS OS Vol 2 pp347 - 354 Carlisle Registers; St Cuthbert’s begin 1693

CWAAS OS Vol 8 pp523-4 Church bells; earliest mention 1651

CP 15.05.1896 St Cuthbert’s Vicarage in Botchergate sold

CWAAS NS Vol 4 p127 Bust of John Fawcett/ medallion to Matthewman Donald

CN 20.12.1913 p11c Bower Memorial dedicated; new reredos

CN 30.10.1959 p10 Reopened after rebuilding 03.10.1779

ENS 14.06.1960 p3 St Cuthbert’s organist leaving city (Mr Eastwood)

CN 23.11.1973 p6 Moving pulpit

ENS 05.08.1978 p8 (illus) The grave robbers

CN 15.01.1987 p1 New window designed by Ray Nicol

CN 16.03.1990 p4 (illus) Church that a saint might have dedicated

CN 23.04.1993 p1 Churches £30,000 bill for repairs

CN 14.05.1993 p7 Good start to church appeal

CN 03.05.1996 p8 (illus) Victorian miracles pulpit takes off down the line

Cumbria Life August 1999 no 64 Supplement p21 2A 9

CN 15.10.1999 p9 Modern art for ancient churchyard

CN 04.05.2001 p6 Old church plate on show at Cathedral

CN 07.03.2003 p3 Diseased tree to be chopped down in old churchyard

12.07.2003 Tree in St Cuthbert’s yard now in logs

CN 12.03.2004 p14 Two cherry trees planted in churchyard

CN 21.01.2005 p36 Day in life of vicar Richard Pratt

CN 25.03.2005 p14 Oak floor of vestry restored

CN 02.09.2005 p1 McFly secret pop concert in church

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

CN 23.11.2012 p3 New stained glass windows depicting the lives of Graham and Greg Roberts

 

SAINT CUTHBERTS LANE So named venello Sci Cuthbert Karli in 1378; Dr Heysham lived in Saint Cuthbert’s Lane all the time he lived in Carlisle

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916,pp 95-101 pubs

D Perriam Blackfriars Street p42

For letters EWS painted on lane wall see EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY

Carlisle Examiner 01.10.1859 p4b Plea to be flagged

City Minutes 1925-6 p437 Overhead gangway to connect shops; pillar at corner

175 Years of Carlisle p93 St Cuthbert’s Lane in 1980

CN 21.12.1990 p7 Opening delays

CN 18.01.1991 p1 City shops face siege by raiders

CN 18.01.1991 p9 New centre for old folk

CN 25.01.1991 p6 Anchorage is haven

 

ST CUTHBERT’S MONASTRY Monastery founded by St Cuthbert in 685; thought to lie within the vicinity of St Cuthbert’s Church and the Cathedral [McCarthy,M Carlisle history and guide p34]; Monastery and city sacked by Vikings, probably in AD 876 [p37]

 

SAINT CUTHBERT’S SCHOOL (Roman Catholic) Original opened in September 1871 in Fusehill Street; new school at Botcherby opened by Bishop Pearson 30th August 1972

Derek Nash A School’s Life 1871-2021. Celebrating St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary School, Carlisle, 2021

P.Hitchon Botcherby a garden village pp139-144 The St Patrick’s School log book of 02.10.1871 gives the beginnings of this school. The head teacher, Jane Burton writes, ‘On Friday I resigned charge of this school in order to undertake the management of St Cuthbert’s which will be newly opened on Monday next’.

CP 16.12.1870 Proposed number of children 250

CP 29.09.1871 p5a Formal opening of School by Bishop of Hexham/Newcastle

CN 10.04.1970 p1 To be rebuilt

CN 21.11.1975 p8 To be demolished

CN 28.11.1975 p15 (illus) Demolition and history

CN 24.05.1996 p14 Ad

CN 04.04.1997 p3 Teachers shine as school gets glowing report

CN 05.03.2004 p15 Photo of conservation club planting trees

CN 13.01.2006 p 7 £100,000 extension to school; p4 death of ex head Mr White

CN 24.02.2012 p1 Failing school comes out of special measures

 

SAINT CUTHBERT’S STREET

1881 Preparations are being made to build a number of cottages in the city during the season. Mr C.J.Ferguson had had three new streets planned in the field off Brooke Street. Three streets in this area associated with northern saints [St Cuthbert’s, Lindisfarne, Oswald Streets]

City Council Minutes 22.07.1881 Approval for laying out new street

 

SAINT CUTHBERT’S WELL Market Place

CN 03.09.1971 p14

 

SAINT CUTHBERT’S WORKHOUSE see HARRABY HILL WORKHOUSE

 

SAINT EDMUNDS PARK

CN 29.06.1990 p16 Quality Street quite the town’s tidiest

 

SAINT EDMUND’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Parish formed 1970; plot of land bought in Morton, foundations laid in 1972 and the completed building, a dual purpose Church/Hall, was handed over in time to celebrate Midnight Mass at Christmas 1973; new building completed in 1980 and church officially dedicated by Bishop Foley on 28.20.1980. Declared redundant in 2022 with the last service scheduled for June 26th 2022

 

SAINT ELISABETH’S CHURCH Harraby; Mission Hall of circa 1954, stone laid by Thomas Lord Bishop of Carlisle 01.11.1953; foundation stone of new church laid 15.10.1966 by Thomas Bloomer, Bishop of Carlisle; architect D.T.Johnston; consecrated 26.09.1967

Team Spirit July 1954 the Church Hall - the portion which has just been constructed - has been designed as a building suitable for church services until the main church building has been constructed. It is in steel frame construction with brick cladding, faced with rustic brick. Furnishings from the recently demolished Christ Church in Botchergate have been installed in the new building and folding doors have been incorporated to enable the chancel to be screened off when the building is used for functions other than church services. At the opposite end to the altar, there is a stage, changing rooms, and there is also a kitchen and servery. The boiler house for central heating has been incorporated beneath the stage

CJ 22.07.1966 p11 (illus) CN 21.10.1966 p9 (illus) CJ 29.09.1967 p1(illus)

CN 29.09.1967 p11 (illus)

CN 10.08.1962 p1 New church to be built

ENS 21.07.1966 p7 St Elizabeth’s Harraby

CN 22.07.1966 p13 (illus) Bells from St Stephen’s Church

ENS 17.10.1966 p3 Bishop lays new church stone

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p33 Rev Lowther tops off church; photo

CN 04.03.1994 p18 Vandals blitz church

CN 04.08.2000 p3 Bellringers gather for Royal birthday tribute

CN 14.12.2001 p8 An appeal goes out for bell ringers

CN 10.05.2013p8 Feature on vibrant church and vicar Sue Wicks

 

SAINT GABRIELS CONVENT see SACRED HEART OF MARY

 

SAINT GABRIEL’S SCHOOL Victoria Place; Started 27.02.1940 by the Nuns of the Order of Convent of the Sacred Heart; became a part of Cardinal Newman School September 1968

Rafferty, K Portrait of a Parish p69

CN 24.02.1961 p19

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p80 Photo of 1966 prizewinners

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p73 St Gabriel’s pupils in 1970

 

SAINT GEORGES CRESCENT, Stanwix Land owned by the Duke of Devonshire and developed by his gardener Joseph Paxton; gates originally stood across the entrance to Cavendish Terrace. The Devonshire private estate ran up Stanwix Bank to Etterby Street, down Etterby Street to Etterby Terrace and back to Cavendish Terrace; street names show the family’s noble connections

See also Duke of Devonshire’s Estate

CP 20.01.1871 p1c To let; 2 villas newly built

 

SAINT GEORGES DAY

CN 23.04.1999 p9 Legend of St George lives on at Penrith

CN 30.04.1993 p4 Day that passed into history

 

SAINT GEORGES UNITED REFORMED CHURCH Warwick Road United with Charlotte Street Congregational Church and Fisher Street Presbyterian Church to become United Reformed Church in 1973. Today, 2023, building an antique centre

see Presbyterian Church, Warwick Road

CN 13.01.1995 p17 Falling spire danger

CN 25.10.2013 p9 Church is moving; up for sale. No disabled access

CN 30.05.2014 p6 War Memorial will be safe despite building being sold

 

SAINT HELENA’S SPRING, Botcherby

Mentioned in a charter of Walter of Botcherby to the monks of Wetheral c1235 as situate between Botcherby and Scotby (Prescott 182-3). Saint Helena to whom several of the Cumberland Holy Wells were dedicated and considered a protectress of roads (CW2 xliv 5)

 

SAINT HERBERT’S CHURCH (With St Stephen’s) Currock; In 1929 the Church of St John, Upperby decided that in view of the new housing estates being built, there was a need for a Mission Hall in Currock. In November of that year, under the leadership of the Rev JL Crawley, Vicar of St John’s, land was purchased on Blackwell Road. The dedication of the Mission Hall took place on 21.01.1932 by Bishop Williams. In October 1954 the foundation stone of the new Hall was laid. On 24.09.1955 the new Church Hall was opened by the Bishop of Penrith. In April 1954 the parish was offered the gift of a bell (made in 1869) from St Mary’s Church, Carlisle. As it was too big, it was returned to the firm to be re-cast into a smaller bell and this was erected and dedicated on the 15.04.1956. On 14.12.1955 the Church Commissioners agreed to Saint Herbert’s being established as a parish and on Tuesday 17th April 1956 the Church was consecrated by the Bishop. In June 1961 St Stephen’s Church closed. The parish became known as St Herbert’s with St Stephen’s, Carlisle. In October 1967 work on church extensions commenced and was completed in March 1969. The church was re-dedicated by the Bishop on 21.03.1969.

CN 06.02.1970 (illus)

CN 19.11.1954 p3 (illus) Laying foundation stone of parish hall

ENS 23.08.1967 p3 £20,000 facelift

CN 25.08.1967 p8 Alterations

CN 28.03.1969 p9 Conversions dedicated

CN 21.02.1997 p8 (illus) Church organ

 

SAINT JAMES CHURCH Denton Holme; foundation stone laid 12.09.1865 to the designs of Anderson and Pepper of Bradford at a total cost of £4,500; stone from Cove Quarry. Prime mover in the scheme was the Countess of Waldegrave, a relative of the Bishop, she laying the foundation stone; Consecrated 25.07.1867; new organ 1878; brass eagle lectern given 1887; new heating ventilation 1890; electric light installed April 1902; stained glass window April 1907; war memorial brass 1920; vicarage front railings and wall built 1921; vicarage renovated and modernised 1935; oak panelling of Sanctuary, new communion rails, chancel carpet, spire repaired 1937; 1963 spire repaired; roof repaired in 1969; 1994 new centre extension. Old vicarage became Caldew Hospital

See also St James Vicarage

Denis Perriam Denon Holme p38

CJ 15.09.1865 p5 CN 06.11.1970 p10 (illus)

CJ 08.09.1865 p5 Site

CP 09.09.1865 p5c Cornerstone of St James to be laid on 12th Sept

CP 16.09.1865 pp 4, 5 Report of foundation stone laying; engraving of church p2

CJ 13.03.1866 Lady Waldegrave increases subs. to £700 allowing spire to be built

CJ 08.11.1867 p5 Debt paid off

CJ 03.07.1868 p4f Stained glass in St James designed by Messrs John Scott

CWAAS OS Vol 8 p530 Details of church bell

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p 46 photo of church

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p33 photo of annual church parade, 1925

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p113 Photo of 1950s church parade

CN 18.06.1949 p5 Unveiling of war memorial Window

CN 05.07.1974 p5 Vandals attack pre -Norman Font

CN 21.06.1991 p3 Pulpit plea for church centre cash

CN 13.12.1991 p9 Church in plea for centre cash aid

CN 10.07.1992 p9 Anniversary cash bid by church

CN 05.03.1993 p11 City churches £500,000 stake in future

CN 12.03.1993 p27 Start of new era for church

CN 19.03.1993 p13 Depression holds up church sale

CN 09.07.1993 p3 Parish celebration

CN 14.01.1994 p3 £350,000 gifts in first 3 years

CN 21.01.1994 p9 Centre celebration

CN 03.12.1999 p15 From church to plague hospital

CN 03.05.2002 p12 Feature on church with increased congregation with Rev Libby

CN 14.06.2002 p29 Courses run in Christian faith by Rev Nodder

CN 09.05.2003 p7 £100,000 revamp for church; average attendance 250

CN 11.08.2006 p7 Church gates against the vandals

 

SAINT JAMES GOLF CLUB

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p82 Longsowerby. Before the planned new estate following the 1919 Housing Act land here was used as a 9 hole golf course known as St James Golf Club

 

SAINT JAMES HALL

CP 07.01.1898 p3f Mutual improvement society

 

SAINT JAMES MISSION HALL Blencowe Street

13.04.1883 memorial stone laid; official opening 26.10.1883

A Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p48 photo of youngsters in 1935

 

SAINT JAMES PARK

D Perriam St James Park p99 This site originally belonged to the Earl of Lonsdale before being acquired by Teasdales as their recreation ground for the workers in their factory. In 1934 they sold this ground to the city council for £2,000. A wooden hut was replaced with a bower for a municipal bowling green which was laid out and opened by the Mayor on 30.04.1936. This was to be a recreation ground for the residents of Denton Holme and St Cuthbert’s wards. Later tennis courts gave way to a five-a-side football and next to this a BMX track

City Minutes 1933-34 p 339 Sale of Teasdale’s Recreation Ground to become municipal recreation ground

City Council Minutes XLVII p382 Naming of ground

CJ 03.04.1936 p3 Bowling green

CN 04.04.1936 p7 Opening of new bowling green

CN 0205.1936 p14 Playground opening

 

SAINT JAMES ROAD So named in 1879 Directory, the foundation stone of St James Church was laid out in 1865 and the street was laid out to serve the church; No 10,’Tuethur’ built 1923; designed by Sir Robert Lorimer; James Morton stayed here Tuesday to Thursday, hence the name; Sir John Laing lived at no 42, white brick house built by his father. The artist Joseph Simpson was born at Poplar Villas, St James Road

Three generations in a Family Textile Firm, J.Morton, pp312-13 Description

CP 10.12.1880 p1d Ad; No1 Poplar Villas to let

CP 07.02.1896 p1a No 2 Collingwood Villas, St James Road for sale; Mr De Ville tenant

CN 27.10.2006 Laing built houses, circa 1870, two for sale

CN 11.11.2011 p3 Single men’s hostel open for 4 years. Man found guilty of rape

CN 09.12.2011 p 5 Residents support hostel

 

SAINT JAMES SCHOOL Built 1872

D Perriam Denton Holme p39 Proposed in 1870 that the school would have a dual purpose, as a Sunday school and as an infants school during the week. It was to cost £500. But school inspector Claude Perez thought a year later it should be purely a girls’ school. This was built as St James National School to serve Cummersdale and St James Parish in 1872. With the creation of the School Board and the building of the Morley Street School and another planned at Cummersdale this was made redundant in 1877 as an elementary school and remained in possession of the church

CP 16.12.1870 Proposed number of scholars 125

Denton Magazine No 2 1964-5 p5 From 1879 Pupils taught in new Morley St Sch

CN 04.08.2006 p10 Secular teaching here until opening of new Board School In Denton Holme, then became a Sunday School

 

SAINT JAMES VICARAGE, Dalston Road

Designed in 1864 by Carlisle architect Daniel Birkett. Later became Caldew Hospital. Now [2021] demolished and site cleared

CN 30.04.2010 p13 letter against the proposed demolition of the old St James vicarage which became Abbey Hospital. New hospital building proposed

Perriam Denton Holme p38 Photo. Demolished in 2018.

 

SAINT JOHN’S AMBULANCE

CJ 26.10.1880 Meeting in city with view to forming a branch in city; motion carried

CN 04.05.1973 p15 (illus)

CN 18.10.1968 p5 New HQ

CN 19.06.1987 p10 Centenary

CN 26.06.1987 p10 Centenary

CN 20.12.1991 p7 St John security booster

CN 19.06.1992 p7 Facelift for St John HQ

CN 26.02.1999 p4 My pride in St John brigade

 

SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST Upperby; built 1840; consecrated 30.06.1846; church hall built 1934; cathedral glass in six windows 1935; 1975 community facilities added along with transept chapel. First vicar Rev Fawcett of Saint Cuthbert’s. Rev W.Cockett vicar 1846 - 1889

CN 05.09.1969 p12 CN 14.04.1978 p15

CJ 02.03.1839 p 2e Contract for new churches at Upperby and Houghton

CJ 18.05.1839 p3 Laying of foundation stone

Carlisle an illustrated history p58 photo of church

1850 General Board of Health Enquiry. R.Rawlinson p88 Cemetery opened 1846

26.09.1934 Opening of new parish hall by Mrs-Scott Nicholson in the presence of the Bishop of Carlisle. report in the CJ 27.09.1934 p9 and photo on 31.07.1934

CJ 02.04.1940 p1 Parishioners prepare for centenary

ENS 11.04.1973 p9 (illus) Churches of Cumbria - St John the Baptist

CN 17.01.1969 p22 Repairs

CN 26.01.2007 p9 Parish hall in need of refurbishment; built 1930s

 

SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST London Road; consecrated 27.03.1867; Miss Hodgson Memorial Window 1882; 1883 six new stained glass window; 1890 new heating, ventilation; 1890 Mission Chapel erected at Botcherby;1891 Caretaker’s house added to school; 1894 Brass lectern gift of Mrs Boyd; new drainage in parsonage; war memorial dedicated 27.02.1921; 1986 sports hall and meeting rooms added to Close St side of church

CWAAS OS Vol 8 p530 Details of church bell

Linton Holme suburb of Carlisle p32 photos and architect’s drawing

CJ 08.03.1867 p9 new church

CJ 29.03.1867 p5 Consecration

CP 04.03.1892 p3c 25th anniversary of consecration

CP 15.04.1898 p6e St John’s Church vestry meeting

ENS 08.07.1970 Supp p6 St John was built to provide free seating for poor

CN 16.06.1978 p1 Demolition

CN 20.08.2010 p22 Reopens after £230,000 refit

 

SAINT JOHN’S PUPIL TEACHERS’ CENTRE Founded May 1898

 

SAINT JOHN’S SCHOOL Infants and girls school opened January 1872; girls school was on the corner of Edward St and Close Street and became Greystone School, the boys school was opposite; Infant School on South Street in St John’s Hall; Norman Street School was formally opened 20.10.1908 and nearly all the children attending St John’s Infant School entered the new school and the Head Teacher and three of his assistants were entered upon the staff of Norman Street School [City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p51 1BC 370 p51]; final meeting of the managers held on 10.10.1938 and transferred to local authority finalised

CP 16.12.1870 Proposed number of scholars 415

Our City Our People, M.Edwards, pp8-9 Description of school in 1890s

City Minutes 1905-06 p373 St John’s Nat. Infants Sch. condemned from 31.08.07

1924 Carlisle Directory lists St John’s Girls School, Edward Street

 

ST JOSEPH’S GARDENS, Botcherby

CN 18.08.2006 p72 Russell Armer Homes; development well under way

CN 20.04.2007 p26 Ad for sale on new homes

 

SAINT JOSEPH’S HOME FOR AGED POOR; Milbourne Street; Albert Street

East Cumberland Directory 1884 p117. This institution, St Joseph’s Home for the Aged; is situated in Milbourne Street near the west end of Caldew Bridge [building identified, by a personal memory as Holme Foot House]

1891 census; Mary Coner, Mother Superior, 42, bn Germany, 43 patients

CJ 20.02.1885 p4 Little Sisters of the Poor, St Joseph’s Home, Albert Street. Lost cow

CJ 09.03.1886 p2 Theatrical entertainment at Saint Cuthbert’s School. These Little Sisters occupy premises in Albert Street, where by their own efforts, they lodge, board and feed 50 persons of ages from 60 - 90 years...not restricted to Roman Catholics

CJ 02.06.1893 p8 To let, No 3 Albert Street, large garden, lately occupied by the Little Sisters of the Poor

 

SAINT JOSEPH’S HOME Botcherby; built 1892 by Little Sisters of the Poor

See also Little Sisters of the Poor; Saint Joseph’s Home for Aged Poor.

