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| Market Hall, Ambleside | ||
| Market Hall | ||
| Street:- | Market Place | |
| locality:- | Ambleside | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | market hall | |
| coordinates:- | NY37700446 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3704 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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 BPK66.jpg Note the banner about Rushbearing. (taken 2.7.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 10) placename:- Town Hall |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto sourcePage 32:- "..." "[Ambleside] ... Most of the houses have been rebuilt or altered; the old market-house, also, which was supported on pillars and galleried round, shared the same fate in 1796, ..." |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- rushbearing |
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| source data:- | Photograph, rushbearing, Ambleside, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1900s? click to enlargeHB0230.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"  click to enlargeHB0232.jpg item:- Armitt Library : 1958.5086 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Market Hall |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MARKET HALL (OCCUPIED BY MOUNTAIN RESTAURANT AND OFFICES) / / MARKET PLACE / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 450598 / NY3771204467" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Dated 1863. Picturesque Victorian Gothic. Slate rubble with steep roofs. Gabled street facade. Corner buttresses. Ground floor has arched windows on each side. Upper floor has a large 4-light cusped window towards the street, and 2 3-light windows on side facades in their own gables. An octagonal louvre. A square 3-storeyed tower on south-east corner has an arched doorway up a flight of external steps and small belfry-type windows above, the whole crowned by clock faces on the 4 gables of the roof." |
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 CDZ81.jpg (taken 22.9.2015)  BPK67.jpg Coat of amrs and plaque:- "BH AD 1863" (taken 2.7.2008) |
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