M. J. B. Baddeley Memorial Clock Tower - Windermere, UK
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This memorial clock tower was erected to commemorate M. J. B. Baddeley a distinguished English guidebook writer of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Waymark Code: WMMPP3
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/21/2014
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"Together with his colleague, Charles Slegg Ward, he published a series of guides entitled 'Thorough Guide' to many places within the United Kingdom.
His Lake District guide (entitled 'Thorough Guide to the English Lake District', first edition, Dulau & Co, 1880) was particularly highly thought of. It continued to be revised and reissued, and remained in print into at least a 26th edition (1978, edited by R. J. W. Hammond).
The guidebook was largely text-based, with maps by John Bartholomew. Compared with later photographic volumes directed mainly at rock-climbers and hill-walkers, produced by the Abraham Brothers and by W. A. Poucher, and the highly detailed hand-illustrated guides of Alfred Wainwright, Baddeley's guide was more general, giving motoring and accommodation advice and low-level walks as well as outline guides to walks on the fells.
Baddeley was born in Rocester, Staffordshire in 1843, the son of a solicitor. He was educated at King Edwards School, Birmingham and Clare College, Cambridge. He then worked as a classics master at Somersetshire College, Bath and Sheffield Grammar School (1880-1884) before retiring from teaching and moving to the Lake District, first to Windermere and then Bowness-on-Windermere. As well as writing guide books, he was an active member of the Lake District Association. He married Millicent Satterthwaite Yeates in 1891. There were no children."
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In 1907 this clock tower was erected to Baddeley's memory. It is located at the junction of Lake Road and New Road, the clock tower marks the division between Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere.
The following quotation is inscribed on slate on the front of the tower.
1907
TO
PRESERVE THE
MEMORY OF
MOUNTFORD JOHN
BYRDE BADDELEY
(THE THOROUGH GUIDE)
ERECTED BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION
FROM FRIENDS AND
ADMIRERS IN ALL
PARTS OF THE
BRITISH ISLES.