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& foreshore through the years

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Yacht Club Ramp & Beach (1965)

Diving Platform by the Old Neptune (1965)

Removed as considered in the new age dangerous to users!

M.V 'Westland Producer' West Quay (1966)

The sister ships 'Westland Trader' & 'Westland Producer' maintained a liner supply service of fresh vegetables grown in Holland & shipped directly to Whitstable

M.V 'Westland Producer' West Quay (1966)

'Westland Producer' 507grt, was built 1962, she recently featured in an episode of the TV Series 'Casualty' on BBC1 (January 2018) you could make her previous name through the many layers of old paint

She's been renamed 'Altea' & lays on the bank of River Severn at Newnham on Severn, the vessel had a lively past, being named 'Moby Dick' before becoming the 'Altea'

Arrested in 1989 on suspicion of drug running she was taken into Dover by HMRC (Customs & Excise) where illicit substances were found, put under arrest she was laid up by the Medway Bridge on the River Medway. Sometime btween 1991/2000 she was taken to Liverpool to be used as a HMRC training ship. Subsequently HMRC sold her most likely to be converted into a pleasure yacht but it appears the project has faultered

Crescent Line Coaster ' Horation' on the old North Quay Head (1966)

East Quay (1966)

F21 'Faustilus' & RX270 'Rose of Rye' (1966)

North Quay & old Grain Store (1966)

Sunset at Whitstable (1960's)

M.V. Resurgence on the East Quay in (1966)

I remember taking above photograph on a Zeiss Ikon on 120 Roll Film Camera using Ektachrome transparency film stock

M.V.'Resurgence' operated on the Denmark, Esbjerg to Whitstable line she was sold he sultanate of Oman government, Muscat, Oman renamed M.V 'Dhofar' in 1980 & was scuttled off Omand

May 2018 Social Media messages from - Millie Brierley worked at Daniel Bros (Shipping Agents) in the early 1970's when agents for the 'Resurgence' on the Whitstable - Esbjerg route

John Anderson's tells us that his father worked his passage to Esberg to then catch the ferry to Oslo

M.V. 'Festivity' at Dead Man's Corner (1960's)

Marine Terrace (1960's)

M.V. 'Bastion' (1960's)

Whitstable Yacht Club House & Ramp (1960's)

'Favourite' on Seawall (1966)

Whitstable Harbour Basin, pink hulled 'Annie S II' (1967)

'Shaena' & 'Kordella' with aft 'Harvesters I & II' (1967)

Whitstable Harbour Transit Shed Fire (1967)

One of our old clinker built sailing yachts at Seasalter (1967)

Harbour Sunset from South Quay (1968)

F26 'Kordella', Jack Payton's 'Shaena' & 'Ernie Hoy's F41 'Tykella' with Fred Down's 'Harvesters I & II' (1969)

One of the two family Dejon 14's - 'Laisse Faire' (1969)

F26 'Kordella' (1969)

F176 'Gamecock' (1969)

Whitstable Foreshore splash (1969)

Whitstable Harbour Basin S.B 'Mousme' (1970)

Cranes working South Quay Transit Shed (1970)

Crescent Line lorry being loaded with steel (1970's)

Whitstable Harbour Sunset (1970)

Note Construction piles for the West Quay the 1970's stills were taken whilst producing a super 8 colour film of the West Quay construction when I worked at for Ron Cranfield of RE Cranfield (Photographers) Canterbury

The film was produced with sound stripe for the Camera Society & sadly lost in the mists of time!

Whitstable Harbour at night (1970)

The late Eric Campburn was a Master Carpenter, he built his yacht in the front garden of his home at Broomfield Gate, Radfall an Eventide he named 'Anita'

Friends with Eric over many years we sailed with him on occasion, along with Culver Woolie they founded the Whitstable Cruiser Club, using the Old Coast Guard Lookout at the Nelson Road Tennis Courts as their HQ

I recall the membership boasted 34 craft moored between the Horsebridge and Red Spider Cafe, how times have changed

Eric Campburn with 'Anita' & ? enters the Harbour (Approx' 1975)

Whitstable Harbour Basin, with'Faustilus' alongside 'Lauandric', 'Kordella' alongside 'Ticino', 'Majaro' alongside 'Shaena' (1975)

