You are here: Explore your past > Carlisle
Carlisle, Cumbria
Carlisle maps
Historic maps of Carlisle and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Carlisle maps
Historic map of Carlisle
Illustrated Victorian map of Cumbria
Historic Map of any Carlisle postcode
Carlisle books
Displaying 3 of 25 books about Carlisle and the local area. View all Carlisle books
A Taste of Cumbria and the Lake District
Paperback
rrp £14
£11.20
Cumbria Photographic Memories
Paperback
rrp £14
£11.20
Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories
Paperback
rrp £13
£10.40
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Carlisle
Displaying a selection of personal
memories of Carlisle
.
Add your memory of Carlisle
or of a photo of Carlisle.
If my memory is correct it was the winter of 1940/41 when I was a teenager, working for a long distance transport company from the midlands. We had left Carlisle on our way south via Shap Fell when we were caught in a blizzard and the roads were impassable. Our lorries had to be left on Shap and somehow we got... [more]
Shared on 03 August 2009
Barclays and Taylors of Tarraby Farm
My mother Gladys Taylor (nee Barclay) and father James Taylor married and lived at Tarraby Farm, Carlisle in 1927. My mother's parents were Alexander and Isabella Barclay, who lived and worked on the the farm. My grandfather was originally from Nigg, Aberdeenshire, where he was headmaster of Cove Bay public school, till approx 1918. My father was from Great Strickland, his... [more]
Shared on 12 March 2009
Cumbria memories
After retiring from the RAF, my father was with Air Ministry Constabulary and we moved to Stanwix in 1938 when my father was posted to 4 MU. We lived in Knowe Park Avenue and I attended Stanwix School. My sister attended the Margaret Sewell School for Girls. I was five years old when we moved to Stanwix and... [more]
Shared on 07 August 2009
In the UK Census of 1881 it shows the publican of the Bridge End Inn to be a Jane Rayson aged 68 years old. She lived with her sister Margaret aged 52 and her nieces Emma aged 15 and Fanny aged 32. Fanny's occupation is shown as "invalid".
Also shown as residing in the property was Jane Ashburner whose occupation is... [more]
Shared on 16 February 2007
My grandmother, Margaret Flint, was landlady of the Greyhound from sometime during WW2 until 1954. I lived there from 1944 until she retired. Being a publican meant grandmother was entitled to more than the normal rations in the immediate post war era since she was required to provide food to any traveller. Travellers were few and far between... [more]
Shared on 02 February 2008
Mossband and Gretna High School
I lived in Mossband in the 1950s, I left there 1958. I went to school in Gretna and remember Miss Davidson the English teacher and Mr Glasspool the science teacher and his wife too, Pop Liddle was the headmaster. We lived on the green at Mossband, my dad was a war department policeman and we used to go in a truck... [more]
Shared on 30 August 2009
My father was a serving soldier, serving at the RAOC camp until 1948. We lived in the YMCA building in the camp itself and it had a large functions hall attached where one of our officers once entertained the children at Christmas with a magic show. I remember the huge and long-lasting snowfall that stayed around for months into 1948 and... [more]
Shared on 31 December 2008
My great-great grandfather was George 'Dood' McKie and he lived in a house about six doors beyond the Graham Arms Hotel which is shown in the Francis Frith photo number L203002. He was one of those Longtown characters who are now almost gone.
For many years he was a roadman, which meant he would go along the road to where... [more]
Shared on 07 April 2009
Extracts From Carlisle & Cumbria books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Carlisle, inspired by Frith photos.
Carlisle - A History & Celebration
Cumbria by open expanses of moss and marsh. Only the narrow Eden Valley offers an opening, running south-east to Stainmoor and lowland England. From their sources on the high land, the numerous rivers run across this landscape and make their winding ways toward the coast. Carlisle marks the place where three of these rivers meet - the Peveril, the Caldew and, most importantly, the Eden; a point that is also marked... [more]
This is an extract from Carlisle - A History & Celebration.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Carlisle - A History & Celebration
William decided to shut this 'back gate' to his kingdom by building a royal fortress at the entrance to the valley. Like the Romans 1,000 years earlier, he realised that Carlisle was the one place that had all the strategic advantages the Normans needed. As we have already seen, there was a working settlement here well before the Normans arrived. If nothing else, the continued use of the old British... [more]
This is an extract from Carlisle - A History & Celebration.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Carlisle - A History & Celebration
War with Scotland broke out again during Henry VIII's reign. During the 1530s, the rundown defences of Carlisle Castle were renovated in order to house the latest cannon technology; the Botchergate gateway was moved and the Citadel constructed in its place to defend against attack from the south. In the event, these new defences were not to be tested until 100 years later when the complex politics behind the English... [more]
This is an extract from Carlisle - A History & Celebration.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
