Vintage Surf meet 2019 coming soon !

Vintage Surf meet 2019 coming soon !
Free to take part
We buy interesting old boards 60s/70s/early 80s in good condition. Email alasdairlindsay75@gmail.com . Also wanted - Surfing UK , British Surfer and Surf Insight magazines .
Above photo - copyright Rennie Ellis photographer archive

Thursday 17 May 2012

posters and flyers

Some classic posters , above Crantock village hall film nights put on by Rod Sumpter late 60s.
Cornish and Open at Porthtowan 1981 ,a rare poster - these were throwaway items in their day
Fantasea at St Merryn village hall ,1980 . 'Dogs free' !
Seaflight at St Merryn again 1980,  no allowance for dogs this time
Rare Surfaari 1969 poster, film by Fitz of Westcoast surfboards Woolacombe
Fastnet surf club pamphlet of Irish surf spots, early70s
Detail of Free and Easy (1967) poster - the South Coast surf club's version that is.Artwork by Tony Cope .

Here's another very rare 1969 flyer sent in by Tony-
''Probably the only poster still existing for Southampton Uni`s film show in May 1969. Southampton was prob. the best spot anywhere to show surf movies, there was another surf club there already, the Ordinance Survey SC ( OS had their HQ in So`ton ), and 3 much bigger clubs all within 30 miles, ie. SCSC at Hayling Island, Wessex at Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight boys would come in on a ferry for the evening. You could send out posters to the 5 clubs 2 weeks before the show and guarantee 100+ attendances, sometimes double that. We once hired So`ton Civic Centre for the night, got Rod Sumpter to bring down something of Paul Witzig`s to show, and filled the place. He was quite pleased about that......''.
Thanks to Chris Flower, Tony Cope, Graham Looker and Alex Williams.

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