Interpretation panels installed at Carlisle Cathedral
Visitors to Carlisle Cathedral can learn more about this twelfth century building and it's history thanks to new interpretation panels and a scale model. [caption id="attachment_831" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Interpretation panel outside the Fratry"][/caption] Funded in part by The North West Development Agency, the five panels and 1:16th scale model of the Cathedral help chart the history of the second smallest cathedral in the country. Some of the panels are mounted on columns set into stone from nearby Lazonby. These are set at a wheelchair user and child friendly height. A bronze model, mounted on a stone plinth depicts the site as it would have ...
Hoad monument under wraps
Hoad Monument in Ulverston is shrouded in scaffolding as work starts on a £1m restoration project. The pepperpot, as it is know locally due to it's shape, towers above the town in South Cumbria and is an icon for miles around. [caption id="attachment_817" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Hoad Monument, Ulverston"][/caption] Built in 1850 from limestone it is in the shape of the former Eddystone lighthouse designed by Smeaton. Built as a tribute to Sir John Barrow, who was born in Ulverston in 1764, it commemorates his naval achievements. Sir John Barrow was an academic and naval administrator. He taught mathematics in Greenwich before travelling on a Government ...
Pendragon Castle, Cumbria
Commanding an impressive view over the Eden Valley, stand the remains of Pendragon castle, thought to be constructed during the reign of William II in the twelfth century by Ranulph de Meschines, Although the the keep dates to Norman times, the Garderobe Turret (toilet) dates from the fourteenth century. [caption id="attachment_795" align="alignright" width="203" caption="Pendragon Castle Viewed from the Road"][/caption] Legend suggests that a much earlier Pendragon Castle on this site belonged to Uther Pendragon, father of the legendary King Arthur. According to the legend, Uther had attempted to re-route the River Eden to create a moat for the castle. An ancient rhyming couplet ...
Armies march out of history onto the streets of Carlisle
An army of soldiers from different periods in the history of Carlisle will march through the city once again on Thursday 28th May. Re-enactors representing Romans, Vikings and English Civil War soldiers will march from different parts of the city towards The Guildhall where they will be addressed by Emperor Hadrian, as time converges in the centre of Carlisle. The event is part of The Living Frontier which will bring 2,000 years of history to life in vivid and spectacular detail during the spring half term from the 24th to the 31st of May at the historic sites along Hadrians Wall Linda Tuttiett, ...
Hethersgill Vintage Club Rally – 2009
A fine but very blustery day saw Carlisle Airport filled with machines and items of a byegone era. The 26th Annual Hethersgill Vintage Rally seemed as popular as ever, with over 1000 exhibitors displaying steam powered traction engines to collections of match boxes and lawn mowers. [caption id="attachment_709" align="alignright" width="150" caption="One of the vintage tractors"][/caption] Cumbria being an agricultural area, it seemed only natural that the vintage tractors would dominate the scene. The famous battleship grey, ferguson tractors revolutionised farming in the 1930's with the use of hydraulics and are still useful workhorses to this day. These were closely followed by other vehicles, both domestic ...
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