Castle Howe and Serpentine
Start: Brewery Arts Centre car park
Brief history of the brewery Why brewery was there (spring line?)
Captain John French - owned property, rebuilt. Churchwarden, parliamentary captain (imprisoned), burgess 1654 and 59 Speed -Routine/Rattan/Rotten Row link to fell and Underbarrow Road to west and cemetery? Industry - Card making (wool cards), later scrap Yard (Hanrattys) and rag yard. People - poorer end, smaller houses
'Back Lane' Kendal Fault Way up to Bowling Fell Spring line/Water tanks
Normans establish rule 1092 First castle (3rd defensive structure) (Willaim Rufus Motte and Bailey (flat pack) local help, feudal system Monument - erected 1788 'Bill's Bodkin' Bill Holme & Francis Webster The Glorious Revolution 1688 (Monument Windermere Road) Liberty (Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity) Whigs hated 4 Hanovarian King Georges. Tories Elba monument Tolson Hall Bowling Fell - early dedication to recreation - Kendal Fell Trust Act
Beast Fayre/meat market near castle Bull baiting, bull ring, selling meat Suppressed Settlement top of hill
John Cunliffe, Greendale/Longsledale BBC asked him to write TV series about countryside life for children. Suggested postman
Tenter frames reserved Fell Trust Enclosure Farm land Wood yard Ropewalk
Serpentine Woods 1760s Kendal Fell - barren - rocks and stones - locals had rights of common - fuel wood, grazing, gardens, etc. 1767 Kendal Fell Trust Act - public ownership - 'for the benefit of the poor' - support workhouse, light and cleanse town Rented out for income Trustees - notable quakers barred from public office Commercial tree plantation 1790s, inc specimen trees 1820s Serpentine Cottage - caretaker protect trees 1820s pleasure ground - Serpentine Walks - paid initially - 6d (gentry) 1849 opened to public - controversy - flower beds ransacked? Whitwell (Fern Garden) Darwin Leighton - Grocer/amateur naturalist (Bleak House) Storm Arwen damage Time Gun, wishing well, dancing green Trails - Town Council natural history, Alphabet
Quarries and lime burning Kettlewell and Kendal Fell Coal with the canal - the 'Black and White' 1861 another Kendal Fell Trust Act to dissolve - public health acts, trust no longer required - land sold for building Greenside, Queens Road, Kendal Green Building boom - stone and lime big demand Kendal and further
