Gravestone for the Gale family in Boltongate churchyard, Cumbria

Gravestone for the Gale family, barely legible due to materials and light/shade

Gravestone for the Gale family, photographed from a low angle to improve legobility

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As usual, we came through #Boltongate late in the day as we headed north, so the light was all wrong for gravestone photography. Low camera angle helped with legibility but attracted some funny looks from the locals.
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War Memorial, Boltongate, Cumbria

All Saints Church, Boltongate, Cumbria

Grave of Rev John Ewbank and his wife Helen, in the churchyard at Boltongate, Cumbria

By coincidence, yesterday I paid a visit to All Saints Church, Boltongate, where Leonard's father was Rector. Both Leonard and his brother Walter are commemorated on the War Memorial in the churchyard, and his parents are buried there.
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Book returned to Cumbria school library 113 years overdue Poetry of Byron borrowed by schoolboy Leonard Ewbank, who studied at Oxford and was killed at Ypres in 1916

In yesterday's Guardian newspaper, an article about a library book... and a young man called Leonard Ewbank who was killed at Ypres:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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