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RIL 11, 1989

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(Above) THE ARMY - OLD land waters, will

AND NEW.-In the barracks of the 15th/19th Hussars at York the a holiday fort-

old and the new exists side by side. in the end as On one hand the visitor sees ca- motor-car could-valry-ceremonial........._with____recruita. drilling sword in hand and smart spurred troopers on guard. On the other he sees heavy trucks and speedy tanks, the new mechanised side. "Stables" is still sounded every morning at eleven but the soldiers groom tanks instead of horses. There are still a few horses left, however, for mechanisation is not yet complete and a few charg- ers will be kept for ceremonial occasions.

and tea. But. the water-gipay hals, the reedy, try of the back- ers, our English -haunted, swan- flash of “midget her on the wing.: ng. the motorist take the car and, when and where river who makes

not long

one in their championship of sense. and sensibility in regional control, have done well to expose it. Now, whether or not you agree with everything in their new pamphlet. "A Road Policy for the Lake Dis- trict", the fact remains that they are fighting for an essential point, the defence of the track, which means the retention of at least some places in our country where a man can only go slowly and quietly, by his own or his horse's effort.

has

A Minister of Transport recently are, in the interests of sane journey-

laid it down that the traveller, ourney's prelude ing, certain immediate points to be

whether motorist or not, "has a con- ts tyrant and its established. One is the defence of plete right to use the King's high- ing, in his own inaccessibility--or what remains of

way, which, from time to time, and, I hopefully it. There is an Irish "bullishness" to be widened or improved so as Lable revolution about demanding inaccessible places safely to accommodate the increas peed's sake.

for our journeying, but the point is

ing traffic." This is only half the especially in so made clear and urgent by the aplegal truth. There is another and England, is to palling statement issued

most valuable half which permits and opportunity ago by the Cumberland County Coun the Minister on request of a local y with open eyes cil with regard to its plans for road authority, to close a road to motor- ged. To this end development in the Lake District. vehicles and to keep it in its old con- eded. The view The council supported its proposals dition of

and the viewer by talk of stimulating trade, and bridle-path, agus way, track, or

Says the pamphlet: ucation ought to actually promised to "open up

In other words there is authority dition: it is har- unique countryside which is gradual from Parliament for definitely clos

about the pre- ly being forgotten owing to presenting to care and motor-cycles such The idea that old and well-tried walking routes in rst. If every inaccessibility."

the Lake District as, for example, the Garburn Pass.

a

now to have a Scafell and Great Gable are being I starkly into the gradually forgotten because there is will be the effect no road for motorists "over the Sty ne? Is anybody Head Pass is a concelt so fantastic aesthetic side of and reveals a state of mind to menacing that the Friends of the - Lake District, who are really fighting a national battle as well as a local

roblem.

There

eurge McManus

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The Lake District is very small: a circle with a radius of fifteen miles includes it all. An aeroplane can cross it in ten minutes. Yet still it has some of the noble “inaccessl- bilities which so distress the local senators of Cumberland, and we must preserve it so For in such places we can still go a journey and spend ten glorious days in learning and loving every inch of ten glori- ous miles. Before long, mankind, exasperated, bored, and battered by the screaming tyranny of speed, will ask of what avail is all this craving for mileage, this insensate girdling of the universe in record times which only brings home more neuralgia than "mowied Let us restore, for our peace and pleasure, -con- dition travel in which ilea re-

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