Inside the Museum of Lakeland Life in Kendal there are reconstructed rooms from a Lakeland farm house in the c…
Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway (3): 3698 Repulse
3698 Repulse is an example of the Hunslett austerity class of industrial locomotives. It was built in 1950 and saw…
Naturelog: Kendal
We visited Kendal in Southern Lakeland twice during our holiday. There was an information board by the River Kent as…
Museum of Lakeland Life
The Museum of Lakeland life in Kendal is a wonderful place containing a rather eclectic collection of items to do…
Naturelog: Morecombe Bay
About a mile from the RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss is the RSPB reserve at Morecombe Bay. This is a…
Naturelog: Leighton Moss
The RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss near Carnforth in Lancashire consists of a number of Reed-beds and lakes. It is…
Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway (2)
The line leaves Lakeside station alongside Lake Windermere and passes into the valley of the river Leven, just above where…
Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
In the 1860s the Furness Railway Company decided to build a branch line from Plumpton Junction, near Ulverston to Lake…
A Pheasant with brains
We had a pair of pheasants come to the feeder station in the back garden of our cottage most days.…
Feeders in our back garden
As I said in my previous post we had a lovely cottage in Lancashire overlooking Gait Barrows NNR. Apart from…
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