WELCOME!

Hello and welcome to the new Website for Station House Books.

Here we will endeavor to bring you the most up to date news on plays, projects, and all things associated with this iconic little platform. Looking out over a stretch of the river Eden, the house is considered as the birthplace of the spinning fishing-reel. It was here that A.H. Illingworth developed angling’s secret weapon and, in the war-years, boys from Appleby would arrive to fish. Taking the afternoon off, they came under the pretence of beating rationing. Though their hunger for trout lived on –long after he memory of rations cards. The last train rolled past the Temple Sowerby Station House in the mid 1950s though the pace hasn’t let up since, in the absence of locomotives.

Since its construction over, one hundred and fifty years ago, the place came to be home to a number of artists and writers. The latest resident is playwright Thomas Bywater, who took up lodgings at the beginning of the year to finish his play, Inferno.

Stationhouse books, online publishing company, came about to bring his content to an audience and, in part, bring a little bit of the 21st Century to the Eden Valley. An exciting proposition. While 2013 promises to be a busy year for the site (both virtual and physical) we hope you will follow our journey.