The history of Skiddaw, Fusehill Street, Carlisle
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The Grade II listed building, the focal point of our Fusehill Street Carlisle campus, has a long and interesting history. Behind the austere façade, Skiddaw as it is known today, has many tales to tell. Plans were approved for the new Union Workhouse at Fusehill Street by the city council in 1862, designed by Henry F Lockwood and William Mawson of Bradford. The new workhouse was designed to consolidate all the poor from smaller workhouses across the city overseen by the Guardians of the Carlisle Poor Law Union. Designed for 478 inmates at a cost of £11,195.15 the building housed 275 inmates when it opened in 1864. The workhouse had two wings, left for the men and right for the women with the sick and elderly housed in the infirmary building (now Blencathra)....... -
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Link: https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/alumni/memory-lane/st-martins/archives-and-special-collections/the-history-of-skiddaw-fusehill-street-carlisle-/
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