MARKET: Glebe market dates confirmed (Pictured in 2019) HERE are the latest announcements from our community news correspondent Adrian G Faulkner for Bowness and Windermere. Glebe Markets, Glebe Road, Bowness are being held every Sunday throughout the summer from 10am-4pm with social distancing in place where applicable. There will be a wide range of local produce from Cumbria and Lakes traders, also including prom art. BLACKWELL’s the Arts & Crafts house reopens on Tuesday 18 May, with a celebration of over 150 years of cultural exchange between Britain and Japan. To mark the Japan-UK Season of Culture, Blackwell, one of the UK’s finest examples of Arts & Crafts architecture, introduces House of the Setting Sun; an exciting programme that examines the interchange of influence between Japanese design and the British Arts & Crafts Movement.
Just over three decades ago Hilary Machell came to Lancashire to go to university.
She had been brought up in Biggin Hill on the Kent/London border, but was smitten by the red rose county where she studied for a degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature at Lancaster University.
Today the county is still her home. She said: “My parents were both Londoners and my mother was from Sunderland, so I’ve a foot in the north! I came to Lancaster University in 1990 and I never left.”
Hilary Machell pictured outside the Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library in Preston Photo: Neil Cross
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SIR – For many years, a Conservative majority has not resulted in Conservative governments.
Successive Conservative and Labour prime ministers, from John Major to the present incumbent, could have sat happily in each other’s Cabinets. With a couple of exceptions, no one in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet would have earned a place in Margaret Thatcher’s.
Consensus policies of state intervention, high taxation and wasteful public spending have characterised the last 30 years. Conservative values – a small state, low taxes, individual freedom and enterprise – have been honoured in the breach rather than the observance.
Now that Brexit has happened, we need a centre-Right government that will seize the opportunities to trade freely, and encourage private enterprise to stimulate the economic growth required to repair the social, economic and mental damage inflicted by repeated lockdowns. MPs have been sidelined as ministers govern by decree. Voters backed Tory
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The Steading was a house in which Tim Stead pioneered the use of locally sourced hardwoods rather than imported timber IT was in November 2020 that Nichola Fletcher decided it was all over. After five years of trying to raise money to save for the nation the remarkable home of craftsman and sculptor Tim Stead, the last funding application had been rejected. She and her colleagues on the Tim Stead Trust had reached the end of the line. Stead, who died in 2000 aged just 48, occupies a unique place in Scotland’s cultural landscape. Even those who are familiar with his most famous works – the North Sea Oil Industries Memorial Chapel in Aberdeen’s St Nicholas Kirk, the National Museum of Scotland’s Millennium Clock and the interior of Glasgow’s Cafe Gandolfi – may not know his masterpiece was actually the home he made for his family in the Borders village of Blainslie.