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Nechells gasometers - the view from our hotel parking lot in Birmingham on the way up to the lake district
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A derelict factory in Lancaster
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Sizergh Castle: The converted stables/coach house
Our first National Trust property of the trip
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The main entrance of Sizergh Castle
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This made me think of the novel Lady Chatterley s Lover
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One always has to try and get a good reflection
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Baby coots
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Lower entrance to a two level barn
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White water at Backbarrow
Our timeshare was on the right bank
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The Whitewater hotel at Backbarrow
This building used to be a mill and then was coverted to a factory producing ultramarine blue pigment which continued until 1981. It then became the hotel
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Track from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway an operative steam railway
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The other direction with early morning mist in the field
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Foxgloves in the early morning mist
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Trees in the mist
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Misty bridge
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Misty boat
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Misty bridge 2
This is the bridge at Newby Bridge
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Who is in charge?
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Outside Wordsworth House and Garden, Cockermouth
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Inside the dining room
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The house has staff in costume making period food in the kitchen
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Homage to Vemeer
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The garden through the window
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The garden and back of house
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Riding on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
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Leaving Haverthwaite station
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A view from the train
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And another...
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At Lakeside, the destination, the engine Repulse has been decoupled and will switch to the other track and go to the other end of the train for the return journey
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The Teal on Lake Windermere coming in to dock at Lakeside
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We are now on the Teal looking north up Lake Windermere
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Sailing school
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Storrs Hall
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The Windermere Ferry
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Equal rights!
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The Safety Boat to the rescue
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The Tern
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Approaching Ambleside the north end of Lake Windermere
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Lunch at the Wateredge Inn
We saw The Stig here ... no photos please
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One of the most unexpected signs I've seen
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A Red Ensign
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The Repulse back at Haverthwaite
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Boot garden in Backbarrow
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Peter Rabbit?
This was taken in the garden at The Beatrix Potter House
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Beatrix Potter's garden
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St. Micheal and All Angels, Hawkshead, Cumbria
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Inside Wray Castle, build by a Liverpool surgeon in 1840
Beatrix stayed here for the summer when she was 16 in 1882
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The outside of Wray Castle
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Is this Victorian over the top or what?
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David inside the Locomotive shed back at the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
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Adam test driving an MG at the Lakeland Motor Museum
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Dana wanted to drive it as well
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The southern end of Lake Windermere
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Bardsea, Cumbria
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Water lilies at Acorn Bank
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An English country garden at Acorn Bank
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The family in the garden
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Taken at the Lakeland Bird of Prey Centre
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In the original image you can see me reflected in the eye
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Sunset outside of our timeshare on our last night in the Lake District
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The Priory and Parish Church of St Mary, Lancaster
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Castle Hill, Lancaster
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The cobweb in out bedroom window at the Village Inn, Westward Ho!
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The church at Arlington Court, Devon
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One of the working horses at the National Trust Carriage Museum, Arlington Court
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Another view of the church
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The National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, England
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St. Pauls Cathedral, London
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The City of London has many spires
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Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud lived in this house
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The Albert memorial
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Dana paddling at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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