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| Gondola, Coniston Water | ||
| Gondola | ||
| site name:- | Coniston Water | |
| civil parish:- | Coniston (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | steam launch | |
| locality type:- | launch | |
| locality type:- | boating | |
| coordinates:- | SD309970 (landing stage) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3097 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 (mostly!) | |
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 BLZ61.jpg (taken 28.4.2006)  BLZ69.jpg (taken 28.4.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- cattle; yacht |
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| source data:- | Photograph, b/w, Coniston Water, with Gondola, cattle, etc, Coniston, Cumberland,
by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s? click to enlargeHB0286.jpg item:- Armitt Library : ALPS643 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Philip/Wilson 1890s |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Coniston Steam Gondola, published by George
Philip and Son, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool,
Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895. click to enlargePW1E16.jpg "CONISTON STEAM GONDOLA." item:- JandMN : 58.17 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Gondola Stores |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "S.V. GONDOLA STORES / / / CONISTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76805 / SD3024398122" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Barn and cow house. Probably C17. Stone rubble and slate roof. 8-bay barn with cow house under south-east end and outshut to rear. Windows have timber lintels, 5 have casements, but 2 end bays have unglazed 4-light wooden chamfered-mullioned windows, that to 7th bay has stubs of intermediate bars, that to 8th bay has one mullion missing, but retains one intermediate bar. Pivoted barn doors to 7th bay. Gable ends have triangular owl holes. Cow house has inserted garage doors, the lintel re-used beam with remains of withies for plaster partitioning and 3 windows and entrance with pivoted door with ventilation slots, one of windows is former entrance. Interior has stop chamfered posts and beams; barn has 3 exposed collar and tie beam trusses, the rest ceiled over. Property of The National Trust." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Pearson 1900s placename:- Gondola, The |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, The Gondola on Coniston Water, Coniston, Lancashire, published
by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s. click to enlargePS1E39.jpg On p.101 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. printed at bottom:- "GONDOLA ON CONISTON WATER. (p.100)." item:- Armitt Library : A1188.46 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Referred to as Captain Flint's Boathouse by Arthur Ransome. |
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