Common abbreviations used: CP = Carlisle Patriot; CJ = Carlisle Journal;
CN = Cumberland News; ENS = Evening News and Star; CD = Carlisle Directory
BABIES WELCOME AND SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS Founded 1905
Sanitary Conditions for City of Carlisle 1919 pp 70-71
BACKHOUSE, Mr Ironmonger
CJ 13.02.1847 p1b Mr Backhouse’s shop to sell; in business for 50 years
BACKHOUSE, John Joiner, died 09.01.1845 [Christ Church Memorials no 34]
BACKHOUSE WALK English Damside; so named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
1829 Directory; last voters list 1939
CN 11.09.1998 p9 ‘Dyeing’ mayor gave city to the Scots
BADMINTON
CN 02.02.1979 p15 (illus) International in Carlisle Market Hall
BAHAI FAITH
CN 26.03.1965 p11 Centre opened 21.03.1965
CN 23.04.1971 p32
BAILEY, William Bank Street
1861 Morris, Harrison and Co ad p13 Glass, china
BAINES, William Grocer, died 28.03.1912 [Monumental Inscription 124/13]; in
directories from 1870
BAIRD
M442 p42 Business label for watchmaker
BAIRD, George Watchmaker of this city died 14.11.1835; Monumental Inscription
in St Cuthbert’s Yard
BAIRD, Thomas 51 Castle Street
M442 pp7, 19 Business card for tea, coffee, wine and spirit merchant
BAIRD ROAD Harraby
1940 first directory; Deputy Town Clerk James A Baird
BAKEHOUSE, Carlisle public bakehouse
CJ 24.09.1946 p2
BALFOUR, Warren and WOOD Poultry
Kingstown Trading Estate
CD 1952 Ad p359
BALFOUR ROAD Wigton Road
First voters register 1905; council houses from 1932. ‘Balfour and Beaconsfield
Streets - to represent two politicians who have no earthly connection with the
place’
City Minutes 1902-03 p 410 Approval for 10 houses
CJ 05.05.1914
BALLADS
Round Carlisle Cross Vol 2 Carlisle in Ballad pp 58 - 80
BALLANTINE,W.N. Decorator
Warwick Road, Lonsdale St
CD 1893-94 Ad p82
CD 1905-06 Ad p179
CD 1907-08 Ad p205
BALLET
CJ 28.11.1944 p1 Anglo-Polish Ballet Company; visit to Carlisle
CJ 19.12.1950 p2 Continental Ballet Company visit to city
CN 26.01.1990 p1 Bolshoi first for city
CN 02.02.1990 p10 From Russia with love
CN 01.06.1990 p1 Ballet stars sparkle - From Moscow to Carlisle
BALLOON ASCENTS
See Connon,P In the Shadow of the Eagle’s Wing, 1982 2A 629.13
Charles Green ascended from Carlisle on 29.09.1825, and his son, Charles George,
on 11.10.1825; Charles Green made further ascents from the city on 28.06.1832
and 07.07.1832
CP 29.09.1825
CN 06.02.1970 p12 CN 13.02.1970 p12
CN 24.07.1948 p3 (illus) By Green on 28.06.1832
CN 26.07.1974 p6 By Green 1825
CN 02.08.1974 p6 By Green 1825
CN 05.07.1957 p8 By Green
CN 25.04.1958 p12 By Green
CN 15.04.1988 p4 By Green
CN 29.04.1955 p10 By Shipley
CN 13.02.1970 p12 Ascent in 1902
CN 27.07.1990 p4 A balloonists big day
CN 03.09.1993 p4 (illus) Balloon pioneer in city ascent
BALMORAL COURT First voters list 1975
CN 08.12.1989 p7 City battle over control of road
BAND OF HOPE, Carlisle and District
CJ 20.04.1948 p3 Festival
CN 25.09.1970 p14
CJ 13.04.1937 p4 Festival
B AND Q
CN 09.06.1989 p18 Ad
CN 19.05.1995 pp5,10 B and Q top brass mind shop
CN 23.03.2001 p5 B and Q plan to move to new London Road site
CN 01.03.2002 p3 Council considers three sites for suprstore development
CN 19.04.2002 p3 Local Government Ombudsman brought into row over site
BANDSTAND, Bitts Park
175 Years of Carlisle p39 Photo of bandstand
First concert 28.06.1894; demolished 1957
City Council Minutes 1892-93 p294 Resolution to accept design
City Council Minutes 1956-57 p456 Council decision to remove Bandstand
CJ 29.06.1894 p4h Opening of Bandstand
CN 08.02.1957 p8 Demolition
CN 01.08.1969 p12 Bandstand
CN 08.05.1987 p4 History of bandstand
CN 23.03.1989 p4 Victorian bandstand attracted the crowds
CN 28.09.1990 p4 City had bandstand they could not use
CN 29.03.2002 p3 City centre portable bandstand not here until after Easter
CN 10.05.2002 p3 (illus) Queens Jubilee bandstand; first engagement June 3rd
BANGLADESH COMMUNITY
CN 25.06.1999 p7 Muslim plan for prayers
BANK HOLIDAYS
CN 09.09.1994 p7 Distress call over May Day by bank manager
BANKING
CN 05.01.1952 p5 CN 05.12.1953 p8 CN 12.12.1953 p8
CN 13.03.1970 p14 CN 20.03.1970 p14
CP 28.01.1898 p6c,d Local annual reports
CJ 26.02.1965 Special supplement
CN 26.07.1996 p10 The golden age of Carlisle banking
BANK NOTES
CN 06.09.1947 p5 CN 13.09.1947 p3 CN 04.10.1947 p5
CN 11.10.1947 p3 CN 13.03.1970 p14 (illus)
BANK OF LIVERPOOL English Street 1911 - 1928
CN 21.07.1961 p10
CD 1913-14 Ad p26
BANK OF LIVERPOOL and MARTINS English St and Botchergate
CD 1920 Ad p24
CD 1924 Ad p56
CD 1927 Ad p58
BANK OF SCOTLAND
CN 03.07.1987 p9 Cumbria’s first woman bank manager
CN 21.10.1994 p12 Ad
BANKS
see above
see BARCLAYS BANK, CLYDESDALE BANK, CARLISLE OLD BANK, CARLISLE CITY AND DISTRICT
BANKING CO., CARLISLE AND NORTH WEST COUNTIES SAVINGS BANK, CARLISLE UNION BANK,
CUMBERLAND UNION BANK, DISTRICT BANK, LONDON COUNTY WESTMINSTER AND PARRS BANK
LTD, LONDON JOINT CITY AND MIDLAND BANK, MACKAY DAVIDSON AND GLADSTONE, MARTINS
BANK, MIDLAND BANK, PENNY SAVINGS BANK, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, ROYAL BANK OF
SCOTLAND, SALVATION ARMY BANK, TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK,
CAIH p62
CN 15.09.1989 p4 Private banks risky for investors
CN 12.07.1991 p4 Banking was risky for investors
CJ 13.07.1934 p8 Carlisle and Cumberland
CN 24.03.1995 p3 City bank notes make a mint
CN 22.01.1999 p12 How a bank was saved (Cumberland Union)
BANK STREET
The White Lion Inn on English Street was demolished in 1849 to make way for
the Carlisle City and District Bank. New street between English Street and Lowther
Street named Bank Street
See also Clydesdale Bank; Celebrations
Carlisle in Camera p20
CJ 21.12.1849 Records laying out of new street and building of bank
BANNISTER Photographer
Carlisle Examiner 29.01.1859 p2e Photo portrait of Bishop
BAPTIST CHURCH From 1809 the Baptists held their meetings in a room in Abbey
Street; sometime after 1817 they rented the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
in Fisher Street; (S.Jefferson, 1838, p274); another sect, the Berian Baptists,
met in a small Chapel in Tower Street, built in 1818 [P&W 1829 p140]; the
location of 2 Baptist Chapels is shown on Wood’s 1821 map of the city;
by 1847 the Baptists were renting a room at the Athenaeum; Foundation stone
of Aglionby St Chapel laid 21.07.1887; opened 17.11.1888; building halved and
refurbished church opened 24.01.2004, other half flats to be called Church Ct
CN 26.03.1971 p10
CN 01.04.1994 p1 Pilgrims Easter trek to Holy Isle
Oct/Nov 2003 extensive interior works undertaken on Aglionby St Chapel
CN 23.01.2004 p3 New look church opens tomorrow; building halved
BAR, W Jewellers
ENS 01.12.1977 p14 Ad
BARBERS
CN 29.07.1994 p1 City snippers old pals act
BARCLAY and MATHIESON
CN 17.08.1990 Ad p6
BARCLAYS BANK Devonshire St; English Street building 1875 - see The Carlisle
and Cumberland Banking Company
CD 1920 Ad p32
CN 21.01.1974 p11 (illus) new building
ENS 02.06.1955 p1 Slick robbery
ENS 01.03.1962 p9 (Illus) Pioneer of Gothic revival
CN 21.04.1995 p3 Bank staff to ballot on strike
CN 26.05.1995 p1 Sack threat to bank staff
CN 26.01.1996 Ad p7
BARKER and CO 73-75 Castle Street
Home furnishers
CD 1931 Ad p68
CD 1934 Ad p68
BARKER, George 50 Blackfriars St
Saw maker
CD 1880 pxi
BARKER, Henry Durranhill Road
Motor and Agricultural engineer
CD 1952 Ad p341
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p260
BARLEY STACK Rickergate; in local directories to 1906
CP 11.10.1862 p1 Ad To let; now occupied by Fras Foster
CN 02.09.1911 Ad; Old Barley Stack Temperance Hotel to let
BARLEY STACK LANE Rickergate
Listed in Carlisle Directories 1829 to 1902-03
City Minutes 1917-18 p 242 Demolition of part of properties in lane
