Tag: Old Lancashire

Spring comes to Cartmel

“We haven’t had a Sunday trip to Cartmel for a while…” It was true, aside from a short and very wet mid-winter visit, we hadn’t been to Cartmel for some time. There was a good chance that we’d find spring in full bloom, and feel that brightening of the late April light that so ‘warms the soul’, even if the temperature of the eternal … Read More Spring comes to Cartmel

Mellow Moods for Autumn (3): Heysham shadows

Heysham village is a delightful outlier of old Lancashire… Its main street curls up from a one-alley access road for a stony shoreline to become a row of beautiful stone cottages that have stood there for hundreds of years. Near St Peter‘s Church – there since Anglo-Saxon times, the road bends and climbs. This cottage dominates the corner; and today, the light and the … Read More Mellow Moods for Autumn (3): Heysham shadows