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53 Stricklandgate

2024-11-18T03:08:05Z

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[[File:James-Kerr-Murray-Ironmonger-Advert-53-Stricklandgate.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An advert for JK Murray, Ironmongers]]

On the east side of Stricklandgate (now part of [[49-53 Stricklandgate]]) it is part of the block between [[15 Blackhall Yard]] ([[Happy Feet]]) and [[9 Westmorland Centre Stricklandgate]] ([[Vodafone]]). It was built in the 1890's on the site of '[[The Fold]]' (mentioned in [[Kirkbie Kendal 1900]]) which had many uses including a boot and shoe shop run by a [[John Gorril]] ]. To the right of 53 was [[Yard 51 Stricklandgate|Yard 51]] or [[Gorril's Yard]] presumably the named for the boot and shoe shop run by John Gorril which at one time occupied part of The Fold. To it's left was the ancient [[Seven Stars] pub later knocked down to make way for the [[Westmorland Shopping Centre]], now just called the Westmorland Centre

Currently used as shops.

For many years the building as it is now was occupied by [[Thomas Cook]] travel agents. More recently occupied by [[Celebrations by Becky]] (2022). Earlier occupants were: [[James Kerr Murray]] (JK Murray, Ironmonger, Toolmaker and Engraver]] until around 1920, followed by [[Bradley's]] gent's outfitters, [[Townley and Taylor]] and [[Briggs Boot Store]].

[[Category:Stricklandgate]][[Category:Building]][[Category:Shop]][[Category:Ironmonger]]

Kendal Co-operative Society Ltd

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The Co-op had a beneficial influence on the economic and social life of the town.

The Kendal society was formed in 1862 with 150 members and a share capital of £330.

By the end of C19th it boasted 1750 members and a share and loan capital reserve fund of £15,000 of which nearly £4000 was paid out in dividend to members, each of whom had a dividend number.

Locations varied over the years, but significant ones were grocery stores in Highgate, Kent St, Finkle St, Stricklangate, Wildman St, Sandylands,Oxenholme and Endmoor. Other villages were added later.

There were also cafes, butchers, a coal department and a general hardware store - Waterloo House.

In 1963 a modern supermarket opened and the cash dividend was replaced by blue stamps. An amalgamation took place in 1968 and slowly Co-operation, at least retail based, ceased in Kendal.

==Premises==

Highgate

[[30-32 Stricklandgate]] Supermarket until the 1980's

[[10 Kent Street]] - Grocers

[[Waterloo House]], [[13-15 Finkle Street]] Cloths and Furnishings (department store)

[[21 Finkle Street]] Self service supermarket (now [[White Stuff]])

[[Wildman Street]]

13 Stricklandgate

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Between [[11 Stricklandgate]] and [[15 Stricklandgate]] on the east side of Stricklandgate

==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900]]==

<blockquote>No. 13 to 19 But to return to the eastern side of the street we notice next door to No. 9, which was at one time a coffee house, a splendid row of lath and plaster houses, with molded overhanging projections. No. 13 (Farrer’s tea shop) alone retains the original quaint form of window ; the other shops being refronted in the year 1822.

I can only trace the history of the row back to the middle of last century, to a time when it was owned by William Herbert, a mercer. He died in February, 1766, and by his will bequeathed to his wife Agnes, during her natural life, all that burgage house, messuage or tenement, with a stable and back buildings, and also three shops and two cellars under the front of the said dwelling-house; and after her decease to his grandson, Fletcher Fleming. The widow died January, 1776, aged 84, and in the following month the property was sold by the said Fletcher Fleming.

After this time No. 19 was occupied by William Bordley, an ironmonger, who was succeeded by Thomas Miller in the same line of business. He was mayor in 1776 and in 1780, and to him is due the refronting of the northern end of the row. John Pearson came to Kendal in 1781, and took over Miller’s business, and in his turn became mayor in 18o9 and 1818. He died at the age of 80 in the year 1837, was succeeded by his son, Francis. Matthew Redhead followed, and removed the business next door to No. 21.
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69 Stricklandgate

2024-08-11T08:30:52Z

Robinsonj: Created page with "Between Black Hall Yard 67 Stricklandgate and 71 Stricklandgate (now the remaining central Kendal Post Office branch) on Stricklandgate and opposite Library Road...."

Between [[Black Hall Yard 67 Stricklandgate]] and [[71 Stricklandgate]] (now the remaining central [[Kendal Post Office]] branch) on Stricklandgate and opposite Library Road.