City Minutes 1919-20 p239 Arrange tenders to demolish remaining houses in lane
BARN CLOSE, Stanwix
CJ 17.02.1948 p1 CJ 22.06.1948 p1
CN 26.07.1947 p5 To be bought for Eventide Home for women
CN 30.04.1949 p5 (illus) Preview before official opening
CJ 06.05.1949 p1 Opening
CN 07.05.1949 p5 Opening
CN 14.05.1949 p9 (illus) Opening
CN 19.07.1991 p3 Signed over to trust
BARN CLOSE STANWIX DAY CENTRE
CN 24.04.1987 p40 Opening
BARNES, Philip Attorney at Law; Bailey’s Northern Directory, 1784
BARNES, Robert E and Alex. F
City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate between Carlisle to Bowness
BARNES, Thomas Nailor of Botchergate, died 24.09.1796 [Monumental Inscription
St Cuthbert’s Yard]
BARNES BORDER GARAGE
Carlisle in Camera 2 p50 photo of Lowtrher Street garage in 1930
BARNES MOSS 71-73 English St
Bookseller, Printer, Stationer and Railway Bookstalls
Guide to Carlisle C178 Ad
CD 1880 Ad pp 158,176
CD 1884-85 Ad pp ix,157
BAROMETER MAKERS see PEDRONE, L
BARRACLOUGH,L and B. Baker and confectioner
227 Blackwell Rd
CD 1952 Ad p72
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p224
BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS (Carlisle) Ltd
CN 11.04.1975 pp8-9 (illus)
BARRETT, James Bootmaker, aged 26, employing 2 men, home adress 7 Crown and
Anchor Lane, born Carlisle [1851 census]
BARROCK STREET Botchergate; 1884 Carlisle Directory says previously called Hexham
Street
BARTON, Mary Coachbuilder, aged 45, employing 33 men,home address 1 Crescent,
born Carlisle, widower [1851 census]; Robert Barton, aged 32, coachbuilder,
employing 30 men and 1 boy, home address 1 The Crescent, born Wigton [1861 census]
BARTON AND SONS Crescent Carriage Works
Carlisle Diocesan Directory 1873 ; Ad established 1820
BARTON, HODGSON AND CO Bleachfields
CPacquet 25.04.1780 p1 Thomas Hodgson takes over works
BARWICK BROTHERS Builders and contractors
Carlisle and Gilsland
CD 1952 Ad p266
BARWISE NOOK Willow Holme; completed 1900; demolished 1966
CJ 16.07.1965 p5 (illus) CN 02.04.1976 p6 CN 19.03.1976 p6
Carlisle in Camera 1 p43 photo of houses under construction about 1900
Old Carlisle; Second photographic recollection; J.Templeton pp20-21 views
City Minutes 1896-97 p 339 Approval for 5 blocks of dwellings for labouring
class
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p15 Photo of demoliiton in 1966
BASEBALL
CN 16.05.1936 p19 (Illus) At Brunton Park
BASIN, Carlisle
CJ 29.09.1950 p4 Geological notes
BASSENTHWAITE STREET
City Minutes 1898/99 p 346 Approval for new street
BATES, Joseph 82 Lowther St
Linen and woollen draper
CD 1893-94 Ad p138
BATEY,D.Geo Shoe stylist
Lowther Arcade
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p60
CD 1955-56 Ad p60
CD 1961-62 Ad p260
CD 1966-68 Ad p259
BATEY, Robert and Co 109-111 Lowther St
Plumbing and electrical engineer
CD 1952 Ad p355
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p268
CD 1955-56 Ad p278
CD 1961-62 Ad p70
BATEY, W and Sons 25 Scotland Rd, 35 Warwick Rd, 71 Warwick Rd
Electricians, plumbers and sanitary engineers
CD 1927 Ad p152
BATEY, Wilfred 2 Currock Rd, 13 Strand Rd, Corby Hill
Joiner and funeral director
CD 1952 Ad p324
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p252
CD 1955-56 Ad p257
CD 1961-62 Ad p280
CD 1966-68 Ad p 277
BATEY,William Crescent Works, 15 Warwick Rd, Crosby Court, Crosby Works,
Plumber and sanitary engineer
CD 1902-03 Ad p18
CD 1905-06 Ad p115
CD 1907-008 Ad p188
CD 1910-11 Ad p177
CD 1913-14 Ad p84
CD 1920 Ad p236
CD 1924 Ad p132
BATEY,William and Sons 68 Warwick Rd, 71 Warwick Rd, Brunswick Chambers,Collier
Lane, Court Square
Electrical engineers and contractors; plumbers
CD 1931 Ad p 202
CD 1934 Ad p136 Established 1899
CD 1952 Ad p357
CD 1961-62 Ad p293
CD 1966-68 Ad p293
BATEY, William and Sons Bartons Yard, the Crescent
Joiners and contractors
CD 1910-11 Ad p9
BATH HOUSE see EDENSIDE BATH HOUSE
BATHS
Foundation stone laid 04.09.1883; opened 31.07.1884; commemorative foundation
stone of new baths laid 17.11.1974; new baths opened officially 17th November
1975
City Council Minutes 08.07.1880 p148 Open air in River Eden, pp 184-190 report
Carlisle an illustrated history p81 Photo of laying of foundation stone
City Council Minutes 1883/84 03.07.1884 p18
City Minutes 1920-21 p 680 Proposal for open air baths in Rickerby Park
CP 01.08.1884 p5 CP 08.08.1884 p5 CN 03.12.1954 p12
City Minutes 1928-9 p114 Experiment in mixed bathing on one day per week
CN 02.07.1965 p3 CN 17.01.1975 p7
CJ 07.01.1938 p1 Proposed open air pool for city
CJ 16.12.1949 p4 Refreshment bar to be erected
CN 30.10.1964 p1 (illus) New baths site
CN 14.02.1969 p3 (Illus) New baths site - artist’s impression
ENS 03.11.1960 p12 Swimming boom
ENS 08.09.1977 p15 (illus) New baths
ENS 15.10.1977 p5 (illus) New baths
CN 25.09.1970 p1 New baths
CN 18.09.1970 p1 New baths
CN 21.11.1975 p17 New baths opening
CN 02.02.1973 p15 Proposed new baths
CN 09.02.1973 p5 Proposed new baths
CN 21.11.1975 p17 Opening of new baths
ENS 22.03.1976 p8 Illustration of old baths
CN 17.11.1967 p14 New baths
CN 15.09.1967 p1 New baths
CN 08.12.1967 p1 New baths
CN 15.12.1967 p13 New baths
CN 26.01.1968 p11 New baths
ENS 13.10.1976 p5 (illus) Pool plan puts city in the swim
CN 26.05.1989 p53 Pool threat worry for swimming club
CN 02.06.1989 p40 Swimming baths fear allayed
CN 16.04.1992 p52 Get a tan on the Costa del Carlisle
CN 15.01.1993 p19 New image for baths
CN 27.08.1993 Ad p52 In the swim
CN 27.01.1995 p17 Swimmers pool plea
CN 02.08.2002 p7 To be run by charitable trust
BATHS, Turkish Opened 20.09.1909; William Johnstone contractor; tiling and flooring
Messrs Minton, Hollins and Co, Stoke
CJ 17.09.1909 p5 CN 13.11.1959 p12
CP 04.01.1901 p4f Turkish Baths for Carlisle
CP 10.09.1909 p5aDescription of the building
CJ 13.01.1950 p2 Turkish baths opened
ENS 11.11.1959 p13 (illus) Take the plunge
CN 22.11.1991 p3 Turkish baths end
ENS 15.01.1992 p3 Public rally to save baths
CN 07.02.1992 p5 Backing for the baths
CN 28.02.1992 p3 Baths boost
BATS see CUMBRIA BAT GROUP
BATTAIL HOLME is so named Le Batailholm in 1352
BATTLE OF BRITAIN WEEK
CJ 17.09.1948 p3 Swimming gala
CJ 21.09.1948 p1 Service
CJ 21.09.1948 p1 Silloth display
CJ 21.09.1948 p3 Kirkbride RAF open day
CJ 10.09.1948 p5 Local observances
CJ 14.09.1948 p1 Local observances
CN 11.09.1948 p5 Local observances
CN 25.09.1948 p5 Local observances
BATY BROTHERS 141 Botchergate
Fish and poultry dealers
CD 1961-62 Ad p271
BATY,J and Sons Botcherby and Old St Nicholas
Builders and contractors
CD 1902-03 Ad p5
CD 1907-08 Ad p8
CD 1910-11 Ad p10
BATY, Messrs James and William Upperby and West Walls
Building contractors
CN 08.10.1954 p10 CN 22.10.1954 p10 CN 13.11.1970 p14 (illus)
CD 1884-85 Ad p265
BATY, Thomas Coachmaker of this city died 22.09.1813; Monumental Inscription
in St Cuthbert’s Yard
BATY,Thomas
Furnishers
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p19
BATY, Thomas Cabinetmaker, aged 59, employing 15 men, home address Fisher St,
born Crosby, Cumberland [1851 census]
BATY, Thomas and Sons 23 Fisher St
Upholsterers and carpet warehouseman
CD 1893-94 Ad p74
BATY, Thomas and Sons 2 Lonsdale St; established 1831
Cabinetmakers and upholsters
CD 1924 Ad p228
CD 1931 Ad p185
CD 1934 Ad p240
All About Carlisle 1934 p 98 Founded 1831 by Thomas Baty
CD 1937 Ad p154
CD 1940 Ad p50
CD 1950 Ad p319
Cumberland directory 1954 Ad p249
CD 1955-56 Ad p253
CN 01.03.2002 p3 (illus) Closes down after 171 years; W.Davis retires
BATY, William West Walls
Builder and contractor
CD 1902-03 Ad p10
CD 1905-06 Ad p48
CD 1907-08 Ad p118
CD 1910-11 Ad p86
BAXTER, Celia Ballet teacher
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p109 1972 photo of class
BAXTER,John 132 Botchergate
Grocer and provision dealer
CD 1880 Ad pxxvi
BAXTER, M.A.
