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Perhaps
a novel or a painting even! (No, please, no, Caz - Web Ed). Well,
maybe not then.
But
there’s such an artistic heritage to follow: from Wordsworth
and Coleridge to modern day scribes like Melvyn Bragg and John Murray.
So there’s got to be something about this part of the world
that sparks the ideas.
You
can feel a really tangible sense of place in some of the writing
and art that’s been inspired by Cumbria. Of course we all know
about Wordsworth’s famous host of golden daffodils, spotted
exactly 200 years ago this April incidentally. And most of us will
have seen some of the fabulous images of the Lake District perfectly
recreated by the likes of Alfred and William Heaton Cooper.
But
it’s not just the landscape that gets the creative juices flowing.
Norman Nicholson, Millom’s own poet laureate, took much of
his inspiration from the people who lived all around him, from the
ironworks and from how the area moulded itself to life without the
noise and bustle of industry once the works closed in 1968.
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| Millom
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