The Workington Coat of Arms
The Workington Coat of Arms is a symbol for the town and its people. It was granted to Workington Borough Corporation in 1950. The centre has a pattern that looks like the letter ‘W’. The triangles represent coal, the wheatsheaf represents agriculture and the squares represent steel.
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The unicorn’s head at the top of the Shield is taken from the Arms of the Curwen family. An anchor has been added to the unicorn’s mouth to symbolise Workington’s maritime links.
The man on the left is Vulcan, the Roman god of metal workers. The woman on the right is Themis, the Greek goddess of civic rule.
The words at the bottom, ‘Levavi Oculos Meos in Montes’, are from the Book of Psalms and mean ‘I lifted my eyes in the hills’. This refers to the town’s position between the fells of the Lake District and the Scottish hills across the Solway Firth.
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For the History of Workington please click here.
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Workington Town Council
The Town Council was re-established on 7 April 1982 to succeed the Workington Charter Trustees who had held in trust the charter of the Borough of Workington since the previous Town Council had been abolished by the 1972 Local Government Act.
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The Town Council is compiling a history of the past Mayors of Workington. If you have any recollections, or memorabilia, we would love for you to share them with us. Just e-mail us at the Town Hall.
Mayors of the Town Council
2023 - Cllr Beth Dixon
2022 - Cllr Denise Rollo
2021 - Cllr Herbert Briggs
2019-2020 Cllr Janet King (term in office was extended by a year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
2018 Cllr Barbara Cannon
2017 Cllr Ann Bales
2016 Cllr Joan Wright
2015 Cllr Carole Armstrong
2014 Cllr Mary Bainbridge
2013 Cllr Konrad Hansen
2012 Cllr Andrew Lawson
2011 Cllr Nik Hardy
2011 Cllr Mel Pettit (died in office)
2010 Cllr Margaret Jones
2009 Cllr Bill Reville
2008 Cllr Bill Bacon
2007 Cllr Nik Hardy
2006 Cllr Judith Glynn
2005 Cllr Alan Barry
2004 Cllr Joan McDowell
2003 Cllr Richard Jones
2002 Cllr John Bechelli
2001 Cllr Mel Pettit
2000 Cllr Theresa Fryer
1999 Cllr Joe Robertson
1998 Cllr Margaret Winter
1997 Cllr Barbara Weir
1996 Cllr Roland Postlethwaite
1995 Cllr David Crawford
1994 Cllr Anne Ferguson
1993 Cllr Peter Bales
1992 Cllr Barbara Cannon
1991 Cllr Rita Fulton
1990 Cllr Tony Cunningham
1989 Cllr Charlotte Thompson
1988 Cllr John Timney
1987 Cllr Joan McKeown
1986 Cllr Ian Ferguson
1985 Cllr JMercia Haughan
1984 Cllr Mary Kirkwood
1983 Cllr Joan Minto
1982 Cllr William Whalley
The first Mayor of Workington was Henry Curwen in 1888.
Charter Trustee Mayors
1981 Joan Minto
1980 Spencer Bromley
1979 Alice Findlay
1978 Jack Fryer
1977 Robert Spedding
1976 James Jackson
1975 Ann Carigiet
1974 Peter Bentley