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As hospitality businesses across the county reopen their doors, Cumbria Tourism has invited the county’s six MPs to meet with industry representatives.
English Tourism Week runs from today until May 31 and Cumbria Tourism said it was a great opportunity to celebrate the sector’s vital contribution to the economy.
All six of Cumbria’s MPs have agreed to take part and hear about the challenges businesses in their constituencies have and continue to face, alongside future opportunities and the support required to make the most of them.
Barrow & Furness MP
Simon Fell will be travelling around the Furness Peninsula alongside Cumbria Tourism representatives to meet and learn from business about the future potential for the area as a distinct destination, including through the Cumbria’s Year of the Coas’ campaign.
LAKELAND Motor Museum has been showing off their most beloved vehicles this week which both pre-date 1940 and reached speeds that were thought outlandish in their day. Two of the most popular vintage vehicles at the Lakeland Motor Museum epitomise 1930s speed and glamour; a rare SS Jaguar 100 and a 1935 Singer 9Hp Le Mans that once wowed the crowds on the race track. The sporty SS Jaguar 100 was first manufactured in 1937 and fewer than 200 vehicles were ever made. In its day, this slick two-seater reached speeds of 100 mph - exceptionally fast in the 1930s, when many vehicles struggled to sustain 50mph.
VISITORS to the Lakeland Motor Museum can roll back the years with a very special two-wheeler which once belonged to one of the most prominent members of the Royal family. Evocative of the Mod culture of the 1960s, Vespas were the two-wheeled stars of the classic British film Quadrophenia and are an enduring symbol of teenage rebellion and carefree youth. They also became the ‘must have’ fashion accessory for any self-respecting Mod, with around two million Vespas sold in 1960 and sales shooting up to the four million mark by 1970. In more recent decades, the Vespa continued to cement its reputation as a design icon, particularly in Italy where they represent adventure and romance.