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Montreal Street, CARLISLE, CA2 4EE

In early 2014, Carlisle City Council made the controversial decision to remove all equipment from 21 play areas, because maintenance was too expensive. Instead, money was to be invested in improvements at the more popular parks. This view is at Toronto Park, a small green space in Currock (looking towards the back of a row of garages, behind Blackwell Road).

A curving row of terraced housing on Boundary Road, Carlisle. The grounds of Bishop Harvey Goodwin Primary School border the left hand side of the road.

A row of terraced houses on Carlisle's Blackwell Road, viewed from the junction with Montreal Street.

The Bishop Harvey Goodwin Primary School, located on Harold Street in Carlisle.

The church closed in 2006 - a dwindling congregation had made it unviable. The redevelopment, containing 14 flats, is now called Methodist Court. This part of the building dates from the 1930s. It was an extension to the original church built in 1908, which then became the church hall. For more historical information, see http://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/page/carlisle_currock_road_wm_chapel_cumberland .

A small florists shop in an extension of The Currock building, which may have been The Currock Wine Stores, an off-sales shop to the Currock Inn - see: Image] .

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38720

View across Blackwell Road

Entrance to the lounge - for information on this building, see: Image] .

Built in 1899 as the Currock Hotel, the building did not open until 1903 due to a dispute with the local temperance movement and the licencing authority. Taken under State Management in August 1916, the pub (then known as The Currock Inn) was part of a substantial lot sold to Greenall Whitley in April 1973. At one time noted as the only pub in the area with table bowls, the pub has been closed in recent years but is believed to be currently trading. The story is told of an Irish "navvy" who, during the State Management era, felt he had been cheated by some customers of the Currock. He showed his displeasure by lifting the customer's table and flinging it in the fire. This somewhat impressed the locals as the table was made of cast iron and bolted to the floor! See also: Image] and Image] . Photograph is for record only - I have no connection with this business and cannot advise on its products or services.