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Jungle Cruise. Disneyland California. 1993.
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Tramp Steamer [Wanton guests on a sin cruise of shame!] … |
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Tramp $4.99 This book is in Good Used condition |
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Travel Steamer $49 Travel Steamer |
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Steamer $360 The classic deck chair folds flat for easy storage. Four reclining positions. |
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Smartek ST-X2 Garment Steamer $99 Smartek ST-X2 Garment Steamer |
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Progressive SSAC-9 Vertical Steamer $29.99 Progressive SSAC-9 Vertical Steamer |
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Progressive Mini Steamer by Progressive $6.49 Mini Steamer by Progressive |
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Hal Leonard Lady and the Tramp Vocal Selections Songbook $10.95 Hal Leonard Lady and the Tramp Vocal Selections Songbook |
Tourism in Windermere
Tourism then benefited old established businesses run by local folk. Now it has all altered, thanks to a tourist boom on an unprecedented scale. Giftshops, cafes, and takea ways change hands at a remarkable rate. The boat sheds have been replaced by a modern edifice which looks as if it was designed by the same architect as the Sydney Opera House (predictably, it won an award). Green fields have been covered with cars. Dear old Bowness, what have they done to you? To me, a visit is slightly shocking, like coming across someone you knew as a decent and guileless young girl, now painted and dressed up like a tart. Cheap Airport car hire Spain
Speculators are moving into the countryside 'leisure market' all over Britain. As they see it, the principal purpose of a picturesque scene is to provide an attractive backdrop for modern leisure activi ties, like shopping, squash courts, trimgyms, fun pools, and the rest. Bowness is a prime target. The crowds are alread y there, and there is apparently not enough for them to do (or, rather, spend their money on). There is talk of exciting new commercial developments and many more car parks. You cannot, I am told, stop progress.
There is property to pull down. Get rid of the old cinema, the ugly Victorian buildings. Exciting prospects of modern development, bringing more wealth to local businesses. Those green fields by the lake dead land worth a fortune to a developer. Somewhere to enjoy leisure activities in bad weather? It would provide many jobs. And it could all be so tasteful! The best landscape architects money can buy designer landscape. There is a lot of capital sloshing around and waiting to be spent if only those nasty National Park planners would give some leewa.
Bowness receives many knocks. It has always been criticised for its crowds, particularly back in the late twenties and early thirties. Its bustle is not infrequently compared to that of Blackpool. That is grossly unfair. As yet, Bowness has no golden mile, no amusement arcades, no pleasure beach or candy floss. And one must give full marks to the council gardeners who somehow manage to keep the flower beds on the promenade looking so superb.
But there are traffic jams; and hordes of people, tramping round the shops, eating chips and icecream, gazing at the lake, watching the 'Steamers', queuing for cruises, watching other people. Gregarious souls are in their element here. (Among those I must count my father who thinks the colourful pageant is all marvellous.) I do not dislike people. But I, and others like me, must escape them in the mass, and Bowness in the season must be given a wide berth.
In Snowdonia National Park a boundary line was drawn around Blaenau Ffestiniog, excluding it, even though it was in a central area, because the devastated landscape of the quarries was at variance with the concept of a national park. When depressed by the sight of rampant commercialism, I have sometimes thought that if things were to get too far out of hand the' same policy could be adopted in the Lake District National Park, excluding Bowness and Winder mere. Crowds and greedy moneymaking have nothing to do with national parks.
But Bowness out of high season is fine. Bowness then is a different place, and still has much to offer. There are great viewpoints from easy strolls around the village. The prospect across the lake in November, with the autumn colours in the woods climbing to Claife Heights: that is very special. I have not yet, like some Lakelanders, quite given Bowness up for lost. The National Park Authority, the Friends of the Lake District, and many concerned residents, are together holding a line which the wouldbe developers and investors constantly try to cross. Bowness does very well as it is. Enough is enough.
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