The following corrections have been made for the second edition:
115: Corrected concrete cottage plan picture [193]
2020-06-27 Concrete Cottages 1870s revision
135: Corrected caption of [230] (probably “St David” => “Adlam“) “St Patrick on the left and Adlam on the right about 1929″
171: Corrected Isaac Stollery’s date of death (“1889” => “1880”)
195: Corrected (“Sullivan Close” => “Sullivan Place”)
207: Corrected name (“Sir Arthur Ernest Eborall” => “Sir Ernest Arthur Eborall”)
265: Corrected capitalisation of master header (“The Bottle Boat” => “The BOTTLE Boat”)
287: Corrected styling of Waldringfieldhg@gmail.com
292: Corrected credits for [4] and [5] (“RS2” => “JC&KC” and “JC&KC” => “RS2”)
292: Corrected credits for Jones Family pictures (“JFC” => “JF”)
294: Corrected paragraphing at the beginning of “The Ever Changing River”
299: Corrected italicisation of “Classic Sailor”
299: Corrected missing full stop after note re: p271
299: Removed note re: p283
300: Corrected index entry “Æthelstan, King” (“6, 6” => “6, 28”)
300: Merged index entry “Bob Ruffles” into “Ruffles, Robert ‘Bob'”
300: Corrected italicisation of index entry “Barbara Pelly”
301: Corrected italicisation of index entry “Charles Dibdin” (and reference “Barbara Pelly“)
302: Corrected ordering of index entries for the various King Edwards
305: Corrected italicisation of index entry “Janora”
306: Merged index entry “Michael ‘Mike’” into “Spear, Michael ‘Mike’”
306: Removed index entry “Lloyds”
309: Corrected italicisation of index entries “Snowdrop” and “Sonia”
311: Corrected styling of index entry (“Waller, Constance (Poppy)” => “Waller, Constance ‘Poppy’”)
311: Corrected italicisation of index entry “Warspite, HMS”
The following corrections have been made for the third edition:
39:
Parsonage and 43 Wheelwrights with Road names. Red diamond shows position of the Wheelwrights
79:
The Village in 1905, 24 years after our walk. Our route is denoted by the green line [138]
Buttram’s Windmill, Pilots’ Path, Workers’ Houses.
106: Fishing has always taken place on the Deben, either for its challenge and interest or as an economic necessity. A variety of different methods have been used from fish traps consisting of posts arranged in a V shape, possibly with nets strung between them (called fish weirs or kiddles), to fishing from boats or from the shore with lines.
107: In World War Two soldiers sometimes used explosives to catch fish, although possibly not always intentionally. The river was mined for a short time at the height of the invasion threat, and these mines were sometimes caught by nets.
135: ‘Glad Times’ should read ‘Glad Tidings’.
136: ‘Checkoa’ was owned by Kenneth Palmer from 1931-1933 and was his first yacht bought from his good friend Jack Fisk’s uncle when he was just 18. It had a 26’ long wooden boom and there is a wonderful story of the boom being moved from the Palmer family home in Lower Brook St by Kenneth on the front end on his Triumph motorcycle with Jack Fisk (who also lived on Lower Brook St) on a push bike holding the other end, all the way from Ipswich to Waldringfield, about 9 miles.
138: Nora was not a Deben 4 Tonner – identity currently unknown
141: There was to be deep sadness when Ernest’s older son Jack, who often sailed with Master Mariner George Turner on Doris, drowned in 1935 when sailing with a friend at West Mersea.
160: Caption should read ‘Harry Nunn (left) with Porky Wootton [295]’
178: Jem Goddard, Michael Belcham and John Palmer with Mrs Goddard’s hut curtain for sails! [354]
207: Cormorant later fell on hard times and was blown onto the saltings in a storm.(Photo shows the 1953 flood event). Cormorant was in a winter mud berth in the saltings, which was a common practice at the time, during the 1953 floods. She broke adrift from her mooring lines and ended up amongst the field’s hedge and trees. [Note: I didn’t fit this in in full]
212: Item Smut is a ‘Deben 4 tonner’ built by Dick Larkman in his spare time, whilst he was apprenticed at Whisstocks Boatyard. In 1952 trade was a little slow, so he was able to use one of their sheds to build the hull and he then moved her outside under a tarpaulin to complete her to a basic standard.
217: The final finisher of the 2013 Fastnet Race was Duet, who crossed the line and arrived in Plymouth, in 6 days, 6 hours, 31 minutes & 27 seconds.
247: In February 1998 Dr Kenneth Nicholls Palmer died.
249: In 1949, the junior section was started and 2 Cadet Dinghies were presented (by Eric Wild who was a director of Wm Brown’s Timber Merchants and were built by them) to the Ipswich School Sailing Club for the use of the junior members.
259: The Cadet Class at Waldringfield was formed by Mr Mossman and Dr Palmer in 1956…………… The first Waldringfield Cadet Week was held in 1957 and became a highlight of the summer holiday.
262: At the vote, Miss Heather Parkers’s proposal, seconded by Dr Palmer, that the new class should be ‘The Dragonfly’ was carried unanimously.
278: picture 590: should read Dick and Dawn Larkman’s son. (not Grandson)
303: Correct index entry should read ‘Glad Tidings’ not ‘Glad Times’
