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...Tassie’s work is at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal LA9 5LB until 25 June; crosslaneprojects.com...
...WCR is using 40-year-old diesel engines and carriages on the 10-mile route from Windermere to Oxenholme near Kendal, which connects with the West Coast mainline from London to Scotland....
...“A lot of people come from Kendal on a Friday and Saturday night and get the last train home.”...
...The turning point for gin came in 1689 with the crowning of the Dutch William of Orange as King....
...Except in Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District, the ending has been rewritten....
...William Wordsworth’s former home in Grasmere remains a place of pilgrimage....
...In a joint statement, Willie Rennie and Kirsty Williams said: “We will wholeheartedly support him if he decides to put himself forward....
...For me, it was a portal to another era where there was no phone signal, no power showers, and lashings of Kendal mint cake....
...The doctor had scored a notable success after a different painting called “The Musicians”, purchased from a Kendal art dealer in 1947, was later identified by art historians as an original Caravaggio....
...Puppets, actors and animation combine in William Kentridge’s production of Jane Taylor’s play to tell stories based on real testimonies....
...barbican.org.uk, 0845 120 7550, to August 25 … Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal “I, the sculptor, am the landscape....
...Now Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, Cumbria, has assembled a medium-sized show that offers a riposte to that thesis....
...The Black Eyed Peas frontman, born William Adams Jr, is a 37-year-old technology-obsessed rapper, producer, actor, DJ and singer who has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and won a hatful of Grammy...
...In this sector, companies such as McLaren, Brawn GP and Williams F1 make small numbers of high-value racing cars....
...Sometimes proposals prove controversial, such as the plan to erect a statue of Alfred Wainwright, Lake District hill-walker and writer, in Kendal....
...They could point to a winning record against every regular opponent, victories over New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and a litany of great players from Percy Bush, Bleddyn Williams to Gareth Edwards...
...‘I knuckled down and got a job’ The stoicism of William Mills provides an exemplary lesson to those plagued by the fear of redundancy....
...The pattern began with his father, the Edwardian painter William Nicholson, who excelled at swish society portraits and skilful still lifes....
...Lake Windermere was the setting for Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel Swallows and Amazon but the region’s best-known advocate was probably poet William Wordsworth, a native....
...William Blake managed to cut through a lot of the nonsense that comes with bivouacs, crampons and perhaps the greatest of all climbing evils, Kendal Mint Cake....
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