Windermere Ferry, Bowness, Cumbria - c.1902-07 - Ref- 5431 - click image below to return image shown at highest present archived resolution

Windermere Ferry, Bowness, Cumbria - c.1894-99 - Ref- 5431 - click image below to return image width shown at 1300px, archived at 3502px, 5.62mb

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Windermere Car Ferry 'Mallard' leaving the ramp at Far Sawrey for the east shore at Bowness in October 2016, photograph by RuthAS - Ref- 5433 - click image below to return

Windermere Ferry, Bowness, Cumbria - Google Street View, July 2011 - Ref- 5433a - click image to return

 
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Ferry Nab in Bowness-on-Windermere to Ferry House at Far Sawrey,   There has been a ferry at this site of the Windermere Ferry for over 500 years, the earliest craft were rowed across the lake. During this period there was one recorded disaster, in 1635, when the ferry capsized and forty-seven people drowned. The first cable ferry, powered by steam, commenced operation in 1870. New ferry boats were introduced to the route in 1915 and 1954.

 
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