The Jetty Museum

This afternoon we travelled to the shore of Lake Windermere, and the Jetty Museum. Since we’ve had our caravan in Arnside/Silverdale we’ve not been into the Lakes, so this was a bit of a first. Also a bit of a first that we’ve not been into a museum since sometime before March 2020. All went well.

The museum tells the story of boating on Lake Windermere. The ferries across the lake, the boats built for the wealthy Victorian industrialists who built big mansions and boat houses by the shore, Beatrix Potter’s rowing boat, Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons, the flying boat industry of the early 20th century, and the speedboats and world record holders who succeeded them.

The image is the boat shed which has direct access to the Lake. These boats are all operational, and are part of the country’s “historic fleet” (which is apparently a thing). They are beautiful boats.