Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| railway bridge, Carlisle (7) | ||
| site name:- | Newcastle and Carlisle Railway | |
| site name:- | Caldew, River | |
| locality:- | Carlisle | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway bridge | |
| coordinates:- | NY39995530 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3955 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY35 | |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old drawing:- placename:- Caldew, River |
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| source data:- | Drawing, Works at the Intended New Bridge Across the River Caldew, Carlisle, Cumberland,
by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835. click to enlargePR1002.jpg Busy scene of construction workers building a substantial bridge; to right of composition a group of masons hammer at stone blocks. In centre foreground a single figure sits on a large block of stone and surveys the scene, his back to the viewer. The city of Carlisle lies in the background. Carmichael executed 22 pencil drawings of the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at the suggestion of the Rail Company. inscribed & initialled &dated at bottom right:- "Works at the intended New Bridge across the River Caldew, Carlisle J W C 1835" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.3 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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