A UNIQUE performance piece is coming to Cumbria.

'Flight' will take its audience on a journey through the house and gardens of Brockhole on Windermere.

At the heart of the performance are the young airmen of the First World War and the people they left behind.

Images of Edwardian garden parties are glimpsed between the trees as the sound of distant aeroplanes echo over the lake.

Geraldine Pilgrim is the artistic director of the performance and this will be her first visit to Cumbria.

"When I read that the Royal Flying Corps was known as 'the suicide club' with new pilots often in their teens lasting on average just 11 days from arrival on the front to death, I thought of the people left behind looking up at the sky waiting for their loved ones to return, like migrating birds coming home," she said. "Only to wait and wait as so many never came back."

Geraldine’s work specialises in performances and installations in unusual buildings and landscapes, where the architecture of the site is used as inspiration and narrative, gradually revealing memories and atmospheres that have built up over the years.

The public preview for the event is on July 7 and more information can be found at www.lakesalive.co.uk