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We have no photos of Gilcrux,although these nearby locations do:Gilcrux books (7 available)
Kendal - A History and Celebration
Hardback
So You Think You Know? Kendal
Hardback
Penrith Photographic Memories
Hardback
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Childrens names.
The children in the boat are Leslie (boy), Harry (his brother), Noel (his sister) Wren. His other sister Millie Wren is sitting on the riverbank. The other child is a neighbour. For many years Millie Wren was a teacher at Lightburn School, Ulverston.
A memory of Newby Bridge contributed by Jean Wren
Family connections.
The gentleman with the scythe over his shoulder was my grandfather. His name was Joseph Jackson, born in 1849 at Bootle in Cumberland. He spent most of his life as a tenant farmer, first at Canleton Farm near Egremont also in Cumberland. He then moved to Lane Ends Farm at Haverthwaite in what was then Lancashire owing to subsidence of the land due to iron ore mining from the nearby Florence Mine. He retired from farming in 1919 to Penny Bridge where he spent the rest of his life.
A memory of Greenodd contributed by Mr J Jackson
Great-grandparents marriage
My great-grandparents Robert Close and Annie Head were married at this church on January 8th 1888.
A memory of Aspatria contributed by Ellen Neal
Hundredth Anniversary of Wordsworth's Death
I was born in Bridge Street and went to Fairfield School, or "Fairfield Junior Mixed" as it was called when it became Co-Ed in about 1948. I remember the whole class having to walk up to Harris Park and stand round the fountain shown in the picture. Unfortunately we had to hold a daffodil during the walk and then recite Daffodils when we were round the fountain. I noticed when I was in Cockermouth a few weeks ago that the fountain has moved onto the Main Street into the Memorial Garden opposite Wordsworth House. The Garden is on the site of my grandparents house and the Wordsworth tavern.
A memory of Cockermouth contributed by Joseph Douglas
Extracts From Gilcrux & Cumbria books
The waterfalls of Stock Ghyll Force have
been a major attraction to visitors to
Ambleside for well over a century, but
this is a very early photograph of them.
The waters of Stock Ghyll rise just below
the summit of the Kirkstone Pass, north
of the town, and plunge through this
wooded gorge before joining the
River Rothay and eventually
entering Windermere.
An extract from from"Cumbria Photographic Memories".
St George’s Church and the Weir 1891.
The twin Italianate towers of
St George’s Church dominate this
view of Kendal, across the River Kent
and its weir. The river has always been
important for Kendal, and powered
many of the mills which wove the famous
Kendal Green and other textiles from
the Middle Ages onwards. It is perhaps
best known now for the delicious
Kendal Mint Cake.
An extract from from"Cumbria Photographic Memories".
Canvas-sailed boats are tied up at the pier; this was the time when Grange was becoming a popular seaside resort,
famed as an escape from industrial Lancashire and for its bracing air and equable climate.
An extract from from"Cumbria Photographic Memories".
The coming of the railway to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 signalled the town’s rapid
expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.
Here engine No 12501 steams along the front, past the town’s park, where the
conical-roofed bandstand is prominent.
An extract from from"Cumbria Photographic Memories".
A local farmworker, dog at his feet and scythe over his shoulder, stands outside the Ship Inn as an early motor car
(which looks suspiciously as if it has been superimposed) drives up the Main Street. The Ship Inn gives a clue to
Greenodd’s former importance as a port at the mouth of the River Leven.
An extract from from"Cumbria Photographic Memories".