JennyMorgan Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/royal-mail-stamps-to-feature-norfolk-broads-6871028 Happy New Year! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwanR Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 That's very interesting. My dad was a philatelist and passed the interest to myself and my sister as children. It's not something I have kept up but I think I might order a set of these or one of their other collectible options. https://shop.royalmail.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=national+parks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 2 hours ago, JennyMorgan said: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/royal-mail-stamps-to-feature-norfolk-broads-6871028 Happy New Year! I have sent the Post Office a email from their site featuring the National Parks stamp issue that sadly included the Norfolk Broads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanetAnne Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Right now, as far as I am concerned, you can call the Norfolk Broads anything you like as long as it helps to bring enough revenue in to save what's left of our holiday industry and riverside pubs etc. Whats left of the riverside businesses that have survived covid are just about to disappear under floodwater. It's been a hell of a year for broadland! 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, JanetAnne said: Right now, as far as I am concerned, you can call the Norfolk Broads anything you like as long as it helps to bring enough revenue in to save what's left of our holiday industry and riverside pubs etc. That is a New Year's resolution, if ever I heard one! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 We have long endured floods and gales, nothing will change there, the Broads will bounce back from this latest inundation just as it always does! Just how bookings that are usually made over the Christmas holiday period hold up, now, that is a very real concern. Those deposits can come in very handy at this time of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 I got a Christmas card from Richardsons by e-mail, on Christmas Day. So they haven't forgotten about that piece of marketing! All the yards used to send their regular customers a Christmas card, as it arrives just at the time when they are thinking of booking a holiday. It is very effective! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 I may well be wrong here but I seem to remember that it was Mr. Brinkhof who started that one. He was certainly the first to send us one, back in 67ish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 Mr. Brinkhof was certainly an innovative individual so it wouldn't surprise me if he was the first to send out Christmas cards. For me he was better known for the Swiss Navy's annual invasion of the Broads, that was clever marketing, all for the cost of a Swiss Navy flag! . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Fred Brinkoff (I think that's the spelling) made an arrangement with Soler's travel agency in Switzerland to bring customers over on a chartered aircraft to Norwich, which meant starting their holiday on a Thursday. One of the earliest versions of a "package" holiday! One or two yards, including Hearts, reserved boats specially for Soler's customers and so this also created the mid-week holiday start. Until then, all bookings had been from Saturday to Saturday. This would have been in about 1964, when it first started. Solers agency was still running, last time I looked. and they are very important customers for boats on the French canals. I met Fred Soler several times, as he was invited to several CBL board meetings and gave a lot of input into our boat design and customer service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 I well remember my father commenting, on seeing the first Swiss flotilla steaming in line abreast across Oulton Broad, that the Swiss Navy had succeeded where those of other European Navies had all failed! Mind you, the Vikings made inroads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 whereas the romans made straight roads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 10 minutes ago, grendel said: whereas the romans made straight roads? At least as far as Acle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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