A walk exploring Carlisle’s heritage will take place next month to celebrate Local and Community History Month.
The annual initiative aims to increase awareness of local history, promoting history in general to the local community and encouraging all members of the community to take part.
Carlisle-based association Effective Communities has organised a series of walks with talks that take participants in the footsteps of a 1930s social worker called David Thomson.
Organiser Mark Costello said: “On one hand it’s a walk from Denton Holme to Currock and back again. On the other, it’s a journey back in time to the inter-war period, as Carlisle people deal with austerity, unemployment and a severe shortage of good quality housing.
“The walk follows the career of David Thomson, a spirited community worker in the days before the Welfare State. We begin in Denton Holme, where Thomson was supervisor of an unemployment and welfare club in the dark days of early 1930s depression.
“We then cross the river Caldew and Maryport Railway Cottages footpath up to Currock where Thomson took on the position of warden of one of Britain’s pioneering community centres as the large, new suburb of Currock began to take shape around Currock House. Returning to Denton Holme via Boustead’s Grassing, the walk ends with an opportunity for a cuppa and further historical chat in a local coffee shop.”
The walk is free, accessible and open to all and takes place on May 6, 10, 14, 20, 24 and 28.
Meet at 10am on all dates outside Cornerstone Community Coffee Bar, Denton Street, Denton Holme, Carlisle.
