Blakes Pennant Pin And Flag Wanted

[JanetAnne]

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 

 

[BroadAmbition]

Griff, can you name all 44 yards shown on your tray?

Without researching - Not a chance!

Griff

[Vaughan]

I got 29, but I ought to have done better than that!

It's all a long time ago!

[Vaughan]

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!!

[LizG]

I got quite a few but helped as they are in alphabetical order!

[Vaughan]

 

 

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!

[LizG]

I knew 34! Some I had forgotten, some I didn't know!

[Springsong]

I thought Moores were an independent yard neither Blakes nor Hoseason or any other. come to that.

[Vaughan]

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.

[Captain]

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

[Captain]

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

[Vaughan]

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.

[Captain]

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

[Loynesboy]

Has anyone got a Loynes pin badge ours was lost .We had many Boats out from them in the late 50s to 70s