Your Story:

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Featured Objects:

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Working Life

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Discover the striking diversity of working life in Carlisle. Listen to the story behind a factory floor clock from the last days of the Metal Box Company, a unique hat inspired by the machinery of the farm yard, a metal roller printer from Stead McAlpin’s at Cummersdale, and the book that inspired a Roman Catholic Priest from Our Lady and St Joseph’s Warwick Square.