1901 census 11 nuns caring for 67 men and women aged between 65 to 92; the third edition large scale Ordnance Survey sheets shows a small burial ground adjacent to the home. Home being demolished in week to 01.11.2003

Linton Holme a suburb of Carlisle p38 facade plan, photos

Pat Hitchon Botcherby; a Garden Village pp153-157 the sisters had been in Carlisle since 1880, providing shelter and care for the infirm and elderly of all denominations in Albert Street, off Victoria Road. They soon expanded by 1884 and were in premises in Milbourne Street. In 1893 they moved into their new home at Botcherby.

CN 08.02.1963 p10 CN 12.11.1976 p1 CN 17.12.1976 p6 CN 01.02.1978 p17

CN 22.06.1979 p1 CN 13.01.1978 p3 CN 01.12.1978 p17

CJ 02.04.1889 p2 Purchase of Botcherby site

CJ 07.10.1890 p2 Little Sisters finding their present home in Albert Street inadequate are arranging to build a new home at Botcherby

CJ 10.10.1890 p5 Mr Tasker of London prepared plans. To take 100, inexpensive design

CJ 19.02.1892 p5 Plans, F.W.Tasker, London. Six acres. About to erect, cost excluding site, £6 or £7,000. Messrs Beaty Brothers the builders.

North Cumberland Reformer 17.11.1892 p3 Nuns and their work, including the Little Sisters of the Poor

North Cumberland Reformer 25.11.1893 p3 Died at Botcherby Home Patrick Mooney, aged 69

Kelly’s Directory 1894 p253 St Joseph’s Home is an institution of the Little Sisters of the Poor, established in Albert Street, Carlisle in 1880, and subsequently removed here; it is an edifice of brick erected in 1892 with an attached chapel and has at the present time, 1894, about 70 aged poor of both sexes

CJ 27.08.1895 p3 Petty Sessions. Daniel McMullen, labourer, tried to commit suicide by cutting throat. Given into care of the Little Sisters

CJ 28.12.1897 p3 72 inmates, 10 Little Sisters. New chapel near completion to be opened in February

CJ 03.05.1898 p3 Little Sisters chapel just opened

1911 Census; 14 sisters caring for 63 inmates. The superior of the order is Amelie Courtian, aged 68, born Lyons, France. Four of the other sisters are French, one Flemish, one Irish American, four Irish and three British. The inmates number 30 women and 33 men. The inmates are variously described as epileptic, infirm, paralysed, brain feeble, nearly blind, softening of the brain, bedridden. The professions of the inmates are varied; men tailor, shoemaker, farm labourer, iron smith, labourer, engineer, railway engine driver, coal miner, ship’s captain, mercantile, gardener, weaver, clerk, saddler, baker, drainer, tinsmith, coachman, bricklayer. All, with the possible exception of one of the men, are bachelors or widowers. The women are spinners, laundress , servant, weaver, domestic cook, housekeeper, seamstress, hawker, dressmaker, washerwoman. One of the women is given as married, the rest being single or widows. Of the inmates 32 are born in Ireland and 11 in Carlisle. The youngest inmate is 56 and the oldest 93, still has all his faculties.

CJ 14.03.1913 p8 Contract for alterations. H.Foxall architect

CJ 06.04.1928 p7 Letter; appeal on flag day by Mayor. ‘I desire to clear the misconception that exists in the minds of many people that it is purely a denominational home. This is not so....all aged poor who are in need...are admitted...and none turned away.’

CJ 03.05.1929 p7 David Graham, Retired Indian Civil Servant, formerly of Thirlwall Terrace. Bequeathed the sum of £1,000 to The Roman Catholic home at Botcherby in which he died in March last

CJ 29.12.1939 report on the Christmas celebrations for the inmates.

CN 19.09.1969 p1 Return visit to the city of Father Gerard Van Maele, 69, and his brother Father Arthur, 78, from West Flanders. They were at the home from 1914-19 along with their mother and two sisters. Their aunt, Sister Arsena of Saint Paul was a Little Sister of the Poor at the home at the time. Father Gerrard was employed by Carrs Nov 1916 - April 1918 and then attended the Carlisle Grammar School

CN 12.11.1976 p1 Closure

ENS 02.12.1976 p1 Closure announced today

CN 07.04.1977 p17 Closure

CN 25.11.1988 p8 Ad

CN 14.06.2002 p8 Derelict and vandalised home may be developed for housing

06.10.2002 Home burns down

CN 11.10.2002 p3 St Joseph’s Home burns down

CN 13.08.2004 p2 Planned housing development on site by Russell Armer Ltd

CN 21.01.2005 p15 28 homes planned

 

SAINT KENTIGERN

Cumbria March 1962 p446 In Carlisle 553AD

 

SAINT LAWRENCE’S WELL Placename mentioned in quitclaim of 10.01.1360/1 [CWAAS Vol 71, 1971, p59];situated in the Denton Holme area; for location see Carlisle an illustrated history p 14, also CWAAS 1971, vol 71 map opp p52

The inscribed stone for St Lawrence’s Well formerly stood in the grounds of St James Church, but is now inside. 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]

 

SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST Morton; consecrated 02.04.1960

CN 30.11.1956 p11 CJ 05.04.1960 pp1,8 (illus) CJ 08.04.1960 p9 (illus)

CN 08.04.1960 pp2,3 (illus) CN 07.08.1970 p10 (illus)

Carlisle an illustrated history p43 photo of procession on consecration day

ENS 04.04.1960 p7 Bishop consecrates new church at Morton

CN 07.04.1967 p12 Debt paid off

CN 14.05.2004 p1 Rev Karl Wray speaks out against women priests

CN 21.05.2004 p13 Letter from Rev Wray concerning his views on women priests

CN 08.07.2011 p5 Karl Wray defrocked over financial records

 

SAINT MARGARET MARY’S CHURCH Upperby. Foundation stone of Assembly Hall [Blackwell Rd] as temporary church laid 11.09.1933; foundation stone of new church laid 14.05.1961; consecrated 15.08.1962

CJ 17.08.1962 p1

CJ 12.05.1933 Parish formed

ENS 03.12.1959 p7 Site of new Roman Catholic church discussed

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p33 1962 photo of Canon Begley

CN 04.10.2002 p11 Celebration mass for 40th anniversary

 

SAINT MARGARET MARY’S CLUB Parish Hall on Scalegate Rd licensed 03.12.1956; 01.05.1963 concert room added; 27.03.1972 lounge opened

 

SAINT MARGARET MARY’S SCHOOL Currock Foundation stone laid 12.12.1937; opened 03.08.1938

CJ 12.07.1938 p6,7(illus) New Catholic school

CJ 02.08.1938 p1 Delayed opening

CJ 16.08.1938 p5 Carlisle latest school

CN 19.09.2008 p7 New extension opened

 

SAINT MARK’S CHURCH Belah; foundation stone laid October 1951; opened and dedicated September 1952

CJ 30.09.1952 p1 Opening

CN 03.10.1952 Opening

CN 18.02.1994 p9 Curate praises fire crews

CN 17.02.1995 p12 Wedding bells first time in 40 years

CN 25.09.1998 p20 Bishop will dedicate work of art

CN 12.10.2001 p11 (illus) Bulbs planted to celebrate 50 years since foundation

CN 28.09.2012 p20 Church celebrates 60 years; feature

 

SAINT MARTIN’S COLLEGE

CN 28.03.1997 p2 New boss for university

CN 30.05.1997 p1 Red tape delays move to 14 MU

CN 10.12.1999 p11 Fail marks for college

CN 23.03.2001 p6 Development at Fusehill Street campus

CN 12.10.2001 p15 Tony James made principal of the Carlisle campus

CN 13.08.2004 p5 £3m development plan at Fusehill St campus

CN 30.09.2005 p31 Photo Carrock Hall, new hall of residence at Fusehill Campus

CN 17.02.2006 p17 £4m Learning Gateway opens next month at Fusehill St site

CN 05.05.2006 p1 St Martin’s College and Cumbria Institute of Arts to merge in August 2007 to form new University of Cumbria; University of Central Lancashire agree to hand over to new university Carlisle and Newton Rigg campuses

CN 30.06.2006 p5 Learning Gateway building officially opened

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

 

SAINT MARTIN’S LANE, STANWIX

1880 Directory Eden Place to Etterby Scaur

City Minutes 1933-34 p76 nos 1-9 Unfit for human habitation

1924 Carlisle Directory between 15-17 Eden Place

1934 Directory, Etterby Street

 

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

 

SAINT MARY’S CHURCH Originally in nave of Cathedral; The nave of the cathedral was historically the parish church of Saint Mary’s, a dividing wall or screen keeping the Cathedral and parish church separate. [CN 23.06.2017 Section 2 p18] Graveyard in Cathedral closed 01.05.1854; new church designed by architect Ewan Christian built by Messrs Charles Armstrong; foundation stone 05.06.1868 laid opposite East Window of Cathedral; 1869 bell hung [CWAAS OS Vol 8 pp522-3]; consecrated 25.01.1870; organ rebuilt and interior alterations 1889; new entrance onto Castle Street, heating improved 1891; repaired inside and outside, new heating system 1897; new altar clothes; new parish rooms (Richmond Hall) built 1909; new heating apparatus 1911; electric light, old oak from Cathedral installed 1920; memorial window 1921; new carpets 1925; closed 1938; demolished 1954.

After 1932 see Saint Paul’s with which it was united

CWAAS OS Vol 2 pp347 - 354 Carlisle Registers; registers exist from 1648

CWAAS vol 39 pp 45 - 58

CWAAS vol 55 pp 311 - 316

CN 04.12.1970 p16 (illus)

1703 Bp Nicolson The Diocese of Carlisle pp98-9 Description of Cathedral Church

Hutchinson Vol 2, 1794, p 640 Description of boundaries of parish

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p20 Interior photo

Carlisle People and Places p122 interior and exterior photos

Carlisle in old picture postcards; view 4 Exterior view

175 Years of Carlisle p77 view of exterior

CJ 14.11.1865 p3 Proposed new church

CJ 24.11.1865 p5 Inconvenience in nave

CJ 08.12.1865 p5 Inconvenience in nave

CP 17.04.1868 p5 St Mary’s new church

CJ 05.06.1868 p5 Laying foundation stone of new parish church

CJ 29.09.1868 p2f Progress report on construction work

CP 28.01.1898 p6d Annual tea and entertainment

CJ 08.07.1938 p9 Closing of two city churches

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p178 photo of last baptism 31.07.1938

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p179 photo of church

CN 19.09.1953 p3 Proposed demolition

CN 11.06.1954 Illustration of altar

CN 26.05.1989 p4 Population boom brought new churches

CN 13.07.1990 p4 City church used hotel panelling

CN 27.07.1990 p4 Church recalled

CN 05.02.1999 p7 (illus) Landmark may become car park

CN 11.02.1999 p13 (illus) The Cathedral that hid behind a pub

CN 04.05.2001 p6 St Mary’s church plate goes on show at Cathedral.

 

SAINT MARY’S GATE October 1924 new street cut; so named because it was opposite the gate to St Mary’s Church

CN 27.12.1957 p6 CN 22.02.1985 p4

CJ 15.12.1922 p7 Through Mr Clements property at the old Mechanics Institute, of recent years used by City Surveyor

CJ 15.12.1922 p9 Mechanics Institute had been given to the city many years ago as a present. Surveyor had it for some 30 years

City Minutes 1923-24 p688 Work of demolition of property underway

City Minutes 1924-25 p581 New street to be called St Mary’s Gate

CJ 08.05.1925 p5 New thoroughfare ‘eyesore’

CJ 09.09.1924 Tender accepted from Mr Harrison for demolition of properties

CJ 10.07.1925 p6 New Street to be called St Mary’s Gate

CJ 11.09.1925 Was Laing’s tender for sewering and forming new street lowest?

CJ 25.09.1925 Photo from Cathedral; p5 Jottings

Carlisle in Camera 1 pp54,55 Photos of buildings to be demolished

CJ 13.08.1946 p2 Origin of name

CN 27.05.1977 p6 (illus) Story of

ENS 22.09.1976 Doomed to the demolishers; city landmark to make way for block

 

SAINT MARY’S HOME FOR FALLEN WOMEN/ PENITENTS

On the 17th April 1872 the first inmate was admitted to Saint Mary’s Home for Penitents for the Diocese of Carlisle at Coalfell on the outskirts of Carlisle. On the 29th May of that year the formal opening took place under the Presidency of Bishop Harvey Goodwin. The home came to being through the hard work and planning of Miss Eliza Burton, daughter of the Chancellor of the Diocese. The house in which the home was situated had been a workhouse of the Carlisle Union. It was purchased in July 1871 by Miss Burton. The property consisted of the house and outbuildings and a garden of over little two acres. The object of the house was ‘To save what might be otherwise lost, it is to rescue from guilt and misery, it is to draw from depths which is fearful to contemplate those to whose own efforts a feeling of despair would almost forbid the attempt, and place them within the reach of means of recovery....This home for Penitents does call for repentance, and does show the way; it gives instruction in all that is consistent with the case; it presses the truths and duties of religion; it seeks to send back into the world those that have been to it a burthen and a disgrace, in the character and with the capacity of useful members of society. It is at once an Institution of religious instruction, of moral training and of industrious and useful habits’. The home was supported by public conscription. The capacity of the home was 32 and there never seems to have been any shortage of applicants, and whilst the majority of these came from the Diocese of Carlisle, others came from all over the United Kingdom. The girls were trained in laundry work and this was run on commercial lines, but this was not the prime purpose of the Home. The primary purpose of the Institution was for religious and moral instruction. For much of its life it was staffed by Sisters from the House of Mercy, Horbury. The average length of training in the home was two years, although for younger girls this was extended. Places in domestic service were found for many of the girls, and many letters from satisfied mistresses indicate that the training was thorough. Some girls were dismissed for insubordination, and there were difficulties and disappointments with other girls. From 1872 to 1918 just short of 1,000 girls passed through the home. A new laundry was built in 1898 and the old one used as a recreation room. Miss Burton continued to be interested in the Home right up to her death in 1915. The last annual report for the Home was in 1918 and it is possible that the Home continued until 1926 when the property was sold

Laundry built 1894; closed circa 1920; home revived in 1926 - see Coledale Hall

CP 20.12.1872 p5b Letter; home opened last day in May this year

CN 14.04.1972 p8 (illus)

1901 census; Eliza Denton, matron of Girls Training Home, 27 girls, of which 20 laundry maids, others sewing maids, scullery, serving, parlour and house maids, aged 15 - 27, none of whom appear to be from Carlisle

CN 24.01.2003 p6 History of the home; closed circa 1920; laundry continued

 

SAINT MARY’S HOME FOR FRIENDLESS GIRLS see above and COLEDALE HALL

 

SAINT MARY’S PLACE, 7 Cumberland Street [1880 Directory]

 

SAINT MARY’S WORKHOUSE Devonshire Walk; CAIH built in 1784, Jollie 1811 built in 1780, Mannix 1847 built 1785; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city; sold in 1864 when inmates transferred to the Fusehill Union Workhouse

Plan of Workhouse; Appendix E The New Poor Law in Cumberland...2A 362.5

1829 Directory p143 Generally 60 paupers some employed in teasing oakum

Cumbria Family History Society Newsletter May 2012, no 143 pp25-6. Story of allegations of cruelty against the master Mr Woodall

Carlisle Examiner 30.05.1857 Supp 1a,b Cruelty to inmates

Carlisle Examiner 09.06.1857 p4 Cruelty to inmates

Carlisle Examiner 13.06.1857 Supplement Cruelty to inmates

Carlisle Examiner 16.06.1857 p3 letter

Carlisle Examiner 19.09.1857 p3 e,f Ill treatment of paupers

Carlisle Examiner 14.08.1858 p3 Allegations of mistreatment of paupers

Carlisle Examiner 17.08.1858 p3a Enquiry at workhouse - letter

1861 census 67 inmates, of which 21 women; E. Parker master, I.Woodall, matron

Carlisle Express 27.12.1862 p1 Large quantity of oakum for disposal at workhouse

Carlisle an illustrated history p44 photo of buildings in 1909 when steam dye works

 

SAINT MICHAEL’S CHURCH; Stanwix

Fragmentary cross head was found by Robert Hogg in March 1947 in the garden of Old Croft, Stanwix and was given to Carlisle Museum. Cross dated to 9th/ 10th century. It is probable that this is associated with the first Christian church in Stanwix. [D Perriam Stanwix p9]

Medieval site in the centre of the Roman Fort of Petriana, the path to the church and then onto Brampton Rd is along the alignment of the west wall of the Roman fort and the south side of the graveyard marks the southern boundary of the fort; two of the decorated capitals from the medieval church lay outside, one near the church the other in the undergrowth in the graveyard; illustration of medieval church in Carlisle an illustrated history p14; Reginald Bainbridge in 1599 describes the church ‘to Stanwiggs wher ther stands a verie ancyent churche, but ruinous as commonlie all the churches on the borders are’. 17.04.1841 last service held in old church; cornerstone of present church laid 01.06.1841; consecrated 23.06.1842; 21.12.1843 church partly burned; Carlisle Journal of 09.05.1846 reported on the reopening of the church; churchyard closed for burials in 1885 [Perriam states 14.04.1884]. 1958 headstones from graveyard removed. Notable memorials in the graveyard include on the north side repositioned 1901 hogback memorial to R.S.Ferguson, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Carlisle; a memorial to Miles MacInnes of Rickerby House, and a stone, near the Brampton Rd entrance, to the five daughters of Dean Tait who died of Scarlet fever in the Deanery in one month in 1856; a tablet tomb to George Head Head who lived at Rickerby House and was a benefactor to the parish

Perriam D Stanwix pp10-13

See also Stanwix Old Vicarage

CWAAS OS Vol 7 pp234 -6 Stanwix church bells

CN 14.11.1969 p10 (illus)

1703 Bp Nicolson Diocese of Carlisle pp104-5 Description of church in 1703

Oct 6. The Quire is well enough: haveing the Communion-Table decently rail’d in, and ciel’d above. The Furniture, of all kinds, is very good. Onely Mr Aglionby’s Pew in the Quire seems to have justled the Vicar’s into a more inconvenient part: And the Inscription over it (J.A.1659) shews that ‘twas obtained when the Secular arm was everywhere much stronger than the Ecclesiastical.

