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The Girls were there too…..!

The Girls were there too…..!

During the early sixties it wasn’t just the boys enjoying the waves, there were some pretty hardcore girls surfing on the Island with no wetsuits or leashes too.

Mar 29, 2010 | Categories: The Sixties | Tags: 1960, 1965, 1967, 1968, 60, 60's, Aston Martin, Atlantic, Atlantic Coast, Bournmouth, Bude, Champion, compton, Constantine, Cornish, Cornwall, Crantock, Fistral, freshwater bay, Galway, Girl, Girlfriends, Girls, Ireland, Isle of Wight Surf Club Secretary, Judy Bull, Kimmeridge, La Hinch, leashes, Lynmouth, Marazion, Merry Hughes, Mini, niton, Ocean, Oil Spill, Oil Tanker, Oiltanker, Prah Sands, RAF ST Mawgan, Renuyle, Rita Long, Rolls Royce, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin, Shigo, Split Screen, Split Screen VW Van, Steephill Cove, Sue Backhouse, Sue Ellis, Sue Ellis (Backhouse), Supertanker, Susan Backhouse, Susan Ellis, Sweeney's Hotel, Sweeney's Oughterard House, The Sixties, Torrey Canyon, Ventnor, Victoria Freer, Victoria Pickering, Watergate, Wendy, wetsuits, White City, Whitecliff Bay, Women, Woolacome | Leave A Comment »

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The Wight Surf history Project aims to document and celebrate 50 years of surfing on the Isle of Wight. It will tell the story of how surfing arrived and evolved on the Island, and the characters involved over the years. The contributors are two local surfers and photographers, Jason Swain & Paul Blackley, who are supported by the 'West Wight Landscape Partnership'.

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