Nicholas Size - in Memoriam

In Memoriam

Nicholas Size did win one very personal battle against the local authorities. His body does not lie in a graveyard, but in a plot of his own choosing on the fellside above the "Fairy Glen", in a hole blasted from the solid rock. His two Lakeland novels, reprinted numerous times by Warnes, continued to be available for years after his death. In 1977 they were reissued together by local bookseller and publisher Michael Moon. That edition also sold out, and in 1996 a paperback edition of "The Secret Valley" was published (also sold out). The Victoria Hotel (rechristened the Bridge Hotel) remains in business in 2008.