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Centenary Stone – A stunning birthday stone
Images courtesy of James Banks Centenary Stone – A stunning birthday stone: The National Trust was founded in 1895, the charity works to protect and preserve historic places and spaces, and plays an important part in the Lake District. Beatrix Potter was a main supporter and bequeathed her land to it. In 1995, to celebrate […]
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Ewe too – Herdwick Sheep
Images courtesy of Andrew Locking The Lake District would look very different without the iconic Herdwick and you’ll spot plenty about at this time of year as the inclement weather brings them off the fells and into the valleys and farms. These unique woolly flocks are vital to the maintenance of the landscape as lovable […]
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Britain’s First African Settlement
Rethinking Britain’s immigration history In Burgh-by-Sands, there is a memorial plaque that reads, ‘The first recorded African community in Britain guarded a Roman fort on this site in the 3rd century AD’. It was placed beside the gate to St Michael’s church by the BBC’s history unit in 2016. A complementing timeline in the churchyard, […]
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Carlisle’s Turkish Baths – Moorish, and moreish
Carlisle’s Turkish Baths Eighteenth-century hammams are associated with places in the Islamic world, not exactly what you expect from a modern swimming complex in Carlisle. Even more extraordinary, this beautiful Edwardian suite dedicated to health opened on 20 September 1909 and has not changed since its construction, although the space has recently been repaired and […]
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