Blackwell‘s Arts & Crafts designs extend all over the house.

A bedroom:-

Close-up on bedroom light ftting:-

Another of the beds:-

Bedroom chair:-

Chest of Drawers and bookcase:-

Chest:-

Blackwell‘s dining room is off the hall and has similar dark colours:-

Dining table:-

Sideboard. Typical Arts & Crafts styling:-

Dresser:-

Tapestry. Much faded now:-

Chair:-

The entrance corridor at Blackwell is fairly dark. Looking back to shop area:-

The corridor was designed to lead from darkness to light – onto a bright white painted room with a view to Lake Windermere:-

View to Windermere:-

This room immediately reminded us of the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Fireplace in white room:-

This chair especially. We were told it’s not original to the house but was brought in as being in keeping with the original furnishings:-

This corner cupboard  is flanked by two stylised trees, natural motifs are all around the house in the decor, particularly rowan berries, and apparently when the house was taken over after a long period of neglect there was a rowan sapling growing inside this cupboard:-

View from side window:-

This dark piece of furniture is out of keeping with the room but is contemporaneous:-

The entrance to Blackwell is now from the side where the shop and ticket office is and leads along a fairly dark corridor which passes the original entrance into which you can go and see these two stained glass windows:-

Across from this is another set of stained glass windows and a door which gives onto the hall:-

The same window from the other side – nice clock too:-

The hall itself is impressive:-

Reverse view showing bench, fireplace and minstrel’s gallery above:-

Side view of the bench:-

Hall ceiling:-

Settle on corridor wall:-

Peacock wallpaper:-

Hall from minstrel’s gallery:-

Blackwell is a house built in the Arts & Crafts style near Bowness-on-Wndermere in the Lake District. It was designed by Baillie Scott and erected between 1898 and 1900 as a holiday home for Manchetser brewer Edward Holt.

Being of that era it is not perhaps surprising that the house and some of its contents bear a similarity to the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh who was a contemporary.

House from car park:-

Outhouse (to right above):-

House from terrace, a stitch of two photos:-

Detail of roan pipe:-

Inside St Martin’s Church, Bowness-on-Windermere, are several war memorial windows and plaques.

To the men of the parish who fell in the Great War:-

Great War memorial window:-

Now on the wall of the  Church of St Martin is a plaque commemorating the war dead of the Church of St John the Evangelist, Windermere, which closed in 1995. My photograph came out blurry so I link to this, which believe it or not is a clearer photo.

Plaque to four brothers, Thomas, John, William and Joseph Atkinson who were killed in the Great War. Erected by fellow-worshippers and neighbours:-

The central window here has a dedication to Lieutenant John Reginald Lingard, Suvla Bay, 21/8/1915:-

Central window dedicated to Lance Corporal James Everett Bownass, killed near Ypres, 1915:-

The church has a memorial chapel with a memorial to those who served in the Great War:-

Second World War memorial plaque:-

The Parish Church of Saint Martin in Bowness-on-Windermere has in its churchyard a memorial to the Boer War.

The dedication reads, “This cross was erected in the Year of our Lord 1903 in grateful remembrance of the declaration of peace in South Africa and in memory of those who fought and fell for their sovereign and Empire”

Just up Lake Road from the Royalty Cinema in Bowness-on-Windermere lies Windermere’s War Memorial, a stone wall with plinth in the centre surmounted by a tapered rectangular column. A laurel wreath and sword of sacrifice are on the front face of the column.

The WW1 inscription on the wall reads “In undying memory of the men who fell in the Great War.” Posts at each end bear WW2 names on the internal panels:-

Central column:-

The plinth contains names for the Great War:-

The external left hand post bears a name from the Korean War 1951. Great War names beyond.

The right hand external post contains a dedication “On active service 1985.” Great War names beyond:-

Second World War Names on internal faces of the posts:-

Our sojourn to Barrow (see earlier posts) was really to take a look at stuff in the Lake District, whose main town is Bowness-on-Windermere.

Among others of Bowness’s sights I found the Royalty Cinema, which has Art Deco touches in the white painting and horizontal bands but also feels a bit Edwardian. It was opened in 1927 and so is on the cusp.

Swarthmoor is a village/hamlet between Barrow-in-Furness and Ulverston. Its War Memorial (for the Parish of Pennington,) in the form of a simple stone cross, is at the southern end of the village.

Inscription: “1914 – 1918 Pennington Memorial of the Great War for the world’s freedom and of the men who gave their lives for their King and their country. Simply to thy cross I cling.” The words “They shall be had in everlasting remembrance” lie around the remaining three faces of the plinth:-

Dedications, Swarthmoor War Memorial, Plus D-Day Anniversary wreath:-

World War 2 dedication and names:-

A plaque to the front of the Memorial is in remembrance of a VC recipient, Private Harry Christian, of the King’s Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) 18/10/1915:-

Great War names:-