1900-1945 Main Street numbers 1-35
1900-1945 Main Street Menu
Main Street 23 Globe Hotel on the right.
Note the glass wall of Naimby photo studio to the right of the Globe Hotel. The north facing windows were necessary to allow the light for early photos.
An unknown festival but the banner states “Visiting The Sick Brother” and shows a well dressed man, doctor? Note the hats that indicate status and personal identity; flat caps, bowler hats, even children with flat caps but no top hats, so does this mean the gentry are absent?
Boys have the collars over their jackets and plu fours. Girls have overall pinafores and hats. Note the very young children in their sailors uniform.
The shop on the right which we now know as Allison chemist at this time was Robinson, photo thus c 1910
Main Street 23 Globe Hotel horse and cart gets through flood possibly 1931 or 1932
Main Steet 23 Globe Hotel 31 Allison flood Mayo railings clock tower gone so flood 1938
Main Street 1 Midland Bank with bunting. 3 P W Fletcher shop on Main Street is shown before moving to the other side of the road to 12 Main Street, c 1930
Main Street 35 H Burns in flood now Strolling 4 Shoes flood to Station Street August flood 1938
Main Street 13 but was renumbered from 17 Elliot Draper and Tailor later Cooper now Heart of the Home. Situated opposite former police station. After Elliot it was Coopers, then split into two shops with larger shop was ladies and general household, smaller shop was gents outfitters, now a gents hairdresser on the right.
Main Street parade by Globe Hotel. Hats indicate class status more than fashion at this time.
To the right of the clock tower is a very tall building behind the Globe Hotel. This was the photo studio of Naimby and was built high and with all the windows facing north because in 1880s to take photographs, an emulsion had to be coated onto a large glass slide and a lot of light was required to expose the negative. The negative image which was monochrome ie black and white or sepia and white. To make a colour version an artist would paint colour tint over the monochrome print.
The clock tower was locally known as “Neddy” and was not in the centre of the road but was at the four road junction of Main Street, Station Street and High Sand Lane. It became a hazard to motorised vehicles so was removed.
Photo after 1895 when the clock tower was built before 1932 when it was demolished. c 1910
Main Street.
Whitsuntide Fair and Martinmas Fair were held twice a year and took place from Wordsworth House to include Market Place and the bottom of Station Street up to South Street. This originally had been part of the Hiring Fairs at which workers made themselves available for hire on farms for six months. Likely 1930s
Main Street 29 is Haig pork butcher with 31 Allison chemist.
Further on the left is Station Street then the Brown Cow Hotel.
In the centre of the road is the statue of Mayo, but in the foreground is the clock tower which is not in the centre and in later times is a traffic hazard. Main Street clock tower was built in 1895 and not demolished until 1932. Beyond is Mayo erected August 1875.
Note the cart on the cobbles without its horse possibly stabled in the rear of one of the hotels which are indicated in modern times by the arched entrances that would have been to the stables behind.
nb. a pork butcher was a specialist who was licenced to make sure that pigs had not eaten and thus have inside, undesirable items. c 1902
Main Street 35 to Station Street H E Burns now Strolling For Shoes in flood October 1931
Main Street 35 H B Burns 31 Allison Chemist junction with Station Street Flood 1938.
The crowds in station street are looking at four posts where the road signpost used to be. There had been the clock tower near this spot but the clock tower was demolished in 1932 and a road sign put in this place and pointed left to Keswick. The signpost was later replaced with a substantial post before being removed in recent times.
What is the reason for the very high apparent telegraph post above the roof – what height is this?! Flood 1938
Main Street 31 Allison chemist pre 1934 when the shop front was altered. Allison is still flourishing in 2023.
Main Street 31 Allison Chemist. This photo is taken before 1934 when Allison shop was redeveloped Eric Allison on left Eric and Jack Allison founded Allison the chemist previously Brown the chemist. Signs are Allison Dispensing Chemist The Rexall Pharmacy advertising elastic hoses trusses etc. Allison is still flourishing in 2023. Photo is pre 1934
Main Street 13 17 Jonathan Cooper Draper – the numbering system changed and is now Heart of the Home by the pedestrian crossing.
Main Street 13 17 Jonathan Cooper Draper – the numbering system changed and is now Heart of the Home by the pedestrian crossing.
Main Street 35 by Station Street H B Burns now Strolling 4 Shoes 37 Brown Cow side view crowds look at flood. Clock tower removed 1932 flood August 1938
Main Street 35 by Station Street H B Burns now Strolling 4 Shoes 37 Brown Cow crowds look at flood. Clock tower removed 1932 flood August 1938
Main Street 23 Globe Hotel before the clock tower was demolished in 1932. Note vintage cars and the canvas covered wagon by the Globe Hotel early c 1900
Main Street 31 Allison chemist pre 1934 when the shop front was altered. Allison is still flourishing in 2023. Thompson is now a gents hairdresser. pre 1934
Main Street 23 Globe Hotel Challoner Street note the force of water from Cocker coming down Challoner Street note gas lamps possible 1938 flood
Main Street 23 Globe Hotel shows RAC and AA signs indicating that the hotel that once catered for horse drawn transport with stables in the rear yard is now catering for the new horseless carriage – the car. Note the force of water down Challoner Street from Cocker flood pre 1940 when the railings were removed from Mayo and after 1932 when the clock tower was removed. Flood 1938
Main Street 13 clothing shop decorated for Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra 9 August 1902. The main double fronted shop was run by Mrs Cooper with the small shop on the right run by her husband William Cooper. Rugby Union players looked in his window on a Tuesday morning to see if the selection committee had selected them on the previous night for the first and second Cockermouth Rugby Union team. The small shop on the right is now the barber and 13a, the main shop is Heart of the Home. 1902
Main Street 37 Brown Cow at the bottom of Station Street. The clock tower with its railings and lights with lots of children in plus fours posing for the camera, which would be a plate glass camera requiring a long shutter opening, so posing was required or the people would be blurred. Note the horse with a heavily laden cart, but note the horse “exhaust” droppings in the road.. c 1899