==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900]]==

<blockquote>Black Hall

We now come to the historic “Black Hall,” probably the best residence in the town, at the time when Henry Wilson, nominated the first Alderman in the Charter of Queen Elizabeth in 1575, occupied it. For a long time it continued to be the residence of the family, till the year 1733, when the heiress, Miss Frances Wilson, married [[Francis Drinkel]]. Their daughter married a Mr. Stephenson, who assumed the name of Standish, and who held the hall till its sale in 1869 to Rainforth Hodgson for £650. In 1579 [[Henry Wilson]], for misconduct, was deprived of his burgesship and his office of justice of the peace. He was buried in Kendal Church on the 29th August, 1592. He presented to the [[Kendal Corporation|Corporation]] the two splendid silver flagons that we read of, and which must oftimes have flowed with spiced wine smoking hot as the custom then was, but which were during the dark days thought to be of so little worth that the Corporation exchanged them for a set of common candlesticks.

The ancient building was greatly modernised about 1810, especially by the introduction of sash windows, the only noticeable external feature now being the real old Westmorland chimneys, massive and circular, smoking their pipes in peace, but even these were re-built about 1820. One of the upper rooms is paved with cobbles.

It is now a brush manufactory, and may be known at once by the sign of a bristly hog, elevated over the doorway. Inside it bristles also with numerous rooms, and gloomy crannies literally crammed with bristles, bristles everywhere. The sign of the “ bristling hog,” as like the sign of the clog of the clog-maker, the umbrella of the umbrella-maker, and the smoking man of the tobacconist, is one of the few still remaining of the ancient tradesmen’s signs put up to bespeak the trade carried on within when few could read, and the mere epithet
“a brush shop” would be unintelligible.

The brush manufactory business was established in the year 1838 by [[Grant and Hodgson]]. The productions have always been highly reputed for their excellent qualities and general characteristics. The works are fitted up with all the best appliances for rapid production of all classes of work, and considerable quantities are turned out both for the wholesale and retail branches of the trade.
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==Occupiers==

[[Henry Wilson]] and family from at least 1575 to 1869

[[Rainforth Hodgson]] Brush Manufacturers

[[Thompson Matthews]] Estate Agents

[[Bristly Hog Coffee House]]

[[Category:Stricklandgate]][[Category:Building]][[Category:Factory]][[Category:Brush Manufacturer]][[Category:Shop]]

33-35 Highgate

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On the corner of southern corner of the junction of [[Lowther Street]] with Highgate adjacent to [[37 Highgate]].

==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900 p95]]==

ON returning again into Highgate to take up our examination of the houses upon the east side, we notice the corner shop of Lowther Street, where [[Isaac Hadwen]], maltster and corn factor, resided until his death in 1822.

In my illustration of the [[White Hall]], there is a good view of this old shop, then tenanted by one Jackson, a tobacconist, with the trade sign of a Red Indian and his pipe, over the doorway. In America the pipe, as we know, has its native place, and the Red Indian is the great forbear or foster-father of all who smoke.

“We may get on without America,” said a witty Frenchman, from whose opinion, of course, we must plainly differ, “but we cannot get on without M. Nicott”—the French prototype of our Sir Walter Raleigh.

Here also the well-known firm of Messrs. Carr commenced their career of biscuit manufacturers. [[Jonathan Carr|Jonathan]], son of [[Henry Carr]], a weaver on Far Cross Bank, first started for himself as a wholesale grocer in that ancient old building on Highgate Bank ([[121 Highgate]]), which had formerly been the “ [[Royal Oak]]” Inn, and shortly afterwards married a daughter of [[Jonathan Dodgson]], another wholesale grocer in Stricklandgate. Their son, the worthy [[Jonathan Dodgson Carr]], removed up to this house, but finding little scope, he ultimately removed to Carlisle, where the business has ever since grown to be of world wide fame. However, his brother Henry remained here, and I have before me a circular dated, Kendal 10th Month, 11th, 1833, in which “ [[Henry Carr II]] respectfully announces that he has entered upon these premises, where he purposes carrying on the wholesale and retail tea and coffee trade.” It is said that he also had thoughts of combining the tobacco trade, but the [[Society of Friends]] advised him better, saying that they “could not see that tobacco was a necessary of life but rather a bad habit of turning the money that would be useful to the poor into thin air”; so the project was abandoned. Henry at last removed also to Carlisle, and in 1837, [[Thomas Woof]], tea dealer, carried on his business. In an upper front room the Plymouth Brethren first held their meetings.

