DO you remember seeing a Viking longboat tied up at the end of Southport pier?
David Hamer was a young boy when the re-enactment of a Viking landing took place in the late 1930s – and he now wants to know if anyone has any information on the event or its participants.
An alumnus of King George V School, Mr Hamer now lives in New Zealand and has a keen interest in all things to do with Southport’s historic Scandinavian visitors.
Our website, www.southportvisiter.co.uk, keeps Sandgrounders abroad up to speed with the news of their old hometown – and in Mr Hamer’s case, his relationship with the Visiter is longstanding.
His grandfather James B Sutton was works manager at the Southport Visiter in the years prior to, during and after World War Two, while father George Hamer also worked for the Visiter for many years as an electrotyper and stereotyper.
If you can help Mr Hamer in his quest to find out about the Viking landing, leave your comments below.
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Mrs Susan Bowen wrote...
Are we getting the dates right here, or were there two viking longship visits. I distinctly remember visiting the pier fore ground in 1948 or 1949 when a longship was displayed. I think it was the same year that one of the last sailing ships was blown onto the pier in a winter gale.
Sue Bowen Nee Hill.
Posted by: Mrs Susan Bowen | February 1, 2008 10:38 AM