Barnt Green Sailing Club - Gallery 014

A gallery of photographs from 1954, showing Firefly dinghies racing on Upper Bittell. Photographs kindly given to the club by Ben Solloway on 3/2/2008

The fleet in the background, the view to the north east looking towards Hopwood hill, note the cloud of smoke from the fisherman rowing the punt, puffing away on his pipe I suspect.

Can any members identify some of these people?  Notice the floating pontoon, also what looks like a loudhailer and not a lifejacket in sight.  Things were rather different back in '54 !

Again, who are these three Lady spectators?

And these two fishermen?    Email answers to  robin@aabrownandsons.com  please.  Thanks for the photo's Ben.   (RB)

 

 

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