Museum of British Surfing
On Thursday night (5th April) we were absolutely stoked to attend the long awaited opening of the Museum Of British Surfing in Braunton, Devon.
The Museum was originally founded in 2003 by Pete Robinson, becoming the first surf museum in Europe, and for a number of years it has been running purely as a mobile museum with exhibitions in surfing communities all around the UK.
We’ve been working with Pete and the museum across the more historical sections of The Endless Winter, and so we’ve already been very privileged to see a number of the exhibits that are now on display. Here’s a taster of a few images from the collection that will be appearing in the film.
www.museumofbritishsurfing.org.uk
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- Museum Of British History
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- Prince Edward VIII surfing in Hawaii in 1920. The earliest known image of a British stand-up surfer.
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- Early surfer and renowned crime writer Agatha Christie at Waikiki beach, Hawaii in 1922.
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- Lewis Rosenberg on holiday in Cornwall. This image is taken from his surfing home-movie shot around 1929.
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- Pip Staffieri holding his 13ft hollow wooden surf board in around 1939.
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- Early surf riding in Newquay
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- Early surfers from around 1920 proudly displaying their ‘coffin lid’ boards.
