Ambleside, Coniston & NOV/DEC 16 NOV/DEC windermerenow.co.uk ISSUE WN24 - Ambleside, Bowness, Coniston, Grasmere, Hawkshead, Langdale, Staveley, Troutbeck, Windermere and surrounding areas. MERRY Christmas AND A HAPPY New Year P12 P26 LOUD AND SETTING PROUD HIS SIGHTS OYEZ! HIGH FlyPig WNow 195x285 for Dec16 final_Layout 1 09/11/2016 22:42 Page 1 CHRISTMAS Enjoy our Parties Nweithw thes e MSpecieal nOffeurs! ! Happy Hour 5~7pm any 2 cocktails for 10! Glass of House Red or White £2.95 3 COURSE Moretti £2.50 festive menu Fodder Early Bird 4pm-6pm courses for 10.95 £thr2ough4out .D9ecem5ber 2 Any Starter or M£ain excluding Steak & Specials Disco & Dancing TIME FOR Coffee at Fodder Co BUY ONE GET ONE FREE 9pm - 12am Fridays 9th, 16th & 23rd December with this Coupon To book email christmas@theflyingpigbowness.co.uk Not to be used with any other offer. Photocopies not accepeted. T: 0153943 43332 WWW.THEFLYINGPIGBOWNESS.CO.UK T: 015394 23344 www.fodderwindermere.co.uk Christmas at 1 EVERY THURSDAY THROUGHOUT NOVEMBER & DECEMBER Acoustic Thursdays Specially Crafted Live Acoustic Music from the best local performers! Christmas EVERY THURSDAY Menu FROM 8.30PM 3 courses throughout November & December James Gorton p£er 2per2son 24TH NOVEMBER 1 Fiona 1ST DECEMBER Complimentary Christmas With Nay & I Cocktails on arrival 8TH DECEMBER T: 015394 23334 www.the-arts-bar.co3.uk T: 015394 43332 WWW.THEFLYINGPIGBOWNESS.CO.UK Letter from the Editor Why not use those dark winter nights to write a column? Do you have specialist knowledge about a subject, or are you passionate about your hobby or sport? If there’s a subject dear to your heart which you think would make an interesting monthly column for Windermere Now, then please get in touch. 04 Possible subject areas include: Children Health Property Contents Homes & Leisure Business 4 Rare cat sighting Gardens Food Hobbies in Lakeland Fashion & Travel Book/Film Beauty 7 Tale of a Lakeland Technology reviews Princess Sport Pets Lifestyle 8 Windermere Christmas Market 16 8 New for Windermere We intend these columns to contain information this year is a German and news which our readers will enjoy and are Christmas street market. not intended as advertisements for products 9 Ransome: Russia, and services. Rusland and Ruskin Thank you to all our contributors this year. We 10 “Go Herdwick” went have thoroughly enjoyed reporting from right very wool across the community on local events, club 12 Loud and proud, oyez! news, school reports, arts and music reviews and people and places around the area. 18 Looking ahead to next year we hope to deliver 15 SCHOOL REPORT even more. The paper will be out every month and the deadline is always the first Friday of the 16 BUSINESS month. There is no deadline in January so the first of the year is Friday 3rd February. 18 CLUBS & SOCIETIES We have a free wallplanner available with all the 20 deadlines for 2017, download from 20 ART & MUSIC www.windermerenow.co.uk/deadlines Remember we have two sister papers too - 24 NATURE & WILDLIFE Grange Now and Dalton & Ulverston Now. Thank you to all the advertisers who have 26 HEALTH & LEISURE supported the paper in 2016. Happy Christmas to all our readers. 28 WHAT’S ON Chris, Clive, Glenn, Phil and Tim. 29 CHURCH Future deadlines 30 CLASSIFIEDS Issue Deadline Release begins WN25 3rd February 27th February WN26 3rd March 27th March 27 WN27 1st April 24th April 2, Imperial House, Main St., Grange-over-Sands, LA11 6DP [email protected] 015395 35454 Coniston plans 50th anniversary Rare cat sighting in Lakeland tributes to Donald Campbell A series of events are being planned in the Lake District to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of speed record-chaser Donald Campbell. Campbell, 45, died when his Bluebird K7 boat somersaulted on A rare SS Jaguar 100, which Coniston Water during the epitomises 1930s speed and second run of an attempt glamour, has gone on show at the to break the world water Lakeland Motor Museum. speed record. The date MAIN: Bluebird K7 decelerating The sporty two