From 1869, a railway viaduct — then Europe’s longest — ran across the Solway Firth from Bowness to near Annan, for transporting iron ore to the Lanarkshire smelters. Damaged by ice-flows in 1881, it ...
A TV series dedicated celebrating the beauty, people and stories of Cumbria has been shortlisted for an award. 'Cumbria: The Lakes and the Coast' premiered on Channel 5 in July last year and took ...
The first episode initially followed Rory Martin, the estate manager of a farm on the edge of the Solway Firth before moving ... the untold history of the lake. The episode also returned to ...