A new breed of Cumbrian mums
School is finished for the day and Jamie, 11, Alan, seven, and six-year-old Joseph bound in through the back door at Croft House Farm at Mealrigg near Aspatria.
Past & Present
Waning pride in Cumbria’s processions
In the May Day Horse Procession of 1889 the principal feature, reported the Carlisle Journal, was “the Silloth lifeboat manned by the crew, about a dozen in number, dressed in their cork jackets and red caps and carrying their oars upright”.
Reviews
A reet riveting read
John Murray talks to Sue Allan: Comedy, Cumbria and DialectNot coming from Cumbria, I found author John Murray’s talk on the area’s dialect fascinating.
School is finished for the day and Jamie, 11, Alan, seven, and six-year-old Joseph bound in through the back door at Croft House Farm at Mealrigg near Aspatria.
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