Thames barge match, 1963. The victorious crew of SB Veronica.
Thick sea ice in the winter of 1962-3. R: Bob Kemp.
Ted Kemp on an ice floe in the River Blackwater
Winter 62-3. The view across from the Promenade to St Mary’s church
Inside the lock gates at Heybridge Basin
Maldon East station – around 1955
An ancient Great Eastern tank engine with the Maldon train at Witham.
Bob Kemp, ?, John Kemp
Ted on the sea wall. Surprisingly, the moustache was ginger!
Ted Kemp
St Peter’s on the Wall, Bradwell. Possibly before my time. ?[taller girl behind shorter girl]. Cousin Moira, perhaps. Pat Kemp. Ted Kemp. Mum’s cousin Betty Feeney.
St Peter’s on the Wall, Bradwell. Possibly before my time. ?[taller girl behind shorter girl]. Cousin Moira, perhaps. Pat Kemp. Ted Kemp. Mum’s cousin Betty Feeney.
RK 2nd left. Martin and Bartley Feeney either side. Keith Searl 2nd right. Mum’s uncle Ev Last and Mum. The Lasts lived at the White City when they were Bentall’s cottages.
Lucy Kemp
Osea island when there were still elm trees. No power station at Bradwell yet.
Maldon prom 1962/63.
Ev Last
Ted and Bob Kemp
Ev Last, Pat, Kate Last, Bet Feeney (L to R, back); Martin Feeney, Bob Kemp and Bart Feeney (L to R, front)
Bob (in pram) and Pat Kemp, Balham High Street, 6 January 1951.
Lucy Kemp, Millbeach, winter 1962-3.
The prom at Maldon, mid 1950s.
Janet Harker teaching R.E.K. to row.
Bob Kemp sailing ‘Puffin’, bought by J E Kemp from Kemp and Beer for £60 in about 1962. She was, according to carving in the stem, built at Devonport in 1933 and described in the Manual of Seamanship as a ’16-foot dinghy, lug sloop rig, “MW”‘. Her whereabouts now is unknown.
‘Puffin’ at Saltash in about 1976.
Liverpool Street around 1958
Dad on his Ariel motorbike at John o’ Groats.
Alice and Asa Osborn, J E Kemp’s great aunt and her husband
‘Puffin’
One of the new diesel engines, probably at Stratford.
Maldon East station not long before the line was shut.
Dad, I presume. The photographer was J. P. Reynolds of Maldon.
A very large engine with a 6-year old R.E.K in Paris.
‘Puffin’ and ‘Polly’
John and Jane Allen (J. E. Kemp’s half-sister) on their wedding day.
Dad and me looking very smart. In France I think.
Above: a class 8 locomotive at Dieppe. (I’m open to correction).
Below: a locomotive of the same class leaving Paimpol, Brittany 8 years or so ago.
Merchant Navy class, ‘Elders Fyffes.’
A class 2D2 locomotive in Paris.
Dad and me: Paris 1954
‘Torment’ off Mill Beach.
Q1 at Nine Elms depot
Three generations: Lucy, J E and R E Kemp, Mill Beach. About 1955.
Alf Woodcraft, Bob Kemp, Elizabeth Woodcraft (front), Tess Woodcraft, Edward Woodcraft, Peggy Woodcraft and Pat Kemp.
Train from Witham approaching Maldon East
Southern Railway ‘Lord Howe’
J E Kemp in Jersey, before World War II
J E Kemp in Jersey, before World War II
L to R: Bob Kemp, Lucy Kemp, Stephanie Allen, Pat Kemp, Jane Allen
Breakfast on the diving board at Lucy’s bungalow
Pat in her ARP uniform
Patty Brough (later Kemp) with a school friend
Relatives on Pat’s side
The Southwold Railway
Possibly at Ilfracombe, N. Devon
New railbuses for the Maldon and Braintree lines at Witham
A train being loaded onto a Danish ferry
Copenhagen station
At Nine Elms depot
A King at Paddington
At Dieppe port
J E Kemp at Nyhavn, Copenhagen, in about 1960
Fish seller, Copenhagen, c. 1960
Fish seller, Copenhagen, c. 1960
At the Severn Tunnel pumping station
At the Severn Tunnel pumping station
Schooner ‘Sunbeam’
Schooner ‘Sunbeam’
Heybridge foreshore
Armed Yacht ‘Peggy’
Armed Yacht ‘Peggy’
Armed Yacht ‘Peggy’
Armed Yacht ‘Peggy’
Armed Yacht ‘Peggy’
Armed Yacht ‘Peggy’
Armed Yacht ‘Peggy’
Nautical Museum, Isle of Man
Virtue Fidelis
Virtue Fidelis is a Vertue class yacht, built at Stebbings’s yard in Burnham-on-Crouch in 1951. Designed by Laurent Giles, she was owned by the Glanfield family until Bob Kemp bought her in the early 2000s.
Virtue Fidelis at Stebbings’s yard
Virtue Fidelis at Stebbings’s yard
Virtue Fidelis at Stebbing’s yard
On the South Bank in London, very near the Festival Hall, during the Festival of Britain in 1951. At this point, she was named ‘Festival Virtue’
The launch, with boy scouts in attendance
Under sail, presumably when new. What beautiful cotton sails! Two of the original staysails still exist and are used from time to time.
Under sail, presumably when new. What beautiful cotton sails! Two of the original staysails still exist and are used from time to time.
Under sail, presumably when new. What beautiful cotton sails! Two of the original staysails still exist and are used from time to time.