The Body of the Church is narrow: and standing high, wants almost dayly Repairs. This Inconvenience consider’d ‘tis a pretty excusable Condition. The Seats are tolerably well back’d; and they have one good Bell. The Font is base; and so low that ‘tis troublesome for the Minister to stoop to it. The Queens Arms are old and almost worn out; nor have either the Commandments, Lord’s Prayer or Creed, or any Sentences or Scripture, upon the Walls. No Monuments, in or about the Church, worth the takeing Notice of.

The Church-yard has no other Fence that a Mud-Hedge, which is in miserable plight. From hence the Besiegers play’d their Ordinances upon the City of Carlisle in 1645. Then was the Vicar’s Mansion-House demolish’d: and the Ministers of the parish, since that time have commonly resided in the City; being commonly Prebendaries there. A few Rooms have been since built, for a Shelter, by Mr Nelson; one of the late Vicars and Prebendary of Carlile; But his little Cottage of Brick is not capable of entertaining a Family; nor are any sort of Out-Houses belonging to it. The Register-Book begins at 1661. Few of those on the Borders being of an elder date

1720 Read’s Point of View by M.Burkett; colour plate 9, ‘Carlisle from Stanwix’ shows Stanwix Church circa 1720

1814 Visit by Chancellor Fletcher ‘Visited this church August 25th.Roof &c good - well cield-Seats good and open, except 3 or 4 large seats. All the open seats are free; these (43 in number) have frequently six persons in each of them - but even when so filled the church cannot contain 300 persons. Church floor flagged but very dirty. Font surrounded by sand - & on the sand the spade &c were lying. I ordered this nuisance removed, & the church be kept cleaner. Ordered also a new communion cloth & bier. The church yard is large well fenced, & kept clean. In January 1819 I found this church perfectly clean and neat

CJ 27.03.1841 Plans and specifications for the new church advertised

CJ 22.05.1841 workmen now employed in excavating for the foundations of the new church at Stanwix discovered a few feet below the surface and close to the north wall of the old building two ancient sepulchral stones’

CJ 27.12.1845 Report of fire which destroyed part of new church

CJ 09.05.1846 Report on reopening of church after fire

Carlisle Examiner 10.07.1858 p3f Stanwix Churchyard erection of new iron gates

CJ 26.11.1895 Many strange things were done when Stanwix church was rebuilt in 1841, the vicar carried off one of the bells and converted it into a dinner bell, the font was taken by one of the churchwardens to his garden in Hodgson’s Lane where it was used as a hen trough

CWAAS OS Vol 15, 1897-8 p453 Much worn effigy of a female lies in churchyard

CJ 30.08.1901 p5 Description of Stanwix Churchyard stone for Chan. Ferguson

CP 16.10.1903 p6 Dedication of new clock in tower

CJ 13.04.1934 Uncovered effigy and incised graveslab

CJ 05.06.1934 Graveyard to be levelled

CN 26.09.1936 Onlooker

CJ 05.05.1942 p1 Centenary

CJ 08.05.1942 p2 Centenary

CJ 23.06.1942 p2 Centenary celebrations

CJ 03.07.1942 p2 (illus) Centenary celebrations

CN 18.03.1950 Uncovered effigy found in 1934 uncovered again

CN 12.03.1965 p8 Rededicated

CN 10.03.1978 Appeal for city church extension

CN 03.08.1990 p1 US film maker’s gift to church

CN 01.05.1992 p4 Church appeal

CN 15.05.1992 p4 Church marking 150 years history

CN 12.06.1992 p9 Church special for 150 years

CN 29.04.1994 p10 150 years ago pulling down

CN 28.03.1997 p10 Old stones tell history of the church inside Roman fort

CN 30.07.1999 p5 Stanwix to vote on church revamp

CN 13.08.1999 p10 Ways to worship

CN 03.09.1999 p5 Churchgoers fear threat to tradition

CN 08.10.1999 p3 Vicar keeps decision under wraps

CN 15.10.1999 p2 Support us in new look church

CN 10.03.2000 p5 Church sends gospel gift to 4,000 homes

CN 02.06.2000 p13 (illus) Letter concerning removal of pews

CN 09.06.2000 p13 Letter concerning refurbishment of church

CN 04.08.2000 p3 Protest at plan to create parking spaces over graves

CN 30.03.2001 p16 Letter concerning taking hearses to church door etc

CN 10.08.2001 p1 Minister off sick for 4 months tells of campaign to get rid of him

CN 17.08.2001 p5 Support for vicar from PCC; letter p14

CN 18.01.2002 p5 Rev Ireton explains why he’s been off for so long

CN 08.02.2002 p9 Tired vicar, Rev Ireton, to convalesce in Norway

CN 28.06.2002 p5 Friends of the churchyard to be set up

CN 01.11.2002 p19 Proposed changes to church; consistory court to determine

CN 10.01.2003 p10 Consistory Court to decide if changes can go ahead

CN 24.01.2003 p9 Consistory Court decision awaited; court held on 19th Jan

CN 07.02.2003 p9 Consistory court votes for change

CN 14.05.2004 p13 Letter concerning conservation work at Stanwix Churchyard

CN 01.04.2005 p 3 Ben Phillips new vicar

CN 14.07.2006 p1 and p3 Restoration of church clock

CN 15.12.2006 p11 £500,000 needed to make church watertight

CN 15.08.2008 p10 Restoration works begins; scaffolding up

CN 31.10.2008 p5 Stonemasons at work on St Michael’s Church

 

SAINT MONICA’S SCHOOL

See also Austin Friars School

CN 21.05.1993 p14 New era at Saint Monica’s

CN 02.03.2001 p16 Unites with Austin Friars School from April 6th

CN 13.06.2003 p17 Becomes a charitable trust; school set up in the mid 1980s

 

SAINT MUNGO’S VENALL

We desire that Mr maior would cause ye beadles to cleanse ye venell called St Mungo venall, and to open ye conduite, and cause the dung there laying to be carroied away, it being hurtfull and noysome to ye scholars of ye high schole and other passingers and to be made cleane 27.10.1662 [Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p294]

 

SAINT NICHOLAS Named Sainte Nicholas Hill in 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];

See also Leper Hospital

Jollie 1811 St Nicholas house of Joseph Studholme - formerly leper hospital

CJ 03.11.1821 House of William Brown of St Nicholas for sale

CJ 29.07.1949 p1 Illustration of new bus shelter

 

SAINT NICHOLAS ARMS 47 London Road; former house built early 19th century; formerly the residence of Isaac Cartmel, city treasurer; tree in front Oriental Plane

CJ 22.07.1921 p7 To open

CJ 07.02.1922 Chief Constable’s report

CN 01.07.1988 p8 Pub sports a new look; ad feature

 

SAINT NICHOLAS BRIDGE Bridge built over Lancaster and Carlisle Railway which opened in 1846, immediately north of this a level crossing gave access over the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway; 1874-77 railway improvements around Carlisle extended the bridge north over the N and C line; a reconstructed bridge opened by Mayor 15.03.1928

CP 03.12.1875 Carlisle Railway Extension; new bridge will have 5 arches

City Minutes 1923-24 Work on south approach began 29.09.1924

City Minutes 1924-25 p389 Report on work on bridge

City Minutes 1924-25 p582 Sale of land in connection with improvement

City Minutes 1925-26 pp 58, 117, 177, 320, 452, 538 Progress reports

City Minutes 1926-27 pp 94, 214, 309, 374, 447, 516, 760 Progress reports

City Minutes 1927-28 pp 69, 127, 191, 264 Progress reports

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p94 photo of bridge before 1926-8 widening

CJ 04.03.1927 Photo of reconstruction

CN 17.03.1928 p9 Reconstructed bridge opens

CN 21.07.2006 p10 History of Bridge; D.Perriam

 

SAINT NICHOLAS FIREWOOD COMPANY Fire of 11.09.1914 causes £900 of damage

 

SAINT NICHOLAS GATE

CN 09.02.1990 p3 MFI set moving date

CN 21.07.1995 p1 Tension mounts over boy racer

CN 12.01.1996 p4 Gates and bollards spoil boy racers

 

SAINT NICHOLAS HOUSE SEE SAINT NICHOLAS PLACE

 

SAINT NICHOLAS PLACE, London Road [Beside Shadwell Lodge] Built 1805 named after leper hospital

CP 22.03.1817 To be let, a neat modern built house consisting of three parlours, five bedrooms, a large dressing room, kitchen, out offices, shrubbery in front, a large walled garden and orchard. Captain Halton will receive offers

CJ 04.02.1837 Died at St Nicholas Place in the 79 year of his age, Captain Halton of the Royal Navy who fought at the Battle of Camperdown

CJ 06.03.1841 Died of consumption at the residence of her brother, Miss Mary Rawson youngest daughter of the late John Rawson of Birmingham. Less than three months later the Journal records the death at Saint Nicholas Place of her sister Elizabeth Rawson

1861 Occupied by John Irving, his wife, 10 children and four servants. and the family were still there in 1864 when it was to let. Taken in 1865 by Major George Alfred Currie. The Major renamed this St Nicholas House. The property was sold to Mr Dees of Newcastle for £1,305, but remained with the sitting tenant, Major Currie who died there in 1888, aged 88 and his widow remained, the house being for sale in 1901, their son George as occupant. Bought by Cowans Sheldon they let it as a Tullie House branch library in 1902, the branch closing the following year. The property was demolished shortly after and a large shed built on the site in 1906

 

SAINT NICHOLAS STONE WORKS

CP 15.04.1898 p5b A new local company

 

SAINT NICHOLAS STREET Nos. 5-61 odd, east side, terrace of 28 houses built late 1840s and early 1850s

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 pp66-7 2 photos

CJ 03.11.1821 House of William Brown advertised for sale [No 38?]

CJ 30.03.1855 4 houses for sale

City Minutes 1934/5 p955 No 61 unfit for human habitation

ENS 12.06.1996 (illus) pp8-9

 

SAINT NINIANS ROAD, Upperby. Up until at least 1924 this was called Petteril Road. Saint Ninian was supposedly born in the county and is remembered in the parish of Saint Cuthbert’s Without by a clear spring well. About 1845 Miss Losh of Woodside took ‘pious care of it protecting it by an arch with an appropriate inscription.’ This is known today as St Ninian’s Well

Carlisle an illustrated history p54 Painting of thatched houses in 1910

 

SAINT NINIAN’S WELL

CJ 01.07.1921 p5

 

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY

CJ 13.03.1942 p6 How commemorated and traditions

 

SAINT PATRICK’S SCHOOL Founded 1825; enlarged 1844; 15.12.1908 moved to new building; 1949 new classrooms; became part of Cardinal Newman School September 1968

Marked on 1st ed 50 inch OS map

CN 12.03.1938 p13 ENS 21.09.1967 p7 (illus)

CJ 15.10.1825 p2 Benevolent Society of St Patrick’s School. Sermon preached in aid of

CJ 25.03.1826 p1c St Patrick’s Institution annual dinner; 200 on school books

CJ 25.03.1826 p3b Land for St Patrick’s School given SE of Eden Bridges

CJ 01.04.1826 p3b,c St Patrick’s Institute dinner

CP 03.11.1826 This free school for the education of children of all denominations, more especially those born of Irish parents has just made their first annual report... The schoolroom which had hitherto been granted rent free, by the kindness of Mr James Fairbairn, being in a frail state, and that gentleman being in want of the ground on which it stood, an application was made to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire for the grant of a piece of land, that they might be enabled to erect an edifice expressly for the charity. The committee are proud in being enabled to return thanks to that nobleman for the free gift of the ground on which the new school stands. The building is now complete

1834 Pigot’s Directory Michael McGuff , Master

1847 Directory; Catholic School, Michael McGough. Founded in 1825 for the education of children of all denominations. The site of the school was gives by the Duke of Devonshire. The schools are supported chiefly by voluntary contributions and the average number of children is about 80 boys and 120 girls

So marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

CP 16.12.1870 Total nos of pupils on roll 220, total in attendance 166

City Minutes 1904-05 p345 Approval for new school; Albert Street

CJ 20.12.1907 Laying of the foundation stone of new St Patrick’s School

Memories of a lady who attended the school circa 1937- 41 [born 1927] .I failed the merit. In September we always got a week off to go tatie picking. We’d get taken up on a waggon to a farm at Penton, Longtown and pick potatoes; it was hard, back breaking work. The whole class would go and you picked potatoes come rain or shine. If you were lucky the farmer’s wife would let you use their toilet, if not you’d go in the dyke. You’d have bread and jam sandwiches from your mother for lunch, but there was no where to wash your hands, you just got clarted up. You got paid, sometimes 5/- a day or 3/6 if you weren’t there long. We had the evacuees come in 1939 and went onto half school days to accommodate them. The discipline was strict, but I never got the cane. Classes were mixed, boys and girls together. I left school at 14 and there was any amount of factory work at Metal Box, Carrs, Bucks.

ENS 23.12.1963 p5 School slum

CN 03.01.1964 p10 Opened 1826, of one storey, cost £170. 1844 second storey added and upper floor used by girls

CJ 24.03.1967 p15 New school

CN 24.11.1967 p26 (illus) Foundation stone laid of new Newman School

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p81 Photo of pupils on move to Newman

22.01.1988 Photo of old 1902 school building;

CN 12.10.2001 p15 (illus of trip abroad in 1948) Third reunion for ex pupils

 

SAINT PAUL’S CHURCH Lonsdale Street. Built by Messrs Charles Armstrong; consecrated 30.11.1870; new Mission Room opened 12.11.1882; Chancel painted, new furniture 1888; organ enlarged, new tiles in Chancel 1891; altar frontal presented Mrs Bremner 1892; tubular bell in tower 1901; chalice, paten, glass cruets in memory of Louisa Strickland 1914; memorial East window erected, church restored 1919; Memorial brass to Rev Strickland cleaned and repaired 1920; Parish Hall improvements 1922; stained glass window in memory of Mr and Mrs Graham 1924; electric light installed in Parish Hall 1924; became Saint Mary and Saint Paul 1932; new altar 1939; closed 1976; declared redundant 1978 and became Elim Church

CN 29.05.1970 p10 (illus) CN 20.11.1970 p14 CN 17.12.1976 p6

CJ 01.02.1870 p2 Laying foundation stone

CJ 29.11.1870 p2 Organ

CJ 02.12.1870 p5 Consecration and description

CWAAS OS Vol 8, 1886, p531 No church bell

CWAAS OS Vol 10 p230-6 The Font was formerly from the Cathedral

CN 13.12.1957 p10 Organ inaugurated December 1891

ENS 31.01.1977 p4 Tears as churches close its doors

CN 26.05.1989 p4 Population boom brought new church

CN 15.09.1989 p1 How gypsy side saw the light

CN 20.10.1989 p9 Churchgoers to the rescue

CN 22.03.1991 p1 Farming faith

CN 12.07.1991 p44 Church backs the kids

CN 11.03.1994 p10 The little devils on God’s side

CN 26.07.1996 p1 50 break away from church

CN 14.02.2014 p5 St Paul’s Hall redeveloped by Carlisle College

 

SAINT PAUL’S SQUARE

CP 21.09.1877 p1 For sale building sites in Lonsdale St and St Paul’s Sq

CN 10.04.1992 p24 It’s a square with all round excellence

 

SAINT PETER’S CHURCH, Kingmoor Foundation stone laid 20.06.1930; consecrated 29.01.1931; 1978 parish rooms added; 1990 extensive range of buildings added

D Perriam Stanwix p81 A building fund for what was to become St Peter’s commenced in 1909. Funds were slowly raised until 21.06.1926 when firm plans for a small chapel were agreed. The foundation stone was laid on 20.06.1930

CN 10.03.1978 p18 Extension appeal

 

SAINT PETER’S SCHOOL Scotland Road

CN 05.06.1992 p25 Home plan for old city school

 

SAINT SEPULCHRE HOSPITAL see SCUGGAR HOUSE

 

SAINT STEPHEN’S BAND

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p65 photo of band

M.Dickens Those Were the Days p128-9

CN 09.12.1955 p10 CN 23.01.1959 p10 (illus) CN 30.01.1959 p10

CJ 15.10.1965 p11 (illus) CN 29.04.1966 p16 CN 21.03.1980 (illus)

CN 18.01.1985 p4

CJ 27.09.1927 Report of victory in Crystal Palace National Band Championship

CJ 30.09.1927 Ad for civic reception

CJ 03.10.1927 Homecoming

CJ 11.10.1927 Photograph of winning band

CJ 28.09.1928 p7 Tomorrow’s competition at Crystal Palace

CJ 02.10.1928 p2 Photo of crowds at Citadel Station

CJ 02.10.1928 p5 Saint Stephen’s gain 3rd place

CJ 27.09.1929 p7 Tomorrow’s contest at Crystal Palace

CJ 01.10.1929 p5 Carlisle bands triumph

CJ 01.10.1929 p2 Thousand Guineas Trophy

CJ 04.10.1929 p4 Interview with conductor

CJ 04.10.1929 p5 Editorial on band’s success

CJ 04.10.1932 Placed 5th

CN 25.09.1948 p7 Re-established

CJ 06.12.1955 p1 Death of William Lowes, conductor

ENS 30.09.1959 p4 Wins

CN 29.03.1996 p4 Bands silver success

CN 12.03.1999 p4 (illus) Heyday of silver band

CN 02.04.2004 p48 Celebrates 100 years; this year place in National Champs

CN 09.04.2004 p13 Letter; my g-father, William Lowes, conductor from 1911 - 1955

CN 19.02.2010 p3 Band fighting for its life; funding crisis. Formed 1904

CN 15.11.2013 p3 Feature;

 

SAINT STEPHENS CHOIR Personal memory of a lady’s father who was in the choir and used to on Boxing Day attend the Prison and sing to the prisoners

 

SAINT STEPHEN’S CHURCH James Street; built 1865 at the sole cost of Baroness Burdett-Coutts; foundation stone laid 02.03.1864; The Bishop of Carlisle aware of the ‘spiritual destitution’ of his diocese was prompted by his brother to write to the benevolent Baroness who was associated with so many good works; she had no particular association with the diocese. In Feb 1863 the Baroness replied to the Bishop asking him to restate his case. The Baroness stated she wanted to help Carlisle rather than the whole diocese, and that part of Carlisle ‘where artisans were assembling in an upper room, and asking the pastor to provide them a house of God’. Consecrated 31.05.1865; edifice of red sandstone with white stone dressings, in the geometric Gothic style and consists of apsidal chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles and a tower, with spire rising to about 120 feet, and containing 8 bells; the arcades of the nave have piers of polished Aberdeen granite with elaborately carved caps; the roof is open timbered, the principals being supported by carved trusses, representing the Twelve Apostles. The three windows of the apse and the west window are stained [Kelly’s Directory 1938]; new organ 1877; Mission Room opened December 1898; brass eagle lectern in memory of Mrs Phillips 1899; church pointed and decorated, organ cleaned, new altar 1901; electric light December 1903; Reredos January 1906; Memorial window to Canon Hodges 1912; organ renovated 1919; War memorial tablet 1920; closed June 1961; demolished January 1964

