Framedlight

In January we took Alan's mum back to her home near the lakes and it was a good excuse for a wander. We visited Blackwell, an arts and crafts house near Bowness, built by Baillie Scott for a Manchester brewer, Sir Edward Holt. It was to function as his 'holiday home'! It is a lovely house overlooking Lake Windermere. After a spot of lunch (they have an excellent café) we drove over to Rydal water where there is a pretty footpath that follows the course of the River Rothay. The excellence of the walk can be verified as we were following Sir Chris Bonnington, presumably working off some Christmas excesses, down the track. We finished off with a quick visit to Grasmere church.

While I was staying in Cumbria we went to see Blackwell in Bowness.This is a house designed by Baillie Scott for Sir Edward Holt, a brewer, and built in 1901. It is constructed in an arts and crafts style with rooms based around a hall with minstrels gallery and contains furniture and artifacts made by Morris and Co, William de Morgan and Ruskin and Co amongst others. The grounds around the house are lovely but the weather was foul while we were there. Lunch in the tea room was very good however! Photography is permitted and so I let rip with the Fuji. There are a few double exposures (you can only do 2 multiple exposures with the Fuji XE-1) and I have put those at the end.