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CUMBRIAN SCHOOLS.
NENTHEAD OLD SCHOOL (VILLAGE HALL)
READING ROOM
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
PARISH ROOMS
CUMBRIAN POLICE STATIONS
LIBRARYS
MASONIC HALLS
VILLAGE HALLS
NENTHEAD VILLAGE HALL (OLD SCHOOL)
TEMPERANCE HALLS
MARKETS
CLUBS ETC
MUSEUMS
PARKS.
HOSPITALS AND HOMES.
WILSON MEMORIAL HOMES BRAMPTON.
TOLL HOUSES
CUMBRIAN SCHOOL DATE STONES
RICKERBY BOYS SCHOOL, CARLISLE.
CALDBECK SCHOOL BOARD HESKET NEW MARKET SCHOOL
This building has now been converted to the local fire station.
This stone commemorates the high and mighty of the local community.
Not quite sure what the relevance of this inscription is.
The mason who carved this tablet certainly showed off his range of different scripts.
SAINT MATTHEW'S SCHOOL WEST NEWTON
Built by the London Lead Company to repalce an earlier school and is now used as the Village Hall.
Originally the girl's school. The boy;s was across the road in now what is the village hall.
This school was originally paid for by Thomas Richardson, Stamford Hall, Middlesex.
Built from slobbered rubble walls with stone dressings. Graduated green slate roof with stone ridges. Single storey.
Built by James J Gandy of Kendal work started in the churchyard without permission, eventually it was allowed if it was fenced off from the churchyard. Land adjacent to the churchyard was donated by George Wilson of Dallam Towers for a school house the cost of building which was covered by the Honorable Mrs Howard.
READING ROOMS ETC.
Reading rooms were often built in villages etc. by either the major local landowner or the major employer. The idea was to help improve adult education by supplying a selection of books usually on a 'self help' basis. Similar buildings were occasionally called institutes.
TINDALE READING ROOMS (Now a private dwelling)
GREAT CORBY READING ROOM. (NOW THE VILLAGE HALL)
Built by subscription in 1877.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
This tablet may just commemorate Quenn Victoria's Jubillee rather than the building date. Although it school may have been built as a commemoration of the event.
Keswick Primative Methodist Sunday School.
The Sunday School is attached to the back of the Primative Methodist Chapel.
LOW ROW WESLYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The sunday school is the wing sticking out towards the road and is attached to the chapel (now a private residence)
PARISH ROOMS
POLICE STATIONS
An inscription on the window lintel.
Original police station behind the old magistrates courts which are now the police station.
Milnthorpe police station. Westmorland County Constabulary.
CUMBRIAN LIBRARIES
VILLAGE HALLS
Not a date stone for the building but to commemorate the presentation of the clock.
Newton Arlosh Village Hall
Parkin Memorial Hall Pooley Bridge.
The Taylor Institute Low Row. Built by Christopher Taylor as a gift to Nether Denton Parish.
TEMPERANCE HALLS.
Kirkby Stephen Temperance Hall. Not a date stone as such but large numbers on the top.
Statue of Temperance above the door.
MARKETS
Kirkby Stephen Butter Market in front of the church.
Built with the proceeds from the will of John Waller, designed by George Gibson and built by mason William Richardson.
Picturesque victorian gothic. Built of slate rubble with a gabled street facade. Ground floor arched widows, upper floor has a large cusped window on street side, other s0ides 3 light windows. A square 3 storey tower on SE corner with arcged doorway up a flight of steps. Small belfry type windows with clock in roof gables.
CLUBS
MUSEUMS
PARKS
HOSPITALS AND HOMES.
Wilson Memorial homes on the Sands at Brampton.
Toll house to the north of Egremont.