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Lakeside, Swift At The Terminal 1907
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A Selection of Memories from Lakeside

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Lakeside

Sparked a Memory for you?

If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

My mother, born in Carlisle 1920, has a memory of one of her brothers going to Newby Bridge Hospital. I have asked around but nobody seems to know if there was a hospital at Newby Bridge. It is such a strong memory that my mother, now 92, has that I would like to try and find out for her. Every time we arrive at Newby Bridge she always says the same thing, "George was in hospital here. He had a bad heart".
In April 2008 I went on holiday to the Lakes with my wife, Elizabeth, and we enjoyed a day's outing here. We first took a steam train from Haverthwaite through Newby Bridge to Lakeside where the steamer quay looks not much different from the view shown in this photo. Then we boarded a steamer which took us up the lake as far as Windermere. We disembarked for a couple of hours looking round the town ...see more