Superb alfresco dining.

Our work placement student from the University of Cumbria, John has just completed his final week with us.  Much of the week was spent around the lake shore and Friars Crag area making sure that it reflected the development work that has gone into improving the area.  We are hoping to be successful with an application for a Green Flag Award for the area that extends from the path at the subway leaving town, via Hope Park, then along the foreshore and on to Friars Crag.  The Derwentwater Foreshore project is a collaboration between the National Trust (Naomi is the Trust’s development officer for this project), Allerdale Borough Council, Cumbria Vision, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and Keswick Partnership, as well as the Lake District National Park Authority, Keswick Town Council and Keswick Civic Society.  

Evening light at Derwentwater foreshore.

Go here for more about that:  http://www.foreshoreproject.com/

 

On the Friday I, John, Naomi, a representative of the National Park Authority, an officer of the Town Council and a Green Flag judge spent the afternoon walking the area and looking at the development work that has been and continues to be done.  We are now waiting and hoping that the green flag will be awarded.

If you visit the foreshore now, we hope you will agree that the area is very-family friendly. 

Bring your cheese & apple, fish & chips or designer picnic ...

There are many new seats that are proving to be very popular.  They are being well-used by families who are choosing to sit there in the evenings with their fish and chips etc.  There cannot be many better views from a restaurant.  We think they are the best views of course but we might be slightly biased!

... then feast on the view.

 

 

For us, one of the good things about the lakeside is that it is one of the places where people like to talk to us about the area and what we are doing.  It is a good place to get feedback from a wide range of people.  Throughout the summer some of our volunteers will be spending time there as ‘welcomers’.  Do go and talk to them – that’s why they are there!