Monthly Archives: July 2012

Many people are aware of the archive.org Wayback Machine which has archived over 150 billion web pages from 1996 to the present day and allows you to look back in time to see what your favourite websites used to look … Continue reading →

Summer finally arrived in Norfolk last weekend and it provided the perfect opportunity for a Sunday afternoon boat trip along the River Bure. It doesn’t matter how many times you travel along the same stretch of river, there’s always something … Continue reading →

Whilst trawling through the Broadland Memories news vaults last week, I came across a rather amusing little article from the late 1960s which relates, not to hoards of drunken stag parties descending on the Broads, but to a hire fleet … Continue reading →

I’ve had a rummage through the news archives once again to bring you another “On this Day” in Broadland’s history. This time we’re going back 29 years to the 15th July 1983 with a story which touches upon two very … Continue reading →

As promised, the second film from the Battersby family collection has been uploaded to the Broadland Memories YouTube channel this afternoon. The black and white footage was also shot on 16mm cine film and dates from 1947 when Geoff and … Continue reading →

I had a few Norfolk Broads cine films transferred to disc a while back and amongst them were two short home movies given to me by Barry Battersby which were shot by his parents, Geoff and Barbara (Babs), either side … Continue reading →

I promised some further updates on the Broads Tours story which I’ve been covering in a series of posts on the blog, and the first of these concerns the passenger launch Princess Mary. In the first Broads Tours article, I … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on an unexpected but interesting little video project over the last few days. I received an email at the end of last week from Will Downing who had just had some 8mm cine footage taken by his … Continue reading →