Tag: Richard Titchener

New Twitter Account

Faversham Creek Hotel Signage

Faversham Creek Hotel Signage

I apologise for the lack of postings on here for a couple of weeks – the barge has been properly busy on a mission to Great Yarmouth under the Skippership of Richard Titchener of the Sea Change Sailing Trust but the reporting suffered a techie problem and was not able to supply me with the usual “Cambria Watch” stories. I hope you were able to pic up the stories and comment running on either Facebook, or re-tweeted by me from Sea Change on the @SB Cambria twitter feed.

Talking of which, I am pleased to be able to tell you the twitter feed has now been replaced and ‘official-ised’, and is re-born as @Cambria Trust. You may know that I had been running the old twitter feed from my own personal email as the Trust did not have one; this being by way of a pilot project. It went well. I ended up ‘following’ 105 barge and Thames related feeds and had gained 106 ‘followers’ of my own, and was getting a regular supply of comment. ‘re-tweets’ and ‘favourites’ (which are how feeds are judged and measured). I had posted 364 posts. Well, now the Trust have decided to take it ‘in-house’ and we do not want the confusion of 2 sites with one (mine) not necessarily speaking for the Trust, so I am taking mine down and would ask you all to transfer your following to the new site. Thank you for your support over the time I was at the helm. It has been enjoyable and a privilege.

 

Meanwhile, I loved this bit of sign-writing found by Cambria Shipwright Ryan Dale on the wall of the Faversham Creek Hotel (formerly the Swan and Harlequin and before that the Coal Exhange if memory serves. This re-vamp has happened since I left Faversham for Irish waters, but looking at the website, it looks well worth a visit, especially the Red Sails Restaurant. More on this on https://www.facebook.com/FavershamCreekHotelAndRestaurant

 

A Trip to Norwich?

Just into Face book from Sea Change…..

“Sea-Change to visit Norwich

A voyage to Norwich might have been routine in the 1940s but today it is less simple, getting all the 7 road and rail bridges between Gt. Yarmouth and Norwich to open for the first time in years will be quite a trick and the Thames sailing barge Cambria will have to lower both masts to pass under the A47 Southern bypass. As Sea-Change skipper Richard Titchener says “Well, it wouldn’t be worthwhile if it was easy!”
He added “Cambria used to be a regular trader to Norwich in 1940s and 50s so we thought it would be fun and very worthwhile to make the Port of Norwich the destination for our training voyage this year and re-establish Norwich’s almost forgotten links with the sea”.
The barge’s crew on the passages up and down the coast will be a mixture of experienced sailing barge hands and young people from Essex and Norfolk who are members of Sea-Change’s Youth Sailing Scheme, their places having been sponsored by charities and other organisations.
In Norwich, during the evening of Wednesday 13th August the barge will host a session of ‘Flying Folk’, the traditional music and singing group that usually meets each month in pubs around the county – especially appropriate as a previous owner/skipper of Cambria, Bob Roberts was a traditional singer and musician of note.
On 13th August Cambria will be joined at her mooring near Carrow Bridge, Norwich by Norfolk Wherry Trust’s ‘Albion’ – The last engineless coastal sailing barge meets the last engineless trading wherry in the Port of Norwich! Surely a notable occasion in the maritime heritage of Nelson’s County!”

Exciting stuff – good luck with that you Sea Change-ers!

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