LODGE TO CASTLE HEAD HOUSE

Went over to visit Mum as per usual today.   On the way there we pasesed a coach, which was very badly parked ono the entrnce to the railway station and the coach driver was having to diret people around it.  Don't know why he parke there??

Then jjust beyond that we saw a large party of young Orthodox Jewish people..  An  unusual site in Grange, but what intrigued me was where had they come from, because there were very spread out and were coming from almost as far as this Lodge House??  Therre are no synagogues or something similar there, no hotels so it has totally intrigured me.  Unless of course they were staying at FSC Castle Head, but they would have had a long walk!!!  Just being nosy really I  would just love to know where they were coming from and if they had a special event on somewhere??

 Anyway for the rest of the journey the traffic was OK.  We decided to try and come back along The Prom but it was so busy that we couldn't stop, apart from at the very top end, which I've photographed numerous times.  So we then just scotted up the M6 and back home.

FSC CASTLE HEAD

This househas always intrigued me, you see it as you are entering Grange.  It looks better coming the other way, but that will be for another day.

I've always assumed it was some sort of Lodge House for a very long narrow drive way leading to the right of it, so I've looked it up.  It is called.  The big house is called Castle Head, and here is a little history of it.

Castle Head is a country house surrounded by 20 acres (81,000 m2) of grounds near to the seaside resort of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, England. It is run by Field Studies Council, and is a Grade II listed building.[1]
The house was built in the Georgian style for John Wilkinson, an industrialist, in 1778 (244 years ago).[2] He was buried in the garden at Castle Head in 1808 before being re-interred in the church in 1828.[3] The house was then acquired by Robert Wright, a solicitor, but lay empty under his ownership for some 30 years, before being bought in 1863 by Edward Mucklow, a Manchester businessman.[4]
The house went on to serve as St Mary's Missionary College, a seminary owned by the Holy Ghost Fathers, from the early 20th century until it closed in the early 1970s / Students who trained there included, briefly, Sir Gerry Robinson, the industrialist.
Since the mid-1970s the house has been a Field Studies Centre, from 1997 managed by the Field Studies Council who offer residential and non residential fieldwork for schools, colleges and universities and holiday accommodation.
In September 2009 a Life Science Centre was also established at the house.


John Wilkinson also has a memorial, which has recently beein refurbished in Lindale, which I will photograph one day.

OK everyone, sorry for the lengthy blip, but you don't have to read it all.  Do take care and stay safe.  See you all tomorrow.