Railway Families in Westmorland: John Ellis Watson
Tuesday 3 August, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
The life of John Ellis Watson is another classic tale from the period of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. We came across […]
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Tuesday 3 August, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
The life of John Ellis Watson is another classic tale from the period of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. We came across […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 13 July, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
As well as providing jobs during their construction phase and then while they were operational, Westmorland’s new railways provided an […]
CONTINUE READINGFriday 2 July, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
The story of the Worrall family illustrates yet another side to working on the railway, namely that railway construction needed […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 29 June, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
In our previous blog post Railway Families in Westmorland: the Ratcliffes, we discovered a remarkable dynasty associated with the railway […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 22 June, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
Exploring the nineteenth and early twentieth century censuses for Westmorland reveals how the coming of the railway offered employment opportunities […]
CONTINUE READINGMonday 31 May, 2021, by Rebekah Allison
I’m Rebekah Allison, and have just completed my Countryside Worker Apprenticeship with the Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership Scheme. I was […]
CONTINUE READINGMonday 12 April, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
Local historian Heather Ballantyne has kindly shared this essay and photographs with us, describing how Tebay changed from a tiny […]
CONTINUE READINGFriday 9 April, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
All Westmorland’s nineteenth century railway lines were built using traditional methods and employed thousands of railway labourers during their construction. […]
CONTINUE READINGThursday 1 April, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
By the end of the nineteenth century the Westmorland Dales was entirely encircled by railway lines. Their presence completely transformed […]
CONTINUE READINGWednesday 31 March, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
A huge amount has already been written about the history of the four railway lines which pass through and around […]
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