Merchant Kendal

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.

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

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

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

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.