Monday, 14 January 2019

Edwina and her pub

Today we tell you more about Edwina and her pub.
Edwina Amethyst White married for the second time and became Edwina Harley.
When she married in Palma to Colin Shelagh Harley born in 1929 in Staines Middlesex.
He died in Eastborn Sussex in 1990.
Edwina Harley was the first one to open an English pub in 1964 in Torremolinos  
She named it The Gallopping Major.
And it is still there .
The song of the Galopping major 

Edwina´s father is Samuel White, the son of Ethelbert and grandson of Samuel Ethelbert White and Catherine Veri Vlieland.
Edwina was the daughter of Samuel White and Charlotte M Carter.
Name: WHITE, Samuel
Registration District: Croydon County: Surrey
Year of Registration: 1926 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's name: Carter, Charlotte M
Volume No: 2A Page No: 809
Birth of daughter
Daughter: WHITE, Edwina A
Registration District: Marylebone County: London 
Year of Registration: 1934 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 
Mother's Maiden Name: Carter 
Volume No: 1A Page No: 606
Marriage of daughter Edwina White
Name: BODDY, Raymond M 
Registration District: Surrey Northern County: Surrey 
Year of Registration: 1951 Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 
Spouse's name: White, Edwina A 
Volume No: 5G Page No: 808
Raymond Marshall Boddy was born March 1929 as son of Gladyss Ellen Cato and James H.Boddy.He died 1983 Westminster
So there you have the Vlieland part of the name.


Later her sons changed their name 



But now you know who is who we start with her pub.
El major sigue galopando 
now translated in google English we found this original Spanish article .
is  all about Edwina White .

The major keeps galloping


FRANCISCO LANCHA
Saturday, December 18 2010, 02:41

In the golden age of the Costa del Sol, one of the most popular catering establishments in Torremolinos was on María Barrabino street. It was opened by Edwina Harley, in February 1964. We refer to the Galloping Major, a bar of drinks in the style of the old English pubs that have always ruled the British lands. Later, this bar would change ownership and would pass into the hands of Manuel Vega Trigo in 1980, a Ceuta born in 1946 and came to land in Torremolinos in 1963 to work as a waiter at the Panorama Hotel, an establishment that was located in Calle de las Mercedes, which goes down to the beach of Bajondillo, and a year later began working as a waiter in the Galloping Major.

Its location, as we said before, on María Barrabino street, made it rub shoulders with other important nightclubs such as El Dorado, Tina's Bar or restaurants like the black lantern, owned by a famous Swedish actor who would later become in consul of his country, and that became refuge of journalists and photographers who covered the events of the Costa del Sol. But of all these the only one still standing is the Galloping Major.

In the first trots of this establishment it was reaping great fame among the locals of Torremolinos, becoming so famous that it was frequented by members of the British royal family, as well as, a multitude of famous actors and musicians worldwide.

The atmosphere of the English pub is still maintained today, keeping the same structure and furniture with which it was opened. According to Manuel Vega, the pub has not closed even one day since its inauguration. The 'commander' has to support more riders, because Manuel Vega Trigo, has included members of his family in the payroll of the business, making this 'horse' have English skin but Spanish heart.

This corner of the old district of Malaga and now municipality of Torremolinos is part of one of the many historical places that it has, where the old town hall is located as well as the first market that was in Torremolinos and that was later transformed in municipal dependencies.

FRANCISCO LANCHASábado, 18 diciembre 2010, 02:41

En la época dorada de la Costa del Sol, uno de los establecimientos hosteleros más populares de Torremolinos se encontraba en la calle María Barrabino. Lo abrió Edwina Harley, en febrero de 1964. Nos referimos al Galloping Major, bar de copas al estilo de los viejos pub ingleses que han reinado desde siempre las tierras británicas. Más adelante, este bar cambiaría de dueño y pasaría a manos de Manuel Vega Trigo en el año 1980, un ceutí nacido en 1946 y que llegó a tierras torremolinenses en el año 1963 para trabajar como camarero en el hotel Panorama, establecimiento que se encontraba en la calle de las Mercedes, vía que baja hasta la playa del Bajondillo, y que un año más tarde comenzaría a trabajar como camarero en el Galloping Major.

