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Cartmel, Cumbria
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Historic maps of Cartmel and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Cartmel maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Cumbria
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Cartmel books
Displaying 3 of 25 books about Cartmel and the local area. View all Cartmel books
Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories
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A Taste of Cumbria and the Lake District
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Cumbria Photographic Memories
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12 Cartmel photos appear in 3 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Cartmel
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I have lived in the pretty village of Cartmel all my life and I love the quiet, calming atmosphere we have here. Once a friend and myself used to walk through the village with a nanny goat called Nancy and her 2 kids, we'd arrive in the square and rest at the market cross with the goats playing on the... [more]
Shared on 23 October 2006
Cumbria memories
My grandad convalesced here, James Taylor. He died in 1976. I hope to take my mum to see the place this year. I have 3 postcards of the place, one of the statue, the bowling green and the entrance drive.
Shared on 14 September 2009
I worked at the Grange Hotel from 1983 until 1986. I lived in Grange for another six years at The Cottage, Graythwaite Manor. I left Grange in 1992 with my family when we moved to Australia. Enjoyed seeing the old photos of Grange, especially the one of the Grange Hotel.
Shared on 08 February 2009
My aunt and uncle went to live in Flookburgh in the early 1950s. My mum, brother and myself went to stay with them on holiday. I can't remember where we got the coach to but my uncle laughed when we got off the coach with paper carrier bags with our clothes in (no suitcases for us in those days). The road... [more]
Shared on 02 June 2007
The Whitewater Hotel at Backbarrow, near Newby Bridge
I stayed in Backbarrow for several days at the Whitewater Hotel which has been converted from a former mill building by the river. The lobby of this lovely "spa hotel" has display cabinets of memorabilia from its industrial heyday in the last century which was interesting and I recommend a visit.
My wife Elizabeth and I used this... [more]
Shared on 18 April 2008
I would like to share with your readers that my father Alban Crossley was born in Staveley and his mother Ethel Crossley (nee Bateman) worked in the bobbin mill in Staveley. Unfortunately my grandfather Michael Crossley died as a result of a motorbike accident. My father died in 1983 age 59years old.
We lived in Staveley in... [more]
Shared on 30 June 2008
My grandfather worked as wheelwright for Thomas Wren, ajoining the Swan Hotel. Can any relitive of Thomas Wren please give me any more information? His name was John Hartley Wilson of Lakeside.
My E Mail is johnwilson45@tiscali.co.uk THANK YOU
Ken Wilson
Shared on 21 April 2008
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.
Shared on 06 April 2006
Extracts From Cartmel & Cumbria books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Cartmel, inspired by Frith photos.
Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
This fine clapper bridge has gone, but not the Methodist church to the right, which was completed two decades before the photograph was taken. Behind is the former priory church, its cross-set belfry rising above a low square tower. It was spared the destruction that befell the rest of the monastery at the Dissolution, because the town claimed it as their... [more]
This is an extract from Lancashire - A Second Selection Photographic Memories.
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Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Michael was never elevated to abbey status. The tower has a unique formation: the upper part is built crosswise to the lower. It is said that it is theoretically unstable architecturally, but it has stood for 500 years.
This is an extract from Grange-over-Sands Photographic Memories.
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Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories
The priory was founded by William Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke, and it was never to be promoted to the status of abbey. Much of the early documentation of the priory has been lost, including the precise date of its founding, which was between 1189 and 1219; its charter dates from between 1190 and 1196. Because the priory was used by the parish, at the time... [more]
This is an extract from Furness and Cartmel Peninsulas Photographic Memories.
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