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Topic: Cockermouth Businesses (Read 3510 times)
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scotmum
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A few other clues in picture that may help:
They sold Cumberland Tweeds and had a sign ourtside which seems to read as 'Castlebank Dyeworks' (mind you, these dyeworks seem to have been in Scotland, so probably just highlighting fact that they sold their products).
Interestingly, in a far earlier timescale of 1811, there was a Robinson who was a grocer & woollen-manufacturer. Maybe this shop was a development of that down the generations.
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STEWART, Lanarkshire, Scotland and Fermanagh/Monaghan border areas, Ireland
LILLEY, County Antrim, Ireland (now NI).
HENDERSON,Lanarkshire,Scotland and probably County Londonderry, Ireland (now NI).
CAPE Cumberland, England & Lanarkshire, Scotland
SCOTT Cumberland, England & Lanarkshire, Scotland
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emmsthheight
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi Gillian
I hope I get this right. It's my first post.
I've been in the Local Studies Library in Carlisle this morning and I looked in a couple of old Trade Directories. I didn't have long, so there may be others and I will look again either there or in the Archives.
It looks as if the Robinsons were busy people!
I found:
Robinson P & Co,
builders, contractors, cabinet makers, house furnishers, painters & decorators & undertakers,
The Mayo Furnishing Warehouse, 64 Main Street, Cockermouth.
Also
Robinson, Rt & Thos Tanners (sheepskin), St Helens tannery
Eobinson, Ada Jane (Mrs), game dealer, Market Place.
Robinson Isaac , grazier, Croft Terrace
Robinson, William, agriculturaal implement manufacturer, South Street.
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Then in Kelly's Cumberland and Westmorland 1925 I found:
Robinson P & Co,
Joiners, funeral furnishers, cabinet makers, house furnishers, painters, decorators
and undertakers,
The Mayo Warehouse, 64 Main Street, Cockermouth.
T N 32.
Also
Robinson, Isaac, grazier, 5 Croft Terrace.
Robinson, John, Horse slaughterer, St Helen's Street
Robinson Wm, Agrictl impl mfr South St T N 79.
I think that means he had a telephone by 1925, too.
I don't know if the others are yours, but no doubt you will.
Position:
I looked at the number for a shop I know and it is odd. Yours is even, so it is on the same side of the street as the river part way down.
Also, if you let your eyes focusm the right way, on your photograoh, you can see the reflection in the window, which shows trees and country and also, a substantial looking building, so it's a position where you could see beyond the street.
Between the locals and my next visit, I will work it out and try and get a modern photo.
I hope this is useful. I love looking at local old buisinesses anyway.
Best wishes.
Emms.
Sorry it's quite long with no formatting, but I haven't sorted that out yet!
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