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 Royal Oak, Keswick |
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| Royal Oak, Keswick: stained glass | ||
| locality type:- | stained glass | |
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The Royal Oak is now converted to various shops and offices. A set of stained glass
windows, once in a dining room, now decorate a Job Centre. We are grateful to the
helpful staff who let me take these pictures:- |
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 BOP29.jpg Stained glass; John Peel. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP30.jpg Stained glass; John Peel. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP31.jpg Stained glass; John Peel. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP32.jpg Stained glass; John Peel. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP33.jpg Stained glass; Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP34.jpg Stained glass; Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP35.jpg Stained glass; Robert Southey. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP36.jpg Stained glass; Robert Southey. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP37.jpg Stained glass; John Ruskin. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP38.jpg Stained glass; John Ruskin. (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP39.jpg Stained glass; William Wordsworth (taken 8.2.2008)  BOP40.jpg Stained glass; William Wordsworth (taken 8.2.2008) |
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 CGJ58.jpg Stained glass at the door:- "ROYAL OAK / HOTEL" (taken 15.8.2017) |
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Royal Oak Hotel, Keswick |
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| The dining room of the old Royal Oak Hotel, Keswick is now the Keswick Jobcentre Plus.
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| The Lake Poets' Dining Room. |
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| The windows of this room have stained glass representing the Lakeland poets and the
huntsman John Peel, who were all said to have been visitors to the hotel. The windows
were not in the original hotel, but were installed in the rebuilding after a fire,
February 1929. |
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| Each window has an inscription:- |
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| John Peel |
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| "For Peel's 'view Holla!' Wad waken the dead, or a fox frae his lair in the mwornin" |
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| "He prayeth best. Who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God
who loveth us, He made and loveth all." |
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| Robert Southey |
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| "One small spot where my tired mind May rest and call it Home." |
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| John Ruskin |
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| "The first thing I remember as an event in life was bening taken by my nurse to the
brow of Friar's Crag, on Derwent water." |
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| William Wordsworth |
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| "From Nature and her over Howing soul, He had received so much that all his thoughts
Were steeped in feeling." |
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| Hartley Coleridge |
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| "O blessed vision! Happy child! Thou art so exquisitely wild I think of thee with many
fears For what may be they lot in future years." |
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| Thomas de Quincey |
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| "A perfect woman, nobly plann'd to warn, to cmfort and command, And yet a spirit still
and bright with something of an angel light." |
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| The quotations are taken from the windows and may not be true to the actual poems. |
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