Carlisle Postcards: December 2018

Newtown and MacGregors

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A tram wends its way up a wintery Newtown Road about 1905. The terminus was a few hundred yards further up the hill.

MACGREGORS SWEET SHOP.

English Street about where 'The Works' shop is today. Picture supplied by Muriel Kemp. Hard to date but maybe 1920s/30s.

Botchergate & Etterby Street

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Etterby Street about 1910-15 looking up towards Scotland Road. This was just about where the tram terminated. A scene largely unchanged today.

Looking up Botchergate towards the city centre 1932. Boots store to the left and Simmons furniture shop on the right.

Two cards of New Market.

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The foundation stone for the market was laid in 1887 and it opened in 1889. It brought the various Butchers Shambles and markets under one roof though the banning of outdoor markets helped to achieve this. The Fish Market is to the top right.

Flowers and plants to the left, eggs to the right. In both pics business is booming.

Harraby hill Band and N.U.R Banner.

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Harraby Hill House Boys Band about 1905-10.

Harraby workhouse opened in 1809, when Fusehill Workhouse opened in 1863 adults were moved there Harraby continued as a childrens workhouse, later turned into an Industrial School. These were a kind of minor 'Approved School' for vagrant or unruly children.

Members of the National Union of Railwaymen with their fantastic banner, I wonder if it has survived. The card dates from about 1922.

Town Hall & Warwick Road.

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Nothing to do and all day to do it. 1920s Carlisle. Decent weather, no need to knock yourself out.

Warwick Road about 1904. St Georges church on the right.

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Warwick Road in the late 1950s or early 60s.Seems to be a summers day and there is two-way traffic.

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Etterby Scaur about 1905, little changed from today.

English Street with end of the Gaol Tap block on the left about 1903. the building on the right (much changed) is now the Cumberland Building Society.