Barges SB Memory Sid Budd & Horace “Hob” Keeble, c. 1962 SB Memory, Heybridge Basin. L to R: Sid Budd, Hob Keeble, Bob Kemp SB Memory frozen up at Maldon quay, winter 1962/3 SB Memory, near Colne Point, 26 June 1961 SB Memory, Hervey Benham SB Memory. L to R: ?, Hervey Benham, ?, Jane Benham SB Memory, ?Felixstowe. L to R: ?Dick Springett, Hedley Farrington SB Memory, L to R: ?, ?, Hervey Benham, ? John Kemp, SB Memory Bob Kemp, SB Memory, c. 1962 SB Memory, 1961 SB Memory off Sales Point, 25 June 1961 SB Memory and unknown barge, ?1961 SB Memory. L to R: ?, ?, Peter Light, ? John Kemp, SB Memory Ted Kemp, Peter Light, SB Memory SB Memory with laid-up ships at Bradwell, 1963. L to R: Jane Benham, Bob Kemp, Mrs Farrington SB Memory, 1963. L to R: Jane Benham, Mrs Farrington, Hedley Farrington, ?, ? Mrs Farrington, Bob Kemp, Hedley Farrington, Jane Benham (foreground). Felixstowe docks, c. 1963. Captain Farington and Jane Benham aboard ‘Memory’. SB Memory at Mill Beach SB Memory, Mill Beach, March 1961. SB Memory, Mill Beach ‘Memory’ at Saltcote Mill. SB Memory in Saltcote Creek, taken on Saturday 4 March 1961 SB Memory, unrigged, in Salcote Creek, April 1967 SB Memory, unrigged, in Salcote Creek, April 1967 SB Memory, pictured in March 2016 SB Memory, pictured in March 2016 SB Memory, pictured in March 2016 SB Memory, pictured in March 2016 Architect’s design for master’s cabin for SB Memory. Kindly supplied by Roger Robinson. Interior view of master’s cabin, kindly supplied by Roger Robinson Interior view of master’s cabin, kindly supplied by Roger Robinson Miscellaneous barges Unidentified barge Unidentified barge SB Ethel Maud SB Ethel Maud SB Saltcote Bell (bow) and SB Arrow (stern) Unknown Inside the lock gates at Heybridge Basin SB Arrow, river Blackwater, summer 1963 SB Edith May. J Spitty. Maldon quay, 1962. SBs Saltcote Belle, Gipping, ?, Memory SB Ethel Ada SB Asphodel SB Venta Maldon quay SB Spinaway C SB Sirdar Barge match day? SB Sirdar SB Sirdar SB Sirdar Unidentified barges The Hythe and St Mary’s, Maldon. SB Memory. River Thames ?1960. ICI motor barges in foreground SB Veronica SB Westmoreland SB Veronica Unidentified barges, inc. ?SB Veronica SB Westmoreland (L), unidentified barge. Memory off Southend Pier with Sid Budd SB Saltcote Belle 25 June 1961, from on board SB Memory Unidentified barges Barges off Gravesend (?). The motor barges are probably part of the ICI fleet. Cook’s yard with ‘Leslie West’ on the blocks. R.E.K. and his mother with ‘Veronica’ in the background. This was probably 1960. ‘Veronica’ racing. Jim Lawrence aboard ‘Marjorie’ around 1973 Maldon Quay. M.b. King in the centre, ‘Saltcote Belle’ on the right. 1967. Possibly Ethel Maud 1973 ‘Thalatta’ at Fullbridge, 1967 ‘Will Everard’ in Heybridge Basin 1967 ‘Beatrice Maud’ ‘Beatrice Maud’ ‘Beatrice Maud’ Cutting from a Guernsey newspaper detailing how the “barque” Beatrice Maud narrowly escaped disaster in May 1923. Image courtesy of J P Fallaize. Blackwater Barge Match 1962 Blackwater barge match, 1962 SB Marjorie and SB Spinaway C, first two over the finish line, Blackwater barge match, 1962 SB Marjorie, Blackwater barge match, 1962 SB Spinaway C, Blackwater barge match finish line, 1962 Blackwater barge match, 1962 Blackwater barge match, 1962. ?Hob Keeble Blackwater barge match, 1962 Blackwater barge match, 1962 Blackwater barge match, 1962 Blackwater barge match, 1962 End of the race. SB Marjorie (L) and SB Spinaway C, Blackwater barge match, 1962 SB Marjorie, Blackwater barge match, 1962 Blackwater Barge Match 1963 Blackwater barge match, 1963. L to R: Brian Keeble, Hob Keeble, Dick Springett SB Memory, Blackwater barge match, 1963. L to R: Mrs Farrington, Hedley Farrington, Jane Benham, ?Brian Keeble, Hervey Benham SB Edith May, Blackwater barge match, 1963 Hob Keeble on board ‘Memory’, 1963 Blackwater barge match Bob writes: This was ‘Westmoreland’ off Osea Island – I think. The fleet were turned at Osea pier and sent back out to the Bench Head before returning to Maldon. It was blowing quite hard by then, southerly and the barges covered a fair few miles. Saltcote Belle, Blackwater barge match, 1963 Spinaway C, Blackwater barge match 1963 Blackwater barge match 1963 Hob Keeble, Blackwater barge match 1963 ‘Spinaway C’ coming up astern of ‘Memory’ in the 1963 Blackwater Match