Make a Difference The Parish Council is currently made up of eight men and women who work hard on our community’s behalf. But we have three vacancies that we are seeking to fill. Currently our councillors carry out a wide range of duties which range from negotiating contracts to watering flower beds and even litter picking. All this falls to a small group. Would you like to share the burden and help your community? If you think you could assist and would be interested in joining the Parish Council and help make a difference please contact the Parish Clerk.
Contact: Clare Male Parish Clerk :
clerk@wroxhamparishcouncil.org. Tel: 07341 873375
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WHERRY YACHT CHARTER CHARITABLE TRUST UPDATE By now, in a normal year, we would be regularly sailing our three wherry yachts and our pleasure wherry Hathor would be open for viewings at How Hill between her own scheduled trips. This year though, all sailings in May and June are already cancelled and we are unsure what the remainder of the season will bring. Please refer to our website (
www.wherryyachtcharter.org) or social media pages for future updates and news.
Unable to be on board a wherry, I’ve been reading about them instead and dipping into a newly acquired book ‘Wherries and Waterways’ by Robert Malster. The book is nearly fifty years old now and was itself the product of twenty-five years research. The author, now eighty-eight, recently contacted me at WYC with a memory of Ardea, our teak-hulled pleasure wherry, and it was this that prompted me to purchase a copy of his book.
The author tells of the first pleasure wherries, although no-one seems certain of when the idea of making the cargo hold of a black-sailed trading wherry into accommodation for passengers was first thought of. The practice was certainly popular by the 1880s, but could have begun twenty years earlier. Most of the original conversions were fairly basic, with the cargo hold being partitioned into two cabins, one for the ladies and one for the gentlemen. The latter doubling as a dining saloon during the day. Raising the hatches and adding sides fitted with windows increased both headroom and light inside. These early conversions were only temporary, with the furnishings being stripped and the holds reverting to cargo each winter.
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