AR's places now. Was: Udal Bridge


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on July 19, 2014 at 13:49:45 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Udal Bridge posted by Roger Wardale on July 19, 2014 at 11:05:16:

Sadly 'time's winged chariot' has left few places where we can go and see what AR saw and so bring this vision to our reading

And of course the chariot totally bypassed Pin Mill, and Street View gives you a great closeup of Alma Cottage, and the Butt and Oyster. And there's still the 'sailmaker's shed' at the top of the hard (well that's how I thought of it since I saw it on p.26 of WD 'The Butt and Oyster and Alma Cottage').

And looking at Shotley in search of Jim's clinic, there are swathes of 1930s houses untouched- and the odd clinic also clearly very like they would have been then. Shotley seems to have been pretty much bypassed too.

Another enjoyable virtual trip by Street View is to start at Windermere Station (now a supermarket but easily placed) turn left out of the yard and head down towards Bowness, while reading Mrs Blackett's progress in PP. And when you get to the lake piers at Bowness, have a look to the right and see the big hotels along the shore which are still the ones AR knew (we covered this here recently, I seem to remember).

I'm thinking of things that can easily be seen on Street View. I've not tried too hard with the Broads, but I'm sure that there are probably several places viewable- for instance when somebody posted some 1930s pictures of the Broads on Facebook's Arthur Ransome Group, I was able to go to some of those places on Street View and they were remarkably unchanged. Many of the same shops in the same places.
And there's a web site, http://www.norfolklive.org/camera/broads-tours.html. One of their sites is of Oulton Broad from the Wherry Hotel, and one of the views from there, along what I think is Bridge Road looking south, looks even now as though Tom and the D&Gs could have walked up it.
This isn't rigorous stuff but by golly I do enjoy it.


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