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The Lake District - recent pictures by Ann Bowker
Calbeck Church and Surrounds 3rd June 2000
....the path to St Begas church
....in its beautiful setting
.... by Bassenthwaite Lake
....inside the church
....looking back from the lake to St Begas with Ullock Pike behind
....Bassenthwaite Lake
....to Caldbeck for lunch
....Priests Mill has been converted into shops
....the old mill wheel
....old houses in Caldbeck
....the old bobbin mill
....in the Howk gorge
....St Kentigerns church
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the gardener .........................................................................................................and his dog
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Ann Bowker wrote: All of the above pictures taken with a Nikon Coolpix 600 digital camera . A selection of earlier pictures can be found at PhotoPoint. You are welcome to copy and use these pictures
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John Peel's Grave
John Peel's wife inherited from her father a small property at Ruthwaite, near Ireby, and there Peel resided from 1823, until his death on 13th November, 1854. He was buried in Caldbeck Churchyard; and eleven of the thirteen children - six sons and seven daughters - who wore born to them followed him to his grave. Five years later, "Mary, his wife," was laid beside him, she having died on 9th August, 1859: and probably that occasion was the only one since her midnight ride to Gretna Green, sixty-two before, when a foxhunt was deferred on her account. For in his comprehensive "Story of John Peel," published in the "Cornhill Magazine" for October, 1919, Mr. R. B. Lattimer relates of Peel's son, "Young John" - who remained "Young John" till he died in 1887 at the age of ninety - that "A patron was asking him about the arrangements for the coming week, 'Weel,' said Young John, 'we can hunt Monda', an' we can hunt Wednesda', but we can't hunt Tuesda' becos' we're goin' to bury muther.'"