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… from page 1 Our programme for 2020 16 Jan 20 The sound of his horn: John Peel the man and Dr Sue Allan the song 12 Mar 20 German Miners under the Derwent Fells Mark Hatton 25 or 26 Historical walk: Mining landscapes of the Organiser Apr 20 Newlands Valley, plus Goldscope – leader Mark Mike Bacon February 2020 Hatton. Arrangements tbc. May 20 Spring outing, to be arranged Contents developed. Would any local member who 14 May 20 Cattle droving through Cumbria, 1600-1900 Professor Peter may be able to provide tea for the group in Roebuck Society News Lorton or Embleton please contact Derek – and the route will be adjusted. 11 Jun 20 AGM plus From Roundhouse to Sheiling: Peter Style Historical walks in 2020 1 archaeological surveys of early settlement sites Can you help organise an outing? 1 in the Loweswater and Buttermere valleys 9 July 20 The Border Reivers –Romance and Reality Max Loth-Hill Future Programme 9,16, & 23 Historical walks: medieval Lorton, Loweswater Organiser Our Programme for 2020 2 Aug 20 & Embleton. Arrangements tbc. Derek Denman Diary dates 2 10 Sep 20 The Pilgrimage of Grace in Cumberland and Dick O’Brien Westmorland 1536 Meeting Reports 12 Nov 20 Who shot Percy Toplis – the Monocled Mutineer Dr Jim Cox Outing: Windermere Jetty Museum 3 Talks are at the Yew Tree Hall at 7.30pm unless stated otherwise. Visitors £3. Please do not park to Talk: Roman Roads through the Lakes 4 the left of the entrance (looking from outside) as the road is narrow. Talk: The Sound of his Horn: John Peel, the man and the song 5 Officers and Committee 2019/20 President, Professor Angus Winchester Financial examiner, Peter Hubbard Articles The Language of the Landscape, an Entrance to the Goldscope mine. Charles Lambrick 01900 85710 Tim Stanley-Clamp 01900 336542 appreciation 6 Chairman Vice-chair “T’moor yeat” and the repairing Message from the Chair Dr Derek Denman 01900 829097 Christopher Thomas 01900 822171 of Shatton Lane in 1769 9 Secretary derekdenman@bt Treasurer Shedding light on LiDAR 14 internet.com Can you help organise an outing? Lena Stanley-Clamp 01900 336542 Mike Bacon Richard Easton Following my call in November’s Society News Membership [email protected] Fiona Lambrick Committee Wanderer for members to help with two Hugh Thomson members aspects of organisation, I am pleased to Historical Walks in 2020 say there was a good response. The Committee is grateful to Pip Wise, of Diary dates In 2020 the Society will be re-introducing Lorton, for agreeing to take on 22 February. Lancaster University, RHC, Study day, ‘The end is nigh’, Mortality Crises historical walks, around our ‘patch’, though responsibility for the distribution of the in north-west England in the C16th & C17th the details are to be confirmed. Wanderer and other printed material. In In April the fell walkers among us will the meantime, I am talking to other 7 March. Lancaster University, RHC, Annual Archaeology Forum be pleased that Mark Hatton has offered to people who have kindly offered to assist 9 March. The Spirit of a Lakeland Valley, by Angus Winchester, at Words by the lead a walk in the Newlands Valley to view the committee. Water, at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 7.45pm its mining history, with a possible There is, however, an urgent need exploration of the Goldscope mine. to find someone who will help to organise The next Wanderer will be published on 1 May 2020. Please send items to For those requiring a less energetic a Spring outing, probably in May. We are Derek Denman, by early April. walk, Derek Denman plans to lead three all grateful to Tim Stanley-Clamp for walks in August to explore the medieval having organised various Society outings Published by the Lorton & Derwent Fells Local History Society, 19 Low Road Close, centres of Lorton, Loweswater and during the past few years. However, Cockermouth CA13 0GU. Embleton, and how they have been apart from being the Society’s … page 3 http://www.derwentfells.com https://www.facebook.com/Lortonlocalhistorysociety h//fbk/ llh 1 2 vice-chair, he has recently taken on quietly did its work gliding us around the 1960s, there are many similar Roman roads don’t appear to have additional tasks which means he is unable Belle Island. The captain was on hand to stories. survived particularly well in to continue to look after arrangements answer questions about the work of the After lunch there was a short talk in archaeological terms, but that the for outings. museum and the local sites we saw on the the Gallery about Arthur Ransome and his landscape sometimes reveals an obvious The committee has in mind a guided cruise (Blackwell, Claife). Meanwhile links to, boating, Windermere, W G line of a road, the