CWAAS OS Vol 8 pp524-8 Church bells

Carlisle from the Kendall Collection pp114-5 photos; not our St Stephen’s church

CN 09.06.1961 p9 (illus) CN 30.06.1961 p12 CN 24.01.1964 p7

CN 24.01.1964 p6 (illus) CN 13.03.1964 p5 (illus)

CJ 05.02.1864 p5 Plans for laying foundation stone

CJ 04.03.1864 p5 Laying the foundation stone

CJ 16.05.1865 p2 Error in site

CJ 02.06.1865 p5 Opening

CP 03.06.1865 p4f Dedication of Saint Stephen’s

CJ 31.10.1865 p2 Bishop preached at

Carlisle the Archive Photographs p127 photo of church 1910

CN 23.07.1965 p10 First peal of bells in Cumberland 31.05.1865

CN 22.07.1966 p13 Bells in St Elisabeth Church, Harraby

CN 15.03.1968 p12 Altar silver

CN 30.12.1977 p4 (illus) Removal of bells to St Elizabeth’s

CN 04.11.1988 p4 Woman paid cost of a city church

 

SAINT STEPHEN’S HOUSE

CN 05.01.1996 p9 City adult training centre to close

 

SAINT STEPHEN’S INN In local directories from 1869 to 1873

 

SAINT STEPHEN’S SCHOOL James Street; opened 05.08.1867

Electric light and central heating installed 1929

CP 16.12.1870 Total nos on register 331, in attendance 269

City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p53 photo of school 1BC 370

Personal remembrance of the school in the late 1950s. There was no school uniform and only two classes, one for the younger and one for the older children with approximately 20 in each class. By the 1950s many people had moved out of the poor housing in Wapping into the new estates. The head was Mrs Robinson who had dark hair swept back and parted in the middle. She put the fear of God into you. She sat at a high desk looking down on you. There was an open fire with a big guard around it. . There were high windows so you couldn’t look out. There was a small playground outside. The boys used to play Japs and Commandos. We did our times tables, reading, writing and arithmetic. There was a wooden floor and when you sat on it you might get a splinter. When the school closed about 1957 we were sent to Robert Fergusons infants [aged 5-8] then onto Morley Street juniors

ENS 28.02.1987 p8 Photo of school children around their Maypole about 1920

 

SAINT THOMAS OF VILLANORA

CN 08.06.1990 p4

CN 15.06.1990 p4 City girl was resistance go between

 

SALISBURY ROAD

City Minutes 1892/93 item 728 approval for new street

 

SALKELD HALL

CJ 28.10.1955 p16 Opening

CN 12.11.1993 p1 (illus) Nurses fight to stop sale

CN 19.11.1993 p7 Nurses lose fight to save Salkeld Hall

CN 25.03.1994 p7 Nurses lose hall fight

 

SALLY PORTS

CN 14.06.1974 p6 CN 19.12.1975 p6

Carlisle in Camera 1 p59 1926 photo of special constables on Sallyport steps

CWAAS ns vol 76 p196-198 Sally Port on West Walls gate revealed in 1973

CN 23.06.2000 p14 Later sally ports steps on West Walls built 1822-35

 

SALON CULINAIRE EXHIBITION

CN 30.03.1990 p16 Ad

 

SALON ELYSEE Saint Cuthberrt’s Lane

CN 26.11.1993 p8 Ad

 

SALT

Quarter Sessions Midsummer 1755. Examiniation of John Casson, late the Captain of the sloop ‘Carlisle Merchant’. Vessel loaded at Liverpool with 660 bushels of salt for use of Thomas Hodgson of Carlisle, grocer. Cargo lost at Cardurnock [striking ground at Dubmill]

 

SALVATION ARMY Came to Carlisle 1880; first home at Matchbox Theatre, then Annetwell St at entrance to Castle; new Citadel opened in Abbey Street 15.01.1972; 1935 St Nicholas Bridge Buildings, although they had occupied the same site before

See ‘Under Two Flags’ 1H HIS Memories of Salvation Army in city

CN 03.10.1953 p8 CN 10.10.1953 p8 CJ 13.12.1963 pp12-13 (illus)

CN 29.07.1966 p10 CN 26.06.1970 p14 CN 28.12.1979 p8 CN 20.03.1987 p4

ENS 05.12.1977 p6 (illus) ENS 05.06.1981 p4

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards, J.Templeton, no74 Salvation Army wedding.

Carlisle an illustrated history p78 Matchbox Theatre when used by army

City Minutes 1892-93 item 221 Approval for building to be erected on Annetwell St

Carlisle People and Places p96 Photo of laying of foundation stone of new Citadel

E.Nelson Around Carlisle p64 photo of Band in 1927

175 Years of Carlisle p 45 photo of Citadel Band; p 116 Salvation Army band

CJ 07.04.1939 p4 New Salvation Army Hall, Shady Grove Road; official opening

CJ 14.04.1939 p1 (illus) New Salvation Army Hall, Shady Grove Road

CN 04.06.1953 p8 Illustration of the visit of General Booth in 1905

CN 24.10.1953 p8 Illustration of the Matchbox Theatre

CN 09.04.1965 p8 (illus) History in the city

CN 30.04.1965 p2 Centenary celebrations

CN 30.04.1965 p10 (illus) Citadel Quartette Singers

CN 03.04.1970 p14 Young people’s band

CN 02.04.1971 p14 (illus) Opening of Citadel in Annetwell Street

CN 08.04.1971 p12 (illus) Matchbox

CN 21.01.1972 p16 Opening of new Citadel in Abbey Street

CN 05.05.1972 p15 (illus) Old Citadel in Annetwell Street demolished

CN 27.03.1987 p4 (illus) Photograph of Matchbox Theatre

CN 28.03.1991 p9 Blowing their trumpet in style

CN 07.10.1994 p1 Salvation Army aids students

CN 23.04.1999 p5 Neighbours get cross over plans for cross

CN 08.07.2005 p5 125 years in city; work of the Army in city today

CN 02.08.2007 p4 New majors at Abbey Street HQ; Katrina and David Lennox

 

SALVATION ARMY BANK Botchergate

CD 1893-94 Ad p130

 

SAMARITANS Started in Carlisle March 1960

CN 26.03.1970 p8 CN 05.02.1971 p1

CN 25.10.1991 p1 Farmers head suicide league

CN 22.05.1992 p9 Help line needs help

CN 23.07.1993 p1 Suicide line for farmers

CN 23.07.1993 p12 Comment on new suicide line for farmers

CN 20.05.1994 p15 Health chief blitz on farm suicides

CN 03.11.1995 p5 New help unveiled by Samaritans

CN 10.01.1997 p3 Record number of Xmas Samaritan calls

CN 20.11.2009 p10 Carlisle branch of the Samaritans 40 years old

CN 29.06.2012 p16 13,000 calls in 2011

 

SAMSON INN London Road; in local directories from 1850 to 1914; new building in 1891; closed 1917; so named after early engine that ran on the nearby Newcastle and Carlisle Railway; previously may have been called the Steam Engine, being a beerhouse so named at Halfway Houses in 1837

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 pp68-9

1861 census, Elizabeth Graham, innkeeper, aged 56, born Carlisle

Carlisle in Camera p50 Photo; named after old N&C Railway engine

Our City Our People p18 Details of Ted Blair, landlord, circa 1900

CN 08.03.1991 p4 (illus) Samson toppled

 

SAMSON SHOE REPAIR SERVICE Warwick Road

CD 1952 Ad inside front cover i

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p94

CD 1955-56 Ad p94

CD 1961 -62 Ad p108

 

SANDERSON, William Corner of Scotch St and West Tower St

Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p56 1928 photo of grocer

 

SANDERSONS COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 78 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 76-78 Milbourne Street

 

SANITATION see SEWAGE AND SANITATION

 

THE SANDS So named the manor del Sandes in 1363; 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]; 1746 map marks cattle market on Sands, an island between the two channels of the river; 03.09.1803 John Hatfield executed for fraud on the Sands; by the 1814-1819 diversion of the river into its northern channel and by completely levelling the old channel on the east side of the south bridge a new site was provided for the cattle market . Further reclamation on the west side created a triangular hay market; WH Nutter painting of 1864 shows cattle market on Sands; 1895 Sands more formally laid out for cattle sale

CAIH p27

CN 22.06.1940 p7 (illus) CN 05.06.1970 p14 CN 12.06.1970 p14

CP 15.07.1887 p4 c,d Sands litigation; Carlisle Corporation v Duke of Devonshire

CP 15.07.1887 p7 a-d Assize report on Carlisle Corporation v Duke of Devonshire

CP 22.07.1887 p1 Advert concerning Sands litigation

CP 22.07.1887 p5a The Sands litigation

CP 22.07.1887 p6a,b,c Town Council; Sands litigation

CJ 26.05.1893 p2 The Sands - new houses

City Minutes 1899-1900 p71 No permanent pens until Sands consolidated

City Minutes 1899-1900 p190 Auction Marts for sale of cattle be permitted

City Minutes 1901-1902 p383 sale ring recently constructed; leased

Carlisle People and Places pp52-3 2 photos of cattle market about 1910

CN 20.03.1964 p13 Fairground

CN 19.06.1970 p14 Illustration of in 1864

CN 26.06.1970 p4 Rolling Skating Rink

CN 15.12.1989 p4 Duke changed use of cattle market

CN 22.05.1992 p4 Duke put Town Hall on hold

CN 03.09.1993 p4 New road - 100 years ago

CN 15.04.1994 p11 Wrought iron - 100 years ago

CN 11.11.1994 p10 Since early 1880s; Sands Theatre history

CN 25.10.1996 p18 Theatre gets thumbs up from arts group

 

SANDS - LEISURE CENTRE Opened 02.03.1985; official opening by Neil Kinnock 12.04.1985. Week beginning Monday 14th November 2022 new pools open as a part of the Sands Centre

CN 10.06.1977 p32 CN 30.09.1977 p25 CN 25.01.1980 pp1,3

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p26 Photos under construction and opening

CN 30.05.1980 p1

CN 01.07.1983 p40 Princess Anne unveils plaque

CN 01.03.1985 pp14,15 Opening

175 Years of Carlisle p114 Photo of Sands Centre

CN 08.03.1985 p26 Opening

CN 02.06.1989 p5 Concerts windfall for the Sands

CN 08.06.1990 p15 Plan to expand centre

CN 03.04.1992 p11 Bucking the trend

CN 16.10.1992 p1 All set for a send up with top comic Mike - new rock wall

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p110 Photo of queue for Daniel O’Donnell

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p111 Photos of Robbie Williams on stage

CN 25.02.1994 p1 Sands may fade out stars of Bolshoi

CN 07.07.1995 p3 Sands site for theatre

CN 15.09.1995 p1 Sands Centre enjoys double accolade

CN 12.07.1996 p3 Get your skates on for Phantom tickets

CN 01.11.1996 p3 Fishy business keeps the phantom skating on

CN 10.01.1997 p1 Stars are to shine at the Sands

CN 07.02.1997 p6 City theatre step closer

CN 23.05.1997 p1 Best ever panto

CN 07.11.1997 p5 Russian Ballet

CN 28.11.1997 p1 (illus) Meet Beauty and the blades

CN 02.01.1998 p3 Carlisle’s Sands has its best ever year

Cumbria Life no 65 August 1999 Supplement p14 2A 9

CN 08.09.2000 p1 Mel C to sing for 1700

CN 15.06.2001 p13 Letter complaining the Sands is poor auditorium for opera

CN 02.08.2002 p7 Decision to form non profiting making trust frees up cash

CN 16.05.2003 p5 Work begins on £1.15 improvement on Sands Centre

CN 27.05.2005 p3 Loss making classical concerts axed after falling numbers

CN 03.06.2005 p13 Letters concerning the axing of Northern Sinfonia concerts

CN 04.11.2005 p12 Ken Dodd at the Sands

Summer 2021 construction underway of new swimming pool on site of gymnasium

 

SANDSFIELD PARK ESTATE

CN 07.03.1975 p12

CN 02.01.1981p1 Proposed Greenall’s pub

 

SANDWICH CLUB Shaddongate

CN 15.06.2001 p14 (illus) Opened a month ago for sale of sandwiches

 

SANITARY ASSOCIATION

CN 06.04.1990 p4 City needed big clean up

 

SANITATION see SEWAGE

 

SANKEY D.I.Y. CENTRE

CN 09.10.1981 p16 (illus)

 

SANSOM, George English Street

Fish, game and poultry dealer

1882 Porters Directory Ad p116 Game dealer and ice merchant

CD 1893-94 Ad p76

 

SARACEN’S HEAD Irishgate Brow; called Saracen’s Head in local directories to 1914; closed 1917

So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19

CP 18.03.1809 p1 Thomas Gibbon Innkeeper

CJ 25.03.1809 Houses to be auctioned at Saracen’s Head

1891 census; John Waddell, wine and spirit merchant, 47, born Liverpool

ENS 05.10.1916 Amalgamated with Black Bull; became Irishgate Tavern

 

SARK MP English St

Draper

CN 25.08.1961 p10 CN 09.04.1965 p1 CJ 10.12.1965 p21 (illus)

CN 26.04.1974 p6

CN 25.06.1965 p1 Closing

 

SATTERTHWAITE, John Lowther Street

Stock and share broker

CD 1902-03 Ad p288

 

SAUCERIES Name may be derived from the Latin for willows and from the French for a willow plot, saussaie. The name has also been connected with William de la Saucere, 1306. It is tempting to associate him with Adam, called Salsarius from his office in the sawcery of the King’s household; Sawceries 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]. Soceries is so named on Wood’s map of 1821; today [2021] this forms the northern part of Bitts Park. As part of the manor of Carlisle Castle, the Sauceries was bought in 1787 from the Duke of Portland by the Duke of Devonshire. The Duke sold in 1831 to Messrs Peter Dixon and Sons for £1,710 as a possible site for a factory in Carlisle. However the firm chose a site in Shaddongate and it was there that they built in 1836. The Sauceries were unwanted and let on a long lease to the City. In 1871 the Dixons were in financial difficulties so they sold the land to the sitting tenants, the council, for £3,040. The 14 acre field was then let for grazing. To raise the height of the ground refuse was tipped here, forming flood embankments. Later a new carriageway christened the Mayor’s Drive, was formed on the banks around the Sauceries. This was opened in 1892. After the Royal Show was held here in 1880 there were calls to make this a public park. The two temporary bridges across the Caldew to link with the Duke of Devonshire’s Sheepmount, also used for the Royal Show, were taken down to prevent trespass. It was not until 1894 that a permanent bridge was built after the city council had bought the Sheepmount from the Duke. In March 1897 it was recommended to make a public park on land known as the Bitts and Sauceries. Progress was very slow and the new park was not formally opened until the Royal Show on the Sauceries in 1902. The Bitts Park Army Camp was built here in 1939

CN 31.01.1925 p9 CN 12.04.1979 p4

CN 27.01.1917 p7 Proposed ploughing of Sauceries

CN 26.02.1949 p5 Derivation of name

CN 26.03.1964 p10 Easter games

CN 04.04.1985 p4 Easter games

CN 17.10.2003 p6 Story of the Sauceries; D.Perriam

 

SAUL, J and B Near Coffee House

CJ 28.02.1818 p2e Ad tea/ coffee retailer

 

SAUL, Silas Solicitor,aged 48, home address 12 Castle St, born Carlisle [1851 census]; aged 58, home 12 Castle St, born Carlisle [1861 census]

 

SAUL AND LIGHTFOOT Solicitors

CN 18.11.1988 p7 Law firms join forces

 

SAUNDERS, James

M442 p4 Business card for Linen and woollen draper

 

SAVE THE CHILDREN SHOP

CN 04.10.2002 p3 Princess Anne visits Save the Children shop

 

SAWYER, H Green Market

Chemists

Carlisle in Camera 1 p4 photo of Greenmarket shop, Henry Sawyer, late 1870s

1891 census; Henry Sawyer, chemist, 39, bn Carlisle, home 35-7 Fisher Street

CD 1893-94 Ad p114

M.Edwards Our City Our People p47 Description of shop about 1900

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p231

CD 1955-56 Ad p233

CD 1961-62 Ad p263

D.Perriam Carlisle Remembered pp103-105 (portrait of Henry Sawyer)

CN 05.05.2000 p6 Riddle of family medals

CN 31.10.2003 p7 Ad Moved from Green Market to Fisher Street; owner G. Moore

 

SAWYER, James 23 Fisher Street

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory; ad p 11 Dispensing chemist

1851 census, Chemist, druggist, empl. 2 apprentices, bn Super Kingmore, aged 34

1861 census, druggist, employing 3 apprentices, bn Super Kingmoor, aged 44

 

SAYERS, A Botchergate

Restaurant

CD 1893-94 Ad p150

 

SAYERS, Mrs Botchergate

1882 Porters Directory Ad p172 Dining rooms - 15 Botchergate

1882 Porters Directory Ad p172 Toys and fancy goods - 35 Botchergate

 

SCALEBY CLOSE Upperby

CN 15.07.1994 p4 Streets ahead

CN 14.07.1995 p1 (illus) Streets ahead

 

SCALEGATE ROAD. Originally referred to as ‘Black Lonning’ because of the very dirty state of the road when the nearby brickworks [Hammonds Pond] was in operation [Watson Upperby p28]

City Minutes 1935/36 p117 Approval for 2 houses

 

SCALES, Edward H Herbalist

1891 census shows him at 16 Rickergate, herbalist. 1901 census at 17 Rickergate, aged 42, Thomas F his son, aged 17, is listed as an apprentice herbalist. 1911 census EH Scales calls himself a medical herbalist. On the 1939 Register Thomas Falshaw Scales, born 03.08.1883, is listed as a medical herbalist, living at 154 Dalston Road. Also living with him is Percy Falshaw Scales born 03.01.1911, medical herbalist. The Cumberland News of 18.03.1950 p5 carries an obituary of TF Scales.

