Lovely!
That picture immediately reminded me of one of my treasured books “All About Flying” by Gertrude Bacon.*
There is a chapter about early “hydro-aviation” in which she describes flying at Windermere and includes two aerial photos taken from the original Waterbird:
I’m not lending my copy to anyone, but luckily the book is available online as a PDF:
https://ia802209.us.archive.org/2/it...acouoft_bw.pdf
* I have always felt that Flight’s Roger Bacon must have been inspired, as a young lad, by his favourite Aunt Gertrude!
She was a very adventurous, multi-talented women and a prolific author:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Bacon