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Cumbria's geology and mineral wealth has attracted mining for centuries and the landscape of the Lake District gives clues to the hard work and inginuity of the people who sought and fought for the mineral rewards. Ian Tyler collected a wealth of minerals, tools, photos and experiences about mining in Cumbria and the north of England. He has written many books and until 2012 he created and ran ...

Working steam digger at Threlkeld Quarry. Ray Hooley organised volunteers to recover it from the flooded sand quarry where it had been left to rot. Apprentices at Ruston Proctor Lincoln works initially renovated it, then it was unused until transported to the Vintage Excavator Trust at Threlkeld Quarry where it was again extensively renovated. It operates on special steam weekends which are adv...

Home Guard practice at Levens Garth Westmorland and this oral history is of a lad who threw clods of earth to and from the Home Guard. Tank traps against Tiger tanks! Bayonet danger - on the bus. Target practice, oops a pig, ah, fresh meat! Please visit thiswascumbria.uk to view images and video. For further information please contact peterincumbria at gmail dot com. Created / Uploaded by Peter...

Started in Home Guard, guarding Thirlmere lake, one rifle one bullet for 2 nights a week, then trained in drill hall by WW1 sergeant. Then joined up in Royal Corps of Signals, trained in Wales. Devon Plymouth in big air raids, then moved to Scotland preparing for overseas. Then North Africa, Tunis grand march past, then Italy Taranto landings, Adriatic side of Italy. First Christmas in olive gr...

First soldier: Home Guard practice at Levens Garth Westmorland and this oral history is of a lad who threw clods of earth to and from the Home Guard. Tank traps against Tiger tanks! Bayonet danger - on the bus. Target practice, oops a pig, ah, fresh meat! Second soldier: Trained with Kings Regiment at Formby then Kent near Biggin Hill, guarding without ammunition. Volunteered (involuntarily) fo...

Silent video from home movie taken during World War 2 in Westmorland (now part of Cumbria). Home Guard practice using local transport to set up an ambush in the fells in Cumbria. Camouflage their car. Cycle patrols and motor cycle communication teams. Night exercise with soft shoes and blackened faces following each other by touch. Home Guard practice house to house fighting very realistically ...

Ambleside Oral history group record a WW2 soldier's life from Kings Regiment Formby to Arnhem Bridge and Eindhoven Bridge. For an impression of the action at Arnhem see Operation Market Garden & "A Bridge Too Far". To find out more about the Regiment visit Carlisle Castle Army Museum. Trained with Kings Regiment at Formby then Kent near Biggin Hill, guarding without ammunition. Volunteered (inv...

MY LIFE AT HOME AND MY WORK AS A SERVANT A lady explains how life was for her as a child at home. She explains how she left school at 14 years old in 1933 to work in service (as a servant) in the “big house”. It was a privilege to record this lady, now deceased, who will forever be remembered in these clips. She was in service to the gentry, the true life of upstairs downstairs. She was a baref...

Illustrated oral history of the blue ex military mobile trailers that were converted to a theatre that eventually stayed at Keswick and became The Theatre By The Lake Please visit thiswascumbria.uk to view images and video. For further information please contact peterincumbria at gmail dot com. Created / Uploaded by Peter Nicholson

Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump Oral history about mother working at the Royal Navy Armaments Depot at Broughton Moor inWest Cumbria. Huge shells were prepared and stored there and in WWII mother came home distressed but could not explain why to her daughter and had to go to work the next day. The secrecy was unveiled when the time restriction of the Official Secrets Act expired and ...

Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust diggers, lifters and movers. I challenge the viewer to work out how a diesel engine, turning in one direction can have clutches, gears and levers that can throw buckets forward, back, pivot turn, move on tracks, extend the reach of the boom, then empty the bucket. The skill of the o...

Cumbria's geology and mineral wealth has attracted mining for centuries and the landscape of the Lake District gives clues to the hard work and ingenuity of the people who sought and fought for the mineral rewards. Ian Tyler collected a wealth of minerals, tools, photos and experiences about mining in Cumbria and the north of England. He has written many books and until 2012 he created and ran ...

Oral history of Penrith to Keswick to Cockermouth railway. In 1944 this 16 years old applied to work on the Keswick to Penrith railway. The train was the main delivery service with parcels, mail and even live chickens - what a racket! The recording was made in 1999 as part of the Voices of Cumbria Millennium project in which 177 oral history cassette tapes were illustrated by Peter Nicholson fo...

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry 61RB from above

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry 61RB loading tipper

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry Dragline and Tipper

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry Dragline and Tipper reversing

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry Dragline from below

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry NCK Loughside

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry NCK Loughside 2

Vintage Excavators Threlkeld Quarry working weekend

Vintage Excavators Threlkeld Quarry Dragline cab and cables

Vintage Excavators Threlkeld Quarry Priestman Cub Blencathra behind

Vintage Excavators Threlkeld Quarry Priestman Cub loading tipper

Vintage Excavators Threlkeld Quarry Priestman Cub Tipper Dragline

Vintage Excavators Threlkeld Quarry Priestman RB Dragline

Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850

Vintage Excavator Threlkeld Quarry Dragline from the cab

Steel in Cumbria Sir Henry Bessemer A Tribute to the Inventor​