SILLOTH welcomed a well-known personality to the town recently.
Television personality Timmy Mallett now spends his time as an artist and has won award for best up and coming artist from the Fine Art Trade Guild as well as seeing his work distributed and published in limited editions by De Montfort Fine Art and Buckingham Fine Art.
The 66-year-old is currently cycling 1,900 miles around England and Wales, following in the footsteps of well-known artists and painting the local scenery during each stop.
The former Wacaday host spent a week in Cumbria, documenting his visit on his social media pages.
Taking to his Facebook page, Mallett wrote: “Silloth is a lovely village on the edge of the Solway Firth. I visited Mrs Wilson's coffee shop (delightful) and the Big Man statue (amazing).
“It was nice to see Silloth getting in the Jubilee mood with decorations on the houses and I even saw a post box with jubilee knitted cover.
“The cycle ride through the ANOB is calming and easy. Wind at my back, I came to Abbeytown and the grade 1 listed Parish church which was a massive abbey before Henry VIII did his damage. A fire some years ago destroyed the roof and pews and it's been carefully and creatively restored.”
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