I’ve just been spending time on a fascinating site broadlandmemories.co.uk, an archive of photos and reminiscences of the Norfolk Broads from the 1900’s to the present day.
For me the best part is the photo galleries from the 1930’s and 1950’s – the men in their one piece wool bathing suits, wearing sports jackets in the pubs. Otherwise [...]
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Memories of the Norfolk Broads
February 15th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: 1930s · 1950s · boats · holidays · norfolk broads · photography · sailing · social history
Sailing away
September 27th, 2008 2 Comments
Last weekend I had a glorious, quintessentially Norfolk experience, of going sailing on the Broads for an entirely wind powered weekend.
I’m a sucker for beautiful things, so the almost the best part was that we were on two beautiful 1930’s wooden cabin yachts.
We were the most elegant people on the Broads that weekend. And the [...]