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Early 19th C Quizzes
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Snigging timber.
Snigging is the term for bringing timber out of woodland with horses. An energetic, intelligent horse or cob is required. Even now, some estates in Cumbria use forestry workers who have their own Dales or Fell cobs to bring timber out of awkward places. The horses do less damage than machinery and can often be trusted on a known run to take a tree out solo; it would be a clever tractor that could do the same!
Coaching and the Hotel Trade
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another Wilson - William – was
lessee of the Keswick Hotel from 1884 to 1900.
In 1885 he wrote a pamphlet called Coaching
Past and Present, and his advertisement
for the Hotel describes the
facilities, including telegraph and telephone:
"Adjoining the Railway Station and Connected by a Corridor.
"Overlooking the New Fitz Park.
"Tennis Courts, Post Horses and Mountain Ponies."
Richard Rigg of Windermere ran Mail coaches using three horses and the service continued into the 1920s. Penrith too had horsedrawn coaches running out to Ullswater as a tourist attraction until 1910 (Palmer). Richardson quotes Lady E M Ascroft who recalled riding hired ponies from the Grasmere Prince of Wales Hotel as a child in 1886. They were small, brown, surefooted and capable of picking their way over the roughest country.