Norfolk Broads 1981

[AdnamsGirl]

Another great bit of Broads cine footage - not one of my mine, but uploaded by another YouTube user earlier today. A church choir holiday in 1981 aboard a couple of Herbert Woods boats - one of many similar trips they took they took reading the attached info. 

Early in the season, I suspect this may have been over the Easter week.

 

Carol

[SteveO]

What a lovely blast from the past. Brings back lots of memories. Thanks Carol.

 

[NorfolkNog]

Fantastic nostalgia and classic woodies too. Great film, thanks for sharing with us Carol 

[SwanR]

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing it. Great assortment of boats. I think you're right about Easter - looked like an Easter egg on the breakfast table and also the bishop preaching at Ranworth?

Lovely way to start the day.

[NeilB]

Lovely film, Easter 1981 I would have been 9 !!

[grendel]

lovely, I think I spotted someone with a Zenit E camera (the budget SLR of the day- Well I had one and so did my dad)

[Labrador]

'First let of the season judging by the pristine paint work.

I was 32 then, working on hire fleets.

[ChrisB]

2 minutes ago, grendel said:

lovely, I think I spotted someone with a Zenit E camera (the budget SLR of the day- Well I had one and so did my dad)

I had one in the 70s, always forgot to close down the appature after focusing!! Had one of their Russian 12x50 binoculars as well both performed well. NEVER drove a Lada though.

[grendel]

did all that - and owned a Lada.

[Springsong]

I love these old films I love boat spotting and lo an behold whilst they are on Southgate's front Springsong in our first year of ownership is moored on the front at The Swan.

[ChrisB]

50 minutes ago, grendel said:

did all that - and owned a Lada.

I was shooting before Christmas in the Suffolk Breckland. To my absolute surprise one of the "Pickers-Up" arrived in a very recent Lada Niva, which was a longer wheel base 5 door model ( never seen one with back doors before) I chatted to him and he had bought it new from a guy who imports them. I think he said down you way. Kent or one of those old Kent towns that are counted as Greater London nowadays.

[grendel]

mine was a bright green Lada Riva (estate) and was T boned by a Volvo, the volvo came off worst, the Lada took the front corner including the light right off, the whole side of the Lada was scraped up, but all the doors still opened.

[Boatingman]

Wonderful film

Not a mobile phone in sight

Ray

[socrates]

I love these films, 1981 seems so long ago, I was still in my teens and playing on Mrs Windsor's (well,Thatcher's) much bigger boats!.All those yellow life jackets, the Zenit camera, and the glass coffee cups certainly take me back. 

Do any groups, other than families, ever go on such adventures these days? With all the regulations and H&S, I suspect it would be too difficult for anyone to arrange. Then again, I suspect few young people would be content with the simple pleasures of boating. 

The boats on these films are ( in my opinion) much more aesthetically pleasing to look at, they don't resemble the floating caravans of much of the current hire fleets. Then I would say that!

[NorfolkNog]

Fascinating film, I've just been watching it again. Couple of nice nostalgic views of the Bridge Hotel towards the end.

It looks quite good quality, assuming its cine film, bit too early for video I'm guessing?

[JennyMorgan]

Youngsters were youngsters for longer back then, I miss those days.

[WherryNice]

I was so young back then that I hadn't been born...........

[High6]

Ah, how we danced and skipped!

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[Broads01]

Thank you Carol, I'll look forward to watching that. It's the same year as my first ever visit to the Broads at the age of 10, so special significance for me. 

[Lulu]

I really enjoyed this. I remember those glass coffee cups. Never seen them anywhere else other than on a boat! 

[ChrisB]

2 hours ago, Lulu said:

I really enjoyed this. I remember those glass coffee cups. Never seen them anywhere else other than on a boat! 

You must be too young to remember the coffee bars of the late 50s and 60s, they were everywhere. Still to be seen all over France in the type of rural Bar that serves the local wine in mustard glasses. What happened to the Dijon mustard that was sold in a glass with a red plastic lid??

[webntweb]

Thanks Carol. The film brings back memories. 1981 was the year we returned to the Broads after a 12 year gap.

Roy.