1882 Porters Directory Ad p134 William Armstrong, late MA Baxter, glass and
china
BAXTER, Thomas Painter and glazier, employing 1 man, home address 5 Hodgsons
Court, born Longtown [1851 census]
BAXTERS INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS
CN 14.02.2003 p16 25 jobs crceated at Kingmoor warehouse
BAXTER’S ROW is Le Bakster rawe so named in 1380, meaning Bakers Row
BAY HORSE Rickergate; in local directories 1869 - 1914
ENS 19.10.1916 Closure
BAY HORSE LANE Rickergate
Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p58 photo in 1937 before demolition
BAZAARS
CN 01.12.1989 p4 Bazaar for weavers made county history
BEACONSFIELD STREET
City Council Minutes 10.06.1881 Approval for laying out of new street
BEADLE and HILL jewellers
CN 08.12.1989 p5 Rent rise crisis for jewel firm
BEARING POWER Denton Holme
CN 25.11.1994 Ad p14
BEARING SERVICE LTD
CN 13.11.1987 p8 Ad
BEATLES, The Popular music group
Played in Carlisle 08.02.1963 and 28.11.1963
CN 05.02.1988 p7 Beatlemania hits the city
ENS 26.10.1963 p1 Teenagers on ticket stampede
BEATTIE, Elizabeth 20 Lowther St
1882 Porters Directory Ad p140 Dressmaker
BEATTIE, F Without the Irish Gate
!811 Jollie’s Directory p84 Hat manufactory and dye house
BEATTIE, George Damside
Hat manufactory
CP 03.07.1819 p1e For sale after death of owner
BEATTIE and Co Murrell Hill, Warwick Rd
Sculptors and masons; funeral directors; founded by David Johnstone Beattie;
started at Murrell Hill under the name of Laing and Beattie; after WWI name
changed to Beattie and Co; 1925 firm moved to Warwick Road [obit of David Johnstone
Beattie CN 03.07.1964 p11]
Carlisle an illustrated history p84 Photo of workman carving WWI memorial
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p19
CJ 04.07.1939 Industrial supplement
CD 1920 Ad p158
CD 1924 Ad p32
CD 1927 Ad p168
CD 1931 Ad p168
CD 1934 Ad p162
CD 1937 Ad p168
CD 1940 Ad p 172
CD 1952 Ad p210
Cumberland Directory Ad p218
CD 1955-56 Ad p93
CD 1961-62 Ad p107
CD 1966-68 Ad p97
CN 15.10.1999 p13 Ad
BEATTIE and LAING Murrell Hill
Monumental sculptors
CD 1905-06 Ad p99
BEATY and Co Solicitors
CN 26.02.1988 Ad p11 Amalgamated to become Mounseys
BEATY Sons and Co 32 Lonsdale St, Backhouse Walk
Cardboard box manufacturer
CD 1913-14 Ad p172
CD 1920 Ad p77
CD 1924 Ad pp 5, 160
CD 1927 Ad pp 288,304
BEATY, James Stone Yard, Cecil St, Tile Works,Curthwaite Station
Builder, contractor, brick and tile merchant
CD 1884-85 Ad p281
BEATY,James 4 Old Post Office Court
Builder and contractor
CD 1902-03 Ad p20
CD 1905-06 Ad p96
BEATY,James and Sons Lonsdale St
Stationers and printers, advertising
Leading Trader of the City A 616, pp13,14
CD 1902-03 Ad facing 104/5
CD 1907-08 Ad facing page 156, p262
CD 1910-11 Ad pp 161,176, 272
CD 1913-14 Ad pp 85, 195,280
CD 1920 Ad pp 19, 80, 208
CD 1924 Ad pp188,265, 293
CD 1927 Ad back page ii
CD 1952 Ad p236 back page 1
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad back page v , 41, 288
CD 1955-56 Ad pp 8, 241, back page v
BEATY, M 98 English St
Confectioner and caterer
Leading Trader of the City A 616 p 27
CD 1910-11 Ad pp80,145
CD 1913-14 Ad p122
CD 1920 Ad p180
BEATYS Lonsdale St
Printers, books, binding, greaseproof, bags, sulphite wrappings
CD 1907-08 Ad p20
CD 1927 Ad p176
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad ppxlix, xxx, xxxiv
BEATY’S COTTAGES Harraby; in voters’ lists to 1939
Carlisle an illustrated history p68 Photo of rear in 1904
BEATY’S TRAVEL SERVICE 34 Lowther St
CD 1961-62 Ad p302
BEAUFORT HOUSE Chiswick St
Higher grade school
CD 1893-94 Ad p14
BEAUMONT, John Brandy merchant; Bailey’s Northern Directory,1781 and 1784;
died 14.11.1806 [Monumental Inscription St Cuthbert’s Yard]
BEAUTIFUL BATHROOMS Warwick Road
CN 22.01.1988 Ad feature p6
CN 18.01.1991 Ad feature p8
BEAUTIFUL CARLISLE SOCIETY founded 1920
CN 13.12.1919 CJ 12.12.1919 CN 13.07.1957 p8 CN 14.09.1973 p6
CN 21.09.1973 p6
CN 24.08.1990 p4 Call to make city beautiful
BEAVAN and Co 51-53 English St
House furnishers
CD 1902-03 Ad pp 34,51,54,55,180,189,264 and 273
CD 1905-06 Ad p170
CD 1907-08 Ad p157
BEAVER COTTAGE Andrew Carruthers of Beaver Cottage died 10.04.1845 [Holy Trinity
Churchyard no 32]; on 1851 census Beaver is listed with John Carruthers as head
of household, aged 41, born Irthington, farmer and insurance agent, Beaver Cottage
is listed separately for a gardner
BEAVER HALL One and a half miles from Carlisle off the Wigton Road
Sale notice 08.05.1799 in parcel of papers BO 1
CP 01.09.1821 p1e Ad; for sale; now occupied by William Hetherington
BEAVER ROAD
CN 08.06.1990 p4 Old farm gave its name to city streets
BECK, John Mercer, died 05.11.1791 [Monumental Inscription St Mary’s Churchyard,
the Cathedral; no 152]
BECKET’S SWORD
CJ 19.05.1944 p4 Robert Bruce swears fealty to Edward I in Carlisle Cathedral
BECKETT’S FISH AND CHIP SHOP Denton Street
Dentonholme Childhood, B.Cullen, pp21, 34 1930s photo and decription
BECKO’S DELICATESSEN Castle St
CN 08.02,1980 p1 (illus) Demolition
BEDFORD ROAD
City Minutes 1921-22 p657 Approval for two houses
BEEBY, Margaret Dressmaker, employing 4 girls, home address 4 St Albans Row,
born Kirkoswald [1851 census]
THE BEECHES, Carleton James Shanks of the Beeches, carleton, died 31.10.1905
[Monumental Inscription 119/3]
BEECH GROVE Stanwix
CN 13.08.1993 p6 letters concerning housing
CN 20.08.1993 p6 Permission exists, housing
CN 12.08.1994 p9 Building protesters silent
BEECH HOUSE, Belle Vue Dora Graham died Beech House, Belle Vue 04.10.1933 [MI
393/12]
BEEHIVE Warwick Road; in local directories from 1873
CP 30.12.1887 Ad Bee-Hive Inn to let
ENS 01.10.1975 p14,15 (illus) Things buzzing at the Beehive
ENS 15.07.1998 Beehive reopens after revamp
BEEHIVE FURNITURE DEPOT London Rd and Charles St
1882 Porters Directory Ad p154 Margaret Forster general dealer
BEER
CJ 21.11.1947 p1 Strike at state brewery
CJ 25.11.1947 p1 Strike at state brewery
CJ 28.11.1948 p1 Return to work
CN 14.11.1975 p10 (illus) Theakston brewery
BEGGARS see TRAMPS
BELAH
CP 11.12.1841 p1 Ad; field called Belah Close for sale
BELAH ESTATE
Sale of estate 30.10.1920 see B/CAR 333.333 (acc no 3263)
CN 23.10.1920 p12 Belah Estate for sale; Belah Cottage, Belah Gdns, Belah Hse
CN 01.08.1997 p11 Love and Wordsworth made suburb romantic
BELAH SCHOOL Opened 12.05.1972
CJ 16.05.1952 p5 Opening
CN 17.05.1952 p7 Opening
Memories of Carlisle, Chapter 2 Photo of school chldren in 1950s
CN 21.11.1953 p8 Belah new school is educational milestone
CJ 20.11.1953 p1 New ultra modern Belah school
CN 22.05.1992 p29 School anniversary
CN 03.06.1994 p4 School battles against cash cuts
CN 16.02.1996 p1 Parents still in dark over head
CN 23.02.1996 p1 Headteacher was crucified
CN 01.03.1996 p3 Head defends himself
CN 15.03.1996 p5 Verdict soon on head
CN 29.03.1996 p3 Date set for head
CN 26.04.1996 p1 Row rages on
CN 03.05.1996 pp1,10 Ex head considers job tribunal
CN 10.05.1996 p3 Give us the facts
CN 17.05.1996 p3 Parents anger
CN 24.05.1996 p3 No open meeting
