TODAY marks the 150th anniversary of world famous children's author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter.
Just as well-known across the globe as her iconic characters Peter Rabbit and Mrs Tiggy Winkle, she is being celebrated with the release of a short film about her life and a unique collection of Royal Mail stamps.
It is hoped the film will help promote the region to potential visitors across the globe, following a surge of tourists from China and Japan.
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The film was created by Alison Magee-Barker who is general manager at Lindeth Howe hotel. She said: "We wanted to create an inspirational short film to celebrate the enduring legacy of a lakeland icon exactly 150 years on from her birth.
"It was great to bring some key Lake District businesses together to create something we believe is visually spectacular and will showcase this special part of the world to online audiences who may be inspired to come and see it for themselves."
Moving north
Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866 and first moved to Cumbria in 1905 when she bought Hill Top farm, Near Sawrey which is now a prime visitor attraction.
The short film depicts the author making a trip from Hill Top across the waters of Windermere in a traditional lakeland launch.
Played by Judith Notley, Potter then makes her way to Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in a vintage 1925 Humber from the Lakeland Motor Museum.
Lasting only six-minutes the day-in-the-life short also features the publisher's love of gardening and sketching complete with aerial views shot across Windermere.
Jennifer Cormack is sales and marketing manager at Windermere Lake Cruises.
She said: "Beatrix Potter is a name recognised around the world and we hope this film will have a particular appeal to international visitors.
"As well as screening it at upcoming trade show and events, we are currently translating the written elements into Japanese and Chinese.
"We’ll also be sharing it online and on social media channels like Weibo, which is massively popular in China."
Potter wrote more than 30 thirty books with her most famous works including the 24 children's tales of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny and Jemima Puddle-Duck and friends. Her works have continued to fly off shelves across the world, translated in to many languages and retold in song, film and ballet.
In the movies
More recently, American actress Renée Zellweger depicted the much-loved writer in a feature length biopic filmed n location at Yew tree Farm.
Potter died in 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey and aged 77 she left nearly all her properties to the National Trust.
She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park.
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