Maritime Norfolk Part One
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Maritime Norfolk Part One
Author: Robert Malster
Maritime Norfolk is the first part of a lifetime's enthusiasm and research from the foremost of East Anglia's writers on maritime topics since the 1950s. From journeys on Lynn shrimpers and North Sea drifters, from friendships with longshore fishermen and stalwarts of the lifeboat service, through to painstaking transcription of documents at the record offices of Norfolk and Suffolk, Robert Malster has both recalled and recorded many aspects of East Anglia's maritime heritage.
He has been an inspiration and an example to many others who have followed by researching their own particular interests and enthusiasms.
In this first part of a two volume publication, which he has modestly described as 'a contribution to the maritime history of Nelson's county', he writes about life and activity on the Norfolk coastline from the Wash in the west to Caister in the east of the county, with a second volume being required to tell the story of the port of Great Yarmouth. Wisbech and King's Lynn, Hunstanton and Wells, Cromer and Sheringham, all feature with their own facilities, idiosyncrasies and specialisations, with many other smaller communities also coming into the story.
Cley and Blakeney, now homes to modest scale vessels for the leisure sailor are recalled as significant ports in the past; the lives of the beachmen, who made their living from wreck and rescue, are introduced and a comprehensive bibliography points on to many other titles which will interest those who love the county, the wider region of East Anglia and who simply enjoy tales of the sea.
Whilst the author has written in the past on many aspects of Broadland, he has been asked to include here a section on the Broadland waterways, so that we can appreciate the link between maritime activity and the trade that made its way inland. Indeed, from earliest times, we might regard the great estuary inland to Norwich as the coastline and it is only in more recent times that it has become rivers rather than the sea.
The book is copiously illustrated, with many pictures from the author's own collection. To be able to see the Buck print of Norwich, showing the canal which once led from Bishop's Bridge up to the cathedral, reminds us of the transport of building material from Caen; Staniland's lithographs of Caister beachmen and lifeboatmen tell us how fortunate we are to have such an artist living locally to capture these scenes and early photographs are identified and annotated to carry their information forward to future generations.
Author: Robert Malster
Maritime Norfolk is the first part of a lifetime's enthusiasm and research from the foremost of East Anglia's writers on maritime topics since the 1950s. From journeys on Lynn shrimpers and North Sea drifters, from friendships with longshore fishermen and stalwarts of the lifeboat service, through to painstaking transcription of documents at the record offices of Norfolk and Suffolk, Robert Malster has both recalled and recorded many aspects of East Anglia's maritime heritage.
He has been an inspiration and an example to many others who have followed by researching their own particular interests and enthusiasms.
In this first part of a two volume publication, which he has modestly described as 'a contribution to the maritime history of Nelson's county', he writes about life and activity on the Norfolk coastline from the Wash in the west to Caister in the east of the county, with a second volume being required to tell the story of the port of Great Yarmouth. Wisbech and King's Lynn, Hunstanton and Wells, Cromer and Sheringham, all feature with their own facilities, idiosyncrasies and specialisations, with many other smaller communities also coming into the story.
Cley and Blakeney, now homes to modest scale vessels for the leisure sailor are recalled as significant ports in the past; the lives of the beachmen, who made their living from wreck and rescue, are introduced and a comprehensive bibliography points on to many other titles which will interest those who love the county, the wider region of East Anglia and who simply enjoy tales of the sea.
Whilst the author has written in the past on many aspects of Broadland, he has been asked to include here a section on the Broadland waterways, so that we can appreciate the link between maritime activity and the trade that made its way inland. Indeed, from earliest times, we might regard the great estuary inland to Norwich as the coastline and it is only in more recent times that it has become rivers rather than the sea.
The book is copiously illustrated, with many pictures from the author's own collection. To be able to see the Buck print of Norwich, showing the canal which once led from Bishop's Bridge up to the cathedral, reminds us of the transport of building material from Caen; Staniland's lithographs of Caister beachmen and lifeboatmen tell us how fortunate we are to have such an artist living locally to capture these scenes and early photographs are identified and annotated to carry their information forward to future generations.
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