Corpses and coffins, oh my

20 Sep 202119 Nov 2021

Grasmere lake from the old coffin road We took advantage of a warm sunny morning to head for Grasmere for a coffee and a stroll to White Moss Common. The…

Yesterday’s Monday mystery…

14 Sep 202119 Nov 2021

I wanted to blog about this yesterday but real life got in the way. I did manage to post a mystery question on my Instagram account, though, and wanted to…

Monday Mystery temple

6 Sep 202119 Nov 2021

It's been a while since I had a Monday Mystery feature on here, but this one is, if I do say so myself, a bit of a doozy! All you…

Two walk by the river

30 Aug 2021

It's a Bank Holiday here in England and we thought the traffic in the Lake District might be horrendous, so we went the opposite direction and ended up in Kendal.…

Monday mystery: garnet(t)s and leprosy

13 Jan 202013 Jan 2020

Thanks to this interesting snippet of local history in the Westmorland Gazette, I now know that Kendal had a leper hospital in medieval times. According to the article it was…

Monday Mystery: is this map real or fake?

16 Dec 20193 Jan 2020

We were having lunch in Esquires Coffee Shop in Ambleside earlier, and were much intrigued by a large and apparently antique map painted onto the wall. We spent a happy…

Monday Mystery: what links Batman to Kendal?

21 Oct 201921 Oct 2019

It's a strange thought. On the one hand, a quaint old northern market town huddled in the Kent valley. On the other, the Caped Crusader. And yet there are two…

Monday Mystery: High Street ‘Roman’ road

13 May 201913 May 2019

High Street is easily one of the most famous Roman roads in Cumbria - and quite possibly in the whole of the UK. So much so they called a whole…

Monday Mystery: Well? What well?

25 Mar 2019

Last time we visited the Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry in Kendal, we came across an old map of the shores of (Lake) Windermere between Windermere (town) and Ambleside.…

Monday Mystery – abandoned gate posts in Windermere

11 Mar 201911 Mar 2019

Windermere town centre isn't particularly big, but it's well stocked with a selection of shops, cafes and restaurants - and more than a few interesting or unusual features if you…