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Hawkshead: Flag Street
Flag Street
locality:-   Hawkshead
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   street
coordinates:-   SD35219814 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD3598
10Km square:-   SD39


photograph
BSD60.jpg  Flag street seems to have lost its flags, and gained a lot of contemporary flowerpots.
(taken 14.2.2010)  

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Flag Street, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0596.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS256
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  stone wall
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Flag Street, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0586.jpg
stamped on reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS246
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evidence:-   old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) 
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, An Old Street in Hawkshead, Flag Street, Hawkshead, Lancashire, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
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HC0117.jpg
Opposite p.52 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. 
printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "AN OLD STREET IN HAWKSHEAD"
item:-  JandMN : 468.17
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
placename:-  Flag Street
source data:-   Print, etching? Flag Street, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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Tipped in opposite p.16 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
printed at lower centre:-  "Hawkshead"
item:-  JandMN : 382.5
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