Re: Joys of Ransoming


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 01, 2011 at 03:17:48 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Joys of Ransoming posted by Roger Wardale on February 01, 2011 at 01:22:16:

Visiting a corner of 'Ransomeland' for the first time was like reading a SA book for the first time

I remember vividly going for the first time to Windermere, by train. Walking round the 'old' station (now a supermarket, but that was no hindrance to the imagination) and down to the left, towards Bowness. Hard to describe but I was the Ds, heading towards the lake in Rattletrap...

My visit was for a different reason; we were doing a recce for a lecture tour of Lakeland Arts and Crafts houses that Anne was organizing for the Decorative Arts Society. But the whole area was simply glowing with AR moments- I was gazing around and seeing remembered (but never before seen) moments from the books.

Even now, although I've never really been there, I go to Google Street View and look up Low Ludderburn, seeing absolutely clearly the house, the barn in which AR wrote the early books, and the garage they built for Rattletrap. Even (although their picture was taken at a different season) the bank by the road opposite their gate, where Evgenia planted her snow drops.

Street View is great for travelling... There's Pin Mill for instance- I've been there, but Street View means I can go there whenever I need a little jolt of Ransome. There are other places, like Oxenholme Station (thanks for that, Jock), which although it has been modernized and a Virgin Trains pendolino is stopped there, you can easily recognize 'Strickland Junction', where they let the pigeon fly in Pigeon Post; the massive brick wall illustrated by AR is still there.

In fact Street View traveling is one of life's great pleasures. Never mind all the other stuff, this sort of thing is what the Internet is really for.



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