Su ubicación, como ya dijimos antes, en la calle María Barrabino, hizo que se codeara con otras importantes salas de fiestas como El Dorado, el Tina's Bar o restaurantes como el farol negro, propiedad de un actor famoso actor sueco que más tarde se convertiría en cónsul de su país, y que se convirtió en refugio de periodistas y fotógrafos que cubrían los acontecimientos de la Costa del Sol. Pero de todos estos el único que todavía sigue en pie es el Galloping Major.

En los primeros trotes de este establecimiento fue cosechando gran fama entre los locales de Torremolinos, llegando a ser tan famoso que fue frecuentado por miembros de la familia real británica, así como, multitud de actores y músicos famosos mundialmente.

La ambientación de pub inglés, se sigue manteniendo en la actualidad, conservando la misma estructura y mobiliario con el que se abrió. Según nos ha contado Manuel Vega el pub no ha cerrado ni un solo día desde su inauguración. El 'comandante' tiene que sostener más jinetes, por que Manuel Vega Trigo, ha incluido en la nómina del negocio a miembros de su familia, haciendo que este 'caballo' tenga piel inglesa pero corazón español.


Este rincón de la antigua barriada malagueña y ahora municipio de Torremolinos forma parte de uno de los muchos lugares históricos con que cuenta la misma, donde se ubica el antiguo ayuntamiento así como el primer mercado que hubo en Torremolinos y que se transformó, más tarde, en dependencias municipales.

another article

OCIO La primera taberna inglesa de la Costa del Sol lleva 50 años abierta
Medio siglo 'galopando' a lomos del primer pub inglés de Torremolinos

'The Galloping Major' mantiene en su local de Torremolinos la esencia de típica taberna inglesa con la que abrió sus puertas

En sus primeros días de 1964 sus dueños eran un adinerado matrimonio inglés de ascendencia militar

La ambientación musical se basaba en el pianista y los discos que le llegaban a la dueña, que tenía un contrato con una casa de discos londinense




Clientela habitual del pub inglés de Torremolinos poco después de su apertura. TORREMOLINOS CHIC

There are monuments in Torremolinos in the shape of an English pub. With an air very similar to that youthful and carefree tavern drawn by James A. Michener in 'Children of Torremolinos' (The Drifters) in its austere wooden bar and its myriads of exotic bottles, but there is not a barman of color, who is is Sergio, son of Manuel Vega, his first waiter. There was even an Australian pianist. Welcome to The Galloping Major, or the Commander Gallopando, the first and the last one who is still alive from that time. God save the drink. The thousand and one melopeas concentrated in four walls of a place that could easily belong to an alley in the center of Liverpool or to Main Street Gibraltar.
But it is Torremolinos, which was a world leisure and stop mecca of authentic hippies like Brian Jones or Keith Richards and the Yedoes of Eldorado, Sinatra that ended up in the police station for its scandal in the Swordfish or Onassis of tapadillo in the tablao El Jaleo. That is concentrated here contemporaneously. The last vestige. The gap of the Atapuerca of the British tourism. The sixties and seventies, the world-wide descoque in Torremolinos with drinks of dry martini, blody mary, pink gin, Guinness, Jack Daniels, Ginger ale, brandy with Sprite ... This British alcoholic folklore is alive here. So phlegmatic. Supported by that immortal soundtrack of Tom Jones, The Beatles, Gloria Gaynor or Boney M or Modern Talking.
Other customers of the premises in its first season.That nostalgia floats in the air when you cross the threshold of the door and on the wall the photos of another time in black and white, with the incipient cosmopolitanism. And it is that no less than half a century ago of the first English pub on the Costa del Sol, now bored with copies of this and more 'Latinized' substitutes like the Irish. "When I made the first drink orders by phone and said the name of the place, they took me to Güasa," recalls Manuel Vega Trigo, one of the first waiters he had and who later inherited the 'institution', which his son now manages. as owners.
In its first days of 1964 its owners were a wealthy English couple of military descent, hence the name, and that caused in its short stay gatherings of tourists of postín, relatives of the Lloyd Bank or members of the British Royal family, one day Omar Shariff and any other face known but incognito on the coast of the will-o'-the-wisps. «They were very good times, we started three waiters, a pianist and a cleaner. Imagine for such a small pub and it gave us all. Today my son only manages », compares the old Manuel Vega, smiling and joking always in the photos of then.
The pub keeps all the decorations of yesteryear outside and inside, including the two original arms of ceramics and bronze so typical English for throwing beer. "We had to make a fix for the shooting system because then in Spain there was no such thing," he says. "Then also the musical ambience came with the pianist and the records that came to the owner, Edwina Haley, who had a contract with a London record house and we were up to date," he recalls.
Current terrace of the English pub.One day, that one bequeathed him the address of the premises and the inheritance of a clientele that today is preserved almost intact having passed in some cases from father to son. "The English came later and asked me if I was English, when I told them that Spanish, one made me a gesture of demerit. In one of those I went to the mural of the door and with solvent I erased the original name. Then I asked them to do it in Spanish ", tells about the anecdote of a heater that has not made the name in the language of Shakespeare follow other sites of the locality and have an indelible mark on his perfect way of pronouncing in this language.
«I have no complaints from the clientele now. I am delighted even though Torremolinos has changed a lot, the pub remains the same. And I prefer the English before the Spaniards because they know how to thank you and be despite what they drink, "says his son, Sergio who does not hesitate to continue putting those issues of Simply Minds or U2 with which he began to familiarize himself with Now I do not like it. That was music ", he defends and the cosmopolitanism that makes Torremolinos a crossroads of races and cultures unparalleled.

