Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Creator of Coast to Coast Walk to be Honoured by Kendal Statue
A statue of Alfred Wainwright, creator of the Coast to Coast Walk, is to be erected in his home town of Kendal, where he was borough treasurer of Westmorland between 1947 and 1967.
It is to be sculpted by Graham Ibbeson, who also created the statue of Eric Morecambe down the road in Morecambe.
Wainwright, died aged 84 in 1991 having spent most of his life writing his famous “Pictorial Guide top the Lakeland Fells” a series of books covering 214 Lakeland fells, with page after page of intricate drawings and hand drawn maps.
His ashes are scattered at Innominate Tarn on Haystacks, the fell he said was his favourite Lakeland mountain. There is a memorial tablet to the writer in St James’s Church in Buttermere, below the fell.
Local mine owner Mark Weir has suggested a statue should be built on top of Fleetwith Pike – near to Haystack, and not far off the Coast to Coast Path. I can’t see the planners going for that one.
It is to be sculpted by Graham Ibbeson, who also created the statue of Eric Morecambe down the road in Morecambe.
Wainwright, died aged 84 in 1991 having spent most of his life writing his famous “Pictorial Guide top the Lakeland Fells” a series of books covering 214 Lakeland fells, with page after page of intricate drawings and hand drawn maps.
His ashes are scattered at Innominate Tarn on Haystacks, the fell he said was his favourite Lakeland mountain. There is a memorial tablet to the writer in St James’s Church in Buttermere, below the fell.
Local mine owner Mark Weir has suggested a statue should be built on top of Fleetwith Pike – near to Haystack, and not far off the Coast to Coast Path. I can’t see the planners going for that one.
Labels: Coast to Coast Walk, Kendal, Wainwright
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