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TheRum Story - The Rum Story - the 'Dark Spirit of Whitehaven' is set in the original shop, courtyards, cellars and bonded warehouses of the Jeffersons family business in the Georgian Town of Whitehaven. It depicts the story of rum, bringing to life the slave trade, American prohibition, rum in the Royal Navy, rum in history and the processing of rum.
Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven - Haig Pit was Cumbria's last deep coal mine. When it closed in 1986, it ended 700 years of mining history in the area. Over 1200 men, women and children had been killed while winning coal in workings up to four miles out beneath the sea.
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And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Travel and Tourism A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Travel and Tourism "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Travel and Tourism Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Travel and Tourism There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. 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Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Travel and Tourism Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." 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