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More photographs from my own collection.

The first of three photographs taken on Breydon Water c1905. An incredible 13 wherries can be seen making the crossing together. You can clearly see that the trader in the centre of the picture is carrying a cargo of timber which is stacked over the edges of the decks. There is certainly at least one pleasure wherry amongst them which can be seen on the far right.

Two raters were also photographed on Breydon - possibly racing at the time?

I believe that this is the rater “Caprice” which was built c1900 by the Norfolk Broads Yachting Company, also pictured on Breydon c1905.

A trading wherry and anglers, pictured at an unknown location c1910. This image was produced as a magic lantern slide and comes from the collection of Andrew Day.

This is believed to have been taken at Waxham - the road bridge can be seen in the background.

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Another photograph of Walter Cooper at the helm of Lapwing. Lapwing was listed as available to hire with an attendant in Harry Blakes first Yachting List of 1908 but left the Collin’s hirefleet during the 1920s. What happened to her after that is unknown.

A studio portrait of Walter Cooper looking very smart in his Ernest Collin’s skippers uniform. This uniform appears to have changed very little up to the 1930s, and each skipper had the name of their boat emblazoned across the front of  their Guernsey jumpers.

The following three photographs date from c1915-1920 and belong to Eric Franklin whose grandfather, Walter Cooper, worked as a skipper for Ernest Collins at Wroxham. Walter is seen here skippering for a holiday party on Lapwing which was a 37ft cutter-rigged yacht, thought to have originally been built c1900 as a racing yacht. Walter Cooper lived in Anchor Street in Coltishall and worked for Ernest Collins between 1900 and 1920. He was taken ill suddenly on Easter Monday 1920 and sadly died a few days later at the age of 40 - it is thought that he may have contracted Weil’s disease

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