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Hall Brow, WORKINGTON, CA14 4AP

The large police station where officers covering Workington are based.

This strange little building, complete with escutcheon, survives in a bank below the road at Hall Brow, opposite the Police Station. It is built over a spring, and is said to be where the townspeople drew drinking water, until the first waterworks was built in the 1850s (Information : 'The History of Workington' by Richard Byers, 1998). On his website 'Old Workington', RW Barnes has photos of the well in 1986 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rwbarnes/workgton/friars.htm . There was a water spout in the shape of a man's face just outside the door - it is not there now.

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An interesting collection of white-painted buildings protected by razor wire, next to the River Derwent on a lane called the Black Path. Thanks to a photographer on Flickr (Russell_w_b, Cumbria's Industrial Past http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b/378788734/in/set-72157603792487742/ ) we learned that this was the United Steel pumping station, which supplied cooling water to the Derwent blast furnaces (now gone).

Pictured along Washington Street / Hall Brow near Curran Place

This had been the main station and Head Offices of the former Cleator & Workington Junction Railway, closed 13/4/31 for passengers Moor Row - Siddick, but still open for goods to Calva Junction until 26/9/65.

Heading west from Hall Brow

An old bridge altered to take more traffic and cycleway and footpath. This bridge, also known as Calva Bridge was severely damaged by floods 20 - 22 November 2009, is closed and scheduled for demolition.

A brewery was established on this site in the late 18th century. It was run by the Iredale family for many years, later becoming the Workington Brewery Co., famous for its John Peel beers (Information : Workington Then & Now, RLM Byers, 2006). The brewery was taken over in 1975 by Matthew Brown, and again in the mid 1980s by Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, who fairly promptly closed it down despite assurances not to http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/mar/30/workington-brewery-closure . The tower and adjoining maltings (painted green) and the former wines and spirits warehouse (centre, with domed cupolas) are grade II listed buildings http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=72274 & http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=72275 . They were both converted to housing in the mid 2000s.