Qualla: Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories https://qualla.com/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories https://qualla.com/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories: Introduction https://qualla.com/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories/ Photo credit Nthep, CC BY-SA 4.0. There is a small steam launch in the main building of Windermere Jetty that is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest mechanically propelled boat in the world still carrying its original machinery. Her name is Dolly. She was built in 1850. She had been moved to Ullswater in 1894, where she sank at her moorings in 1895 when ice pressure stove in the hull. The wreck was discovered in 1960 and raised in 1962. Today she sits ashore in a low-lit gallery beside other survivors of Windermere's long steam history - boats that were once commuter vessels, cargo barges, and luxury yachts, now restored, displayed, and in some cases still able to run.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-wp/gctv-windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories: A Collector's Vision Becomes a Museum https://qualla.com/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories/ Photo credit Pic: Sourav Niyogi. (WT-en) P.K.Niyogi at English Wikivoyage, Public domain. The Windermere Steamboat Museum opened in 1977 on the former Sand and Gravel Wharf on the eastern shore of the lake, built around the boat collection of George Pattinson - a local builder who had been quietly buying historically important vessels for years. It was run by the Wind...

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Image: Pic: Sourav Niyogi. (WT-en) P.K.Niyogi at English Wikivoyage | Public domain

]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-wp/gctv-windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-a-collectors-vision-becomes-a-museum.mp3 0:06 2 full Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories: Carmody Groarke's Copper Sheds https://qualla.com/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories/ Photo credit Strider52, CC BY-SA 3.0. In December 2011, Lakeland Arts announced a redevelopment, hiring architects Carmody Groarke with engineers Arup. The brief was a series of new buildings to house the boats, a conservation workshop, and a public-facing museum that worked at the scale of the lake itself rather tha...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-wp/gctv-windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-carmody-groarkes-copper-sheds.mp3 0:06 3 full Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories: Four Boats in the National Historic Fleet https://qualla.com/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories/ Photo credit Malcolm Wade, CC BY-SA 2.0. Four of the museum's boats are listed in the National Historic Fleet. SL Branksome, launched as Lily in 1896, was built by George Brockbank with a carvel teak hull, fitted out with velvet upholstery and walnut panelling and a brass Windermere kettle - a device that used boiler st...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-wp/gctv-windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories-four-boats-in-the-national-historic-fleet.mp3 0:06 4 full Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories: Boats, Steam, and Stories https://qualla.com/windermere-jetty-museum-of-boats-steam-and-stories/ Photo credit Nthep, CC BY-SA 4.0. The full collection numbers around forty vessels, covering Windermere's boating life from the late 18th century to the present. The museum's official three-part name - Boats, Steam and Stories - is unusually accurate. Boats: the launches and barges and yachts themselves. Steam: t...

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