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Welcome to the Forum Royston.

Very sad news, our condolences to his family and friends. I only met Alan once and unfortunately didn't have much time to chat with him, but from his posts on here and some PMs we exchanged, I could tell he was not only a gentleman but very knowledgeable on all things Broads related and also willing to help anybody with advice. RIP Alan, you will be missed.

Junkerhaus is correct. We visited Detmold a few times as my wife's brother and his family lived there. Like you he was stationed at Detmold and also up the road (as he put it) at Bielefeld. After his army service he stayed on there working as a civilian for the army, delivering post, etc between bases. Just one more pic to jog your memory:

You'll probably remember this then . . .

They get around . . . Lemgo in Germany Christmas 2005

There is something called Any Video Convertor (AVC) which was available free for Windows. Don't know if it converts from your format but probably worth a look. I have used the Mac version successfully.

May have missed your opportunity in the 60s. When they were demolishing the old railway bridge workers came across some dynamite from WW2 still attached to the bridge. If they had only transferred that a couple of hundred yards downstream . . .

Connoisseur 40 or 45 at Catfield Dyke October 2013

Here's a view from upstream of us about to pass under on a Bounty 28 fwd.

Heather was hired out by Turners at their boatyard in Horning for many years.

It was boarded up for many years - don't know if it still is. I drank there a few times in the early/mid eighties, usually outside as it was a modern, soulless place inside. Think attached pic is the pub's terrace? The Broads pubs' brews I can remember from the 60s were Bullards, Lacons and Steward and Patteson.

Best wishes to all from Chris and Roy

Funny thing is I usually tripped over it going in but can't remember ever tripping going out, even though by then I wouldn't have been quite as steady on my feet.

Thanks for the links Liz. Particularly poignant for me are the c1965 photos of Horning, as we hired from Chumley & Hawke in both 1964 and 1966. The aerial view of c1955 showing three (I think) boatyards again brought back memories as the photo is only three years before my first Broads holiday in 1958. I remember seeing the Percivals' roundel as we cruised past the boatsheds. Were those boatyards Percivals, Banhams and Southgates Lower Street? I'm sure Vaughan will put me right.

VAT I think

a court ruling in 1991 sided with McVities that Jaffa Cakes were a cake and not a biscuit

Would it not be dangerous to switch gas supply off temporarily? Thinking of gas CH boilers that haven't been serviced regularly and more specifically gas fires whose flame failure or auto ignition may be suspect. No use for this winter, but if the Viking Link comes on line on schedule by the end of next year maybe that will help with electric supplies.

Definitely unethical, but don't let that stop you - you'll be in the company of thousands of others.

I pour cream or custard over the ones my wife makes. It softens them enough to make them just about edible.

Like Griff I had the drain condensing pipe fitted inside and a magnetic filter. I wouldn't have any idea how to do a force bleed though.

We hired Crusader 1 from Richardsons in 1963 and while the engineer was doing the handover he picked up the rowing dinghy from a row of them moored along some trees/bushes on the far bank near the exit to the boatyard.

I had a similar experience with a caravan booking with Hoseasons.

Can't see a registration number on the stern. There is a mark on the right hand side but it looks too small to be a reg no. Possibly come from another waterway?

Pics taken in August 86 showing shop in relation to Brooms. We were moored in the two boat bay with Moonlight Shadow's old mooring to Meadow Saffron's right. I was stood outside the shop when I took the second photo. Years later, after they had demolished the shop, I sat on Moonlight watching them driving the piles for the new moorings where the shop had been.

Boundary Farm Moorings at Thurne mouth have reopened.