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Signs of things to come?

14/4/2017

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It's been a hectic week for several of our committee members this week, led by Sue Dawson who's been doing a fantastic ambassadorial job on behalf of the Society. On Monday a group of 17 students from the University of Nottingham visited Millom as part of a field trip to Cumbria where they were looking at the way landscape influences literature. Their tutor, Kiri Langmead, was in touch with us throughout her planning of the trip and met up with Sue a few weeks ago. On Monday the visit took place as reported on our Home page, and today Kiri brought another group of 13. Antoinette Fawcett, Glenn Lang, Peggy Troll and Dot Richardson all added their expertise to ensure the students had a thoroughly rewarding and eye-opening time. 

Meanwhile yesterday Sue, accompanied by Dot Richardson and Society member and church organist Barbara Andrews, met the producer and his researcher from the BBC's 'Songs of Praise' programme who are keen on filming a segment about Nicholson for an upcoming programme. They had lunch at the cafe in Norman's old home and visited the Whicham Valley, Silecroft, Haverigg, Hodbarrow, the Ironworks site, and St George's Church.

So interest in Nicholson is evident from two very different directions. Not only that, there have been tangible benefits to the town. The university is going to make donations to the church, the Discovery Centre and to our Society, and the 'Songs of Praise' team will also be making a donation to the Society - plus, the cafe had a few extra people buying lunch yesterday and the students took the opportunity to spend some money in the town. If we are successful in buying and developing Number 14, we would expect to see a lot more of this sort of thing.    
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  • NN Archive & Weblinks
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  • Sitemap
  • Our Page!
  • Audio Archive
  • Nicholson Timeline
  • Radio Cumbria documentary
  • Lockdown Poetry Competition
  • The Unpredicted Spring
  • Word of the Month
    • July 2016.....'skerry'
    • June 2016........'lish'
    • January 2016......'unsnecked'
    • December 2015: backend
    • August 2015 'jammy crane'
    • July 2015 'syke'
    • June 2015 'skear'
    • May 2015 'Lass'
    • February 2015 'glim'
    • January 2015 'spink'
    • December 2014 'mire' part 2
    • November 2014 'mire'
    • October 2014 'neb'
    • September 2014 'let'
    • March 2015 'stope'