Samuel Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Carol Very interesting photos. I tried to pm you about these using the 'envelope' at the top of this page but the system says you cannot "access messaging". Do you or anyone else know what I am doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Hi Samuel, At a rough guess as you are not a full member yet (over 50 posts) it is possibly the reason you cannot perform that action, sorry I cannot be more helpful. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 1909 and probably recognisable to any of you lucky enough to have passed upstream of Beccles Bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Hi Samuel, "At a rough guess as you are not a full member yet (over 50 posts) it is possibly the reason you cannot perform that action, sorry I cannot be more helpful." Thanks Iain. Oddly though I have managed to have pm conversations in the past. How, I don't know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Possibly a little fanciful but nevertheless an attractive picture of the Waveney at Beccles: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 For generations Beccles, like Norwich, was a sea-port. Indeed up until the 1960's a Thames barge used to visit the town, presumably for agricultural produce. With this in mind, when the new bypass bridge was built, an agreement was drawn up to provide a mooring for trading craft next to the bridge. Whilst the agreement is remembered by some its existence has yet to be established. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 JM, The one thing I remember about Beccles in my early years of holidaying was, the queues of craft from Rowancraft,Poolcraft and Hippersons waiting for the tide to fall at the Old Bridge. We had been waiting to top up fuel at Astons, but it was the "afternoon tea break" ALL 45 minutes of it! Once through that bridge, its one of my favourite parts of the Broads. Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wussername Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 JM, The one thing I remember about Beccles in my early years of holidaying was, the queues of craft from Rowancraft,Poolcraft and Hippersons waiting for the tide to fall at the Old Bridge. We had been waiting to top up fuel at Astons, but it was the "afternoon tea break" ALL 45 minutes of it! Once through that bridge, its one of my favourite parts of the Broads. Iain. I remember it well. All those years past. And do you know, very little has changed. To travel through Beccles to Geldeston lock even to this day, is going back in time. What you see, that which you experience, was appreciated by many before us. Old Wussername 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Old Wuss, how right you are. 'Tis the iconic Broads/English river in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Here you are, Old Wuss, Geldeston Lock, when we were kids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Or before I was a boy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 And probably before my father was a boy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wussername Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 JM I do hope that the members bare with us whilst us old curmudgeons reminisce. The former I certainly relate too. You may remember the latter.☺ Today, the only change is that on the voyage to the lock, having passed Beccles, prior to the arrival, the wherry has to lower it's mast. Why? Because of the power lines, which it passes underneath. Not that it would touch the lines, but it is deemed by those who understand these matters, to be to close. That is the only consideration or requirement to our modern world that is I suspect the only change that has been made for generations. Old Wussername 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 We hired a wherry for my daughter's wedding which was at Beccles. During the evening the wedding party sailed up to Geldeston from the Waveney House Hotel. Don't remember having to lower the mast, or even dip the yard, or even that the skipper was in the least bit concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Lovely picture of Geldeston Locks here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Low-Tide-at-Geldeston-Norfolk-Ltd-Edition-Print-Signed-by-Joe-Crowfoot-/141498841264?pt=UK_art_prints_GL&hash=item20f1fcf8b0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebee29 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Happy to bare with you on this. I love to see old photos of days gone by and hear reminiscences. Keep them coming David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 This time a vintage snap of the original Beccles swimming pool. The interesting boat on the left possibly worked off a local beach, probably for one of the 'beach companies'. Quite likely she would have taken pilots out to shipping, or been involved in rescues or salvage, a forerunner of the modern lifeboat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Some interesting history of swimming at Beccles to be found on this page:https://swimmingnews.wordpress.com/tag/england/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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