St. Martins Church Bowness-on-Windermere
a request from the duke
to film the stained glass window at St. Martins. about the prelude of the American flag.
FOURTEENTH CENTURY CHURCH HAS MAGIC GEM UNDISCOVERED (TILL NOW)
I discovered this beautiful fourteenth-century church whilst on my travels around the north of England recently and when I looked inside I saw that the church has a piano. Obviously, I couldn't resist.
The Church is called: St Martin's in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, England.
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Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria, UK, & Laura Ashley Hotel - The Belsfield - 06.03.2019
Bowness-on-Windermere is the most popular destination in the Lake District, UK. We arrived at Bowness 03.03.2019 in the wind and rain, but had nice fresh weather for our stay. There are beautiful hotels, several places to eat and drink, narrow streets and quaint shops. Plenty of sporting activities which include sailing, fishing, climbing, walking, water sports. There are beautiful panoramic views and plenty of wild life. The ferries sail on Lake Windermere every day except Christmas Day. The World of Beatrix Potter has entertainment for all the family.
There are prehistoric and historical places of interest in this beautiful part of England.
The Belsfield Hotel is a sumptuously decorated Laura Ashley Hotel. It is spacious with a tranquil atmosphere and surrounding gardens. It has beautiful views of Lake Windermere with mountains in the distance. During our stay at the Belsfield the Restaurant and Brasserie service was excellent. Afternoon tea in the bar was delicious and relaxing. The March weather was cold, but our room was lovely and warm.
From Belsfield Hotel it is only short walk to the shops and St Martins Church. A church has been present on this site since at least 1203, so lots of history here – the church Bells are ringing in this video.
The Belsfield has a good size Car park.
We had an excellent tour of the lakes by “Mountain Goat” Bus who collected and dropped us off at the Belsfield door. Our tour video will follow shortly.
(Please note note all Swans are friendly like the ones in this video. They can be dangerous if they flap their strong wings).
Bowness on Windermere
Bowness-on-Windermere situated in a spectacular lakeside setting on the eastern shore of Lake Windermere, is Cumbria's most popular destination. The town is busy for much of the year, with people who come to enjoy the facilities of the lake for sailing, fishing and watersports, also those who come just to relax and enjoy the atmosphere of the area and the town's delightful setting.
Lake Windermere has been a water highway for centuries and is the headquarters of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club. It is the greatest centre in the district for cruising, water-skiing, underwater swimming and yachting. The lake is constantly busy with ferries, yachts and speedboats and interestingly Windermere is the only lake in the Lake District, which has no speed restriction for water traffic. Take a stroll around the shoreline which is a fascinating place, where boat builders and repairers can be seen at work.
Victorian and Edwardian buildings are evident throughout Bowness, but for those who are interested in its earlier history a walk to Lowside, behind the church will prove rewarding. The houses and little narrow streets in this area of the town give a picture of Bowness before the advent of the railway.
St. Martin's Church the parish church of Windermere, stands on a site which has been a religious foundation for over 1,000 years. The original structure was burnt down and rebuilt in 1484, and restored in 1870. The east window contains 15th century stained glass, depicting red and white stripes and three stars, the arms of John Washington who was an ancestor of George Washington, the first president of America.
Bowness-on-Windermere was well known to the poet William Wordsworth: The White Lion, now the Royal Hotel was patronised by him and mentioned in 'The Prelude'. Wordsworth was a regular user of the ferry, which crosses Lake Windermere. He wrote, 'I bounded down the hill shouting amain/ A lusty summons to the further shore/ For the old Ferryman'. A car ferry still crosses the lake between Ferry Nab and Ferry House providing an attractive and convenient approach to the western side of the lake and the villages of Hawkshead and Sawrey, where you can visit the home of Beatrix Potter at Hill Top.
All the family will want to visit 'The World of Beatrix Potter', which is situated in the centre of Bowness-on-Windermere. This is a magical recreation of Beatrix Potters books, where you can meet Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-duck and all the characters in the famous stories.
The Windermere Steamboat Centre in Rayrigg Road, houses a unique collection of historic steamboats and motorboats. Special events throughout the season include the British Classic Motorboat, model boat and steamboat rally.
