Running to just over a hundred pages and containing numerous illustrations of ships, figureheads and portrait busts, an accounts ledger kept by a Cumbrian shipbuilder has gone to a local museum.
The ledger (left) for Kelsick Wood of KW & Sons, shipbuilders of Maryport on the Solway Firth, was purchased by the town’s maritime museum at a June 14-15 sale held by Mitchells (20% buyer’s premium) of nearby Cockermouth.