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Carnival 2013 Day 2, the Green and the Harbour

Sunday August 11th

Classic cars on the Green, local art in the marquee, and a fine range of Decorated Dinghies in the Harbour.

Carnival 2013 Art show and ice creams

Carnival 2013 Art show and ice creams

Carnival 2013 classic cars on the Green

Carnival 2013 classic cars on the Green

Decorated Dinghies
The Decorated Dinghies attracted 12 entries, ranging from this summer’s sports – the Ashes and the Murray/Djokovic tennis match – , some well drilled Vikings, well greened Jumblies, well provisioned Teddy Bears’ picnic, a well wild Yarmouth bunch,  to a glimpse of the Queen and new member of a Royal Family.

Carnival 2013 Queen and family

Carnival 2013 Queen and family

Parents and grand parents had shown their creativity with cardboard, and the children taking part showed great patience during the judging!

Carnival 2013 Decorated Dinghies 'Ashes'

Carnival 2013 Decorated Dinghies ‘Ashes’ Pryce-Jones family

Carnival 2013 Decorated Dinghies, Jumblies, Cow(e)s and Wild bunch

Carnival 2013 Decorated Dinghies, Jumblies, Cow(e)s and Wild bunch

Carnival 2013 dinghies tour of harbour

Carnival 2013 dinghies tour of harbour

 

Carnival 2013 Yarmouth's  Really Wild bunch

Carnival 2013 Yarmouth’s Really Wild bunch

 

 

 

The Wild Bunch were spotted living up to their name and making off up river afterwards….

 

Decorated dinghies return

DECORATED DINGHIES

SPONSORED BY: TONY AND JOANNE MEANING

 RESULTS

CATEGORIES

FIRST

SECOND

THIRD

 

 

MOST ORIGINAL

 

 

 

 

‘FORK BEARD

MARAUDERS’

ISAAC FAMILY

‘YARMOUTH FASTNET’

MCKEE-JONES

FAMILY

‘REALLY WILD’

HOWELL

LETCHFORD

TURNBULL

FAMILIES

 

 

ALL ONE

FAMILY

 

 

 

 

‘THE ASHES’

PRYCE-JONES

FAMILY

‘THE JUMBLIES’

KINGSTON

FAMILY

‘GEORGE VII’

TAYLOR

FAMILY

 

 

COMBINED

FAMILIES

 

 

 

 

‘COWES TRIO’

SHERWOOD-ROGERS

HEANEY BRUFALS

COOMBES & BRADLEY

FAMILIES

‘TEDDY BEARS PICNIC’

FORSYTH

POWERS

FAMILIES

‘ANDY MURRAY

FINAL’

REED

CONISBEE

FAMILIES

 

 

MOST

AMUSING

 

 

 

 

‘LITTLE MERMAID’

DRAYCOTT

FAMILY

(LYMINGTON)

‘REALLY WILD’

HOWELL

LETCHFORD

TURNBULL

FAMILIES

‘YARMOUTH FASTNET’

 

MCKEE-JONES

FAMILY

 

 

YOUNGEST

CREW

 

 

 

 

‘GEORGE VII’

TAYLOR

FAMILY

‘PRINCESS PIRATE’

TURNER FAMILY

‘FIREFLY PIRATES’

PRITCHARD FAMILY

 

 

RIBS

 

 

 

 

 

‘FIREFLY PIRATES’

PRITCHARD

FAMILY

‘THE ASHES’

PRYCE-JONES

FAMILY

‘LITTLE MERMAID’

DRAYCOTT FAMILY

(LYMINGTON)

 

Thanks to Tony and Joanne Meaning for their sponsorship of the event.

