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museum, Bowness-on-Windermere
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   museum (gone) 
1Km square:-   SD4096 (?) 
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   Martineau 1855

evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
item:-  bird
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P010, button  goto source
Page 10:-  "... Close at hand [to the Royal Hotel, Bowness] is a little museum, where the birds of the district may be seen, exceedingly well stuffed and arranged by Mr. Armstrong, a waiter at the hotel."

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