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Upperby, Carlisle
Upperby
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY40745371 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4053
10Km square:-   NY45

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 12) 
placename:-  Upperby
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.

evidence:-   probably old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Uprightbye
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Uprightbye"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Uprightby
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Uprightby"
circle, tower 
item:-  private collection : 16
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Uprightby
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Uprightby"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Uprightby
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Uprightby"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Uprightly
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Uprightly"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Upperby
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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"Upperby"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Upperby"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Upperby"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Upperby"
map date 1909 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
source data:-   Drawing, Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1917.
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PR1332.jpg
Summertime; leafy village street of brickbuilt houses and thatched cottages with two women conversing in foreground next to whom a small child wearing a pinafore stands. To right of composition a railway bridge and distant view of Carlisle are lightly sketched. 
dated at bottom right:-  "June 14th 1917"
inscribed at bottom centre:-  "[Cold gate]"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1996.252.15
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Drawing, Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1910.
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Summertime; leafy village street of brickbuilt houses and thatched cottages with figures conversing in foreground. 
inscribed & signed & dated &dated at bottom right:-  "Upperby. Thos; Bushby 1910 June 2nd 1910"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1996.252.16
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
source data:-   Drawing, Row of Houses and Thatched Cottages, perhaps Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1908.
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Village street; road runs along horizontal plane of composition. Near end of street is comprised of thatched cottages whilst the far end is made up of small brickbuilt houses. The figure of a woman stands outside one of the cottages in the foreground; lightly sketched figure of a man walks along the road to right of composition. 
signed &dated at bottom right:-  "Thos; Bushby. Ap 21 1908"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1996.252.12
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
item:-  haymakingcart
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Haymaking, Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1905.
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PR1352.jpg
Group of men and women gathering hay to load on to a horse and cart. Uppbery village and skyline of Carlisle in distance. 
signed at bottom left:-  "Thos: Bushby.1905"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1999.803.2
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
item:-  costume
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Upperby, Carlisle, Cujmberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1917.
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PR1318.jpg
Summertime; two young women stand talking in the street, one with a child in her arms and another at her side, a collie dog lying beside them. Other children play nearby and hens peck at the side of the road. A woman carrying a pail, her back towards the viewer, walks along the street towards the bridge beyond from where more distant figures approach. 
signed & dated &inscribed at bottom left:-  "Thos. Bushby. 1917 Upperby."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1989.58
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
source data:-   Drawing, Thatched Cottage, perhaps Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1912.
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PR1329.jpg
Village street with an elderly woman carrying a pail to right of composition. She stands in front of a thatched cottage the roof of which has fallen in. To left of composition the lightly sketched figure of a second woman stands at the fence of a more substantial brickbuilt house. 
dated at bottom right:-  "June 20 1912"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1996.252.11
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
item:-  haymakingcartladdercostume
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Haymaking at Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1911.
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PR1317.jpg
A hayfield on a fine day; to right of foreground wait two girls and a dog. To left of composition two labourers transfer hay from a cart to a haystack. Hens peck at the ground beside it. In middle distance, to right, stands the farm and its outbuildings. Beyond lies hilly countryside, partially wooded. 
signed &dated at bottom right:-  "Thos. Bushby. 1911."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1989.57
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
item:-  costume
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Upperby Village, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1910.
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PR1127.jpg
Unfinished scene of a village street. In foreground stands a woman at her garden gate holding an infant for her neighbours to admire. 
signed &dated at bottom right:-  "Thos. Bushby. 1910"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1971.87.15
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
item:-  haymakingcart
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Haytime at Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, about 1908.
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Haymaking scene; two women and a man rake hay into piles in a gently sloping field, a carthorse with loaded haycart standing between them, foreshortened. To left of composition lies the field's hedge with the rooftops of houses above visible it. To right, a dappled shadow is thrown across the field at the far end of which lies a village with landscape of woods and fields giving way to distant hills beyond. 
initialled at bottom right:-  "T.B."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1972.4.9
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Upperby
item:-  haymakingcart
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Haymaking at Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1898.
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PR1316.jpg
A field on a fine day; in foreground two children and a dog sit amongst mown hay. To left of composition two labourers load hay onto a cart; to right, it is raked into small stacks. In middle distance the rooftops of a nearby village are glimpsed with rolling countryside and distant hills beyond. 
signed &dated at bottom left:-  "Thos. Bushby. 1898"
inscribed at bottom right:-  "Upperby nr Carlisle"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1989.56
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Drawing, Upperby Village, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1910.
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PR1125.jpg
Village street with women and children talking outside their cottages. In foreground stands a woman holding an infant. 
signed & dated &inscribed at bottom left:-  "Thos; Bushby. 1910 Upperby Village"
inscribed &dated at bottom right:-  "Upperby. May 28 1910"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1971.87.13
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Upperby Village, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1910.
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Village street; row of cottages to left. 
annotated at reverse:-  "Upperby 1910"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1971.87.14
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
source data:-   Drawing, Thatched Cottages at Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1907.
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PR1124.jpg
Village street; thatched cottage with picket fence in front. 
signed & dated &inscribed at bottom right:-  "Thos. Bushby, July 4 1907 Upperby"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1971.87.12
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Hayfield at Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1892.
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In centre of composition a group of women gather hay beside a horse and cart upon the top of which kneels a man. Beyond the field stand rows of houses with fields and distant hills beyond. 
signed &dated at bottom left:-  "Thos. Bushby. 1892"
inscribed at bottom right:-  "Hay-Field at Upperby"
annotated at reverse:-  "9 Solway Terrace"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1970.33.33B
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Upperby
item:-  gate
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, West End, Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1891.
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Springtime; the trees are breaking into leaf and in blossom. A woman, her back to the viewer, carries a pail along the village street. To right of composition is a row of single storey cottages. 
inscribed at bottom left:-  "West End. Upperby."
signed &dated at bottom right:-  "Thos. Bushby. 1891"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1970.33.32
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Upperby
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Upperby, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1891.
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A woman, her back to the viewer, walks along a lane edged with bare trees and bushes. She holds a little girl by the hand and carries an infant. Beyond the hedgerow stand houses and a church. 
inscribed at bottom left:-  "Upperby Nr. Carlisle"
signed &dated at bottom right:-  "Thos. Bushby 1891"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1970.33.33A
Image © Tullie House Museum