seater was first was January 4, 1967, from very high speed during the manufactured in 1937 and fewer than and it wasn’t until March first run on Coniston Water on 4 200 vehicles were ever made. In 2001 that his body was January 1967 its day, the SS Jaguar 100 reached recovered. He was buried INSET: Donald Campbell speeds of 100 mph – exceptionally in Coniston Cemetery in fast in the 1930s, when many September 2001. vehicles struggled to sustain 50mph. Campbell, who broke The car has been loaned to the eight world speed records a showing of Campbell’s Motor Museum by a Manchester on water, and on land, film How Long A Mile at couple with a strong affinity to the in the 1950s and 1960s, 2017 when RAF jets will Coniston Institute. Lake District, after more than 60 remains the only person do a flyover. At 11am a On Friday 6 January years in continuous ownership. to set both world land and memorial service is planned there will be This particular car was tested by the water speed records in at the Campbell Memorial Motor Magazine in May 1937, then the same year (1964). in the village (opposite commemorations at Glenridding, where by Autocar in July. It also completed On the fateful day he died the Crown Hotel which the 1937 RAC rally, helping to win Campbell, in July he began his attempt was regularly frequented the manufacturer’s team prize. by Campbell), followed by 1955, set his first world when Bluebird took to Chris Lowe, Manager at the prayers at his grave. water speed record on the water at 8.45am, Lakeland Motor Museum, says, Ullswater in Bluebird and this is the time on The next day (Thursday “Many people regard the SS Jaguar Wednesday, January 4, 5 January) there will be (202.32 mph). 100 as one of the most eye-catching Jaguar cars ever made – it is For a list of events go to www.windermerenow.co.uk/campbell certainly one of the rarest.” WW I IN N D D EE R MM E E R R E E Give the gift O S T E O P A T H I C C L I N I C O S T E O P A T H I C C L I N I C of Hearing Timothy Webb BSc (Hons) Ost Timothy RegisteredWebb BSc Osteopath (Hons) Ost Member of the Registered British Medical Osteopath Acupuncture Society to a loved one Member of the British Medical Acupuncture Society Windermere & Bowness Medical Practice Goodly Dale Windermere Cumbria LA23 2EG Windermere & Bowness Medical Practice this Christmas Goodly Dale Windermere 015394 44383 Cumbria LA23 2EG [email protected] www.lakesosteopathy.com W I N D E R M E R E l Back & 015394 neck pain 44383 Muse is Starkey’s most advanced technology that offers l [email protected] Arthritic pain & www.lakesosteopathy.comstiffness l supreme sound quality and premium features. 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Enjoying the peace and person operating it. Drones tranquility of the Lakes can fitted with a camera must sometimes be spoilt by always be flown at least a distant buzzing sound, 50m away from a person, however the male worker vehicle or building and not bee is not always to blame! within 150m of a congested These days it’s more than area or large group of people likely to be a remote- such as a sporting event or controlled helicoptery- concert. thing….. a drone Many of us may view them Drones are being used, more as a blot on the landscape and more, to gain access to or even a dangerous piece perspectives for photography of apparatus invading our and video filming that used privacy, but they can be put to be the preserve of real to very good use. Mountain helicopters. For commercial Rescue teams have trialled purposes, operators must the use of drones in the have permission from the search and rescue process. Civil Aviation Authority to Their speed allows them fly a drone. Even some to search much faster than operators, like charities, who teams on the ground, which want to fly a device over a can be critical, especially congested area or within when injuries are severe or 50m of a building may need the weather conditions on permission and the “pilot” the fells are particularly poor.
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