Places to see in ( Bowness - UK )
Places to see in ( Bowness - UK )
Bowness-on-Windermere is a town in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England. Due to its position on the banks of Windermere, the town has become a tourist honeypot. Although their mutual growth has caused them to become one large settlement, the town is distinct from the town of Windermere as the two still have distinguishable town centres. Historically part of Westmorland, in 2012, Bowness was one of the official stop off points for the Olympic torch before it made its way to the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
The town's ancient parish church of St Martin was built in 1483 but of an older foundation. The former rectory is said to have been built in 1415. Bowness-on-Windermere became a civil parish in 1894 and an urban district council was formed for the town at the same time. In 1905, the council merged with that of Windermere, and the two civil parishes merged in 1974 under the name of Windermere. The civil parish is governed by a town council.
During the 19th century, Bowness grew from a small fishing village to a town living almost entirely off tourism and holiday homes. It was the centre of the boat-building industry that provided the sailing yachts, rowing boats and steam launches used on the lake. A large number of hotels and boarding houses gave employment to the permanent population of the town. The arrival of the railway in 1847 in Windermere (the residents of Bowness had opposed a station in their own town) provided much of the momentum for the growth.
Windermere railway station offers train and bus connections to the surrounding areas, Manchester, Manchester Airport and the West Coast Main Line, and is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the lakefront. Both Stagecoach and the local council provide frequent connecting buses from Bowness Pier; Stagecoach's open-top double-decker buses travel through the centre of town and continue to Ambleside and Grasmere, while the council's wheelchair-accessible minibuses run around the edge of town. The Windermere Ferry, a car carrying cable ferry, connects Bowness at Ferry Nab on the eastern side of the lake with Ferry House Far Sawrey on the western side of the lake, a trip of approximately 10 minutes. For those looking for a more leisurely way to travel there are regular lake cruises running from Bowness Bay to the north end of the lake at Ambleside and south end at Fell Foot.
Alot to see in ( Bowness - UK ) such as :
Blackwell Arts and Crafts House
The World of Beatrix Potter
Brant Fell Above the Bustle
The Fun Factory Bowness
( Bowness - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Bowness . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Bowness - UK
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Lake View Guest House and Coffee Shop
The Lake View Guest House and Coffee Shop is located in the heart of Bowness-on-Windermere, within a few minutes walk from World of Beatrix Potter and St Martin's Church. This 3-star hotel is close to everything Bowness-on-Windermere has to offer. Under 10 minutes drive away are some great tourist attractions such as the Holbeck Ghyll, and conveniently there is complimentary private parking on site at the Lake View Guest House and Coffee Shop should you need it. Elter Water, Loughrigg Tarn and St Peter's Church can be reached with a 20 minute drive.
イギリス旅行記(Short Trip of Shere・.UK) サリー州で一番カワイイ街と言われている所に行ってきました。
イングランドのサリー州にある「シェア(Shere)」と呼ばれる街を取材してきました。
町並み、教会、カフェ、ショップなどを撮影してあります。
Charlotte and Ross. Windermere and Belmount Hall wedding
Wedding highlights from St Martin's church, Bowness on Windermere, and Belmount Hall, Hawkshead. Re-edit to copyright free music for internet use. More like this from Safe Harbour Productions at:
Byron Jones playing the Style E X Special Royalty Wurlitzer, Bowness -on-Windermere.
From a Lunchtime Concert on the 1927 vintage Wurlitzer Organ, Royalty Cinema, Bowness-on-Windermere.
How to make a 'Maritime Spice Trader' at The Fizzy Tarté
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4K 360 VR Bell Ringing at Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria
Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria, S Martin, 8, 11-2-14 (591kg) in A
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Bowness and Windermere, Lake District in England
0:55 Bowness town
7:37 pubs & restaurants
9:53 Windermere town
15:14 lake walk at Millerground
18:09 west side of Lake Windermere
19:46 hike to Sawrey
23:36 Ravenglass and Eskdale Miniature Railway
24:50 Burn How Hotel
The town of Bowness in the Lake District is a great base of operations for heading out to see the other lakes in the district and enjoying some detours as will be showing you here. There are actually two towns joined together here as one got Windermere, about a mile to the north and Bowness-on-Windermere along the shores of the Lake. Each center has its cluster of shops and restaurants but the main focus is down at Bowness, which has most of the hotels and has that special setting along the water.
