Ullswater – Ullswater Association http://www.ullswater.com Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:19:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 FOUW Talks – Muskets or Riflers & 6 Writers in Martindale http://www.ullswater.com/news/fouw-understanding-ullswater-talks/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 10:06:02 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=6412 The Friends of the Ullswater Way welcome you to the next in their series of 'Understanding Ullswater' talks.

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The Friends of the Ullswater Way welcome you to the next in their series of ‘Understanding Ullswater’ talks.

 

It will be given by Jane Brimmer, a resident of Martindale, on the subject of:

‘ 6 Writers in Martindale’  – A Shepherd’s Guide, Three Poets, a Novelist & a ‘Traveller, Orientalist and Man of Letters’

Thursday June 6th, 19.30 – 20.30, Watermillock Village Hall.

The talk is Free. There will be some refreshments

 

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Please mark in your diary our next FOUW ‘Understanding Ullswater’ presentation on:

‘Muskets or Riflers ? A Patterdale Militia’,  which will be given by Janet Wedgewood at Parkin Memorial Hall, Pooley Bridge on Thursday, July 4th at 19.30

 

For information on future talks, please download the timetable here.

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ULLSWATER DROVING EVENT ANTICIPATING – WELL – DROVES OF VISITORS! http://www.ullswater.com/news/ullswater-droving-event-anticipating-well-droves-visitors/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:22:51 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=6078 The news last week that Ullswater Droving is back for a second year was met with delight from residents and visitors to the Ullswater valley alike. Set to take place on Friday 26 October, the weekend nearest the old festival...

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The news last week that Ullswater Droving is back for a second year was met with delight from residents and visitors to the Ullswater valley alike. Set to take place on Friday 26 October, the weekend

Nula Hula entertains with her best multiple hula hoop moves.Pictured on Broad Street. Picture by Richard Cave 19.11.17

Nula Hula entertains with her best multiple hula hoop moves. Pictured on Broad Street by Richard Cave 19.11.17

nearest the old festival of Samhain, which marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the “darker half” of the year –musicians, street performers, a giant wolf lantern and locals wearing masks and carrying flaming torches join the herd at the Ullswater Droving for a unique Halloween celebration steeped in tradition.
As the great day fast approaches, local businesses both large and small are keen to support this event and hope to see it become part of the annual calendar. With the scheduled closure of the temporary bridge in Autumn 2019, comes a stark reminder of the dark days and months that followed in the wake of Storm Desmond when the valley was literally cleaved in two as Pooley Bridge fell.

Keen to show the valley is now (and will remain!) open for business, no less than ten local businesses have sponsored the event organised by Eden Arts helping to boost funding from both Eden District Council, Barton Parish Council and the Lake District National Park. 1863 Bar Bistro Rooms, Another Place, Chestnut House, Granny Dowbekin’s, Hillcroft Park, The Crown, The Sun Inn Ullswater Steamers and Waterside House Campsitehave joined forces and literally put their money where their mouths are to help make this event happen. Some of them will also be offering further support in the form of food and drink ‘pop-ups’ on the Melodrome Stage field.

Mark Vause, owner of 1863 Bar Bistro Rooms and Ullswater Droving sponsor commented:

“We’re all so pleased that 2018 will see another Ullswater Droving. We’re very grateful to all our funders and sponsors – Eden Arts and Eden District Council in particular – for this fantastic opportunity. We very much hope that this will be the first in a series of events we are planning to stage over the next 18 months that will help raise the profile of Pooley Bridge as ‘open for business’ in the lead up to and during the bridge closure in 2019/20.”

 

5.10pm: Mr Wilson’s Second Liners (think New Orleans meets 90s club classics) depart from Aira Force Jettyon Ullswater Steamers – why not join them on them on the boat?

5.30pm:  Visitors gather at the steamer jetty to take up their flaming torches (please sign up in advance) and welcome the musicians

6.00pm:  Steamer arrives. Mr Wilson’s Second Liners lead the torch light procession through Pooley Bridge to the field behind the Sun Inn. This year the band will be accompanied by The Wolf animal lantern which was sponsored by Ullswater Steamers in 2017.

6.30pm:  Procession arrives at field behind Sun Inn for the lighting of the bonfire.

