Rare Days!
So much has been written about Furness Abbey (including our own Abbeywatch blog and many others like it, as well as the myriad of fantastic local history books), that I don't feel the need to add to the text just at the moment.... ...but on rare days like today, why would you not just want to walk here? ' There is a tranquillity to the place, a sense of lives lived out so that only their stories endure. Who will care about what happened to her? These huge slabs of crumbling sandstone will still be standing when her tale has become a small part of the history of this town. Seaview will be gone, and unborn people will weave new stories for their time. But she knows that the police will be back.' Okay, that's a quote and shameless plug from my novel, Seaview House , but if you are writing a story with Barrow as it's setting, you have to include Furness Abbey, don't you? These photos were taken at eight o'clock this morning, with the first frost of the se...