The Man Who Found The Broads - G. Christopher Davies
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The Man Who Found The Broads - G. Christopher Davies
Authors: J. Campell & C. Middleton
G. Christopher Davies was described in his obituary as "The man who found the Broads" by Charles Carrodus, yachting correspondent of the Eastern Daily Press. He was acknowledged by his peers to be the first of the great Broads photographers and became a prolific writer. This is his first published biography. Much of his life, friends and contemporaries were the founding fathers of twentieth century Norwich; a generation very largely responsible for the city as it is today.
The Norfolk Broads are unique in the British Isles in the development of such a wide variety of inland water craft. Davies sailed through quite the most exciting period of this development which started with the launch of Castanet, built for Russell Colman, by the inventive genius of George Mollett of Brundall.
With the exception of some of his own portraits and the single shot of Pull's Ferry credited to Albert E. Coe, Davies is believed to have taken all of these photographs himself. They date from circa 1880 and much of what he saw has either disappeared or changed out of all recognition during the passage of more than a century. These are very old photographs dating from the infancy of the science and inevitably some have withstood the ravages of time better than others.
Authors: J. Campell & C. Middleton
G. Christopher Davies was described in his obituary as "The man who found the Broads" by Charles Carrodus, yachting correspondent of the Eastern Daily Press. He was acknowledged by his peers to be the first of the great Broads photographers and became a prolific writer. This is his first published biography. Much of his life, friends and contemporaries were the founding fathers of twentieth century Norwich; a generation very largely responsible for the city as it is today.
The Norfolk Broads are unique in the British Isles in the development of such a wide variety of inland water craft. Davies sailed through quite the most exciting period of this development which started with the launch of Castanet, built for Russell Colman, by the inventive genius of George Mollett of Brundall.
With the exception of some of his own portraits and the single shot of Pull's Ferry credited to Albert E. Coe, Davies is believed to have taken all of these photographs himself. They date from circa 1880 and much of what he saw has either disappeared or changed out of all recognition during the passage of more than a century. These are very old photographs dating from the infancy of the science and inevitably some have withstood the ravages of time better than others.
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