A Cumbrian museum is celebrating being given a £27,000 grant to help with an exhibition marking the life of a mountain and the people who live and work around it.

The money, from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), means that Keswick Museum can create a display around Terry Abraham’s newest film, Life on a Mountain – Blencathra.

The exhibition, which will feature the stories of people living in the area, launches on May 20 next year and will run until January 2018.

The donation was supported by Threlkeld Parish Council as well as local residents and community organisations.

Keswick Museum curator, Sue Mackay said: “We are delighted our application was successful. It means we can work with volunteers and residents to collect people’s memories, stories, objects and photographs and their hopes for the future, combining them with Terry’s superb stills and film footage to make a really exciting and meaningful exhibit.”

Film maker and director, Terry Abraham added: “I’m absolutely thrilled that my documentary will be used in a different way. It’s great to be able to retain and build on all of the relationships I’ve built up in this area.”

L ife on a Mountain – Blencathra will premier on the BBC in February.

Terry added that he hopes the broadcast will encourage more visitors to the exhibition and the mountain, also known as Saddleback.

Jo Alberti, chairman of Threlkeld Village Hall Trust said: “I am delighted that the mountain and the village could be central to another imaginative project.”

The film demonstrates how the mountains in the Lake District have seasonal, meteorological and human life connected to them.

Part of the film shows comedian Ed Byrne and former BBC journalist Stuart Maconie traversing a tricky mountain pass.