Hot Dogs, burgers and mulled wine courtesy of The Sun Inn, popular award-winning bistro 1863 will be offering tastings, soup and prosecco or if it’s gin you’re after, Chestnut House will be on hand to help. Further afield both Granny Dowbekin’s and Tree Tops will be open late.

6.40pm: Mr Wilson’s Second Liners take to the stage

7.40pm: Dopesickfly continue the music on the Melodrome Stage

8.45pm: The party continues around the village’s pubs, restaurants and cafes

 

Can you help?

Winter Droving Penrith 2016 Procession Photo by: Graham Wynne

In order to make this event a success – we need you!

Wood for the bonfire– we need plenty of wood for our huge bonfire – if you can help, please drop it down into the field behind The Sun by 8pm, Wednesday 24 October

Building the Bonfire – all hands on deck to build the bonfire at 3pm on Thursday 25 October – just email [email protected] and turn up ready for elements!

Carry a Torch – join the procession as a flaming torch-bearer. You must be over 16 – please register online by visiting www.winterdroving.uk

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Ullswater Yacht Club’s celebrates 60th anniversary year http://www.ullswater.com/news/ullswater-yacht-clubs-celebrates-60th-anniversary-year/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:36:36 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5686 Competitive sailors from all over the region will be taking part in the Daffodil Regatta on the weekend of 14 & 15 April, Ullswater Yacht Club’s first major event in...

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Competitive sailors from all over the region will be taking part in the Daffodil Regatta on the weekend of 14 & 15 April, Ullswater Yacht Club’s first major event in its 60th anniversary year.

It all started in 1958 when friends Harold Couzens and Joe Harrison, who both enjoyed spending time on the lake decided it would be a good idea for Ullswater to have its own club. They placed an advert in the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald on March 4, 1958, inviting anyone interested to write to them.They were delighted with the response and eighty people turned up at the Queen’s Head, Tirril, on April 10, 1958, to officially form the Ullswater Motor Boat and Yacht Club.

The name was changed to Ullswater Yacht Club and it has developed over 60 years to become one of the premier sailing clubs in the country, winner of two Club of the Year Awards in 2017. This year a special calendar of events will mark the club’s Diamond Year with the Daffodil Regatta the first big open weekend of the season.

Joining the visitors, spectators and racers at the landmark event to help the club celebrate will be a special guest, herdy’s giant Great British erdyHerdy, a larger than life model Herdwick sheep. Lovable Lake District superbrand herdy was created by co-founders Diane and Spencer Hannah 10 years ago and will spread smiles and happiness across the event throughout the weekend as he watches the races along with other spectators and cheers the competitors on from the shore.

The Daffodil Regatta is open to all classes with racing split into two fleets. All fleets will sail seven races over the weekend with four taking place on Saturday and three on Sunday. Club racers will be joined by visitors from all over the county and beyond and the event is featured in the RS200 and Musto Skiff Travellers Calendar.

There’ll be daffodils galore at the prizegiving as UYC joins in Ullswater’s spring celebrations and Great British Herdy, will be bringing along special prizes for the fleet winners.

aP1010715 - Crop - sDiane Hannah said: “We’re really excited about the weekend of sailing and feel honoured to be asked to bring along herdy to join in the fun. We’ve worked hard to create a brand with real values and it is important to us to give back to herdy’s home as much as we can. Events like these are what Great British Herdy is made for and the kids just love him!”

UYC Commodore Rick Boyce added: “We are really looking forward to the first big event of our special year at UYC and delighted to welcome our first visitors – competitive racers and of course a giant sheep!”

More details about the Daffodil Regatta and other events at UYC in 2018 can be found on the club website at www.ullswateryachtclub.org

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LOTTERY FUNDING AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT HELP TO PRESERVE ICONIC 12th CENTURY CHURCH http://www.ullswater.com/news/lottery-funding-community-support-help-preserve-iconic-12th-century-church/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:05:36 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5558 A twelfth century Lakeland church has just received a funding boost in the form of £23,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The funding will mean that urgent re-pointing work...

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A twelfth century Lakeland church has just received a funding boost in the form of £23,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The funding will mean that urgent re-pointing work in order to preserve it for future generations, along with activities to share the architectural and historical heritage of St Michael’s Church, Barton can now be carried out.

