
As a boy from North Lincolnshire, I just love this photo of a policeman in a police boat taken in 1917. Thanks to Facebook’s Saildream for passing on the shot.
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As a boy from North Lincolnshire, I just love this photo of a policeman in a police boat taken in 1917. Thanks to Facebook’s Saildream for passing on the shot.
Colour on the Thames (1935) – a boat study, a film-poem, a picture postcard – and, in 1935, probably something of an experiment too. Photography by Adrian Klein, colour by Gaspar-Color.
Herring fishing the traditional way our of Clovelly: ‘We either sail or row.’
From Kipperman Mike Smylie (also see the 40-plus Fishing Boat Association). Thanks Mike!