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Shops and Hobbies in Carlisle, Cumbria*

Carlisle, Cumbria Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• All the clothes shops in carlisle are purely dedicated to charvas.
• The usual - Arcadia group stuff. Head in the general direction of Room 25 on Bank Street. Watch yourself though, they'll expect a good credit rating just to look through the window. If you can find a way in to House of Fraser (Binns as everyone still knows it) past the Perfume counter, they have some decent stuff
• I'm still looking for a decent one!
• Oxfam
• room 26 is not the same since that cheeky chappie paul tombo left!!!!
• original shoe- lanes great place.
• New shopping centre in Gretna - cost about £2 day return from carlisle - discounts on really top class designer clothing - worth checking out!!!
• Raggz, Treasury Court where a t-shirt costs £40
  Raggz is moving to a larger premises on Bank Street, where the Leeds used to be. It's name is getting changed to ROOM 26, and will be stocking even more great clothes according to the paper. It was looking fairly smart but it wasn't open when I went back to Uni.

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• local cottage industries are in decline since the demise of raffles, check out botcherby for all the wiered and strange!
• definatly the little crafty fun 2 do and the college art shop- mega cheap!
• The music box has a few things to inspire you that many think are art in themsleves.
• The art college.
• Tullie house Alternatives Fun 2 Do (For women 60+)
• go to tullie hose and look at field of the british is;s
• There's an art college. But let's not talk about that. Those art students think they own the town - and it'd be a fuck sight better if they did.
• The jeweller under the town hall, Fiona thingy'
• trinity school subway for the latest Carlisle has to offer in spray can art
• Tullie House,Art gallery and museum. Aternative,large shop does what it says on the tin. Fiona Haddic,expensive handmade jewelry and pottery.
• Tullie house art gallery
• Tullie house art gallery
• AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Stanwix theatre @ the art college....nooooo neeeddd
• They have no talent in carlisle to produce arts and crafts
• fiona habbick is great!
• Tullie House gallery usually has something of interest
• the cumbria collage of art often show exhibitions at dixons mills beside the big chimney that can be seen for miles!!!!
• Tullie House has an art gallery which is free and has really good exhibitions from time to time.
• Nice "arty" gifts in the Tullie House shop and at The Castle
• Church with the plaque about Woodrow Wilson is on Lowther Streeet
• I'm not going to give a list because there is only one worth going to - Alternatives (Opposite Buskers): This place is getting larger every time I see it... it is spreading through the Kennedy Centre like a very welcome ooze. It has every thing from silly little stocking fillers to fine art prints, picture frames, funny inventions, lavalamps and optical fibres, wierd lamps, cool hippy-Indie type clothes, fine coloured glass, scented candles and extravagent holders, friendship bracelets, rugs, trows, cushions, mirrors, wood carvings, chairs, hammocks, bamboo blinds and excellent cards for every occasion and every style.
• If you've got time, you could go to FIona habbicks under the Town Hall... but it's very, very much more expensive!!

Magazine and Comic Shops

• one again on botchergate, Imagination Station i think i't called
• the private shop down botch.
• Imagination Station on Botchergate
• Imagination Station on Botchergate sells your posh yank comics, besides that you've got your usual selection of WHSmith etc.
• Newsagents next to Argos. For people in the city - have you ever noticed the huge amount of 'adult' magazines there are??? If you are as lucky as i was, the owner, Mike, will bend over and reveal his nice builders bum to the world! Regular shoppers to this establishment might have noticed that there are many people who hang around this shop - this is what the sad people of Carlisle do!

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Last updated: 2007-11-05