English Lake District Daily Briefing for Saturday 23rd February 2008
Belatedly updated on Satuday at 9.00pm
Friday's Lake District Pictures
Grasmere, at Deer Bolts Wood [22/2/2008 See more from Tony Richards]
Howk Bobbin Mill at Caldbeck [22/2/2008, my own picture]
Read more about the Bobbin Mill
The information board says:
The buildings in this gorge were part of a mill that made wooden bobbins for the textile industry. From 1857 until 1924 this was a noisy and busy place employing up to 60 boys and men. Powered by a large waterwheel, seasoned coppice wood was turned into bobbins. As demand for bobbins waxed and waned the mill also made anything that could be turned from wood, including egg stands, handles for picks and hammers, washing dollies and cartwheel naves.
Howk gorge [22/2/2008, my own picture]
The information board says: The limestone gorge in which the mill sits is a very special place. Its watered sculptured features have attrached romantic names such as 'Fairy Kettle' and 'Fairy Kirk'. The rich vegetation of the gorge is typical of limestone woodland and it includes rare ferns, such as the Shield Fern.
John Peel's Grave at Caldbeck [22/2/2008, my own picture]
Mary Robinson - the 'Maid of Buttermere' - Grave at Caldbeck [22/2/2008, my own picture]
Moot Hall, Keswick at 6.30pm [22/2/2008, my own picture]
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Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards visits Grasmere
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