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Does anyone remember those ‘Holidays at Home’ weeks in Harrogate during the dark days of the war? They were designed to persuade families to stay at home and not to waste time and money travelling the country. Most holiday resorts were shut down anyway, filled with pill boxes and barbed wire obstacles on the beach.
As a small boy I recall the competition to create a picture with coloured chalks supplied by the corporation. It took place along the pavement adjoining West Park Stray. We were each allotted a paving stone and then we set about making as interesting a drawing as we could. The judges came round in the late afternoon peering over our shoulders as we knelt over our masterpiece. I can’t remember any of my own creations attracting any praise, but it was good fun. There were many other attractions organised during that week.
HERE is a round-up of the incidents mountain rescue teams were called out to in the South Lakeland area in the last week. - A walker slipped and injured her knee in woodland at Haverthwaite on Monday. Her leg was splinted and she was stretchered to a waiting ambulance. - A solo climber - who had no climbing gear with him - became stuck on Dow Crag, near Coniston, on Tuesday. He was rescued with the assistance of a helicopter. - A woman injured her ankle after falling near Boo Tarn, on the lower slopes of the Coniston Old Man, on Tuesday. She was stretchered to a rescue team vehicle, then returned to her party s vehicle for onward transport to hospital.