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placename:-
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Allonby
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parish
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Allonby parish, once in
Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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building/s
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coordinates:-
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NY0843
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10Km square:-
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NY04
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place code:-
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Alln
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old map:- |
Garnett 1850s-60s H
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Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1
inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
1850s-60s. |
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ALLONBY
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blocks, settlement
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placename:-
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Allonby
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date:-
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1850=1869
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
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Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of
Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by
Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. |
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ALLONBY
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placename:-
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Allonby
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1839
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1830s
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Otley 1818
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New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland,
Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch,
by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh,
Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland
now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s. |
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ALLONBY
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placename:-
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Allonby
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Cooke 1802
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Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by
George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published
1802-24. |
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Allonby
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blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet,
locality
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placename:-
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Allonby
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1802
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1800s
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Cooke 1802
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Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by
George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published
1802-24. |
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Allonby
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blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet,
locality
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placename:-
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Allonby
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1802
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19th century, early; 1800s
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road book:- |
Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
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Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published
by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London,
1798-1828. |
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page 555-556
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Allonby
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placename:-
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Allonby
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date:-
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1802
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1800s
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Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland,
scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas
Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert
Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published
1760-87. |
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Allonby
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circle, tower
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Allonby
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date:-
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1760
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18th century, late; 1760s
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Morden 1695 (Cmd)
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Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and
Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden,
1695. |
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Allonby
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Circle.
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placename:-
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Allonby
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1695
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17th century, late; 1690s
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Jansson 1646
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Map, Cumbria et Westmoria, or Cumberland and Westmorland,
scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724. |
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Allonbÿe
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Buildings and tower.
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placename:-
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Allonbye
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1646
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17th century, early; 1640s
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Speed 1611 (Cmd)
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Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif
Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and
the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by
John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770. |
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Allonbye
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circle, tower
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Allonbye
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1611
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17th century, early; 1610s
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Keer 1605
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Map, Westmorlandia et Comberlandia, ie Westmorland and
Cumberland now Cumbria, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch,
probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605;
published about 1605 to 1676. |
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Allonbye
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dot, circle and tower; village
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placename:-
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Allonbye
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county:-
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Cumberland
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Saxton 1579
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have
a nucleus.
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Allonbye
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placename:-
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Allonbye
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county:-
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Cumberlandia
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hamlet
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date:-
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1576
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period:-
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16th century, late; 1570s
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Cooper 1808
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Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to
1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by G and W B Whittaker,
13 Ave Maria Lane, London, 1824. |
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Allonby
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circle; village or hamlet
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placename:-
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Allonby
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locality:-
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Allerdale below Derwent Ward
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1808
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19th century, early; 1800s
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Hall 1820 (Cmd)
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Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, now Cumbria, scale
about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820,
published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London,
1820-31. |
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Allonby
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circle, italic lowercase text; settlement
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placename:-
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Allonby
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1820
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19th century, early; 1820s
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Dickens 1857
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CHAPTER III.
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... Mr. Goodchild immediately referred to the county-map,
and ardently discovered that the most delicious piece of
sea-coast to be found within the limits of England, Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands,
all summed up together, was Allonby on the coast of
Cumberland. There
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was the coast of Scotland opposite to Allonby, said Mr.
Goodchild with enthusiasm; there was a fine Scottish
mountain on the Scottish coast; there were Scottish lights
to be seen shining across the glorious Channel, and at
Allonby itself there was every idle luxury (no doubt), that
a watering-place could offer to the heart of idle man.
Moreover, said Mr. Goodchild, with his finger on the map,
this exquisite retreat was approached by a coach-road, from
a railway-station called Aspatria - ...
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... And now, behold the apprentices [Thomas Idle and Francis
Goodchild] gallantly riding into Allonby on a one-horse fly,
bent upon staying in that peaceful marine valley ...
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"Do you see Allonby!" asked Thomas Idle.
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"I don't see it yet," said Francis looking out of the
window.
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"It must be there," said Thomas Idle.
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"I don't see it, returned Francis.
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"It must be there," repeated Thomas Idle, fretfully.
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"Lord bless me!" exclaimed Francis, drawing in his head, "I
suppose this is it!"
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"A watering-place," retorted Thomas Idle, with the
pardonable sharpness of an invalid, "can't be five gentlemen
in straw-hats, on a form on one side of a door, and four
ladies in hats and falls, on a form on the other side of a
door, and three geese in a dirty little brook before them,
and a boy's legs hanging over a bridge (with the boy's body
I suppose on the other side of the parapet), and a donkey
running away. What are you talking about?"
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"Allonby, gentlemen," said the most comfortable of
landladies, as she opened one door of the carriage;
"Allonby, gentlemen," said the most attentive of landlords,
as he opened the other.
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Thomas Idle yielded his arm to the ready Goodchild, and
descended from the vehicle. Thomas, now just able to grope
his way along, in a doubled-up condition, with the aid of
two thick sticks, was no bad embodiment of Commodore
Trunnion, or one of those many gallant Admirals of the
stage, who have all ample fortunes, gout, thick-sticks,
tempers, wards, and nephews. With this distinguished naval
appearance upon him, Thomas made a crab-like progress up a
clean little bulk-headed staircase, into a clean little
bulk-headed room, where he slowly deposited himself on a
sofa, with a stick on either hand of him, looking
exceedingly grim.
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"Francis," said Thomas Idle, "what do you think of this
place?"