==Occupiers==

[[Isaac Hadwen]] home until 1822 (maltster and corn factor).

[[Jonathan Dodgson Carr]] until 1833 (grocers shop).

[[Henry Carr II]] (wholesale and retail tea and coffee trade shop).

Jackson around 1900 (tobacconist shop).

[[Riggs]] 1950s (Riggs Cafe).

[[Category:Highgate]][[Category:Lowther Street]][[Category:Building]][[Category:House]][[Category:Shop]][[Category:Grocers]][[Category:Bakery]][[Category:Cafe]]

Riggs

2024-08-09T23:42:45Z

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Rigs Cafes and bakers

==Locations==

[[33-35 Highgate]] Riggs Cafe

Kirkland

Market Place

Allhallows Lane

Lowther Street (bakery)

[[Category:Business]][[Category:Bakery]][[Category:Cafe]]

Merchant Kendal

2024-08-09T23:00:02Z

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==[[Stricklandgate House]]==

Merchants and retailers important people and often Mayors, Aldermen, Councillors, etc.

Start: Stricklandgate House entrance on Stricklandgate

Brief history of the Merchant Bankers who set up two Kendal banks in 1788 which facilitated investment in Kendal through their entrepreneurial spirit, connections with the banking industry and trust they engendered through connections to the Quakers.

[[Strickland House]] was an elegant residence. According to a census in 1787, the household comprised Joseph Maude and his wife Sarah, their nine sons and three daughters, two manservants, five maidservants, a coachman, liveryman and stablehand. In 1815, the building became a commercial premises - still owned, at least in part, by the Maudes - for the Kendal Savings Bank. In 1896, the [[Kendal Literary and Scientific Society]] relocated Kendal Museum into Stricklandgate House, where the public had access to parts of the Society's collection of artefacts. The society was no longer a rich one, closing finally in 1913. Many of the finest items of its collection were acquired by the British Museum in London.

[[Joseph Maude]] came from a Sunderland shipping and coal-mining family and became a financier with strong banking connections in the North East.

[[Christopher Wilson]] likewise had become a money man well before the Kendal Bank opened it's doors. He had already embarked on the stock market trading in 1781 and in the following two years spent over £1000 on stocks. He had banking contacts on London and from his hosiery business he had connections with merchants throughout the country, At home in Kendal he was a churchman, an alderman and generally a pillar of the establishment.

[[Thomas Crewdson]], a Kendal hosier and linsey manufacturer was, by contrast, a Quaker. Through his father-in-law, William Dilworth, a Quaker banker in Lancaster, he had widespread banking connections as well as contacts with many Quaker merchants. Eventually left Quakers who disapproved of baptism by immersion (1840).

[[John Wakefield]] was also a Quaker and a relative of William Dilworth. As his stepson he had similar banking connections. He was a outstanding entrepreneur with bills circulating already in the 1770s in Carlisle and the North East with business connections through the wool trade in Furness and with shipping interests in the West Indies trad, exporting Kendal cloth and importing sugar, rum and cotton for his mills at Burneside. He established a brewery in Kendal, bottled his own wine and was a stalwart of the 18th century union of Quakerism, shipping and strong drink! 'Encouraged' to resign from Quakers when they found he was manufacturing gunpowder for military use wars.

Banks started because of distrust of bank of England (which lost ability to pay in gold coinage in 1797)and Quakers were trusted. Own banknotes (promissory notes).

1826 'run on the banks' ('paper panic') Kendal's survived as they were trusted.

[[71 Stricklandgate|McDonalds]] fast food Town House of Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson (also Kentmere Manor)- Savoy Cafe - Maypole - Liptons (demolished) - McDonalds

[[69 Stricklandgate|Black Hall Brush Factory]] Henry Wilson Town House 1575 first Alderman (=mayor - 1579 misconduct). Sold Rainforth Hodgson 1869 £650. Modernised 1810 sash windows. Westmorland chimneys, rebuild 1820. Room paved with cobbles. Bristly hog trade sign.