 

SCAMPS NIGHT CLUB Cecil Street; opened 14.12.1973

CN 14.12.1973 p6 (illus) Opening

 

SCARLET FEVER Major outbreak in 1855/56

1856 Scarletina epidemic; M.Smith Autobiography Vol 1 pp193-94

A stone, near the Brampton Rd entrance to St Michael’s, Stanwix, to the five daughters of Dean Tait who died of Scarlet fever in the Deanery in one month in 1856;

Council Minutes 18.08.1882 p46 - 53 Report on scarlet fever

Council Minutes 08.03.1889 p27 No scarlet fever in city; remarkable fact

Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle for 1925 p34-9 Stats 1898 - 1925

In the 1930s a Carlisle lady living in Marks Avenue recalls her sister, Margaret, got scarlet fever. Margaret had to go to the isolation hospital, mother couldn’t go and visit her, she could only look at her through the window and wave. The man from the health department came and fumigated their house

Medical Officer of Health Annual report 1969 p38 Incidences 1890 onwards

 

SCARROW, BAKER AND CO

1811 Jollie p 81 Bleaching grounds on south side of Harraby Bridge

 

SCARROW’S LANE English Street

CN 29.07.1960 p10

 

SCAUR BANK ROAD, Etterby Road

1924 Carlisle Directory

 

SCAWFELL ROAD

City Minutes 1905-06 Approval for laying out new estate

City Council Minutes 1930 -31 p73 Plans approved or 2 semi detached houses

City Council Minutes 1932-33 p 67 Approval for 6 houses; owner Mr Hoodless

 

SCENTED GARDEN FOR THE BLIND Tullie House; opened 29.06.1967

CN 20.06.1967 p22 (illus)

 

SCHOLLICK, Joseph

1829 Directory Coach Proprietor, English Street

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

 

SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE

City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p52-58 One hundred Years of School building

 

SCHOOL BOARD 1870 - 1902 when duties passed to local authorities See Ash Lea Street, Brook Street, Caldewgate, Robert Ferguson, Lowther Street

Evening Journal 23.12.1870 p1 Adoption of a school board

CP 07.01.1898 p4e,f p5 d School Board Election ‘School War’

CP 18.02.1898 p4f Higher grade school

CP 29.04.1898 p4d Proposed new schools

CP 10.06.1898 p4d,p6a,b Secondary education

City of Carlisle Education Week 1958 p47 - 50 1BC 370

 

SCHOOL BOUNDARIES

CN 01.09.1989 p13 Schools on the move

 

SCHOOL CLINIC

City Minutes 1913-14 p711 School Clinic established at George St; appointments. By the 1950s the clinic had moved to Eildon Lodge on Victoria Place. District nurses, dentist, baby clinic there.

 

SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE

Education Week 19th - 24 May 1958 pp59-61 1BC 370

 

SCHOOL MEALS

CN 27.04.2007 p36 Article by Denis Perriam on history of school meals in city

 

SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER First appointed November 1908 and the School Medical Service under the Act of 1907 was started

 

SCHOOL OF ART see also ART SCHOOL; COLLEGE OF ART

 

SCHOOL OF DRESSCUTTING AND MAKING Lowther Arcade

Dressmaking teaching

CD 1920 Ad p44

 

SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY Botchergate; built 1806; it was supported by voluntary contribution and the object of it was to bring up children in the habit of industry. The school had to consist of 45 girls, inhabitants of Carlisle and Stanwix, aged 9 - 14. Its management was entrusted to a committee of seven ladies with a Treasurer, chosen from the subscribers

1821 Wood’s City map marks the School

CP 26.05.1821 p3b meeting of subscribers in new school room

1829 Parson and White pb 145 45 poor girls, admitted at 9 years

1834 Pigot’s Directory; Ann Fairlie, mistress

1847 Directory, Ann Farlie

 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ART see ART SCHOOL

 

SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING Cavendish Place

CD 1902-03 Ad p287

 

SCHOOLS

See also education; individual schools; sixth form; school architecture

See Education Week Brochure 19581 BC 370 ; list of schools and heads

Farish, W. Handloom Weaver pp10,11,17-8 Schooldays in 1820s for a poor child

1829 Parson and White p 145 List of day schools and nos of scholars

1852 Starting a school; Mary Smith Autobiography Vol 1 pp189 - 192

CP 16.12.1870 List of all schools in city; nos. on role, actual attendance etc

Our City Our People, M.Edwards, pp8-9 Description of St John’s school in 1890s

Our City Our People, M.Edwards, pp10,14 Description of Christ Church Sc in 1890s

City Minutes 1928-9 pp588-612 Proposed new central and technical schools

City Minutes 1928-9 p618 65 acre site at Swifts available for £15,000 for schools

CJ 02.04.1937 p8

CJ 11.05.1937 p2 City’s new schools

CJ 14.05.1937 p4 City’s new schools

CJ 28.05.1937 p8 City school children

CJ 01.10.1937 p9 Education controversy

CJ 29.10.1937 p1 Grammar school crisis coming

CJ 26.11.1937 p3 No plans for local architects

CJ 03.12.1937 p7 Carlisle new Tech school

CJ 17.12.1937 p3 New school plans

CJ 24.12.1937 p7 New head teachers

CJ 22.02.1938 p4 Tablet unveiled

CJ 29.03.1938 p5 50% grant for Roman Catholic School

CJ 24.06.1938 p5 Annual report on city schools

CJ 04.11.1938 p13 Overcrowding in city schools

CJ 02.12.1938 p13 Schools programme to be accelerated

CJ 27.01.1939 p4 Fewer children at city schools

CJ 27.01.1939 p5 Plans of Currock School wanted in one month

Cumbria March1978 pp673-675 Schooldays in old Carlisle

Cumbria April 1978 pp22-24 Schooldays at Carlisle

CN 25.05.1990 p4 City’s private schools

CN 05.10.1990 p44 Schools merger move

CN 23.11.1990 p3 Threat school wins accolade

CN 18.01.1991 p9 Share head bid for city schools (Harraby)

CN 22.02.1991 p1 Schools merge (Morton)

CN 05.04.1991 p3 Action call over schools

CN 12.04.1991 p3 Schools teaching praised (York)

CN 12.04.1991 p5 Parents win school fight (Morton)

CN 28.06.1991 p13 Councillors agree new site

CN 14.02.1992 p5 Schools shake up in pipeline

CN 20.03.1992 p3 Parents cash bid in school crisis (Pennine Way)

CN 20.03.1992 p7 Education shake up rejected

CN 20.03.1992 p25 New school for city

CN 03.04.1992 p18 Top marks for one of Cumbria’s top schools (St Aidans)

CN 16.04.1992 p7 City schools shake up in balance

CN 15.05.1992 p1 Cash or quit schools threat

CN 02.04.1993 p13 Learning from merger of schools (Morton)

CN 02.04.1993 p27 College and school in unique link up

CN 11.02.1994 p3 Heads public integration warning (York School)

CN 08.09.1995 p1 School spy camera fights vandals (Petteril Bank)

CN 17.01.1997 p9 Retirement row dilemma for examination class

CN 27.06.1997 p1 Parents defend city infants school after damning report

CN 04.07.1997 p10 An inspector calls

CN 25.07.1997 p1 Failed school pledges discipline crackdown

CN 25.07.1997 p3 Petteril Bank School; what the inspector said

CN 17.10.1997 p1 Toddler,3,roams city streets for 20 minutes

CN 09.07.1999 p4 Creighton School

CN 17.09.1999 p1 Dad keeps sons from school

CN 11.02.2000 p12 Carlisle College on move for more than 100 years

CN 31.03.2000 p3 Bad and good news (Morton and Saint Aidan’s)

CN 08.12.2000 p7 Primary school league tables

CN 06.07.2001 p12 Will our specialist schools cream off the best kids? Feature

CN 21.03.2003 p1 School kids in anti-Iraq war protest

CN 05.12.2003 p12 League tables for junior schools; added value tables

CN 09.01.2004 p1 Morton and Harraby may have to close because of falling births

CN 16.01.2004 p13 Letters concerning closure of two schools

CN 26.11.2004 p1 New ideas for community secondary schools

CN 03.12.2004 p21 Primary school league tables

CN 27.05.2005 p1 Official; one secondary school will have to close

CN 02.12.2005 p17 Primary school league tables

CN 10.02.2006 p12 Feature on secondary schools in city and their future

CN 10.03.2006 p1 Options for secondary education in city

CN 16.06.2006 pp1, 6 Options for secondary education

CN 01.12.2006 p12 Feature on secondary schools in city

CN 08.12.2006 p16 Primary school league tables

CN 07.12.2007 p 18 Primary school league tables

 

SCHOOLS TRANSPORT

CN 27.09.1996 p9 Bus ban leaves kids stranded

 

SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS SOCIETY; CARLISLE Started in 1877. Held meeting at Tullie House until 1948

 

SCISSORS AND KNIFE GRINDER MACHINE

CN 05.04.1957 p10 (illus)

 

SCOPE CHARITY SHOP Bank Street

CN 05.01.2001 p14 One of their best performing stores in country

 

SCOTBY CYCLES; Caldewgate, former Wesleyan Chapel/ Regal Cinema

CN 29.09.1989 p8 On the road to cycle success

CN 11.12.1992 p20 Just the machine for easy riders

Jan 2024 announces closure due to retirement

 

SCOTCH ARMS HOTEL Rickergate; in local directories from 1834 to 1914

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1894 - 1916 p115

CPacquet 15.07.1783 Ad To be sold Scotch Arms, Rickergate, ‘newly built’

CJ 07.04.1804 p3 Scotch Arms, Rickergate John Hetherington Innkeeper

CJ 29.06.1839 p1c To be sold

CJ 21.03.1846 Scotch Arms Inn for sale

1861 census William Blamire, aged 56, innkeeper, born Dalston

CD 1880 Ad pxxxiv

1891 census; D.McCauley, innkeeper, aged 6, born Ireland

CJ 24.05.1895 Long in the hands of Denis McCauley; now Stanley Hill

1901 census; Joseph Hind, hotel manager, aged aged 33, born Carlisle

ENS 02.11.1916 Closed October 1916

 

SCOTCH GATE see RICKERGATE

 

SCOTCH NATIONAL CHURCH see CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

 

SCOTCH STREET In the Middle Ages Scotch St was a part of Rickergate, which extended from the Market Place in the town centre to the bridge across the river Eden [ McCarthy,M; Roman and Medieval Carlisle, Southern Lanes p65]; so named on G.Smith’s 1746 Plan of the City; number 17 Scotch St circa 1800 [CN 12.11.2004 p 6 history] numbers 36, 38 and 40 late 18th century with later alterations; nos 42 - 44, Tower Buildings, designed by G.D.Oliver, dated to 1889 [CWAAS 3rd series vol 4 p280]; number 60, Blue Bell Inn, late 18th century with Flemish bond brickwork, building completely gutted in 1976 leaving only the front wall; number 70 late 18th century with later alterations, house really a continuation of St Albans Row but its gable end projects into Scotch St

CPacquet 14.03.1780 p3 Ad new built house in Scotch Street for sale

1829 Building [today the post office] on corner of Scotch Street and West Tower St built [CN 29.06.2007p36]

The Builder 03.08.1889 design for Tower Buildings (42-46)

Carlisle in old picture postcards view 30 west side near market entrance

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p17 Photo of street in 1966

CN 05.03.1971 p9 (illus) Bus station to close

CN 19.03.1971 p28 Bus station; city council to purchase

CN 27.02.1976 p6 (illus of Brennan’s shop) History

ENS 15.03.1978 p1 (illus) Here today, gone tomorrow; Adams fruiterers collapsed

ENS 21.03.1978 p6 (illus) City centre drop out

CN 12.06.1981 p14 restoration of number 17; Harker and Bell

CN 19.04.2002 p5 Oakgate plc plan to build new shopping block on street

CN 07.02.2003 p18 Demolition of nos 42-48 to make way for Sports Soccer store

77 Scotch Street; house in which Margery Jackson the Carlisle miser born in 1722. Stood until 1980 when demolished [then Ben Stansfield, butchers] to make way for Lanes development. Leith Banking Co here in 1834, [then numbererd 35 Scotch Street]; then the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank. By 1850 Robert Benson a draper here. This Scotch Street plot can be traced back to a deed dated 25.03.1311 [CN11.08.2017 Section 2, p16]

 

SCOTIA PHARMACEUTICALS

CN 07.02.1997 p12 Cancer breakthrough

CN 14.03.1997 p12 Share price plunges

CN 28.03.1997 pp5,12 Firms £19m loss

CN 16.01.1998 p12 Hungry for success

CN 24.07.1998 p2 High tech jobs lost as company pulls out of city

CN 29.09.2000 p14 Scotia shares in freefall

CN 06.07.2001 p14 European U turn may secure future for cancer drug

 

SCOTLAND ROAD Numbers 38-48 [even] 6 houses in terrace on east side built late 1830s; nos 43-51 [odd], terrace of 5 houses on west side, built late 1860s or early 1870s

175 Years of Carlisle p52 Photo of top of Scotland Rd about 1910

CJ 03.04.1931 Demolition of Stanwix Island on Scotland Road

CJ 10.04.1931 Photo of demolition of Stanwix Island

CN 26.11.1949 p5 Illustration of cottages at junction with Brampton Road

CN 04.01.1957 p8 (illus) About 1930

CN 29.10.1965 p12 (illus) About 1915

CN 21.01.2005 p5 Nitrogen Oxide exceeds limits on polluted Scotland Rd

CN 07.10.2016 Section 2 p18 Schoolmasters house on Scotland Road all that remains of the circa 1847 school. New school built 1886. Remaining buildings on Scotland Road demolished in 1935 by Laings, leaving only the schoolmasters house today

 

SCOTLAND ROAD TERRACE , Scotland Road [1880 Directory]

 

SCOTS GUARDS ASSOCIATION

CJ 09.06.1950 p1 Formed

CN 20.06.1997 p5 Seeks recruits in city centre

CN 14.08.1998 p6 Comrades in arms

 

SCOTS GUARDS BAND

CN 23.09.1950 p6 City visit

 

SCOTT, B [enjamin] and Son [John Blain Scott] Devonshire Street

Benjamin, art photographer; baptised Wigton 31.07.1822, distant relation of Sir Benjamin Scott of Hudson Scott printers

CJ 23.05.1854 Ad portrait painter, Tait Street, Carlisle

CJ 06.04.1855 advert as photographic artist

A photograph of the King’s Arms Inn in English Street, Carlisle, taken by him in 1857

Carte de visite noted ‘Benjamin Scott Artist Photographer’, Devonshire Street

May 1862 moved to 19 Cecil Street

CJ 27.02.1866 Report on a visit to his studios

1869 Slater’s Directory Benjamin Scott, photographer, Devonshire St

CP 23.09.1870 Ad; Purchased business of John Kidd

D Perriam Lowther Street p29 He built a large studio and shop on the corner of Devonshire Street and Lowther Street [later Lloyds Bank, photo p30 D Perriam Lowther Street] in 1864. The business was successful until his death in 1898 aged 75

1870 Directory George Bell photographic artist, 32 English Street, home Scotby

Bell is not listed in the 1873 Directory. In that Directory Benjamin Scott, photographer, is listed at 32 English Street and Devonshire Street. In November 1870 Scott purchased from George Bell the goodwill, entire stock of negatives and apparatus of the City Portrait Rooms, 32 English Street

1876-77 Slater’s Directory B.Scott and Son [John Blain], photographer, 20 Devonshire St, home 37 Cecil Street

1880 Carlisle Directory B Scott and Son photographic and fine art studio, and pianoforte and music depot, 18 and 20 Devonshire St

The Alphabet of Carlisle 2BC 658.87 Carte de Visites, Devonshire Street

1884 Directory Scott B and Son, 20 Devonshire St

CD 1893-94 Ad p232 20 Devonshire St established 1855

11.01.1898 Death of Benjamin Scott

08.04.1902 Death of John Blain Scott. Over the years he had photographed many famous sitters; Duke of Cambridge at Appleby Castle, Princess Victoria of Wales at Edenhall, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Hershell, Edward Burne Jones and other members of the Howard of Naworth family. The studio also photographed Alfred Lord Tennyson. It seems likely the business was continued by John Blain’s widow Emma. John Blain’s brother, Benjamin, running the music side of the business. Final reference to the photographic business is in 1921

Whitehaven News Annual 1910; ad p357 established 1855

[Additional notes from Mr Moonie]

 

SCOTT, Benjamin On 02.07.1799 Benjamin Scott advertised the opening of his printing, bookselling and stationary business in the Market Place; Benjamin Scott was succeeded in the business by his nephew Hudson Scott; B.Scott was the printer of the Carlisle Chronicle, established 1807, and of the first number of the Carlisle Patriot which he continued to print until 28.04.1832 [CWAAS OS Vol 41 p20]; A collection of Psalms and Hymns, Carlisle, printed by B.Scott in the Market Place, 1802 [J311]; Scaleby Castle; a poem, Carlisle printed by B.Scott in the Market Place, 1810

SEE ALSO HUDSON SCOTT

 

SCOTT, Benjamin and Sons Bank Street

Pianoforte showrooms

CD 1893-94 Ad page pink inside cover

CD 1937 Ad p312

 

SCOTT, Harold Corporation Rd

CN 08.04.2005 p3 Hoover repair shop shuts after great flood in January

 

SCOTT, James Castle Street

Ladies outfitter

CD 1902-03 Ad p8

CD 1905-06 Ad p2

CD 1907-08 Ad p62

 

SCOTT, John and DRAPE, David Rickergate

Cathedral ceiling revealed and restored by Ewan Christian in the 1850s. The colour scheme, bright blue with gilded stars and angels, was devised by Owen Jones and carried out by Scott and Drape in the 1850s

CP 26.05.1855 p1 Ad; Gone into partnership; carving, gilding, glass staining

 

SCOTT, John and Son Rickergate; John Scott, carver and gilder, Rickergate Jollie 1811; 1851 census has a John Scott, aged 70, carver and guilder employing 5 men, living in Rickergate, born Wigton; his son also John Scott, same address, is given as a glass painter, born Carlisle

Stained glass.

East window, St Mary Ambleside, 1854; Arthuret St Michael, east window1868-9; Aspatria St Kentigern 4 lancet windows 1847 and one 1859; Bardsea, Holy Trinity, 3 windows 1850s; Beaumont St Mary, east window 1872; Bromfield St Mungo, sanctuary; Brough St Michael, heraldic piece; Crosscanonby , east window, 1849; Gilsland St Mary Magdalene east and west windows from Rockcliffe Church; Irton St Paul, several Scott windows from late 1860s and 1870s; Kirkbampton nave windows; Kirkoswald, all by John Scott 1847 etc; Nicholforest St Nicholas all stained glass; Penrith St Catherine south transept; Rockcliffe St Mary, circa 1848

Diocesan Calendar 1868 Half page advert (Late Scott and Drape) M5

CJ 22.04.1864 p5b Two stained glass windows; one for Bombay, one Dundee

CJ 01.05.1868 p4g Memorial window to Sir James Graham

CJ 03.07.1868 p4f Stained glass in St James designed by Scott

CJ 21.08.1868 p5a Scott stained glass for Bigerilla in India

Evening Journal 09.08.1870 p4 Ad John Scott, Stained Glass

SCOTT, John T and Son Leather goods

March 1931 Ellwood Taylor Scott proprietor of Messrs John T Scott, curriers, leather goods manufacturers of Wigton bought the Lamplugh Weaving Mills. E.T. Scott died December 1963, his son, also Ellwood, taking over until his death in 1977 [CN 07.09.2012 p34]

CJ 07.01.1938 p10 CJ 28.12.1963 p3 CN 13.09.1974 p1

CN 04.05.1973 p7 (illus) Fire

CN 06.07.1973 p1 After fire

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p159 photo of fire

CN 28.09.1973 p1 Plan for new factory

 

SCOTT, Jospeh Joiner and cabinetmaker, died 04.01.1831; [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s, Cathedral; no 456]

 

SCOTT, Joseph English Street

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p4 Saddler and harness maker

CP 08.01.1867 p1 Ad; saddlers in business for 15 years, late of Kings Arms Lane

 

SCOTT, Norman Dalton’s Yard, Botchergate

Plumbers

CD 1952 Ad p356

 

SCOTT, T Bridge Street

Blacksmith and electric welder

CD 1952 Ad p88

 

SCOTT, Thomas Taylor Architect. Responsible for Fisher Street Presbyterian Church, Midland Bank, English Street and Cooperative premises in Botchergate. Taylor Scott’s 1903 shop for Messrs William Oram, fish and game dealers, demolished 1981. [illus M McCarthy Roman waterlogged remains at Castle Street, Carlisle, p78]

CJ 11.11.1930 p5 Obit.

