This week a set of photos from the Lake District have been going through the scanner.
In August 1983 Fran and I took Gillian, then aged 6, and Fran's parents, Bob and Peggy, up to the Lakes and over the Windermere Ferry to Hawkshead.
It wasn't exactly a glorious English summer's day, but then again it wasn't actually raining so we counted ourselves lucky! We did feel as though we were ready for a spot of lunch once we had stretched our legs and the shot shows the family emerging from the Minstrels' Gallery tea room. This was a regular calling place when in Hawkshead.
By heck... blue-tinted specs! Why did we ever think they were cool? And they cover half my face for Heaven's sake!!!
Anyway, this is taken inside the cafe as the 29-year-old me sits behind my 'tache waiting to order our food. There is a minstrel's gallery but I never saw it with any minstrels in the vicinity and haven't got a photo of it either. Take my word for it, or go and have a look as I suspect (and hope) they won't have changed the place very much in the past 30 years.
Hawkshead is a nice place to visit anyway, with lots of narrow streets and alleys and old buildings, joined to each other on the first floor, so that you find little tunnels underneath like this.
At Near Sawrey you can visit the home of children's author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter. Called Hill Top this is now kept as a museum of her life and work.
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