Surf History: Australian surfers and WW2 1945
added to the website on Sep 22, 2011
At the end of World War 2, surfers in the Royal Australian Air Force serving in England took over a Newquay hotel for a period of extended leave and organised a full-on “surf carnival”. It was mainly an opportunity to demonstrate their surf life saving skills, but a crowd of an estimated 5,000 people turned ……»
Surf History: The Australian 1928
added to the website on Aug 13, 2010
In 1928 Australian champion surfer & swimmer Charles ‘Snow’ McAllister gave a demonstration of surfing in England on his way home from the Olympics in Amsterdam where he’d been competing. Although people had been surfing in Britain for a while, it had mostly been done prone on short wooden surfboards – but our brother from ……»
Print: Bilbo bag 1969
added to the website on Jun 01, 2010
Bilbo surf shop paper bag (Newquay, Cornwall) c1969.
Photographs: Pip Staffieri 1937
added to the website on Jun 01, 2010
Pip Staffieri was a diminutive ice cream seller who lived in Newquay, Cornwall before World War 2. He made his own 13 foot hollow wooden surfboard in the late 1930s after seeing a photo in an encyclopedia. Pip would wheel it down to the waters edge on an old pram that he cut in half. ……»