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BPQ01.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lord's Island, Derwent Water, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY26542189 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ02.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Rampsholme Island, Derwent Water, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY26392136 -- Roughly from Strandshag Bay.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ03.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25701415 -- The jaws of Borrowdale from down the lake.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ04.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Herbert's Island, Derwent Water, Above Derwent, Cumbria, NY25932125 -- Maiden Moor behind.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ05.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge NT memorial, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY26782151 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ06.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge NT memorial, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY26782151 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ07.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Falcon Crag, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY27232058 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ08.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stone wall, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY26982089 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ09.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stone wall, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY26982089 -- The curbstones are also the same stone.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ10.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge boundary stone, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY27112203 -- Inscribed stone:-
"RDM / 1834" (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ11.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Castle Head Quarry, Keswick, Cumbria, NY27112277 --
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ12.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Castle Head Quarry, Keswick, Cumbria, NY27112277 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ13.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge viewpoint, Castle Head, Keswick, Keswick, Cumbria, NY26972267 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ14.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge viewpoint, Castle Head, Keswick, Keswick, Cumbria, NY26972267 -- Topograph at the viewpoint.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ15.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Castle Rock, St John's Castlerigg etc, St John's in the Vale, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumbria, NY32141961 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ16.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Helvellyn, St John's Castlerigg etc, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Patterdale, Cumbria, NY34241511 -- From the face of Saddleback.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ19.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological walk, Blease Fell, Threlkeld, Cumbria, NY2927 -- Chiastolite in the Skiddaw Group mudstone.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ20.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological walk, Blease Fell, Threlkeld, Cumbria, NY2927 -- Skiddaw granite from the stream bed, washed down from the intrusion higher up the fell. White crystals are feldspar; grey are quartz; black are biotite or hornblende.
(photo 25.8.2008)
BPQ21.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Mungrisdale, Cumbria, NY32923263 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ22.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Mungrisdale, Cumbria, NY32923263 -- Disharmonic folding,
caused by local pressures of an intrusion - the Carrock Fell gabbro.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ23.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Mungrisdale, Cumbria, NY32923263 -- Striations, at
on ice polishing, caused by glacial movement; these have been protected under peat and only 'recently' exposed.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ24.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Mungrisdale, Cumbria, NY32923263 -- Striations, at
on ice polishing, caused by glacial movement; these have been protected under peat and only 'recently' exposed.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ25.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Carrock Fell, Caldbeck, Mungrisdale, Cumbria, NY34233372 -- Gabbro from Carrock Fell, intrusive igneous/plutonic rock; found lower down by the River Caldew. Coarse crystals from slower cooling; white - plagioclase, black - pyroxene, some greenish chlorite, the outer surface weathers to an 'albite'.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ26.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Wasdale Beck, Shap Rural, Orton S, Cumbria, NY5608 -- Shap granite in the stream bed at Wasdale Old Bridge,
Note, these have been washed downstream from their original bed.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ27.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Wasdale Beck, Shap Rural, Orton S, Cumbria, NY5608 -- Rocks and water at Wasdale Old Bridge.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ28.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Orton S, Cumbria, NY55520544 -- Bedding at a steep angle; cracked and jointed, the rock is very leaky.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ29.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Orton S, Cumbria, NY55520544 -- Ripple marks.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ30.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Orton S, Cumbria, NY55520544 -- Ripple marks.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ31.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Orton S, Cumbria, NY55520544 -- It is possible to see bedding and cleavage, nearly parallel.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ33.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Witherslack Hall, Witherslack, Cumbria, SD43628617 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ35.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Hervey memorial, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Lord's Seat, Cumbria, SD44188705 -- Plaque:-
"This Reserve / Commemorates CANON G.A.K. HERVEY / 1893-1967 / Founder of the / Lake District Naturalists Trust" (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ36.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Kendal Museum, Kendal, Cumbria, SD51879313 -- Museum advertisment on a bus, illustrating Alfred Wainwright in his study.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ37.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological site, Borrowdale, Rosthwaite, Cumbria, NY25591420 -- Terminal moraine.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ38.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Folly Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25061387 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ39.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Folly Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25061387 -- View of river.
(photo 26.2.2007)
BPQ40.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stone wall, Seathwaite (2), Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY24801338 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ41.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stone wall, Seathwaite (2), Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY24801338 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ42.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stone wall, Seathwaite (2), Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY24801338 -- The wall is very thick; partly built as a place to put stones cleared from the fields.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ43.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Quayfoot Quarry, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25361678 -- Green slate quarry; horizontal bedding, vertical cleavage.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ44.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25391640 -- A climber practicing; the white marks are from ?rosin on climbers' finger tips.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ45.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25391640 -- A climber practicing; the white marks are from ?rosin on climbers' finger tips.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ46.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25391640 -- A climber practicing; the white marks are from ?rosin on climbers' finger tips.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ47.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge quarry, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25531704 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ48.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge quarry, Borrowdale, Cumbria, NY25531704 -- The slate is known as rain spot slate from the angular particles in the tuff. It's a good building stone.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ49.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Lifeboat, St Bees, Cumbria, NX96031180 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ50.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Lifeboat, St Bees, Cumbria, NX96031180 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ51.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge coast, St Bees, Cumbria, NX96081171 -- Pebbles on the beach, wet.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ52.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge coast, St Bees, Cumbria, NX96081171 -- Pebbles on the beach, dry.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ53.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge coast, St Bees, Cumbria, NX96081171 -- Collecting pebbles from the beach on a geological field trip.
