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Another river scene captured by Ronald Winton c1930. This is captioned as being “near Thurne Mouth” and features a rather nice looking steam tug in the background.

“Kaori” moored on the River Ant opposite Beaunont’s Mill c1930. The mill stood just south of Ludham Bridge and was demolished to make way for a mooring basin near the boatyard.

B 767 “Dancing Light” captioned as being moored on the Waveney. The “Light” class of motor cruisers were built by Herbert Woods at Potter Heigham, the first being built in 1926, and are widely held to have been the birth of the modern motor cruiser. These boats were built with low wash hulls, had spacious, comfortable interiors and a self starting Morris marine engine.

Another picture of “Dancing Light”. In 1930 Herbert Woods began the work to create his Broadshaven yard at Potter Heigham which would see a 2 acre basin dug out of the marshland, 1800 square feet of quay heading added for his growing fleet, new boatsheds constructed and the famous water tower built.

This picture was captioned as being taken at Barton Broad c1930.

The interior of “Kaori” as the crew tuck in to a meal.

This is believed to have been taken on another trip to the Broads as the crew are now aboard a centre cockpit cruiser. This photo is captioned as having been taken on the river Bure near St Benets Abbey.

Ronald Winton captioned this photograph “On Tow” as two of the crew are pulled behind the boat in a dinghy.  Note that gentlemen still wore a one piece bathing costume at this time.

Moored at Acle c1931. The road bridge which can be seen in the background was new in 1931, replacing the original three arch bridge which had been constructed in the 1830s.  The current Acle road bridge was built in 1997 after it was discovered that the increase in heavy traffic was causing subsidence.

A beautiful steam yacht/schooner passes through Reedham swing bridge c1931. Many of the older steam pleasure cruisers were still operating day trips  on the Southern Broads at this time.

Another picture taken whilst moored at Reedham c1931.