News: Surfing Tribe author Roger Mansfield visits Sixties SURFER!
added to the website on Apr 18, 2013
Author, historian, lecturer and 1960s surfing legend Roger Mansfield from Newquay dropped in to see our new exhibition Sixties SURFER! He met museum founder Peter Robinson, chairman of trustees Kevin Cook and volunteer Andy Webb (see main photo) – and shared some interesting insights and stories on many of the boards & other items on ……»
News: Volunteer opportunities at the Museum of British Surfing
added to the website on Jan 22, 2013
The Museum of British Surfing needs your help – we’re looking for enthusiastic individuals, preferably with a keen interest in surfing, to join the established volunteer programme at this award-winning and vibrant heritage attraction in North Devon. We opened to the public again with our new exhibition ‘Sixties SURFER!’ on March 28th, 2013. Whether you’re ……»
News: Museum of British Surfing on BBC antiques programme
added to the website on Oct 08, 2012
The Museum of British Surfing has been filmed for the popular BBC2 TV programme Antiques Road Trip – it will be shown today, October 8th 2012 at 5.15pm on both BBC2 and BBC HD. Presenter Charles Hanson and the crew visited the museum earlier in the year to film their report. The programme feature Charles ……»
News: School visits the Museum of British Surfing
added to the website on Sep 28, 2012
More than sixty pupils from Kingsacre Primary School in Braunton visited the Museum of British Surfing for the first time today. The youngsters from years 3 and 4 were carrying out special class projects looking at surfing history, art and the environment – the museum has a section devoted to our local area and tackling ……»
News: The First Wave – recording British surfing history
added to the website on Jul 28, 2012
The Museum of British Surfing is partnering a new Heritage Lottery funded project ‘The First Wave‘, that will film and record personal stories about the history of surfing in Britain It was launched in Cornwall by longboard champion Ben Skinner at his old secondary school, where he was encouraging students to embrace surfing and its ……»
News: Surf club founder Terry Veitch – a Croyde original
added to the website on Jul 14, 2012
One of the founders of Croyde Surf Club Terry Veitch visited the Museum of British Surfing with longboard maestro Eric Davies this week to check out the original club t-shirt that he & his wife Liz donated. It is part of our display on local surfing history & environment, part funded by North Devon Areas ……»
News: BBC’s One Show film at the surfing museum
added to the website on Jul 13, 2012
TV presenter & historian Dan Snow headed up the team from the BBC’s prime-time TV programme the ‘One Show‘, filming a feature on the Museum of British Surfing & UK surf history today. They filmed an interview with surf museum founder Pete Robinson, focusing on the original first edition of Captain James Cook’s journals from ……»
News: Museum of British Surfing VIP launch party
added to the website on Apr 19, 2012
News: Hawaiian royals surf Bridlington – in 1890!
added to the website on Apr 09, 2012
A letter discovered deep in the archives of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu describes how two Hawaiian princes – and their English guardian – went surfing in Britain in September 1890. But this earliest record of UK surfing didn’t happen in sport’s meccas of Newquay or Croyde, it took place in the east Yorkshire resort ……»
Surf History: Bridlington’s royal Hawaiian surfers 1890
added to the website on Apr 09, 2012
A letter discovered in the archives of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu describes how two Hawaiian princes – and their English guardian – went surfing in the east Yorkshire resort of Bridlington, in the chilly, murky North Sea in September 1890. It is the earliest proven instance of surfing in Britain so far – previously ……»
News: A royal sport – Edward’s 1920s surfari
added to the website on Apr 04, 2012
As the Museum of British Surfing prepares for opening on Good Friday, we have released newly discovered pictures from our archive have to the world’s media showing Edward Windsor, the Prince of Wales, surfing in Hawaii in 1920 – the only know action photos of the young royal riding the waves, and the earliest pictures ……»
Surf History: Rod and Britannia 1966
added to the website on Nov 15, 2011
Rod Sumpter was born in Watford in 1947 and raised from the age of five in Australia where he grew up surfing. He came back to England as a teenage surf star in 1965 and a year later decided to stay in the UK and still lives in Cornwall today. This photo, taken and donated ……»
News: A private view
added to the website on Oct 09, 2010
We’re working flat out at the moment putting together the design & build contracts for our new exhibition & event space at The Yard in Braunton, finalising all the legal stuff and getting stuck in to some serious fundraising to add to our existing Leader 4 grant. So while we’re bashing away at the laptop ……»
News: Uncovering the past; building the future
added to the website on Jul 09, 2010
Britain’s surfing history always continues to delight and surprise – just check out the two photos from our archives with this story of surfers in the mid 1920s. In a snapshot it shows how much has changed over the last century, but again how little. You can tell they’re stoked to be surfers, proud of ……»