Located between the villages of Tirril and Pooley Bridge, Barton Church is a popular and much-loved local place of worship that has played a part in the lives of thousands of locals over the centuries. Dating back to the 12th century, it has celebrated the key moments in the year for the local community as well as births, marriages and deaths of generations of Barton parishioners as well as families from the Penrith area and much further afield.

However time and weather have taken their toll on this historic building and its last inspection highlighted the need for some major re-pointing work to the exterior walls and particularly to the tower. The project is estimated to cost in the region of £40,000.

Undeterred by the potential costs, last year members of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) initiated a project to secure the funds to undertake all the re-pointing work needed. To date, pledges from the local community total over £15,000 with another £8000 of funding having been secured from other grants including Headley, Allchurches and Franklin Trusts.

Thanks to National Lottery players, this funding has been a huge boost to fundraisers who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to get the project off the ground. As well as the repointing work, the grant will enable the PCC to develop a new leaflet, website and social media presence to help better engage locals and visitors alike with Barton Church.

Henry Pitt, Churchwarden, commented:

We are delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund has given us such significant support for our project. Their grant, together with the wonderful response to our appeal to the local community and the generous grants received from the Headley, AllChurches, Franklin and Alan Evans Memorial Trusts will enable us to proceed with the re-pointing work. Furthermore the HLF grant also includes funds for the wider dissemination and promotion of the architectural, historical and religious heritage of St Michael’s through the professional development of a new website, an illustrated information leaflet and other publicity activities.

It is hoped that the repointing work will begin later this year once the weather conditions are more favourable. Members of the public can still make a pledge; please contact PCC Treasurer, Cyril Wilson by email or by phone on 01768 486990 for a Pledge form. Please note all pledges are made in strictest confidence.

Barton Church is located between the villages of Tirril and Pooley Bridge and is open to visitors at all times. Details of all regular services can be found here

For further information or images please contact Sam Bunting on
07866 492 891 or at [email protected]

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Hill Walking & Mental Health by Andrew Laverick (Castycam) http://www.ullswater.com/news/hillwalkingandmentalhealth/ Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:17:53 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5456   As I travel along life’s journey into middle age I find myself complaining a lot that things aren’t as good as they used to be and people aren’t as...

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As I travel along life’s journey into middle age I find myself complaining a lot that things aren’t as good as they used to be and people aren’t as kind and that

Snow on Ullswater Valley

A perfect day in the Lakes

I’m generally not all that impressed with the 21st Century. I’m actually starting to sound a lot like Grandpa Simpson, but modern life just seems to put so much more pressure on everyone, and for all the advances in technology and health care we are under so much pressure just to make ends meet that it is running us into the ground. And that’s before we get stressed that our lives are dull and boring compared to everyone else’s awesome adventurous News Feed on Facebook. When you’re a kid you think everyone is sorted except you and it seems so unfair. One good thing about growing older is the wisdom that comes with it and realising that everyone is messed up to a degree, some are just better at hiding it than others.

View of Glenridding from Place Fell

Glenridding from Place Fell

Technology has brought so many new stresses and anxiety’s into our lives that our quickly evolving brains have never had to deal with before, it really can leave us feeling useless and worthless. I am so grateful that I live in rural Cumbria where we do have a great quality of life. I wouldn’t cope well living in a city with artificial horizons all around me and millions of people all busy wrapped up in their own worlds. Honestly that is my idea of Hell.

So what’s the best medicine for modern life, stresses and technology? It has to be hill walking. Getting out into the open with nothing around you but natural beauty. I love having a big day out in the fells. Spending as much time being absorbed in nature and stopping to look around me. I’ll sit for half an hour studying the moss and grass I’m walking over looking for unusual flowers and bugs then another half hour just looking around me. Wild Camping gives me a really good opportunity to just stop and sit. I’ll try and figure out which mountains are which, what sort of trees I’m looking at and if I get a starry night I’ll just keep looking up and watch all the shooting stars and get lost in the Milky Way.

