River Waveney

[JennyMorgan]

To be precise, Seven Mile Carr. Never sure if it's seven miles from Beccles or seven miles from Oulton Broad. Anyway, Broads yachting Edwardian style. Not sure why but the road leading to the moorings there is called Di*ks Mount.

 

[JennyMorgan]

1920's? This time, still on the Waveney, this time at Wortwell. 

 

[JennyMorgan]

Interesting one is this, to a Broads 'saily'. Pre WWI, it shows a racing yacht which, in its day, had state of the art sails. The cut, even today, would be seen as good, the wing shape being well proven. Battened sail, this was a serious racing yacht. Possibly on passage from Oulton Week back to one of the other yachting centres of the day, such as Cantley. Then, as now, serious cruiser racers threw money at their boats, then it was sails, now its carbon masts!!

 

[LizG]

And a view of an old Somerleyton Swing Bridge in the background?

[JennyMorgan]

And a view of an old Somerleyton Swing Bridge in the background?

Quite probably, it appears to be a simpler looking structure than the present bridge. The post mark is unclear but it is certainly pre-WWI, 190?, and I think that the 'new' bridge was built soon after 1900.

[LizG]

If Carol hasn't seen that photo she certainly will want to, it is the first old photo of Somerleyton I have ever seen and when we had the discussion in the autumn re the Haddiscoe photo, I searched and searched online for anything relating to Somerleyton in vain.

[JennyMorgan]

Off to what is now the Waveney River Centre but in 1911 it was the Waveney Hotel & the attraction was, amongst other animals, these 'teddy' bears.

[JennyMorgan]

An appealing picture of Beccles about 1905. 

[JennyMorgan]

Similar viewpoint, post marked 1909 if I remember correctly, the dyke on the previous picture looks to be far less prominent on this time. 

[JennyMorgan]

Later period but this time, and I'm guessing, this picture is taken near or from the present Lido moorings. That looks like an outboard on the stern of the nearest dinghy.

[BroadScot]

Absolutely love these old Beccles pics JM. Thank you for sharing. 

Iain.

[JennyMorgan]

Thanks, Iain, above Beccles Bridge always fascinates me. Must have pootled along there hundreds of times over the years but I never tire of it.

[BroadScot]

 

11 hours ago, JennyMorgan said:

Thanks, Iain, above Beccles Bridge always fascinates me. Must have pootled along there hundreds of times over the years but I never tire of it.

We have always hired a boat that will go through Beccles bridge, we go down past the pool and turn at the next bend and chug very slowly back to the Yacht Station, Always think back to Poolcraft and the yard that hired all the Shelties, Arrow Boats? Did that, if not going down to Geldeston Lock. Many happy memories there.

Iain.

[JennyMorgan]

A view of Geldeston Locks as I have never seen it before. Anyone who knows the Locks will be able to relate to the layout and position of the weir in the foreground. Methinks it's an interesting picture.

[BroadScot]

26 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:

Methinks it's an interesting picture.

A very interesting picture indeed JM.!

Iain

[NorfolkTours]

I have just purchased an old photograph of what appears to be a steam boat at Seven Mile Carr. The name of the boat is Phoenix and the photograph looks to have been taken around 1880. There also looks to be two wherries and the one I can see best appears to have been converted for the holiday trade.

Does anyone know anything about the Phoenix please?

 

Many thanks.