Walney Passenger Ferry, The Swift

  • Description

    Photograph, Pre 1908. Cracked negative showing a crowded steam boat ferry with the name clear on the side. All fifty passengers are men and boys mostly wearing flat caps. Ferryman standing at stern with walrus moustache. Looking across the channel where lots of small sailing and rowing boats moored. Vickerstown County Primary School over on Walney....Image from the Sankey Family Photograph Collection (c/o Cumbria Archives), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Ref. 1017, BDB 86/1/310. Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
  • Owner

    Sankey Family Photography Collection (Cumbria Archives)
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2172
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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    Picture Taken: Unknown
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