Bricks of Cumbria
Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850 This collection of bricks varies from the hand made with finger marks, to engineered bricks of furnaces and shaped bricks of archways. The collection was bought from Ian Tyler when he retired from his Keswick Mining Museum and has been increased over the years. Ian explains […]
Whitehaven strict office rules toilet timed
Whitehaven strict office rules toilet timed https://youtu.be/_KdWlX7cZcQ This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing a summary of the video […]
Millom museum sea walls Hodbarrow mine farming rural industrial life
Millom museum sea walls Hodbarrow mine farming rural industrial life https://youtu.be/AJ4NTVf9ZOU This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing a […]
Keswick Railway railway clerk parcels by train Beeching closure
Keswick Railway railway clerk parcels by train Beeching closure https://youtu.be/CfhPgZql728 This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing a summary […]
Kendal school farming living up Kirkstone Pass
Kendal school farming living up Kirkstone Pass https://youtu.be/RSeBKuUFMJA This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing a summary of the […]
Distington lady swim sea husband war POW TB lung out mine
Distington lady swim sea husband war POW TB lung out mine https://youtu.be/82pmvfrwGtU This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing […]
Distington lady man Distington life
Distington lady man Distington life https://youtu.be/TvVB1emA02o This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing a summary of the video so […]
Alston man charabanc clogs mine foundry eggs
Alston man charabanc clogs mine foundry eggs https://youtu.be/8CfKxCU2Tyk This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing a summary of the […]
Threlkeld Quarry steam train and excavators Photo Gallery
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum and Vintage Excavator Trust Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust diggers, lifters and movers. Perhaps challenge the viewer to work out how a diesel engine, turning in one direction can have clutches, gears and levers that can throw buckets forward, […]
Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video
Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video https://youtu.be/X_GRsluJunQ Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust diggers, lifters and movers. I challenge the viewer to work out how a diesel engine, turning in one direction can have clutches, gears and levers that can throw buckets forward, back, […]