News and Reports
Arnside Wallathon 17-18 July ’18
July 23, 2018
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Chris Bratt reports:- The weekend at the YHA in Arnside was a success – 17 members pitched up and we managed to construct about 25 metres of wall at sitting height in a (deliberately!) lopsided circle which will form th
Continue Reading →KNOTT HALL (3) June 16/7 2018
June 17, 2018
Knott Hall Farm : Members’ Meet 16 & 17 June 2017 Phase 3 of the work at the Holmes’s Knott Hall farm saw Cumbria Branch members again tackling the boundary wall, in the glorious Lune gorge. Mixed weather, inclu
Continue Reading →WESTMORLAND SHOW
September 17, 2017
Westmorland County Show 14 Sept 2017 A Golden Day dawned for the select band** of Cumbria wallers dedicated to displaying our skills and products to an astounded world. Much hard work by volunteer members had already been exp
Continue Reading →MEMBERS NEWSBRIEF DEC 18
September 06, 2017
NEWS FROM THE WALLS The 2019 Schedule of Branch Events is now virtually completed and members will be receiving their usual printed copy very soon. We hope that everyone will find they will be able to support at least one mee
Continue Reading →PRESTON PATRICK Church Wall
September 05, 2017
Mission accomplished! (see Gallery for photos) members meet 2+3 Sept ’17 Sunday weather held out until about 3.00 and we’d completed the parapet wall before afternoon tea. After tea, we cammed the whole wall in dr
Continue Reading →LITTLE HOAD, Ulverston
August 14, 2017
LITTLE HOAD, ULVERSTON 12 -13 August (Photos in Gallery) Tony Breakell (at present walking over the Canadian Rockies) reports a very successful Members’ Practice Meeting at Ulverston. The Ulverston & District Civic Societ
Continue Reading →KNOTT HALL FARM weekend
July 05, 2017
Knott Hall Farm : Members’ Meet 17 & 18 June 2017 For our 5th branch meet of the year, the intrepid wallers from Cumbria Branch tackled walling in the Lune gorge. We were working on a steep (OK steepish!) hillside high a
Continue Reading →CROOKLANDS WALLATHON
April 07, 2017
The March Wallathon at Crooklands rustled up around 34 members over the three days. Many members did apologise for not attending practice meetings for the usual reasons (family, holidays etc) but it is sometimes a bit embarra
Continue Reading →WHINNEY HILL & WARTON CRAG
March 07, 2017
February saw us at BTRC at Whinney Hill with only five members completing 2 repairs (after a false start on the wrong wall!), and April brought a return visit to the Lancaster Wildlife Trust (LWT) site at Warton Crag, which w
Continue Reading →RATTY REVISITED!
February 25, 2017
Our hard-working Venue Co-ordinator writes:- A return visit to The Green station walling project on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Back in April 2014, an enthusiastic team of Cumbria Branch wallers trekked across the
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