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Hi Howard As you know I have to be a little approximate on the dates as the articles come from folders which span 2 or 3 years. On this one I have checked out the date of reopening with another source and it does concur with the date I suspected it to be! If it's wrong ... don't blame me!! It is not 1994 I'm afraid.

Well Mr Nog .... you are quite correct ... it is the Hermatige, or Reba's Riverside Inn as it was renamed! The last time I looked, it wasn't actually by the riversdie though!! Well done! Any guesses on the year? Carol

A clue ... on it's reopening the pub changed it's name ...

Hi Not the Reedcutters and not 1972 Jonny .... and not Dilham Cross Keys Sue. The news article mentions that the pub in question had been empty for three years prior to the couple in the photo taking it on ....

Not Stokesby either I'm afraid Sue! I'll give a slight clue later if no one has got any nearer to the answer .... Carol

Barry mentioned about the Landamores Vestella which went missing in the 1950s on his thread, but Santa Caterina was another Broads cruiser which was stolen in the 1970s. It was hired to a German freelance writer and his family and failed to return to the yard at the end of it's fortnight's hire - it was finally located at Brightlingsea in Essex with the family asleep onboard. The hirer claimed that he was not told that they couldn't take the boat out to sea!!

Hi Clive I spoke to Ken Harrison quite a bit via email and he remembers your dad and the boats he designed with such great affection. He is a lovely chap - now in his 80s and still sailing in Canada where he lives! It's amazing that, after relocating to Canada in the 1950s, that he kept hold of all of his old plans and photos. For anyone that is interested I do have some low resolution copies of his plans on BM ... they are PDF's so may take a little while to download ..... don't expect them to be of good enough quality to go building your own wooden cruisers!! http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/page169.html Carol

I see .... you're all talking about me behind my back now eh? ..... me .... paranoid??? Sorry DG its' not 1979 and it's not the Berney Arms!

Here we go ... May 2007!

Hi Tony PZ certainly is a beautiful boat ... we have seen it out and about on the Southern Broads a few times. In fact I think I have a couple of pictures I took when we were moored at Surlingham Ferry a couple of years ago as you passed .... see woody boat, take picture of woody boat! Carol

Hi Another whatpubwhen for you .... hopefully a little more difficult than the last one! Carol

Hi PZ Underneath the box into which you type a reply to a thread you will see a blue box with tabs entitled "options" and "Upload Attachments" - click on the upload attachments, then click on the browse button to find the image that you want to upload on your computer. Click on that file and then click the "Add the File" button beside the browse button. Wait whilst it uploads it and then submit your post as normal.

Hi geoff Yes, that is another very interesting book! I am intending to add a list of books on various aspects of Broadlands history to the newly created "Further Reading" section on BM .... but maybe we should start a "Books On Broadland's History" thread on here? There have been a lot of fascinating books published over the years and I would be keen to know of others that people have read that I might not know about. Coincidently, ther postman has just this minute delivered another wherry related book to me - "Our Wherry In Wendish Lands" written by HM Doughty in 1891 which is an account of his trip through Holland and up to Bohemia on the Norfolk Wherry "Gipsy". Not an original copy mind you ... a reprint from 1985!

There are several copies for sale on Amazon through other sellers ... four of which are under £10 ..... that is a bargain! I have seen them go for £20 to £40 in the past!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0900963301/ref=dp_olp_used/280-9061494-2008953?ie=UTF8&qid=1233664659&sr=1-1&condition=used Carol

If anyone is interested, a copy of the Robert Malster book "Wherries & Waterways" has just cropped up on Ebay .... a highly recommended read! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Robert-Malster-Wherries-and-Waterways-1978-HB_W0QQitemZ120372528518QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Books_NonFictionBooks_NonFictionBooks_SM?hash=item120372528518&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 Happy bidding!

Hi Pete Sanders has kindly given me permission to publish the photos of The Lord Roberts that I metnioned earlier in the thread, on my website. They were taken in 1983, shortly after she had been refloated and taken from Womack to Wroxham. Just scroll down to the 5th picture from the top: http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/page89.html#sanders_roberts I have also managed to get my own collection of photos c1905 on .... lots more wherry pics amongst those including one which features 13 wherries crossing Breydon together: http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/page156.html#gingell_1905 Carol

I think the Salhouse canoe expedition will wait until the late Spring!! There are a group of paddlers planning a camping/canoeing weekend on the Broads at the end of the week ... I don't envy them one bit! Carol

