JennyMorgan Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Another turn of the century picture, this time Mills Staithe, Ranworth. Now, I don't know Mills Staithe, do you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Hi JM A new name to me that is. I wonder if anywhere near the right hand side as you enter Malthouse Broad near the Nature area? I am sure someone will know? Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I expect a lot of people have tried Googling it like me, and found the coloured version of Pater's pic, but still no specific detail of exactly where it is on the Broad. It's even on this German "Lexikus" website ! http://www.lexikus.de/bibliothek/Colours-of-the-Norfolk-Broads/Picture-13-Mills-Staithe-Ranworth Maybe it was where Cator's mooring dykes are now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I am guessing here but the cut that is on the right of the main staithe, where there are private moorings. I do know that the biggish thatched house that stands there was something to do with the Mills family, of Mills and Reeve the Norwich solicitors. I knew the late Peter Mills whose family owned at one time the bits of land around the broad the the Cators didn't own. He was the son of the Mills that would have owned in the period of the photo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Having given this some more thought it could be here, Peter Mills built himself a house at the head of this dyke. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 It is the first dyke on the right going in to Malthouse. The bridge and boathouse are still there, as is Peter Mill's house. Alfie runs a boat from there acrosst to collect from the island. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Unusually for me I keep having more thoughts on this and I think I am right in saying that until some time in the 1980s Peter actually owned these moorings selling them to the Cator family during this period. So this could be it, although I have never heard them called Mills staithe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 It was Peter who managed the moorings still when we started at Ranworth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 I'm fairly certain that this is Ranworth, at a time when harvesting weeds was not frowned upon, early 1900's again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Sailing up Ranworth Dyke. The half decker on the right might have been on Oulton Broad until a few years ago. That unusual transom is very similar to a boat that used to be kept in the dinghy park there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Wouldn't have wanted to row that lot against any wind! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Ditto: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 The picture second above this was taken from where we moored Rondonay, great to see that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 As the title says 1947 looking up the broad from the staithe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Some nice pictures ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizG Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 The last two pictures from JM, I think were taken on the same day, despite one 'being coloured in' - just that yacht in the background has started to set sail. Same half decker in foreground.........and the reed lighter has just got a bit further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Yes it does look like it Liz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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