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Sometimes, as Blue Badge Guides, we are invited to attend events that are hosted outside our area of expertise, and...
Discovering lesser-known areas of Cumbria is an important part of the job for a Blue Badge Guide, so it was...
Cumbria Blue Badge Guides regularly take part in a series of learning activities to refresh and enhance our knowledge. We...
If you’d asked me 20 years ago, I’d have thought the idea of going to a concert performed on a...
It was a crisp winter’s day when I decided to visit this ‘Poet’s Land of Sand, Mines and Mountains’ shortly...
Cumbria is short of professional, accredited tourist guides The last course was run ten years ago, and our numbers are...
Those who watched the recent ‘Windermere Children’ drama on BBC2 – broadcast on ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ (27th January) – will...
Every year millions of people are drawn to the towering fells and deep blue lakes of Cumbria, but sometimes it’s...
I was recently back in Ulverston, and was able to squeeze-in a revisit to the birthplace of Sir John Barrow,...
Kendal – The Auld Grey Town Kendal earned its nickname thanks to the many limestone buildings lining the streets and...
John Ruskin is 200 years old this year – surely a good time to look back on his life and...
Keswick’s outstanding scenery has drawn visitors for over 300 years, amongst them some remarkable literary figures: Romantic poets Robert Southey...
What? What’s ended, what’s gone? It is – it was – the last link to lead mining in Cumbria, after...
Near Greystoke there are two ‘folly farms’ – castellated buildings with high walls that resemble fortresses. They bear the names...
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