Bishop Thomas Smith was a key figure in the history of Carlisle Cathedral. What isn’t widely known is that he had a sister. Thomas Smith led quite a life for ‘an Appleby lad’ – teaching at Oxf...Read More
Carlisle Cathedral inside is, I once heard a visitor like: “like something out of Harry Potter.” And its walls inside and out tell the city’s history: inside, through memorial tablets; outside, ...Read More
Is graffiti art or vandalism? Down the centuries, it has always been in the eye of the beholder. And time does make a lot of difference. ‘Graffiti’ today conjures up images of spray-painted scrawl...Read More