FRANCIS MÁRMOLMálagaActualizado: 21/01/2014 13:07 horas


Hay monumentos en Torremolinos con forma de pub inglés. Con un aire muy similar a aquella taberna juvenil y desenfadada dibujada por James A. Michener en 'Hijos de Torremolinos' (The Drifters) en su austera barra de madera y sus miriadas de botellas exóticas, pero no hay un barman de color, quien está es Sergio, hijo de Manuel Vega, su primer camarero. Hubo hasta un pianista australiano. Welcome to The Galloping Major, o el Comandante Galopando, el primero y el último que sigue vivo de aquella época. God save the drink. Las mil y una melopeas concentradas en cuatro paredes de un local que podría pertenecer sin problema a un callejón del centro de Liverpool o a la Main Street gibraltareña.

Pero es Torremolinos, la que fue meca mundial del ocio y parada de los hippies auténticos como Brian Jones o Keith Richards y de los yeyés de Eldorado, del Sinatra que acabó en comisaría por su escándalo en el Pez Espada o de Onassis de tapadillo en el tablao El Jaleo. Eso se concentra aquí por contemporaneidad. El último vestigio. La sima de la Atapuerca del turismo británico. Los años sesenta y setenta, el descoque mundial en Torremolinos a tragos de dry martini, blody mary, pink gin, Guiness, Jack Daniels, Ginger ale, brandy con Sprite... Aquí está vivo ese folclorismo alcohólico británico. Tan flemático. Soportado por esa banda sonora inmortal de Tom Jones, The Beatles, Gloria Gaynor o Boney M o Modern Talking.


Otros clientes del local en su primera época.

Esa nostalgia flota en el ambiente cuando se cruza el umbral de la puerta y en la pared las fotos de otro tiempo en blanco y negro, con el cosmopolitismo incipiente. Y es que ya hace nada menos que medio siglo del primer pub inglés de la Costa del Sol, ahora aburrida de copias de éste y sucedáneos más 'latinizados' como los irlandeses. «Cuando hacía los primeros pedidos de bebida por teléfono y decía el nombre del local, me tomaban a güasa», recuerda Manuel Vega Trigo, uno de los primeros camareros que tuvo y que luego heredó la 'institución', que ahora maneja su hijo ya como propietarios.

En sus primeros días de 1964 sus dueños eran un adinerado matrimonio inglés de ascendencia militar, de ahí el nombre, y que provocó en su reducida estancia tertulias de turistas de postín, familiares de la banca Lloyd o miembros de la familia Real Británica, un día Omar Shariff y cualquier otro otra cara conocida pero de incógnito en la costa de los fuegos fatuos. «Fueron muy buenos tiempos, empezamos tres camareros, un pianista y una limpiadora. Imagínate para un pub tan pequeño y nos daba para todos. Hoy se apaña mi hijo sólo», compara el viejo Manuel Vega, sonriente y bromista siempre en las fotos de entonces.

El pub guarda toda la decoración de antaño fuera y dentro, incluso los dos brazos originales de cerámica y bronce tan típicos ingleses para tirar la cerveza. «Hubo que hacer un apaño para el sistema de tiro porque entonces en España no había de estas cosas», cuenta. «Luego también la ambientación musical llegaba con el pianista y los discos que le llegaban a la dueña, Edwina Haley, que tenía un contrato con una casa de discos londinense y estábamos a la última», rememora.


