The Coniston Gallery

Will introduce you to the fascinating history, heritage and geology of Coniston, including:

Coniston’s home grown hero Jimmy Hewitson VC and his ‘Matchless’ Motorbike;

500 million year old rocks;

 Coniston Copperminers that helped copper-bottom Queen Elizabeth 1’s naval and merchant fleet of ships;

The local slate quarries that have roofed the world;

The lives of lakeland Herdwick Sheep Farmers;

The sailing dinghy ‘Mavis’, inspiration for the fictional Amazon, in Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’;

Pioneering rock climbers and mountaineers, founders of the first Mountain Rescue Team;

and the world’s largest collection of Ruskin Lace