Lakeland and Borders of Long Ago

viii, 296pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilded. (boards lightly worn and faded at edges and around spine joints, rounded on corners and spine tips). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. From 1930 to his death in 1940, Walter Travers McIntire was a regular contributor to the columns of the newspaper, Cumberland News. His articles covered a broad range of subjects related to the Cumberland area, and are collected here in this volume, gathered into thematic sections including Carlisle and the Border; Kings and Queens of Cumberland; Lake District Sketches; Old Days, Old Things, Old Ways; etc. They cover a diversity of subjects including The Roman Wall, Dovecots, Old Bridges, Custims and Traditions, Lakeland hostelries etc.