by paul-wsh | Feb 10, 2012 | The Sixties
Article from a local paper 17/2/68 The first annual meeting of the I.W.Surf Club was held at the Clubhouse, Ventnor on Friday week. Mr R. Backhouse (chairman) said that surfing was a new sport to the Island and he had encountered literally hundreds of people...
by paul-wsh | Sep 16, 2011 | The Sixties
South Coast Surfing Contest – by Keith Williams After several meetings with the South Coast Surf Club guys at various venues over time, they said it would be a good idea to have a strictly South Coast competition, held on the Island. Having organised several...
by paul-wsh | Oct 5, 2010 | Surf Trips, The Nineties
By 1993 I had a newer VW Camper, it was better equipped and I had surfing a lot. The previous year I had done a trip out to New Zealand surfing at Raglan and Piha and stopping on Oahu, Hawaii on the way home. I was very excited about this trip to France as it was the...
by paul-wsh | Aug 9, 2010 | In Print
Al Reed in the County Press for his 3rd place in the 60’s Stylemasters
by paul-wsh | May 12, 2010 | In Print, The Nineties
Isle of Wight County Press IW Men in New Zealand whale rescue TWO NEWPORT men have been part of a desperate struggle to save a pod of pilot whales beached on New Zealand’s South Island. Former County Press employee Paul Blackley, of Caesars Road and Richard Harvey, of...
