Re: Who owns all this anyway?


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Posted by Duncan on February 06, 2013 at 03:57:05 user Duncan.

In Reply to: Re: Who owns all this anyway? posted by Peter Hyland on February 06, 2013 at 01:31:21:

I fear I might be about to stray into controversial territory, but AR might have had views about property that would seem unusual today. I'll try and keep politics out of it (!!) but his Bohemian self was not greatly concerned with property rights: he roamed around the Lakes with gypsies, etc. (I would suggest that his vague romantic leftism also meant that he would believe the countryside to essentially be for all - although his older self might not have been so liberal in relation to his own land!!)

On a completely different point, however, the Ransomes met the Collingwoods picnicking on Peel Island, and he did camp there on several occasions. He and Evgenia had picnics on most of the Windermere islands so it would appear to have been normal. It's also worth recalling that there were one or two references to "private islands" in SA.


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