Harwich Boat Builders ~ Sub-Section
~ 001 Building the "Golden Eye" at Harwich, Essex (1930) H&D ~
G.K Cann’s Boat Builders at the Waterside Stores, Harwich, Essex in 1930
This photograph shows a small group of boat builders at Harwich, alongside the “The Golden Eye” just off Wellington Road (to the right of the card you can just make out the old Harwich Mortuary). The boat itself was built directly from a “draught” for both “Sail” and “Motor” transport, however the engine made her lop-sided on the water, so they did away with the sail etc. Names on the back of the postcard, include Arnold B Cann, J Laws, J Reason, G K Cann and the Manager of the Three Cups Hotel.
Cann’s boat builders started operations in Bathside, Harwich back in 1866, originally building smacks & Bawleys on the beach, but later moving to Gas House Creek in 1875. As well as building boats and barges the firm, many in the firm were also sailors and built personal craft to sail and race. The firm closed the Bathside operations in 1925, with the premises reopening as the “Harwich Gas & Coke Company”. However, the family business continued to trade under John & Herbert Cann, building craft from smaller premises, until the firm finally closed to business in 1938, when Herbert retired.
This photograph shows a small group of boat builders at Harwich, alongside the “The Golden Eye” just off Wellington Road (to the right of the card you can just make out the old Harwich Mortuary). The boat itself was built directly from a “draught” for both “Sail” and “Motor” transport, however the engine made her lop-sided on the water, so they did away with the sail etc. Names on the back of the postcard, include Arnold B Cann, J Laws, J Reason, G K Cann and the Manager of the Three Cups Hotel.
Cann’s boat builders started operations in Bathside, Harwich back in 1866, originally building smacks & Bawleys on the beach, but later moving to Gas House Creek in 1875. As well as building boats and barges the firm, many in the firm were also sailors and built personal craft to sail and race. The firm closed the Bathside operations in 1925, with the premises reopening as the “Harwich Gas & Coke Company”. However, the family business continued to trade under John & Herbert Cann, building craft from smaller premises, until the firm finally closed to business in 1938, when Herbert retired.
~002 ~ J&H Cann's Workshop Albemarle Street (1920) H&D ~
~ 003 Cann's Boatyard, Gas House Creek, Harwich. ~
~ 004 Cann's Boat yard, Gas House Creek, Harwich. ~
~ 005 Cann's Boatyard, Gas House Creek, Harwich ~
~ 006 John Cann With Model (1910) H&D ~ |
~ 009 Small yacht by J&H Cann (1923) H&D ~ |
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~ 007 G.K.Cann The Plain, Harwich (1925) H&D ~
~ 010 Launching The Flying Fish (1933) H&D ~
~ 011 Local Boats, Harwich, Essex I (1920) H&D ~
~ 012 Harwich Boating, Essex II (1922) H&D ~
~ 008 G.K.Cann at 8 King Quay Street, Harwich (1911) by Saunders H&D ~
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