The man depicted in this oil painting was called James Fawcett. He was born in 1785 and became a police constable for Kirkland in 1820. He was a constable in the Kendal Borough Police force. He later became the Governor of the House of Correction in Kendal in 1824 and

Bears in England have a complicated history. There are limited resources archaeologists have access to, as there is little physical evidence found in bogs, forests and rivers. The University of Nottingham released a research project in 2018 to gain a deeper insight into the reasons for the bear’s mysterious disappearance

ALFRED WAINWRIGHT AND HIS PICTORIAL GUIDE BOOKS. November 9th 1952 saw Wainwright start work on the first of seven guidebooks to the Lakeland Fells, each covering a defined area. It was intended to be a purely pleasurable task, a gathering together of all the notes and drawings that he had