Quiggins Mint Cake and Briggs Boots adjacent (previous locations)

Robert Wipers Kendal Mint Cake (Works in Entry Lane)

(Shopping Centre) Madam Margees, light up sign board shop Seven Stars pubs demolished. Shop fronts demolished for Thos Cook building (picture)

==Stricklandgate adj [[Market Place]]==

(Rose & Crown & White Lion)

Two Bird's shops - ironmonger (a lot of ironmongers) and boots (importance of boots)

Jackson's Saddlers - McCormacks - Halfords - Holland & Barrett

(Richard) Crowle Town House C18 (Recorder, Cunswick Hall) - C19 Waite & Jackson Draper - 1818 James Noble, Surgeon - William Tindall, Chemist - 1852 Armistead & Shepherd, Chemist - Matthew Burton, Chemist (Cheapside) - Irvine Chemist - Boons Chemist - Greenwoods - Pandora - Marsden's

Youdell's Wine merchants, wine merchants below St George's Chapel (Sinkinson's Wines and Spirits, demolished, adj Town Hall)

(Gazette shop)

(mention Coop supermarket)

(Moot Hall/Brunskills)

==Birdcage==

(Kings Arms)

Marks & Spencer 1930's (built first before Burtons)

Montague Burtons - foundation stones, marble freize - carved sign. Previously [[Braithwaite Brothers Cycle Manufacturers]] (George Braithwaite moved to [[94 Highgate]] and set up as a motorcycle dealer. Tom Philipson moved down [[Yard 10 and continued as Braithwaite Bros in[['K' Cycle Works]].

Farrers - Webster architect refronted adjacent shops -rare survivor, part of row,

(FT Long's tobacconist)

(Clarks 8 x-ray machine)

(Boots, Mothercare, Timothy Whites & Taylor)

==Town Hall==

[[33-35 Highgate|Carr's Biscuits]] (Jonathan Dodgson Carr grocer 1833 moved to Carlisle, brother Henry stayed (wholesale tea and coffee, father Jonathan Carr grocers business at Old Royal Oak on Highgate Bank)

Samuel Rhodes - wholesale draper and cheese merchant's (sign of a large cheese outside)

Robert Rhodes Pot Shop (on the corner

Woolworths - earlier store front, 1930's front, pick and mix, record counter (replaced three shops but not all at once)

Greenbanks

Titus Wilson's - Gazette

Webbs (previously Meldrum)

Kendal Bank built after amalgamation 1843, built 1873 (merged with [[Bank of Liverpool]] 1890, became [[Martins Bank]] in 1928 and [[Barclays Bank]] in 1969.

T&E Rhodes - Kendal time - Time Gun - electic firing

Sinkinson's Wine Merchants

(Allhallows Fent shop)

(Edmondson & Vogt)

==Finkle Street==

Roberts - moved down to Stramongate

Brennands top and bottom

[[Kendal Co-operative Society Ltd|Co-op]] - Waterloo House - Coop movement (1862 formed 150 members, end c19 1750 members) - other shops - independent ([[13-15 Finkle Street]]).

John Collier 'The Window to Watch', previously William G Dawson Cash Drapery Store ([[3 Finkle Street]])

==Top of Strammongate==

Musgroves

Batemans Toffee (Wilson's 65 Stricklandgate, Allens 61a Highgate, Booth Kirkland))

(Tognorellis)

==Market Place==

Brunskills (Alderman Thomas Rowlandson (mercer, having his shop under the Moot Hall) 1715, Brunskills, Bradleys, Fosters Menswear, Thorntons, Peter George Banks)

Middletons (prev Barrow's) (Slip Inn, slaughterhouse)

Riggs - Birketts - Subway

Market stalls - where it all started - infill of area, Butter Market, Corn Market, General Market, tolls for those not free - market charter - other market locations, specialist locations of shops

Traders congregated around Market place to take advantage of buzz other specialist associated with street market locations.

==END==

[[Category:Walks]]

29 Stricklandgate

2024-08-09T08:39:30Z

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==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900 p340]]==

It is little realized by those who traverse along the busy Market Place upon what an elevated ground it stands, and what a beautiful landscape of the Kent valley is seen from many of its upper windows. But harder still is it to realize that these houses in days of yore were the residences of the leading gentry. In front of the chemist’s shop, at the corner of Cheapside, may be seen the arms of Richard Crowle, viz.. Sable, a chevron between three mascles Or, two and one. This Crowle was Recorder of Kendal from 1752-1757. The family originally came from Hull, and resided sometime at Cunswick Hall. Here stood, together with the adjoining houses to the north, the last of those interesting memorials of a bygone age, the wooden-framed galleried-houses, with their massive vertical and transverse oaken beams rudely “ sett upp,” and firmly bound together by oak pegs or trennels.