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"I think," returned Mr. Goodchild, in a glowing way, "it is
everything we expected."
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"Hah!" said Thomas Idle.
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"There is the sea," cried Mr. Goodchild, pointing out the
window, "and here," pointing to the lunch on the table, "are
shrimps. Let us -" here Mr. Goodchild looked out of the
window, as if in search of something, and looked again, -
"let us eat 'em."
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The shrimps eaten and the dinner ordered, Mr. Godchild went
out to survey the watering-place. A Chorus of the Drama,
without whom Thomas could make nothing of the scenery, he
by-and-by returned, to have the following report screwed out
of him.
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In brief, it was the most delightful place ever seen.
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"But," Thomas Idle asked, "where is it?"
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"It's what you may call generally up and down the beach,
here and there," said Mr. Goodchild, with a twist of his
hand.
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"Proceed," said Thomas Idle.
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It was, Mr. Goodchild went on to say, in cross-examination,
what you might call a primitive place. Large? No, it was not
large. Who ever expected it would be large? Shape? What a
question to ask! No shape. What sort of a street? Why, no
street. Shops? Yes, of course (quite indignant). How
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many? Who ever went into a place to count the shops? Ever so
many. Six? Perhaps. A library? Why, of course (indignant
again). Good collection of books? Most likely - couldn't say
- had seen nothing in it but a pair of scales. Any
reading-room? Of course, there was a reading-room. Where?
Where! why, over there. Where was over there? Why,
there! Let Mr. Idle carry his eye to that bit of
waste-ground above high-water mark, where the rank grass and
loose stones were most in a litter; and he would see a sort
of long ruinous brick loft, next door to a ruinous brick
outhouse, which loft had a ladder outside, to get up by.
That was the reading-room, and if Mr. Idle didn't like the
idea of a weaver's shuttle throbbing under a reading-room,
that was his look out. He was not to dictate, Mr.
Goodchild supposed (indignant again), to the company.
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"By-the-bye," Thomas Idle observed; "the company?"
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Well! (Mr. Goodchild went on to report) very nice company.
Where were they? Why, there they were. Mr. Idle could see
the tops of their hats, he supposed. What? Those nine straw
hats again, five gentlemen's and four ladies'? Yes, to be
sure. Mr. Goodchild hoped the company were not to be
expected to wear helmets, to please Mr. Idle.
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Beginning to recover his temper at about this point, Mr.
Goodchild voluntarily reported that if you wanted to be
primitive, you could be primitive here, and that if you
wanted to be idle, you could be idle here. In the course of
some days, he added, that there were three fishing-boats,
but no rigging, and that there were plenty of fishermen who
never fished. That they got their living entirely by looking
at the ocean. What nourishment they looked out of it to
support their strength, he couldn't say; but, he supposed it
was some sort of Iodine. The place was full of their
children, who were always upside down on the public
buildings (two small bridges over the brook), and always
hurting themselves or one another, so that their wailings
made more continual noise in the air than could have been
got in a busy place. The houses people lodged in, were
nowhere in particular, and were in capital accordance with
the beach; being all more or less cracked and damaged as its
shells were, and all empty - as its shells were. Among them.
was an edifice of destitute appearance, with a number of
wall-eyed
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windows in it, looking desperately out to Scotland as if for
help, which said it was a Bazaar (and it ought to know), and
where you might buy anything you wanted - supposing what you
wanted, was a little camp-stool or a child's wheelbarrow.
The brook crawled or stopped between the houses and the sea,
and the donkey was always running away, and when he got into
the brook he was pelted out with stones, which never hit
him, and which always hit some of the children who were
upside down on the public buildings, and made their
lamentations louder. This donkey was the public excitement
of Allonby, and probably supported at the public expense.
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The foregoing descriptions, delivered in separate items, on
separate days of adventurous discovery, Mr. Goodchild
severally wound up, by looking out of the window, looking in
again, and saying, "But there is the sea, and here are the
shrimps - let us eat 'em."
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There were fine sunsets at Allonby when the low flat beach,
with its pools of water and its dry patches, changed into
long bars of silver and gold in various states of
burnishing, and there were fine views - on fine days - of
the Scottish coast. But, when it rained at Allonby, Allonby
thrown back upon its ragged self, became a kind of place
which the donkey seemed to have found out, and to have his
highly sagacious reasons for wishing to bolt from. Thomas
Idle observed, too, that Mr. Goodchild, with a noble show of
disinterestedness, became every day more ready to walk to
Maryport and back, for letters; and suspicions began to
harbour in the mind of Thomas, that his friend deceived him,
and that Maryport was a preferable place.
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Allonby
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date:-
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1857
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1850s
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Print, uncoloured engraving, Allonby, Cumberland, drawn
by W H Bartlett, engraved by J C Armytage, published
1840s.
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Probably from Findens Views of the Ports, Harbours, Coast
Scenery, and Watering Places of Great Britain, as continued
by W H Bartlett.
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printed at bottom left, right, centre:-
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W. H. Bartlett. / J. C. Armytage. / ALLONBY.
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placename:-
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Allonby
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date:-
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1840=1849
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period:-
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19th century, early
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Christ Church,
Allonby |
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Congregational Chapel,
Allonby |
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meeting house,
Allonby |
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milestone,
Allonby |
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North Lodge,
Allonby |
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road, Carlisle to
Allonby |
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school, Allonby |
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Ship Hotel,
Allonby |
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toll gate,
Allonby |
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013
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