Lake District
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Box 4: Lake District and north Lancashire.
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8386/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers relating to Manley's work in England and overseas
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Gordon Manley: Papers
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Correspondence on observations given, 1889 - 1907
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/181
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning observations given to the Northern Rifle Association, U. Levau, Mr Spencer, A. Stubbs, J. Franz, H.P. Slade, Mr MacKenzie, Mr Jackson, Mr Dawes and Mr Hutchinson, 1889. The topics include the Sun's position at Wimbledon; Vesta, 1887-1888; the azimuth of the Sun and Moon in west London; sunrise near Paris; the full Moon, January and February 1891; observations of a lunar crater; measures of Mars and Saturn; an equation of time; the meeting of Mars and Saturn; and the...
Dates:
1889 - 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
family members on holiday, 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add 8904.4: 1465-1472
Scope and Contents
Photo of Lake District
(Photo)
Dates:
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Nora Barlow
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Financial accounts of supplies, chiefly of food, for meets in Snowdonia and the Lake District, 1942 - 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXI.6
Scope and Contents
The volume is mostly blank.
Dates:
1942 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lake District meets (rock climbing), 1958 - 1984
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXI.3.14
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The records cover club administration and activities, especially lectures and meets.
Dates:
1958 - 1984
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Meets log book, 1949 - 1991
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXI.4
Scope and Contents
The log book contains reports of mountaineering chiefly in Snowdonia, the Lake District, and the Peak District, and to a lesser degree Cornwall, the Avon Gorges, the Cairngorms, Wester Ross, the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Dates:
1949 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Meteorological observations, 1888 - 1893
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/121
Scope and Contents
*This item is currently restricted for health and safety reasons.* Various meteorological observations comprised mainly of phenomena seen, but with some recorded observations:'Weather chart of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution', October to December 1888.Newspaper cutting from 'The Advertiser', Adelaide, 29 April 1891, concerning the summer of 1890-1891.Photograph of a lightning flash taken by R. Law, 1891.Barometric and meteorological data...
Dates:
1888 - 1893
Conditions Governing Access:
This item is restricted for health and safety reasons.
File
Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1878 - 1879
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/490
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous articles on scientific matters, including a paper by E.M. Peligot believed to be concerning Mars; a catalogue of electrical instruments; J.C. Ward on the geology of the Lake District; examinations of Navy telescopes; plans and dimensions for telescopes; A. Krank's improved manufacture of parabolical reflectors; 'Colour correction of achromatic telescopes' by W. Harkness; 'Testing of object-glasses' by G.W. Royston-Pigott; an article titled 'Lights, beacons, and buoys', from...
Dates:
1878 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Sketch Book
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6298
Scope and Contents
A series of drawings in watercolour, sepia and pen-and-ink of views in Great Britain and Ireland, 32 folios. The drawings are of locations in Ireland, Scotland, the Lake District, Cambridge and Fen Ditton, and Alderley Park (possibly in Cheshire).
Dates:
1798-1799
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library