NO DOUBT ABOUT IT: This old photo shows Julie Graham (as she was then) with her friend Sue standing beside Terra Nova. The family name ‘Graham’ is clearly visible below the Seamaster nameplate – it could only be the same boat
I’ve always loved the pleasure boats that carry passengers up and down the Thames and I wrote in a recent column that as a youngster in the 1950s I used to enjoy watching the steamers coming and going from the pier at Richmond as they carried passengers upstream to Hampton Court or downstream to Westminster.
You sometimes wonder what goes on in people’s heads, don’t you? You probably read in last week’s Herald and News about the youngsters whose rowing four crashed into Walton Bridge throwing its crew into the water and totally wrecking the boat.
