Posted by Peter Roche on November 27, 2013 at 09:08:24 user PRoche.
In Reply to: Re: The REAL location of Swallowdale posted by Roger Wardale on November 27, 2013 at 01:34:20:
Roger: I was interested in Ransome in the fifties but never got to the Lakes until 1980 when I first met you at Brockhole when you were giving a Ransome lecture and some snotty nosed individual repeatedly interrupted to correct you, remember?
Perhaps it didn’t suit Collinwood’s purposes to include the pine tree in his drawing, maybe it didn’t fit the plot, who knows?