The ITV programme DNA Journey with Ancestry features one of Harriet Martineau’s descriptions of Ambleside. The quotes are set in the context of Ricky Tomlinson’s Lake District connection and his great grandfather’s shop in the Market Place in Ambleside.
With this quote from her about social justice and poverty:
‘Victorian author Harriet Martineau described Ambleside as in a
“perfect setting, yet the town is abominable in all sanitary effects. The people live in stinking holes, whole families are huddled together in single rooms.”’
(Source: In: The Mail, 18th October 2024, News)
