Tom Jones coming to Kendal Calling

The great Welshman Tom Jones is special guest at this year's event. He joins a huge listing of bands such as Manic Street Preachers and Orbital for this year's event July 25-28 2019. Kendal Calling website.. Pic:Mikal Burns.

Lake District World Heritage Status at Risk

Government's Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), have insisted that National Parks will not be excluded from the search for a site to bury the UK’s inventory of nuclear waste. The designated area at greatest risk from this is the Lake District National Park, since Copeland Borough Council, the majority of which is within the Lake District, has already started to hold meetings behind closed doors which are likely to lead to the borough volunteering. More on this topic...

Green Man in the Woods?

Nuke Dump for West Lakeland ?

The granite under parts of Eskdale and Wasdale may end up hosting the UK's proposed underground nuclear dump(estimated cost so far £4.3 billion). Meanwhile the guardians of the Lakes, the National Park Authority says it's inappropriate to object...Lakestay disagrees and says it is much better to keep the waste above ground where it can be monitored. But huge community 'bribes' may cloud Cumbrians' judgement and Copeland and Allerdale councils have said they want to 'take the money'.....Read more on this important issue...or see the video

Mist Below...

Dramatic inversion below Red Pike caught in superb picture by @adrianstrand

Child Labour in Cumbrian Mines

Life was cheap as coal was hewn under the Irish Sea..Learn more at our web site

The Real Bluebird

The Roman Fort on
the mountaintops

Truly magnificent setting for this Roman fort in the mountains...find out more at our Romans in Cumbria page.

Learn to Speak Cumbrian?

Find out what it means to be Gattered and the many other dialect Cumbrian words that hark back to the days when the Vikings were the main farmers in the Lakeland dales. Such words as Knock and knash, neb, mush and scran are just some of those explained on this Dialect Dictionary web site.

Foxhunting in the Lakes..

MPs brought an end to John Peel's sport in February 2005. Follow this link to find out more about the Lakeland hunting packs and to hear John Peel's song.

Lakes turned into a Theme Park?

Plans for a gondola ride and zip wires have prompted angry opposition. A Paris conference heard that the LakeDistrict may quickly lose its World Heritage status. World Heritage Watch Paris Forum was held this week (February 2019). Whinlatter panned! Read on...
A zip wire ride for Honister has already had approval but one across Thirlmere was rejected .
Meanwhile a new 'road' is among the eyesores dug by someone on the slopes of Blencathra. Read more

Cumbria's Lord of the Runes

Was this Cumbrian find the inspiration for J R Tolkien's epic tales?

*Cumbria's own 'Brunel'
Keswick Convention...what's it all about?
Saving the Lakes from an Army of Conifers
A Tale to amuse Jonathan Swift?
How they took the first elephants to Australia!
The quiet shores of the Solway
St Bega's Walk
Find out about the inter-Irish 'Murphy Riots'
Ennerdale, the quiet valley
Lakeland Breweries
Lakeland Gardens
Cockermouth after the Floods

Cold War Cumbria

Find out some of the ways Cumbria was embroiled in the Cold War...Read on

Borrowdale's Caveman

The eccentric pioneering rock climber and Borrowdale caveman Millican Dalton...more .

Wasdale Shepherds Meet enjoyed late summer sun. Trail hounds race for the finish (Pic M.McKenzie) Meanwhile Cumbrian foxhunting packs wait to see if the new government rescind the Foxhunting Ban?

The Doomed Hamlets

This was the last sermon at the church before the reservoir flooded the valley. Read about another chapel lost forever.

Wildlife in your parish

Tullie House at Carlisle has this excellent web site which tells you which rare species live in every parish of Cumbria...
http://www.cbdc.org.uk

The Coniston postman always....