May 31, 2023		INDEX
Kendal Castle: It really is just a ruin on a hill (whatever they say)
Click for next image		Years ago, a lifetime, I took a National Council for Trainee Journalists course at the then Preston Poly (now the University of Central Lancashire or some such thing). One of the participents of the course was a bubbly young woman who worked in Kendal, possibly for the Westmorland Gazette. So it was interesting to go to Kendal and discover that the newspaper has pretty much given up the ghost, shut it's offices and told staff to work from home; or so it appears. I think the newspaper I was working for at the time, the Waltham Forest Guardian-Independent, has fared no better since judging from its web site it is now based in Watford, a place that is completely alien to most people who live in Waltham Forest. Kendal has some nice cafes and is considerably more dynamic than the near to Millom big town (Barrow) but it is the usual Cumberland/ Westmorland story of a high street that has been basically gutted of big stores replaced only by charity shops. Presumably there are large out of town supermarkets if you know where to find them. Even so there are quite a lot of things to recommend the place, notably one of the finest looking (at least from the outside)Wetherspoons in the country which even has its own factory chimney!
INDEX	May 31, 2023 Jonathan Brind