FOUW ‘Understanding Ullswater’ Evening Talks 2021
FOUW ‘Understanding Ullswater’ Evening Talks 2021
All the talks will be FREE, but you are requested to make a voluntary contribution towards costs.
The choice of location will be made later depending upon the COVID regulations in force at the time
Date |
Time | Location | Theme | Speaker |
February 4th | 19.30 | ZOOM | Wordsworth and Ullswater | Jeff Cowton
Curator, Head of Learning, Wordsworth Trust
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March 4th | 19.30 | ZOOM | The challenges of managing commonland in Ullswater | Dr Julia Aglionby
Professor of Practice at University of Cumbria , Executive Director of the Foundation for Common Land.
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April 8th | 19.30 | ZOOM | The Geology and Landscape of the Ullswater valley | John Rodgers
President, Cumberland Geological Society
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May 6th | 19.30 | ZOOM | The Lake was saved – the story of Lord Birkett and the Ullswater Preservation Society
|
Miles MacInnes
Chair, Ullswater Preservation Society, Former Chair FOUW |
June 10th | 19.30 | tbc | The English Lake District World Heritage Site and the National Trust
|
Jamie Lund
Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Advisor, National Trust |
July 1st | 18.00 | tbc | Archaeology in the Ullswater Valley
|
Eleanor Kingston
Archaeologist for the LDNPA
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Aug 4th | 14.00 |
Lowther Gardens |
Guided tour of Lowther Castle Gardens
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Martin Ogle
Head Gardener Lowther Castle
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Sept 2nd | 19.30 | tbc | All the fun of the follies: Lyulph’s Tower and its context
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Emeritus Prof Jane Taylor
Durham University |
Oct 7th | 19.30 | tbc | The Cumbrian Night Sky | Stuart Atkinson |
Nov 4th | 19.30 | tbc | From Romans to Normans: the Lakeland Landscape
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Geoff Cowell
Senior Volunteer LDNPA |