The Home of UK Surf History
1920
Coffin Lid
5ft x 12" x 1"
1960
Surf Rider
4ft 2" x 15-3/4" x 1/4"
1964
Powers Surfboards
9ft 7" x 23-1/2" x 3-1/2"
1968
Tiki
8ft 1" x 23" x 3"
1971
Infinity
6ft 6" x 19-1/2" x 2-1/2"
1974
Creamed Honey
7ft x 19" x 2-1/2"
1974
Butler
7ft x 22" x 3"
1975
Tiki by John Hall
6ft 7" x 21-1/2" x 2-1/2"
1975
Tris
7ft x 20-1/2" x 2-3/4"
1979
Surfboards by Bruce Palmer
6ft 2" x 21-1/2" x 2-1/2"
1981
Karma
6ft 4" x 21-1/2" x 2-1/2"
The boards are listed in order of the date they were added to the website collection, newest first.
Added to the website collection on Jul 03, 2012
Featuring a stunning airbrush design by talented Kiwi Neil Wernham, this surfboard was shaped by Tris Cokes in Porthtowan, Cornwall in 1975. It has acid-inspired surfing eye artwork and a glassed on wooden single fin.
Added to the website collection on Jul 03, 2012
A stringerless Tiki single-fin surfboard from the ‘transitional’ era when boards first started to get shorter. Shaped by Tim Heyland in Braunton, North Devon in 1968 and featuring a full length paisley pyjama cloth inlay on the botton and an ‘ink blot’ logo.
Added to the website collection on Jul 15, 2010
This is a mid 1970s Maurice Butler single fin stinger, shaped in East Anglia. Maurice was a pioneer surfer in Lowestoft, Suffolk and his first sight of surfing came in 1964 on holiday at Woolacombe in North Devon where he watched a couple of 10 foot boards being ridden (possibly shaped by Bob Powers). Back ……»
Added to the website collection on Jul 15, 2010
This is awesome Karma twin-fin dates from 1981 and features stunning period art and a winged swallow tail. In the late 1960s, Dave Farrow teamed up with East Runton fisherman Bob Brownsell to build surfboards under the ‘Cougar’ label on the Norfolk coast. One of their first efforts was to strip, re-shape and glass a ……»
Added to the website collection on Jun 25, 2010
Infinity was one the surfboard brands created by south coast legend Bob Groves – and this is a very special Rod Sumpter model. The story Bob tells is that Rod had left his long term sponsors Bilbo and needed a board to compete in the 1968 World Championships in Puerto Rico. Bob shaped him a ……»
Added to the website collection on Jun 06, 2010
This is a so-called ‘coffin lid’ surfboard around 1920. The boards picked up their name because the undertaker Tom Tremewan in Perranporth, Cornwall, saw a niche in the market with the growth in surfing after the First World War and started producing them from the raw materials to hand! However, this wasn’t the only place ……»
Added to the website collection on May 25, 2010
When this board was shaped around 1964 boards were called ‘malibu’ boards or just surfboards – the term longboard didn’t really come into play until the 1980s when people wanted to differentiate between the ‘older’ style of board (usually 9 to 10 feet long) and the ‘modern’ shortboard. Bob Powers was based in Mortehoe on ……»
Added to the website collection on May 25, 2010
Discovered looking in a sorry state from its original owner in Blackpool, a quick clean and polish revealed this gem of a twin fin fish shaped by Bruce Palmer in Croyde, North Devon around 1979. It’s understood it was bought new, ridden once, then mothballed – it had a tiny ding on the tail, otherwise ……»
Added to the website collection on May 25, 2010
Aussie lifeguard Kevin Cross came to Braunton in North Devon in the early 1970s and produced some of the highest quality surfboards in Britain from that era under the label of Creamed Honey. This stunning example features a burgundy resin tint deck and white ‘lightning bolt’ pin lines, red bottom, with a glassed on solid ……»
Added to the website collection on May 25, 2010
John Hall was one of a group of hot Australian surfer-shapers who settled in North Devon in the 1970s. He joined Tiki in Braunton for a while, and produced this stunning little single fin in 1975 featuring intricate airbrush art on the deck. It suffered a leash cut in the rail back in the early ……»
Added to the website collection on May 25, 2010
Based in South Molton, North Devon, the late Dick Pearce (passed away July 10th, 2010) – with others including Roy Wilson – spent more than 50 years making traditional wooden surfboards used for ‘prone’ surfing; also known a surf riding and bodyboarding. Made from plywood, this one is a special extra-wide ‘Surf Rider’ model – ……»
