For that, IMT are proud to be able to present Wes with the Richard W Smith Award for 2021.
The award was launched by IMT in 2020, in memory of author and photographer Mr Smith, who died in 2017.
He was a founder member of the trust and a great contributor to appreciation of local maritime history and heritage.
A bronze cast medallion is awarded annually to a person or organisation who has contributed in a significant way to the understanding of local maritime culture or heritage. The first award went to historian Robert Malster.
David Wes Westwood, the skipper of Sailing Barge Victor, receiving the Richard W Smith Memorial Award from Geoffrey Dyball, chairman of Ipswich Maritime Trust
For that, IMT are proud to be able to present Wes with the Richard W Smith Award for 2021.
The award was launched by IMT in 2020, in memory of author and photographer Mr Smith, who died in 2017.
He was a founder member of the trust and a great contributor to appreciation of local maritime history and heritage.
A bronze cast medallion is awarded annually to a person or organisation who has contributed in a significant way to the understanding of local maritime culture or heritage. The first award went to historian Robert Malster.
David Wes Westwood, the skipper of Sailing Barge Victor, receiving the Richard W Smith Memorial Award from Geoffrey Dyball, chairman of Ipswich Maritime Trust
The head of the dock in Ipswich in 1962
- Credit: Stuart Grimwade (ICBC) Collection/IMT Image Archive
Stuart Grimwade was 19 when he took a lot of colour photos around the Ipswich dock area and nearby streets back in 1962.
St Peter s Dock in Ipswich in 1962
- Credit: Stuart Grimwade (ICBC) Collection/IMT Image Archive
Now, nearly 60 years on, he has put them into an occasional paper , which will soon be published online by Ipswich Maritime Trust.
Vernon Street, Ipswich, in 1962
- Credit: Stuart Grimwade (ICBC) Collection/IMT Image Archive
The paper, entitled Memories of Maritime Ipswich: ‘The New Cut and Over Stoke’, combines Stuart s photos and other historic photos of the area with memories written by local author Barry Girling.
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