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Our future programme 2019 12 Sep The 1st Battalion of the Border Regiment at Stuart Eastwood 2019 the Battle of Arnhem, 1944 27 Sep Bernard Bradbury Memorial Lecture. Castles Professor Richard 2019 and Conquests: castle-building and the Oram August 2019 8pm control of Cumbria, 1092-1237, Cockermouth Tickets £4.50 Contents Civic Trust, with Cockermouth Heritage Group from Kirkgate On display are the oldest and L&DFLHS. Kirkgate Centre, 8pm Centre, Sept. mechanically powered boat in the 10 Oct 25th Anniversary Lecture. Lordship and Professor Angus Future Programme world, the oldest yacht, the oldest 2019 Manor: the Norman imprint on the Society’s Winchester Our Autumn Outing 1 steam screw yacht in England, area of interest Our Programme 2 workshops for restoration and repair, 30 Oct Autumn outing by coach to the Windermere Contact Tim Two foundational lectures 3 artefacts relating to the site’s industrial 2019 Jetty Museum and the Armitt Library Stanley-Clamp on Society News past, and Beatrix Potter’s rowing boat. 01900 336542 Forthcoming book 4 14 Nov Roman Roads through the lakes Dr Paul Hindle Subscriptions in 2020 4 2019 Additions to the website 4 Talks are at the Yew Tree Hall at 7.30pm unless stated otherwise. Visitors £3. Please do not Request for information 5 park to the left of the entrance (looking from outside) as the road is narrow. Meeting Reports Officers and Committee 2018/19 Talk: Viking longhouses in Cumbria 5 Outing to Yanwath Hall and Penrith 6 President, Professor Angus Winchester Financial examiner, Peter Hubbard Talk: A social history of Charles Lambrick 01900 85710 Tim Stanley-Clamp 01900 Loweswater 8 Chairman Vice-chair 336542 The new museum has received Talk: Cumbria's explosive coast 9 Outings many glowing reviews – one at Dr Derek Denman 01900 829097 Christopher Thomas 01900 https://www.familyadventureproject.o Articles Secretary derekdenman@bt Treasurer 822171 rg/windermere-jetty-museum-review- Taking a pew in 1827: the new internet.com best-lake-district-activities/ gives an chapel in Loweswater 11 Lena Stanley-Clamp 01900 336542 Mike Bacon Richard idea of its appeal - and we believe it will The Inebriates at Hassness 18 Membership [email protected] Fiona Lambrick Easton provide a stimulating and entertaining Hugh Thomson Committee day out. members Autumn Visit to the The Armitt Museum has Windermere Jetty Museum enormous appeal and our visit will and Armitt Museum coincide with the last days of the very Diary date well received exhibition Langdale; In a Ambleside, Time of Change. Wednesday 30 October 5 October. Cumbria Local History Federation Annual Convention. AGM, displays and conference, with the theme ‘All at sea’. At the Helena Thompson Museum, The Society’s second visit of the year Workington, 10am-4pm. Cost £12 including lunch. will be to the brand-new Windermere Jetty Musuem. Opened very recently The next Wanderer will be published on 1 November 2019. Please send items to on the site of the former Steamboat Derek Denman, by early October. Museum, the new building seeks to recreate and celebrate the splendid era Published by the Lorton & Derwent Fells Local History Society, 19 Low Road Close, of a century or so ago where industry Cockermouth CA13 0GU. Osprey, 1902 and leisure cohabited on the shores of http://www.derwentfells.com …continued on page 3 https://www.facebook.com/Lortonlocalhistorysociety Windermere at Bowness. 1 2 … from page 1 September Professor Richard Oram will Forthcoming Book on our loved place. More than that, it teaches The arrangements for the day: present the Bernard Bradbury us how to look at landscape afresh and Depart Cockermouth: approx. Memorial Lecture on Castles and area through a deeper understanding of its 9.30am - tbc Conquests: castle-building and the history appreciate it all the more. It is always a pleasure to see that a Arrival: 10.30am control of Cumbria 1092-1237. This You will find yourself looking at ‘Conservation Conversation’: will be followed on 10 October by new book by our Society President, the magnificent scenery of the Lake 11.00am where we find out more about Professor Angus Winchester’s 25th Professor Angus Winchester, is District in a completely different way. the restoration and conservation work. Anniversary Lecture Lordship and imminent. This time it is particularly Museum: from 11.00am timed entry Manor: the Norman imprint on the welcome because he makes our ‘patch’ Release Date: 1 November 2019 session. We anticipate the time to fully Society’s area of interest. the subject of his latest study. The Price: £10 explore the galleries and boathouse will As the Romans did before them, book will be available in November and Publisher: Handstand Press, East be around one and a half hours. the Normans created a division we will advise in our next Wanderer on Banks, Dent. Heritage boat trip (optional): between south and north Britain, how to obtain a copy. Meanwhile, we 11.45am for those who would like to becoming England and Scotland. That include the advance publicity: Subscriptions in 2020 experience a steamboat ride from the division, at first unstable, provided a Derek Denman very earliest years of the last century political and military context for the The proposal to make an increase in (max 12, extra cost of £10 on the day) civil and religious control of the existing The Language of the subscriptions was discussed in the May Lunch: 12.30pm and developing population of north- Wanderer. Following the AGM the Landscape: a Journey into Lake Arrive Armitt Museum, Ambleside: west England. The two lectures will Committee has confirmed that the 2.00 pm provide a foundational overview of the District History subscriptions from 2020 will be £10 per Return: arrive Cockermouth 4 pm events and structures which defined by Angus J L Winchester annum for full membership and £8 for the local history of our area. an additional member at the same Reserving a place Richard Oram will cover the period ‘If we can learn its language, the address. There are a few existing The cost will be £22.50 for the coach from William Rufus's seizure of Carlisle landscape has much to tell us, ‘country members’ who pay £5, and admission to both museums. to the treaty that ended Scottish kings' through its place-names, through without the talks. Lunch will be extra, and as noted claims to England's northern counties. tangible features and through the The Committee expects these above, those wanting a nineteenth ‘This talk explores the planting of accumulation of memory reflected new subscriptions to allow the Society century steamboat experience will pay castles in Cumberland and North back from particular places’ Angus to maintain the current full programme an extra £10. (We must book this in Westmorland, from Brough Winchester and the extended Wanderer for several advance. So be sure to indicate clearly and Appleby to Cockermouth and Inspired by a life-long connection years, as well as allowing occasional if you want to book this.) Egremont, looking at their siting and with a Lakeland valley, Angus special projects to be funded. Please send your name and a purpose, and their changing form as Winchester draws on extensive Derek Denman deposit of £10 per person, as soon as their owners tried to accommodate research to discover something Secretary is convenient, to T Stanley-Clamp, 3 often conflicting demands for defence, intangible – the effect of place on our South Lodge, Simonscales Lane, residence, administration and lordly imagination. Accompanying him on a Additions to our Website Cockermouth, CA13 9FB. Cheques display into their buildings.’ journey from Cockermouth through the by Derek Denman payable to ‘L&DFLHS’. Angus Winchester will explore the Vale of Lorton, to Crummock Water and For more information, or to manorial, religious and civil structures Buttermere, part of the Lake District he With the creation and development of reserve a place, call Tim Stanley-Clamp developed in Cumberland over this has known intimately since childhood, our Facebook page, the website is on 01900 336542 same period, taking this forward into we learn how clues to the evolution, becoming more of a respository of the creation of manors, parishes and history and culture of the Lakeland historical work, sources, and townships. The focus will be on the land landscape may be found in the names Society News information. The Facebook page is the and people dominated by the castle- given to its farms, becks, villages, place where our current programme towns of Cockermouth and Egremont, fields and boundaries The language of and historical topics are discussed, Two Foundational lectures which of course includes all the the landscape can ‘speak’ to us, not linking to website content as townships covered by our Society. only in place-names but also in tangible appropriate. You can read this without This Autumn provides a unique These two lectures will provide a features and through layers of memory having a Facebook account, but you opportunity for society members to unique opportunity to examine the and meaning built up across the will need one to participate. gain an insight into the Norman Norman imprint in our area. centuries. https://www.facebook.com/Lortonloca conquest and civil settlement in our Derek Denman This book is a personal journey in lhistorysociety area of western Britain. On 27 search of the essential spirit of a much- 3 4 The publications page on the subsequently been called Walker’s settlements in Cumbria and proved Summer Outing to Yanwath website, www.derwentfells.com, will Gully. especially useful in identifying Hall and Penrith - 22 May increasingly contain or link to the work Any photos of farming at Low or dwellings of Scandinavian origin.