A look back at family days on La al Ratty as the railway mark 60 years
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In pictures: How much has the Lake District really changed over the years?
The UK’s most visited National Park celebrates its 70th anniversary this week: these photos show how the area has changed
6 May 2021 • 12:03pm
Crummock Water in 1929 was still a thought-provoking view
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On May 9 The Lake District National Park will celebrate its 70th anniversary – in 1951 the area, which had long been championed by the likes of poet William Wordsworth and author Beatrice Potter, officially became the second ‘park of the nation,’ a month after the Peak District.
The area has, in many ways, changed very little over the last century – Windermere is as long, Scafell Pike as tall – but in other ways, the National Park has experienced a dramatic transformation. In 1969 it opened the UK’s first National Park Visitor Centre at Brockhole on Windermere, in 2017 it was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status and by 2025 the National Park authority aims to become carbon