Terraza actual del pub inglés.

Un buen día, aquella le legó la dirección del local y la herencia de una clientela que hoy se conserva casi intacta al haber pasado en algunos casos de padres a hijos. «Llegaban los ingleses después y me preguntaban si era inglés, al decirles que español, uno me hizo un gesto de demérito. En una de aquellas salí al mural de la puerta y con disolvente le borré el nombre original. Luego yo mismo pedí que me lo hicieran en castellano», relata sobre la anécdota de un calentón que no le ha hecho que el nombre en el idioma de Shakespeare siga por otros sitios del local y tenga marca indeleble en su perfecta forma de pronunciar en esta lengua.

«No tengo ninguna queja de la clientela de ahora. Estoy encantado pese a que Torremolinos ha cambiado mucho, el pub sigue igual. Y prefiero a los ingleses antes que a los españoles porque saben darte las gracias y estar pese a lo que beben», refiere su hijo, Sergio que no duda en seguir poniendo esos temas de Simply Minds o U2 con los que empezó a familiarse hacca de ahora no me gusta. Eso era música», defiende y en él confluye ese cosmopolitismo que hace de Torremolinos un cruce de razas y culturas sin parangón.


More pictures of the Galloping Major .

Friday, 23 November 2018

Mary Grimmer


Mary Grimmer marries John Vlieland .
They have a son John Nicolls Vlieland born 18 Jan 1826 drowns in 1840 son of John Vlieland and Mary Grimmer   who sadly dies falling of a ship.
After John's death widow Mary Vlieland marries In 1842 Mary Vlieland widow marries Robert Denny .
She was a servant .


Head
Male
54
Earl Borne, Sussex
Mary Denny
Wife
Female
49
Raydon, Suffolk
Daughter
Female
6
Wrentham, Suffolk
Daughter
Female
3
Wrentham, Suffolk
Mother-In-Law
Female
79
Southwold, Suffolk
Servant
Female
14
Crislingham, Suffolk
Servant
Male
80
Whenaston, Suffolk



Saturday, 10 November 2018

John Vlieland and Jane Waters

From bathing machine to an early entry in the blog  is easy enough .

But then it will take some time to find something out.
The auction of a bathhouse and a bathing machine in 1816 by a mister Seaman( no first name) led me to another man with the name Seaman.

The name of John Seaman pops-up  is much later in 1838 as a witness at the marriage of John Vlieland to Jane Frances Waters.

Jane Francis Water is the daughter of William Waters and Ann Covell.
She is born in 1802 in Great Yarmouth
.
She marries Michael Martin .



They have a son Michael  Covell Martin.He is named at the marriage of Jane and John Vlieland




Michael Martin dies and Jane marries John Vlieland .


John is a bachelor of full age and sailor and she is a widow and dressmaker.
We still do not know who this John Vlieland is .although he states that his father is Yarhan Vlieland.
Which could well be Jerome Vlieland.

Witnesses are John Seaman and Margaret Wright.So we go and try to find out more about them.

We do not find much about John Vlieland .Where he is born is still a guess.


On 28 Feb 1842 above John dies aged 45 years Mariner resident "on the Walls" @ Gt Yarmouth. (death certificate)

Burial at dissenters graveyard, Market Street, Great Yarmouth, Grave 609, 8th March 1842 aged 45 years.

census of 1841

In the census of 1841 he lives with, regarding  their age , his sisters Susan and Mary Vlieland  in Chapelstreet later Kings Street 

Jane Vlieland however had to go to prison.






So we have to search the witnesses and John Vlieland 

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Jan Kemp bathing machine under the hammer

In general there is a lot written about bathing machines .
But about manufactering and the making of the cart and the special hood is not much to be found in archives or newspapers or museums.
Although there must have been thousands of them and every seaside resort has postcards to show them.

It must have been on his trips to London  that our Jan Kemp bought a bathing machine and shipped it back to Holland 





From the Norfolk chronicle and Norwich Gazette of 3 August 1816 we learn (thanks to Peter for this information.)that these  bathing machines were sold in Great Yarmouth. It could well be the bathing machine Jan Kemp picked up at this auction.

He did very well with his bathing machines as in 1823 he sold his three ships in auction.



And he was appointed as the official beachcomber.