Cornelius Nicholson says, that before the days of the umbrella, these galleried houses were so common in Kendal that you could walk dryshod, under the cover of them, from the Newbiggin to this Stricklandgate end. Good old Kendal truly may be considered one of the dampest spots in Christendom, but at least it must be acknowledged that she has done her best to protect the passer by, as far as possible, from the rain. Where is there such another town with so many covered entries on either side of the public way. Caught in a sudden shower, one has but twenty paces or so to run at the most, before a friendly shelter can be met with, and who is there amongst us that has not oftimes had cause to bless these quaint old yard ends ? At the beginning of the XIXth century a firm of Waite and Jackson carried on here a large drapery establishment, and in the year 1818 I find that James Noble occupied this building as his surgery. In 1822 the premises were re-built altogether, when the galleries were superseded by the present limestone front. William Tindall had a chemist’s shop here about 1848, until his death in 1852, when a firm of Armistead and Shepherd followed. They were succeeded by Matthew Burton, who caused the doorway to be removed to the corner of the building. It is said, but upon what authority I cannot say, that Burton christened the side lane “Cheapside,” as an indication of the very low profits that he in his shop was prepared to make.

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118 Highgate

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On the west side of Highgate between [[116 Highgate]] ([[The Bradbury Centre]], [[Sight Advice South Lakes]]) and [[120 Highgate]] (also part of [[Kendal Youth Hostel]]).

Now occupied by [[Kendal Youth Hostel]].

The house was built in 1758 for [[Daniel Wilson]] a member of the Dallam Tower family and [[Elizabeth Crowle]] (see also [[27 Highgate]]), probably as a town or dower house.

The arms of Wilson, impaled with those of Crowle, are still on the leaden spout-head in front of the property. The arms of Wilson :- Argent,
three wolves’ heads couped Sable, vulned in the neck. The crest, which is to be seen at each joint of the pipe, is a hand grenade; but this is not the crest of the Wilson family, although it somewhat resembles it. The same error of a hand grenade is noticeable over the entrance to Casterton Old Hall. The Wilson crest is a Crescent Or, therefrom flames issuant proper. Here resided at different periods, [[William Whitwell]] (whose family also owned [[122 Highgate]] a few doors away) and [[William Mark]] and the offices of [[Whitwell Mark & Co Ltd]]. In the year 1853, the gardens were built over for the new ale brewery; in 1864 the beautiful renaissance panelled dining room was converted into an office, and the kitchens became a cooper’s shop. The brewery buildings on the old gardens behind became the [[Brewery Arts Centre]] in 1972 and the house was turned into a youth hostel, first YHA then later a privately run youth hostel.

References: [[Curwen 1900]]
[https://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/kendal-brewery/ Visit Cumbria - Kendal - Old Brewery House

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Whitwell Mark & Co Ltd

2024-07-27T21:49:55Z

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"The House of Whitwell" had it's offices at [[118 Highgate]].

Founded in 1757 by [[John Whitwell]] as a wine business on Highgate and registered as a private company in 1883.

[[William Mark]] bought the business and in 1853 and by 1900 the company was one of the town's largest employers and best known industries.

Taken over by [[Vaux & Associated Breweries]] of Sunderland in 1946/7 with [http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Whitwell,_Mark_&_Co._Ltd_Pubs 30 tied houses] it continued to brew until 18 September 1968. The offices were relocated in 1971.

==References==

[https://westmorland.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php?id=47628 Westmorland CAMRA - Whitwell, Mark & Co.]

[https://www.labology.org.uk/brewery/whitwell-mark-co-ltd/ Labology.org.uk - Whitwell Mark & Co.Ltd]

[http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Whitwell,_Mark_%26_Co._Ltd Brew History Society - Whitwell, Mark & Co. Ltd]

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Whitwell Mark Brewery

2024-07-27T21:42:23Z

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Operated by [[Whitwell Mark & Co Ltd]] ("The House of Whitwell") at [[118 Highgate]] who also had their offices there.

Founded in 1757 by [[John Whitwell]] as a wine business on Highgate and registered as a private company in 1883. It was said that the cellars held over 40,000 gallons of wine.

William Mark bought the business and in 1853 the company built a new ale brewery in the garden of the Georgian town house that fronted [[Highgate]].

By 1900 the company was one of the town's largest employers and best known industries.

Taken over by [[Vaux & Associated Breweries]] of Sunderland in 1946/7 with [http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Whitwell,_Mark_%26_Co._Ltd_Pubs 30 tied houses] it continued to brew until 18 September 1968 and when the offices were relocated in 1971 the frontage town house became a Youth Hostel and the industrial buildings behind were converted into the [[Brewery Arts Centre]].

