Aerial Photos part 7 1974 - 1980
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1974 Aerial Cockermouth Castle with Market Place 1974 Aerial Cockermouth Castle with Market Place. On the bottom right is All Saints church and spire and just beyond left to right is the long roof of the Market Hall that was demolished and replaced with accommodation. Beyond the Market Hall, all the buildings until the Market Place were demolished, thought the façade of some were kept and the rear rebuilt. On the right bank of the river Cocker the line of buildings were demolished which included the Thomas Wilsons hat factory. Note Market Street is shown as a black line of shadow leading from the roof of the Town Hall to Market Place and this narrow lane is now pedestrianised and a new road entrance to the Market Place car park was made by the demolition of three shops to the right of the narrow lane. At the top is Cockermouth Castle and on the far right is a rectangle that used to be a bowling green.
Aerial of Old Hall in foreground centre. Middle is green strip is Millars shoe factory and its extensions which is no Derwentside Gardens. The white zigzag rooves is James Walker with Papcastle in distance. Note the foreground is so crowded and derelict that it was demolished in 1974 to become the Market Place car park. c 1975
Aerial looking west gasometer in Derwent Street area that is now Woodville Park. Foreground is Croft bowling green. Note the green grass area on the left middle which has the first part of Fairfield Junior School that is now much enlarged, with Sainsbury car park to its right. c 1980
1968 Aerial view from All Saints spire looking to Castlegate Drive. Centre left is Drill Hall before developing into the Sports Centre, at this time it has access only from St Helens Street. Taken after 1968 when Derwent School was built at the top of the photo. On the right is Pinfold Close that were built on what had been the Pinfold of Cockermouth, a place that stray animals were placed until identified and claimed; there is a Pinfold in Brigham and other village areas. The field to the right of the Drill Hall will become Deer Orchard Close housing. Watch Hill and Setmurthy on skyline.
1974 Aerial from All Saints spire with Cockermouth Castle at the top, rivers Cocker on left Derwent at the top. From scaffolding on All Saints spire we look down over the Old Hall behind Market Place before it was redeveloped in 1974 when houses in the lower part of the photo were demolished to make Market Place car park, thought thoughtful planners kept the facade of the Market Place buildings and new flats were built behind the façade. Facing the road you can see Banks ironmonger with the yard behind with the terrace of workers’ cottages and workplaces on the right. Access to some yards are still possible by the doors at the side of the shops. In the middle left of the photo beside the Cocker in front of Jennings brewery was Stoddart’s cotton which was demolished. At the top of the photo are single storey buildings, part of Millers shoe factory that made the parts for the shoes.
1980 Aerial Cockermouth Gote Bridge Mitchells Auction Mart at top was demolished in late 1990s for Sainsbury opened in 2002
1975 Aerial Cockermouth from All Saints spire. In 1974 the Market Place rear was redeveloped, the rear of the properties were demolished and rebuilt to modern standards, with the fronts being kept in their original historic appearance.
