I've been so busy reading I haven't had time to blog! Find!
The library has been so busy this last couple of weeks with summer activities for the children and library staff on holiday that I haven't had time to record my finds. Anyway here goes!
I have been on a bit of a detective trail for the past fortnight. First of all I read 'The Cumberland Coast' by Neil Curry which I thoroughly enjoyed. It is a very readable book in which the author walks the length of the Cumberland coast from the Solway Firth in the north to Millom in the south. Visitors to the county often ignore the Cumbrian coastline but as Neil Curry discovers there is plenty to explore and discover which will appeal to all ages. It is an area which is rich in both history and characters. Most people tend to forget, or never realise, that Cumbria has a heritage of mining industries including coal, iron, copper and lead and that several important ports grew up along the Cumberland coast. We learn of the Gosforth Cross which stands outside the small church. It is 14 feet high and over a thousand years old. Yet within a few miles is situated Sellafield Nuclear Plant which covers 275 hectares and employs nearly 10,000 Cumbrians. Many of the place names along the Cumbrian coast reflect the Norse heritage of the area although we learn that these were not Viking raiders but settlers who integrated with the local population.
The other amazing thing which keeps happening with this project is the links you discover while reading these local books. It turns out that Neil Curry taught English to one of the members of the reading group and then in Chapter 4 the author describes the the wonderful paintings by the artist Edmund Blood in the little church of St Michael's in Workington. Edmund used to teach at the Lakes School in Windermere with my husband.
I think anyone reading this book would feel compelled to visit this rather forgotten area of Cumbria and would thoroughly enjoy any time they spent there.
17 August 2009 from Mary Rossall
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Finds
- On Lindale Hill
- Grange-over-Sands: The Story of a Gentle Township
- The Silent Traveller: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland
- Red Ike
- Cumbrian Privies
- Ethel Fisher's West Cumbrian Dialect titles
- The Embalmer's Book of Recipes by Ann Lingard
- Nella Last's Peace
- Riding the Stang by Dawn Robertson
- Life on the Fell - a pictorial chronicle of a Lakeland community
- About Scout Scar
- William Wilberforce - A Summer Diary 1779
- Beatrix Potter - the unknown years
- Smoke over Shap by Margaret Potter
- Songs of a Cragsman by George Basterfield
- The Grasmere Dialect Plays
- The Grizedale Experience: Sculpture, Art & Theatre in a Lakeland Forest
- An Atlas of The English Lakes
- How Hall. Poetry and Memories. A Passion for Ennerdale by Tom Rawling
- Stumpy, Hero of the Lakes
- The High Places by A. Harry Griffin
- The Highest House in Wathendale
- Kendal by Roger Bingham
- Secrets and Legends of Old Westmorland
- Reminiscences of Wordsworth Among the Peasantry of Westmorland by Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley
- Little Gods by Jacob Polley
- A Lakeland Summer
- Hunter of Harter Fell by Joseph E Chipperfield
- And Nobody Woke Up Dead
- An accessible paradise
- The Fleming Family novels and Graham Sutton
- Excursion to Loweswater. A Lakeland Visit 1865
- Writing on the Wall
- Beyond Scafell by Alan Robinson
- Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole
- Kendal In The Nineteenth Century by A Wainwright
- In There Somewhere
- The Bondwomen by W G Collingwood
- "Ah'd Gaa Back Tomorra!"
- A Cumbrian Copper by Ray Huddart
- The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards
- Old Will Stories by Dudley Hoys
- The Shield Ring by Rosemary Sutcliff
- T'Bacca Queen by Theodora Wilson Wilson
- Furness and the Industrial Revolution
- The Shadow of Black Combe
- The Painted Letters of Percy Kelly
- Ivver Sen
- Lakeland in the 1830s
- Wasdale Climbing Book By Michael Cocker
- Riding High by Barbara Sneyd
- Deborah in Langdale
- Early Recollections of Grange
- Hazard's Way by Roger Hubank
- Yan, Tan, Tethera
- Talk of the Town
- Capturing the Mountains
- Hope On, Hope Ever
- Mildred Edwards: Our City Our People 1889 - 1978 Memories
- Lakeland Limericks
- Surrounding loveliness
- Haweswater by Sarah Hall
- Coast to Coast by Jan Minshull
- Sunshine To The Sunless
- Geese, cattle wallopers and secret Irish paths
- Anarchists, Angels and wet Bank Holiday Mondays
- A more unconventional kind of find...?
- Skiddaw Summit by Kathleen Jones
- Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland
- Wednesday Early Closing
- Smoke Across The Fell
- The Sand Pilot of Morecambe Bay
- The Chronicles of Boggerthwaite
- Carrock Fell
- Feet in the Clouds
- Hercules and the Farmer's Wife
- Shepherd's Warning
- The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
- I've been so busy reading I haven't had time to blog!
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