Wainwright Society Indoctrinates Small Children...

By Jon

This one made us smile; the Wainwright Society - the group formed out of adulation for the great man himself - has been indoctrinating small children into the ways of AW.

If it seems a little harsh persuading small children to tramp the hills in teh footsteps of the famous guidebook writer, don't worry. The indocrination took the form of a visit by the Society's secretary Peter Linney to an infants school in Cumbria on National Books Day earlier this month.

Peter gave a short audio visual presentation about Wainwright's life and work before the 200-odd kiddies got the chance to take a look at some of AW's books and maps. Rather charmingly the entire school was in fancy dress for the day, though rumours that they were all dressed as pipe-smoking, curmudegeonly fellwalkers are of course made up...

So, expect to see a new generation of AW fans hitting the fells any time soon. For more information on the Wainwright Society and the school visit, see the Society's web site.

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Marcus Crompton

Posted: 09/03/04 13:35:22 22

This is scary. The Lakes are going to be full of hundreds of little pip-smoking folk, all complaining about how it were so much better in t' old days and now modern life is spoiling everything and eeh aww there are cars everywhere and all the peasants used to be so accommodating to us penniless wanderers (but hang on while I make a few bob selling squillions of books, and a few videos with my mate out of Gardeners' Question Time).

Check out the WWS message-board for plaintive e-mails from loads of elderly Americans who will be invading en masse to walk Ye Famous Coaste to Coaste Walk next summer and dig up a few rellys along the way.

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Wainwright Society Indoctrinates Small Children...

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