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Road works in Stalham at the mini roundabout pair at the bottom of the high street. There is no way through from Tesco to the high street or Sea Palling.
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Officially entries have closed, but a little bit of grovelling will still get you in.
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Less than a week till closing of entries..
Get them in!!!!
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A new one was constructed at RAF Neatishead over the last year and a bit. The resident TPS 77 Radar has moved there.
It's moved because the road and site at Trimmingham is now begining to fail due coastal erosion.
When it finally falls into the sea there's a huge R1 underground bunker under there, that'll make its own sea defence.
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1 minute ago, TheQ said:
Martham boats do sailing and rowing dinghy hire.
If not just a canoe from them.
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Martham boats do sailing and dinghy hire.
If not just a canoe from them.
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13 hours ago, Wussername said:
There were somewhere in the region of 30 shoe factories in Norwich. Some, still remembered this very day.
Their closure gave several sailing clubs mud weights for their buoys, there are a lost of old shoe lasts down in that mud folks..
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Entries close 23rd April 2023
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Not all the bridge is medieval..
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It was only in the 1960s that Dr Lambert's theory that the broads were mostly medieval peat cuttings was accepted. Prior to that they were officially thought to be natural, therefore back then the " tidal " aspect applied. Today it doesn't, however retrospective changes to various changes in broads status as public or private would be very difficult to make happen.
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On 09/01/2023 at 12:18, Vaughan said:
Perhaps this is academic now, as we must look to the future. All the same :
After the War, the Broads had, in the space of 5 years, grown over and "gone back to nature". My parents hired a boat for 2 weeks in 1946 in order to have a look around for a boatyard business to invest in. My mother remembered how they had to literally cut their way into places such as Womack dyke, the Chet and Rockland dyke (there was only one dyke then) as they had grown over and become inaccessible in just those few years of the War. The local landowners soon got used to the situation and were happy to keep their land inaccessible and closed off to navigation and the ghastly "general public".
Yes, it was snobbish in those days. Very snobbish. Thou shalt not interfere with the rights of the landed gentry to their duck shooting and fishing. I actually have cine film of my father and Mr Blofeld pike fishing on Gt Hoveton Broad, in 1955. Nowadays the Blofeld family want to clear all the fish out, so as to maintain the quality of their "private garden pond" which is - by tradition and law - tidal water and therefore should be open to navigation.
This is the traditional and hierarchical attitude that we are still up against. This is also how farming landowners managed to persuade Government to close off and protect their land from the river, in order to grow arable crops. So we now have far more flooding than we ever used to in my memory.
Do I digress? Perhaps not!
Ever since the late 40s the tourism industry has fought against this proprietorial attitude and succeeded (long before the BA) in forcing traditional waterways to be re-opened. This is why Blakes took out a lease on the whole of Malthouse Broad, The Dam and the Maltsters' Quay, in order to prevent them being closed off, as they surely would have remained otherwise. Ranworth Inner Broad is also tidal and should also, legally, be open to navigation.
I am afraid I don't know what happened to Blakes' lease in the 80s as I had moved to France by then but I know there is a difference between the Maltsters' Quay, now leased by BA, and the Parish staithe, which is off to one side.
The land known as the Island moorings was owned by Peter Mills, who also owned the big white house down from the church, where there is now a marina mooring. Before his retirement, he had been the Chief of Police in Kenya.
Frankly, I don't care whether the BA have the "right" to charge for moorings at Ranworth : I just don't think that approach would be good for the future of Broads boating.
Vaughan you are incorrect in suggesting all tidal waters are required be open by law..
That only applies to Natural waters, it does not apply to manmade waters,. If you build a drive way to your house it does not mean it becomes a public road. If you dig a dyke to your boat yard it does not become public waters. Equally because the majority of broads are manmade peat diggings, it does not mean they are public waterways, unless established unchallenged for many years by custom and use.
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I don't know about new year, I'm still waiting for my families Christmas cards to arrive from Scotland.
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For added fun they are coning off outside BQ at Hellsdon, for 12weeks!!!
More cycle lanes no one uses.
Also road works just north of boundary road, on the Coltishall re, are about to start.
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On 28/12/2022 at 13:00, JawsOrca said:
I've never understood why that's open to road traffic, certainly when it's sinking and In most national parks that would just be a pedestrian only bridge
Well in this not a national park, that bridge isn't really sinking, over the 6 or 700 years since it's been built, the land of the broads have dropped by about, 6-10 inches ( glacial isostatic adjustment), sea levels have risen by about 8 inches since 1900 after the roughly stable period 1400-1900. So the bridge height is reduced by 14 to 18 inches since it's been built.
The biggest problem with boats going under the bridge is the ever increasing size of boats..not just height, but width, you look at the old woodies of martham boats, they are considerably narrower than modern boats and it's those top corners that stops boats going through.
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If you observe the chain of cameras there is one that is different to the others..
That is the one just South of Catfield, it has lights on high and a cabinet at its base.
I believe that that camera has been set up to work independently, and is the only one that has worked..
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At RAF Neatishead in the R12 Building ( the big green block)
Was a piece of kit I looked after.. it was still in use till some time between 1990 and 1994..
It sent information to another station at a massive....
110 baud.
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This page includes several of Horning of the 1930s and before, including the sign by the Swan , where the southern comfort now moors. The sign reads Horning Town Sailing Club which ceased to exist in 1938, Horning Sailing club was formed a few months later.
https://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/1900to1949gallery3.html
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8 hours ago, HEM said:
Modern stuff - try this for a bit of computing history:
Ferranti Atlas: Britain's first supercomputer
My father was one of the users of the Manchester Atlas (for Chemistry research) and as a school kid I was occasionally taken into the Atlas room at weekends without realising the significance of the whole thing. Subsequently I studied Computer Science at Manchester with lectures from Tom, Dai, Simon & colleagues. When the Manchester Atlas was decommisioned I saw how some large components were thrown over the parapet of the flat roof of the electrical engineering building into a skip below (I was watching from the 7th floor of the Chemistry building).
The final comment is somehow painful: "and now your washing machine has a more powerful computer in it than Atlas".
Ferranti that's modern stuff, I used to live in Bletchley Park
The Bombe Computer.
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Just make sure it's got a good handle on the back to lift them out. Most dogs will float quite happily without a life jacket until they very tired.
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Thermal gloves, tick,
Very warm Buoyancy suit, tick,
Fur lined boots, tick,
Woolley hat, tick ,
In twenty minutes I'm heading to the sailing club, to put the buoys out and then go sailing...
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16 hours ago, NeilB said:
Broads Tours have just announced they are building 8 x electric dayboats for next season, further details to come.
Unusual for a dayboat to have a weed hatch so I'm wondering if they are going for a concealed electric outboard or pod system, hard to tell from these photos.
Of course, dayboats are an easy win for electric power being back at base every night for charging and no domestic demands.
or maybe they've just taken account of the ever increasing weed problems on the broads
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Sounds a good reason to go to the model railway club tonight.
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Came through NDR / Wroxham road this morning no sign of any closure..
My Day
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The defences between waxham and Eccles seem to be doing their job.
Happisburgh would have had them if it weren't for objectors.
I'm surprised it wasn't carried on further south, as the section from Waxham to winterton is equally low lying.