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12-04-2025
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Join the first ever ghost hunt at historic community building
BEING a city well known for its often turbulent history, Carlisle has more than its fair share of supposedly haunted locations. But a group of ghost hunters are offering the public a chance to join them to explore an as-yet uninvestigated Grade-II Listed building in Carlisle for signs of paranormal activity. Paranormal Investigations Crew, led by Carlisle-based Sarah Simmons, has organised a ticketed ghost hunt event at Currock Community Centre on Lediard Avenue on Saturday, May 10. Ticketholders will be able to join Sarah and the team for five and a half hours from 7.30pm until 1am to explore the imposing building. Members of the team, including Sarah, will attempt to contact spirits using psychic abilities, as well as various gadgets used by ghost hunters around the globe to detect presences from the afterlife. Tickets are £30 per person, with no under-18s allowed. Visit the Paranormal Investigations Crew Facebook page for more information and to book your tickets Built in 1842, Currock Community Centre is a Victorian Grade-II-Listed building. On October 6, 1934, it was handed over to be run as a community centre, one of the first in England and the first of its kind in Carlisle. The site was originally known as "Cuddick," an early name for Currock, appearing on Greenwoods Map of Cumberland from 1823, and was occupied by William Carruthers and his wife Sarah according to the census. READ MORE: Watch ghost hunters investigate some of Cumbria's most haunted places It was bought in 1932 by Carlisle corporation and the house was due to be demolished to build new housing estates, however the stables were partially demolished and the house left, as a committee ran by volunteers convinced Carlisle corporation to use the building as a community centre. The building was not accessible by road until the late 1930s, until which time, visitors would often have to wade through thick mud to reach it. For a short period this building also served as the YHA hostel for Carlisle. Currock community centre today has a main hall, small hall, lounge area, jubilee room, kitchen and office spaces, and the centre now offers a wide variety of activities and facilities, events, private hire and a safe space for the Carlisle community.
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12-02-2025
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Keeping the flapjacks flowing
Feb. 12—Rotary Club's annual pancake breakfast goes on after equipment stolen On Saturday, the community came out in droves to eat some flapjacks and chat with friends at the Ironton Rotary Club's 49th annual pancake breakfast at the Knights of Columbus hall. Club president Sarah Simmons thought the drizzly 40-degree weather was perfect. "If it is too cold or too nice, hardly anyone shows up," she said. "But the weather was just right to put people in the mood for pancakes. We are very busy and running out of table space. We are so excited about the turnout and happy to have so many members of our community sitting around tables and chatting and enjoying pancakes." Rotary has been doing the pancake breakfast since 1976 and only missed one year, 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year was a bit tricky for the Rotary because their storage unit was broken into and mixers, coffee pots and a griddle were stolen. "So, it may have taken a little longer to get the pancakes out this year, but we are still working with what we have," Simmons said, adding that members brought in equipment to keep the event going. "I brought in my coffee pot and a mixer." Simmons, who has been a Rotary member since 2015, said her favorite part of the pancake breakfast is seeing the community rally around the event ,"but then to see so many of our friends and neighbors supporting our efforts to bring scholarships to Lawrence County." The proceeds from the event go toward to two junior or senior class nursing students from Lawrence County attain their goal of becoming a registered nurse with a four-year degree. And, as always, besides Rotary members, members of the Scouts Troop 106 and the Ohio University Southern's Nursing Program were there taking pancakes, sausage and juice to tables and then cleaning up for the next batch of customers. "We couldn't do it without their help," Simmons said. Nicole Stumbo, associate professor of nursing at OUS, said the nursing association is always happy to help, because not only do they have fun, "these are the people and the families we are going to take care of. If you're in the hospital and see a familiar face, it is really comforting." Mark McCown, an adult leader of Troop 106, said they are a community minded group and are happy to help. "One of the tenets of Scouting is helping out your community," he said. "And we like to instill that in the them and we like people to see young kids engaged with the community. One new addition this year was the sale of Valentine-themed bears and they were a big hit. They had about 100 of them and at $2 each, they sold out by 10:30 a.m. The proceeds will go to support more of the Rotary club's community projects.
