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Scale How, Ambleside
Scale How
House of Education
Charlotte Mason College
locality:-   Scale Howe
Street:-   Nook Lane
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY37530487
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30

photograph
BPS32.jpg (taken 7.10.2008)  
photograph
CCJ93.jpg (taken 11.2.2015)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 6) 
placename:-  Green Bank
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.
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  garden
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, garden at Scale How, Ambleside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0314.jpg
stamped at reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS673
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  play; Merchant of Venice, The
source data:-   Photograph, the cast of a performance of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, perhaps at Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0253.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS715
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  play; Merchant of Venice, The
source data:-   Photograph, the cast of a performance of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, perhaps at Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0254.jpg
The back of the photo has some names which might be performer's names with how many copies each wanted? The names are - Mrs Peterson; Dora Harvey, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin; Lorna Bowson, Musgrave Hall, Penrith; Ingrid Muller, The Hurst, Saltaire; Pannie Clendimmen, Fairfield, Ambleside; and Janet Dawson, c/o Mr Carter, Preston Cottage, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS716
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  garden
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, garden at Scale How, Ambleside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0314.jpg
stamped at reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS673
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  play; Merchant of Venice, The
source data:-   Photograph, the cast of a performance of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, perhaps at Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0253.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS715
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  play; Merchant of Venice, The
source data:-   Photograph, the cast of a performance of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, perhaps at Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0254.jpg
The back of the photo has some names which might be performer's names with how many copies each wanted? The names are - Mrs Peterson; Dora Harvey, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin; Lorna Bowson, Musgrave Hall, Penrith; Ingrid Muller, The Hurst, Saltaire; Pannie Clendimmen, Fairfield, Ambleside; and Janet Dawson, c/o Mr Carter, Preston Cottage, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS716
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Scale How
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SCALE HOW (PART OF CHARLOTTE MASON COLLEGE) / / NOOK LANE / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 450599 / NY3753604882"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Early C19. Scored stucco with stone quoins, moulded eaves with dentils. 3 storeys. Garden front has centre panelled door and round-arched fanlight and broken pediment on fluted consoles, and a porch of 2 Tuscan columns, frieze and cornice. The porch is continued at either side by a verandah of intersecting lattice work with pilasters and cornice, which continues round the side facades of the house. The garden front also has 2 Venetian windows on ground floor, and 3 sash windows on each upper floor with Gothic labels. A single storeyed pavilion at rear has a large bow window of 3 full length windows divided by pilasters and with a cornice. Exclude modern College additions."

photograph
BPS33.jpg (taken 7.10.2008)  
hearsay:-  
 Charlotte Mason's House of Education, founded 1892, moved into these premises 1894.
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