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Industrial History of Cumbria - A guide to the industrial history of Cumbria created by members of the Cumbria Industrial History Society with help from members of the Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society. Feature articles on various aspects of industrial history.
PastPresented.info - A personal guide from David Bradbury to various historical aspects of West Cumbria, including Whitehaven, Parton, Millom Ironworks and Calder Abbey. Many historical photos and drawings.
Through Mighty Seas - Maritime History of the NW England, primarily based on the history of over 550 sailing ships. By Tim Latham.
The English Lake District: A Living Landscape - Displays 3000 historic images from the Cumbria Libraries and Archives, including engravings and photographs. The site includes clips of oral history and is searchable by subject and place.
Merelewood, Grange-over-Sands, 1850 - 1930 - The House, its occupants, their families, and business connections with the Lancashire cotton industry.
Cumbrian Industrial History Society - For all those interested in the history and development of industries of all kinds in the County of Cumbria. Includes events listing.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow History The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken History The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) History You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) History "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett History An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins History I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. History "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) History When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx History I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards History Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley History "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues History Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) History Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau History The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar History The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. History I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe History Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words History Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) History Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston "Conform and be dull." (J. 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