All year we talk to people in the shop about how good it feels to get out and have a day on the hills. Folk come in after a day’s hill walking with a big smile
n their face and you can tell they are buzzing. They get all excited telling us where they have been and what they have seen. I get the same feeling from a big day out on the hills that I do after a holiday. I feel I have been away from the daily grind and I have visited somewhere beautiful and different. Nowhere

Ullswater reflecting the evening sky

Beautiful Ullswater

does this more for me than going up the Zig Zags at the mines above Glenridding in the winter, and coming out at Greenside in the snow. It can be a normal un-snowy winter’s day in Glenridding but once you pop out at Greenside it’s like being in the Alps. Walking up the Zig Zags is like going through the wardrobe and you come out in Narnia. Then after a day on Helvellyn with the crampons and ice axe or a day’s snowboarding on Raise you get back home and think, was I really in the Alps just a couple of hours ago, feels like it.

By having regular trips into the hills it keeps a balance in your life. It’s not all about work and commuting and paying the bills. Spending your recreational time out of the town or city is very important. You need to see real horizons, the craggier the better, and feel something other than the pavement beneath your feet. And country pubs are so much better and friendlier than town pubs, they’re a great way to reacclimatize after your wonderful day in the hills

Whiteside in the white stuff

Whiteside in the white stuff

with nature for company.

 

And there’s an old saying but there’s a lot of truth in it. Healthy Body Healthy Mind. You don’t need to join a gym or run a marathon. Just take regular walks and look after your diet with lots of fresh fruit and veg, we are merely animals grazing on this fine planet. Make your mental and physical health as much a priority as paying the bills and take the time to enjoy the little things. We are so lucky to live in the most beautiful country in the world, please take the time to enjoy it.

 

 

 

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Autumn arrives in Ullswater http://www.ullswater.com/news/autumn-arrives-in-ullswater/ Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:05:00 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5449 Ullswater is renowned for its Autumnal displays across the Lake District, and we’re hoping 2017’s displays will match 2016’s sensational Autumn which started early September and lasted all the way...

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Ullswater is renowned for its Autumnal displays across the Lake District, and we’re hoping 2017’s displays will match 2016’s sensational Autumn which started early September and lasted all the way to Christmas – mixing golden leaves with snow-capped fell tops and drifting mists.

The colour changes started early with the first dazzling touches of lime yellow, and we worried that the season would be short – needlessly – as Autumn proceeded to unfold into a leisurely lengthy and complex series of rich colour drifts and magical atmospheric effects. No two days were the same, to paraphrase, ‘Infinite variety’ was Ullswater’s Autumnal gift last year, and it continued to surprise and delight for months.

The scientific reason for the dazzling display was a wet Spring and sunny Summer, ideal for building up leaf sugars – which the trees reabsorb as the days shorten. Even the shock of sudden early snows, (fortunately picturesquely on the tops, not the roads), didn’t bring the season to an abrupt end. They created magical new combinations of mists and sunlight, producing extraordinarily dramatic effects of otherworldly beauty.

Our local landscape photographers love this time of year, the lake’s twists and bends with numerous valleys pouring down to its shores create boundless opportunities for dramatic compositions or intimate detail; the expanses of old temperate rainforest come into their own too as funghi pops and the young Red Squirrels look for new territories.

October sees the Martindale Red Deer stags fighting for dominance – the unearthly roar of their challenges echoes across the eastern fells.

If you want to experience the unspoilt Lake District in all its splendour, Ullswater is the place to be in Autumn.

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How Ullswater was saved http://www.ullswater.com/news/how-ullswater-was-saved/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:46:43 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5192   HOW ULLSWATER WAS SAVED:   COMMEMORATING LORD BIRKETT AND THE ULLSWATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY.   On Tuesday 29 August, a memorial is to be unveiled to celebrate the Ullswater Preservation...

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HOW ULLSWATER WAS SAVED:

 

COMMEMORATING LORD BIRKETT AND THE ULLSWATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY.

 

On Tuesday 29 August, a memorial is to be unveiled to celebrate the Ullswater Preservation society and Norman Lord Birkett QC who, in 1962, saved Ullswater from becoming a reservoir.

The memorial is the seventh addition to the Ullswater Heritage Trail – a series of sculptures and installations along the Ullswater Way commemorating key moments in the lake’s (and the valley’s) history and masterminded, fundraised for and delivered by the Friends of the Ullswater Way.

