Spend a Moment in Shaddongate
Journey down the timeline, and open up the links to find out more about the events and people that shaped the area! There's no rush, take it slow, or just keep coming back.
circa 1260/1424 - Shaddongate, so named Childelwynegate, Schadwyngat (who knows why? read more here)
1750 - The Industrial Revolution arrived... beginning to transform the area along the path of the River Caldew - read more here
Industry grew from family weavers working at home, on hand looms, to small businesses, then large factories.
Carlisle textile industry had some 43 sites listed, many based in the gate area.
1756 - Carlisle Brewery (Old Brewery) begins production at Willowholme
1758 - Mark Lonsdale, celebrated Cumberland poet and author of Th' Upshot and Love in Cumberland is born in a cottage at the foot of Shaddongate. Later Lonsdale became the manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. He died in 1815
1760 - The area is booming with lots of work for people, and an influx of new migrants from Ireland and Scotland.
In this period of unfettered capitalism there are no rules or legislation, no official interference with the running of private industrial concerns. No need to make machinery safe. No Inquests into work related deaths
1778 - Carlisle New Brewery (The Maltings) opens in Shaddongate
1785 - Completion of St Mary's (Caldewgate) Workhouse near Irish Gate Brow.
"A committee of three shall visit the house once a week, inquire into the management of the master and mistress, and hear the complaints and grievances of the poor, who are hereby requested to take notice that for every frivolous or unjust complaint made by the poor, of or against the master or mistress, they will be most severely punished"
1817 - Weavers Riot - hunger in the gate (read more here)
1819 - Work begins on Carlisle Ship Canal, a new transport route from Fishers Cross (Port Carlisle) on the Solway to the City. Watch local historian David Ramshaw explain the short lived life of the canal here
1826 - Carlisle election riot in Caldewgate. Three local people shot dead by troops. See the short lecture by Max Loth - Hill
1827 - First Chief of New Carlisle Police comes to Shaddongate to "survey" the area. (Find out what happened here)
1829 - Caldewgate workhouse opened on Coal-fell Hill, Belle Vue
1830 - Holy Trinity Church opens, spire removed in 1947 and demolished completely in 1982
1830 - Robert Creighton Saw Mill opens in Byron Street, Caldewgate. Sold in 1930 to share holder company,
becoming Alexander Saw Mills, closed in 2015
1830 - Carlisle riots led by "Shaddongaters" after haystack burning incidents and failure of
the parliamentary act on voting reform - see the short lecture by Max Loth - Hill
1832 - Outbreak of cholera
To describe the area as a slum in the 18 century is perhaps being polite, the area was dirty, smelly
& unsanitary, dwellings were back to back, did not have any running water or sewage system
1834 - Carrs biscuit works in Caldewgate opens. Watch workers at Carr's in 1901 film from the BFI here
1836 - (Peter) Dixon's Chimney and Shaddon Mills are built by architect Richard Tattersall. The mill is the earliest surviving example of a Fireproof Mill built using Hodgkinson cast-iron beam design. Read more here
1846 - An Adult School is established by Mr John Spencer Cooper in Shaddongate to educate local men. The school found a home at 23 Duke Street. See a report here
1848 - 2nd Out break of Cholera killed off large numbers of people
1851 - Caldewgate Ragged and Industrial School (Head's School) opens. More here
1853 - The canal closed due to the new railway boom. The canal being filled-in and a railway line followed the same course
1855 - News of a fatal accident in Shaddongate
1861 - Temperance Hall in Caldewgate built with the financial support of Carrs Biscuit works
Carrs also build homes for workers in Kendal Street and Silloth Street
1861 - American Civil War begins (with unforeseen consequences for the textile industry of Shaddongate)
1866 - St Bede's Catholic School, opens on Silloth Street as a chapel mission; new buildings added in 1883-4; closed in 1962
1870 - Carlisle Corporation instigate the installation of piped water into homes along with sewage systems
1871 - Dixons, the firm announced that it would stop using hand-loom weavers. About 600 new power looms were installed at Shaddon Mill and a further 229 at Peter Street
1872 - Caldewgate School opens on Kendal Street; closed 1988,
when combined with Ashley Street into Caldew Lea School in1988
1879 - 21 Newcastle Street, birthplace of John William Laing, built by John Laing, both of John Laing & Son
1880 - The Lorne Arms. Valuable public house in Shaddongate for sale by private treaty
1882 - Dixons, Shaddon mills passes into liquidation and is taken over by Robert Todd and Son
1895 - Ashley Street Elementary School, for boys and girls, built.