Susan Hayles, Mary Hayles: Harbour Sports 1940s, 1950s

My father, Harold Hayles was on the Carnival Committee for many years, so my sisters Mary, Chris and Sally and I were always very involved.
We really looked forward to Carnival Week, as we still do now. Squeak and I practised the pair oared rowing for weeks and we entered all the events. All the money we won was spent at the Fair. Sue Russell nee Hayles b 1940

Harbour sports with RASC boats

Harbour sports with RASC boats :photo Effie pitman

 

For passing the 11+ I was bought a dinghy, a proper clinker one. We desperately practised rowing for weeks ready for the harbour sports. The ladies’ race went right out round the buoy off the pier. It was our chance to earn money for when the funfair came. I don’t think I ever tried the greasy pole – it was stuck out from one of the army boats in the harbour and dipped right down at the end. Mary Lord nee Hayles b 1936

Hayles girls

Harold Hayles’ daughters :from left Susan ( Sue) , Mary, Christine, in front Sally. Photo: Mary Lord

Sue Russell: Harbour, lifeboat, 1950s, 1960s

Lifeboat Crew 1966

Lifeboat Crew 1966

Our Father was lifeboat Coxswain for many years and the maroons were let off from our garden,  under the clothes line. We always had to make sure the line was empty of clothes otherwise they would have gone up too.  I was paid, I think it was two shillings and 6 pence, to time from when the maroons went off to when lifeboat left the harbour, which was a lot of money in those days. Sue Russell nee Hayles b 1940

Shops: The Square, Mr. Burts, 1950s

Sometimes we used to collect our milk in jugs from Mr Burt who had a shop where ‘On The Rocks’ is. He ladled it out from the churn of milk. And he also did home deliveries in a cart. He sold home-made ice cream, a real treat.
Sue Russell nee Hayles b 1940

The Square, Burt's ice cream parlour and green grocers

The Square, Burt’s ice cream parlour and green grocers : Photo Pat Burt

In the summer you got your ice creams from Mr Burt on the corner, Pat’s father in law. They were lovely ice creams , strawberry, vanilla or chocolate, made in the back of the
shop.

His shop was called Shalfleet Manor Dairy because he collected the milk from Shalfleet Farm every morning and delivered it round Yarmouth from the churns into people’s jugs.    That must have been in the 30’s, up to the war, because then he was in the Navy, he was called up.
The bit at the back was the ice cream parlour in the summer, a greengrocer’s in the front. He used to grow a lot of vegetables. He had a piece of ground on the lane leading up to the recreation ground, on the left hand side, where there’s a bungalow now.  He grew vegetables, kept a few pigs and he bought a lot of veg. from Mrs Crozier’s estate at Westhill.  He used to go over there and buy it off the gardener because there was just the one big house there to supply, with gardens where there‘s bungalows now. Burt’s carried on into the 1950s when Mrs Burt was running it.
Pat Burt nee Adams and Annette Haynes nee Holloway b 1929

Mum used to bribe us by offering us an ice cream from Burts when she wanted us to leave the beach without making a fuss. M.S.

Jack Burt used to come round with the milk in churns. Ash from that damn pipe was always falling in it. Nick Chandler b 1937


Sue Russell: Early days

When I was a baby we lived on a boat called ‘Westo’ in the harbour opposite the Boatyard.

When Mary was old enough to go to school we moved to Fernlea in Mill Road and there we stayed until I was about 20. I remember our friends used to come for their baths as we had a large cast iron one and they didn’t have one in their houses. Sue Russell nee Hayles b 1940

Gasometer with Sandhouse in foreground

Harbour withSandhouse in foreground, and Harold Hayles boatyard

Sue Russell: School days

I went to Yarmouth Primary School which was just over the road from our house and have many happy memories of being there. We had two teachers; one Miss Ella Chambers, and Mrs Vera Barton who was also the headteacher and lived at the back of the school. The school was much smaller in those days with two classrooms, now it’s double the size.

The toilets were across the playground and had a large gap under the door. We thought they were very creepy. We also used to have milk every day which I didn’t like much.
Log re milk

I do remember that when you had been very naughty you were sent to Mrs Barton for the cane, which I didn’t have very often but Serena, or ‘Squeak’ as she was called, did! We didn’t mind as we deserved it. Squeak was my best friend and we did everything together.
Sue Russell

Colin Smith: School days

I was never any good at anything at school except drawing.

Colin Smith b 1921, who in 1949, with his brother Stanley, sailed the Nova Espero, a 20 foot boat they had designed and built, across the Atlantic from Nova Scotia, in 43 days. They did this without chronometer, bunks, lifejackets….in what remains one of the smallest boats to cross the Atlantic.

The arrival of the Smith brothers in Yarmouth harbour in 1949

Boats greeting the Smith brothers in Yarmouth Harbour after their 43 day Atlantic crossing in 1949 ; photo Sue Russell