places:-  
NY40705439 Bishop Goodwin Primary School (Carlisle)
NY41085347 Cross Keys Inn (Carlisle)
NY40965492 Upperby North Engine Shed (Carlisle) gone
NY41075457 Upperby South Engine Shed (Carlisle) gone
NY41125449 Upperby Engine Shed (Carlisle)
NY40165369 Greystone Cottage (Carlisle) gone?
NY40595346 Hammonds Pond Model Railway (Carlisle)
NY40285351 hydrant plate, Carlisle (Carlisle)
NY41365358 Upperby Mill (Carlisle)
NY40645419 Millholme Bank (Carlisle)
NY41005385 Parsonage, The (Carlisle)
NY41365363 Upperby Bridge Junction Bridge (Carlisle)
NY41135408 railway footbridge, Upperby (Carlisle)
NY41245356 school, Upperby (Carlisle)
NY41095414 signal box, Carlisle (3) (Carlisle) gone
NY41165369 St John's Church (Carlisle)
NY41345368 Upperby Bridge Junction (Carlisle)
NY41415366 Upperby Bridge (Carlisle)
NY41165379 Upperby Cemetery (Carlisle)
NY40665346 Upperby Park (Carlisle)
NY41125374 Upperby Cemetery Memorial (Carlisle)
NY40695442 Howie Boyd Memorial (Carlisle)
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