Closed 1988, when combined with Caldewgate into Caldew Lea School
1896 - Shaddongate United Football Club is born. They play their matches at Willowholme
1900 - Sewage Works built at Willowholme
1900 - Giants Grave close to Trinity Church, Caldewgate removed for road widening & tram lines.
See it in the Know Where You Walk video here
1904 - Shaddongate United FC change their name to Carlisle United
1912 - William Linton started Linton Mill, manufacturer of woollen tweed in Shaddongate. Read more here
1916 - The Carlisle Old Brewery and New Brewery are nationalised by the Control Board as the Carlisle State Brewery along with pubs in the City to control alcohol and its availability to the influx of 15,000 construction workers and navvies employed to build and work at the munitions factory in Gretna. Read more here
1925 - Power Station built at Willowholme (demolished in 1988)
1933 - Poets corner in Caldewgate (Burns Street, Byron Street, Milton Street, Shakspeare Street) is demolished
1946 - Mrs Storrow keeps her goat at Caldewgate School. Find out more here
1952 - Paddy's Market re-established in Caldewgate. See more here
1960 - Frank Pennington Barbers moved from Junction Street to No. 62 Shaddongate (see Frank's son, Alan's map of who's who on Shaddongate at the time) here
1968 - New Landlords of The Duke of York Pub (Hear from daughters Christine & Ann in Living Memories)
1970 - Thomas Graham steel stockist relocated to Caldewgate (founded 1892 Lowther Street, Carlisle)
1971 - Carlisle State Management Brewery and pubs were denationalised and sold to private breweries
(Find out more at thestatemanagementstory.org)
2005 - Carlisle Floods
2006 - Willowholme Gardens demolished. Broadguards demolished
2015 - Carlisle Floods. See and hear reflection from When the Waters Rise film here
2019 - The Gate, a living history of shaddongate project begins, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund...
1750 - The Industrial Revolution arrived... beginning to transform the area along the path of the River Caldew - read more here
Industry grew from family weavers working at home, on hand looms, to small businesses, then large factories.
Carlisle textile industry had some 43 sites listed, many based in the gate area.
1756 - Carlisle Brewery (Old Brewery) begins production at Willowholme
1758 - Mark Lonsdale, celebrated Cumberland poet and author of Th' Upshot and Love in Cumberland is born in a cottage at the foot of Shaddongate. Later Lonsdale became the manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. He died in 1815
1760 - The area is booming with lots of work for people, and an influx of new migrants from Ireland and Scotland.
In this period of unfettered capitalism there are no rules or legislation, no official interference with the running of private industrial concerns. No need to make machinery safe. No Inquests into work related deaths
1778 - Carlisle New Brewery (The Maltings) opens in Shaddongate
1785 - Completion of St Mary's (Caldewgate) Workhouse near Irish Gate Brow.
