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DocRefNoCR4781/2
LevelItem
TitleAccount/diary of visit [by James Speight] to Cark [Hall, Lancs. where his sister Eleanor Louisa Speight lived with their Aunt and Uncle]
Date1880s
DescriptionRefers to going to Allithwaite church; visiting Hams Fell [Hampsfell] Hospice; 'cockleing' on the sands; going to lake at 'Coiston' [Coniston] and Rudge where 'Pa' used to live; going on the Gondola and seeing the house [Brantwood] 'in which Ruskin lives'; sailing in the steamer on Lake Windermere to Ambleside; trying to ascent the Red Screes; and burning wind bushes.

See photograph of Cark Hall CR4781/203.
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