CJ 21.08.1936 p8 Carlisle architects; Scott was an Irthington man

 

SCOTT, Tom Bridge Street

Carlisle in Camera 2 p29 View of entrance to black and whitesmith

 

SCOTT, W.J. West Tower Street

Draper

CD 1893-94 Ad p204

 

SCOTT AND BENSON see HUDSON SCOTT [John Benson was taken into partnership in 1842; J.Benson was born 1804 in Rickergate and died in Bootle Liverpool in 1870 - see I H BEN]

 

SCOTT, DUFF AND CO Solicitors

CN 13.04.2007 p20 Celebrates 30 years; launched in Penrith April 1977

 

SCOTT, FOSTER AND GIBSON Bank Street

Tailors

Carlisle Diocesan Directory 1871; Ad purchased stock in trade of W.Cape

SCOTTISH AMICABLE

Insurance

CD 1893-94 Ad p34

 

SCOTTISH GENERAL TRANSPORT

City Minutes 1929 - 30 p 663 Licensed bus services

 

SCOTTISH MOTOR TRACTION see SMT

 

SCOTTISH REVERSIONARY CO LTD see J.JACKSON SAINT, their agents

 

SCOTT, LAMB AND CO

1811 Jollie’s Directory p13 Men from Newcastle established company

Bulmer’s 1884 Directory p53 Started calico printing in Carlisle in 1761

 

SCOTT- NICHOLSON, E Architect

CJ 21.08.1936 p8 Carlisle architects. Trained in London, did not practice in Carlisle. Collaborated with others, and left behind him marks of interest here and there. Note the front elevation of the considerable addition to the James Street Works and its simplicity

 

SCOTTS COMMERCIALS Kingstown

CN 26.08.1988 p9 ad

 

SCOTT’S COURT, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 124-126 Milbourne Street

 

SCOTT’S COURT, Rickergate

1880 Directory 34 Rickergate

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

City Minutes 1928-9 p361 nos 2 and 3 unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1930-31 p628 6,7,8,10,11 declared unfit for human habitation

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 32-36 Rickergate

1934 Directory 32 Rickergate

 

SCOTTS LANE, Rickergate. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map. This is presumably Scott’s Court

 

SCOTT’S LANE 21 Annetwell Street [1880 Directory]

 

SCOTT’S PLACE, Charlotte Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 48 Charlotte Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 2-4 Charlotte Street

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 2 properties here

 

SCOTT’S PLACE, Milbourne Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 130 Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory between nos 128-130 Milbourne Street

 

SCOTT STREET, Caldewgate; part of Poet’s Coner

1880 Directory

City Minutes 1932-33 p 579 12,14,16, 18 unfit for human habitation

 

SCOTT STREET, Milbourne Street

1924 Carlisle Directory off Milbourne Street

 

SCOUT HEADQUARTERS see GUIDE AND SCOUT HEADQUARTERS

 

SCOUTS

CN 25.02.1911 Baden Powell’s visit of 18.02.1911

September 1915 Carlisle Scouts reviewed at Edenside by Baden Powel

CJ 07.05.1937 p5 New company site

CJ 14.09.1937 p5 Man of many eyes

CJ 27.01.1948 p3 40 years celebration

CN 31.01.1948 p5 (illus) 40 years celebrations

CJ 13.07.1948 p1 Baden Powell Guild (old scouts)

CJ 21.07.1967 p6 (illus) new headquarters in Abbey street

CN 28.07.1967 p11 new headquarters

CN 04.06.1993 p4 Photos of Holy Trinity Scouts and Holy Trinity Cubs

Strong lad wanted for strong lass; pp57 H.Davies memories of being scout 1950s

ENS 22.01.1967 p13 New Headquarters - Harraby

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p118 Photo of 1972 St George’s Day parade

CN 28.08.1987 p4 Meeting that launched scouting in Carlisle

CN 03.11.1989 p4 City scouts began under a street lamp

CN 03.11.1989 City heard of scouting at first hand

CN 11.03.1994 p5 Scouts promise a £100,000 campsite

CN 23.02.1996 p5 Pushing pedals coast to coast

CN 11.04.1997 p1 Hall burnt out (Burgh Road)

 

SCUGGER HOUSE; Upperby 1901 census; Thomas Gill, 39, farmer, bn St Cuthbert’s Without. 1911 census Henry Lowthian Gill, farmer, 49, Early references suggest that this was the location of the St Sepulchre Hospital. A land revenue document in the National Archive of 1568 refers to Scuggarhouses alias Sepulchre Houses. It was a leper hospital seemingly merging with St Nicholas in 1309 [CN 11.10.2014 p16]

 

SCULPTURE see STATUES

 

SEA CADETS Opened 12.11.1943 (information from national HQ)

CN 15.10.1993 p4 (illus) 50 years of youngsters

CN 15.10.1993 p4 50 years ago

 

SEAGULLS

CN 13.04.2007 p8 Problems with seagulls scavenging

 

SEALS

CWAAS OS Vol 6 Opposite p1 Seal of the City of Carlisle; illustration

Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle p164 Engraving of the Seal of the Priory of Carlisle

CN 03.07.1948 p5 Robert Lowther’s 1661

CN 10.07.1948 p3 (illus) Robert Lowther’s 1661

 

SEATOLLER CLOSE Morton; on electoral register from 1971

CN 16.09.2005 p5 Plans to knock down four-in-block one bedroom flats

CN 23.09.2005 p13 Letter 12 years of misery caused by unsocial behaviour

CN 13.07.2012 p 17 20 new homes officially opened

 

SEATON, T Castle Street

Tailor

CD 1884-85 Ad p262

 

SEBERGHAM TERRACE Adjacent to [now part of] Sybil Street on the 1891 and 1901 census; on the voters lists from 1894 - 1963

 

SEBERGHAM TERRACE

John Laing built Sebergham Terrace on St James Road in 1882 using cream bricks and lived in no 42, this was later the home of JW Laing. The Laing family were originally from Sebergham

 

SECONDARY AMATEUR SWIMMING CLUB

CJ 30.04.1948 p2 records broken

 

SEDAN CHAIRS

House of Recovery Annual Report for 1841 [pub 1842] p13 Fever House; ...and also a footpath and a good access for a sedan chair

Mary Senhouse of Fisher Street acquired a sedan chair in 1780, bought for 16 guineas from Mrs Lacy [North Country Life in the 18th Century, vol 2,

CN 21.01.2005 p6 Local references to Sedan chairs

 

SEERY’S COURT, Castle Lane [1880 Directory]

So named on 50 inch OS map 1899 23.03.19

 

SELBY, M Green Market

Ladies outfitter

CD 1880 pxliv Ad, late Black

 

SEMINARAS Tailors in Lowther Street. He was an Italian POW who stayed on in the city after the end of the Second World War.

 

SEMPLE AND FERGUSON

Electrical store

CN 20.11.1992 pp16-17

CN 22.11.1996 p1 It’s the pits as Damon’s Renault picks up a ticket

 

SEMPLE ROAD Harraby First appears in the Carlisle Directory for 1940. Allan Semple was Carlisle Medical Officer

 

SENATOR HOMES

CN 17.05.2002 p20 Alfred McAlpine homes; management buyout and re-launch

CN 16.12.2005 p14 Bought by Persimmon plc

 

SEND THE LIGHT Christian Book suppliers; came to city 1989

CN 04.12.1992 p20 Book firm expands into shops

CN 27.08.1999 p15 10 years in Carlisle

CN 17.11.2000 p14 Distributors busiest month

CN 18.05.2001 p19 Bought the UK division of American supplier

CN 19.07.2002 p16 £2m expansion will create 40 jobs; employs 260 now

CN 29.11.2002 p16 Send the Light buys Alliance Music for nominal sum

CN 07.03.2003 p16 Send the Light may take over Family Books of Belfast

CN 06.06.2003 p16 New finance director

CN 18.07.2003 p14 Acquires OM Literature in USA

CN 14.05.2004 p17 Holds 10th Annual Conference for Christian retail trade

CN 24.12.2004 p14 Largest distributor of Christian products in Europe

CN 14.01.2005 p 25 Steve Gibbs new Managing Director

CN 29.07.2005 p19 Acquires American wholesaler

CN 11.08.2006 p7 Starts 1st phase of new warehouse

CN 26.01.2007 p22 To merge with International Bible Society

CN 24.12.2009 p1 STL bought by John Ritchie Ltd and 150 jobs safe

 

SERVANTS

The 1861 census records in the household of Robert Orman, fishmonger, St Albans Row, an 11 year old servant, Mary Atchinson, born Scotland. In 1861 the household of John Jordan’s grocers shop on Bridge Street, Caldewgate, includes a 9 year old servant, Maryann McCavagahay, born Carlisle. The 1861 household census for George Head Head of Rickerby House has the following household servants, butler, footman, assistant footman, laundry maid, housemaid, under housemaid, kitchen maid, maid servant. The 1871 household census return for 29 Chiswick Street lists in the household of Stephen Evans, first class clerk Travelling Post Office a 10 year old servant, Catherine Foster. The household returns for 1881 for 1 Brunswick Street, head Robert Thorpe, cashier Joint Stock Bank, includes Isabella Gale, housemaid, aged 9, born Bothel. The 1901 household census for Caroline Asby, Briary, Marlborough Gardens, lists a James Hayton, aged 11, boot boy domestic. The 1901 census lists a Jane A Henderson, aged 13, as a sick child’s nurse in the household of Thomas Gibson letterpress printer of 11 Currock Terrace. The 1901 census for Mark Scott, retired railway guard of 40 Cecil Street lists two domestic servants, Janet Warwick, 22 housemaid domestic and Agnes Warwick, aged 13, general domestic servant, both born Scotland. 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 servant life at this time is given in Margaret Forster’s book Hidden Lives as her grandmother was a live in servant

 

SETTS see STREET CONSTRUCTION

 

SEVEN ACRES

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]

 

SEVEN STARS INN Irishgate Brow; in local directory for 1844

CJ 29.01.1858 To be let beer house; sign of seven stars

 

SEVEN STYLES

Starting at Blackwell Road then across 7 fields, a stile between each until you came across the railway lines, there was no bridge then, just look both ways then cross the Maryport and Carlisle Railway and into Denton Holme [Memories EM Braithwaite]

 

SEVEN WELLS BANK Denton Holme

see WELL BANK, ST LAWRENCES WELL

Denis Perriam Denton Holme p28. Seven Wells Bank is a natural river terrace. Beneath the bank were a series of springs which fed Spittal Crook, a small stream. In the medieval period, and possibly earlier, the pure water was venerated and it is thought that there was a chapel here where St James Church stands, the field below having the name Chapel Field.

CJ 08.09.1865 p5

CP 09.09.1865 p5c Cornerstone of St James laid; one well now marked by stone

 

SEWAGE AND SANITATION July 1854 work commenced on laying out sewers in city; before this date night soil etc deposited in open culverts and ditches that traversed the city; scheme completed October 1855, all sewage being discharged into River Eden at Willowolme without any form of treatment; 1893 screening chamber to remove larger solids constructed on main outfall sewer in Willow Holme; 1899 experimental bacterial beds constructed; new pumping station etc put into commission 28.07.1908; 1949 approval to enlarge and modernise works

CAIH p68

Memorials of Old Carlisle pp64-65

Local Government Brochure 1158 - 1958 p22-23 1BC 352

In 1431 there was a latrine at Cokegarth outside the walls, which may have emptied into the city ditches. Wealthier citizens may have used chamber pots; William Garfourthe had two, made of pewter, in 1567. In 1487 ordinance forbade the citizens to allow their swine to ‘goo at lardge’ within the city and ordering that dunghills be removed from front doors before Saturday night each week. Medieval Carlisle Summerson p676

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

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

1851 Report General Board of Health....Carlisle; p105 G.Stepehnson 1843 report

1851 Report of the General Board of Health....Carlisle; R.Rawlinson 1BC 625

CP 27.05.1854 p5 Open ditch or sewer running through Union St; foul condition

CJ 18.11.1859 p5 Letter from A.MacDougall on sewage to Health Committee. Wishes to make an experiment on the economical application of sewage

CJ 22.11.1859 p2 Lease for 15 years to Mr McDougall

Ca/C3/62 lease of city sewage to Alex McDougall

CJ 06.04.1860 p8 McDougall and Carlisle sewage. Given use for 15 years

CJ 05.10.1860 p8 Disinfecting sewage. Dr Angus Smith and Alex McDougall at Glasgow Congress

CJ 23.11.1860 p6 Carlisle sewage works; Times report

CJ 27.11.1860 p1 More on Times report. Letter from Alexander McDougall

CP 13.04.1861 p4 Visits to Carlisle sewage works from Accrington, Burnley and Berlin

CJ 14.06.1861 Letter to editor. I have walked over the lands of Mt McDougall, before and since his experiment was tried, at dawn, sunshine and nightfall and never yet found any smells from the sewage, the de-oderization being so complete

CJ 12.09.1862 p6 McDougall and Corporation

CJ 14.10.1862 p3 Sewage pipes and McDougall

CP 29.10.1864 p8 Mr McDougall, manufacturing chemist, took a lease of the sewage of the city for 15 years. Description of his works.

CJ 01.11.1864 p2 Utilisation

CJ 11.11.1864 p6 Utilisation

CP 12.11.1864 p7 At Carlisle the sewage of more than 20,000 people is made to fertilize an area of 80 acres. By use of carbolic acid .....

CP 12.11.1864 p8 Inspected by Germans, other groups waiting to come

CJ 15.11.1864 p6 Utilisation

CJ 18.11.1864 Utilization of sewage; the inspection of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Report of committee ‘At Carlisle your committee found the sewage of a portion of the town only applied to the land. The total population is 30,000; the sewage of about 8,000 of these is not applied, but flows off by a separate sewer....and is discharged into the Eden; that of the remaining 22,000 people is carried by a culvert from the town to a five-horse power engine, by which it is raised 10 feet or 12 feet into an open cut, after being deodorized by the add mixture of carbolic acid.......Carlisle was the only place visited at which any attempt is made to prevent the decomposition of the sewage....at Carlisle the pasture to which the sewage was applied was fine and of good quality....it was alleged that the carbolic or phenic acid employed prevented decomposition

CJ 10.10.1865 p2 The commercial results of the application of sewage to Willow Holme is about to be put to a more satisfactory test than has hitherto been applied. During the last four years Mr McDougal has had the lease he has managed the Holmes himself

CJ 27.10.1865 p6 In 1865 and history

Lancet 16.03.1867 Lister article refers to use of carbolic acid as antiseptic at Carlisle

CJ 04.03.1870 Russian official asked/ recommended to look at Carlisle and Worcester sewage works. he came two weeks later

CJ 29.04.1870 p6 The sewage of Carlisle, for the most part, finds its way into the River Eden. It is delivered in the middle of the river channel through a submerged iron pipe. On the town side of the meadow a pumping station has been erected by Mr McDougall, to whom the land, about 100 acres is let and sewage deodorised by treatment with carbolic acid

City Minutes 04.12.1879 Report; successful carbolic treatment of sewage ended

In May 1878 the Rural Sanitary Authority said that Kingstown was a disgraceful village with no ditch to throw slops into. A ditch was provided in 1892 but on a visit the Local Government Board found that residents ‘put slops into the road rather than go three yards and put them in the proper place. As a result of this pollution ‘the best well in Kingstown smelt’. [D Perrian Stanwix p80]

City Minutes 17.05.1889, item 214 p 148 116 privies in city

CJ 12.11.1889 p2 Death of Joseph Gordon. Reminiscence of him at the Willow Holme works when a deputation of the Metropolitan Board of Works came to Carlisle to examine Alexander McDougall’s sewage irrigation works many years ago. The deputation was accompanied by Mr Bazalgatte, the engineer to the Board. Mr Gordon seemed to regard him as one of the chiefs, if not the very head, of his profession. Little did either of us suppose at that time that in 20 years he himself would be Sir Bazalgette’s successor

CP 28.01.1898 p5c New treatment for sewage

City Minutes 1900-01 p 134 Within last 2 years Bacteria Beds installed

City Minutes 1900-01 p142-43 Summary of sanitation measures since 1883

A circa 1904 photograph in Carlisle Record Office shows a yard with privy in Lamb Street. The photo was taken to show the squalid sanitary conditions in this part of the village

A 1904 photo shows piggeries etc situate in Barrock Square, and abutting upon the top house in Millers Court. The liquid filth from the pigstye forms a pool and soaks into the foundation of house no 4 Barrock Square [Photo in Record Office, Carlisle]

City Minutes 1907-08 pp141-42 Important sanitary measures since 1883

CJ 13.02.1912 p4 Lord Lister’s associations with Cumberland. Is believed to have been indirectly assisted by certain experiments which were carried out in the use of carbolic acid at the Willow Holme sewage farm

Sanitary Conditions for City of Carlisle 1919 p84 Sewerage situation in suburbs

CJ 15.06.1928 Photo of re-weiring on Rickerby Park

CN 10.11.1928 p11 Sanitation in city

CN 11.11.1955 Photo of Dr Robert Elliott with whom Lister stayed at 35 Lowther Street. Elliot showed him the treatment of sewage with Carbolic acid

ENS 12.05.1962 p3 Tunnel under the River Eden

CN 21.08.1948 Solway. About Lister’s 1864 visit to Carlisle

Civic Affairs October 1964 Another milestone in sanitation; history

CN 06.04.1990 p1 In pipeline

CN 15.08.1997 p5 £3m facelift for sewers in city

CN 20.08.1999 p4 (illus) Sorry for Willowholme whiff

CN 17.09.1999 p11 £1.5m improvements - Willowholme

 

SEWELL, George West Tower Street

Hire service for marquees, tents, tables

CD 1934 Ad p80

CD 1937 Ad p64

 

SEWELL, Richard 63 Scotch Street

Saddler and harness

Leading Trader of the City pp50-51 Ad A616

CD 1910-11 Ad p130

CD 1913-14 Ad p13

 

