Life on the Fell - a pictorial chronicle of a Lakeland community Find!
This book had its origins about 25 years ago when the late David Caldwell, who had retired from the Civil Service to Cartmel Fell, began to collect old photographs. David died in 1985 but the collection continued to grow with the help of Bill Adam and is now preservrd by the Cartmel Fell and District Local History Society. The collection covers a period of nearly 150 years, together with anecdotes and other records of life and times in this rural Lakeland community. The book is full of interesting facts of which I was unaware despite living in the area for many years.
Today in Cartmel Fell there is still no village or large cluster of dwellings, and the ancient farmsteads are scattered at regular intervals over the landscape. It is best seen from the western escarpment of Whitbarrow Scar. A a discerning eye can pick out nearly all the farms and notable houses, the two inns and St Anthony's Church. An awful proposal made around forty years ago would have drowned the beautiful patchwork of fields and farms under fifty feet of water.
20 October 2009 from Anne
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Well done Cumbria. Still posting finds on your finale day I see. Hope tonight's event goes well- sorry I can't be there