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The motor-car opened up the Lakes to many families previously constrained by limited leisure time and travel distance. The 'day trip' was born.

The trees of Low Wood stretch out into the lake, while the steep scree-clad slopes of Illgill Head—the famous Wasdale Screes—soar up the southern shores.

The isolated outlier of Latrigg (1,203 ft) is an easy stroll from Keswick; it gives a grandstand view of the 'capital' of the northern Lakes.

Longfords Lake was created in 1806 as a reservoir to feed the large nearby cloth mill run by the Playne family. Originally 15 acres in extent, it is now much silted up.

This view shows Lake's Art and Literature Shop on the left and part of the main Post Office on the right.

The lake is now restricted to boaters; they may take out a skiff, but no private motor boats or any such thing noisy and anti-social.

Hawkshead's most characterful street makes a charming picture. Houses with overhanging upper storeys are rare in the Lake District.

The crossroads at Milnthorpe was well known to motorists travelling to Scotland or the Lake District on the A6 before the advent of the M6 motorway.

Saltwell Park is in the middle of the town, and comprises gardens, a lake, and recreational areas. Saltwell Park Museum is housed in the old mansion.

In July 1905, the National Lifeboat Association held a demonstration on the lake.

This view of the golf course and clubhouse from one of the lakes shows the old mansion in the background, with the tower that forms the entrance to the courtyard visible to the right of the

A horse and cart wends its way up a gated minor road through the Coniston Fells.At the time before the coming of the motor car in significant numbers, there were many roads like this in the Lake

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.

The lake and village of Grasmere can be seen in the distance, while to the right, the 'Lion and Lamb' summit rocks of Helm Crag are seen silhouetted against the skyline.

The Troutbeck valley is one of the most peaceful in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

Even the elegant steam cruiser the 'Gondola', seen here moored at the pier, is still taking passengers up and down the lake.

The lake and village of Grasmere can be seen in the distance, while to the right, the 'Lion and Lamb' summit rocks of Helm Crag are seen silhouetted against the skyline.

Pictured here only two years after opening, the lake, created from a 'malarial bog' by damming the Nant Fawr Brook, proved extremely problematic.

If we look to our left, we will gaze over the Upper Lake, and on towards the Royal Military College.

Herbert H Raphael's gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden

In 1912 Tommy and Jeff Morgan explored the caves by coracle and candlelight; they crossed not one underground lake but four, with huge chambers of stalagmites and stalactites.

The surface area of Haweswater Reservoir, when full, is three times greater than that of the natural lake it replaced.

The Lake was filled in after the arrival of the railway. The island was known locally as 'Monkey Island', although its official title was Cypress Island.

Penrith received its first market charter in 1223, and it has continued as a busy market town serving the north-east of the Lake District and the North Pennines ever since.