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Newtown Close, CARLISLE, CA2 7EH

The house is in Newtown Road, for location see Image . There is said to be a plaque in Harraby on the 4,000th house http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Sense-of-pride-at-the-heart-of-Harraby-317773cc-02ef-498c-ace5-014430038823-ds , but we haven't been able to find it.

Located on Newtown Road. The house was built in 1929 - see Image . A blog called 'Municipal Dreams' has a couple of very interesting articles about council housing in Carlisle https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/interwar_carlisle/ . It says Carlisle claimed to have built more council housing for its size than any town in England during the interwar period.

Horizontal cut in a brick at the position where there should be an Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark. Suspect the bricks have been replaced with an attempt made to preserve the height of the cut mark. See the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm34894 for a description of the benchmark.

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark (or replacement) Image on the right side of the house at its front corner (behind wheelie bin)

Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service opened two new fire stations in Carlisle in 2012. This one is at Brookside in Raffles. The other is at Eastern Way, Durranhill Image The firefighters vacated their old premises in Warwick Street Image, which has since been converted to an arts centre.

Only the road and frontage of the building are in this gridsquare, the rest is in NY3856. Coledale Hall is Grade II* listed, built in 1810 for Henry Fawcett, MP for Carlisle http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/default.aspx?pid=2&id=386813 . The owner in 1846 was George Mould, successful railway contractor, who installed a lavish interior. It later became St. Mary's Home for Friendless Girls, then offices, and is now converted into flats.

Ordnance Survey records show that a benchmark levelled at 24.776m above Newlyn Datum was verified in 1972 on the eastern house of a block of four houses at this location, apparently demolished and replaced by this pair of semis. See www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm103050

For information on this building, see: Image] .

The "Green Dragon" was built in two stages - the original pub being the building on the right in this view and is believed constructed circa 1806. In 1860, the pub was extended out to the Newtown Road, giving the appearance seen here. It was acquired by the State Management Scheme in 1916 (possibly August or September) and sold to John Smiths Brewing Group on 7 May 1973. The pub closed in 1998 and is now a private dwelling. Apparently, the "Green Dragon" had a reputation as Carlisle's "roughest" pub - certainly its history is not without incident. On 3 September 1847, a man was killed by the landlord's "tame" bear, while a shotgun was blasted at a pub window on 1 April 1985. A landlord was declared bankrupt on 6 March 1997 while a 1999 reopening attempt failed due to the premises being known as a "notorious troublespot". See also: Image] .