English Lake District Daily Briefing for Wednesday 11th June 2008
Updated on Tuesday at 10.15pm
Tuesday's Lake District Pictures
The Wyke, Grasmere [10/6/2008 by Tony Richards]
The house was built in 1801 and is set in 60 acres of woodland, fell and 100 yards of lake frontage. All this could be yours (just so long as you have the £2,500,000 asking price)
Sunday's Lake District Pictures
Looking into Wasdale from near Holmrook (just north of Ravenglass) [8/6/2008 by Tina Mahoney from English Lakes]
St. Bees Head at the start of Winwrights Coast to Coast Walk [8/6/2008 by Tina Mahoney from English Lakes]
Other Recent Lake District pictures
Sunset over Windermere [taken on Friday 7/6/2008 by Flickr user BigPhilUK]
Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Newby Bridge [Wednesday 4/6/2008 by David and Edith Brown]
This extensive working mill was begun in 1835 to produce the wooden bobbins vital to the Lancashire spinning and weaving industries. Although small compared to other mills, some 250 men and boys (some drafted in from workhouses) worked here in often arduous conditions to produce a quarter of a million bobbins a week.
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
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Underneath the M4 at Boston Manor Park, Brentford, London - Even here...
... there is beauty if you look for it - Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) [10/6/2008, my own picture]
A native of the Caucasus mountains of south-west Asia, it was introduced in the late 19th century as an ornamental plant and is now naturalised on roadsides, hedgerows, waste places and rough grassland. It is usually about 10 foot high and contains a sap that can cause painful blistering.
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards walks Loughrigg
Wainwright Wanderings - David and Edith Brown walks Finsthwaite - Low Dam - High Dam - Stott Park Bobbin Mill - Finsthwaite
See yesterday's Lake District pictures
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