Brightlingsea Harbour first class service.

[Frayed Knot]

Vauxhall Velox ?

Early 1960's ?

I think it’s a Cresta. The posh family up the road from us had one in the sixties. ?

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Vauxhall Velox ?

Early 1960's ?

I think it’s a Cresta. The posh family up the road from us had one in the sixties. ?

I think you are right. Great car that looked more American than British, but about half the size

Prone to serious rust if I remember rightly.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I think you are right. Great car that looked more American than British, but about half the size

Prone to serious rust if I remember rightly.

Vauxhall Velox ?

Early 1960's ?

I think it’s a Cresta. The posh family up the road from us had one in the sixties. ?

We had a Velox back when I was in my early teens. - oddly, I can even remember the registration number!

 

[Supine Being]

"If ever a place needed a harbourmaster it is Brightlingsea, and it should be a rule of the port that every craft must be moored. Another nuisance is the trribe of urchings which bear down on to one's dinghy when approaching the hard. One is almost deafened by the shill shrieks of 'Mind your boat, sir'! as some twenty or thirty youthful ruffians wade ot alost waist-deep and lay vilent hards on the dinghy. It is blackmail pure and simple: for, if the yachtsman does not consent to have his boat looked after by one of the tribe, he will probably find her anchored in the middle of the creek on his return. I might mention that a Brightlingsea boy's idea of 'minding your boat' is to use it in the owenr's absence for the purpose of ferrying people across the creek." I best stop there, it gets worse.

That made me chuckle. Where did you quote it from? 1906 Reeds?

 

[tillergirl]

F B Cooke's 'London to Lowestoft', said to be 1906 but not actualy dated. By Imray.

Re the Brittlesea photo - I am not sure it was from Dad but I think it was. Checking other photos, it would have been 1961 and we would have gone via the Sunbeam Rapier, not the Rover.