05
Aug
2022

A Brief History of The Pub Quiz with Timothea Armour!

  The Pub Quiz… A unique opportunity to competitively showcase your grasp of objective facts whilst having a pint. The choice of questions in a pub quiz can be...

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20
Jun
2022

Probably The Oldest Pub in Cumbria…

Artist and pub enthusiast Timothea Armour joined us at The Farmer’s Arms as an Artist-in-Residence on our ‘Give Some: Get Some’ residency programme. Delving into local archives and the...

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08
Jan
2021

New Year, New Update: The Farmer’s Arms

As we enter 2021 with a new mist of uncertainty in the air, we find ourselves back in lockdown for what seems to be the foreseeable future with most...

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12
Dec
2020

The Farmer’s Arms: We’ve Come This Far…

This week, The Farmer’s Arms project passed its first major milestone. Following an overwhelming response to our national fundraising campaign, enough funds were raised to secure the building and cover the...

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27
Nov
2020

Guest Blog: Wendy Keegan Remembers The Farmer’s Arms: All Grown Up (Part 2)

Picking up where she left off last week, local luminary Wendy Keegan takes us on another walk down The Farmer’s Arms memory lane:  As the 1950s finally gave up the ghost, and the...

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20
Nov
2020

Guest Blog: Wendy Keegan Remembers The Farmer’s Arms (Part 1 of 2)

They’ve shut the pub! Looking out of the window, the village is in darkness. No brightly-lit signs to welcome thirsty travellers; no car park lights shining through the glass stoppers...

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16
Nov
2020

Feeding The Farmer’s Arms

As we work on the project we of course find ourselves down fascinating rabbit holes in research. One of the things we recently found via the Church of Charles...

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