The Wilkinsons go yachting

Charles 'Vern' Wilkinson posed in yachty white attire on the long counter stern of the cabin yacht ROCKET at Oulton Broad Yacht Station Boulevard, during a summer cruise. The photograph was recently discovered in his wallet. 

A long houseboat with a dark coloured hull and six big windows lays in the distance (on the quay near Mutford Lock), behind Vernon, on the left. While another box shaped houseboat can be glimpsed to the right. 

Charles Vernon Wilkinson was Timothy's grandfather. Charles and Marjorie Wilkinson were frequent visitors to Broadland in the years between the World Wars. 'Vern' as he was more usually known was a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy during the Great War, serving in China ~ and was made Captain of a Home Guard unit in the Derbyshire Peak District in the Second World War.

Jeremy, Chris, Tim