We hope the articles in this section give a flavour of life in Cockermouth past.
May 2008 Changes to Main Street August 2008 The Hiring Fairs March 2009 Visit by the Prince of Wales to Cockermouth in 1927 January 2010 WWII wristwatch belonging to a Cockermouth man February 2010 WWII poem tribute and local experiences March 2010 Sad story of a Workhouse boy April 2010 Farming memories from WWII era May 2010 Extreme weather June 2010 Georgian life extracts September 2010 The slave trade in Cumberland October 2010 Cockermouth Tweed Mill burglary December 2010 Cariboo Goldfields button January 2011 The Chicken family of Cockermouth February 2011 Summer exhibition 2011: Market Place March 2011 History of Dovenby Hall April 2011 The Globe Hotel May 2011 Wordsworth Celebrations of 1950 and 1970 June 2011 Summer exhibition 2011: hat manufacture + Town Hall July 2011 Update on Norman McMaster and WWII August 2011 St Helen's School September 2011 The Harrison family of Dunthwaite House, Setmurthy October 2011 Old and strange remedies for assorted ailments November 2011 Florence Williams and her civilian Military Medal January 2012 Post Article February 2012 the Towers family April 2012 The Wordsworth family and their household accounts May 2012 The American Cockermouth June 2012 Victoria's Golden Jubilee 1887 July 2012 What did the Victorians do for Cockermouth August 2012 Life in the CM Industrial School September 2012 Cockermouth Mechanics' Institute and Band October 2012 The shooting of Police Supt Johnstone November 2012 Miller's December 2012 Joseph Adair's diary February 2013 The Early Fire Service in Cockermouth March 2013 George Chatt (former editor of the West Cumberland Times, and poet April 2013 World War II May 2013 Physicians William Woodville and John Walker June 2013 Fairfield Schools August 2013 The Fair Field September 2013 Brigham’s Cuckoo Arch November 2013 Extreme Weather December 2013 The Cumbrian Mummy and a Cockermouth Woman January 2014 The Rudd Family of Cockermouth February 2014 The Brownie Movement April 2014 Dialects May 2014 All Saints' Church June 2014 World War II and a German POW’s story August 2014 Exhibition on World War One September 2014 Cockermouth Castle Auxiliary Hospital WWI December 2014 Christmas at the Front WWI January 2015 Turner the Artist and Cockermouth connections April 2015 Development of Kirkgate Centre as an Arts and Heritage Centre May 2015 Schooldays Revisited August 2015 Cemetery chapels and headstones September 2015 Little Mill, Cockermouth clogmakers, and other queries December 2015 Christmases past
War Time Reminiscences – Elsie Hayton The Workhouse – Heritage Group United Reformed Church – Heritage Group Ups and Downs of a Fratching Town – Frank Carruthers ('Whiteoak') Story of the Cumbrian Mummy – Gloria Edwards, Heritage Group Cockermouth Bank for Savings – Jack Storey, Heritage Group
