Editing Carlisle (section)

===Modern history===
[[File:Carlisle city centre - geograph.org.uk - 1731484.jpg|thumb|1950s Botchergate in Carlisle]]
At the start of the 20th century, the population had grown to over 45,000. Transport was improved by the [[City of Carlisle Electric Tramways]] from 1900 until 1931, and the first cinema was built in 1906. In 1912, the boundaries of Carlisle were extended to include Botcherby in the east and Stanwix in the north.<ref name="localhistories">{{Cite web |title=A History of Carlisle |url=http://www.localhistories.org/carlisle.html |access-date=4 May 2010 |publisher=Local histories |archive-date=15 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615063026/http://localhistories.org/carlisle.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Carlisle was subject to the decline in the [[textile industry]] experienced throughout Britain as new machinery made labour unnecessary. In 1916, during the [[First World War]], the [[British government|government]] took over the [[public house]]s and [[brewery|breweries]] in Carlisle because of drunkenness among construction and munitions workers from the munitions factory at [[HM Factory, Gretna|Gretna]]. This experiment [[nationalisation|nationalised]] brewing. As the Carlisle Board of Control, and subsequently the Carlisle & District [[State Management Scheme]], it lasted until 1971.

During the Second World War, Carlisle hosted over 5,000 evacuees, many of whom arrived from Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding towns.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Evacuees |url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hstchg/evacuees.htm |access-date=3 March 2018 |website=Holme St Cuthbert Local History Group |archive-date=22 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722230918/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hstchg/evacuees.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A shopping centre (including a new central library) was built to the east and north-east of the market cross and opened in 1986.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott Parker |first=Mary Scott |title=Memories of the Lanes |date=November 2006 |publisher=Bookcase}}</ref> The area east of the market cross had formerly been occupied by narrow alleyways of housing and small shops (on a layout which had not changed much since medieval times) and referred to locally as ''The Lanes''. Carlisle city centre was pedestrianised in 1989.<ref name="localhistories" />

On the evening of Friday, 7 January 2005, the rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril burst their banks due to as much as 180&nbsp;mm rainfall upstream that day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carlisle Floods January 2005 |url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/jan2005floods/ |access-date=25 April 2011 |publisher=Met office |archive-date=5 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405004919/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/jan2005floods/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 2,700 homes were flooded and three people died. The city's police and fire stations were flooded along with [[Brunton Park]] football stadium. The police, fire service and [[Carlisle United F.C.]] were mobilised, the latter as far as [[Morecambe]]. At the time of the flood, emergency services also had to respond to cases of car-related [[arson]] in the city.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bernard Dolan |date=14 January 2005 |title=Message from, Bernard Dolan, to staff |url=http://www.cumbriafire.gov.uk/about/incidents/floods/story.asp |access-date=4 May 2010 |publisher=Cumbria Fire & Rescue Service |archive-date=25 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725150129/http://www.cumbriafire.gov.uk/about/incidents/floods/story.asp |url-status=live }}</ref>