Postcard from Penrith .....

As most of you know I am a

Formula 1 fan and go on trips

with my friend Linda.

 

I go with a company called Select Motor Racing and

they are brilliant, so well looked after and great fun.

 

Well since my first trip two years ago

I have become friends on Facebook with a few

of the  SMR "family" some I have not met

and Wendy is one of them.

 

Hopefully going to meet up with her

this year sometime.

 

Wendy sent me a lovely card from Penrith. I have never

been there, passed through on the train ..  

 



 Here we have the Clock Tower, The Castle , St Andrew's Church

and the The Giant's Thumb ..

 

The "Thumb" is in St Andrew's Churchyard. Please click on the link to

find out more.  I googled it and found out the alternative name is

Giant's Grave .

 

A church has stood on this site since 1133, and the present church was built in 1720,

 designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Christopher Wren,

and modelled on St Andrew’s Holborn.

 

  The Victorian Clock Tower erected in 1861, is

   known as the 'Musgrave Monument' and

commemorates the death of Philip Musgrave of Eden Hall.

 

Big Thank you to Wendy ..

 

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