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Floating Films – SB Repertor

Floating Films

Floating Films advert from SB Repertor; screen grab from The Barge Blog (SSBR) by Matt Care

Tonight an un-ashamed “borrow” from ‘The Barge Blog’, Tricia Gurnett’s diary from the SSBR (Thank you Trish!) covering a nice and very new idea from SB Repertor, now a St Katharine Dock resident having given up on Faversham’s moorings.

“Interesting new idea from SB Repertor”, says Tricia, ” At her base in St Katharine Dock, London, she will be offering a Cinema Club.  

This  is something new, so the website doesn’t have a lot of content at the moment  –  no programme or gallery yet  –  but it does explain what it is all about.   Called Floating Films and run by volunteers, it will show a wide selection of films, including features and documentaries, as well as special screenings with live music accompaniment and talks with key industry guests.

As a not-for-profit film club there will be a suggested donation of £5, and up to 40 people can be accommodated.   So with limited space it will be necessary to book in advance.   The bar will be open, and guests are invited to stay on after the screening for discussion or just to enjoy the atmosphere.  

The club hopes to raise the profile of the survival of the barge fleet and this forgotten part of London history, whilst providing a unique arts venue for independent film events”.

Good luck with that, the Team on Repertor!

Our Daddy, Looe Lugger

Brixham, Our Daddy, the last Looe lugger

Brixham, Our Daddy, the last Looe lugger; Picture by Tricia Gurnett.

A couple of days back, when I was posting on the subject of Mevagissey Toshers, friend of Cambria and writer of  “The Barge Blog”, Tricia Gurnett posted a comment that she’d seen the last ever Looe Lugger whilst down in the SW and would email me some good photo’s. Here it is, the unusually named “Our Daddy”. Thanks for that, Tricia.

This old vessel has its own space on the Mounts Bay Lugger Association website, http://www.mbla.co.uk/our-daddy.htm where Our Daddy gets the following write up. “FY 7: 45′ built in Looe 1921 by Dick Pearce for the J E Pengelly family for £435 and skippered by his son Alfred John. She fished for some 65 years in the pilchard, mackerel and later shark fishing industries.

She was the last sailing lugger to work out of Looe and is owned by Mike Darlington and Stuart Murray. She has been re-built as a yacht with Dandy rig and is used for charter.

Mike, who fished on the boat with the legendary Alfred John Pengelly said: `A J told me: “One day, she will be yours.” But he forget to say it would take 21 years…’ ”

The Barge Blog is in itself always worth a read and is regularly updated by Tricia. It’s on http://sailingbarges.wordpress.com/ which I will now nip off and add to my useful links tab. Good hunting.

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