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Posted by John Nichols on September 28, 2003 at 00:19:41 from 165.91.72.144 user Mcneacail.

Dear All:

When I first joined this board, I was pointed to a web site - art museum that had a picture of Lanehead painted in about 1815?

Does anyone know of this site and the painting?

And I have just finished reading E Robertson's book - The Signpost. The interesting thing in this book is her description of building a stone house at in 1940 in Ireland. She describes the development of a house water supply system from locally available pipe and putting a stone weir in a small creek. It was a great description. She also noted that some-one in the houses used to pump water for the whole house once per day. I gather although it is vague that the water was pumped up to a holding tank in the roof space, as I see in the plans of a Windermere house from the 1900's. Interesting concept.

One suspects that the knowledge and skills to build these types of water supplies were common in England at this time and we should have expected at least some of the house in the Lake District to have them.

The Signpost was a good book, and she certainly can write about the Sea well.


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