SEWELL, Robert Warwick Road

Newsagents and tobacconists

CD 1952 Ad p375

CD 1955-56 Ad p93

CD 1961-62 Ad p15

CD 1966-68 Ad pp38, 287

CN 25.07.2003 p65 For sale as going business; established circa 1938

February 2017 Closed as newsagents [personal observation]

 

SEWELL, T Scotch Street

Saddler, trunk and harness maker

CD 1880 Ad pvii

 

SEWELL, Thomas Saddler, aged 31, aged 4 men and 3 apprentices, home address Scotch St, born Appleby [1851 census]. One of his daughters, Margaret Sewell, gave her name to the Higher Grade School

1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p6 30 Scotch St

 

SEWELL, William 59 Castle Street

1851 Ward’s Northern Directory Ads p6; musical instruments and cutlery

 

SEWELL, William Mastercutter, employing 1 man, home address Baileys Ct, Castle Street, born Carlisle [1851 census]

 

SEWELL CLOSE

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]

 

SEWELL ROAD So named after Mr and Mrs H.W.Sewell, Mayor and Mayoress in 1923/24 and both members of the city council

 

SEWELL’S LANE Between Scotch Street and Lowther St

The mayor Robert Sewell was mayor of Carlisle on three occasions in the early sixteenth century. Hugh Sewell was a canon of the cathedral later in that century. Roman and Medieval Carlisle; the northern Lanes, excavations 1978-82, vol 2, p286

1804 Long covered up well in Sewell’s Lane found. 27 feet in depth and two bronze Roman vases found in the bottom [Ferguson’s Hutchinson p590]

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p69 street party

1880 Directory 33 Scotch Street

CP 20.01.1871 p1d For sale property known as Sewell’s Lane; rent £226 15s 4d

1901 census; 47 people living in this lane in 10 households; occupations include nurse, biscuit worker, dressmaker, fruit dealer, coachbuilder, soldier, confectioner’s assistant, grocer’s errand boy, blacksmith, tinsmith, housekeeper, tailor, labourer, joiner, nursery garden labourer, day girl domestic, coachbuilder’s labourer, brewer’s bottler mineral water worker

CJ 06.08.1937 p1 Part stopping up

 

SEWERAGE see SEWAGE

 

SEX DISCRIMINATION

CN 26.07.2002 p5 Claim for constructive dismissal when pregnant against vets

CN 01.11.2002 p16 Carlisle woman wins £6,000 compensation after case won

 

SEX SHOPS

CN 30.09.1988 pp12,15 Editorial

CN 21.04.1989 p1 Fight to shut two city sex shops

CN 28.04.1989 p3 Let sex shops stay open say residents

CN 30.06.1989 p5 Sex shops licensed

CN 21.07.1995 p3 Sex shops objections

 

SEYMOUR PLANT (NORTHERN)

CD 1966-68 Ad p292

 

SHADDEN Street, Caldewgate [1847 Directory]

 

SHADDONGATE So named Schadwyngat in 1424

Topping, G and Potter, J Memorials of old Carlisle p27 Derivation of name

City Minutes 1932-33 pp252-255 Shaddongate Clearance Order; unfit for habitation

ENS 27.03.1962 p1 Taylor’s Yard - hawkers told to quit

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p38 Photo Mabel Mackenzie’s shop, 1959

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p29 View out of town in 1966

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p30 View after demolition work in 1968

CN 20.04.1990 p4 Police were targets of rioting city mob

CN 07.12.2007 p35 D.Perriam Lawless and squalid place in the first half of the 19th century

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

 

SHADDONGATE ADULT SCHOOL AND READING ROOM Founded 1857 (Whellan 1860 p131)

 

SHADDOGATE COMMUNITY RESOURCE AND TRAINING CENTRE

CN 19.10.2012 p 21 £3m centre opens

 

SHADDONGATE MILL Cotton factory built 1835 - 36 for Peter Dixon; Cotton spinners; the firm of Peter Dixon and Sons was founded by Peter Dixon the elder. He was born on 23rd October 1753 in Whitehaven. In 1807 Peter moved to the Langthwaite Mill, Warwick Bridge, which had been built by three of his wife’s brothers in 1791. In 1809 Peter’s sons Peter and John joined their father in the Langthwaite Mill and the business became known as Peter Dixon and Sons. By the 1830s the Langthwaite Mill was inadequate for the increasing volume of work the company was doing. The business was already using warehouses in Fisher Street and West Tower Street in Carlisle so it seemed logical to build a new mill on the west of the city. In 1834 Shaddongate was selected. It was near the Canal Basin for cotton to come by ship from Liverpool and for finished cloth to be exported and close to the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway for coal supplies. Richard Tattersall, a Manchester architect, was contracted to design and superintend the construction of a mill ‘to rival all the glories of Manchester and other places’. In February 1835 the foundation stone of the new mill was laid and on September 11th the foundation stone for the chimney was laid and the first brick was laid on 17th September by Richard Wright. Built in red sandstone the mill remains largely intact. The seven storey stone building [including the power transmission house] was 224ft 6 inches long with 22 bays by 56 feet 6 inches, three aisles, wide. The floors were heated by steam and well ventilated and each floor had a toilet and wash basin for the work force [CJ 03.12.1836]. The most significant structural feature of the mill was its fireproof construction. This comprised a cast-iron frame of two rows of 21 cast-iron columns clamps at the upper end by 66 longitudinal beams and 42 transverse wrought iron ties. A shallow firebrick vault spanned each aisle. Documentary evidence indicates that the Manchester engineer William Fairbairn was involved in the design of the cast-iron structure at the heart of the Shaddon Mill. The mill is the earliest surviving example of a fireproof mill built using Hodgkinson cast-iron beam design promoted by 19th century Manchester engineer William Fairbairn. The three pitched roofs were supported by 60 wooden king post trusses built from Baltic pine. On the seventh floor upon the tie beams to bays 7,8,9,and 15 were markings that may well be associated with the Baltic timber trade of the late 18th and early 19th century. The floor tiles were stamped R.Ashton and Co, Buckley. At the western end of the mill was the seven storey, four bay, power transmission house. At the west end of this was the four storey engine house. The engine house contained two 80hp condensing beam engines built by Rothwell and Co of Bolton. At the west end of the engine house was the two storey boiler house. The boiler house contained four 8 ton boilers also supplied by Rothwell [CJ 03.12.1836] and were towed here on a barge from Liverpool to Port Carlisle and were installed during April and May [CJ 28.05.1836]. The tapered chimney at 305 feet high was believed to be the tallest structure in the world at the time. Mr Burgess of Water Street Foundry constructed a gas works to supply gas to the mill ‘which was nearly as large as the present Carlisle gas works’ [CJ 09.07.1836]. No exact figures survive for the cost of the whole complex but the City Council estimated in 1836 that it could be no less than 150,000 pounds [CJ 14.05.1836] . In 1847 it was estimated that the firm employed around 8,000 hands, although only around 700 were working at the Shaddongate Mill, many being home handloom weavers. By the early 1860s the firm reached its peak. The American Civil War cut off cotton supplies. ‘The Carlisle cotton mills had been very reliant on the American market, since the plantation owners regularly place large orders for ginghams to clothe their slaves and to save expense seldom required the pattern to be changed from one order to the next. The emancipated Negro naturally demanded a choice and it has been suggested that the golden age of cotton spinning in Carlisle ended when the Carlisle manufacturers failed to adept to the new world’. In 1871 the firm announced that it would stop using hand-loom weavers. About 600 new power looms were installed at Shaddon Mill and a further 229 at Peter Street. However the Carlisle Journal of 12.07.1872 reported that the firm was convening a meeting with a view to going into liquidation. The Carlisle Journal of 02.08.1872 announced there was a deficiency of 66,547 pounds 6s 1d. The Carlisle Journal of 03.12.1872 reported that a joint stock company under the title of Peter Dixon and Sons Ltd was being formed. In February 1883 this firm had also passed into liquidation. Taken over by Robert Todd and Son in 1882

See Dixon, Peter and Sons; Dixons Chimney; Todd,Robert and Sons

CN 19.12.2003 p1 58 Luxury flats in mill; plans submitted by Story Homes

CN 26.03.2004 p3 plans backed to convert into 58 apartments

CN 04.03.2005 8 Apartments ready for viewing in 4 weeks

CN 29.04.2005 Story Homes Supp. p8-9

 

SHADDONGATE SCHOOL see DIXON’S SCHOOL

 

SHADDONGATE STREET

CJ 14.07.1944 p5 Widening

 

SHADDONGATE UNITED Football club

CN 07.10.1977 p20 (illus) History to 1904

 

SHADDON GATEWAY CENTRE

CN 09.03.2012 p23 Work on building completed

 

SHADDONMILLS GALLERY

CN 12.03.1999 p25 Funding crisis

 

SHADWELL LODGE, became 50 London Road. A London Road report in April 1830 stated. ‘a large mansion has been built adjoining Captain Halton’s beautiful residence at Botchergate Foot by JM Head’ . Banker Joseph Monkhouse Head’s land, where the new house was built, was alongside Woodruff Terrace named after Maria Woodruffe, who married his son, George Head Head, in 1833. George inherited the house when his father died in 1841. Chancellor of the Diocese, Charles Burton, took up his residence here in 1856; Burton’s wife Eliza Felicia, died at Shadwell Lodge in 1866 and he followed in 1897 aged 95. In July 1890 Shipley’s balloon landed on top of a tree in the garden of Shadwell Lodge, the home of the Miss Burton’s. The Chancellor’s daughters were still there in 1901. Marked and named on the 50 inch OS map of Carlisle circa 1865. The Carlisle Patriot of March 1908 reported the death at Shadwell Lodge of Julius Morris, aged 53, and Morris and Sons, clothiers are listed in 1910 at 50 London Road. The South End Conservative Club took Shadwell Lodge circa 1916. When they moved again in 1937 Cowans offered the building on a 10 year lease to the British Legion Club. As the lease ended in January 1948 Cowans applied for permission to convert the lodge into 2 houses which was approved. In 1951 approval was given for the demolition to allow ‘the use of the land for crane erection’. Not there on the 1957 six inch map when it has become part of the Cowans Sheldon site. A lady I have spoken with says her parents wedding reception was held there in December 1949

So marked on 1st ed 50 inch map

CJ 08.05.1847 p2a To be let

1851 Census Robert Ferguson aged 33, cotton manufacturer employing 200 hands

CP 29.07.1854 p1 To let

1858 Directory Mr Charles Burton

1861 Morris, Harrison and Co p8 Charles Jas Burton Esq

1861 census Charles J.Burton, Chancellor of Carlisle, aged 69

1891 census; Eliza Burton, aged 69,

Our City Our People p17 Cowan Sheldon’s area; flight of stairs to front door

 

SHADY GROVE LANE So named on the Ordnance Survey sheet of 1865; Joseph Holliday died Shady Grove, Newtown 09.10.1904 [Monumental Inscription 20/34]

 

SHADY GROVE ROAD On Carlisle electoral register from 1928

City Minutes 1929-30 p590 carriageway is completed

Carlisle The Archive Photos p104 Photo in 1937

 

SHAKESPEARE, William Shakespeare may have visited the city. A letter from Lord Scrope of 20.09.1589 says the Queen’s players had gone ‘to Carlisle where they are and have stayed for the space of ten days; was Shakespeare amongst their number? Shakespeare’s whereabouts during this period is unclear [CN 07.04.2006 p10]

 

SHAKESPEARE STREET, Byron Street [1880 Directory] 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)]. Position marked on Asquith’s 1853 map

 

SHAKESPEARE TAVERN St Cuthbert’s Lane; in local directories from 1844 to 1914

D Perriam Lowther Street, 2022 p8 As early as 1713 there was a Spring Garden House which, by 1803, became the Shakespeare Tavern. Replaced by the present building in 1885, The Bowling Green Hotel

1891 census; Thomas Walsh, aged 48, innkeeper, born Carlisle

S.Davidson Carlisle Breweries and Public Houses 1896 - 1916 p100

Carlisle; Archival photographs p17 photo, James Allison tenant

City Minutes 1922-23 p159 Licensed withdrawn 08.01.1922

CN 15.03.1991 p4 (illus) Pubs of yesteryear

 

SHAKESPEARE TAVERN Spring Gardens Lane; Bowling Green and tea garden attached to the Shakespeare Inn [Jollie 1811 p 82] ; in local directories to 1834; forerunner of the Bowling Green Inn;

 

SHAMBLES The 1560s map of the city shows the butchers Shambles to the east of the cross; The Old Shambles in the Market Place were purchased and demolished by the Corporation in 1790; they were formed of wood and covered with different kinds of slate giving them a grotesque and antique appearance [Parson and White 1829 p149]; the new butcher’s Shambles was built between Scotch St and Fisher St

See also MARKET - COVERED

 

SHAMBLES Formerly Gretna Tavern; became The Post and afterwards Finnegans Wake

CN 21.05.1976 p8 (illus)

CN 19.07.1985 p3 Pub staff walk out

 

SHAND, Stewart Gordon

City Minutes 1926-7 p633 Licensed to operate bus service to Gretna and Penrith

 

SHANE, T.W. Bridge Street

Plumbers

CD 1952 Ad p88

 

SHANE’S COURT, Bridge Street [1934 Directory]

1955-56 Carlisle Directory lists 3 properties here

 

SHANKLY ROAD On electoral register from 1998-9, Bill Shankly was a former manager of Carlisle United

 

SHANNON, Ellwood

M442 pp 4, 49 Business card for wholesale tea dealer

 

SHANNON, John 51 Castle St

M442 pp1, 14, 37, 38 Business card for chemist and druggist

 

SHAPERS

CN 22.06.1990 p6 Gain without pain

CN 10.11.1995 p13 Ad

CN 03.03.2000 p19 Ad

 

SHARPS BEDROOMS Kingstown

CN 08.11.1996 p19 Ad

 

SHAW, Anthony 31 Fisher St; Grocer, bakers and Register Office for Servants

1851 Ward’s North of England Directory; ad p9 grocery, success to Mrs Langhorn

 

SHAW GUNN Spencer Street

Security business

CN 16.08.1996 Supplement

 

SHAW’S CAFE, Lowther Street. Miss Bertha Shaw proprietor. Opened on 31 Lowther Street in 1940. She retired in 1949 but the cafe continued post 1961

 

SHEEHAN CRESCENT So named after council member Dr Gerald Sheehan

City Minutes 1935-6 p208 Naming of street

 

SHEEPMOUNT

G.Smith’s 1746 map of Carlisle shows that this area was called Willy Holm and access to it was only possible through Irishgate, over the Caldew, Little Caldew then right onto what is known today as the ‘Sheepmount’ ;The Royal Agricultural Show was held in Carlisle in 1880. The Show spread across Bitts Park and two bridges were built to allow it to overspill onto the Sheepmount, owned by the Duke of Devonshire. The two temporary bridges were taken down after the show to prevent trespass. It was not until 1894 that a permanent bridge [one of the temporary ones, strengthened and relocated] was built after the city council had bought the Sheepmount from the Duke; this being the bridge we can see today [2021]. The new bridge allowed the Corporation to tip rubbish here from the 1890s. The Carlisle Journal in 1915 reported that 'Ashes and other refuse from the houses in Carlisle have for several years past been put to good use in building an embankment around the Eden' Rare Victorian and Edwardian bottles still turn up in the river embankment. This area was originally known as Willowholme, the name Sheepmount being probably a 19th century appellation, no doubt referring to sheep being grazed here. Anciently this area was owned by the Duke of Devonshire as part of the socage lands of Carlisle. In 1899 the local newspaper reported that there were 'sprinters' who used the Sheepmount footpaths along the railwayside and they were even to be seen running half naked, which was very objectionable where ladies were supposed to go. Dogs were trained to take rabbits and on Sunday afternoons there was a great deal of gambling along the railwayside, pitch and toss

CP 12.11.1864 p5 Fall of bridge called ‘Cut’ Bridge in Willow Holme near old bone mill

CJ 17.09.1880p6 Temporary bridge over Caldew to Sheepmount taken down

CJ 16.11.1888 p4 Bridge to Sheepmount proposed

CJ 15.03.1889 p4 Talk of bridge over Caldew

CJ 13.04.1894 p5 Tests on Sheepmount Bridge

CJ 16.06.1899 p6 ‘Sprinters’ use Sheepmount running half naked, very objectionable

City Minutes 1921-22 p 239 Lease to War Office of part for rifle range

City Minutes 1921-22 p 475 Proposal to set out 4 acres for military recreation area

City Minutes 1934-35 p314 Extension of rifle range lease to 1955

CJ 09.12.1938 p1 Approval for utilisation of Sheepmount for playing purposes

CJ 13.06.1953 Mr Butlin increases his grant to £3,900 for Sheepmount Pavillion

CN 26.04.2002 p6 Ashes and other refuse built into back against River Eden; 1915

CN 25.10.2002 p13 Letter Poor state of Sheepmount; car park a disgrace

CN 23.01.2004 p24 £2.6m redevelopment begins in March

CN 29.09.2006 p17 Prince Edward to unveil plaque today

 

SHEEPMOUNT RUNNING TRACK 12.08.1961 officially opened; refurbished track opened by Allan Wells, Olympic 100m gold medal winner at the Moscow Games, 04.05.1987

Civic Affairs October 1961 p1 New Sheepmount track declared open 2BC 352

CN 24.04.1987 p19 Opening

CN 08.05.1987 p7 (illus) Opening

CN 05.01.2001 p21 £1.5 m stadium moves step closer at rundown Sheepmount

CN 01.08.2003 p1 Work on £2.6m redevelopment will begin in March

CN 18.06.2004 p7 Sheepmount revamp to begin next week

CN 19.08.2005 p3 Part of £3.6m development will be opened tomorrow

 

SHEFFIELD, Mr

M442 p8 Business card for Mr Sheffield, dentist

 

SHEFFIELD, Thomas dentist

CJ 17.12.1825 p2 T.Sheffield, dentist, taken a house in Abbey Street

CN 17.06.1950 p4

CN 26.10.1990 p4 Now the drill’s not the same

 

SHEFFIELD CUTLERY HOUSE Castle Street

CD 1955-56 Ad p236

CD 1961-62 Ad p267

CD 1966-68 Ad p261

 

SHEFFIELD HOUSE see ABBEY STREET; Sheffield House

 

SHEFFIELD STREET Named on 1871 but not 1861 census; Thomas Sheffield owned land in this area [CWAAS ns Vol 67 p215]

CJ 23.07.1852 p3 Marriage of John Sheffield of this city and Margaret Elizabeth Milburn Dixon at Marleybone

CP 05.12.1873 p1c Ad; one house for sale; erected within last 18 months

ENS 22.02.1978 p5 (illus) Dead end street

 

SHIELDS COURT, South John Street

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 56-58 South John Street

City Minutes 1932-33 p 68 Nos 2,3,4 unfit for human habitation

 

SHELTER

CN 09.02.1970 p13 Group started

 

SHELTERED HOUSING see TWO CASTLES HOUSING ASSOCIATION

 

SHEPHERD, Sidney Botchergate

Shoe shop

CD 1934 Ad back cover

CD 1937 Ad back cover

CD 1952 Ad p80

 

