IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
James Street, WORKINGTON, CA14 2DL

William Street is round the corner to the left. The curved block with pink and orange paintwork is called Victoria Buildings, dated 1882.

Situated in Vulcans Lane, the building was converted from a former Sunday School. Some memorials remain in the surrounding old graveyard, several propped against the back wall of what is now the United Church (front entrance on South William Street).

The windows have been boarded up fairly recently - when Google Street View passed by the building was occupied by a catering supplies business. The date on the roof is 1883. The Albert Hall was originally used for auction sales, concerts, etc. (Bulmer's History and Directory of Cumberland, 1901 http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/1901/work1901_f.html ).

Built in 1890, to replace a previous church which burnt down (Info : Images of England - Workington, by Richard LM Byers, 1984).

Redundant church awaiting re-use for some years.

The Vulcan's Lane entrance to Workington Bus Station. The bus station was the first purpose built covered bus station to be built in the UK and opened in 1926. The station is owned by Stagecoach, the operator of the majority of commercial bus services in Cumbria.

Inside the building which is now the Carnegie Arts Centre on Finkle Street. For information and location, see Image .

The theatre was originally a hall, and the arts centre was a library, opened in 1904. This is recorded on a plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2095969 inside the arts centre, part of which is now used as a community cafe (brilliant chips). The library and hall were "built by the munificence of Andrew Carnegie...who gave £7,500 for the purpose". Carnegie was a Scot who became a steel magnate in the USA, later donating vast sums for philanthropic work http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcarnegie.htm . This included the building of some 3,000 libraries in the English-speaking world.

Vulcan's Lane entrance. See also Image]

The statue was erected to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002. First impression - the face looks like a cross between a lion and a mandrill - was not far off. The work by sculptor Shawn Williamson is called 'Mandilion', and described as a 'lion head imbued with the characteristics of man', carved in medieval style (information from http://www.artworkersguild.org/members/shawn_williamson/ ). Signs at the back of the garden record a number of wins in the Cumbria in Bloom competition, and that Workington is twinned with Selm (Germany) and Val de Reuil (France). On the right, in Vulcans Lane, is the back entrance to Image .