1945-1980 Main Street 51-69
1945-1980 Main Street Menu
Guides on route to Harris Park to lay daffodils as a commemoration to Wordworth at the Wordsworth Memorial Fountain. Bradbury p133: In 1950 the town celebrated the centenary of the poet’s death. The Urban District Council appealed for money to buy 10,000 daffodil bulbs to plant on the approach to the town and the response was sufficient to buy 27,000.
Main Street 57 is an empty shop, now The Paper Shop. 61 Blue Bell Hotel 63 unknown.
A tinted photo shows the Blue Bell in its former day. 61 and 63 were demolished to be replaced by the current Leslie Cleeland carpet and furniture shop. Leslie Cleeland had been one of the managers of the Co-op in Station Street and then opened his own shop as did Tom Winter who opened his own shop.
April 1950
Main Street 51 Fagans 53 The Bush 55 Norweb the electricity board showroom when there was only one electricity supplier. Note the telephone kiosk in the days before everyone seems to have their own mobile phone. Mayo c 1960 p3
Main Street 49 Jack Lawson sweet cigarettes 51 Cumberland Motor Services 53 Bush Hotel. On the left is Jack Lawson sweets and tobacco, note the dispensing machine on the wall for either cigarettes or chewing gum. The alley entrance is to the flats above the shops. Note the arrows on the sides of the door pointing to something significant, but we don’t know what … Cumberland Motor Services, this was their office and parcel depot; in those days parcel deliver was often by public transport and buses would bring parcels from one bus station to other drop off points, even railways would deliver parcels in the parcels in the dedicated parcel. Day old chickens would go from Carlisle to Workington in the guards van (Eric says his family did so – don’t forget before fridges the fresh chicken was freshly killed and plucked). After closure it was taken over by Tom Winter furnishing and later by Joe Fagan and now known as Fagans. c 1950
Main Street 51 Cumberland Motor Services. c 1950
Main Street 51 is the three storey high gable end, now Fagans. This side of it is the two storey Bush Inn and the archway to what was Armstrongs timber and construction yard and is now Lowther Went shopping. Double decker buses and Mayo in the centre of the road c 1960
Main Street 51 Tom Winter carpet shop now Fagans. The sweet and tobacco shop 49 is now also Fagans, the Bush Hotel is on the right. Tom Winter had been manager of Maryport Coop in Station Street but set up on his own as carpet specialist in the shop that had been the Cumberland Motor Services office and parcel pick up point.
Main Street 51 Tom Winter had been manager of Maryport Coop in Station Street but set up on his own as carpet specialist in the shop that had been the Cumberland Motor Services office and parcel pick up point. The shop is now Fagans. c 1970
Main Street 53 Bush Hotel archway to Armstrongs wood yard now Lowther Went. Note the gates to the woodyard. Horse drawn wagons would haul tree trunks from the goods sidings where Lakes Home is now, and turn right under the archway and into the woodyard. Sometimes the horses turned too soon and the wagon side or wheel scraped the stones of the arch and the scraped stones are still there so preserve the trials and tribulations of a previous age. Some archways had a stone at the bottom of the entrance, appearing to make the entrance narrower, but these were known as “kicking stones” because if a wheel was too close to the side, instead of damaging the vertical side of the arch, the wheel would hit the kicking stone and be kicked onto its safer passage. c 1970
Main Street 55 Norweb now Fletcher Christian Inn 57 Hughes newsagent now Cockermouth Paper Shop newsagent with home deliveries. Hughes had the paper stall by Cockermouth passenger railway station which ceased in 1966 so Hughes moved to this location. c 1970
Main Street 61 – 63 Leslie Cleeland carpets and furnishing, he had been the manager of the branch of Maryport Co-op in station street. c 1970
Main Street 65 Jim Corlett cigarette shop and 67 Foster footwear repair shop now The Linden Tree next to Leslie Cleeland. 69 Salon 5 hairdresser to the right. c 1960
