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Bay Villa – The Video

10/5/2014

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It’s difficult to know how to describe our new B & B; ‘up-market’, ‘luxurious’ ‘beautiful’ are phrases which have been suggested, but one word which undoubtedly applies is ‘photogenic’. Hence this video, which uses some of the images taken by photographer Mark Gillow.  The rooms at Bay Villa are the best in Grange, indeed the whole of “Roganville”, and would be exceptional anywhere.  ​

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The Sale of Saddleback/Blencathra

7/5/2014

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How do you value a slab of uninhabited mountainside which produces no income to speak of, and no prospect of any? This was the question put to Harrison & Hetherington the surveyors for Lord Lonsdale who needs to sell Blencathra, also known as Saddleback, to pay a hefty inheritance tax bill. The only paltry income is from a hydroelectric unit which brings in £1,000 a year. The mountain used to be an important mining area, but the sale excludes all mineral rights.

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Bay Villa

6/5/2014

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Bay Villa was our first family home. Until we moved there we had lived a nomadic life in rented places, never getting round to making a home because work came first. When Joanna was a baby we lived in one place for eighteen months and when we left we realised with a shock that we hadn’t eaten a single meal in the house, not even breakfast. It was a case of get up, go to work, come back and sleep. Then, in 1994, we sold the lease of our first hotel, the Hill Foot, leaving us with only the Newby Bridge Hotel to run, which gave us a little money and some spare time to make our own home.
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Battling with the Bank Holiday Crowds

3/5/2014

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Everyone knows, because it’s repeated all the time, that the Lakes is impossibly crowded during the holidays.  Except that it isn’t, and it’s only lazy commentators who say so.  All the hotels in the Lakes are full this Bank Holiday weekend (at least, mine are) but the National Park is so vast that you don’t have to try very hard to avoid the crowds.
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​This afternoon I set off on my bike from Grange, through Lindale and along the road to Cartmel Fell. ​

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