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Whitehaven Maritime Fest, June 17-19 2011.Highlights: Friday: Stunning sets on stage from Boy George...Fish cooking and Afternoon Tea Demos on the Sugar Tongue, Jet Skis and Book Launch by Jean Christophe. The latter is at 6pm. Saturday: Live music on three stages including Madness, street theatre, Jet skis and celebrity chef demos. Sunday: Forces Parade starting 10:30am at the Sea Cadets and finishing in the Arena. Hurricane flypast at 12:30 and Full air show program from 3pm. On stage Razorlight. Tall Ships, Cookery demos, Jet skis, fairgrounds and stalls open all three days. Spooky Video about Nuke Dump The granite under parts of Eskdale and Wasdale may prove ideal for the UK's proposed underground nuclear dump. Huge community 'bribes' may cloud Cumbrians' judgement....but see the video from Finland here. 17th Century Loving Cup Saved 
The Friends of Whitehaven Museum have invited The Beacon curator to nominate one item per year from The Beacon's museum collection that is in need of conservation. This year the item selected was an 18th century glass loving cup. With the generous support of the Friends, the cup was conserved by Jenny Truran at the Lancashire Conservation Studios in Preston. The cup is now able to be on show in the museum for everyone to enjoy". This cup is an important piece of Whitehaven's history and will be unveiled by Mayor of Copeland, Cllr Mike McVeigh at the Friends of Whitehaven Museums annual Wine Get Together on 7th September 7.30pm at the Beacon. www.thebeacon-whitehaven.co.uk Maritime Exhibition 
The Beacon's Harbour Gallery features a sea of beautiful maritime art. Whitehaven, one of the most important ports in the country during the 17th and 18th centuries, has a rich maritime past and this exhibition will celebrate this heritage. The Harbour Gallery boasts free entry. How the Queen Mum helped keep rare Slave Goblet in Whitehaven Find out how Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 2002 made the anonymous gift... Olde Worlde Whitehaven See some of the earliest paintings of Whitehaven at a new showing.. Our Clogmaker All about Whitehaven's well known clog maker. Honour for Laal Michael... Find out more..... Steam at Lowca Atmospheric video on the flootplate of steam shunter working at Lowca....you can almost smell the steam and coal dust! Whitehaven's Mutineer How a Whitehaven seaman was involved in the famous Mutiny on the Bounty..find out more.
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find dated to around 955 indisputably links the Furness and West Cumbria
area with Norse. The find dates from a time when England was meant to
have been unified under King Athelstan, which according to history occurred
after a gathering of the English Kings at Eamont Bridge, Penrith on the
12th July, AD 927. The hoard itself was discovered in Easter this year
by a locally-based metal detectorist, who unearthed the 92 pieces made
up of a number of very rare silver coins and other assorted artefacts
which are being examined by the academics at the British Museum in London
who are set to reveal their findings in December. There is a hope to eventually
house the hoard at the Dock Museum in Barrow.The Viking links are further
validated by several significant Viking monuments of worldwide reputation
found in Cumbria , particularly the Norse Cross, found in the graveyard
at St Mary's Church, Gosforth, which is the tallest in England at 14ft
in height, and depicts the victory of Christ over the pagan gods. 
