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• Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society

  http://www.catmhs.org.uk/
  Industrial history group with an interest in exploring, researching and recording mining activities in Cumbria. Includes membership, projects, meetings, and photo gallery.

• Cumbria Archive Service

  http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/
  Cares for parish registers, other ecclesiastical records, Wills, electoral registers, maps and plans, poor law records, title deeds, and photographs. Record offices in Barrow, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven.

• Cumbrian Industrial History Society

  http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/cumbria-industrial-history-society/
  For all those interested in the history and development of industries of all kinds in the County of Cumbria. Includes events listing.

• Images of Cumbria

  http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/
  Cumberland and Westmorland Parishes index, with links to parish descriptions, transcribed from Mannix and Whellan, 1847 and 1851. Photographs and ballads too.

• Industrial History of Cumbria

  http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/
  A guide to the industrial history of Cumbria created by members of the Cumbria Industrial History Society with help from members of the Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society. Feature articles on various aspects of industrial history.

• Lakeland Hunting Memories

  http://lakelandhuntingmemories.com/
  A recollection of Lakeland fox hunting in the 1960s using pictures, references, hunting songs and memories of some of the huntsmen and followers of the Coniston and Ullswater packs.

• PastPresented.info

  http://www.pastpresented.info/
  A personal guide from David Bradbury to various historical aspects of West Cumbria, including Whitehaven, Parton, Millom Ironworks and Calder Abbey. Many historical photos and drawings.

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