To mark the 200th anniversary of The Westmorland Gazette in 2018, we are publishing a photograph from our archives on our website every day this year.
Kendal and district raised enough money in war savings for a destroyer - the Cavendish - here seen accepting the surrender of U516 in 1945.
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