Ambleside Rushbearing Parade


St Mary's CHurch
Rushbearing Mural
Some of the children used in the mural 40 years on with the artist Gordon Ramsom

Some of the children of the Rushbearing Mural taken in 2004
Agnes Nicholson's Account of the Rushbearing.
Rushbearing in 1835

Account of Ambleside Rushbearing 1885
Earlist Photograph of Rushbearing in Greenbank Field pre 1891
Newpaper cutting written in 1991

The area was policed by the Cumberland and Westmorland and the Lancashire Constabularies.
This is the Monday Procession
Again 1904, 1905

Again 1904, 1905
Circa 1905.
Circa 1905. This is one of Joan's earliest photographs.

Photograph by H. Bell, July 1907.
This is another very early Rushbearing photograh
Ambleside Rushbearing, probably 1909.

Market Place.
Market Place.
The procession in Kelsick Rd.

The procession in Kelsick Rd.
The procession in Kelsick Rd.
1910-1913?

1910-1913?
Herd's Clock and Jewellers shop next to the Queen's Hotel.
Dorothy Tullet with smaller girl not known.

The Church decorated with bearings.
Miss Routledge, Head of Infants 1906-1935,
Marjorie in front row and friends eating gingerbread.

Possibly Joan's first rushbearing leading with C?
Joan in Compton Road in about 1925.
Picture taken in about 1925

Picture taken in about 1925
Still in the 20's, Joan with Winniw Backhouse
On the right Joan with C? as usual to the left.

Possibly 1927,
Possibly 1927, Joan with Mary Pen on right.
Possibly 1927,

Possibly 1927,
Possibly 1927,
circa 1929

Irene Woodburn, ?, Peggy Langdon, Muir.
Everyone made a tremendous effort with the bearings.
About 1929.
Rushbearing Tea about 1929.

Edward & Beryl Flitters, Early 30's,
Possibly 1934.
Also in the 30's.

From the Lakes Herald 1936,
From the Lakes Herald 1936,
From the Lakes Herald 1936,

Postcard.
Brenda Bell with her rushbearing
William & Edgar Garside with Brian Dugdale, 1930's

Brian Dugdale, 1930's
Brian Dugdale, 1950's
1950's.

The Herald.
Prize Winning Rushbearers, 1931
1931

1938.
Early 1930's
Early 1930's

1940's.
Possibly 1945 or 46.
1940's Rushbearing Poster

The Middleton Children
Very late 40's
Late 1940's

1950's
1953
1950's

1940's
Late 30's early 40's
Late 30's or early 40's

War Years
Circa 1940
Westmorland Gazette, 1952.

Westmorland Gazette, 1945
1945?
Circa 1945

1948





1948
1945
1950

1948



Market Place,1950's

1950's


1953

1953
1951
1953

1956
1957
1957?

1950
1951
1959

1957
1958
1954

Donated by B. Flitters.
Donated by B. Flitters.
Donated by B. Flitters.

1959
1959
1959

1950's
1950's
Market Place 1950's

1954
1956
1958



Allan Dugdale
Allan Dugdale

1960
1960
About 1960

1961


Rushbearing 1960.

Rushbearing 1960.
The Rushbearing 1960.
1961

1962
1963
1959

1960
1960?
Market Place.



1963
1963

1964.
1964.
1965.



1965
1963.

1965
1965
1965

1966
1966
1966.

1967
Hand written notes - 1967
1968

Market Square 1968
1964
1964

1968
Westmorland Gazette 1974
1974

1974
Cumbria Magazine 1991