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Queen's Hotel, Ambleside
Queen's Hotel
Street:-   Market Place
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn (hotel) 
coordinates:-   NY37670446
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BPK69.jpg (taken 2.7.2008)  
photograph
BPK68.jpg (taken 2.7.2008)  

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  rushbearing
source data:-   Photograph, rushbearing, Ambleside, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1900s?
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HB0230.jpg
Amongst the detail are - Queen's Hotel, Salutation Hotel, Market Hall, a postman by the post box, the booking office for the LNWR and for coaches, etc. 
embossed at lower left of mount:-  "Herbert Bell / Ambleside"
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HB0232.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.5086
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Philip/Wilson 1890s
source data:-   Advertisement from The Concise Series of Guides No.1, The English Lake District, published about 1895.
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PW1A04.jpg
Guide book published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool, Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895. 
item:-  JandMN : 58
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