Hi My apologies if anyone has tried to access the Broadland Memories website this morning as it has been offline for a while! Basically, I had to upload the entire site afresh this morning (which took 4 hours!) due to some major changes I have been working on over the last month or so. The majority of these are not something that most people will notice, but just things which will make my life a little easier when it comes to adding new stuff to the website. For example ... I currently have 27 pages in the 1900-1950 photo Gallery and, because I had a numbered link at the top of every page to every other page in that Gallery, it meant that if I needed to add a new page I would have to upload all the others too! This took some considerbale time so I have now changed the way that the pages link to one another. Things you will notice are that there is now a link to the sites search facility in the header buttons on every page and the paper & Ephemera directory has now been added to the main Archive page. I also got rather distracted by completely revising and re-writing the Pre 1900 history which is now very much expanded! There are also new additions to the various Galleries too with more to come over the next month or so. I have not had time to check the entire site yet ... but I think everything has uploaded successfully! However, if anyone notices any problems (missing pages, photos, news cuttings etc) then please, please let me know via PM or email so that I can sort it out as quickly as possible. Many thanks! Carol

Hi Sirdar Another self confessed Woody fan here ..... it's the old Brooms that do it for me though, especially the Admirals - just beautiful craftmanship! I do love the 1930s hockey stick designs though. Should those lottery numbers come up then there will be a few nice old wooden cruisers and launches in my personal boatyard! I have a confession to make though .... I did rather fall in love with a lovely soft top Broom 29 that was up for sale at Brundall a couple of years ago! Some fabulous photos of Banhams cruisers on here - thank you for posting them and I shall look forward to seeing some of the photos from your fathers old albums. One thing though .... I am sure that I can't be the only one to have noticed that when you hover over one of the pictures you have posted that the name of the boat pops up in the tool tip! It makes the guessing aspect somewhat easy !! The tool tip will display whatever the name is that you've given the image on your PC ...... if you want a "Guess The Boat" then you will have to re-name them before uploading. Carol

Bossy? BOSSY !!! Hey ... I freely admit to be a terrible nag where getting old photos and memories of the Broads out of people is concerned ... but bossy? Oh alright .... maybe just a little bit then ... Carol

Yes ... of course with Barry's permission ... sorry I should have said! It would just be shame to see a thread which contains such interesting and valuable information and photographs about Broadland's history, such as Barry has provided here and also Sirdar in the Banham's "Cruiser" thread, just disappear amongst more topical and general Broads related chat. My thoughts were that if I was looking for information regarding aspects of Broadlands past ... boatyards included ... then the "Historic Broads" section would be my first port of call. I'm not being bossy .... honest!

Some more great photos as usual Barry!! There are a series of pictures of one of the early 30s 4-berth cruisers which Ted Landamore built, on which the later Vestas were modelled, in the 1900-1930s Gallery on Broadland Memories: http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/page14.html The boat this party hired was called Kaori .... sister ships also had the Japanese themed names of Myori, Ikari, Omori, Tama, Nikko and Delta, Wanda and Melba. For anyone that is interested in reading more about landamores history, there was an excellent book witten by John Yaxley called "The Elanco Story" which was published in 1998. It is now out of print, I believe, but copies often turn up on Ebay. The Museum Of The Broads did have a few copies for sale, but I think they have now sold out! P.S. Should this and Sirdar's Banhams thread be in the Historic Broads section rather than general Broads related chat? Carol

There is also apparently a large wherry graveyard on the Yare .... just below Postwick Bridge is a large, crumbling wooden dolphin (see Google maps link below - area marked by a place marker) and behind this is where they dug out the Norfolk Keel. There are (were) the remains of dozens of other wherries here. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=52.618506,1.376137&spn=0.001215,0.002234&t=h&z=19&msid=106169224726842169133.00046142121d1942b9f4e There are also the remains of some wherries on the main River at Brundall - on the left hand bank, a short way upstream from the Southern entrance to Surlingham Broad. Marshman ... if you do find that list then I would be very interested to see it too!

I think the best place to see some wherry remains is Surlingham Broad. At low tide you will see the skeletal remains of several of them poking up through the waters surface ... I have got some photos somewhere which I will see if I can find. The link to the Google map below shows exactly where that graveyard is: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=52.615524,1.429006&spn=0.00486,0.008937&t=h&z=17&msid=106169224726842169133.0004613fea9a404721c14 I think that there are also supposed to be some on Rockland Broad? .... I haven't noticed these those. There certainly are others dotted around, but I think that a lot of them were used to shore up banks etc and you won't really see very much now, if anything. There is certainly at least one at Barton, and if you know where to look, you can apparently still see Dragon's tabernacle at Oulton. The remains of a wherry were found at Womack staithe in 2006 when they were renewing the quay heading - you can see some pictures of that on the Ludham Community Archive website: http://www.ludhamarchive.org.uk/interwh.htm

Hi I came across another news snippet on the Lord Roberts .... I am not entirely sure of the exact date, but beileve that it's c1975-77. It seems that there were plans to ship her off to a museum in Lancashire.