National Trust Green for this posting, I think. The blog has lost its chronological order, so bear with, bear with ... And we can show that it's sunny in the lakes. Well that's how our boat trip started out. It was, however, bloody cold on the outside deck.
Our first view of the Langdales.
So nice to catch the old 555 trundling past some vast and ancient hostelries on the Windermere shore line.
We walked up from the pier to Hayes garden centre for luncheon then on into the old town of Ambleside. I photographed the local shops, of the sort which only Hebden Bridge is supposed to have, whilst Chris actually shopped in the multiple chains with lower prices which we don't have.
We spent much of our time in Ambleside at the Armitt museum, and I'm really pleased we did. There are several exhibition areas, one obviously for Beatrix Potter as she donated most of her artistic and scientific work to Armitt. Her life and work are well explained - and the many Establishment connexions she had to the great and not so good. I really appreciated the reference to her grandfather Edmund Potter, who made his vast wealth in calico printing along Dinting Vale and at Gee Cross. Potter reputedly said "workers are simply another kind of machine", a phrase taken up by Karl Marx himself in Das Capital, with Potter fully attributed.
My father told me that he went with grandfather to the Gee Cross spinning mill one Saturday in the 1920s to finish off his work there closing it down for the Lancashire Cotton Corporation's Redundant Spindles Board. Dad took a lamp shade from the offices. We left it in Stubbing House West.
And so the weather closes in as we return from Ambleside.
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