==References==

[https://westmorland.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php?id=47628 Westmorland CAMRA - Whitwell, Mark & Co.]

[https://www.labology.org.uk/brewery/whitwell-mark-co-ltd/ Labology.org.uk - Whitwell Mark & Co.Ltd]

[http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Whitwell,_Mark_%26_Co._Ltd Brew History Society - Whitwell, Mark & Co. Ltd]

[http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Whitwell,_Mark_%26_Co._Ltd_Pubs Whitwell Mark & Co Pubs]

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Brewery Arts Centre

2024-07-27T21:03:12Z

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On the west side of [[Highgate]] to the rear of [[116 Highgate]] and [[ 118 Highgate]] ([[Kendal Youth Hostel]])

Previously the site and buildings [[Whitwell Mark Brewery]] which were aquired and converted in 1971, opening in 1972 as [[Brewery Arts]]

[[Category:Entertainment]][[Category:Highgate]][[Category:Art Gallery]][[Category:Cinema]][[Category:Public House]][[Category:Restaurant]]

Castle Howe and Serpentine

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==[[Brewery Arts Centre]]==
Start: car park

Brief history of the brewery

Why brewery was there (spring line?)

==[[Captain French Lane]]==

Captain John French - owned property, rebuilt. Churchwarden, parliamentary captain (imprisoned), burgess 1654 and 59

Speed -Routine/Rattan/Rotten Row link to fell and Underbarrow Road to west and cemetery?

Industry - Card making (wool cards), later scrap Yard (Hanrattys) and rag yard.

People - poorer end, smaller houses

==[[Garth Heads]]==

'Back Lane'

Kendal Fault

Way up to Bowling Fell

Spring line/Water tanks

==[[Castle Howe]]==

Normans establish rule

1092 First castle (3rd defensive structure) (Willaim Rufus)

Motte and Bailey (flat pack) pallisade round bailey camp and motte

Monument - erected 1788 'Bill's Bodkin' Bill Holme & Francis Webster The Glorious Revolution 1688 (Monument Windermere Road)

Liberty (Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity) Whigs hated 4 Hanovarian King Georges. (Tories Napoleon Elba monument Tolson Hall)

Bowling Fell - early dedication to recreation - Kendal Fell Trust Act

==[[Beast Banks]]==

Beast Fayre/meat market near castle Bull baiting, bull ring, selling meat "bull-beef" lighted lamp, fine 3s 4d

Suppressed by Corporation 1791 (accidents)

Settlement top of hill

==[[Postman Pat]]==

John Cunliffe, Greendale/Longsledale

BBC asked him to write TV series about countryside life for children. Suggested postman based

==[[High Tenterfell]]==

Tenter frames reserved in Fell Trust Enclosure

Farm land, Wood yard, Ropewalk

==[[Serpentine Woods]]==

1760s Kendal Fell - barren - rocks and stones - locals had rights of common - fuel wood, grazing, gardens, etc.

1767 Kendal Fell Trust Act - public ownership - 'for the benefit of the poor' - support workhouse, light and cleanse town

Rented out for income

Trustees - notable quakers barred from public office

Commercial tree plantation 1790s, inc specimen trees

1820s Serpentine Cottage - caretaker protect trees

1820s pleasure ground - Serpentine Walks - paid initially - 6d (gentry)

1849 opened to public - controversy - flower beds ransacked?

Whitwell (Fern Garden)

Darwin Leighton - Grocer/amateur naturalist (Bleak House)

Storm Arwen damage

Time Gun, wishing well, dancing green

Trails - Town Council natural history, Alphabet

==[[Greenside Lime Kiln]]==

Quarries and lime burning Kettlewell and Kendal Fell

Coal with the canal - the 'Black and White'

1861 another Kendal Fell Trust Act to dissolve - public health acts, trust no longer required - land sold for building Greenside, Queens Road, Kendal Green

Building boom - stone and lime big demand Kendal and further

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Beast Banks National School

2024-06-27T18:28:39Z

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Above the junction of Beast Banks and Low Fellside with Allhallows Lane on an area of land previously probably associated with the original [[All Hallows' Chapel]] which was somewhere near here according to [[John Speed]]'s map of 1612. The area was also described as [[Nether Graveship]] (associated with the church but separated from other church lands).

