‘Away to Rio’ or Bowness on Windermere to film ‘Swallows and Amazons’ in 1973 – part one
Swallow with Prop men aboard, being attached to the camera boat and its waiting film crew busy setting up at Bowness-on-Windermere ~ photo: Richard Pilbrow
Jane Grendon as a Passer-by with her pram in Rio Bay ~ photo: Daphne NevillePerry Neville, in yellow and Tamzin Neville, in pink riding donkeys in Rio Bay ~ photo: Daphne Neville
‘So lucky the old Victorian boatsheds were still there then, recorded forever more. How on earth do people sanction such monstrosities as that which replaced them?’
