Cumbria County Council is looking for public input on its bid to purchase items from Alfred Wainwright’s estate.
The Cumbria Archives Service has been given the opportunity to purchase a collection of Wainwright papers, including correspondence, memoirs, original drawings, lithographs, slides and photographs.
This will cost some £200,000, most of which will be sought from Heritage Lottery Funds. However an application for such funding will require demonstration of substantial support that the material should be purchased for the county archives, so as to remain in Cumbria and be accessible for research.
The Archives Service is therefore inviting hillwalkers who are in support of the project to write to them by the end of February, when the application for funding needs to be submitted.
If you think this is a worthwhile idea and that the Wainwright Archive should remain in Cumbria and be generally accessible, write to:
Peter J Eyre
Assistant County Archivist
Cumbria Record Office
Kendal
LA9 4RQ
or email: peter.eyre@cumbriacc.gov.uk
