Vintage Surf meet 2019 coming soon !

Vintage Surf meet 2019 coming soon !
Free to take part
We buy interesting old boards 60s/70s/early 80s in good condition. Email alasdairlindsay75@gmail.com . Also wanted - Surfing UK , British Surfer and Surf Insight magazines .
Above photo - copyright Rennie Ellis photographer archive

Thursday 7 May 2015

A classic 50s travel poster by Harry Riley showing the kids ready to hit the surf at Woolacombe
and around the same time in Newquay here's some girls flexing up for a slide on their bellyboards

3 comments:

  1. Woolacombe lost its station in 1970 when the whole railway line from Barnstaple - Ilfracombe was closed down. The surf museum is on the site of the old Braunton station which disappeared the same time.

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  2. same with Perranporth and helston in Cornwall, quite a few lines closed down

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  3. Doctor Beeching, employed to make the railways pay by wiping out uneconomic branch lines, but destroying many small communities at the same time. The south-west was one of the most affected areas

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