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Our Sporting Life - Keswick

21 May 2011 to 03 Sep 2011

Keswick Museum and Art Gallery is pleased to be hosting Our sporting Life.  Much of the sport  in this area of the Lake District involves climbing and other outdoor pursuits.  Rock climbing began as a sport in nearby Wasdale Head and we are showing renowned photographs taken by the Abraham brothers as well as material on loan from the Mountain Heritage Trust. There are also films showing early climbs of Napes Needle as well as well-known climber and guide Stanley Watson.

We celebrate our local sports clubs with objects and photographs kindly lent to us by the cricket, bowling, hockey, football, rugby, tennis, rambling , croquet and orienteering clubs.  And we remember Keswick's link with the Olympics when 1948 gold and silver medal winner Barney Ewell visited the town and took part in the 1950 Keswick Sports