The Creative People and Places programme is devoted to bringing investment in the arts and culture to areas of least engagement across the country. Amongst these areas are the boroughs of Allerdale and Copeland in West Cumbria.
Read MoreSaxton's 1576 Map of Cumberland
Christopher Saxton’s map of Cumberland, dated 1576, shows the west coast of the county bounded on one side by what might have been regarded as the perilous, uncivilized, ocean – complete with sea monsters – and a landscape to the east and south west that is dotted with strange-looking mounds (by the map engraver, Augustine Ryther) …
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‘Flimby 1977’, Raymond Moore.
Raymond Moore on the Threshold
For someone who had been so taken by the fugitive nature of the things that took up his interest to the extent that he thought of them as reflections of his own state of mind, it might not be that unusual that Raymond Moore, a pioneer of art photography in Britain, followed the western edge of that country until he ultimately vanished into obscurity.
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