Posts Tagged ‘Andrew Carnegie’
Review: A Car-Free Adventure to Carlisle
The cathedral city of Carlisle may not be your first thought when planning your next weekend away, but the small border city has much more to offer than as a refuelling stop on the way to the Lake District. From its Roman beginnings and royal connections to its hundreds of years of skirmishes with…
Read MoreFairy Glen acquired by Woodland Trust Scotland
Woodland Trust Scotland has purchased a favourite summer picnic spot of Andrew Carnegie. The millionaire industrialist and philanthropist bought the Skibo Estate, and its Ledmore and Migdale woods in 1897 and would return with his family to spend summer holidays until the outbreak of the First World War. The Carnegies named their favourite woodland walk…
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