 

In the early 1960’s Manchester Corporation Waterworks proposed the building of a weir on the river Eamont at Pooley Bridge, effectively creating a reservoir and increasing the level of the lake by some 3ft.

 

There was an immediate and vociferous public outcry – local residents formed the ‘Ullswater Preservation Society’ and quickly organized a petition of over 500,000 signatures.

 

Following the rare initiative of a Petition to the House of Lords, the proposal was debated on 8 February 1962. Passionate speeches from all sides of the House and most notably by Lord Birkett QC resulted in the proposals being thrown out.

 

Richard Inglewood whose father, the first Lord Inglewood, played a leading role in the campaign, commented: – “Lord Birkett’s powerful speech, “deeply felt and eloquent”, is rightly considered one of the finest in modern Parliamentary history and undoubtedly saved the lake “for all people for all time”. He died of a heart attack a few days later”

 

Miles MacInnes, whose late father Gurney was Treasurer of the Society added: – “This is a great David and Goliath story and one which should not be forgotten.  We are very grateful to United Utilities who have generously sponsored this impressive memorial.  We are delighted that Lord Birkett’s Grandson, Thomas Birkett is joining us in this celebration

 

The Memorial has been carved on local slate by well-known lettercarver Pip Hall; it has been erected on a popular view point near the Ullswater steamers pier in Pooley Bridge.

 

ENDS

For further information or images, please contact Miles MacInnes
on 07718 523047  or at
[email protected]

 

Note for Editors.

 

  1. INVITE TO PRESS: The memorial is to be unveiled on Tuesday 29 August at 2.00pm. Map reference: NY 467 243.

 

  1. Quote from Lord Birkett’s speech:-

 

“Thus far and no farther. Go away. Come again another day, if you will. But in the meantime, do that which ought to have been done before. Produce the hydrological data on which the House can come to a proper decision. Until that is done, you have no right whatever to invade the sanctity of a National Park”.

 

  1. An inscription on the memorial -‘Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice’ is taken from Christopher Wren’s monument in St Paul’s Cathedral and translates: – ‘If you seek his memorial – look around you’

 

It was chosen as being particularly appropriate by Richard, Lord Inglewood, whose father, William Vane MP (later the first Lord Inglewood) was instrumental in ensuring the success of the campaign.

 

  1. In 1965 a revised and much reduced scheme was approved following a Public Enquiry. Water is now taken from Ullswater by tunnel to Haweswater under strictly controlled conditions which prevent abstraction when water levels fall.  A huge underground pumping station at Parkfoot Holiday Park is largely unnoticed.

 

  1. Lord Birkett is also commemorated in the Ullswater Yacht Club’s ‘must do’ annual Birkett Trophy and a plaque on a lakeside cliff in Hallin wood.

 

  1. For details of Pip Hall’s work see piphall.co.uk.

 

  1. This memorial is the seventh in a series of installations supported by the Friends of the Ullswater Way (FOUW) which was founded in March 2016, and involves all 5 parishes around Ullswater. It has raised almost £20,000 during the last year to finance art and heritage installations on the Ullswater Way Heritage Trail.

 

Full details on the work of FOUW can be found on their website (http://www.ullswaterway.co.uk).

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Another Place, The Lake is now open http://www.ullswater.com/news/another-place-lake-now-open/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:19:43 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5171 Another Place, The Lake is now open The eagerly anticipated opening of Another Place, The Lake is here. From the team behind Watergate Bay Hotel, Another Place, The Lake is...

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Another Place, The Lake is now open

The eagerly anticipated opening of Another Place, The Lake is here.

From the team behind Watergate Bay Hotel, Another Place, The Lake is the first of the new hotel collection. On the shores of Ullswater and set in 18 acres of Lake District national park, Another Place is a home from home. It’s all about being active, getting outdoors, then relaxing, eating and drinking well with friends and family back indoors.

Best Family suite bedroom at Another Place, The Lake

The new hotel houses 40 bedrooms within the original Georgian building and a new contemporary wing, including a number of family suites and dog friendly rooms. This blend of old and new results in rooms that showcase existing features, like the building’s original four-poster beds, as well as fresh, contemporary spaces with views over Ullswater and the fells beyond.

