Photographs: Hobart Braddick c1918
added to the website on Jun 01, 2010
This photo is of Hobart Braddick (left on screen) on Westward Ho! beach in North Devon in the early 1900s – his family believes it was taken before World War One, and the exact date is still being researched but is thought to be around 1918. It’s one of the earliest images found so far ……»
Wetsuits: Tiki steamer 1985
added to the website on May 26, 2010
Tiki started life in South Wales in 1967 before Tim Heyland and Dave Smith hopped across the Bristol Channel to Braunton in North Devon. They soon became one of Britain’s leading surf companies, competing with the likes of Bilbo in Cornwall who had a couple of years head start on them. Alongside their classic surfboards ……»
Wetsuits: Second Skin steamer 1981
added to the website on May 26, 2010
Second Skin is a surf shop based in Braunton, North Devon established in 1975 by Andy Schollick. He caught his first wave on a wooden belly board at the age of ten in 1959 and started surfing seriously in 1968. On leaving school Andy moved from his home in Liverpool to live in the back ……»