September 2018 - Cumbrian Characters

Cumbrian lodging houses – dens of disease

Posted on September 29, 2018January 22, 2021 by Harriet

If you imagine Cumbrian lodging houses in the 1800s were in any way better than those in the big industrial cities elsewhere in England, you’d be wrong. Conditions for those forced to live in th... Read More

James Ainslie – and Georgian medicine

Posted on September 23, 2018January 22, 2021 by Harriet

Georgian medicine wasn’t so much ‘kill or cure’ as ‘kill or do very little’. With nothing resembling quality control, or advertising standards, you could peddle any old c... Read More

Port Carlisle – Britain at Low Tide

Posted on September 15, 2018January 22, 2021 by Harriet

Port Carlisle featured a little in episode three of the third series of the excellent Britain at Low Tide. You can currently watch it on catch-up here. The episode focused on the area round the Sol... Read More

Ann Little – driven to a terrible act

Posted on September 8, 2018September 8, 2018 by Harriet

On July 11, 1881, Ann Little, 45, who couldn’t read or write, was charged with attempting to drown herself and her two youngest children, Annie and Joseph, in the River Caldew, near Hutton Roof. It ... Read More

Cumbrian Characters

Family history is so much more than names and dates

Month: September 2018

Port Carlisle – Britain at Low Tide

Ann Little – driven to a terrible act