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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: 001uk on Sunday 25 September 16 08:40 BST (UK)
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Hello!
Any ideas please as to the location of the
FRANCIS HOUSEBOAT Teas Lunches
Painted on the side of this "vessel" is FRANCIS HOUSEBOAT / TEAS & LUNCHEONS. Banner by door reads "Entirely under new management". Quite a sandy beach (or mud)? Across the other side is a town.There's a large taller building well above others ( Lancing College?). Could this be in the Sussex area?
What do you know about this houseboat?!
With thanks~001uk
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As far as I can remember, beaches in Sussex are mainly pebble, or shingle?
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I wonder if it is an estuary rather than a beach.
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Does this look familiar?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/13756339003
In which case (name change aside!) we could be looking at Hengistbury Head.
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Does this look familiar?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/13756339003
In which case (name change aside!) we could be looking at Hengistbury Head.
:o :o :o
I would say that's definitely a very good match, The link says locations of Hengistbury Head, Southbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset, presumably it moved around?.
Frank.
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This link gives a little of the backstory https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/27/our-family-lived-on-beach
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^snap! :)
"Four generations of Derham family life is bound up in this half-mile of sandy beach.......His is a sprawling fishing family whose ties with the area stretch way back. The Avon Beach chapter begins with his grandparents, who lived on a houseboat off Mudeford sandspit, which stands across the water. Victor's grandmother started an informal cafe from the boat during the late 20s"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/27/our-family-lived-on-beach
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Is this the place - the headland on the left looks very similar to that in your original photo?
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ikc/
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Does this look familiar?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/13756339003
In which case (name change aside!) we could be looking at Hengistbury Head.
Thank you Spidermonkey (and matthewj64 & jess5athome) for solving the whereabouts. Sussex was just a floating idea which you sank. Interesting back story (which is very often the case with these old images).
The teas are on me.
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Does this look familiar?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/13756339003
In which case (name change aside!) we could be looking at Hengistbury Head.
:o :o :o
I would say that's definitely a very good match, The link says locations of Hengistbury Head, Southbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset, presumably it moved around?.
Frank.
I think that is the full address and not various locations but in those days Bournemouth was in Hampshire.
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Does this look familiar?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/13756339003
In which case (name change aside!) we could be looking at Hengistbury Head.
:o :o :o
I would say that's definitely a very good match, The link says locations of Hengistbury Head, Southbourne, Bournemouth, Dorset, presumably it moved around?.
Frank.
I think that is the full address and not various locations but in those days Bournemouth was in Hampshire.
Hi nanny jan, :) Now I see it, ::) Geography, and/or Grammar, have never been my strong point :-[
Frank. :)
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I know this is an old thread but the boat was moored near Hengistbury Head in Poole Harbour. My mother and her parents used to walk from Southbourne over Hengistbury Head to visit their relatives on the boat and have tea. This would be early thirties.