Gathering spaces are woven throughout the hotel and grounds and include a Library, a cosy escape in the original Georgian building, complete with fireside sofas, board games and floor-to-ceiling windows.

You’ll find formal gardens, fields, a private lakeshore, jetty and a vegetable patch. A number of paths and trails around Ullswater are easily accessible from the hotel.

Food and drink is important at Another Place. The Lake has two restaurants both with spectacular views. The Living Space is a large, airy bar leading onto a terrace. Proper coffee and cocktails are served alongside a casual lunch and dinner menu. Rampsbeck Restaurant is open for breakfast and dinner. Its menu is British focusing on great tasting Cumbrian produce.

Swim Club has a 20-metre lake-view swimming pool, outdoor hot tub, sauna, cardio room and three treatment rooms.

Open-water swimming, sailing, stand-up paddle boarding, cycling, walking, even skiing, allow you to explore the stunning location – a place that has shaped so much of this hotel, from the colours and textures of its interiors to the active, laidback living it inspires.

For more information or to book please visit: www.another.place/the-lake

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Pricing:

Doubles (B&B) will be available from £160 and family suites (B&B) from £270

Groups of friends, couples, families and dogs are all welcome.

New two night Dinner, Bed & Breakfast break – Escape to the Lake:

Stay for two nights, mid-week (Sunday to Thursday), at Another Place, The Lake including breakfast and dinner at The Living Space and Rampsbeck Restaurant. From £169 (winter) to £199 (summer) per room, per night.

Information about the series of active breaks on offer is available on request.

About the Another Place hotel collection:

Another Place is a new evolving hotel collection from the team behind Watergate Bay Hotel – which is lending the collection its relaxing, active and social ethos.

While each Another Place hotel will share this defining philosophy, they will reflect their distinct, always exceptional location. Whether by the coast, in the countryside or the city, each hotel will derive inspiration from its particular

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CUMBRIAN MARMALADE AWARDS SPREAD ACROSS AUSTRALIA http://www.ullswater.com/news/cumbrian-marmalade-awards-spread-across-australia/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:11:55 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5104 The National Trust of South Australia is once again working in partnership with the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, founded at Dalemain in Cumbria, to stage the Australian Marmalade Awards.   Last...

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The National Trust of South Australia is once again working in partnership with the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, founded at Dalemain in Cumbria, to stage the Australian Marmalade Awards.

 

Last year marmalade makers responded enthusiastically to the first Australian Marmalade Awards, which was launched acrossSouth Australia using the hugely successful model of the Marmalade Awards here in the UK. The winning recipe was reproduced by Beerenberg, an iconic Australian producer of jams and condiments.

 

Following on from this success, a call has gone out to the thousands of home-made marmalade makers in Australia’s suburbs and country towns to get busy in the kitchen for the second Australian Marmalade Awards, a preserve making competition and festival celebrating all things marmalade.

 

The international awards have been held at Jane Hasell-McCosh’s historic home (Dalemain Estate) in Cumbria since 2005, attracting huge crowds and raising significant funds for charity. In 2017 an Australian, Dr Lachlan Shackleton-Fergus from theYarra Valley in Victoria, won the top award for his grapefruit with a ‘hint of honey’ marmalade, winning a contract with the famous Fortnum & Mason store to stock his marmalade.

 

The Australians are on the hunt for a champion who can lead them once more to victory in 2018, and the Australian Marmalade Awards are the perfect place to showcase their talents. Jane Hasell-McCosh will be travelling to Adelaide for the judging.

 

Jane said: ‘I am so delighted that the Australian Awards have been such a tremendous success. Australians have always entered phenomenal marmalade into the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, owing in part to how fresh their fruit is. I am looking forward to trying some incredible flavours, and can’t wait to find a winner.’

 

Entries for 2017 are open until 28 August, with separate categories for home cooks and artisan small producers.

 

The winner will be announced at the second Australian Marmalade Festival to be held in the home of South Australian citrus, the Riverland, on 3 September.

 

It’s the first such festival to be held outside England, and last year attracted more than 250 people.

 

ENDS.

