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Page last updated at 12:55 GMT, Tuesday, 17 November 2009

The Raffles estate, then and now
Brookside Place circa 1937
We take a pictorial trip back in time to the beginnings of the Raffles estate in Carlisle and compare it to today.

Cranstons delivery van In Pictures: The Cumbrian butcher
The remarkable history of the Kirkoswald based butchers Cranstons told through a series of evocative images.

Steam powered galloper Audio Slideshow: Steam roundabout
Jack Schofield owns and operates Ashley's Steam Gallopers, a traditional fairground roundabout.


MORE HISTORY
Stitching together an aqueduct
Nuclear past, present and future
Keswick's Castlerigg stone circle
Racing history in Carlisle

Long Meg and her daughters
The Cumberland Lucks
See the stone circles of Cumbria

HISTORY ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
Cumbria Amenity Trust
Industrial History of Cumbria
Cumbrian Railways Association
Cumbria County Council's archives
Cumbria Family History Society
Shap Local History Society
MORE HISTORY ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB

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