KESWICK Museum is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Southey.
Southey was one of the town's most famous characters, he was also poet laureate and writer of The Three Bears tale.
A Keswick Museum spokesperson said: "Southey was a prolific and influential poet, essayist, historian, travel-writer and biographer.
"His poetry paved the way for writers such as Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and – later in the nineteenth century – Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson.
"Southey and his wife moved to Keswick in 1803 after the death of their first child. They lived at Greta Hall, which they initially shared with the family of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, their brother-in-law.
"They became familiar figures to local people and Southey’s fame brought visitors from across the world to the town."
On Saturday, August 10, there will be a guided walk and craft workshop.
On Monday, August 12, Southey's collection will be on display.
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