As well as endowing the Whitehaven Marine School and a soup kitchen there in 1817 [[Matthew Piper]] also endowed [[Beast Banks National School|Beast Banks (boys) National elementary school]] at Kendal (later [[Central School]]) with £2,000 and another at Lancaster - also both early National Schools. The school was designed by Webster. Matthew Piper's portrait hung over the master’s desk and the endowment in 1906 consisted of £2,159 (in five per cent annuities). The Boys' National School was built by subscription in 1818. The mayor and aldermen are the trustees, and Mr. Richard Roberts is the master of this large seminary, where upwards of 200 boys receive gratuitous instruction. Upwards of 200 females are educated by subscription, in the girls' school, which contains a separate room for the girls of the Blue Coal School. The mayor and aldermen are the trustees and Mr. Richard Roberts was the master.

The Kendal National School was established by a deed dated 21st November 1817, on a one acre site called [[Lower Spout Close]] in [[Beat Banks|Beastbanks]] (SD 513 925). The foundation stone was laid on 16th December 1817 and the school opened two years later on the 11th August 1819. In 1974 it became an annex for Vicarage Park junior school ([[Central School]]) after which, in 1985, it was converted into a housing complex.

Piper requested that his remains be buried under the centre of the floor of the National School in Kendal. As the school was being built, Piper’s ashes were interred in a vault there.

[[Category:School]][[Category:Education]][[Category:Beast Banks]]

Blue Coat School

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Initially in rooms at the entrance of [[Sandes Hospital Yard]] behind [[80 Highgate]] it later moved to larger buildings at the rear of the yard and the schoolmaster had his lodgings in the house at the front (now a tea room/cafe). The charity that ran it was merged with the [[Kendal Grammar School]] (later [[Kirkbie Kendal School]] and still benefits the school.

==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900 p137]]==

'''Blue Coat School'''

In the Boke of Recorde there is an entry of an order made at a Court of the Mayor and Aldermen, on the 25th day of March, 1641, “ Whereby on consideration of the great number of children resorting to the free school, which doubtless did hinder the perfecting of many and that the Usher was much burdened and surcharged, it was ordered that the Usher should not teach or admit any child not capable to read the psalter, or that could not read some English, but should disallow such as learnt in the Horn Book, A.B.C. and Primer.”

It would seem therefore that it was in consequence of this order that our worthy [[Thomas Sandes]] founded this school to teach and instruct poor children gratis that should come to the master to be taught, at such times as other schoolmasters did teach, until they should be fitted for the Free School or elsewhere. Soon after the school was thus commenced in 1670, there is an item in the churchwardens’ books of money being spent “for formes whereon to seat the sixteen charity children.” No doubt at first the school would meet in one of the front rooms, but as time went on and the numbers increased, it was removed to the “ Great Room ” where was the library. The instruction seems also to have been extended to girls, for in a memorandum it is stated that “ nine poor girls were taught there in 1714 by Isabel Fisher.”

It was in this year that Vicar Crosby and a highly public spirited body of subscribers commenced to clothe the scholars in blue, and by the year 1723, the donation list was so extended as to enable the number of children to be greatly increased.

We have no information as to who filled the post of first schoolmaster, but the Newcastle Journal for January 10th, 1747, gives a most eulogistic reference to Enoch Le. Tousey, master of the Charity School at Kendal, who had suddenly died during the previous week. His successor was Thomas Mackreth, of whom it is recorded on his gravestone in the churchyard, that he was 40 years master of the Hospital and Charity School and that he died in 1787. The next master was the Rev. Thomas Airey, who was here only for a short period, prior to his incumbency of Selside, and he was followed by a little deformed man named John Briggs, who died in early life. In the year 1795, a slip of ground was taken off the master’s garden and a building erected thereon at a cost of some £200, for the boys to learn weaving and card
setting in. The work was done for the boys own benefit, some of them earning thereby from 2S. 6d. to 3s. a week. The Rev. John Hudson, however, being treasurer to the school, put a stop to the custom, and one can only suppose, for some financial reason. John Taylor followed as schoolmaster, a useful man, who continued Wharton and Pennington’s ''Table of Chronological Events'' from 1802 to 1823. His gravestone
records that he died in 1827, aged 54 years. His successor, William Lewthwaite, held the mastership for ten years, and then James Whitaker followed for a period of more than forty years.

When the Commissioners made their report in 1815, there were 40 boys and 30 girls all clothed in blue, at an expense of £150 a year. After the year 1838, by reason of a bequest of 500 guineas from Edward Burrell, a poor Fellside lad, who became a partner in a Liverpool bank, the trustees were enabled to increase the number of boys to 45. In the year 1849, the school was once again taught in the “Great Room,” when the building higher up the court was greatly improved by the removal of the weaving shop floor, the introduction of new lancet windows and an entrance porch.