"A committee of three shall visit the house once a week, inquire into the management of the master and mistress, and hear the complaints and grievances of the poor, who are hereby requested to take notice that for every frivolous or unjust complaint made by the poor, of or against the master or mistress, they will be most severely punished"
1817 - Weavers Riot - hunger in the gate (read more here)
1819 - Work begins on Carlisle Ship Canal, a new transport route from Fishers Cross (Port Carlisle) on the Solway to the City. Watch local historian David Ramshaw explain the short lived life of the canal here
1826 - Carlisle election riot in Caldewgate. Three local people shot dead by troops. See the short lecture by Max Loth - Hill
1827 - First Chief of New Carlisle Police comes to Shaddongate to "survey" the area. (Find out what happened here)
1829 - Caldewgate workhouse opened on Coal-fell Hill, Belle Vue
1830 - Holy Trinity Church opens, spire removed in 1947 and demolished completely in 1982
1830 - Robert Creighton Saw Mill opens in Byron Street, Caldewgate. Sold in 1930 to share holder company,
becoming Alexander Saw Mills, closed in 2015
1830 - Carlisle riots led by "Shaddongaters" after haystack burning incidents and failure of
the parliamentary act on voting reform - see the short lecture by Max Loth - Hill
1832 - Outbreak of cholera
To describe the area as a slum in the 18 century is perhaps being polite, the area was dirty, smelly
& unsanitary, dwellings were back to back, did not have any running water or sewage system
1834 - Carrs biscuit works in Caldewgate opens. Watch workers at Carr's in 1901 film from the BFI here
1836 - (Peter) Dixon's Chimney and Shaddon Mills are built by architect Richard Tattersall. The mill is the earliest surviving example of a Fireproof Mill built using Hodgkinson cast-iron beam design. Read more here
1846 - An Adult School is established by Mr John Spencer Cooper in Shaddongate to educate local men. The school found a home at 23 Duke Street. See a report here
1848 - 2nd Out break of Cholera killed off large numbers of people
1851 - Caldewgate Ragged and Industrial School (Head's School) opens. More here
1853 - The canal closed due to the new railway boom. The canal being filled-in and a railway line followed the same course
1855 - News of a fatal accident in Shaddongate
1861 - Temperance Hall in Caldewgate built with the financial support of Carrs Biscuit works
Carrs also build homes for workers in Kendal Street and Silloth Street
1861 - American Civil War begins (with unforeseen consequences for the textile industry of Shaddongate)
1866 - St Bede's Catholic School, opens on Silloth Street as a chapel mission; new buildings added in 1883-4; closed in 1962
1870 - Carlisle Corporation instigate the installation of piped water into homes along with sewage systems
1871 - Dixons, the firm announced that it would stop using hand-loom weavers. About 600 new power looms were installed at Shaddon Mill and a further 229 at Peter Street
1872 - Caldewgate School opens on Kendal Street; closed 1988,
when combined with Ashley Street into Caldew Lea School in1988
1879 - 21 Newcastle Street, birthplace of John William Laing, built by John Laing, both of John Laing & Son
1880 - The Lorne Arms. Valuable public house in Shaddongate for sale by private treaty
1882 - Dixons, Shaddon mills passes into liquidation and is taken over by Robert Todd and Son
1895 - Ashley Street Elementary School, for boys and girls, built.
Closed 1988, when combined with Caldewgate into Caldew Lea School
1896 - Shaddongate United Football Club is born. They play their matches at Willowholme
1900 - Sewage Works built at Willowholme
1900 - Giants Grave close to Trinity Church, Caldewgate removed for road widening & tram lines.
See it in the Know Where You Walk video here
1904 - Shaddongate United FC change their name to Carlisle United
1912 - William Linton started Linton Mill, manufacturer of woollen tweed in Shaddongate. Read more here
1916 - The Carlisle Old Brewery and New Brewery are nationalised by the Control Board as the Carlisle State Brewery along with pubs in the City to control alcohol and its availability to the influx of 15,000 construction workers and navvies employed to build and work at the munitions factory in Gretna. Read more here
1925 - Power Station built at Willowholme (demolished in 1988)
1933 - Poets corner in Caldewgate (Burns Street, Byron Street, Milton Street, Shakspeare Street) is demolished
1946 - Mrs Storrow keeps her goat at Caldewgate School. Find out more here
1952 - Paddy's Market re-established in Caldewgate. See more here
1960 - Frank Pennington Barbers moved from Junction Street to No. 62 Shaddongate (see Frank's son, Alan's map of who's who on Shaddongate at the time) here
1968 - New Landlords of The Duke of York Pub (Hear from daughters Christine & Ann in Living Memories)
1970 - Thomas Graham steel stockist relocated to Caldewgate (founded 1892 Lowther Street, Carlisle)
1971 - Carlisle State Management Brewery and pubs were denationalised and sold to private breweries
(Find out more at thestatemanagementstory.org)
2005 - Carlisle Floods
2006 - Willowholme Gardens demolished. Broadguards demolished
2015 - Carlisle Floods. See and hear reflection from When the Waters Rise film here
2019 - The Gate, a living history of shaddongate project begins, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund...