Sunday 26 April 2015

English Lakeland and a hymn of two Kingdoms

1. Ullswater and the Lakeland fells, Cumbria
A view from the road near Gowbarrow Park

[Just above a footpath leading to Aira Force waterfall]
2. The War Memorial in the form of a Celtic cross
(All Saints' Churchyard, Watermillock, Cumbria)

[Commemorating the war dead of the two World Wars]
3. The WW1 memorial inside Watermillock Church
4. Memorials to brothers Gerald and Cecil Spring Rice
(Inside Watermillock Parish Church, Cumbria)

Gerald Spring Rice was in the Lonsdale Battalion (WW1)


Cecil Spring Rice was Ambassador to Washington (WW1)
He also wrote the words of this hymn:
"I vow to Thee My Country"
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