Harsh Winters — Heritage and History

Leyland Motors Clock at Kendal Brewery Arts Centre

September 23, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

From a time when motorways were a dream and drivers could read the time from a clock at the side of the road comes the Kendal Leyland … [Read more...]

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Tall tales wanted for Park project

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The bells of Carlisle Cathedral

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Foundering in soft snow: Bowers' sledge team; Wilson pushing; Oates and PO Evans repairing, Beardmore Glacier, 13 December 1911. Pic HLF

Captain Scott’s South Pole images saved for nation

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HSL102, a former air-sea rescue launch is to get new engines Pic - PNBPT

Wartime rescue boat, HSL102, to get new engines

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The Palladian style Doll's House c1735-40 at Uppark, West Sussex. Pic NT

More than 700,000 National Trust items go online

From great works of art by Gainsborough to the ordinary cotton underpants of a … [Read More...]