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| Thread ID: 141720 | 2016-02-09 22:11:00 | Geology of Britain | John H (8) | PC World Chat |
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| 1415814 | 2016-02-10 07:41:00 | We have been to Cockermouth a few times on trips to Britain. My wife was born nearby in Whitehaven Hospital but her mother's family were from Egremont where my wife's grandfather and later step-grandfather were iron miners. The grandfather went the way of many miners with the lungs, whereas it looks like the step-grandfather may have pickled his lungs in copious pints of ale, thus avoiding the early death of the miner. We visited the Florence mine at Egremont in 2004 - everything coated in a greasy red deposit from the iron ore. It was still operating in private hands - the last working iron mine in England. Your wife's family will know St Bee's Head, which is where we tried to scatter my wife's parents' ashes in an onshore wind - they are probably in the North Sea now instead of the Irish Sea. Great ales in Cumbria!!! We did not make it that far north, kept getting lost in S/W England, friendly folk kept giving us the wrong directions, don't think they wanted us to leave, lol. In Cumberland as places recorded on Census etc., Papcastle, Carlisle, Brampton, Redmain to name a few. lurking. |
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