CN 31.05.1995 p5 Teachers told to boycott top job
CN 28.06.1996 p2 Long history of problems
CN 19.07.1996 p5 Talks aim for peace
CN 26.07.1996 p3 I won’t take my children out of Belah
ENS 29.05.1996 p1 Headteachers blacklist Belah
CN 25.10.1996 p1 D Day as troubled school picks new head
CN 01.11.1996 p5 It’s time to look ahead, says new head of troubled Belah
CN 29.11.1996 p5 Parents anger as taxpayers foot Belah school head bill
CN 21.02.1997 p5 New head
BELL, Isaac Carrier of this city died 05.10.1828; Monumental Inscription St
Cuthbert’s Yard
BELL J and R Nelson St; firm founded 1863; firm out of busness circa 1949
Builders
City Minutes 1928-9 p133 Acceptance of tender for houses at Raffles/ Longsowerby
City Minutes 1929-30 p752 Tender of J and R Bell for 50 houses accepted; Raffles
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p18
CJ 07.01.1938 p10 - paragraph in ‘Local Trade’
CD 1902-03 Ad p179
CD 1905-06 Ad p133
CD 1907-08 Ad p102
CD 1910-11 Ad p152
CD 1913-14 Ad p62
CD 1920 Ad p236
CD 1924 Ad p60
CD 1927 Ad p64 Established 1863
CD 1931 Ad p128
CD 1934 Ad p36
CD 1937 Ad p36
CD 1940 Ad p36
BELL, Joe Central Post Yard, West Wall Crown and Mitre Garage
Car Hire
CD 1931 Ad p80
CD 1934 Ad p68
CD 1937 Ad p124
CD 1940 Ad p68
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p278
CD 1952 Ad p381
CD 1955-56 Ad 285
CD 1961-62 Ad p44
CD 1966-68 Ad p300
BELL, John Master shoemaker, aged 41, employing 3 apprentices, born Kirklinton,
home address 22 Lowther Street [1851 census]
BELL, John Draper died 25.06.1908 [Monumental Inscription 10/14]
BELL, John Botchergate, 103 Denton Street
Butcher
CD 1893-94 Ad p48
CD 1905-06 Ad p99
CD 1907-08 Ad p106
CD 1910-11 Ad p127
CD 1913-14 Ad p119
CD 1920 Ad p92
CD 1924 Ad p40
CD 1927 Ad p38 Established 1860
CD 1931 Ad 88
CD 1934 Ad p76
CD 1937 Ad p60
BELL, Jospeh Carpenter of this city, died 11.11.1801; Monumental Inscription
St Cuthbert’s Yard
BELL, Joseph 17 Rickergate
Tinsmith and hardware dealer
CD 1893-94 Ad p174
BELL, Joseph
City Minutes 1925-6 p159 Licensed to operate bus service to Hallbankgate
City Minutes 1926-7 p628 Licensed to operate bus service to Hallbankgate
BELL, Joseph and Son 52 Scotland Road
Joiners and contractors
CD 1924 Ad p72
CD 1927 Ad p76
CD 1931 Ad p300
CD 1934 Ad p240
CD 1937 Ad p154
CD 1940 Ad p162
BELL, M 159 Botchergate
Bakers and confectioners
CD 1952 Ad p82
CD 1955-56 Ad p224
BELL, Robert Draper aged 35, employing 1 assistant and 3 apprentices, home address
79 English Street, born Bowness, Cumberland [1851 census]
BELL,T and Sons Rosehill
CN 02.10.1998 p1 Bell brothers sell up cattle haulage business
BELL, T.P. Abbey Street
Cycle retailers
1901 census for Stanwix Thomas Bell bicycle maker [fitter] aged 23
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p18
ENS 07.08.1962 p5 Thomas Pollock Bell, 84, died today; started firm 64 years
ago
CD 1940 Ad p216
CD 1952 Ad p62
CD 1955-56 Ad p6
CD 1961-62 Ad p267
CD 1966-68 Ad p261
CN 07.04.1989 p1 Shop closes after more than 90 years
BELL,T.W. 58 West Tower Street
Horticultural engineer
1954 Cumberland Directory Ad p246
BELL,W and Co Ferguson’s Lane, English St, 7 and 9 Portland Place
Plumbers
CD 1884-85 Ad p270
BELL,W and Son 5 and 6 New Markets
Butchers
CD 1952 Ad p274
BELL, Walter Tailor and draper, aged 56, emloying 7 men, home address 62 Scotch
St, born Scotland [1851 census]
BELL, William Shipbuilder, Canal Basin; in directories 1829 - 1851
BELL, William Chemist, aged 33, with 3 assistants, born Carlisle, home address
English Street [1861 census]
BELL, William Millwright, aged 45, employing 19 men,home address 1 Spring Gardens
Lane, born Kirklinton, Cumberland [1851 census]
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p 7 Lowther St millwright and engineer
BELL, William 2 Tait Street
Butcher
CD 1952 Ad p273
BELLERBY and SONS 30 English Street, 93 Botchergate
Household drapery
Carlisle in Camera 1 p19 phoot showing part of facade
CD 1893-94 Ad p108
BELLE VUE Belle Vue estate sold 08.11.1898; Belle Vue became part of city in
November 1912
CJ 26.09.1865 p2 In 1865
04.10.1933 Dora Graham died Beech House, Belle Vue [MI 393/12]
CN 20.06.1997 p13 Aerial view
BELLE VUE POST OFFICE
CN 24.01.1975 p3
CN 14.02.2003 p7 Moorhouse Road post office earmarked for closure
CN 25.04.2003 p3 Post Office closes
BELLE VUE READING ROOM
CP 27.12.1862 p5
BELLE VUE SCHOOL
Civic Affairs January 1969 p2 Hoped to open January 1969
Civic Affairs October 1970 p2 Classrooms opened in Aug; all finished Easter
1971
BELLGARTH NURSERY
see also WALTONS
CP 13.01.1905 p1 To let Bellgarth Gardens, Newtown - nurseries; 7500 ft of glass
BELLGARTH ROAD
City Minutes 1903-04 p758 Permission to lay out estate
BELL PARK KERRIDGE Portland Square
Solicitors
CN 04.02.2000 Ad p9
CN 13.12.2002 p14 Senior appointment at law firm
BELLRINGERS and BELLMEN
CN 08.02.1947 p5
CN 31.05.1947 p5 To form association
CJ 27.05.1947 p2 Cumberland and Westmorland Assoc. of Change Ringers reformed
CN 22.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 12.09.1997 p2 People needed to ring in Millennium
BELLS see CATHEDRAL-BELLS; ‘MUCKLE TOUN BELL’; RACING
BELL’S COURT, Rickergate
City Minutes 1928-9 p361 No 1 unfit for human habitation
BELL’S FISHMONGERS The Market; Kingstown
175 Years of Carlisle p115 photo of market stall about 1990
CN 02.04.1993 Ad p16
CN 14.02.1997 p4 Rare prize
CN 08.03.2002 p14 Fish and game firm expansion will create jobs
CN 21.03.2003 p3 Bell’s open shop in Cranston’s Fisher St shop
BELLS OF LAZONBY
CN 27.06.2003 p7 bakers pull out of covered market
BENDALL, James and Sons London Road
Sheet metal workers and motor body repair
CN 17.09.1938 p20
CJ 09.12.1949 p5 25th Anniversary
CN 14.04.1967 p1 Extensions
CN 15.07.1955 Work on Donald Campbell’s Bluebird
CN 14.04.1960 p3 Cumberland News Industrial supplement
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p51 1960 interior photo of works; also p68
CN 24.12.1971 p13 Obit of James Bendall
CN 24.11.1989 p5 Strike set to spread
CN 20.05.1995 Centenary supplement
ENS 18.07.1996 p1 Carrs Milling buys Bendalls
CN 27.02.1998 Ad p12
CN 23.03.2001 p5 Plan to move to Kingmoor Park
CN 30.03.2001 p18 Revolutionary engine turbine to be made in Carlisle
CN 23.08.2002 p20 Bendalls complete world’s first tidal curent turbine
CN 30.05.2003 p2 Strike and no confidence in bosses vote
CN 20.06.2003 p14 Lead role in generating electricity from tidal currents
CN 25.07.2003 p18 Cash to develop underwater turbines
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p259
BENDIX SAFETY RESTRAINTS see KANGOLS
BENDLE, Henry 17 Scotch Street
Wine and spirit merchant
Guide to Carlisle Ad C178
1882 Porters Directory Ad p88 Successor to T.L.Gilkerson
BENDLE, Robert Solicitor; died 12.06.1866, aged 72 [Monumental inscription 5/33]
BENDLE, Robert Attorney at Law, aged 66, living at 1 Victoria Place, born Carlisle
[1851 census]
BENFIELD MOTORS Rosehill Estate;Nissan dealership taken over from Masons
CN 17.08.2001 p15 Plans to transform dealership
BENSON ,J.J. and J.
