THOUSANDS of people are taking part in the Great Peter Rabbit Easter egg hunt. A total of 100 handmade ceramic eggs were hidden across the Lake District for the event. The race to locate one the numbered eggs and win a prize was launched at 10am on Wednesday, 31st March, at The World of Beatrix [...]
Mitchells of Cockermouth had originally hoped to top a quarter of a million with its two-day Fine Art Sale last week, but with unprecedented levels of advance commission bids and requests for telephone bidding, it soon became clear it was going to make much more. As the hammer fell on the final lot last Friday [...]
A HANDWRITTEN William Wordsworth manuscript is one of the items going under the hammer at a predicted quarter million pound fine arts sale later this month. The auction at Mitchell’s of Cockermouth will feature the manuscript that includes lines from the Lake District Romantic poet’s work “The Excursion” that was written at Rydal Mount on [...]
A CASH-STRAPPED Lakeland treasure has been thrown a lifeline following a campaign in The Westmorland Gazette. Blackburn College has promised a no-strings-attached £10,000 to the Save the Armitt campaign, which will enable the Ambleside museum and library to re-open at Easter. The five-figure sum achieves the Gazette’s campaign target but will only bridge the funding [...]
A GOVERNMENT minister has backed The Westmorland Gazette’s campaign to save one of the area’s cultural gems from closing for good. Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has added his voice to the chorus of approval for the Gazette’s Save the Armitt campaign, which aims to help the Ambleside museum and library take crucial steps towards a [...]
ONE of the region’s major cultural attractions faces closure if it fails to find a financial lifeline. Ambleside’s Armitt Museum and Library needs £10,000 by the middle of March. If it does not reach that figure by then chairman of the trustees Peter Jackson told The Westmorland Gazette it will certainly shut. “The tragedy of [...]
A VICTORIAN castle once used by Beatrix Potter as a holiday home could be given a new lease of life. The Lake District National Park Authority has received an application from a developer to transform the castle on the banks of Windermere into a 27-bedroom hotel and spa. It is believed up to 20 jobs [...]
A QUESTION mark is hanging over an ambitious scheme to update and expand Windermere Steamboat Museum. The multi-million pound plans to create a new visitor centre and display areas for the museum’s rare and historic vessels are to be scaled back because of the recession. The organisation behind the venture, The Lakeland Arts Trust, confirmed [...]
Beatrix Potter wrote many of her famous children’s stories in this 17th century house, and it has been kept exactly as she left it, complete with her furniture and China. Many of her beloved ‘treasures’ are on display Hill Top was model for ‘Samuel Whiskers’ illustrations and others Shop specialising in Beatrix Potter gifts Hill Top [...]
