Tirril
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- 4 photos on Tirril appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Tirril
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Tirril
My name is Sandra and I am the little girl on the right of the picture. I lived at the Post Office with my grandparents, Mr & Mrs Robinson and I have very fond memories of growing up in the village. The bigger girl with me was Ann Tatters who used to take me to school at Yanwath.
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Tirril
My name is Sandra and I am the little girl on the right of the picture. I lived at the Post Office with my grandparents, Mr & Mrs Robinson and I have very fond memories of growing up in the village. The bigger girl with me was Ann Tatters who used to take me to school at Yanwath.
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many happy holidays
My granparents and uncle live in soulby, I have many happy memories of spending my school holidays at Row End farm helping with hay time, milking and feeding the cows. I still love visiting soulby going to the stepping stones and a wander round the village
A memory of Soulby contributed by christine crawford
holidays
I came to Soulby for a holiday when I was 8 with my mother and sister. We stayed in a caravan the other side of this shallow river - by the local shop.
The caravan was owned by a local farmer who was either a family friend or distant relative.
A highlight of the holiday was visiting the farm and helping get the cows in for milking. We loved playing in the shallow river and enjoyed the novelty of the caravan - I remember my mother hired a radio for the week for entertainment!
We went to Appleby one day and my sister bought a silver ring in a second hand shop.
I wonder if its changed?
A memory of Soulby contributed by jean berry
Extracts From Tirril & Cumbria books
Here the Ullswater and Helvellyn fells present a magnificent view
but changeable weather and difficult terrain can turn it into a
formidable one. Its victims include Charles Gough who fell to his
death on Helvellyn’s Striding Edge where months later his dog
was found alive, still guarding his remains. Gough, a Quaker, was
buried in Tirril in the graveyard adjoining the Meeting House. He
and his dog were immortalised in the poems ‘Helvellyn’ by Sir
Walter Scott, and ‘Fidelity’ by William Wordsworth.
An extract from from"Penrith Photographic Memories".
The Institute and Reading Room, built in an eclectic Arts and Crafts style, recalls the contribution to that Movement made
by local protagonists like John Ruskin, Albert Fleming, W G Collingwood and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. The latter two
had acknowledged the influence on the Movement of Quaker simplicity in life-style and design. Many influential followers
of that faith had lived around Tirril, including Sir Thomas Clarkson and Thomas Wilkinson. For many years Slee’s Quaker
Mathematical Academy flourished in Tirril.
An extract from from"Penrith Photographic Memories".
The motor-car opened up the Lakes to many families
previously constrained by limited leisure time and
travel distance. The ‘day trip’ was born. It brought
new trade to outlying village hostelries such as this
one at Tirril. The Queen’s Head once belonged to the
Wordsworth family whose roots lay in neighbouring
Sockbridge and Penrith.
An extract from from"Penrith Photographic Memories".
From Tirril, midway between
Penrith and Ullswater, a road
leads to Sockbridge. This was
the home of Wordsworth’s
grandfather Richard, and
his father John. Both had
been employed by the local
magnates, the Lowther family,
to manage their lands. This
corner of Cumbria abounds
in associations with the poet.
An extract from from"Penrith Photographic Memories".
Here a group of visitors pause to admire the view from Purse Point across the lake towards Glenridding. Ullswater, or
‘Ulph’s-water’, takes its name from the Viking settler Lyulph, whose name was popularised in the 18th century when the
Duke of Norfolk, then owner of Greystoke Castle, built the folly called Lyulph’s Tower on the north side of the lake.
An extract from from"Penrith Photographic Memories".