occasional Roman historical outing to the Solway coast in those on shore listened to a talk about Collingwood, Ruskin and Russia. milestone exists, and the names ‘Street’ May, including in particular visits to the restoration work that goes on: a In the afternoon some members and ‘Gate’ are indicative of Roman Allonby and Silloth, probably by coach. current project is the fitting out of called in at the Armitt Museum in activity. He cautioned against assuming We are therefore looking for someone Penelope II, which should be ready to join Ambleside. straight lines of existing roads or who is willing to help make the necessary the Osprey in visitor cruising soon. Many thanks are due to Tim boundaries are evidence of a Roman arrangements for this outing. Support is Stanley-Clamp who organized this outing road, given that the enclosing of common available but historical knowledge is not but was unable to attend on the day. land in the 18th and 19th centuries required, nor is joining the committee. Richard Easton frequently adopted straight lines in Please step forward someone who is a ‘carving up’ such land. good organiser and interested in this Roman Roads Through the Turning to documentary and other outing! Lakes types of evidence for Roman roads Please let me know during February through the Lakes, Dr Hindle said that 14 November 2019 if you are interested or discuss with any although quite a lot of information is committee member. available, it has to be pieced together Dr Paul Hindle’s Talk on Roman Roads Charles Lambrick from a variety of sources. The earliest through the Lakes, delivered in mid- map of value in investigating the pattern November last year, attracted what was of Roman roads is Donald’s 1770 map of virtually a full house at the Yew Tree Hall. Cumberland, and the first Ordnance Apart from a good turn-out of members, Meeting Reports Survey maps are also a useful source. In a significant number of visitors were the 20th century aerial photography present. His enthusiasm for the subject, assisted in tracing roads that have largely Outing to Windermere Jetty and in particular for maps, was very disappeared from ordinary view, albeit Museum and the Armitt evident from his clearly delivered and this technique is dependent on photos well-illustrated presentation. Museum being taken in either low sun conditions Dr Hindle drew to attention the fact 30 October 2019 or after a fall of snow. Such photography that approximately 2,000 years ago the has, however, to a large extent now been Lake District (and of course land to the A centre for the operation, preservation superseded by the relatively recent north) was on the frontier of the Roman and restoration of lake boats has existed development of LiDAR.1 world, and it may be assumed that the on Windermere since the 1940s. After a Romans built roads in this part of the chequered history, permission for a Roman road over Whinlatter, from country specifically to link forts and other complete rebuild of the Jetty museum the speaker’s book ‘Roads and Trackways significant places associated with of the Lake District, 1984. was grated in 2011 to the Lakes Arts defence. He pointed out that many Trust. Construction started in 2017 and Beatrix Potter’s rowing boat was completed earlier this year. The result is an impressive building housing The Gallery occupies a huge space, gallery, boat house, conservation as it needs to, hosting as it does a large workshop and, of course, café, situated in number of whole boats (as well as many a fantastic location just north of smaller items, clocks, instruments, Windermere-Bowness. The only other toilets etc.) The history of speed-boat ingredient required for a successful racing, together with reconstructed society outing was a fine dry autumnal models, is presented with helpful multi- day, and that we had. media tools (e.g. audio oral history). Most members of the group opted to The first mechanical steamer, Dolly, was voyage out in the Osprey. This is a small sunk in 1895, crushed by ice in the steam launch dating from 1902, the teak exceptionally hard winter of that year. woodwork gleamed in the sun (ten layers She was rediscovered and restored in of varnish) as the reconditioned engine 1 See article by Roger Asquith on page 14 for an explanation of LiDAR and its uses. 3 4 Dr Hindle provided a striking among these were 37 different versions followed; by Micky Mossop in 1953, later example of what LiDAR can reveal when of D’ye ken John Peel. rereleased as an LP in the 1980s and a he showed a map of the Lune Gorge on Nowadays, the name ‘John Peel’ CD in 2002. In November 2004, on the which the results of a survey of this type tends to be associated with the musician 250th anniversary of Peel’s death a wake had been superimposed.