Sunday, 4 November 2018

Jan Kemp


Jan Kemp was born in Noordwijk aan Zee.

he married 17-08-1794  Aryaantje Maartens Plug
 she died


he died

this family tree is made by Hans Montanus .

Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 14‑10‑1770, overl. Noordwijk 29‑12‑1849 op 79-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Cornelis Jansz KEMP en Gerritje Arendsdr van der VALK.
Tr. op 23-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 17‑08‑1794 Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG, 22 jaar oud, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 09‑02‑1772, overl. Noordwijk 18‑10‑1846 op 74-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Maarten JanszPLUG en Maartje Jansdr KAAK.

Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 14‑10‑1770, overl. Noordwijk29‑12‑1849 op 79-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Cornelis Jansz KEMP en Gerritje Arendsdr van der VALK, ca. 1810: Noordwijk a/Zee / ca. 1830/1840: Hoofdstraat z90.
Tr. op 23-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 17‑08‑1794 Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG, 22 jaar oud, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk09‑02‑1772, overl. Noordwijk 18‑10‑1846 op 74-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Maarten Jansz PLUG en Maartje JansdrKAAK.
Uit dit huwelijk:
1.Cornelis Jansz KEMP, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 28‑12‑1794, overl. Noordwijk 07‑02‑1795, 41 dagen oud, zn. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
2.Marijtje Jansdr KEMP, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 15‑11‑1795, overl. Noordwijk 02‑09‑1797 op 1-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje MaartensdrPLUG.
3.Cornelis Jansz KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 09‑02‑1798, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 25‑02‑1798, overl. Noordwijk 02‑02‑1801 op 2-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
4.Marijtje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 14‑12‑1800, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 14‑12‑1800, overl. Noordwijk 11‑05‑1865 op 64-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 19-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 29‑12‑1819 Willem Gijsbertsz MEEUWENOORD, 21 jaar oud, visser, geb. Noordwijk 08‑10‑1798, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 14‑10‑1798, overl. Noordwijk 09‑05‑1855 op 56-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Gijsbert Cornelisz MEEUWENOORD, zeeman, arbeider, en Trijntje Cornelisdr WAASDORP, winkelierster.
5.Gerritje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 27‑11‑1802, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 05‑12‑1802, overl. Noordwijk 06‑10‑1842 op 39-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 22-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 27‑11‑1824 Leendert Dirksz MAASDIJK, 21 jaar oud, zeeman, geb. Noordwijk 27‑10‑1803, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 30‑10‑1803, overl. na 1841, zn. van Dirk Leendertsz MAASDIJK en Immetje Jansdr van der PLAS.
6.Maartje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 03‑08‑1805, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 04‑08‑1805, overl. Noordwijk 02‑01‑1881 op 75-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 20-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 21‑09‑1825 Pieter Leendertsz van der DEIJL, 20 jaar oud, viskoper, schippersknecht, geb. Noordwijk 28‑08‑1805, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 01‑09‑1805, overl. Noordwijk 11‑05‑1861 op 55-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Leendert Leendertsz van der DEIJL, viskoper, reder, koopman, gemeenteraadslid, en Trijntje Klaasdr van den OEVER.
7.Jannetje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 18‑01‑1808, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 24‑01‑1808, overl. Noordwijk 03‑12‑1810 op 2-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
8.Cornelis Jansz KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 19‑12‑1809, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 24‑12‑1809, overl. Noordwijk 29‑01‑1810, 41 dagen oud, zn. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
9.Jannetje KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 04‑08‑1811 (gezindte: Herv.), overl. Noordwijk 02‑11‑1851 op 40-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 18-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 15‑04‑1830 Jacob KONING, 28 jaar oud, onderwijzer, geb. Noordwijkerhout 19‑09‑1801, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijkerhout 20‑09‑1801, overl. Noordwijk 09‑03‑1873op 71-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Jacob KONING, onderwijzer, en Cornelia van der MEIJ.
10.Adriana KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 14‑05‑1814 (gezindte: Herv.), overl. Noordwijk 03‑03‑1881 op 66-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 18-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 30‑11‑1832 Huig PLUG, 21 jaar oud, visser, geb. Noordwijk25‑05‑1811 (gezindte: Herv.), overl. Noordwijk 03‑12‑1890 op 79-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Jan HuigszPLUG, barbier, en Neeltje Danielsdr van BEVEREN, werkster.

