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Sailing races in Friesland, 1961

May 3, 2020 beverley yates Uncategorized

View this evocative silent British Pathé newsreel of a sailing contest on the Frisian Lakes in 1961. The film opens[…]

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Life aboard a sailing barge, 1947

March 12, 2020 beverley yates Uncategorized

View archive footage of an English sea-going barge in this Pathé newsreel which opens with the commentator saying ‘the tall[…]

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Red Sails: bringing bricks by barge from Kent to London

February 19, 2020 beverley yates Uncategorized

This short clip provides a glimpse of the building boom of Victorian London, with millions of bricks being brought from[…]

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SB ‘Growler’ hopes to launch, April 2020

February 19, 2020 beverley yates Uncategorized

We’ve been following the progress of young boatbuilder, Ash Faire-Ring, based in Norfolk, England as he restores the Thames barge,[…]

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Colour on the Thames, 1935

February 10, 2020 beverley yates Uncategorized

This rare colour footage from the British Film Institute archive shows life on the River Thames in the 1930s. Its[…]

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Dutch sailing barges, 1963

January 10, 2020 beverley yates Uncategorized

View a fascinating, compelling newsreel, without any commentary, showing large sailing barges with full sails racing in Friesland, Holland. We[…]

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From Barge to London Restaurant: SB Pretoria, 1964

December 15, 2019 beverley yates Uncategorized

This Pathé archive film tells the story of Thames Sailing barge Pretoria which became a restaurant on the Thames in[…]

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James Herbert, Severn Estuary bargemaster

March 6, 2018 beverley yates Uncategorized

This extract tells the story of James Herbert, son of an agricultural labourer, who followed many local young men in[…]

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Smacks and barges racing Photo: Ian Kemp

SB Venta: London to Stockholm

June 14, 2015 beverley yates Uncategorized

Built in 1893 by John Howard of Maldon, Essex, SB Venta was originally named Jachin. In 1914, she sank off[…]

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Sloops and keels

May 21, 2015 beverley yates Uncategorized

Humber Keels had square rig, and the Sloop was gaff fore-and-aft rigged but the hull is apparently the same. There[…]

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