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The Percy Kelly Trail (Allonby)

Allonby The Allonby trail starts at the church takes you through the village which was home to Kelly and his wife Audrey from 1958 to 1970. After servicing in Royal Signals Regiment for six years Kelly applied to be a teacher but was told to return to his work with the Royal Mail post office in Workington. This was a demanding job and gave little time for Kelly to paint so Kelly and Audrey applied to manage the small post office in Broughton in 1952. Apparently Kelly would get cross with customers of the post office as they would interrupt his painting. In 1958 after some serious depression Kelly and Audrey left the postal services and moved to Allondby were Kelly got to focus on his art more seriously. Although Kelly would occasionally make some money by painting pub, garage signs and coffin plates it was Audrey who made the most money working at Dovenby Hospital. In the 12 years that Kelly lived in Allonby he met some influential people and decided...

Amsterdam Trip

We talked about going to Amsterdam. We talked about places to see and things to do and the possible risks. We booked a holiday, looking at hotel ratings and location, departing airport, times and cost. We booked car parking over the internet. We booked insurance looking at cover and price. We logged onto Easyjet and put in our passport details. Monday 16 th March 2015 We downloaded an Easyjet app and ‘checked in’. We then got our boarding pass on the app. We got to NCL airport nice and early We went to the airport an hour and a half before boarding and went through security/customs. I had to show my boarding pass and then go through security. I kept an eye on the departure board looking for my flight number so that I knew which Departure Gate I had to go to. We boarded the plane and flew to Amsterdam. Waiting for our flight At Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport I followed arrows to the train station and bo...

Percy Kelly Trail (Parton)

Parton Parton was the last of the Percy Kelly trails that I completed. It was very quiet and much smaller than its neighbour Whitehaven. Kelly completed a lot of his paintings of Parton at significant time of his life. It was around about the time when he retired from his job at Whitehaven post office, he began cross dressing and was divorced from his wife and was being supported by Nicholas Sekers, a local silk factory owner who had taken an interest in Kelly's paintings. Like much of west Cumbria Parton would have been a wealthy place. At one time it had a brewery, glass works, tannery, coal mining and iron foundry and engineering; my understanding of Kelly makes me think that he would have liked to capture these industries. Seaside access tunnel under railway at Parton I followed the trail to the above railway tunnel. The railway would have been an important link to Carlisle and Maryport for moving goods and ore etc around. I suspect that ...

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