epw029256 ENGLAND (1929). The Market Place and environs, Cockermouth, 1929

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Details

Title [EPW029256] The Market Place and environs, Cockermouth, 1929
Reference EPW029256
Date September-1929
Link
Place name COCKERMOUTH
Parish COCKERMOUTH
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 312369, 530732
Longitude / Latitude -3.3587495582903, 54.663928659986
National Grid Reference NY124307

Pins

All Saints School closed in 1973 and moved up to Slatefell Drive

Marky
Friday 29th of May 2020 08:59:27 AM
Point No 3 on the Town Trail - Kirkgate, Georgian Square. Most of the property was built in the early 1700's, replacing earlier buildings. Note the typical plain Cumberland windows in the small houses on the right, and the cobbled frontages, especially Stag house on the left. The cottage on the corner of MacKreth Row, now part of teh Swan Inn was once endowed as a hospice for six widows or unmarried women.

Brian
Friday 5th of September 2014 05:25:56 PM
Point No 2 on the Town Trail - the Rope Walk used to manufacture ropes of a defined length.

Brian
Friday 5th of September 2014 05:21:39 PM
Plaque No 1 of the Cockermouth Town Trail. The Kirkgate Centre started life as a school in 1868 and was converted into an Art and Entertainments Centre in 1993. The "Bitter beck" runs alongside it; (bitter from the tannery effluents that flowed into it).

Brian
Friday 5th of September 2014 05:18:34 PM
Market Place - point 18 on the Cockermouth Town trail. The market received its Charter in 1221. In 2008, with a substantial grant from the Market Towns Initiative, it became the first market town in the country to complete a major revitalization. Various artworks celebrate Dalton's Atomic Theory, Market Tolls, the local dialect and sheep counting numbers, Salathiel's Lion, Marvejols Twinning and Cousin Charley's Day among others.

Brian
Thursday 21st of August 2014 06:35:32 PM

Brian
Thursday 21st of August 2014 05:31:05 PM
Cockermouth Castle was used as a convalescent hospital during World War I.

Brian
Thursday 21st of August 2014 05:30:04 PM
I used to go to dances in the old drill hall in about 1962 and remember particularly the Eric Delaney Band (drummer). (Source J Dent)

Brian
Thursday 21st of August 2014 05:26:01 PM
The old market hall (source H Burslem)

Brian
Thursday 21st of August 2014 05:21:57 PM
Cockermouth Old Hall - demolished in 1973. A plaque in the car park commemorates the fact that Mary Queen of Scots stayed here as a guest of the Fletcher family.

Brian
Thursday 21st of August 2014 05:19:49 PM
I sat my 11+ exam in the All Saints School in 1952. The building is now the Kirkgate Centre. (source J Dent)

Brian
Thursday 21st of August 2014 05:17:26 PM
River Cocker entering the Derwent

Robert Tims
Friday 22nd of November 2013 12:16:52 PM
Road to Keswick.

gbaddley
Saturday 9th of November 2013 07:17:56 PM
Road to Keswick.

gbaddley
Saturday 9th of November 2013 07:17:52 PM

User Comment Contributions

Does anyone have more information about Cockermouth Castle's use as a convalescent hospital?

Katy Whitaker
Thursday 21st of August 2014 05:35:46 PM