GREAT North Air Ambulance funds look set to be boosted thanks to a former RAF pilot’s compilation of fascinating Lake District images.
Photographer and author John Nowell has released his latest book A Day Above The Lake District, featuring amazing aerial views over and around the national park.
Mr Nowell uses archive images as well as his own photographs to tell the story of the Lakes from dawn to dusk, although, in reality, the pictures were not taken on one day.
And while Mr Nowell says the book is about aviation in the Lake District, not all the photographs were taken from the air. The result is a eclectic mix of images showing the national park and surrounding areas at work, rest and play.
Mr Nowell says the book aims to highlight the area’s longstanding association with aviation; from the days when the Water Bird – ‘the first consistently succcessful seaplane in the United Kingdom’ – was flown from Windermere.
The author says he first became fascinated by the area when, as a young boy, he was taken by his father to Coniston where he first heard the ‘awesome sound’ of Donald Campbell’s Orpheus jet engine, which powered the Bluebird speedboat.
Mr Nowell returned to the Lakes as an RAF helicopter pilot to practice low level navigation.
This is the latest book in the author’s ‘A Day Above’ series, which now covers Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Rutland and Gloucestershire.
The books are £14.99 and available at most bookshops. If bought on the Great Northern Air Ambulance Service website, £5 goes to the charity.
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