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I think for at least one season the brochure had something like: 'Lewis & Hughes' printed on the front cover

Don't know if this has been posted before but there is a post in "the other place" of an EDP article published in May re the restoration of a Powles 30, Noisy Goose, from the early 60s. Also mentioned in the article is ex-Woods Queen of Light built in the 30s.

My 1958 Hamilton's maps have been useful over the years.

Oops its just about to finish. Its called Conflict of Wings for future ref.

There'e a film on the above channel at the moment, a lot of it seems to be on the Broads. Just seen the Pleasure Boat dyke at Hickling.

Thanks Alan, mine was a replacement pacemaker fitted to the same wires and appears to be working OK. I should have had a cardio follow up after a rubidium scan last May but it never happened. I'll make sure I chase them up for a follow up this time. As an aside I had to have the pacemaker replacement without sedation as I have sleep apnoea. Obviously I felt the local needles going in but he gave me some more anaesthetic when I flinched as he used the scalpel. Being fully awake it was quite interesting to hear the surgeon instructing a junior doctor as he worked on me - definitely not as dramatic as Holby though.

We do have access to some very basic GP records but I believe I can access all my records if I pay. Probably worth looking into to make sure this tablet is flagged up.

My Bank Holiday weekend didn't go quit as planned as I spent Sunday and Monday in a cardio ward. Sunday lunch son and family came round for a barbecue - first one in almost 12 months. Fortunately we have a large back garden so distancing isn't a problem. Thursday I had had a replacement pacemaker and the doctors in their wisdom changed my heart tablet from Digoxin to a beta blocker – I have had heart block, now have AF and a lot more than my share of ectopic heartbeats. Friday I took the first tablet and was fine, Saturday about an hour after the tablet I started to feel more breathless than normal, Sunday I couldn't walk upstairs without having to stop at the top and rest for a few minutes. There wasn't any answer from the nurse specialists at the hospital so I phoned 111 just to try and get some advice from a doctor about either lowering the dose or coming off the tablet - didn't want to make the decision myself in the off chance there was a problem with the new pacemaker. I know there is a checklist system for 111 operators and with my symptoms the only option was for them to send a paramedic. When they arrived they found my heart rate was reading mid thirties and an ECG didn't look too good to them. I explained to them that a pacemaker combined with my type of heart condition can give totally wrong (usually low) pulse readings – I almost always get a low pulse reading on BP machines, finger Oximeters and fitness watches. They couldn't take a manual pulse reading because at present they can't take their gloves off. Anyway after a couple of days in a cardio ward, three lots of heart scans plus permanent connection to an ECG they decided the problem must be the beta blocker, so have put me back on a Calcium Antagonist tablet which they took me off last year after I had been on it for almost twenty years. Only second day on that tablet so a little too early to see if it does the job, but I was really glad to be sat out in the sunshine yesterday and am doing the same today - grandchildren are coming for the delayed barbecue after school. Yes, I am jealous of all those on the Broads but enjoy yourselves anyway.

In my early teens I remember one of those at a fairground where a lad I knew tried pushing a candy floss stick up the cigarette delivery slot to try and release the mechanism - he succeeded but only to get a mangled cigarette. Not to be outdone, the next day he returned with a row of ice lolly sticks taped together end to end and returned home with twenty or so cigarettes. I dread to think what would have happened to him if the fairground workers had seen him.

History of the Helter Skelter's life is on Broadland Memories Learnt something new there as well: the pier was rebuilt in 1958 so must have been brand new when we visited it September 58 on my first Broads boating holiday. One memory of the pier was playing a pinball type machine on which you had to stop a traffic light on green to win a roll of Polo Fruits. I won't tell you how I remember this specifically as today I wouldn't dream of doing something similar.

Remember being refused passage by Blakes pilot on Constellation 2 in July 64 - think he could get us through but couldn't guarantee getting us back.

Boats do tend to move about. According to Craig Dawn Supreme started at Dawncraft, then Stalham Yacht Services, Hearts Cruisers, Compass Craft and a couple of private owners. I suppose it could still be around somewhere but it was last registered on the Broads in 2005.

Vaughan probably

Well the Germans have one up on the French. We were moored for the night in the centre of Narbonne and I spied a McDonalds - not a float though, but close enough. I knew the crew weren't ready to cast off so I headed for a McD's breakfast - only I was disappointed as they didn't do breakfast, just burgers etc all day and I couldn't face one of those at eight in the morning. Mind you it was 15 years ago so things may have changed now.

Last lot from 66.

Probably count on one hand the amount of Macdonald's burgers i've had, but I did try the breakfast at the one in Roy's when early morning shopping from the moorings in Hoveton. It did the trick even if it didn't in any way really resemble the real thing - I did struggle to work out the difference between the hash brown and the sausage pattie. When, many years ago, I used to work late into the evening I would pop to Macdonald's which was the only place open within a reasonable distance and have their veggie burger, which was quite tasty. Many years later a Macdonald's opened near to where I live, but they had stopped doing the veggie burger - haven't been in the place since. p.s. I am partial to the occasional burger from Burger King but their places are like hen's teeth.

I seem to remember the first one I ever saw was at Stokesby on that same holiday. As we approached the one in the pic I suppose we would have looked at it and obviously thought it wasn't worth wasting film on. Funny thing is that about 20 years later we looked at the Caribbean's because the single floor level, side passage layout was ideal for our fishing holidays, as we could leave the rods made up in the passage overnight on a rack I had made and transfer them to the roof in the day. In the end we went for the Horizon 42's and similar because of the sliding canopy.

Few more from 1966 holiday.

Constellation 2 again. This time in September 66. The first pic shows how frightening it is to cross Breydon

1964 Constellation 2. Unfortunately most pics from this holiday were lost in a house move. First one is my first ever stern on mooring at Ranworth . . . only we got it the wrong way round. We saw the yacht moored bow on and did the same . . and a couple of pics at YYS that i've posted before.

I've posted these from 1958 before but for those who haven't seen them . . .

Thanks for that David. I'll give that software a try.

A few more from our 1963 holiday on Crusader 1 from Richardson's. I have posted a couple of these before. Didn't have a flash so the interior shots are dark.

Went up to New Mills twice on Moonlight and twice on Lightning. Had no problem with depth even though one trip on Lightning was at low tide, but did keep to centre of the channel. Some low res pics of a few of the bridges above the yacht station. Bishop's Bridge from upstream; Whitefriars Bridge; Fye Bridge; Head of navigation at New Mills; St Miles Coslony Bridge; Thomas More's 'Utopia' on the old Eastern Electric building. I do have some movie clips from above Bishop's Bridge on SVHS-C which I was about to take to have converted so I can edit them in iMovie, but first lockdown came along. When I've had the second jab (this weekend) I'll take them. Some of them are too valuable to us to trust to the post.

I don't know but I'm sure someone else on here will. I have a picture taken in 1964 and it was still there then.