71 Stricklandgate

Between Kendal Post Office (75 Stricklandgate) and 69 Stricklandgate (Black Hall) on Stricklandgate

Now McDonald's Fast food restaurant

Curwen, 1900

No. 71"Here lived Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson. The former, who owned Kentmere Manor, was an attorney, and died in 1756, aged 82. His son Thomas, who changed his name to Fenwick, was born here in 1729, was MP for Westmorland from 1768 to 1774, and Recorder of Kendal from 1766 to 1777. James Dowker, attorney, whose ancestors were Quakers in Crook, married Jane, daughter of Thomas Wilson, and lived here also for some considerable time. Scratched upon the leaded panes of the kitchen window are still to be seen the inscriptions - "James Dowker, 1781", "James Dowker, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1782", "James Dowker, 1782", with "Thomas and John Wilson". Cornelius Nicholson came to live here in 1845." "Kirkbie Kendal", John F Curwen, 1900.

Occupiers

Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson -1756

Thomas Wilson 1729-1780?

James Dowker 1781

Cornelius Nicholson 1845

Savoy Cafe

Maypole supermarket (previously Finkle Street)

Liptons Supermarket until the 1980's

McDonalds fast food