JanetAnne Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, jeffbroadslover said: Griff, can you name all 44 yards shown on your tray? I remember having one of those trays many many years ago but have no idea if it is stashed away in the loft somewhere. Jeff 19 but when I checked I had only managed 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadAmbition Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Griff, can you name all 44 yards shown on your tray? Without researching - Not a chance! Griff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I got 29, but I ought to have done better than that! It's all a long time ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I think I would guess that tray was made in about 1965 or 66. Wards, Landamores, Windboats and Dawncraft were all sold to Jenners just after, but I notice the new Southgates flag, after they were bought by Tom Watson of Herbert Woods. I think Banhams stopped hiring in 66 but Percivals went on until about 69. There is no Moores flag, so maybe Jenners bought them before the others? These were times of big recession and by the 70s that list had changed a lot. Several old ones gone but a lot of new ones (like me) coming in. It's difficult to remember as a lot of yards never flew a flag on their boats, so you only saw them in the brochure! Pennants are very expensive, when made out of bunting and you can get through 2 or 3 a year, when they get frayed by the wind. Or nicked as souvenirs!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizG Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I got quite a few but helped as they are in alphabetical order! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Difficult to scan this as the brochure is in old foolscap size and not A4. Maybe Chris B can get them the right way up for me? This is Blakes of 1964 and looks like the same list, at a glance. There is still no Moores flag though. I went to school with David Moore and his father Ralph was always a bit "iffy" about Blakes. He always refused to have the Blakes emblem on the bow of his boats as he considered his standards were a lot higher than Blakes! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizG Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I knew 34! Some I had forgotten, some I didn't know! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I thought Moores were an independent yard neither Blakes nor Hoseason or any other. come to that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I am certain Moores were Blakes as I remember my father talking about Ralph's refusal to carry the emblem. But I also seem to remember that Moores were one of the first yards to print their own brochure, in those days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Hi My first boating holiday was on Glenmore 2 in 1974 R430. Moore's were independent upto and including that year. Believe they were sold shortly after and joined Blake's in 1975 Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Vaughan, Sorry I don't mean to contradict you. I should have said they were independent in 1974 and to the best of my knowledge had been previously, doesn't mean that that they weren't in Blake's at some previous point Neil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 There can also be confusion as the Moores of the 1970s was a different company, an offshoot of Jack Powles, which was then owned by Leslie Trafford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I agree although I was under the impression that Moore's sold the hire fleet to the Trafford family in 1974 or thereabouts. It has to said that the ownership and history of the yards in 60s- 80s would fill a book the size of war and peace. I am not even sure who owned Moore's Powles and Collins in the 70s and 80s although they all ended up together at some point, Trafford's, Henley s Pennant, Mowat etc etc. Anyway I am going off thread so mustn't go down that route. Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loynesboy Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Has anyone got a Loynes pin badge ours was lost .We had many Boats out from them in the late 50s to 70s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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