Thursday, 1 November 2018

Bathing in the sea at Margate




 The popularity of sea bathing  began in about 1730. In the early days, it was a quick total submersion in the water and was intended as a medical treatment rather than a pleasant experience. 
The bather took off all his or her clothes in the bathing machine and was then plunged into the sea by attendants.  
Margate's enhancement to the Bathing machine came in around 1750, when Benjamin Beale, a Margate glove and breeches maker, invented a canvas hood which could be pulled down to protect the naked sea-bather from prying eyes.
The Royal Sea Bathing Hospital was opened in 1791, when it was believed that sea bathing and sea air were the best cures for tuberculosis.  
Patients in their beds would be pushed into the fresh air and the hospital had a sea-water reservoir so that patients could be bathed in sea water.  
Soon sea bathing became more of a pleasurable thing to do.  
Margate had medicinal baths by 1890; as ‘taking salt waters’ became a well known, healthy, alternative to the spa - and was known as a ‘resort’ by 1800. 
The promenade at Margate was designed for ladies and gentlemen to stroll along showing off their fine clothes and conspicuous wealth.
The bathers of the early years entered their machines by stairs from the backs of the bathing houses situated on the West side at the bottom of the High Street. 
These buildings, perched precariously on timber piles on the cliff face, before the building of Marine Drive, were known as Hazardous Row due to the regular damage they suffered from storms. 
The bathing machines in use at Margate were described in 1805 as "four-wheeled carriages, covered with canvas, and having at one end of them an umbrella of the same materials which is let down to the surface of the water, so that the bather descending from the machine by a few steps is concealed from the public view, whereby the most refined female is enabled to enjoy the advantages of the sea with the strictest delicacy." 
The Kentish Gazette notes in 1797 that “By some neglect on the driver, a bathing machine in which were two ladies, got afloat and it being the ebb of the tide, was drifting fast to sea. Their cries attracted the attention of three gentlemen, who were amusing themselves in swimming. 
They got into a boat, and pushed off to the succour of the afflicted fair ones, to whom they presented themselves literally in puris naturalibus. 
Life is sweet and the damsels were happy to be rowed to shore without once daring to look at their brave deliverers.”
The Dunn Family, from Thomas, grandfatherof ‘the SS Atlantic’ Thomas and his wife Annie Perkins (Edward’s sister) lived from about 1830 at Parade House, a prestigious corner plot facing the sea, and next to the early site of sea bathing, later Ruby Lounge Public House.  
Her brother, Edward Austin Perkins, was later to be a ‘bathing Machine Proprietor’ there.

Edward Austin Perkins

Margate had been a major seaside resort for many years.
  
During the early 1800s Margate became the first seaside resort in which donkey rides became a popular amusement.  
The ‘holiday and leisure’ industry in Margate was a good way for an entrepreneur to work – particularly one with a new (and very popular) idea. 
Though Perkins was by no means the first person to place bathing machines on the sands (the pamphlet ‘An excursion to Margate: in the month of June, 1786’ notes (chapter X)  the sands had now been crouded with machines’) or to provide a  ‘Perkins jetty’ for bathers, Edward Perkins was the first to place chairs on Marine Sands in 1880.  
The privilege cost him £100 – an enormous sum, now equivalent to high five figures.  
His wife is shown in both the 1893 and 1899/1900 Directories as: “Mrs Perkins, Fancy Repository”.
Edward is Owner of a business which has bathing machines




 (a late nineteenth century postcard shows the Perkins slipway leading to the Perkins machines) but, as you can see from another 1904 card, the beach is full of deckchairs emblazoned with the name Perkins.  The ‘Perkins slipway’ is in the background and there is a 1910 picture of a ‘Perkins Diving Board’ with a couple of dozen bathers on the Margate Local History website.
Edward’s youngest child, Walter James Perkins was also in Margate, Kent with his family.  (Walter James was, of course, the name of Annie’s brother, and also Thomas and Annie Dunn’s first born in Liverpool and his son in Margate). 


 During the summer months Walter Perkins would regularly stay away from school and help his father by collecting a penny from holiday makers for use of the Perkins deckchairs and later assisted him in operating the Perkins bathing machines on Marine Terrace sands.  (The corporation subsequently took over both operations).
Walter was elected Mayor of Margate in 1947 and served until 1949.  
He died on 26 June 1959 in a Margate nursing home.  
Known as ‘father’ of the Council, he was an honorary freeman of the borough.

