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I’ve never seen it but I’m told that the smack is the ‘Alanna’, built by John Howard around 1906 and which was converted to a yacht after three years of fishing. Her owner was killed in the Great War and left her to his paid hand at Burnham who sold her to my uncle in 1919.
 
Kukri said:
I’ve never seen it but I’m told that the smack is the ‘Alanna’, built by John Howard around 1906 and which was converted to a yacht after three years of fishing. Her owner was killed in the Great War and left her to his paid hand at Burnham who sold her to my uncle in 1919.
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And bears a fairly strong resemblance to Gus and Sara’s Gladys at Pin Mill now
 
Kukri said:
I’ve never seen it but I’m told that the smack is the ‘Alanna’, built by John Howard around 1906 and which was converted to a yacht after three years of fishing. Her owner was killed in the Great War and left her to his paid hand at Burnham who sold her to my uncle in 1919.
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Hi Kukri, one of my barging mates lent me the DVD of Ha'penny Breeze recently, and I have to agree with LittleSister that while it wouldn't have bothered the 1950 Oscars, it is worth a watch. The 'abandoned' hulk of the Alanna was iced with mud, by a devotee of Artex by the looks of it, and seaweed was stuck on with drawing pins, but the time capsule of post war Pin Mill is charming, and reminded me of my first visit in 1973 and a very happy time there in the late 90s.

As your uncle owned Alanna back in 1919, do you know what became of her? She isn't listed under that name in the Smack Dock list, and my friend and human resource in these matters died last week.
 
Black Diamond said:
Hi Kukri, one of my barging mates lent me the DVD of Ha'penny Breeze recently, and I have to agree with LittleSister that while it wouldn't have bothered the 1950 Oscars, it is worth a watch. The 'abandoned' hulk of the Alanna was iced with mud, by a devotee of Artex by the looks of it, and seaweed was stuck on with drawing pins, but the time capsule of post war Pin Mill is charming, and reminded me of my first visit in 1973 and a very happy time there in the late 90s.

As your uncle owned Alanna back in 1919, do you know what became of her? She isn't listed under that name in the Smack Dock list, and my friend and human resource in these matters died last week.
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My uncle, Eric Udale, sold her during the Thirties. She was reputedly sailed by the Army on the river during the war, but I don’t know if that is true. When I first got to Pin Mill, two years ahead of you, in 1971, I asked the landlord of the Butt and Oyster, the legendary Pat, he of the handlebar moustache, if he knew what had become of her, and he said that someone had put what remained of her on a truck and taken her off somewhere to rebuild her, but she had never reappeared.

She was built by John Howard as a smack, but only fished for three years before she was turned into a yacht.
 
Kukri said:
My uncle, Eric Udale, sold her during the Thirties. She was reputedly sailed by the Army on the river during the war, but I don’t know if that is true. When I first got to Pin Mill, two years ahead of you, in 1971, I asked the landlord of the Butt and Oyster, the legendary Pat, he of the handlebar moustache, if he knew what had become of her, and he said that someone had put what remained of her on a truck and taken her off somewhere to rebuild her, but she had never reappeared.

She was built by John Howard as a smack, but only fished for three years before she was turned into a yacht.
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I fancy Pat may have shopped for his trousers next door at Tony Ward’s chandlery, where my father and I used to go for “two gallons of Stuart Turner” (and always a good deal else - that was a proper chandlery!) In 1984 in Mirelle I bought a Henderson V pump from Tony but he couldn’t find the handle. We made do with a bit of plastic tube and in due course Tony delivered the handle to my home in Colchester!
 
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Kukri said:
I fancy Pat may have shopped for his trousers next door at Tony Ward’s chandlery, where my father and I used to go for “two gallons of Stuart Turner” (and always a good deal else - that was a proper chandlery! In 1984 in Mirelle I bought a Henderson V pump from Tony but he couldn’t find the handle. We made do with a bit of plastic tube and in due course Tony delivered the handle to my home in Colchester!
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we bought 2 sets of yellow HH foulies from there in about 1975/6
 
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