EPW029256 ENGLAND (1929). The Market Place and environs, Cockermouth, 1929

All Saints School closed in 1973 and moved up to Slatefell Drive

Point No 3 on the Town Trail - Kirkgate, Georgian Square. Most of the property was built in the early 1700's, replacing earlier buildings. Note the typical plain Cumberland windows in the small houses on the right, and the cobbled frontages, especially Stag house on the left. The cottage on the corner of MacKreth Row, now part of teh Swan Inn was once endowed as a hospice for six widows or unmarried women.

Point No 2 on the Town Trail - the Rope Walk used to manufacture ropes of a defined length.

Plaque No 1 of the Cockermouth Town Trail. The Kirkgate Centre started life as a school in 1868 and was converted into an Art and Entertainments Centre in 1993. The "Bitter beck" runs alongside it; (bitter from the tannery effluents that flowed into it).

Market Place - point 18 on the Cockermouth Town trail. The market received its Charter in 1221. In 2008, with a substantial grant from the Market Towns Initiative, it became the first market town in the country to complete a major revitalization. Various artworks celebrate Dalton's Atomic Theory, Market Tolls, the local dialect and sheep counting numbers, Salathiel's Lion, Marvejols Twinning and Cousin Charley's Day among others.

St Helens St

Cockermouth Castle was used as a convalescent hospital during World War I.

I used to go to dances in the old drill hall in about 1962 and remember particularly the Eric Delaney Band (drummer). (Source J Dent)

The old market hall (source H Burslem)

Cockermouth Old Hall - demolished in 1973. A plaque in the car park commemorates the fact that Mary Queen of Scots stayed here as a guest of the Fletcher family.

I sat my 11+ exam in the All Saints School in 1952. The building is now the Kirkgate Centre. (source J Dent)

River Cocker entering the Derwent

Road to Keswick.

Road to Keswick.