Isle of Wight featured in issue number 4 of what is thought to be the one of the first ever British Surfing magazines. British Surfer magazine no1 came out in March 1969. Surfing UK magazine published by Lindsay Morgan in Porthcawl in Jan 1969 pipped it to the post by a few months to be […]
Nov 21, 2013 | Categories: The Seventies | Tags: 1960's, 1970's, 60's, 70's, archive, blog, British Surfer, British Surfer magazine, compton, Compton Bay, Freshwater, freshwater bay, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Keith Williams, longboard, Magazine, niton, No 4, Number 4, Rod Sumpter, Roger Backhouse, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, Ventnor, Vol 1, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Comments Off on Island Surf – British Style
In May 1992 there was a mother and daughter swept out to sea off Compton. It was at the end of a day surfing and about tea time and Isle of Wight surfer Andrew Plenty was just off home. The mother and daughter were hanging onto a rubber ring but panicked and let go of […]
Oct 31, 2013 | Categories: The Nineties | Tags: 1993, 999, Aaron Rogers, Andrew Plenty, archive, B&W, Baywatch, BBC, BBC 1, BBC1, beach, blog, Britain, Chicky babes, compton, Compton Bay, Cornwall, Girl, Hawaii, history, hunky, IOW, Isle of Wight, J17, Jamie Isaac, John, June, Just 17, Just Seventeen, Kelly Slater, Magazine, model, Neighbours, people, photo, photographs, portrait, programme, rescue, SAS, Scott Michaelson, stoked, surf, surf culture, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, Surfers Against Sewage, surfing, swell, Sydney, teen, teen girl, tv, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Comments Off on ‘Do the Wight thing’ – Just Seventeen magazine
From the Virgin Islands they traveled onto America, working their way across to the west coast. They stopped in North Carolina to stay with Barney’s sister Rosie who was at university there. Word had got around about Barney and Chris’s travels through Europe and across to the Caribbean and onto the U.S.A. and the university president had questioned Barney’s sister Rosie where they would be staying. When he found out that they were staying at her small flat he made arrangements for them to stay at his mansion. The staff were never to remember Barney and Chris’s name properly and they soon became known as Bonnie and Clyde by the them.
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