CN 17.11.1995 p1 Mobile shop loss is gain to market
BERLIN TERRACE Renamed Chertsey Mount in 1917 (City Minutes 1916-17 p203)
City Minutes 1891-92 p261 Approval for new street
City Minutes 1893-94 p 238 Approval for 4 houses
CJ 30.06.1967 p10 CN 14.09.1973 p6
CN 02.06.1989 p4 City street name that lost favour
CN 30.06.1989 p4 Police changed house numbers
BERLIN WOOL SHOPS
CN 16.04.1987 p4
BESWICK, A Strawbonnet maker
CJ 06.03.1847 p1c Advert; shop in Paternoster Row
BETTAM and Co 4 Irishgate, 10 Annetwell St
Boot manufacturer
CD 1902-03 Ad p227
BEWICK, Thomas Wood engraver
CN 26.04,1952 p4 Local connections
CN 18.06.1971 p14 Work
CN 09.07.1971 p14 Work
BEWLEY, Robert School; 31 Chiswick St
CP 16.12.1870 Number in attendance at school 35
BEWLEY, William
City Minutes 1923-4 p587 Licensed to operate bus services Carlisle - Gretna
BEWSHER,F.O. 14-16 English St; see also Angel Inn
Wine and spirit merchant
CD 1893-94 Ad p110
CD 1902-03 Ad p14
BHP MOTORSPORTS
CN 03.04.1992 p10 Firm with high performance
BIBLES
CP 28.05.1835 Advert, sale of bibles by Thurnam and Scott
BIBLE SOCIETY Cumberland and CarlisleAuxiliary Bible Society started in 1813
CP 30.04.1853 p1a Notice of the annual meeting on May 3rd
BICYCLE CLUB
CN 04.12.1964 p12 (illus)
BICYCLES see CYCLING; BORDER CITY WHEELERS
BIDDY MULLIGAN’S see WOOLPACK
BIFFA
see also REFUSE COLLECTION
CN 22.02.1991 pp1,10 Bin firm may dump Carlisle
CN 08.03.1991 p25 Bin cleaning wont stop pledges Biffa
BIG SOFTIES West Walls
CN 21.05.1999 p9 (illus) To close
BIJOU THEATRE Mechanics Hall, Fisher St
CJ 27.10.1868 p2 Charles Dillon, distinguished actor appears at Bijou Theatre
CJ 29.12.1868 p3a 3 or 4 years since theatricals revived in city at Bijou Theatre
CJ 24.12.1869 Ad for Bijou Theatre; Fredrick Young’s London Comedy Co
CN 13.12.1963 p10 Illustration of playbill
BINGO
see also Gala Bingo
ENS 06.08.1963 p1 (illus) Bingo for HM Theatre
CN 13.07.2001 p6 Carlisle woman wins £34,000 at Rex Bingo Club
CN 30.11.2001 p4 Carlisle bingo caller wins UK title
CN 21.11.2003 p3 Jim Collins, Harraby, pensioner wins £41,000
BINNING, S.J. and Son Ltd 52 English St, London Rd, Crown St, Lancaster St,
Denton St,Dalston Rd
Coal merchants; for early history see Thompson, M
CN 03.03.1961 p12 CJ 10.03.1961 p8 (illus) CN 11.06.1965 Supplement
CD 1910-11 Ad p78
CD 1913-14 Ad p92
CD 1924 Ad p88
CD 1927 Ad p96
CD 1931 Ad p56
CD 1934 Ad p318
CD 1937 Ad p234
CJ 29.05.1894 Obituary of Samuel Jackson Binning
CP 01.06.1894 Obituary of Samuel Jackson Binning
BINNING MEMORIAL CLASSROOMS; Christ Church Schools, Lancaster St
CN 19.08.1950 p4 (illus) Laying of chief corner stone
BINNS English Street
see also ROBINSON BROTHERS; HOUSE OF FRASER
CN 09.03.1946 p6 Up to 1933 block of stores owned by Mr Frank Robinson
CJ 05.03.1946 p1 Called Robinson Brothers
CN 17.09.1938 p17 Advert
CN 27.07.1990 p52 Jobs pledge as axe hits 100 store staff
CN 07.10.1994 Ad pp18,19
CN 31.01.1997 p1 Sixteen jobs may go in Binns store
CN 14.03.1997 p5 Binns set for relaunch
CN 21.03.1997 p1 Refurbishment opening
CD 1937 Ad p4
BINNS,H Son and Co English St
Home and wear, cafe
CD 1934 Ad p32
BIOLETTI Devonshire St
Hairdresser and perfumer
Carlisle Diocesan Calendar 1872; ad
BIRD IN HAND PUBLIC HOUSE Castle Street; closed 1916
CN 17.05.1991 p4 (illus)
BIRD IN HAND PUBLIC HOUSE Stanwix; closed 1917
Carlisle the Archive Photographs p72 oblique photo of pub, 1923
1851 census, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick innkeeper, 54, born Kent, Dover
City Minutes 1918-19 p 141 Purchase completed for widening of Scotland Rd
City Minutes 1923-24 p116 Advertise for tenders to pull down building
CN 26.12.1991 p4 (illus)
BIRDS
Carlisle Natural History Society; Transactions vol.5, 1933, Birds in Carlisle
CN 25.10.1996 p5 Exotic squatters are a father in farmers cap
CN 27.06.1997 p19 (illus) Farmers urged to help save the skylark - but subsidy
goes south
CN 11.07.1997 p3 (illus) Hero John’s flying tackle saves entangled swans
BI-RITE 83 Lowther Street
Cumberland News Images of Carlisle p11 Photo of food shop
BIRKBY HOUSE Stanwix
CJ 03.07.1942 p1 New residence of the bishop
BIRKETT, Mr Architect who designed the Central Hotel which opened in 1881
BIRKETT, James
City Minutes 1924-25 p89 Licenesed to operate bus Town Hall to Gretna
BIRKETTS BAKERY
CN 07.07.2000 p14 Birketts create 14 jobs in new Lanes shop
CN 13.10.2000 p14 Birketts open new shop in Lanes
BIRKETT’S LANE, Castle Stree So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
BIRK’S EMPEROR CAFE 66 English St
CD 1952 Ad p124
BIRMINGHAM MOTORS 27 Rickergate, Durranhill Road
CD 1952 Ad p343
CD 1955-56 Ad p265
BIRTHS
See also Illegitimate births; triplets
Our City Our People, M.Edwards p7 Description of a birth in 1889
City Minutes 1908-09 p253-254 Annual birth rate 1875 to 1908
Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle for 1923 p12 Rate and nos. 1891 -
1923
Sanitary Condition of the City of Carlisle for 1927 p12 Rate and nos 1891-1927
CN 31.10.2003 p1 Girls 12 gives birth; opinion page 12
BISHOP GOODWIN SCHOOL Foundation stone of Goodwin Mission School laid 10.09.1892;
foundation stone of boys department laid 27.04.1898; New school opened 03.02.1972
CN 06.02.1976 p6 CN 29 .05.1970 p1
CP 16.09.1892 p6f,g Laying of foundation stone of Goodwin Mission School
Carlisle Express and Examiner 17.09.1892 p5a Foundation stone of Mission school
CP 29.04.1898 p6 Laying the foundation stone
CJ 29.04.1898 p6d Laying of foundation stone
CP 14.01.1898 p3 Plans for new school
Carlisle The Archive Photos p100 photo of school about 1904
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p62 Photo of school choir, 28.05.1912, after Paris
visit
CN 01.01.1949 p5 Development plan
Memories of Carlisle, Chapter 2 School photo in 1953
CN 11.05.1962 p10 (illus) Choir
CN 29.06.1962 p12 Choir visit to Paris
CN 13.07.1962 p12 Choir visit to Paris
CN 04.02.1972 p26 Archbishop opens new city school
CN 11.02.1972 p12 Early days
CN 22.03.1974 p10 (illus) Official opening
CN 23.01.1976 p1 (illus) Coin find - demolition of old school
CN 26.08.1988 (illus) Boys choir put city in limelight
CN 01.11.1991 p10 Boyhood memories
CN 22.11.1991 p13 Special cathedral service
CN 19.03.1993 p1 Ton up schools
CN 23.04.1993 p9 Marking 100 years of schools
CN 30.04.1993 p52 School brings its history to life
ENS 22.05.1996 p8 (illus) Bless this new nursery
CN 08.11.1996 p2 Exploding firework starts nursery blaze
CN 27.06.1997 p1 Parents defend city infants school after damning report
CN 03.07.1998 p5 Ofsted - clean bill of health
CN 01.06.2001 p5 Proposed amalgamation of Infant and Junior Schools
CN 22.02.2002 p4 (illus) Infants and junior schools to merge in September
CN 11.07.2003 p3 Open day at merged schools; now ‘Bishop Harvey Goodwin
Sc’
BISHOPS CLOSE Sheltered housing; Stanhope Road
CN 03.04.1987 p40 Opened by Princess Anne
BISHOPS OF CARLISLE
List of Bishops - Weston, D.W.V. Carlisle Cathedral History p142, 2000
Athelwold (or Adelulf) consecrated/ enthroned 1133; vacancy; Bernard enthroned/
consecrated 1204; Hugh de Beaulieu 1219; Walter Mauclerc 1224; Silvester de
Everdon 1247; Thomas de Vipont 1255; Robert de Chause 1258; Ralph de Ireton
1280; John de Halton 1292; John de Ross 1325; John de Kirkby 1332; Gilbert de
Welton 1353; Thomas de Appleby 1363; Robert Reade (Reed) 1396; Thomas Merke
(Merks) 1397; William Strickland 1400; Roger Whelpdale 1419; William Barrow
1423; Marmaduke Lumley 1429; Nicholas Close 1450; William Percy 1452; John Kingscote
1462; Richard Scrope 1464; Edward Story 1468; Richard Bell 1478; William Senhouse
1495; Roger Leyburn 1503; John Penny 1508; John Kite 1521; Robert Aldrich 1537;
Owen Oglethorpe 1557; John Best 1561; Richard Barnes 1570; John May (Meye) 1577;
Henry Robinson 1598; Robert Snowden 1616; Richard Milbourne 1621; Richard Senhouse
1624; Francis White 1626; Barnabas Potter 1629; James Ussher 1642 in commendam
1656 died; vacancy; Richard Sterne 1660; Edward Rainbow 1664; Thomas Smith 1684;
William Nicolson 1702; Samuel Bradford 1718; John Waugh 1723; George Fleming
1735; Richard Osbaldeston 1747; Charles Lyttleton 1762; Edmund Law 1769; John
Douglas 1787; Edward V Vernon Harcourt 1791; Samuel Goodenough 1808; Hugh Percy
1827; Henry Montagu Villiers 1856; Samuel Waldegrave 1860; Harvey Goodwin 1869;
John Wareing Bardsley 1892; John William Diggle 1905; Henry Herbert Williams
1920; Thomas Bloomer 1946; Sydney Cyril Bulley 1967; David Halsey 1973; Ian
Harland 1989; Graham Dow 2000.
