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Fest 2010... June 29-30. Video thanks to 12thDonino on the car park roof! Read about some of the attractions at this year's Festival. Pictures from the weekend A Rugby win for Whitehaven at Last! Find out more... Mega Cruise Liner due Residents of 'The World' Cruise ship will be visiting Whitehaven and West Cumbria on the 14th/15th August 2010. Find out about the ship Maritime Exhibition 
Beginning on 17th July, The Beacon's Harbour Gallery will be transformed into 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 exhibition brings together not only some previously unseen paintings from the Beacon collection, but also some from other collections in Britain. The exhibition begins on 17th July and is showing until 18th September in The Harbour Gallery. It is open Tuesday to Sunday and holiday Mondays 10am to 4.30pm. Entry is FREE. Pit Disaster Anniversary  “Wellington Pit – 100 Years” The Beacon Harbour Gallery 8th May to 10th July2010 Beginning on 8th May, The Beacon in Whitehaven will be displaying an anniversary exhibition commemorating the Wellington Pit Disaster of 1910. One hundred years have passed since the awful disaster which claimed the lives of 136 men and boys. Also in May, Harry Fancy along with his wife Margaret, will deliver a talk at The Beacon at 7.30pm on 4th May at The Friends of Whitehaven Museum’s monthly meeting on the Beilby Goblet. The Tragic Summer of 2010  Friends of those who died at Keswick mark their passing. 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. Pink Power! Late on 5th June 2009 Whitehaven was awash with ladies of all ages, dressed in Pink. The 'sisterhood' came out in massive force to do a midnight charity walk in aid of 'Hospice at Home West Cumbria'.. Our local radio station CFM put on a roadshow, with groups, and karaoke singers, ..see more of the fun and games. 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.
TAKE A STROLL!  Memories of the 2005 Maritime Festival Queen's Visit 2008 On June 5 2008 Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh were cheered by around 10,000 wellwishers along the harbourside. The event marked the 300th anniversay of the grant of the Royal charter for the harbour. See the actual Royal document in which Queen Anne granted Whitehaven her harbour. All about Whitehaven plus Where to Stay Find out more about the old pubs and characters that have made Whitehaven unique. Click to visit our feature page Take a stroll through Whitehaven Map of the Town and around Also use our Information page Fireworks Fun! Old Habourside Scene 
Whitehaven as she was in 1847... Fascinating detail in this reproduction from a Gazetteer from 1847.... 
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