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Carlisle: Blackfriars Street
Blackfriars Street
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   street
coordinates:-   NY40085577 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4055
10Km square:-   NY45

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 3) 
placename:-  Blackfriars Street
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Blackfriars Street"

evidence:-   old painting:- 
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Blackfriars Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, by A Bendle, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
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Fine day; view along Blackfriars Street looking towards the cathedral; the foreground is thrown into shadow. To left of foreground a woman kneels to clean her front doorstep, a cat and a hen? standing in the road nearby. 
labelled at reverse:-  "Joe Bendle, 48 Berners S., Leicester; By Father A.B."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1975.73
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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street 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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