Bowness Pier, Bowness-on-Windermere | ||
Bowness Pier | ||
site name:- | Windermere lake | |
locality:- | Bowness-on-Windermere | |
civil parish:- | Windermere (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | jetty | |
locality type:- | pier | |
coordinates:- | SD40099678 | |
1Km square:- | SD4096 | |
10Km square:- | SD49 | |
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BPE43.jpg (taken 12.5.2008) |
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evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- steamer |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto source Page 11:- "[Bowness] ... a good quay, with boats in abundance, and several boat-houses within view. A substantial little pier is built out into the lake; and on either side is a steamboat moored during winter; and to the end these two steamers come, six times a day each, during the summer. ..." |
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evidence:- | illustration:- LNWR 1910 |
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source data:- | Print, colour lithograph? Bowness Pier, Windermere, from a
painting by R T Roussel, published by the London and North
Western Railway, LNWR, about 1910. click to enlarge NW01E2.jpg Included in the guide book, The English Lakes, published by the London and North Western Railway about 1910. pier, 1910, Roussel, R Titem:- JandMN : 49.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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