Properly called Bowness-on-Windermere, the town really is a quaint and charming place even though it's got a lot of competition with the lakes and the mountains and the other villages nearby, which is where you want to spend most of your time, but it's always nice to come home to Bowness. It really is an ideal kind of an English country town even though it is touristic. But when you're here in the off-season as we are, visiting in May, it's really not crowded at all, and it's got that hilly atmosphere and winding streets. There are some little back lanes and a lot of restaurants to take care of you.
There are some bars and walkways along the waterfront. Bowness on Windermere really does embrace the Lake. The little beach in town always has a lot of geese and ducks and swans looking for food.
You’ll need to spend at least several nights in the area this to really get a chance to see the charming countryside, explore some towns, do a little shopping, and perhaps enjoy some fine dining on offer here in Bowness and Windermere.
We’ll also take you on some hikes along the lake shore and up in the hills hear Sawney, and then on a ride on a miniature train.
At The River - Lake Washington Singers
Jane Martin-Blount performs At the River at The Parish Church of Windermere, Bowness, Cumbria, England, during the Lake Washington Singers 1998 British Isles Tour.
Director: Robert L. Cathey
Accompanist: Gloria Money
Arrangement: Aaron Copland
Video by Butch Lemke
James Kenny at the The Three Organists Concert at St. John's Church, Brockmoor (England)
On Saturday, 25th September 2010, St. John's Church, Brockmoor, as an extension of the 'Back to Church Sunday' event, held a 'Fun Organ Concert' with music provided by three organists, each showing different aspects of the organ. This recording is of James Kenny who is the 'Cinema'* organist. This was recorded, before the concert began, on a Hammond organ.
* The other two are 'light entertainment music' provided by Chris Lawton and 'Classical Organ' style music provided by Peter Thomson.
OLD BLACK & WHITE FILM - The Tizzie-Whizie - 1900
This is the Public Domain The Tizzie-Whizie that I got from Internet Archive. It is an old Black& White film from 1900.
Here is the info from Internet Archive:
The Tizzie-Whizie
Publication date: 1900
Usage:
The Tizzie-Whizie was allegedly first spotted by a Bowness boatman around 1900. He regaled tourists in the town’s Stag’s Head Hotel about his thrilling encounter with the extraordinary creature.
Shy, water-loving creatures, Tizzie-Whizies are reputed to have the body of a hedgehog, the tail of a squirrel or fox and a pair of bee-like wings.
From A Boatman's Grandson: This one was captured in 1906, struggling and squealing, it was rushed to Louis Herbert's Photographic Studio, opposite St Martin's Church. Having calmed it down with some warm milk and morsels of ginger biscuit he took this immortal portrait of the Tizzie-Whizie, before it jumped off his table and flew out of the window to regain its freedom.
It had a very faint cry, which could just be heard if you had your ear at water level. Many thousands of postcards were sold from this one photograph. The boatmen used to conduct Tizzie-Whizie hunts and the evasive Tizzie-Whizie would invariably finish under one of the piers and one of the tourists engaged in the hunt would be 'accidentally' pushed into the lake!
Sometimes the boatmen would say that it had escaped to Belle Isle and if any of the hunt followers wished they could be taken across the lake to look for it. When asked why they couldn't see it flying across the lake, the reply was 'because it was a very good underwater swimmer'.
How to make a 'Mai Suit and Tai' at The Fizzy Tarté
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4K 360 VR - Bell Ringing at Millom, Cumbria
Millom, Cumbria, S George (T), 6, 13-1-9 (677kg) in F
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Tarleton Bells
The fine 1914 Taylor eight at my home tower
4K 360 VR - Bell Ringing at Low Bentham, N Yorks
Low Bentham, N Yorks, S John Bapt, 6, 19-1-23 (988kg) in F
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Kirkbymoorside Change bell ringing
Change bell ringing at all saints church, Kirkbymoorside, England