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Carlisle: Pack Horse Lane
Pack Horse Lane
Street:-   English Street
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   street
1Km square:-   NY4155 (about) 
10Km square:-   NY45

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Pack Horse Lane
item:-  street lamp
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Pack Horse Lane, English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1895.
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View up a narrow street of ramshackle houses on a sunny day; a woman carrying a basket over one arm and a jug in her right hand walks towards the far end of the street, her back towards the viewer. To right, a boy wearing knickerbockers sits on a doorstep. 
inscribed at bottom left:-  "Pack Horse Lane English Street, Carlisle"
signed &dated at bottom right:-  "Thos Bushby 1895"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1964.56
Image © Tullie House Museum

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