Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 19, 2010 at 19:13:29 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Great British Railway Journeys posted by Rob Boden on January 19, 2010 at 13:33:58:
I found it interesting that although they said the best lake water for making tea was obtained at the north end of the lake, where the most fresh water flows in, I think they stopped at Thompson's Holme in the middle to actually brew up.
I don't know the lake well enough to identify the island, but it was certainly close enough to Belle Isle.
I guess in those distant days, although the cleanest water may have been at the northern end, the practical objective would have been to stay fairly well away from human effluent in towns (like Ambleside or Bowness). In those days, the population would have been pretty small, and being the other side of Belle Isle would have been far enough, yet close enough to reach in a short time.
Does that sound right?
And of course, the smaller the distance they had to go to shoot the sequence, the more economical it was for the filming.