JennyMorgan

Gracie, you'll be more than welcome but there is a proviso! Please don't call the locals 'inbreds', even if we do have plumb line straight family trees and go 'coo' when a plane flies overhead.

Six packs, that lot, naaa! Yes, Gracie, still in Oulton Broad. You best hurry & move up here, house prices around the Broad are on a steep move, yet again.

The NBN delivers!!! There looks to be a notice that might relate to caravans but I'm not so sure about AGA's. Best that I can do I'm afraid.

Found it! Just go and scan it, ooooh, exciting stuff!!

In 1941 Leo Robinson was building M.L's and M.T.B's for the war effort. I wonder if the AGA connection was in part to do with their admiralty contracts. Not sure that 1941 was a time when civilians took many photographs. Indeed many had evacuated Oulton Broad & Lowestoft at that time.

Afraid I was mistaken, the card I had in mind doesn't help. This one is late 1940's but I suspect by then that Leo & my father had done their deal.

I know that I have a picture of the premises when it was Leo's booking office, only I can't find it, yet. I don't recollect any mention on the picture of AGA but maybe I just didn't notice. I'll have a look through my postcard collection, nothing in my p.c. files.

That first shot shows the shop before Leo took it on, this one is after:

Coincidently my father bought Leo's shop and owned it up until the late 1970's.

Hi Dave, fancy meeting you over here too! Have been catching a jack or two but nothing special. Re Sunday, if all goes to plan we shall be boarding the good ship 'Spray' and sailing up to the WRC for the day. Thanks for the invite though, appreciated.

Gracie, the customers all had the good grace to laugh when they realised that they had been had. By the way, where in Sussex do you live? I had a few years living in Bosham, nice county. One day I was sailing up Bosham Deep when I passed very closely under the stern of a moored yacht, As I passed a voice rang out, 'I don't think that sailing that close to a moored boat is good practice'. I retorted that from where I came from it was good practice to use every inch of the water. The voice called back, 'ah,a Broads sailor'! I stopped and we had a chat, turned out that she'd grown up on Oulton Broad, living a few doors from my rather more humble home, small world.

Many years ago I held the licence at the Waveney Inn and decided to have a topless night, We advertised that to get the ball rolling all the staff would be topless. The place was heaving, the customers all clothed though, the staff all very definitely topless, that night the staff were all blokes. No one arrived buff on a boat, but that was in the seventies. We were much more modest back then!

Back in the 1960's the Waveney Inn at Burgh St Peter, now the Waveney River Centre, was owned by the Wilkinson family. One of the bars included one side of a real airliner cabin. This was actually the restaurant and airline meals were served to the trans-continental customers! 'Flights' took off at regular intervals and were incredibly popular. During the 1970's the pub was bought by Fowlers Boatyard from Oulton Broad who restyled the interior and the pub, for several years, was the Blakes pub of the year.