Donald Campbell

From Bluebird to Boxing Day Cricket

January 7, 2011

Today’s post is a brief miscellany of Lake District and Cumbria news, ranging from the trivial to the serious, just what catches my attention. Bluebird developments – The Westmorland Gazette reports that a driver, Ted Walsh of Cartmel, has been selected for the 2012 speed trials of Donald Campbell’s Bluebird, currently being reconstructed after recovery [...]

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The Ruskin Museum, Coniston

December 28, 2009

The Ruskin Museum has developed considerably over the years that I have known it. Nowadays it covers a wide range of local themes and deals extensively with the lives of two great men, from very different spheres of activity, associated with Coniston in the English Lake District. John Ruskin, the eminent nineteenth century literary and [...]

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Four seriously damp but totally delightful days among the English Lakes

August 11, 2008

I hesitated before starting to write this. After all, why should anyone else be interested in a record of how my wife and I spent a few days in the Lake District. We’d driven north to look after grandchildren for a few days, then there was a gap before I had to be north again [...]

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