Comments on: GOLDEN GLEAM*

By: carl robinson

carl robinson — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:57:13 +0000

the peggy was my granddads coble when at amble as the glad tidings bh 177 was ownd by bob robinson of amble

By: Judith Fisher

Judith Fisher — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:20:58 +0000

I was interested to note that this boat was built for a fisherman, Main Downey, in 1948. I am researching my family history and my great-great grandfather was a Main Downey, born 1822 from Belford, whose family later lived in Longhoughton, near Boulmer. I would be very interested to know whether there is a connection as the name is unusual.

Judith Fisher (mother was Mary Ann Foreman Downie, great grandfather Main Downey)

By: Peter Weightman

Peter Weightman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:30:49 +0000

Yes, Golden Gleam looks very like Peggy, but didn’t they all look like that in those days? They are very like the old Cambridge Bros boats but all of them closely follow the same tradition. Ralph Dawson did have a man from Amble for a while, after he started building new boats. However, Ralph had been repairing older cobles for years before he started building new ones like Golden Gleam. Who can say what his influences were?

By: Mick Dawson

Mick Dawson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:47:18 +0000

Look very like Peggy, 28ft built at Harrison’s in Amble in the 1920′s. Is it likely that Dawson’s Boat Builders in Seahouses had people that had been trained at Harrison’s.