AS ON Victory in Europe (VE) Day on May 8, The Westmorland Gazette proclaimed on Victory over Japan (VJ) Day on August 15, 1945, that ‘Westmorland goes gay’.
THE Clergy Daughters' School was situated at Cowan Bridge, just over the Westmorland border into Lancashire.
In July 1800, the workaholic Dorothy Wordsworth recorded how she coped with a rare weather event in Grasmere; a heat wave.
South Lakeland is the cradle of the Society of Friends, with many of their earliest 'meetings' stretching from Swarthmoor, the home of their founder George Fox, and eastwards into Kentdale and Lunesdale.
In 1939, the Westmorland Gazette devoted a page to complaints made by the 'Friends of Brantwood Society' held at the former home of John Ruskin, the cultural polymath and poet.
The ‘Year of Revolutions’ in Europe came in 1848.
THUNDER and lightning storms are natural, if sensational, meteorological events.
Historian Roger Bingham, of Ackenthwaite, describes the end and the cost of the First World War
THE war did not end for every combatant in 1918. Milnthorpe’s last serviceman to come home was Henry Atkinson, who did not return until Christmas 1920, having served for six years in India and Mesopotamia (Iraq).
Historian Roger Bingham, of Ackenthwaite, describes the effect on Westmorland of 1916 – often said to be the worst year of the war in terms of casualties.
