Posted by Peter Roche on June 01, 2006 at 20:13:17 from 62.253.128.12 user badboy.
In Reply to: Re: another name? (Re: Peel Island) posted by Robert Hill on June 01, 2006 at 18:27:07:
A. Harry Griffin, whose death not long ago at a great age was discussed at the time on Tarboard, was a Lakelander, a fell-walker and climber, and right up to his death a regular contributor to Country Diary, a long-running daily series of short articles in the Guardian.
He was also a 'very ordinary mountaineer', an author of many books on Lakeland walking and climbing and a founder member of the Coniston Tigers whose base was in a wooden hut - a converted garage in a field near the lake shore at Coniston Old Hall farm. This was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, perhaps he knew the S & A's? He lived in a beautiful house called Cunswick End high on a bluff overlooking the back road from Kendal to Bowness.