castle. Kendal Castle, to the east of the earthworks, was probably built while Castle Howe was still in use. The Friends' Meeting House is home to the Quaker Tapestry. The Brewery Arts Centre offers theatre, dance, exhibitions, cinema, music, workshops, youth drama, dance, and food and drink. The Queen Katherine Street drill hall was used to mobilize troops in the First World War. The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is held in Kendal every year in October. Other places of interest are Kendal Leisure Centre, Kendal Parish Church (Holy Trinity), Lakeland Radio Stadium official football ground of Kendal Town F.C., and *Netherfield Cricket Club Ground, the home ground of Netherfield Cricket Club and Cumberland County Cricket Club. Notable people Dave Allen (born 1955), bass player for post-punk band Gang of Four Desmond Bagley (1923–1983), thriller writer Matt Bigland (born 1985), guitarist and lead singer for alternative rock band Dinosaur Pile-Up Jonathan Dodgson Carr (died 1884), founder of Carr's bread makers and social reform campaigner Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), encyclopedian Isaac Crewdson (1780–1844), Quaker minister born in Kendal John Cunliffe (1933–2018), children's author, creator of Postman Pat John Dalton (1766–1844), chemist and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), astrophysicist James Ellison (born 1980) and Dean Ellison (born 1977), motorcycle racers Tim Farron (born 1970), current MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale and former leader of the Liberal Democrats Nicholas Freeston (1907–1978), award-winning Lancashire poet, born in Kendal Daniel Gardner (1750–1805), portrait painter Steven Hall, Britain's Got Talent finalist 2011 as a comedy dancer Steve Hogarth (born 1959), vocalist of rock band Marillion Francis Nigel Lee (1934–2011), theologian Isabella Lickbarrow (1784–1847), poet Ken Major (1928–2009), architect, author and molinologist, attended Kendal School Peter McDonnell: Footballer, Caroline Moir (living), author James Rogers (born 1958) first-class cricketer George Romney (1734–1802), portrait painter David R. Russell (1935–2018), antique woodworking tool collector Philip Snow (1907–1985), first-class cricketer Keith Stainton (1921–2001), politician and Second World War hero in France David Starkey (born 1945), constitutional historian Alfred Wainwright (1907–1991), guidebook author and walker Mary Augusta Wakefield (1853–1910) composer and festival organizer William Wakefield (1870–1922), cricketer Wild Beasts, indie-rock band Keith Wilkinson (living), ITV television news reporter John Wilson (1741–1793), mathematician and astronomer Mark Wilson (born 1989), Newcastle Falcons and England Rugby Union player Local dialect Kendal speech, known as Kendalian, is an example of the Cumbrian dialect spoken in the surrounding area. Search and rescue Kendal has long maintained a