In the year 1886, under a scheme of the Charity commissioners, this school and the Grammar School (founded in 1525) were merged into one trust, and a number of free scholarships established in lieu of the clothing and former education.

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92 Highgate

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Robinsonj:

Between [[Websters Yard 88 Highgate]] and [[New Inn Yard 94 Highgate]]

==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900 p139]]==

'''No. 92.''' (Now part of 90-92 Highgate)

At the north corner of [[New Inn Yard 94 Highgate|New Inn Yard]] McNaught, a master coach builder, had his show rooms. The front walling having been removed so as to cause the space wherein he kept his handsome coaches to be open to the street. McNaught carried on a most prosperous business, so much so, that the old folk used to say that, “ although his name was McNaught he macks a good deal.” Edward Brown succeeded to him.

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New Inn Yard 94 Highgate

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Between [[90-92 Highgate]] ([[Comida]]) and the [[96 Highgate]] ([[The Turkish Barbers Shop]]).

Towards the west (back) of the yard there were two large warehouses occupied latterly by the London, Leeds, Wigan, Liverpool, and Carlisle carriers, a coach house and granary. the gardens beyond.

Also known as '''[[Old Zion Chapel]] Yard''' as chapel was built towards the back in 1844 (now housing association appartments)

There was a horse blanket factory operating in the yard in the 1950's.

==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900 p139]]==

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'''New Inn Yard'''

The Cumberland Pacquet for August 4th, 1795, gives an account of a corn riot that took place in the yard, when the carrier’s warehouses were broken into and two cart-loads of oatmeal stolen therefrom. These old warehouses marked on Todd’s plan, formed a large square, and were only removed with a disused malt kiln in order to make a building site for the [[Old Zion Chapel|Zion Chapel]].
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New Inn (Highgate)

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[[98 Highgate]] LA9 4HE on the west side of [[Highgate]] between [[96 Highgate]] ([[The Turkish Barber Shop]]) and [[100 Highgate]] (the [[Marvic Hotel]]). The rear of the property opens on to [[New Inn Yard 94 Highgate]].

==[[Kirkbie-Kendall 1900|Curwen, 1900 p140]]==

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'''New Inn'''

The next house is the “ New Inn,” now no longer new but outwardly little altered, if we except the removal or the old latticed panes and the
substitution of the modern sheet glass. Internally it is low, but has had, at some time, many good rooms, the black oak floors of which are pegged. In the kitchen is an old oaken cupboard carved with the initials and date

F

I A

1658

and there is also some decorated cornice work worthy of being scraped free from its innumerable coatings of lime-wash. Here was born the eminent English judge, Sir Alan Chambre, in 1739; and here, too, his grandfather, Alan, died in 1744, and his father, Walter, in 1753. Subsequently in 1766 Sir Alan purchased Abbot Hall, and abandoned this family house with its “ spacious entrance hall, transome windows, and fine garden extending to the Garth Heads.”

The house must have, very soon after Sir Alan’s day, become a public inn, for we find in the year 1796 that the Friendly Society held its meetings here, and in October, 1802, the inn advertised to be let by ticket as “all that large and convenient traveller’s and carrier’s inn, containing in front 22 yards and in depth 10 yards. On the ground floor is a large kitchen, three parlours, a pantry, and other conveniences ; on the upper floor is a good dining room and bedchambers that will contain fifteen to sixteen beds ; with a brewhouse, cellars, pump, and back yard, two stables containing forty stalls and hay lofts above them. At the same time will be let by ticket a large
entire yard with a good pump and eight new built stables to contain fifty horses occupied by carriers, and two warehouses close adjoining, occupied by London, Leeds, Wigan, Liverpool, and Carlisle carriers ; also a coach house and granary.”

In 1811 George Chamley, proprietor, advertises a light post wagon from Manchester to Glasgow and Edinburgh, arriving at Kendal every day. Both of which advertisements serve to shew that in the days of pack horses and stage coaches the New Inn must have been a not unimportant house. My last note is that it was put up for sale on the 25th day of September, 1819, when it was in the possession of Mrs. Burton, together with the extensive premises behind in the occupation of William Bousfield, Francis Webster, and others. “ Mr. James McNaught, the owner, upon the premises, will show the same,” &c., &c.</blockquote>

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