The ‘Lost’ Village of Calgarth is a contemporary Art and Artaeology initiative for based in the Lake District. The location is the ‘lost’, disappeared wartime housing scheme that once stood from 1941 to 1964 in what is now a field on the main A591 road near Windermere.
The location now hosts a school, playing fields and pastureland. The houses stood for twenty-three years and many of the former inhabitants and their descendants now live in nearby Droomer Estate in Windermere village.
Channel Four Time Team’s John Gater carried out an initial geophysics survey of the site in late 2008. The survey established evidence of the buildings and infrastructure of the former village below ground level.
Rosemary Smith and Trevor Avery developed the initial survey. Rosemary Smith developed workshops with students at The Lakes School. Wall based exhibition material was produced inspired by, and working with, the geophysics scans.
Neasden Control Centre produced a publication using archive and source material focused on Calgarth Estate.
This project is supported by Awards for All.
Artists involved: Trevor Avery, Rosemary Smith.
