Read more Calgarth Estate – the Lake District’s hidden war time community Those who watched the recent ‘Windermere Children’ drama on BBC2 – broadcast on ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ (27th January) – will...
Read more The Village of Wreay Every year millions of people are drawn to the towering fells and deep blue lakes of Cumbria, but sometimes it’s...
Read more Kendal – The Auld Grey Town Kendal – The Auld Grey Town Kendal earned its nickname thanks to the many limestone buildings lining the streets and...
Read more Literary Lakeland: Keswick’s hidden treasures. Keswick’s outstanding scenery has drawn visitors for over 300 years, amongst them some remarkable literary figures: Romantic poets Robert Southey...
Read more “It’s over: it’s gone.” What? What’s ended, what’s gone? It is – it was – the last link to lead mining in Cumbria, after...
Read more Where was Tarzan born? Just a couple of miles north of the A66 is a village close to my heart and home. The buildings...
Read more Cumbrian connections in Somerset I had spent Easter in the Midlands, and was on my way down to enjoy a couple of days with...
Read more Finding the Neolithic Revolution If you had visited the Lake District five thousand years ago you would have found a landscape that looks very...
Read more The Ullswater Way – February 2018 Eight inches of snow lies outside my house. A converted barn perched on the side of Little Mell Fell, just...