Blaze at poet’s historic home
by Rachel Wearmouth, The Journal, March 24th 2011
THE North home of William Wordsworth was damaged by a blaze in the early hours of yesterday.
Five fire crews were called to Allan Bank, in Cumbria’s Grasmere, after a fire broke out in the roof and spread to the first floor of the house once inhabited by the poet laureate.
The tenants of the property, which now belongs to the National Trust, escaped unharmed. An investigation was launched yesterday to determine how the damage to the historic country home happened.
Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, one of the three founders of the National Trust, bought Allan Bank in 1915 and left the property to the trust when he died in 1920.
The organisation still owns the building and adjoining land, although it is not open to the public. A spokesperson for the National Trust said: “Allan Bank was given to us by Canon Rawnsley. William Wordsworth lived there between 1808 and 1811, between the ages of 38 and 41.
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by Rachel Wearmouth, The Journal, March 24th 2011
THE North home of William Wordsworth was damaged by a blaze in the early hours of yesterday.
Five fire crews were called to Allan Bank, in Cumbria’s Grasmere, after a fire broke out in the roof and spread to the first floor of the house once inhabited by the poet laureate.
The tenants of the property, which now belongs to the National Trust, escaped unharmed. An investigation was launched yesterday to determine how the damage to the historic country home happened.
Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, one of the three founders of the National Trust, bought Allan Bank in 1915 and left the property to the trust when he died in 1920.
The organisation still owns the building and adjoining land, although it is not open to the public. A spokesperson for the National Trust said: “Allan Bank was given to us by Canon Rawnsley. William Wordsworth lived there between 1808 and 1811, between the ages of 38 and 41.
Read More - http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-...s-historic-home-61634-28392839/#ixzz1HVNEPdmp
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