Thanks Ray !


Monday, 22 October 2018

Jan Kemp and his bathing machine

Today we introduce you to Jan Kemp.
He was not only a captain who sailed to London on his ship "the good expectation" -de goede verwachting-and owned another two  ships.
He also sailed together with Jan Vlieland.
Later he sold his three Bomships.  He invested in an English  bathing machine
He brought this bathing machine to Noordwijk aan Zee his hometown and started tourism this way.

This advertisement was in the newspapers.


The undersigned  advertises here ,that he ,owner, of ,a new manufactured  in England ,
extra well equipped bathing machine,intends, to ,start in the month of June this year,by his own ,to gentlemen and ladies ,who desire this ,to give them  opportunity to use a COLD SEABATH:
may sign up at his house in Noordwijk aan zee .which is also equipped for the arriving,before or after the use of the Bath, to feel comfortable :and also use some refreshments.-The undersigned flatters himself ,that this establisment,perfectly satisfied, will be to the desire ,here,in a decent and secure way.utilize this pleasant and healthy Seabath,and will do anything ,to satisfy all his beneficiaries.
Noordwijk aan Zee 25 th May 1819. Jan Kemp

I am trying very hard to find out where he, Jan Kemp, ordered this bathing machine .But so far I have not found an English  manufacturer or an advertisement in a newspaper or an auction.
Maybe Jan Vlieland brought it back on his ship the Maria Elisabeth.

Here are some advertisements





selling his ships .


in 1825 he is a custom officer .

In the exellent blog Noordwijkse Huizen we find more on Jan Kemp and the start of the tourism in Noordwijk as a seaside resort .

Ray send us more on the bathing machine and his family in Margate,
to be continued

Thursday, 20 September 2018

Arie Cornelis Vlieland





Prisoners of war 1798 captured : Arie Cornelis Vlieland  
How disposed of: .....Hospital.
The other crewmembers of The Hope 



Saturday, 15 September 2018

three different clergymen in Stalisfield

Three  different clergymen.
First of course Jerome Nicholas Vlieland .
On his death W.A.Paxton
and afterwards P.J.Syrée.

Sunday, 9 September 2018

Revd Jerome Vieland

Index to Register of Passport Applications 1851-1903 Image



Friday, 20 July 2018

Cornelis den Hollander

Cornelis den Hollander zoon van Jeroen Cornelis den Hollander en Trijntje Jans Vink
trouwt met Willemina Vink en later met Alida van Boomen 





In short Alida van Boomen is in Leyden to pay the children  Jan Hollander
Noordwijk 3 februari 1789

Noordwijk 20 februari 1788


 and Jeroen Hollander .from a previous marriage with Wilhelmina Vink, their share after selling a house


kind

, Magdalena

doopdatum

24-11-1796

kerk

Kerk De Posthoorn

godsdienst

Rooms-Katholiek

vader

[den] Hollander, Cornelis

moeder

[van] Boomen, Alida

getuige

[den] Hollander, Jan

getuige

[van] Boomen, Maria

bronverwijzing

DTB 348, p.406(folio 203v), nr.3

Doopregister: NL-SAA-23672807


kind

, Jacoba

doopdatum

31-03-1798

kerk

Kerk De Posthoorn

godsdienst

Rooms-Katholiek

vader

[de] Hollander, Cornelis

moeder

[van] Boomen, Alida

getuige

Loocamp, Gerrit

getuige

[van der] Schalk, Engeltje

bronverwijzing

DTB 348, p.412(folio 206v), nr.18



kind

, Petrus

doopdatum

12-08-1799

kerk

Kerk De Posthoorn

godsdienst

Rooms-Katholiek

vader

[den] Hollander, Cornelis

moeder

[van] Boomen, Alida

getuige

[van den] Berg, Antonie

getuige

[van] Boomen, Wilhelmina

bronverwijzing

DTB 348, p.419(folio 210), nr.7



and as witness
kind

, Jeroen

doopdatum

12-07-1801

kerk

Kerk De Posthoorn

godsdienst

Rooms-Katholiek

vader

Vink, Gerrit

moeder

[den] Hollander, Pleuntje

getuige

[den] Hollander, Corn.

getuige

[van] Boomen, Alida

bronverwijzing

DTB 348, p.426(folio 213v)nr.17


after Cornelis den Hollander dies Alida  van Boomen has another mariage 

she dies in 1845