This show explores a fascinating chapter in the history of the Royal College of Art, when the School was evacuated to the Lake District following the Battle of Britain.

The exhibition features works largely produced in Ambleside, and includes pictures by the Principal, Percy Jowett (1892-1955), as well as other members of the faculty such as Percy Horton (1897-1970), Robert Austin (1895-1973), and Charles Mahoney (1903-1968). Mahoney was resident master at Queen’s hotel – where the male students were housed – and delighted in recording his ‘digs’ as well as the Victorian Gothic architecture of Ambleside, as demonstrated in his View From the Library Roof.