Housing planned for ex-army camp site near Carlisle

By Julian Whittle

Last updated at 12:06, Thursday, 23 August 2012

A housing development could be built on the site of a former army camp at Houghton, north of Carlisle.

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looking for anyone who did national service 1956-1958 who new colin ingram from stoke-on-trent staffordshire.he was in the 18 19 hussars after his traing he went to omagh or armagh in co tyrone northern ireland any info wuld help thanks d ingram.

Posted by mrs dorothy ingram on 19 February 2013 at 09:52

I did my national service training at hadrians camp june 51 -oct 51. I took part in the military tattoo during the festival of britain (dressed as a zulu). What a time.

Posted by Bill Sloan. Royal armoured corps. 22489085 on 25 November 2012 at 22:29

I served in Hadrians Camp from Jan '62-Dec '64 and still have a mixture of memories from there. Hearing of its demise I can only feel sad for the new home owners who will have the ghosts of the Roman Legions running amock in their houses.

Posted by David Mills on 10 October 2012 at 14:15

Oops. I meant to say I agreed with carlisle resident responding to Mr. G, not Mr. G.

Posted by BM on 29 August 2012 at 20:45

Build them and ignore the protesters who are all thinking of themselves obviously and not the greater good !!

Posted by Ian h on 29 August 2012 at 17:26

Have to agree with Mr. G. The Houghton residents who have responded to allegations of NIMBYism with condescending remarks that those who disagree with them "lack" education, aspiration and spend their monies on alcohol instead of premium-priced property in a satellite village, are not helping their cause or endearing themselves to those of us deprived of the joys of living Houghtonri-La.

Posted by BM on 29 August 2012 at 17:08

Well mr g typical comment from a nimby...for your information i do actually live in a beautiful 2* grade 2 listed building which i may add that i own outright but you see i didn't feel the need to advertise the fact until you made that rather crass presumption that the smug self absorbed nimby would, that anybody who makes a comment against them must be inferior or jealous......well mr g i'm not and my so called" rant" was an observation that most houghton residents that have made comments on here seem to want to. "Call the tune" but not to pay the piper !!

Posted by carlisle resident on 29 August 2012 at 09:40

Quite a rant there Carlisle resident,but your own lack of aspiration has no relevance to the proposed bulding of houses in a protected wildlife area of Houghton.

Posted by Mr G on 28 August 2012 at 20:24

I suppose that Houghton residents will be supporting fellow sufferers by boycotting sainsburys then... ....oh and new restaurants and bars that have been allowed to get late licences even though they are in residential areas...,mmmm i think not, it must be nice to sit in your gilded cage, use all the facilities on other peoples doorsteps and then return home to the peace and quiet of your home...nevermind that you've waved a very noisy and cheery goodbye to your companions, slammed your car doors and revved up to screech off home leaving a trail of disgruntled residents...,heaven forbid if it should maybe happen to you ...,we all live in certain areas for our own reasons and things then change but dont think that just because you live in a perceived premium area that you should be immune

Posted by carlisle resident on 28 August 2012 at 17:59

Great things statistics in that you can make them do anything you want. Carlisles population has dropped since 2009.

Posted by ben on 28 August 2012 at 17:07