Woodbridge & Beyond - Robert Simper
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Woodbridge & Beyond - Limited Edition
Author: Robert Simper
In the pages of this book, some of the more colourful personalities of East Suffolk are brought vividly back to life. We meet Edward FitzGerald, whose schooner Scandal was named, he claimed, after the chief product of Woodbridge; Bernard Barton (who described himself as 'having little more locomotion than a cabbage' )
Thomas Churchyard, the lawyer who preferred to be a painter; the irascible Colonel Tomline; Sir Cuthbert Quilter, whose 'splendid protest against taxation on earnings from individual initiative made not the slightest difference to the course of British political history'; Amos Clark, who pulled down over 80 wind and water mills in the search for seasoned oak for putting the face on mock Tudor houses; and a pride of barge skippers.
We learn how tenant farmers used to live, how farming systems have changed over the years, why marshmen did not count sheep in ones but in twos and threes. We read of the contest between Church and Chapel, of change-ringing competitions at St. Mary's, the great coprolite boom, windmills and millers, the development and decline of Woodbridge as a port.
Separate chapters are devoted to shipbuilding, including some rare material from Cromwellian times, and (of particular interest to the yachtsman today) yacht designers and builders.
The Deben has been discovered. This book shows why.
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
Author: Robert Simper
In the pages of this book, some of the more colourful personalities of East Suffolk are brought vividly back to life. We meet Edward FitzGerald, whose schooner Scandal was named, he claimed, after the chief product of Woodbridge; Bernard Barton (who described himself as 'having little more locomotion than a cabbage' )
Thomas Churchyard, the lawyer who preferred to be a painter; the irascible Colonel Tomline; Sir Cuthbert Quilter, whose 'splendid protest against taxation on earnings from individual initiative made not the slightest difference to the course of British political history'; Amos Clark, who pulled down over 80 wind and water mills in the search for seasoned oak for putting the face on mock Tudor houses; and a pride of barge skippers.
We learn how tenant farmers used to live, how farming systems have changed over the years, why marshmen did not count sheep in ones but in twos and threes. We read of the contest between Church and Chapel, of change-ringing competitions at St. Mary's, the great coprolite boom, windmills and millers, the development and decline of Woodbridge as a port.
Separate chapters are devoted to shipbuilding, including some rare material from Cromwellian times, and (of particular interest to the yachtsman today) yacht designers and builders.
The Deben has been discovered. This book shows why.
Robert Simper was born in 1937 and is married with three children and five grandchildren. Robert Simper has sailed extensively on the East Coast. Amongst his other activities, he writes regularly for Classic Boat and Sea Breezes and has written a regular column in the latter for thirty-two years. He has lived in Suffolk all his life and shows no sign of leaving. He is one of Britain's best known writers on traditional working craft. He has written a series of books covering the histories of the East Coast estuaries. Reviewers have described him as 'a master of the photo-history book' and deemed 'the English Estuaries Series to be classic of their kind'
This book is another in his excellent series.
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