Whitstable Harbour South Quay, Brian Tyrrell right'aboard 'Ticino' (1975)

Whitstable foreshore & Harbour (1970's)

'Hoopride' leaving Whitstable Harbour (June 1975)

Grain Silos removal (1970's)

F57 'Mellisa' (August 1977)

Mass Mart Cash & Carry Warehouse Fire (1978)

Currently the Indoor Bowl (August 2018)

Owner Skipper Bill Coleman sailing 'Gamecock' (1978)

Whitstable Beach looking East towards the black building: RJ Perkins Boatyard, the Oyster Stores and the Harbour West Quay (1978)

Visitor Leaving Whitstable Harbour (May 1979)

'Hoopride''on Ballast Berth & Everard's S.B 'Will' leaving Whitstable Harbour (May 1979)

'Melanie Clair' & 'Nyangalyka' with 'Subro Venture' on the South Quay (1979)

Old Neptune (1980)

Old Neptune (1980)

'Favourite' on Seawall (1980)

Long Beach, Whitstable (1980)

Whitstable Harbour basin with F21 Faustilus', LO200 'Paul Peter' F44 'Ticino' & 'Floreat', Postcard (Approx' 1980)

Anderson, Rigden & Perkins (1st November 1980)

'Reve De Mousseand' the Burford brothers aboard their boats (14th December 1980)

Fishermans Huts (14th December 1980)

Now taken over by the Oyster Company rented as Holiday lets

M.V 'Zinnowitz' brings East German chocolate on the East Quay with RX270 'Rose of Rye' (1981)

M.V 'Carrick' on of Pelham Dale & Partners vessels & RX270 'Rose of Rye' (1981)

RX270 'Rose of Rye' (1981)

RX270 'Rose of Rye' (1981)

Dave 'Spindle' Foreman & Richard Judge (1981)

'Dave 'Spindle' Foreman & Richard Judge (1981)

RNLI Station & Harbour Ramp (1981)

Dolphin & outer West Quay (1981)

Whitstable Harbour Snow (1981)

Whitstable Harbour Basin and South Quay - 'F24 Lauandric' alongside F21 'Faustilus', F44 'Ticino' alongside 'Majaro & 'Shaena'
(1981)

Street End Buoy with Harbour Mike Judge Senior, Richard Judge with Harbour Master John Bloom (Approx' 1982)

Found adrift the Buoy was towed into Harbour & retrieved without word by Trinity House, a press photographer since 1976 Chris Davy sent the photograph some years ago but can't recall the date

M.V.' Kenrix' of Hull owned by Rix shipping, unloading stone on East Quay Ballast Berth (April 1982)

Larry & Graham Chandler (1982)

Larry & Graham Chandler (1982)

Tennis Courts, * Cruiser Club Building, our family Beach Hut and Red Spider Cafe (1982)

* Former Coast Guard Station above Toilet Block

'Sonril' off the Horsebridge (1982)

'Sonril' off the 'Red Spider Cafe' (1982)

'Red Spider Cafe' (1982)

Whitstable Harbour Basin - Ticino', 'Kordella', 'Majaro' and Pat Kemp's 'Rose of Rye' (1983)

Whitstable Oyster Buoy (March 1983)

Whitstable RNLI Station right Fisherman's hut construction (December 1983)

'Xanadu' (June 1983)

'Xanadu' (June 1983)

'Xanadu' (June 1983)

'Xanadu' (June 1983)

'Xanadu' (June 1983)

'Xanadu' (June 1983)

The yacht 'Xanadu' was the last vessel to be built in Whitstable by Anderson, Rigden & Perkins launched from their yard by the Old Neptune June 1983

Busy Harbour Shipping (1983)

Full Fishing Fleet: 'Fine Art II', 'Nyangalyka', 'Pal O Mine' North Head - 'John Patrick', ' Cardium' & 'Masai Warrior' (1983)

M.V 'Nascence' loading grain inner West Quay, East German vessel on East Quay (October 1983)

'Ticino', 'Shaena', 'Majaro', 'Paul Peter' & 'Libation' at the far end of South Quay (October 1983)

Whitstable Harbour 'Faustilus' in foreground, 'Benson', 'Kordella', Sandpiper', Cardium', & 'Masai Warrior' on the North Head (October 1983)

Whitstable Harbour (October 1983)

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