Posted by Roger Wardale on December 18, 2014 at 16:37:49 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: Auction of Ransome originals plus an AR response card from 1939 posted by Owen Roberts on December 18, 2014 at 15:44:19:
I. A bow on view in George Pattinson's book 'The Great Age of Steam on Windermere' — not much use, although the cabin is visible. The vessel was 42 ft in length — not that small.
2. I think we can assume that the bulk of the North Pole was stone built. I believe, as I said, that the hut was the inspiration, the starting point, and as the writing progressed so did the North Pole take on its familiar characteristics.
3. Why should they? AR was a creative writer.
4. I think that the use of the word 'shelter' was probably a careful way of referring to something that was private property?
5. Yes indeed. On the reception desk of the Armitt Gallery in Ambleside I met a lady who had used the public bathing hut over by Brathay Neck with her school in the 1940s. She believed that it was a council run affair. She described it as a long, narrow building, if I remember correctly.