Palm Sunday

The week before Easter and some fantastic, warm Spring weather to encourage us out onto the fells. At this time of year we often stay low down in the valleys for our walks. This is because there are so many new spring flowers coming into bloom and if you start to climb higher, they all disappear. Just a few hundred feet up the mountains and it can feel like you are walking back into winter. However this particular weekend was so warm that it tempted up back up into the fells.

The blue waters of the copper mines beck.

Industrial remains. The old support for the waterwheel and a rusting chain.

A view of Coniston Old Man and the Coppermines Valley.

A slice gate on a former watercourse. Management of water was always a crucial issue in the copper mines.

Fading into the past, the initials of former mine workers carved into the wood of the slice gate.

Bell Crag with Bell intake infant. There is a broken down cottage in the trees at the back of the green field and the green area is the small holding for the cottage that would have been cultivated in past times. Long since abandoned, Bell Cottage is now used as a sheep fold.

Coming down to Mill Dam and Coniston.