A Look back at the Norfolk Broads in 1959 

Shame about their toilets flushing directly into the Broads though.

I saw a freeman!

Thankyou glad you enjoyed it.

Thankyou, I think Roy's will always be wroxham

Glad you enjoyed it

Thankyou, it's a place which iv always wanted to be. Please check out my other films on here including the latest one, The nightmare and the dream.

Me and my father holidayed for two consecutive years,Gemini 1 and Gemini 2 out of the Marina in Potter Heigham. Gemini 1 still had the Gas Mantles for lights and a Gas Fridge,you woke up in the morning with the smell of a bit damp but the wonderful smell of Wood,Varnish and Petrol. Gemini 2 was a bit more modern but she still had that Smell and touch of Wood all around. Always remember my Father saying it was the best sleep he had ever had in his entire lifetime,gently being rocked to sleep with the sounds of the Boat settling and the gentle slap of the Water against the Hull. We went in May ( cheaper ) but had wonderful weather both times,a bit of a drizzle day and foggy another day but it added to the holiday rather than subtracting,being moored up in the Fog was literally like you were completely on your own,suspended or floating in the Fog and Mist and the Sounds of Birds etc was magnified but you couldn’t work out where from,we even had a Swan knocked itself out as it swam into the Boat it was that Foggy, Dad rescued it with the Boat Hook but it wasn’t very happy with us when it woke up in the back of the Boat ! We had to vacate into the cabin and eventually it got out of the Canopy. We smuggled a old Jerrycan full of petrol aboard at the start of the hire because Dad was adamant that he wouldn’t pay Marinas fuel costs, so we would keep the tank topped off and we would find a petrol station on land. The bloke in the Marina at the end of Hire couldn’t understand how come we had a FULL fuel tank and he used his wooden dippy stick a few times !. Dad was extremely chuffed at saving so much money lol 😂. Sadly we could never afford the cost of the Hire again ( even in May ) but what memories 😊. I have a family of my own now and sadly my Dad has passed away but I often think if we had the money ( 4 boys and myself and my GF ) so we would need the biggest boat ,I would Love to be able to take them all or even if it was just me and my GF ( even those funds are sadly out of reach these days ) but if we ever Win the Lottery then the Broads would be the First port of call for a Holiday. I would Love to be able to Live in Norfolk but sadly another Dream.

Absolutely agree with you. Lived in Oulton Broad myself for 15 years (Near Flying Dutchman pub) Likewise makes me miss it very much.

And sadly as charities they are accepting supposedly enormous donations from folk who take it they therefore have the greater say in how the money is spent. The CRT recently stated that the millions paid in by boaters for licences and moorings etc is only 10% of the total money spent toward the upkeep of the network, whilst the rest was donated. They have taken to banning certain boaters completely from the waterways. Those certain boaters are the single most defenseless water users, yet the most colourful and characterful boaters. Those new rules are being renewed constantly, for no apparent reason. (All the so called reasons for closing public access throughout our land is devised by the devisive ones to make up the reason for no vote laws being invented to keep more and more boaters from water.) Beware, the so called donors and volunteer management. My local councillors are living in some of the top properties in London, yet about 12yrs ago the Mayor was accepting housing benefit to pay his rent, which he did not pay the landlord!

@@janechanning984 who are the boaters they are keeping off the network? Are they the ones who'd like to make up the 90%?

Thankyou very much for your kind words, the broads was always and always will be a very special place for me.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thankyou so much

That's exactly what I enjoyed the most, waiting for next blakes and hoeseasons catalogues to be posted to me 😁😁

Bank erosion hadn’t yet become apparent.

My thoughts too... You could have waterskied behind some of em lol

Try "Phillip's Dog and the Whoots", very hard to find though.

Thankyou.

Thankyou glad you enjoyed the film

Wow, I was just about to say, it looks clean.

And covered in chewing gum and graffiti.