Re: Auction of Ransome originals plus an AR response card from 1939


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Posted by Owen Roberts on December 18, 2014 at 15:44:19 user OwenRoberts.

In Reply to: Re: Auction of Ransome originals plus an AR response card from 1939 posted by Peter Ceresole on December 18, 2014 at 14:56:29:

This is fascinating background piece, Roger.
Inevitably it does raise some questions that may be unanswerable at this distance in time.
1. I wonder if any pictures or drawings of the ”Dodo” exist? A privately owned (and presumably small - say 25 ft) paddle steamer might not have room for a large cabin bearing in mind the location of the engines and paddles. You can have a decent cabin on a steam launch but not a paddle steamer.
2. The cabin being converted into a semi mobile bathing hut makes sense – but the NP had a fireplace and chimney which would have to be stone or brick built for safety – not readily portable.
3. Neither of AR’s drawings of the NP indicate anything but a fairly substantial building. Possibly not a converted cabin.
4. AR’s 1939 card refers to a shelter at the head of Windermere, I wonder why he did not mention bathing hut. Is the some confusion with the shelter built by the MacIvers?
5. From the 1912 (published 1917) 6 inch OS map, we know that there was a “bathing house” further round on the Brathay Neck. This had a small landing stage. I have mentioned this before and believe I have a picture of this building which I cannot load to TarBoard because of ongoing Scanner problems. Other than that there is no building until one reaches Wateredge House, but below this there appear to be many small buildings about the 5 jetties above the steamer pier. Presumably these are sheds for servicing the contents of the rowing boats moored at the jetties.

I have looked through by postcard collection of Waterhead pictures and have not spotted anything that might be the “Dodo”. Perhaps other TarBoarders have something that might help.

AR seems to have been quite forthcoming in this card – I wonder if this was anything to do with the onset of war in 1939?



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