CN 15.09.1928 p9 In the 1860s
CN 11.11.1944 p5 And Scottish wars
CN 16.06.1989 p4 Bishops rarely stayed long
CN 23.06.1989 p4 Refused bishopric
CN 08.12.1989 p27 A new bishop is welcomed
CN 12.04.1996 p1 Bishop calls for ‘raves’
CN 10.03.2000 p15Delay as Downing Street mulls over choice of Bishop
CN 14.04.2000 p4 The delay the Bishop cleaned the lavs
CN 01.12.2000 p7 66th Bishop to be enthroned on December 2rd
BISHOP’S TOWER
Slee, Mary Older Carlisle p18
BITTS PARK
see also Bandstand
CN.18.10.1947 pp4,5 Campsite requisitioned by Ministry of Works
CN 09.07.1949 pp4,5 Ministry of Works asking for lease
CN 04.02.1950 p9 Proposal for development as a general sports centre
CN 03.06.1950 p4 Origin of name
CN 08.02.1957 p8 Bandstand demolition
CN 23.03.1989 p4 Victorian bandstand attracted the crowds
CN 20.10.1989 p9 Fireshow joins the arts
CN 26.05.1995 p1 Gaining experience (proposals extension)
CN 04.10.1996 p1 (illus) Bloom with a view wins title for Bitts Park
CN 14.11.1997 p1 (illus) Where there’s muck there’s grass
CN 03.08.2001 p1 Stage set for 60,000 pop fans in park for Radio 1 show; ad
p14
CN 09.05.2003 p5 Children’s paddling pool will not reopen because of safety
fears
BLACK, George Timber merchant, joiner and carpenter employing 20 men and 6 apprentices,
aged 44, born Burgh, Cumberland, living at 2 Cecil Street [1851 census]
BLACK, George Lorne Street
1882 Porters Directory Ad p152 Builder established 1832
BLACK, Jos Scotch Street
CJ 24.04.1847 p2c Ad for hosiery and haberdashery business
BLACK, R and Son West Walls
Joiners
CN 15.10.1954 p12
BLACK, Wallace
City Minutes 1927-28 p621 Licensed to operate bus to Liverpool and Glasgow
BLACK BULL Annetwell Street; in local directories to 1914; called Old Black
Bull to1855
ENS 24.08.1916 Take over by State Management
ENS 05.10.1916 To be amalgamated with the Saracen’s Head; later Irishgate
Tav.
BLACK BULL Scotch Street; in local directories to 1861
1821 New Guide to Carlisle p76 Nathan Goulding
CJ 20.02.1847 p1a Ad; now altered name to Joiners Arms Inn
BLACK BULL Upperby; local directories to 1925
BLACK FRIARS Came to Carlisle in 1233; moved to permanent site in Blackfrairs
St in 1238; location of Friary see Summerson ‘Medieval Carlisle 1, p160’
1BC 9
Topping,G and Potter,J Memorials of Old Carlisle p10
Round Carlisle Cross Vol 6 The Blackfriars of Carlisle pp 22-31
CWAAS O.S. Vol 6 p138
VCH Vol 2 pp194-199
BLACKFRIARS STREET
CN 19.07.1957 p8 (illus) CN 26.07.1957 p8 CJ 14.10.1960 p5 (illus)
CPacquet 25.07.1780 p1` Ad for two commodious houses for sale
City Minutes 1925-6 p552 -3 Proposed reformation of prison site - 2 maps
Carlisle in Camera 1 p61 photo in 1920s
CJ 19.08.1966 p3 Widening
CN 03.06.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
CN 13.05.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
ENS 26.04.1978 (illus) Photo and article of skeletons
CN 07.04.1978 p5 Archaeological dig
CN 23 09.1977 p10 Archaeological dig
CN 28.10.1977 p11 Archaeological dig
CN 03.06.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
CN 15.07.1977 p1 Archaeological dig
CN 07.12.1990 p4 Controversy over loss of a lane
ENS 01.08.1978 p13 (illus) Unearthing the city’s past
CN 09.01.1998 p10 (illus) Marks and Spencers; where Blackfriars once worshipped
BLACKHALL
CJ 15.07.1921 p5
BLACK LION INN, Durdar Built 1929 and extended December 1969
CN 20.02.1981 p7
BLACK LION Irishgate Brow; in local directories 1847 - 1861
BLACKLOCK, Thomas Tobacco manufacturer and grocer, aged 28, employing 26 men
and boys, home address 8 Lowther St, born Cumwhitton [1851 census]
BLACKLOCK and WILKINSON Grocers
1861 Morris and Harrison directory ad p8 1 English Street
BLACKOUT
CJ 05.04.1949 p1 End of after 10 years
BLACKSHIRTS see FASCISTS
BLACK SWAN INN Demolished April 1868
CP 06.11.1819 p1a To be let, ancient and well accustomed inn
CJ 01.12.1848 Ad for sale of Black Swan Inn, Castle Street
CN 12.02.1999 p13 (illus) Cathedral that hid behind a pub
BLACKWELL
Cumbria 4/78 pp37-38 Animal sanctuary
ENS 21.02.1962 p1 Sale of land
BLACKWELL HOUSE
CN 10.01.1958 p12 (illus)
BLACKWELL LODGE
CN 21.06.1913 p1c Blackwell Lodge; to let previously occupied by F.P.Dixon
BLACKWELL MURRY NEET
1805 ed of Andersons ‘Ballads in Cumberland Dialect’ Bleckell Murry-neet
CP 08.01.1909 Bleckell Murry Night held on New Years Eve at Racecourse
CN 30.12.1999 p7 Ballad of Blackwell Merry Neet
BLACKWELL PLACE
City Minutes 1925-6 p663 New street to be called Blackwell Place
BLACKWELL RACECOURSE see RACECOURSE
BLACKWELL RACECOURSE SUNDAY MARKET see MARKET - SUNDAY
BLACKWELL ROAD
City Minutes 26.07.1889 item 380 p 228 80 Houses Blackwell and Gloucester Rds
City Minutes 1922/23 p60 Sanction to race 60 houses on Blackwell Rd estate
City Minutes 1924-25 pp112-115, 393 Report on Blackwell Road estate
City Minutes 1925-26 pp62-3,121,180-1, 323, 457, 541 Progress of estate
BLACKWELL SPRINGS
CJ 19.06.1966 p6
BLACKWELL VALE OLD PEOPLES HOME
CN 20.09.1991 p10 Ad
CN 02.07.1993 p13 City home voted tops for care
CN 15.04.1994 p16 Home from Home
CN 13.11.1998 p1 Nursing home assures families after food bug death
BLAIN, David Painter, plumber and glazier, aged 40, employing 9 men and 3 apprentices,
home address7 Castle St, born Scotland
BLAIN,J Blackfriars St
Ironmongers[ flourished circa 1880-1956]
CN 19.07.1957 p8 (illus) CN 26.07.1957 p8
CN 06.07.1956 p1 Closing down
BLAIR and PALMER East Tower St; opened depot/ station in Drovers Lane 01.06.1935;
Coaches
CD 1952 Ad p339
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p259
CD 1955-56 Ad p263
CD 1961-62 Ad p262
City Minutes 1927-28 p621 Licensed to operate bus service to Silloth
BLAKELEY, Andrew and Sons 47 Thornton Road
Builders and contractors
CD 1931 Ad p232
CD 1934 Ad p100 Established 1894
CD 1937 Ad p80
CD 1952 Ad p268
BLAKEY’S Glovers Row
Carlisle in Camera 1 p9 Photo of boot and shoe shop
Carlisle in Old Picture Postcards; view 9 View of Glovers Row shop
BLAMIRE, J 1 Market Place
CP 18.08.1855 p1 Ad; Tea and coffee dealer
BLAMIRE, John Grocer, died 20.06.1811 [Monumental Inscriptions Saint Cuthbert’s
Yard]
BLAMIRE,John 62 English St
Grocers
CD 1884-85 Ad p261
BLAST CLEAN Kingstown
CN 18.03.1994 p15 Ad
CN 27.08.1999 p18 Ad
BLAYLOCK This family of watchmakers was the most prolific watchmaker in the
county; the business commenced in 1768 in Longtown; the family moved to Carlisle
setting up in business in Rickergate before moving to Scotch Street; for the
complex history of this family see Penfold’s ‘Clockmakers of Cumberland’
, pp 49-57
BLAYLOCK 50 Scotch Street
Watch and clockmaker
Guide to Carlisle C178 Ad
CD 1880 Ad px; established 1768
BLAYLOCK, John Engineer and founder employing 40 men, and watch and clockmaker
employing 4 men, aged 44, born Longtown, living at 3 Lonsdale Street [1851 census]
BLAYLOCK, William Watchmaker, aged 33, living at 11 Swifts Row, born Longtown
[1851 census]
BLAYLOCK AND PRATCHITT Blaylock and Pratchitt founded in 1859 on Long Island
Ironworks site; later became Pratchitt, Blaylock and Pratchitt; 04.02.1863 purchase
of new site in Denton Holme, which became Denton Ironworks
See Pratchitt Brothers
Carlisle Examiner 10.02.1859 p1a Ad Taken into partnership with W.Pratchitt
CN 17.01.1969 p10
BLAYLOCK, Mrs Denton Street
Denton Holme Childhood, B.Cullen, p22 Description of shop in 1930s
BLAYLOCK’S SCHOOL, Miss Margaret Fisher Street
CP 16.12.1870 13 children attending
BLAZING BARREL Annetwell Street; nickname for Old Black Bull Inn
BLENCOWE STREET On the census from 1891
BLENCOWE STREET MISSION ROOM St James Church
Foundation stone laid 13.04.1883; official opening 26.10.1883
BLIND see also WORKSHOPS FOR THE BLIND; SCENTED GARDEN FOR THE
BLIND; ASSOCIATION OF THE READING OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AMONG THE BLIND
CN 25.03.1994 p12 Museums new ‘resident’ will guide blind visitors
CN 30.03.2001 p8 Carlisle first in rules for guide dogs in taxis
CN 13.06.2003 p2 Cars parked on pavement put blind at risk
BLIZZARD OF 1895
CN 29.11.1952 p6
BLOOD DONORS
CN 14.07.1995 p3 City patients get their own blood
CN 08.01.1999 p1 NHS winter crisis
BLOOD SPORTS
CAIH page 29
CN 14.07.1967 p12 Coursing; Caldewgate
BLOW, John Solicitor in this city, died 25.07.1829; Monumental Inscription St
Cuthbert’s Yard
BLUE ANCHOR Bridge St; in local directories 1847 - 1848
BLUE BELL St Cuthbert’s Lane; in local directories to 1837
BLUE BELL HOTEL Rickergate; in local directories to 1914; closed 1917
Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p60 phoot 101 Rickergate; J.Black tenant
CN 22.03.1991 p4 (illus)
BLUE BELL INN Brunton Place; in Carlisle directory for 1893/94
BLUE BELL INN Scotch Street
CJ 21.02.1818 p3c Died Thos Norman for many years master of the Blue Bell Inn
1821 New Guide to Carlisle p76 John Snowden
CJ 09.03.1822 p1a Nancy Irving, Innkeeper
CJ 15.01.1842 p1a T.Loftus entered into this premises
CP 24.03.1882 p1 Ad; To let; about to be expanded
ENS 14.01.1971 p6 Legend of ghost
ENS 09.04.1973 City pub closes
CN 12.04.1991 p4 (illus)
BLUE BELL LANE
Carlisle the Archive Photographs, p60 photo of entrance to lane
City Minutes 1925-6 p547 6 dwellings unfit for human habitation
BLUE CIRCLE CEMENT
CN 31.10.1975 p1
‘BLUE LUGS’ see JOINERS ARMS, Caldewgate
BOAGS Crescent Carriage Works
CD 1893-94 Ad p134
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES West View, Northumberland Rd
CD 1893-94 Ad p14
BOARD INN Bridge Lane; in directory for 1855
BOARD INN Castle Street/ Paternoster Row Late 18th century with alterations
CN 13.08.1965 p9 CJ 24.12.1965 pp7,11 CN 23.12.1965 p12
CP 24.05.1895 Board Inn for sale by auction
CJ 22.04.1921 p7 Alterations
CJ 13.08.1965 When pub closes for refurbishment where will the regulars go?
