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John's Steam Engines - Photographs of industrial steam engines and industrial sites in West Cumbria since the 1960's, including the collieries of Workington and Whitehaven. From John Harkness, steam loco driver at Harrington No 10 Colliery.
Workington Travelling Heritage Centre - A project with the aim to develop the town's redundant locomotive shed, last used as a wagon repair shop, into a rail and bus based visitors' centre.
The Birth of a Rail - A personal history of the manufacture of railway lines at the Workington Iron and Steel Company. Many high quality archive photographs of the process, including the Bessemer Converter.
Old, But Not That Old - Images of Workington. - A look at Workington from the 1960's to the 1980's, photographs and descriptions of places now gone - from Russell Barnes.
The Cumbria Directory Workington - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
125 Years of Railmaking - Corus Rail celebrates 125 years of railmaking in Workington. September 14th 2002. News of the activities taking place. Pictures of the Steam and Steel event held at Workington in 2001.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Workington "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Workington We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Workington Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Workington Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Workington Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Workington I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Workington The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Workington My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Workington All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Workington "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Workington I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Workington Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Workington "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Workington Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Workington I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Workington You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Workington "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Workington Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Workington Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Workington Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Workington Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Workington
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