Boats I Can Remember
Boats I Can Remember By Dalton Linkleter (b. 1928) “Orcadian” built by William Dalton Linkleter in 1908. She was a 16 foot 8 long clinker with… Read More »Boats I Can Remember
Boats I Can Remember By Dalton Linkleter (b. 1928) “Orcadian” built by William Dalton Linkleter in 1908. She was a 16 foot 8 long clinker with… Read More »Boats I Can Remember
4th July 1948 — A Line Squall By Dalton Linkleter (b. 1928) It was a Sunday afternoon, mother and father were away, I presume that Platypus was on the… Read More »4th July 1948 — A Line Squall
Model Boats By Dalton Linkleter (b. 1928) My world of model boats has always rotated round the sailing type. I don’t think I ever had… Read More »Model Boats
The Last Laugh by Peter Crasterfarian Angus The following poem was written in 1990, reflecting on mass layoffs at Swan Hunters and Margaret Thatcher’s intransigence… Read More »The Last Laugh
Boats on the Tyne By Dalton Linkleter (b. 1928) Memories of life on the river in the late 1940s and early 50s. When the river… Read More »Boats on the Tyne