CN 17.12.1965 p1 Re-opened 20.12.1965
ENS 21.12.1965 Supplement New Board Inn reopens
CN 02.07.1971 p3 Proposed take over by Cathedral
CJ 22.04.1921 p7 Alterations
CN 12.10.1990 p11 The board of the board...
BOAR’S HEAD Court Square; in local directories to 1837
BODY SNATCHERS see RESURRECTION MEN
BODYTEK
CN 17.07.1992 p16 Ad
CN 02.07.1993 p14 Ad
BOER WAR
City Minutes 1901-02 p804 Roll of active service; Bor. Regiment plaque approved
City Minutes 1904-05 p28 Cumberland Yeomanry Memorial Tablet for Town Hall
BOLTON, Harold East Norfolk St
Joiners and contractors
CN 1952 Ad p325
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p253
CD 1955-56 Ad p257
CD 1961-62 Ad p280
BOLTON PLACE ACADEMY Later Grosvenor College
CN 20.05.1966 p12
BONFIRE NIGHT see FIREWORKS
BONFIRES - Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
CN 03.07.1987 p4
BONNELL AND SON English St
M442 p10 Business card for chemist
BONNELL’S LANE, English Street So named on Wood’s 1821 map of city
BONNETS and BOWS Greenmarket
CN 27.03.1998 p17 Ad
BONNINGTON NEW MEDIA Abbey Street
We design
CN 05.04.2002 p18 Set up in 1995
BOOKCASE Castle Street
CN 18.01.2002 p23 Bookcase expands site
CN 28.02.2003 p8 Article on owner Steve Matthews
BOOK FAIR
CN 06.10.1978 p23
BOOKS
CN 02.12.1988 p4 Early look at history of Cumbria (Caxton’s description
of Britain 1480)
CN 10.10.1997 p3 Collectors hot on the trail of antique railway books
CN 20.11.1998 p9 Images of Carlisle for new book
CN 23.12.1998 p10 Bookworms have turned
CN 03.09.1999 p10 Cumberland News book on Carlisle
BOOKSELLERS see CAMPBELL, Alexander; HENDERSON, Alfred; JOLLIE; THURNAM, Charles
The BOOT see NEAR BOOT
BOOTH,L.R. Radio Merchants
CN 17.09.1938 p18 Ad
BOOTH,L.R. Lonsdale Street
Electrical showroom
CD 1927 Ad p120
CD 1931 Ad p52
CD 1934 Ad p48
CD 1952 Ad p157
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p272
CD 1955-56 Ad p278
CD 1961-62 Ad p295
CD 1966-68 Ad p264
BOOTS THE CHEMIST
CN 08.11.1996 p4 (illus) Award
‘BORDER’ H.M.S.
CN 07.02.1942 p4 Adoption of Destroyer H.M.S.Border
BORDER AND COUNTY CLUB Portland Square
see also BORDER CLUB
CN 19.01.1996 p5 Gentlemen call time
BORDER ANIMAL HEALTH Rosehill Estate
CN 04.09.1987 p6
BORDER AVIATION COMPANY Formed 1920
CN 26.10.1973 p6
BORDER BALLOONS
CN 23.12.1999 p19 A business to float
BORDER BAND
CN 11.06.1999 p5 School leavers urged to blow thier own trumpet
BORDER BOARDING Allengrove, Heads Nook
Kennels and canine bureau
CD 1931 Ad p104
CD 1934 Ad p302
BORDER BOOT REPAIRING DEPOT Rickergate
Leading Trader of the City A616 Ad p48
BORDER CAFE 95 and 97 Botchergate
CD 1880 Ad pxv
1882 Porters Directory Ad p74 Chops, steaks, tea, coffee and cocoa
CD 1884-85 Ad pvi
BORDER CAR SALES 2 Mary Street
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad p261
CD 1955-56 Ad p264
BORDER CARAVANS
CN 27.04.1979 pp17-19 Ad. History
CD 1966-68 Ad p259
BORDER CITY Periodical created, conducted and written by a group of men associated
with the Caldewgate Reading Room; first produced June 1863; ceased to exist
August 1864
B.Graham Nineteenth Century Self-Help in Education-mutual improvement societies;
case study-Carlisle Working Men’s Reading Rooms pp 52-53
BORDER CITY BICYCLE CLUB Founded 1878
CN 06.11.1959 p12 CN 14.02.1969 p12
BORDER CITY MINSTRELS Founded about 1880
CN 03.09.1965 p10 CN 05. 11.1965 p10 CN 10.09.1965 p10
CN 19.05.1989 p4 Contrast in style of entertainment
BORDER CITY SWIMMING CLUB
CN 16.03.1990 p4 (illus) In the swim
BORDER CITY WHEELERS Founded 1925
See also CYCLING
CN 27.06.1975 p6 (illus) CN 04.07.1975 p6 CN 11.07.1975 p6
CN 25.07.1975 p6 CN 21.05.1965 p12 (illus) CN 28.05.1965 p10
CN 28.01.1966 p12 (Illus) In 1932
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p98 Photo of Wheelers inn 1977
BORDER CITY WIRELESS 48 Scotch St
CD 1931 Ad p232
BORDER CLUB Establlished 1862
See also BORDER AND COUNTY CLUB
Kelly 1921 p70 Situated in the Crescent
CN 12.03.1938 p12 Moved from Victoria Place to Portland Square
BORDER CONSTRUCTION Formerly Border Engineering
CN 01.12.1995 p14 Building firm celebrates first 75 years
CN 06.04.2001 p18 Firm moves to new premises
CN 29.11.2002 p17 £55m housing development in Sunderland
CN 05.09.2003 p14 Wins £1.9m contract for Capita’s new building
at Kingmoor
BORDER COUNTIES LEMONADE AND SODA WATER WORKS
Bay Horse Court, Rickergate
CD 1880 Ad pxxxvi
BORDER DAIRY 48 Lowther St, The Creamery
CN 17.09.1938 Ad p19
CN 14.04.1960 p14 Industrial Supp
CN 05.04.1974 p5 Sold to Milk Marketing Board
CD 1952 Ad p322
Cumberland Directory 1954 pxv
CD 1955-56 Ad pxii
CD 1961-62 Ad p4
E.Nelson Around Carlisle p42 Photo of Lowther St shop; started 1898, Mr McQuillin
BORDER DELIVERIES Caldew Garage, Metcalfe St
CD 1952 Ad p2
BORDER DESIGN ASSOCIATES
CN 25.04.1997 p13 All you need to know about design and print
BORDER ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS LTD Milbourne St
Founded 26.06.1920; merged in 1998 to become Border Construction
CN 26.06.1970 p17 (illus)
CN 17.09.1938 p19 Advert
CN 14.04.1960 p6 Industrial Supplement
CD 1952 Ad p20
Cumberland Directory 1954 Ad pxx
CD 1955-56 Ad pxiv
BORDER FINE ARTS
CN 07.10.1994 pp1,10 Miniature men gain grants
CN 03.01.1977 p4 Showroom plan aims to attract more tourists
CUMBRIAN LIFE Jan/Feb 1994 no 32 pp19-20, 2A9
ENS 28.05.1986 p1 Jobs
CN 31.08.2001 p3 Border Fine Arts to shut Carlisle factory
CN 08.11.2002 p1 Enesco make 43 staff redundant
BORDER FLYING CLUB Founded July 1935
Carlisle in Camera 2 p61 part view of club house
CN 30.05.1958 p10 CN 29.10.1976 p6
BORDER FOOD MACHINERY
CN 31.03.1989 p13 Ad.Boom firm is on the move to a bigger base
CN 21.01.1994 p14 Ad
BORDER GALLERY Fisher Street
Opened 24.11.1968
CN 29.11.1968 p3 (illus)
BORDER GLASS (Cumbria) Ltd
CN 06.02.1987 p8 (illus) Ad
BORDER HARRIERS
CN 29.01.1949 p4 Ad
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p96 1971 photo of lady Border Harriers
CN 27.11.1994 p17 Harrier girls are runaway team success
CN 02.08.2002 p22 Harriers man, Deacon, wins gold at Commonwealth Games
BORDER HOUSE; SAMUEL JESPER LTD English St
Ladies and Gentleman’s wear
CD 1924 Ad p286
CD 1927 Ad p296
CD 1931 Ad p132
CD 1934 Ad p156
CD 1937 Ad p210
BORDERLAND FARM SUPPLIES Rosehill Estate
CN 17.12.1993 p14
CN 16.11.2001 p18 Borderland celebrates 13 years; ad feature
BORDER LEGION Stanwix and St Ann’s Branch
CN 29.10.1949 p6 (illus) Dedication of standard
BORDER LOCKS AND SECURITY Portland Place
CN 25.06.1993 p14 Ad
BORDER MACHINE CENTRE
CN 23.06.1989 p8 Ad Everything is coming up roses
BORDER MAGAZINE
CN 20.09.1947 p5 First issue
BORDER MILITARIA SOCIETY
CN 03.08.1990 p12 One man’s battle
BORDER MOTOR Airport Trading Estate; Kinsgtown
CD 1952 Ad p337
BORDER OFFSET
CN 28.09.1990 p8 Ad
BORDER PILATES Warwick Road
CN 29.08.2003 p14 Fitness instructors start Pilates studio
BORDER PRESS AGENCY 12 Lonsdale St
CD 1966-68 Ad p286
BORDER PUBLICITY CO LTD Atlas Works, Nelson St
Printers
CD 1961-62 pxxxviii and back of inside cover
CD 1966-68 Ad display card
‘BORDER QUESTION ‘ CAMPAIGN (religious campaign)
CJ 05.09.1947 p2 CJ 19.09.1947 p1 CJ 30.09.1947 p1
BORDER RAIDERS Rugby League Club
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p99 Photo; merged with Barrow 1997
CN 11.03.1994 p1 Oich no I don’t hate English
CN 18.11.1994 Supplement centre pages
BORDER RAMBLER see ALBION
BORDER REGIMENT 34th Regiment of Foot raised in 1702, this became the first
Battalion; 55th Regiment of Foot raised in 1855, this became the Second Battalion;
these two were linked as the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Border Regiment in
1881 following reorganisation of the army; 1950 these two Battalions amalgamated
and became known as 1st Battalion ;became Kings Own Royal Border Regiment 30.09.1959
see also KINGS OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT
CN 27.03.1948 p5 CJ 23.03.1938 p3 CJ 26.03 .1948 p5
CN 18.09.1964 p14 CN 07.01.1966 p10 (illus) ENS 11.06.1983 p4
City Minutes 1901-02 Roll of Active Service; plaque approved
CJ 14.07.1918 p2 Presentation of medals at Castle
CJ 01.10.1946 p1 Border Regiment offered freedom of Kendal
CN 01.11.1947 p5 Border Regiment Week in Cumberland and Westmorland
City Minutes 1943/44 p165 Agreed to present deed with freedom rights to reg.
