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Page last updated at 10:43 GMT, Wednesday, 23 December 2009

PEOPLE & PLACES

A year of steam trains in Cumbria

LMS 7P Class 4-6-0 No. 46115 'Scots Guardsman'

Railway photographer, Shep Woolley picks his crop of steam train photographs from the past year to share with you.

Broughton Moor slate mines

From the British Geological Survey's picture library, historical images of the Slate Green works at Broughton Moor, near Coniston.

In Pictures: The Cumbrian butcher

The remarkable history of the Kirkoswald based butchers Cranstons told through a series of evocative images.

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'Marooned' in Cumbria

Stitching together an aqueduct

Nuclear past, present and future

Keswick's Castlerigg stone circle

Racing history in Carlisle

Flood damage to historical properties

The Raffles estate, then and now

Audio Slideshow: Steam roundabout

Long Meg and her daughters

The Cumberland Lucks

See the stone circles of Cumbria

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Industrial History of Cumbria

Cumbrian Railways Association

Cumbria County Council's archives

Cumbria Family History Society

Shap Local History Society

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