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| landing stage, Keswick | ||
| site name:- | Derwent Water | |
| Street:- | Lake Road | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | landing stage | |
| locality type:- | boating | |
| coordinates:- | NY26402269 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2622 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
| SummaryText:- | several landing stages | |
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 BZO23.jpg (taken 24.10.2013)  BZO24.jpg The launches are Princess Margaret Rose and Annie Mellor. (taken 24.10.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 6) |
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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. "Landings" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1810 (plate 32) item:- boat; rowing boat |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Derwent Water from Crow Park, Keswick, Cumberland, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810. click to enlargeGN1232.jpg Plate 32 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. printed at bottom:- "DERWENT WATER FROM CROW PARK. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810." watermark:- "J WHATMAN / 1813" item:- Armitt Library : A6641.32 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- rowing boat; boat |
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| source data:- | Photograph, sepia, rowing boats at the landing stages on Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumberland,
by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0480.jpg There is a sign for Sparks, boat hirer. item:- Armitt Library : ALPS139 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- rowing boat; boat |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, rowing boats at the landing stages on Derwent Water,
Keswick, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0481.jpg There are signs for Milburn, Sparks, and Longstaff, boat hirers. stamped at reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS140 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Bradley 1901 item:- rowing boat; boat |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured lithograph, Landing Stage, Keswick, Cumberland, by Joseph Pennell,
published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901. click to enlargeBRL114.jpg On page 82 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. printed at bottom:- "Landing Stage, Keswick." item:- JandMN : 464.14 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BZO25.jpg Rowing boats. (taken 24.10.2013)  BZO26.jpg Rowing boats. (taken 24.10.2013)  BZO27.jpg Rowing boats. (taken 24.10.2013)  BZO28.jpg Rowing boats. (taken 24.10.2013)  BZO29.jpg Steps. (taken 24.10.2013)  BZO30.jpg Steps. (taken 24.10.2013) |
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