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 ……»
Print: SurFaari film poster 1969
added to the website on Dec 04, 2010
SurFaari was a film made in 1969 by Clinton “Fitz” Fitzgerald while working for Clive Barber in South Africa, and showed for some of the first of the new, shorter v-bottom surfboards in use. Edited by Tony Cope the film was screened across North Devon that summer under the banner of Woolacombe-based West Coast Surfboards. ……»
Photographs: Bill Davies 1966
added to the website on Dec 04, 2010
Great photo showing Bill Davies shooting the curl on a decent size day at Putsborough in North Devon in 1966. Bill Davies & Bob Groves were responsible for Groves-Davies Surfboards shaped at Lee on Solent on the south coast of England. Starting out around 1964 its through they only made around 30 or so ‘longboards’, ……»
Photographs: “Fuzz” Pridham 1966
added to the website on Dec 04, 2010
The late “Fuzz” Pridham from Bideford in perfect trim at Putsborough in North Devon in May 1966 – one of the early crew of locals in the early to mid 1960s. Photo by Tony Cope.