Walker House, Seathwaite | ||
Walker House | ||
locality:- | Seathwaite | |
civil parish:- | Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | buildings | |
locality type:- | parsonage (ex) | |
coordinates:- | SD22889610 | |
1Km square:- | SD2296 | |
10Km square:- | SD29 | |
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BXD94.jpg Walker House. (taken 24.8.2012) BXD95.jpg Walker House, the old pasonage on the left. (taken 24.8.2012) |
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evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto source Page 110:- "... Just outside the wall [of Holy Trinity Church] is a white cottage, so humble that the stranger thinks it cannot be the parsonage: yet the climbing roses and glittering evergreens, and clear lattices, and pure uncracked walls, look as if it might be. He walks slowly past the porch, and sees some one who tells him that it is indeed Robert Walker's dwelling, and courteously invites him in to see the scene of those life-long charities. Here it was that the distant parishioners were fed on Sundays with broth, for which the whole week's supply of meat was freely bestowed. Hither it was that in winter he sent the benumbed children, in companies, from the school in the church, to warm themselves at the single household fire, ..." |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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source data:- | Photograph, black and white, Seathwaite, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Lancashire, by
Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlarge HB0506.jpg item:- Armitt Library : ALPS169 Image © see bottom of page |
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personal | ||
person:- | clergyman : Walker, Robert |
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place:- | birthplace (?) / home | |
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