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ54.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge coast, St Bees, Cumbria, NX96081171 -- Groyne and pebbles, demonstrating longshore drift?
(photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ55.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge South Head, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX95191220 -- (photo 24.8.2008)
BPQ56.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Orpine, Sedum telephium.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ57.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ58.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological walk, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX9413 -- Cross bedding in St Bees sandstone.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ60.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological walk, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX9413 -- Cross bedding in St Bees sandstone.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ61.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Sea and rocks.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ62.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Cormorant and young, Phalacrocorax carbo.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ63.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ66.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Sheep's bit, Jasione montana.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ67.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Devil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ68.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge coasts, Cumbria --
BPQ69.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Sea and rocks; bedding and jointing.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ70.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Head, St Bees, Cumbria, NX95211337 -- Blood red geranium, Geranium sanguineum.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ71.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Lighthouse, St Bees Head, North Head, Cumbria, NX94151437 -- (photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ72.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Lighthouse, St Bees Head, North Head, Cumbria, NX94151437 -- (photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ73.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge lighthouses, Cumbria -- Lantern, and the fresnel lens.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ74.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Lighthouse, St Bees Head, North Head, Cumbria, NX94151437 -- Weathervane on the lantern.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ75.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Lighthouse, St Bees Head, North Head, Cumbria, NX94151437 -- Coat of arms of the Corporation of Trinity House, motto:-
"TRINITAS IN UNITAM" (photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ76.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge St Bees Lighthouse, St Bees Head, North Head, Cumbria, NX94151437 -- Foghorn, a short way off on the cliff top,
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ77.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stone wall, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX94061468 -- (photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ78.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stone wall, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX94061468 -- (photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ79.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological walk, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX9413 -- (photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ80.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological walk, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX9413 -- (photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ81.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge geological walk, St Bees Head, Cumbria, NX9413 -- The sandstone is banded red and white; the red is coloured by iron as Fe2O3, the white by iron as FeO.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ82.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Haig Colliery, Kells, Whitehaven, Whitehaven, Cumbria, NX96721759 -- Pit head and terraces of houses.
(photo 29.8.2008)
BPQ83.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- (photo 2008)
BPQ84.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Port Carlisle Dock and Railway, Beaumont, Burgh by Sands, Bowness, Cumbria -- Dandy car no.1 built by North British Railway, St Margaret's Works, Edinburgh, 1863; used to 1913.
(photo 2008)
BPQ85.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863; notice the offset corridor connection.
(photo 2008)
BPQ86.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863; exchange apparatus extended.
(photo 2008)
BPQ87.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863.
(photo 2008)
BPQ88.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863; post box on the side.
(photo 2008)
BPQ89.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863; exchange apparatus, van net and lineside post.
(photo 2008)
BPQ90.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863; sorting racks and letters.
(photo 2008)
BPQ91.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863; sorting racks and letters.
(photo 2008)
BPQ92.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Lancashire, Burton-in-Kendal, Holme, Beetham, Milnthorpe, Heversham, Hincaster, Stainton, Sedgwick, Natland, Kendal, Scalthwaiterigg, Docker, Lambrigg, Grayrigg, Firbank, Tebay, Orton S, Crosby Ravensworth, Shap Rural, Shap, Thrimby, Little Strickland, Lowther, Clifton, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Dacre, Penrith, Hesket, St Cuthbert Without, Cumbria -- Travelling Post Office, 1863; van net and leather mail pouches.
(photo 2008)
BPQ93.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Furness Railway, Lindal and Marton, Dalton Town with Newton, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Kirkby Ireleth, Askam and Ireleth, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Kirkby Ireleth, Broughton West, Cumbria, Dalton Town with Newton, Lindal and Marton, Pennington, Ulverston, Cumbria, Dalton Town with Newton, Urswick, Cumbria -- Trespassers notice.
(photo 2008)
BPQ94.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Shap Summit, Shap Rural, Cumbria, NY57031112 -- Notice:-
"SHAP SUMMIT / 916 ABOVE SEA LEVEL" (photo 2008)
BPQ95.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Furness Railway, Lindal and Marton, Dalton Town with Newton, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Kirkby Ireleth, Askam and Ireleth, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Kirkby Ireleth, Broughton West, Cumbria, Dalton Town with Newton, Lindal and Marton, Pennington, Ulverston, Cumbria, Dalton Town with Newton, Urswick, Cumbria -- Helmet badge:-
"F.R. / Dock / Police" (photo 2008)
BPQ96.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge North Western Railway, Skipton, Settle, Ingleton, Yorkshire, Casterton, Barbon, Middleton, Sedbergh, Firbank, Cumbria, Low Gill, Grayrigg, Cumbria -- Seal impression in wax:-
"Seal of the North Western Railway Company / MDCCCXLVI" (photo 2008)
BPQ98.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Newbiggin Station, Ravenstonedale, Newbiggin-on-Lune, Cumbria, NY70040535 -- Station sign.
(photo 2008)
BPQ99.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Border Union Railway, Carlisle, Kingmoor, Rockcliffe, Westlinton, Arthuret, Kirkandrews, Nicholforest, Cumbria -- NBR coat of arms.
(photo 2008)