Main Street 72 courtyard behind double door beside the Toy Shop p4
1980-2024 Main Street Menu
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Main Street 104 Wordsworth House front view
Main Street Wordsworth House
Main Street 106 Wordsworth House entrance
Main Street 104 Wordsworth statue
Main Street 104 Wordsworth looks to Wordsworth House p4
Main Street 104 Wordsworth Fountain was in Harris Park now on the site of the demolished Wordsworth Pub opposite Wordsworth House
Sullart Street Crown Street corner Wordsworth memorial fountain that was once in Harris Park. A drinking fountain with a bronze figure was erected in 1896 in Harris Park by Canon Rawnsley in memory of Dorothy and William Wordsworth. It was the focus of a daffodil ceremony held on the poet s bicentenary in 1970. Recently it was stolen, then recovered and placed near William s statue.
Main Street 102 Print House printing works with David Winkworth for Border TV
Main Street 96 The invisible Weavers Arms becomes Bridge Street. 1873 Weavers Arms on Main Street demolished to make a gap in the row buildings for a new road to the new bridge over the Derwent. It was built by the Harris family to save their employees walking over Gote Bridge; the new road was called Bridge Street. The bridge was built in 1875 and called Harris Bridge (until Millers took over the factory in 1940 and it is now known as Millers Bridge). The bridge was only for Harris workers and opened at the start and end of shifts. The original iron and wooden planked bridge was renewed in 1981. Photo from Google street view
Main Street 92 Walker house demolished for the 1904 Carnegie library URC church behind 2024 photo from Google street view
Main Street 90 S N Heal Optician 92 food outlet
Main Street 92 old with house was demolished for library to left URC church behind
Main Street 82 84 behind URC c 1950. 1781 14th June Wesley preached in the Free Chapel behind the URC on Main Street, there are gravestones and a porch remaining there behind the URC in 2024.
United Reformed Church, Main Street, Cockermouth
Grade II Listed church of 1856. The Cockermouth United Reformed Church (from 1972) was established in 1651 as the Cockermouth Independent Church and later the Congregational Church. An early 18th century chapel (1719 replaced 1735), now a dwelling, previously the Sunday school, stands behind the present building. The listing dates the building to 1856 but it opened under the stewardship of Reverend Portas Hewart Davison on 11th September 1850. It was built at a cost of £2,200 and contained sufficient seating for 500. Major modifications took place in the early 1990s when the church was divided horizontally; the lower part being converted into a general purpose function room with kitchen and toilets while the upper floor remained as the place of worship. from https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7527379
Main Street 84 Congregational Church before United Reformed Church 84 Bowman grocer.
The church was established in 1651 as the first Independent (subsequently Congregational) Church in Cockermouth.
Its trials and tribulations are well documented (see Bradbury s History of Cockermouth) and an early 18th century chapel, now a dwelling, stands behind the present building erected in 1850. Major modifications took place in the early 1990s when the church was divided horizontally; the lower part being converted into a general purpose function room with kitchen and toilets while the upper floor remained as the place of worship. http://cockermouth.org.uk/dms-showpage.php?tid=80
Main Street 84 Congregational Church became United Reformed Church URC p4
Main Street 72 courtyard behind double door beside the Toy Shop p4
Main Street 72 behind Toy Shop is courtyard where Aptava Turkish restaurant was before moving to Main Street c 1990
Main Street 72 courtyard behind double door beside the Toy Shop from stairs p4
Main Street 74 hidden courtyard from steps in courtyard beside the Toy Shop 2 p4
Main Street 60 62 64 66 2024 p4
Main Street 46 Calista 48 Fish chips 50 Waugh Musgrave 2024
Main Street 44 bank 42 shop
1796 George Robinson, a cooper, bought some old malt kilns in Sand Went (High Sand Lane). The derelict buildings were demolished and Mr Robinson built a meeting house which he sold to Methodist Trustees for the sum of £70. This property still exists and is owned by the Town Council and used as a business centre. Once known as the Victoria Gospel Hall – once the meeting-place of the local society of the Plymouth Brethren, now known as The Vicky and is a business centre. [WoB] [KR]
1796 George Robinson, a cooper, bought some old malt kilns in Sand Went (High Sand Lane). The derelict buildings were demolished and Mr Robinson built a meeting house which he sold to Methodist Trustees for the sum of £70. This property still exists and is owned by the Town Council and used as a business centre. Once known as the Victoria Gospel Hall – once the meeting-place of the local society of the Plymouth Brethren, now known as The Vicky and is a business centre. [WoB] [KR]
Main Street 92 beside library entrance to Walkers Yard from Main Street aerial