SHEPHERD CLOSE On electoral registers from 1997-98

 

SHEPHERD’S INN Rosehill; opened August 1974 by Pioneer Foods

CN 19.01.1979 p1 CN 14.02.1975 pp8-9 (illus)

CN 14.03.1997 p5 A big cheese again

 

SHEPHERD SOLICITORS see CARTMEL SHEPHERD

 

SHERWEN, William Joiner, aged 56, employing 3 men, born Egremont, home address 3 Princess Street [1851 census]

 

SHERWOOD HOTEL Botchergate

catering

CD 1952 Ad p82

 

SHEWEN, E.A. The Market

CN 06.09.2002 p4 Haberdashery stall closes after 40 years

 

SHIACH AND CO West Tower Street

Paper bag merchants and stationers

CD 1952 Ad p351

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p269

CD 1955-56 Ad p273

 

SHIELD 62 English St

Carlisle in Camera 1 p16 photo of hatter’s shop in 1870s

 

SHIELD HOUSE West side of London Rd, immediately north of road to Petteril Bank; so named on 25inch OS revision of 1924

1918 Electoral Register James and Robina Walker and Isabella and John Allen

 

SHIELDS, Edward Robert

City Minutes 1927-28 p628 Licensed to run bus service to Croglin, Renwick

 

SHIELDS COURT, Currock

1880 Directory 7 Currock Street

City Minutes 1934/5 p955 Nos 1 and 3 unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1935-36 p58 , 5,6, and 7 unfit for human habitation

 

SHIELD’S COURT, South John Street [1934 Directory]

1880 Directory 55, 56 South John Street

 

SHIELDS COURT, Water St

1880 Directory 59 Water Street

1901 census; John Little Shield, pawnbroker, aged 42, living on Water Street, adjacent to Shields Ct

1924 Carlisle Directory listed between 61-63 Water Street

City Minutes 1928-29 p786 No 4 unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1929-30 p650 No 4 unfit for human habitation

City Minutes 1934/5 p955 5,6, and 7 tenements unfit for human habitation

 

SHIP INN Irishgate Brow; in local directories to 1869; In early directories called the Old Ship

So named on the 1865 50 inch OS map 23.3.19 called Old Ship Inn

 

SHIP INN Rickergate; in local directories to 1914

CJ 26.01.1828 p2 Mrs Busby, Innkeeper, to let, apply Mrs Owen, owner

1861 census Margaret Harris, aged 46, innkeeper, born Longtown

CN 28.03.1991 p4 (illus)

 

SHIP LANE; Irishgate Old Ship Inn is here

1880 Directory 15 Rickergate

 

SHOEMAKERS

Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 72 Fred Miller outside shop, 1928

 

SHOEMAKERS GUILD see GUILDS

 

SHOPMOBILITY

ENS 10.04.1996 p6 (illus) A year of shopmobility

ENS 15.04.1996 p1 (illus) Wish pool pennies make dreams come true

ENS 04.05.1996 p5 Shoppers helping hand

ENS 04.06.1996 p9 Pump up your tyres and pedal off for shopmobility

CN 14.02.1997 p6 Champagne celebration for Eileen

CN 04.04.1997 p9 All line up for shop scheme birthday do!

CN 10.09.1999 p21 Praise galore

 

SHOPRITE

CN 24.06.1994 p12 Thumbs down

CN 09.09.1994 p1 Superstore fights for site

 

SHOPS AND SHOPPING

CAIH p65

See also BOTCHERGATE-SHOPS; LANES

CJ 13.06.1882 p2f Letter concerning half day closing; shop hours given

CN 07.07.1923 p9 Since the 1850s by another veteran

Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen Description of shops in Denton Holme in 1930s

ENS 08.12.1977 pp21-23 Ads

CN 28.08.1981 p3 New city mini shop precinct - Rosemary Lane

CN 04.09.1987 p6 City shopping policy explained; letter from Director of Planning

CN 18.09.1987 p10 Editorial

CN 19.08.1988 p10 Editorial

CN 04.11.1988 p1 Superstore fear has traders on the attack

CN 17.11.1989 p4 Worried about too many shops

CN 01.12.1989 p4 Co-operative venture keeps growing

CN 16.02.1990 p2 City shops plan

CN 04.05.1990 p1 Another city shop pulls out

CN 04.05.1990 p9 Traders look ahead

CN 04.05.1990 p12 A vicious circle of predators

CN 18.05.1990 p15 Late shopping response poor

CN 25.05.1990 p9 Not in the right spirit

CN 29.06.1990 p3 Planers no to city garden store

CN 14.09.1990 p1 Squeeze on city centre

CN 21.09.1990 p1 I’ll go bust; Rent

CN 21.09.1990 p10 Warning signs for our shops

CN 21.09.1990 p15 Protest ignored in store plan

CN 28.12.1990 p3 Weather fails to halt sales

CN 18.01.1991 p1 City shops face siege by raiders

CN 22.02.1991 p1 Traders feel the pinch

CN 08.03.1991 p5 Shake up could hit elderly

CN 03.05.1991 p5 Sunday trade is big stores aim

CN 14.06.1991 p4 Shop signs of the times

CN 02.08.1991 p11 Shoppers win pork price battle

CN 06.09.1991 p10 Rip off claim by city MP

CN 06.12.1991 p9 Sunday trading success

CN 20.12.1991 p1 Store wars dawn raids

CN 03.01.1992 p1 Stores wait and see on Sunday

CN 07.02.1992 p1 300 jobs in store for city

CN 14.02.1992 p1 Anger over new store plan

CN 24.07.1992 p15 Stores beating worst of gloom

CN 06.11.1992 pp1,12 City aims for the top

CN 05.03.1993 p9 New stores getting nearer

CN 19.03.1993 p3 City’s empty shops crisis

CN 02.07.1993 p3 Stores go ahead angers residents

CN 02.07.1993 p25 Comment on stores go ahead

CN 03.09.1993 p25 Ringing in a change in shopping

CN 17.09.1993 p12 Sledge hammer city

CN 10.12.1993 p1 Price wars fear as big stores target city

CN 04.02.1994 p1 New plans heat up stores wars

CN 18.02.1994 p7 New retail park plan - Dalston Road

CN 25.02.1994 p7 Retail park (Dalston Road) plan under scrutiny

CN 06.05.1994 p4 Jobs in store for city

CN 06.05.1994 p4 Driven to despair

CN 10.06.1994 p8 Threat to city centre superstores

CN 24.06.1994 p12 Thumbs down for discount store plan

CN 01.07.1994 p10 Counter attack

CN 01.07.1994 p21 Thumbs down to supermarket

CN 22.07.1994 p8 Shop mobility scheme

CN 05.08.1994 p5 Book store targets city

CN 26.08.1994 p27 Shopmobility plan launched

CN 19.08.1994 pp4-5 Supplement

CN 02.09.1994 p9 Shop plan could harm city centre

CN 09.09.1994 p1 Superstore fights for site

CN 16.09.1994 p5 New shops open

CN 13.01.1995 p13 Disabled to get free wheelchairs

CN 03.02.1995 p5 New 90s shopper....

CN 03.02.1995 p12 Aldi wants second city store

CN 17.03.1995 p11 Carlisle’s hidden heritage - shops frontage

CN 24.03.1995 p10 Everyone knew what was sold under the sign of golden hat

CN 28.04.1995 p3 Fight hots up against club store

CN 05.05.1995 p5 Superstores squeezing the city for space

CN 19.05.1995 p4 Shopmobility scheme grows

CN 26.05.1995 pp16-17 On the Viaduct; ad

CN 16.06.1995 p1 Food Giant up for sale in secret

CN 16.06.1995 p10 Lanes still has a future

CN 16.06.1995 p10 Death knell of a store; County Store

CN 16.06.1995 p13 Major retailers claim Carlisle is shopped out

CN 07.07.1995 p1 Why Food Giant boss shops at Tesco

CN 08.09.1995 p1 People power stalls Botchergate revamp

CN 15.09.1995 p1 Big name on way

CN 29.09.1995 p3 Boutique business quits Botchergate

CN 29.09.1995 p1 Botchergate gets seal of approval

CN 29.09.1995 p3 Top marks

CN 13.10.1995 p1 Netto sets its sights on city

CN 09.02.1996 p5 Call to support plan against new store - Morton

CN 09.02.1996 p12 Shops cash in on rush for winter woolies

CN 08.03.1996 p3 More city shops shut

CN 05.04.1996 p1 Metro or city centre?

CN 19.04.1996 p4 New city shop will create 11 jobs (Visionexpress)

CN 03.05.1996 p5 Angry shop owners are lottery losers

CN 31.05.1996 p3 Closure at Botchergate

CN 21.06.1996 p1 Rebel stores to woo 9pm shoppers

CN 28.06.1996 p1 No room in city for top high street names

CN 12.07.1996 p1 Sainsburys in search of site

CN 19.07.1996 p3 Danish supermarket chain

CN 23.08.1996 p3 Bank holiday working gets thumbs up

CN 20.09.1996 p6 Shot in the arm...top of shops survey

CN 11.04.1997 p3 Forget Metro Centre

CN 18.04.1997 p10 Milk, no sugar

CN 16.05.1997 p1 New link in chain?

CN 18.07.1997 p5 (illus) M and S buys Littlewoods store

CN 25.07.1997 p1 £30m Lanes expansion will divert drivers away from town centre

CN 08.08.1997 p1 Battle to save jobs

CN 22.08.1997 p2 Spending boom helps high street businesses

CN 19.09.1997 p1 Hundreds of jobs on way in city shops plans

CN 24.10.1997 p4 (illus) City shops to lure Xmas shoppers with rail deals

CN 07.11.1997 p1 City shop hires security guard to combat teenage shoplifting

CN 14.11.1997 p1 Roll out the Barrows, says city trust

CN 28.11.1997 p5 (illus) Xmas shoppers ‘leaving it late’

CN 01.05.1998 p3 Debenhams

CN 05.06.1998 p1 Loyalty card plan for city centre shops

CN 03.07.1998 p5 Loyalty card would help pay bills

CN 31.07.1998 p5 Campus extension snag - as store gets market site

CN 07.08.1998 p12 Shoppers heaven - new shops

CN 28.08.1998 p1 New Marks and Spencer

CN 11.09.1998 p1 Tycoon involved in city deal - Botchergate

CN 20.11.1998 p7 City of guinea pigs

CN 05.02.1999 p5 Developer pulls out - Heads Lane

CN 05.02.1999 p1 £8m recession beater

CN 19.03.1999 p2 Next leads the way on Sunday opening

Cumbria Life August 1999 no 65 pp12-13 Supplement 2 A9

CN 27.08.1999 p1 Matalan puts in plans again

CN 27.08.1999 p21 It may be ‘Tiny’

CN 22.10.1999 p1 £10m Viaduct superstore plan

CN 21.01.2000 p3 Superstore planning row

CN 24.03.2000 p5 Aldi plans second store

CN 31.03.2000 p1 Shop till you drop Sundays

CN 28.04.2000 p18 New era for Sunday shopping

CN 27.10.2000 p1 Debenhams opens; p12 opinion

CN 17.11.2000 p3 Christmas shopping

CN 24.11.2000 p1 Make the Lanes even bigger - look at future shopping demand

CN 22.12.2000 p1 Many shops enjoy best Christmas thanks to the new Debenhams

CN 29.12.2000 p1 Christmas sales high

CN 20.04.2001 p9 Plans for new superstore on Lower Viaduct

CN 27.04.2001 p16 Parking shortage blow to Carlisle’s shopping success

CN 18.01.2002 p3 Asda and Tesco plan extensions to their superstores

CN 15.02.2002 p3 Shops move out of Fisher Street; city shopping face changes

CN 15.03.2002 p12 review of supermarket giants in county

CN 19.04.2002 p5 Rents rocket; Scotch Street set for new shopping block

CN 05.09.2003 p1 Carlisle gets several new developments; Lidl, Tescos

CN 03.09.2004 p16 City ranked 68th best shopping centre in UK

CN 24.12.2004 p1 Chaos in shops; last minute shopping spree

CN 06.01.2006 p 3 Traditional corner shops could soon be a thing of the past

CN 21.04.2006 p1 Late night shopping in city centre from June 1st on Thursday evenings

CN 17.11.2006 p1 Proposed Sainsbury’s on Currock Rd

CN 29.12.2006 p3 Record as 67,222 shopers in town last Thursday

CN 05.09.2008 12 Superstores battling it out to develop new sites; feature

 

SHOP SIGNS

CN 26.02.2010 p34 Denis Perriam article; Carlisle trade signs

 

SHORT, Robert Blacksmith, died 06.01.1913; Monumental Inscription [18/31]

 

SHORTDALE HOUSE Stanwix

CN 29.04.1960 p12

 

SHORT STREET

City Minutes 1901-02 p 489 Approval for new street

 

SHOWJUMPING

CN 09.08.1991 p20 Harvey rides in for show event

CN 16.08.1991 p8 See Harvey in action

CN 23.08.1991 p11 Stars back city show jump day

 

SHROVE TUESDAY Shrove Tuesday games traditionally took place at the Swifts. In 1610/11 the city Chamberlains Accounts give the first indication that football was played. [Records of Early English Drama; Cumberland, Westmorland and Gloucestershire, 1986 p25]

 

SIEGE COINS

CWAAS OS Vol 7 pp54-56; all coins illustrated

CJ 29.04.1879 General Yorke Moore’s collection sold in London; prices achieved for three shillings and one shilling siege pieces

CJ 09.12.1884p2 Carlisle 3 shilling Siege Piece sold in Edinburgh

Topping, G and Potter,J Memorials of Old Carlisle p41 (illus) 1645 minted coin

CN 28.09.1956 p10 (illus) CN 15.10.1976

CN 30.05.1997 p7 Can expect to fetch £5,000

CN 06.04.2012 p33 Rare Civil War silver coin sells for £22,000 at Spinks; three shilling piece

 

SIEGE GUNS - at Citdael

CN 30.06.1951 p5 CN 19.03.1971 p14 (illus) CN 05.07.1974 p6

 

SIEGE OF 1173

King William of Scotland besieges the city but were beaten off

 

SIEGE OF 1174

King William of Scotland besieges the city, usual combination of bribes and menace. City blockaded with the Scots eventually withdrawing

 

SIEGE OF 1216

King William, still demanding the return of the Northern counties marched again on Carlisle. The city, when civil war broke out in England between King John and his barons, sided with the Scots and northern barons, opening its gates to the Scots on August 8 1216. The castle however under Robert de Vieuxpont held out, eventually succumbing after determined defence. After the end of the English civil war in 1217 King Alexander II, now isolated in the north, has little alternative but to give up the city to the English

 

SIEGE OF 1296

War began on 26th March 1296 when the Scots made a sudden attack on Carlisle. Taken completely by surprise, which turned to confusion when a Scottish spy escaped from prison and started a fire which threatened the whole city, the burgesses owed their deliverance principally to the courage of the women folk, who kept the Scots at bay with stones and boiling water whilst the men put out the flames. Their main weapon was surprise, when this failed the Scots abandoned the siege after 2 days

 

SIEGE OF 1315

Robert the Bruce began his siege of the city on 22.07.1315. In preparation for the expected siege the city gates had been blocked up and houses immediately below the walls had been knocked down. The garrison was commanded by Andrew de Harcla who led an energetic and determined defence. The Scots had all the necessary siege equipment, fascines, ladders, a huge mobile tower higher than the walls. The incessant rain bogged the Scots down meaning they couldn’t move their mobile tower across the waterlogged ground, the fascines failed to fill the ditch, the portable bridge didn’t bridge, The defenders had springalds to hurl javelins at the attackers and seven or eight stone throwing machines, against the Scots’ one. On July 30 and 31st the Scots launched a general attack on the complete circuit of the walls and castle. On August 1st hearing of a relieving English force the Scots withdrew. Only two Englishmen had been killed in the siege. The garrison of the Castle and city together may have consisted of 9 knights, 87 men at arms, 45 hobelars, and 395 foot soldiers [Summerson Carlisle Castle pp136-7]

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Topping, G and Potter, J.J. Memorials of Old Carlisle pp29 - 31

 

SIEGE OF 1644-45 City besieged for 9 months from October 1644 by Parliamentary forces

See also CIVIL WAR

 

SIEGES OF 1745

See JACOBITES

 

SIGNS AND DISPLAY Newtown Road

Signs

CD 1966-68 Ad p298

 

SILLOTH RAILWAY HOTEL Church St; in local directory for 1861

1861 census; Samuel Sewell , innkeeper, aged 27, bn Harrington

 

SILLOTH STREET, Wigton Road to York Street [1880 Directory]

 

SILVER BAND, CARLISLE CITY

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p102 Photo of band in 1954

 

SILVER GRILL English St; A legal notice appeared in the Carlisle Journal in August 1898 saying that Miss Tweddle was to remove her wine and beerhouse licence from her house at 5 English Street to the cafe known as the Silver Grill at 43 English Street. Projecting extension part of 1898 alterations. Later large Pageant [1928] Hall with tinted photos by Tassell. The fate of these murals is unknown. Restaurant closed 29 August 1964 when Boots bought the property [CN 11.09.2015 p16]

Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton p31 photo

Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p52 1960s photo of facade

Those Were the Days, M.Dickens pp25-26

CJ 23.01.1948 p1 Manager E.S.Wilson retired

CJ 17.02.1948 p1 Appointment of J.P.Higgins

CJ 26.03.1948 p1 Presentation

ENS 22.06.1960 Supplement; history

ENS 01.08.1964 p1 Silver Grill to be sold

ENS 04.08.1964 p1 Grill: move to switch bookings

ENS 06.08.1964 p1 Hit by electric failure

CN 05.11.1965 p9 (illus) Explosion and fire

ENS 14.03.1966 p12-13 Merger with W.Sproats

CN 28.06.2002 p13 Photo of interior and letter from head waiter

 

SILVERSMITH Scotch Street

CD 1893-94 Ad page pink inside cover

 

SIMMONS Botchergate

Furniture store

CD 1952 Ad p321

Memories of Carlisle, Chapter 1, photo of facade of shop

CD 1955-56 Ad p252

CD 1961-62 Ad p274

 

SIMONACCO LIMITED

Coal cleaning equipment and pump manufacturers

See also AUTOMATIC COAL CLEANING CO

ENS 02.06.1966 p1 £1m orders

ENS 01.12.1966 p1 New plant for city firm

 

SIMPSON, G and SONS Charlotte Street, Milbourne Cres; Bedford Road; Bridge Street

Joiners and funeral furnishers

CD 1920 Ad p246

CD 1924 Ad p100

CD 1927 Ad p108

CD 1931 Ad p217

CD 1934 Ad p128

CD 1937 Ad p319

CD 1952 Ad p300

Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p242

CD 1955-56 Ad p246

 

SIMPSON, George and Co Botchergate, West Walls

Drapery store

CD 1893-94 Ad p46

 

SIMPSON, Henry C Bank Street, Lowther Street

Tailors

CD 1955-56 Ad p270

CN 17.09.1938 p18