Pike o'Stickle

Today's the day ............................. to look at the page

When they built the new supermarket in the middle of Kendal, they created a new walkway to get to it which has been called Wainwright's Yard after the famous walker and writer of guidebooks - Alfred Wainwright.

He was born in Blackburn in 1907 and became Kendal's Borough Treasurer in 1948. He loved maps and in 1930 visited the Lake District where his life was dramatically changed. In 1955 he published the first of his famous Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. The text was written in his characteristic, clear hand and was augmented by meticulous maps and sketches. The books were printed and later published by The Westmorland Gazette in Kendal selling over one million copies.

This is a page out of one of his guidebooks reproduced in slate which you can see in Wainwright's Yard ............................