last updated (24/04/2005)
- http://www.virtualwhitehaven.net
Walk around all of Whitehaven town centre's streets as if you were there - complete with
guestbook.
- http://www.rediscoverwhitehaven.com
General tourism site promoting Whitehaven, with events, accommodation, facts and photos.
- http://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/whaven.htm
Whitehaven section of Visitcumbria website. A very large site covering
Cumbria with lots of photos and history. Whitehaven section includes history of many
buildings.
- http://www.whitehaven.talktalk.net/
An updated look to one of the oldest and best Whitehaven sites by Sean Duffy with history,
photos, information and a forum.
- http://www.whitehaven-harbour.co.uk/
Guide to the facilities of the newly refurbished Whitehaven Harbour with
details for mariners about the Marina and navigation plus more general useful information.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/webcams/whitehaven_beacon1_webcam.shtml
Whitehaven webcam situated on the top floor of the beacon giving views across the harbour.
- http://www.haig1.freeserve.co.uk/
Haig Pit Restoration Group
- http://www.haven90.freeserve.co.uk/
Whitehaven Born, Bred and Proud a small site with several old photos of
Whitehaven advertising Ralph Lewthwaite's book of the same title.
- http://www.mybit.demon.co.uk/whitehaven/index.htm
This site contains some good photos of Whitehaven including an aerial view and some
night-time shots.
- http://www.victoria116.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
Home page by Whitehaven resident with photos - especially St. James church.
- http://www.rumstory.co.uk
The Rum Story visitor attraction.
- http://www.whitehaven.org.uk/
Marra on the net - another general Whitehaven site.
- http://www.marras.co.uk/
Whitehaven Rugby League Football Club site.
- http://www.moomoo11.freeserve.co.uk/
Whitehaven RLFC Support group
- http://www.westlakes.org/
Westlakes Science Park
- http://www.workinghaven.co.uk/
Promoting West Cumbria - Web authoring, hosting, freelance journalism/PR and photography
by Leanne Bradbury plus area info, photographs, events calendar.
- www.bvista.co.uk
Buena Vista - Wedding Video specialists.
- http://www.shepley.vhe.co.uk/index.htm
Shepley Engineers.
- See also shops, banks, garages etc.
Art and Music
- http://members.aol.com/solwaydelt/Band1.html
Solway Delta Blues Band - Best blues band on the Delta (Solway at least)
- http://www.wadaos.co.uk
Whitehaven and District Amateur Operatic Society - News Info. and Photo history back to
the 1920's
- http://www.mcavoy.free-online.co.uk/index.html
An on-line portfolio by Whitehaven artist Lisa McAvoy
- http://members.tripod.co.uk/Whitehaven_Band/
Whitehaven Brass Band - history, band members, performance dates etc.
- http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/
The Whitehaven News coverage of recent stories and some old photos.
- http://www.news-and-star.co.uk/
News and Star
- http://www.times-and-star.co.uk/
Times and Star
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria
BBC Radio Cumbria
- http://www.www.itvregions.com/border
Border Television
- www.cfmradio.com
CFM radio - Personalities, charities and local weather.
- http://www.select107.co.uk/
Whitehaven Community Radio broadcasting across Whitehaven until Dec 22nd 2000
- http://www.copelandbc.gov.uk
Copeland Borough Council
- http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/
Cumbria County Council with Copeland profile and Journey Planner (bus,
train timetables)
- http://www.cumbriacc.gov.uk/
New Cumbria C.C. site
- http://www.cumbriagenesis.com/
Genesis - a gateway for Cumbria information.
- http://www.wcc.ac.uk/
West Cumbria College
- http://www.lakescollegewestcumbria.ac.uk
Cumbria Adult Education
- http://www.gonmad.demon.co.uk/cumbria/
An incomplete dictionary of local dialect - particularly useful for off-comers who need to
know the intricate syntax involved with jumping over gates.
- http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/3845/
Whitehaven school.
- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CUL/Whitehaven/
Gen Uki geneolgy site with page on Whitehaven churches - old information
taken from Bulmers directory.
- http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/whitehaven_shipping1811_f.html
Information about Whitehaven shipping.
- http://members.tripod.com/~davemoff/index.html
Whitehaven ATC - Air Training Corps contact page
- http://www.alternativecumbria.org.uk
Site giving information on many alternative forms of medicine in the area and contact
details of the practitioners.
Other Towns
- http://www.themoor.ukf.net/
Cleator Moor - A great site by Tom Duffy with lots of information and old
pictures.
- http://www.btinternet.com/~st.bees/
St. Bees - A good, complete site about this historical coastal village.
- http://members.tripod.com/stucaz/
Egremont by Stuart McCrickard with a Whitehaven section containing some
good photos.
- http://www.silloth-on-solway.co.uk/
Silloth - a general guide to this village north of Whitehaven on the
coast.
- http://www.seacoastnh.com/jpj/
Site about John Paul Jones from an American perspective - New Hampshire from where he
sailed.
- http://www.open.gov.uk/nithsdal/index.htm
Site about John Paul Jones from a Scottish perspective - His birthplace museum.
- http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/traditions/html/jpjones.html
American Navy Site
- http://www.tallshiprose.org/stories/white.html
Why a training ship fired on Whitehaven.
- http://www.john-paul-jones.navy.mil/index.html
USS John Paul Jones - Modern war ship in the Pacific fleet named after
John Paul Jones.
- http://www.nadn.navy.mil/PAO/virtual/map/JPJones.html
The crypt where John Paul Jones is buried at the US Naval Academy.
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