JennyMorgan

Andy, in post number 30, is bang on the number with his comments. Absolutely spot on!

I have had pages of e-mails just recently, just discovered several over the page so to speak. It's also been one of those weeks. Will catch up over the weekend. John, that especially applies to you, link on its way.

It's a mag that has never really found its niche, in my honest opinion. At one time it was all fashions and restaurants, then it was club news with photos of people that no one had ever heard of, or were remotely interested in, then it was boats that no one could afford within the subscription area and now, when it's actually become quite good, they go and pull the plug! Still, I haven't subscribed for several years so I don't suppose I'll miss it.

Polly wrote: 'lose the fish and chip shacks' Polly, how could I survive a week on the Broads without the delights and health benefits of soggy fish & chips? Matlock or Potter Heigham? Well, the 'shed city' aspect sits well in the NP ethos in my opinion but CooDee/Lathams and the village centre, hardly! Horsey Mill is quintessentially NP in my books, love it, but is that what the masses will want?

Andy very wisely wrote: The Broads is a Brand in itself. Exactly. That is precisely what the industry should be promoting, The Broads, not trying to pinch someone else's tagline.

Marshman wrote: - surely everyone would agree to CALL the Broads a NP can do only good to tourism generally? It is unlikely to have a negative effect is it? Inevitably I'm not convinced. Already on Oulton Broad we have a conservation area and we are governed by NP planning rules. For better or worse I live in the conservation area. We are already being told what colour our garden sheds should be and what our windows should be made of, effectively we now have a planning blight which sometimes effects one side of the road but not the other, grossly unfair. That aside, the Authority executive area is closely allied with the river meaning that many Broads associated attractions and facilities are actually outside the notional park area, as is the case with the Oulton Broad village itself. In other words they are outside the control of the park authorities, lucky them. The downside being that mandatory controls to regulate to a standard expected by the public of a national park won't apply. The St Olaves mooring saga has already illustrated the national parks dilemma, many pontoon objectors already assuming that the Broads is a national parks and saying the proposed mooring pontoons shouldn't be allowed in a national park. On the other hand there will be others, I'm sure, who will say that as a national park the Broads should have such facilities, I see problems ahead on this one. As a visitor to and enthusiastic supporter of national parks, despite planning strangleholds, I really don't think the Broads meets the widely perceived requirements of being a national park. As with the above mooring pontoon saga people will say something should or shouldn't be done because the area is thought to be a national park. Anyway, I think it is too late, witness the intense developments at Wroxham & Horning and the proposed Pegasus development at Oulton Broad, surely not what one would expect of a national park? Sympathetic development has a place on the Broads but I am sometimes hard pushed to find it! Will the national parks tag help tourism? Maybe, maybe not but rather than being The Broads we become just another National Park. We will be out to attract national park customers rather than Broads customers. Can we compare with the likes of Snowdonia or the Peak District National Parks? There are just so many national parks customers out there, only so many people in stout walking boots and floppy hats, we should be out to nurture, develop and retain Broads customers, in my sincere and honest opinion. The Broads is The Broads. We have long had a wonderful tag, Broadland, let's use it. Waterland, pah!

This time it the long departed Horstead Mill:

Horstead, early 20th century. Presumably the rowing boat is the photographer's transport.

Faulty post, sorry.

When Broads boats were built for the Broads! Now we're off to St. Olaves 1960's

This time 1948, when I was a mere sprog! Lovely rowing boat, don't see many like that nowadays.

I thought that the NP Bogey Man had gone asleep, let sleeping dogs lie I say!

Nearly! Very nearly, but no , , , , , , ,

Thanks for the link, think I'll make the effort & go and slum it at Yarmouth! Dear old EDP, first class editorial, as usual! Frank Southgate 1872 - 1916 Born in Suffolk, Frank lived most of his short life in East Anglia. He died whilst serving in the British Army in France during World War 1.

No, don't be tempted . . . . . . . . . . I said NO . . . . . . . .

A rather small group from Broads Tourism met up at the Waveney River Centre recently, read all about it: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/broads_tourism_community_celebrates_successes_of_10_years_working_together_1_3845354

1909 and probably recognisable to any of you lucky enough to have passed upstream of Beccles Bridge.

This time it's Northgate Street, 1912.

Muscovies are really friendly. My previous front door had a letter box down low and every morning an old, and inedible, muscovy would come along and lift the letter plate with his beak and let it drop with a loud click. He would keep doing that until we eventually took him a handful of corn, to which muscovies are very partial. More than once he came into the house and relieved himself, blessed creature! Such is the joy of living near the water, it's not all a bed of roses, sometimes it's a puddle of poo!!

This one, apart from showing a wherry, has in it a boat that I feel certain that I knew as the Oliviere. A very sea-worthy hull, apparently off a well known liner of the time, a beach boat rather than a lifeboat perhaps? Anyway, I have a later post card of Beccles showing Oliviere under sail and with a lid on, a sailing houseboat. She eventually came onto Oulton Broad and was moored up in the North Bay for many years where she was a live-aboard houseboat belonging to a Mr & Mrs Dunbar. I don't that she sunk but she was eventually hauled up onto the bank following the 1953 floods and cut up, her bow being stood up on end and becoming a shed, it can still be seen to this day, if you know where to look.

A few years later:

Acle Regatta 190? by Frank Southgate. I believe that Frank was killed in WWI.

And there goes our Poppy with synthetic sails and synthetic paint and maybe a carbon mast! Well, maybe aluminium.

I suppose having a cabin is a bit of a luxury anyway so just as well to let the ladies indulge themselves, if only for some peace & quiet

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/1907206280/ref=tmm_pap_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&sr=&qid= Even cheaper!