Photos Of The Broads From The '80s And '90s

Myalibi · September 8

Started going through some old family albums. Sorry, the quality of the prints is now great, and I don't remember where all the shots were taken. Wroxham perhaps for the first one?

This one is Wroxham. There were some really grand houses tucked away. At the time, I recall the largest private cruiser on the Broads, the Francis Molly, at 63 feet, registererdd in London was moored alongside one. I have a recollection that the Francis Molly was used to carry Queen Elizabeth on one of her visits to the Broads as there was a photo and an article in the EDP about it. I've seen the post on the forum that The Albert was used on one visit. I do remember The Albert moored at the yacht club on Wroxham Broad.

Wroxham Broad

Salhouse Broad

Not sure if this was Ranworth, or.....

Another unidentified location, Belaugh maybe ??

Or maybe this one is Belaugh? It was taken in August 1993 for sure.

This one is on L'Aigle, around 1987

No location

Perhaps taken at one of the entrances to Salhouse Broad

And along the same stretch of river

Slightly better composition on this shot of a sailing boat B721

A much-admired property in Wroxham. The Broom Continental was named Whileaway

dom · September 8

Great pictures!

No.1 is I think the property around the top of Heronby's dyke in Wroxham.

5 and 6 are almost certainly Gaye's Staithe.

FairTmiddlin · September 8

Number 8 is above St Olaves on the Waveney the pylon and Cantley SBeet tower in background.

dom · September 8

1 hour ago, Myalibi said:

Or maybe this one is Belaugh? It was taken in August 1993 for sure.

I'm pretty sure this is the Anchor Street moorings in Coltishall rather than Belaugh. The big tree in front of the house has been removed now, but the roof and projecting balcony is pretty distinctive.

If you have any more from the Wroxham area in the 80s, please do post them up. I live in perpetual hope that someone caught an image of me and my dad on the river back then.

webntweb · September 8

2 hours ago, dom said:

If you have any more from the Wroxham area in the 80s, please do post them up. I live in perpetual hope that someone caught an image of me and my dad on the river back then.

What was your boat Dom?

dom · September 8

16 minutes ago, webntweb said:

What was your boat Dom?

It was a Broom 30 called Marie Louise (F74). Most of the time we were out on the river, we'd be accompanied by my dad's best mate from Summercraft, who had a custom 30ft cruiser called Josephine (Z540).

Myalibi · September 8

5 hours ago, dom said:

I'm pretty sure this is the Anchor Street moorings in Coltishall rather than Belaugh. The big tree in front of the house has been removed now, but the roof and projecting balcony is pretty distinctive.

If you have any more from the Wroxham area in the 80s, please do post them up. I live in perpetual hope that someone caught an image of me and my dad on the river back then.

Thanks for the help in identifying the locations Dom and the boss man, it's much appreciated.

I've had quite a laugh looking back at some of those photo albums, but I have not yet found any more from Wroxham. But I am visiting my mum tomorrow and will see if she has anything relevant. Marie Louise doesn't ring a bell though.

webntweb · September 8

5 hours ago, dom said:

It was a Broom 30 called Marie Louise (F74). Most of the time we were out on the river, we'd be accompanied by my dad's best mate from Summercraft, who had a custom 30ft cruiser called Josephine (Z540).

Sorry no luck. Found about 60 photos of the Wroxham area in the 80s but no Broom 30 on any of them.

dom · September 8

3 minutes ago, webntweb said:

Sorry no luck. Found about 60 photos of the Wroxham area in the 80s but no Broom 30 on any of them.

Thanks for checking. If you ever have time, I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking it'd be interesting to see some of what you do have anyway. The area has changed so much, it's always interesting to see how it was then, in what were some of the area's halcyon days.

webntweb · September 8

1 minute ago, dom said:

Thanks for checking. If you ever have time, I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking it'd be interesting to see some of what you do have anyway. The area has changed so much, it's always interesting to see how it was then, in what were some of the area's halcyon days.

I will sort through them and post some tomorrow (not all though - don't want to bore everyone).

pastboating · September 9

I do not think you will bore anyone, please keep the photos coming.

Lulu · September 9

9 minutes ago, pastboating said:

I do not think you will bore anyone, please keep the photos coming.

Agreed!

webntweb · September 9

Some Wroxham area pics from 1981 to 1994. They were all colour slides and some of them are grainy, mainly caused by my waiting too long to scan them (about 2017), Anyway here they are and apologies if I have posted some of them before.

Porter & Haylett's, early September 1981: