{"id":294,"date":"2008-08-27T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2008-08-31T01:23:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T08:23:46","slug":"family-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/family-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILY TRADITIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After nearly four months on the road we’ve now arrived in Cleator Moor, the small Cumbrian town where my mum grew up and where many of her extended family still reside. It’s been a place of pilgrimage for our family almost every summer since she left for London in her early twenties.<\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00c2\u00a0his thoroughly researched book <\/span>Cleator and Cleator Moor, Past and Present<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> which first published in 1916, Caesar Caine, Vicar of Cleator, wrote: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The ancient parish of Cleator lies midway between St. Bees on the Cumberland coast, and Ennerdale Lake which is embosomed amid the most westerly summits of the Cumbrian hills. From either of these beautiful, and deservedly popular resorts, Cleator can be reached by the pedestrian in about an hour. Nor is Cleator to be despised by the lover of nature and the sight-seer, in spite of its mines and manufactures of to-day. The place has many beauty spots, and boasts of an overshadowing mountain, rich in wild life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.without its mines, manufactures, and rows of houses, [Cleator] has become most familiar to me, and I have learned to love it more, in some respects, as it was, rather than it is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Picnic on Lake Ennerdale<\/p>\n

Joined by my mum and dad, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be spending the next few days visiting – and photographing – some of the holiday spots around Cleator Moor, resurrecting old family traditions such as\u00c2\u00a0walking along St Bees Head,\u00c2\u00a0having a bbq on the shores of Crummock Water, attending some County shows, throwing skimmers into Lake Ennerdale and\u00c2\u00a0climbing some mountains (such as Scafell Pike- below).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dad and I climbing Scafell Pike from Wasdale Head<\/p>\n

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Photographing climbers on Scafell Pike<\/p>\n

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