Joseph Hardman by Anne Bonney, £13.50

Born in the Lancashire mill town of Radcliffe in 1893, Joseph Hardman and his brother, Walter, moved to Kendal in 1911 and set up the Kendal Window Cleaning Company. After joining the local photographic club, where he soon gained success with some of his photos being printed in local papers, he then set himself up as a freelance photographer.

With his wife, Edith, by his side he regularly travelled up to 200 miles a week by taxi taking photographs of country pursuits and pastimes, fox hunts, fairs and shepherds' meets and capturing the beginnings of tourism all across Westmorland and Cumberland.

Many of his photographs are now published together in this delightful book including, perhaps, his most famous photograph entitled Kendal Rush Hour as the sheep were driven down AllHallows Lane which, after much planning, was re-enacted in August 2014.

CAROLINE REECE

WATERSTONES KENDAL

Also available at Kendal Library and Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry, Kendal.