Obituaries

Amy Sidaway

Amy Sidaway photo For more than 30 years, the Solway Arts group has been taking cultural events to churches and village halls over a wide area of north Cumbria – a unique blend of drama and music.

Last updated 27 January 2012
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Ann Robinson

Ann Robinson, widow of former Carlisle Racecourse director Teddy Robinson, died peacefully in her sleep in her care home in London on Monday at the age of 84.

Last updated 27 January 2012
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Liz Inch

The active life of Liz Inch in many spheres of the community and her work in counselling made her known throughout North Cumbria and parts of Dumfries and Galloway.

Last updated 27 January 2012
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Tony Chung

Chinese traditions were a key feature of the celebration that took place this week to remember a man who was one of the pioneers who helped transform Carlisle’s eating out scene.

Last updated 20 January 2012
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Vivien Watson

When Vivien Watson was a wartime nurse in Egypt, she saw some horrific sights as she helped to treat many soldiers who had suffered severe injuries, including dreadful burns.

Last updated 13 January 2012
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Engineer David Thomas worked his way up to become an engineering foreman when he was only 31. He worked for one company only, Bendall’s metal workers and motor body repairers in Carlisle and he was there for 41 years.

Last updated 13 January 2012
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Carlo Pieri

Carlo Pieri wasn’t a man to give up easily on living as full a life as was possible. Despite a double amputation that saw him lose parts of both his legs he was determined to carry on driving, had his car fitted with hand controls and stayed behind the wheel well into his 70s.

Last updated 13 January 2012
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David Burnett

He was a man of so many parts was David Burnett, the very well-known Carlisle lawyer who was 74 when he died.

Last updated 6 January 2012
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Donald Scott

There are some comedians who are ever so funny on stage – and ever so unfunny off it. In real life, some are deadly serious.

Last updated 6 January 2012
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Ken Fox

His wife sometimes jokingly said that during 57 years of marriage she had played second fiddle to three balls – a football, a golf ball and a bowling ball.

Last updated 30 December 2011
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William ‘Bill’ Milburn

Bill Milburn was a popular newsagent in Carlisle for 33 years and thoroughly enjoyed his job, even though it meant getting up in the small hours almost every day.

Last updated 23 December 2011
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Lady Celia Whitelaw

The old adage ‘that behind every good man is a good woman’ rang so very true in the life of Celia Whitelaw for more than half a century.

Last updated 16 December 2011
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Jim Tootle

Some people saw Jim Tootle as a bit of a crank. He had, after all, created worldwide media interest in 2005 by maintaining that the ‘cursing stone’ that is a Carlisle museum star exhibit was evil and demanding that it be removed or destroyed.

Last updated 16 December 2011
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William Taylor

He loved the sun and he loved to travel did William Bilsland Taylor – and over many years he indulged in his passions even though some of the places where he lived were not very pleasant then and are still not very pleasant today.

Last updated 16 December 2011
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Dennis Graham

He was the policeman who played a vital part in apprehending a notorious killer and who, on another occasion, prevented a man from setting fire to himself in Carlisle’s police station.

Last updated 9 December 2011
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Stephen Crook

Steam railway enthusiasts far and wide know the name Stephen Creighton Crook, the Carlisle man whose book of photographs has become a classic of its kind.

Last updated 9 December 2011
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Roy Dickinson

Roy Dickinson was a man of letters – hundreds of them, which he wrote to newspapers in Newcastle and Carlisle.

Last updated 9 December 2011
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Jim Templeton

It is hard to summarise the life of Jim Templeton, who was undoubtedly one of Carlisle’s best loved characters.

Last updated 2 December 2011
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John Routledge

John Routledge was a talented architect and a gifted pianist and organist, who played at Our Lady and St Joseph’s Church, in Carlisle, for 37 years, as well as at the city’s cathedral, on occasion.

Last updated 2 December 2011
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Susan Phillips

She was the nursing sister and midwife who changed career completely and, with her husband, put a Borders country pub on the national good food and wine map.

Last updated 2 December 2011
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