 

More information:

https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/marmalade/

 

Florence Lindeman: [email protected] 017684 86450

www.dalemainmarmaladeawards.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ovh2BTi2I

 

Editor’s Notes: What are the Awards?

 

The quirky World’s Original Marmalade Awards were founded in 2005 to help to preserve, grow and widen one of the most British of customs – marmalade making.

 

The Awards have humour and a life of their own and have inspired people from all over the world to get involved. In 2017, over 3,000 jars of marmalade were sent from countries as far away as South Korea, Greece, USA, Australia and the Philippines, while the Artisan Marmalade competition has helped to promote small producers around the world. Judged by a small panel of experts, Dalemain roundels denote marmalade of exemplary quality.

 

At the heart of the Awards & Festival is Dalemain Mansion, a Georgian stately home lived in by the same family for over 300 years and the holder of a rich archive of early marmalade recipes.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Dinosaurs are here! http://www.ullswater.com/news/the-dinosaurs-are-here/ Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:32:10 +0000 http://www.ullswater.com/?p=5080 Jaw dropping National History Museum Dinosaur Encounter exhibition arrives at Rheged for major Summer exhibition 12 July – 3 September   A 4 metre high and 7 metre wide Tyrannosaurus...

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Jaw dropping National History Museum Dinosaur Encounter exhibition arrives at Rheged for major Summer exhibition 12 July – 3 September

 

A 4 metre high and 7 metre wide Tyrannosaurus Rex has arrived at the Rheged Centre, Penrith, ready to welcome visitors to a jaw-dropping dinosaur exhibition, which opens on 12thJuly 2017, fresh from London’s National History Museum.

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The beast is part of Rheged’s latest show-stopping exhibition, Dinosaur Encounter, which invites intrepid explorers on a dinosaur safari to encounter dinosaurs including a short-legged Ankylosaurus, Baryonyx, and Ornithomimus. They will be invading Rheged until Sunday 3rdSeptember, 2017.

 

Dinosaur Encounter features state of the art animatronics, so each dinosaur model moves realistically, as well as sound effects that will transport you back millions of years in time. There are 10 dinosaur models, as well as a collection of replica skulls and claws to bring the dinosaurs to life. Families are invited to study replicas of ancient fossils taken from the Natural History Museum’s Archives, compare their feet to the footprint of a T-Rex and examine replica skulls which you can touch and feel.

 

The interactive exhibition will also feature art workshops, where families can take rubbings from replica fossils and marvel at 3D printing technology – recreating ancient fossils that have been scanned and shared from museums around the world. The Rheged Centre, which also features a huge cinema screen (the size of six double decker buses), will also be offering visitors the chance to enjoy the BBC Earth film ‘Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet’ which is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

 

Claire Logan Stevens, Head of Programming for the Rheged Centre said “This is a first for Cumbria and the furthest north in the British Isles that the Dinosaur Encounter exhibition has ever been on display – so we are really honoured to have this prestigious Natural History Museum exhibition at Rheged. Dinosaurs capture the imagination of children and adults alike and we know this exhibition is going to inspire and amaze our visitors in equal measure.”

 

“Unlike other Dinosaur exhibitions where the models are just impressive, the in house science team at the Natural History Museum have the responsibility to represent the Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period in the most accurate way possible so the Dinosaurs are impressive, attractive and accurate.”

 

The exhibition is open daily from Wednesday 12th July – Sunday 3rd September, 2017. Doors open at 9.15am (early entry ticket) and close at 5.00pm. Booking in advance is essential to ensure you don’t miss out. Tickets can be booked online at Rheged.com

 

Ticket Prices 

Exhibition only

£6.50 Adult | £5.50 conc. | £5 (16 and under) | 2 and under go free | Timed exhibition entry daily from 10.45am | Includes a free outdoor play session on that day

Exhibition & Film

£10 adults | £8 conc. | £7 (16 and under) | 2 and under go free | Timed exhibition entry daily from 10.45am Includes cinema screening of the BBC Earth film ‘Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet’ (40 mins)

Early entry ticket

£5.50 Adult | £4.50 conc. | £4 (16 and under) | 2 and under go free | Timed exhibition entry daily at 9.15am – 10.45am only.

 

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