CJ 07.07.1944 p3 To be presented with Title Deed
CJ 21.07.1944 p5 To be presented with Title Deed
CJ 05.09.1944 p3 Presentation
CJ 08.09.1944 p1 (illus) Presentation
CN 10.05.1952 p4 (illus) 250th birthday
CN 17.05.1952 p5 (illus) 250th birthday
CN 08.11.1952 p6 New tanker named ‘Border Regiment’
Cumbria May 1960 pp 65-67 (illus)
CN 02.07.1965 p10 Battle on Inchville 1940
Cumbria October 1965 pp 313-314 (illus) At Carlisle Castle
CN 17.05.1974 p11 (illus) Last Border Regiment service
CN 18.08.1989 p5 A new Peel portrait for Regiment
CN 30.07.1965 p9 (illus) Territorial Association in Castle
CN 08.11.1991 p13 Old soldiers relive daring was deeds
CN 28.01.1994 p16 Border Regiment soldier’s body found
CN 18.09.1998 p10 Peace at last for Border Regiment soldier
CN 18.05.1990 p13 Honour for old soldier
1st BATTALION
CN 21.09.1946 p3
CJ 16.11.1945 p3 First British glider exercise under Churchill
CN 21.10.1950 p5 Amalgamation with 2nd Battalion
CN 04 11.1950 p5 Amalgamation with 2nd Battalion
2nd BATTALION
CN 14.06.1947 p3 2nd Batt. returned after 23 years service abroad
CN 20.09.1947 p5 Laying up of colours
3rd BATTALION MILITIA Suspended since 1920; disbanded 1953
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p149 Photo of colours
CN 12.07.1985 p4 (illus) Colours of 3rd (Royal Cumberland Militia) Batt.
4th BATTALION
CN 25.05.1946 p5
CN 21.12.1946 p5 Article in the ‘New Times of Burma’
CN 24.08.1946 p3 Relieved Australians at Tobruk
CN 29.03.1947 p5 Return
CN 08.10.1949 p6 Battalion band to be reformed
CN 22.12.1945 p5 4th and 9th Battalions merged
Images of Carlisle Cumberland News p149 photo of colours
CN 13.11.1992 p11 Photo of 17th annual reunion of 4th Battalion
5th BATTALION
CN 12.08.1950 p5
CN 19.08.1950 p5 Colours to be transferred from Workington to Castle
CJ 22.08.1950 p1 Battalion colours laid up
6th BATTALION Raised 07.09.1914
City Minutes 1915-16 p419 Presentation of 2 captured machine guns to city
CN 04.05.1946 p5 Battalion tribute to a General
8th BATTALION
CN 26.02.1988 p4 (illus) Regimental police
9th BATTALION
CN 22.12.1945 p5 4th and 9th Battalions merged
AMALGAMATION 30.09.1959 became Kings Own Royal Border Regiment
CN 06.05.1960 p10 Border Regiment’s last chapter
CN 26.07.1957 p1 Amalgamation with King’s Own
CN 02.10.1959 p1 Became Kings Own Royal Border Regiment 30.09.1959
ENS 24.07.1957 p1 Border Regiment to be merged
ENS 31.10.1959 p1 2 Regiments die as one is born
CN 17.05.1974 p11 (illus) Last Border Regiment service
CN 06.11.1959 p8 (illus) Amalgamation
ARNHEM
CJ 16.02.1945 p3
CN 17.02.1945 p5 (plan) Story of airborne expedition
CN 27.01.1989 p15 Arnhem offer for old soldiers
ARROYO DOS MOLINOS CELEBRATIONS
CJ 31.10.1947 p1 (illus) Commemoration parade
CJ 29.10.1946 (illus) pp1,3
CN 29.10.1954 p1 (illus) Arroyo Day
CN 31.10.1958 p1 (illus) Last Arroyo day
CN 14.08.1959 p1 (illus) Connection with Arroyo
BADGE
CJ 11.08.1944 p3 Origin of Badge and Colours
BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
CN 13.05.1977 p5 CN 06.05.1977 p11
BORDER REGIMENT REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION
CJ 29.11.1938 p5 BRA Standard dedicated at Penrith
CN 08.06.1946 p5 Amalgamated with Home Guard (Carlisle Branch)
‘BORDER REGIMENT’ locomotive
CN 09.06.1936 Naming ceremony 06.06.1936
BURMA
CN 19.04.1974 p6 Picture of men in Burma, 1914
CHAPEL IN CATHEDRAL
CN 29.03.1947 p5 Memorial Chapel in Cathedral
CN 22.10.1949 p5 Memorial Chapel work in progress
CN 05.11.1949 p5 (illus) Dedicated by Archbishop of York
CN 22.01.1949 p5
CN 19.10.1946 p5 Donation
CN 31.08.1946 p5
CJ 17.09.1946 p1 Banner dedicated
COLOURS
CN 13.03.1948 p5 2nd/3rd Bat. Colours deposited in Reg. Museum
CJ 11.08.1944 p3 Origin of Badge and Colours
CN 05.06.1960 pp6,10 (illus) Laying up of colours
GALLIPOLI
See Glory is No Compensation, Border Regiment at Gallipoli, R.May, 2003
CN 04.01.1985 p6 (illus) Campaign history
LONSDALE BATTALION
See Bardgett, Colin Lonsdale Battalion 1914-18, 1993 1A 355
CN 02.12.1955 p10 (illus) CN 09.12.1955 p10 CN16.12.1955 p10
CN 30.12.1955 p8 CN 06.01.1955 p10 (illus) CN 13.01.1956 p10
CN 20.01.1956 p10 CN 27.01.1956 p8 CN 03.02.1956 p8
CN 10.02.1956 p8 CN02.03.1956 p10 CN 30.06.1978 p10 (illus)
CN 07.07.1978 p10
CN 10.08.1990 p1 Bully for them
CN 17.08.1990 p4 Preparing for war in city
CN 08.04.1993 p13 The lost Lonsdales (book review)
MEMORIAL HOMES Etterby St; dated 1905 for Boer War soldiers
MEDALS
CN 17.08.1946 p5 Medals for regiment museum at Carlisle Castle
CN 10.08.1946 p5 Victoria Cross won by an officer
NORTH WEST FRONTIER
CN 22.06.1956 p10
CN 29.06.1956 p8
CN 06.07.1956 p10
CN13.07.1956 p8
SONG
CN 02.10.1964 p14
CN 17.12.1993 p4 Remembering the rhythm of war. Song for BR
VICTORIA CROSS
CN 10.08.1946 p5 Victoria Cross won by an officer
VOLUNTEERS
CN 02.11.1956 p10
CN 01.05.1959 p12 (illus of helmet)
WORLD WAR I see also Gallipoli, Lonsdale Battalion
CN 18.05.1956 p10
CN 25.05.1956 p8
CJ 14.07.1918 p2 Presentation of medals at Castle
CN 08.02.1991 p3 Regiment’s tribute to a Somme hero
CN 14.07.1995 p10 Captured on film; Battle of Somme