Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Cooke telescopes for Carlisle

 In February 1857 William Day of Carlisle who was headmaster at the Christchurch Boys School in Carlisle purchased a 4.25 inch portable equatorial telescope. As this was early 1857 it could still be a Thomas Cooke of York telescope rather than a Thomas Cooke & Sons of York, because it was around this time that the company changed its name.

He later in 1858 purchased a smaller 3.5 inch telescope also from Cookes.





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