MV Balmoral Fund Ltd
Proudly Presents its First Grand Charity Fundraising Auction On board MV Balmoral at 2.00pm Saturday March 11th 2017
Auctioneer Paul Doubler All proceeds’ (100%) go to the MVBFL - Registered Charity Number 1155339
Auction Catalogue Terms & Conditions * Every care has been taken in the production of this catalogue. * All lots and facts are honestly believed to be correct but bidders need to satisfy themselves as to the condition and nature of the items offered. * All reserve prices shown are the minimum price that will be accepted. It is confidently expected that many items will sell for considerably more. Please remember this is a charity auction for Balmoral so please give (bid) generously. * It is the responsibility of all purchasers attending on the day to take home items purchased. * For interested parties not able to attend the auction, bids can be submitted in advance of auction to Paul Doubler Tel 07808 096074 or email at [email protected] . * All such bids must be received by 18.00hrs on 10 /3 / 2017. * All lots are offered for sale on behalf of their respective owners, who have indicated their intention to donate the proceeds in their entirety to MVBFL. * The auction is open to all UK residents aged 18 years or over. * You are not able to retract any bid under any circumstances after it has been submitted. * The auctioneer will be pleased to arrange with the lucky purchaser delivery / postage to home address subject to payment of post / parcel carriage. * No credit card facility is available at or post auction, cash is favoured. * Cheque (with debit card) will be accepted from persons known to the organisation. The Auctioneers decision on all matters is final.
Lot 1
Two very rare and unusual handbills in excellent condition. Both 6.5”x10” (1) (left) 1961 London Midland Combined Rail & Sea Excursions Ainsdale to Widnes North to Llandudno via Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Co Steamers to Llandudno. (2) 1962 West Kirby to Wallasey Village Via Liverpool to Llandudno & Menal Bridge. Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill
RESERVE: £5
Lot 2
Two interesting and very rare handbills in excellent condition. Both 6.5”x10” (1) Left 1959 P&A Campbell’s Combined Rail & Steamer Bookings, Cardiff Pier Head to Ilfracombe, via Cardiff Bute Road and Clarence Road Stations. (2) Right 1959 as item 1 but to Weston Super Mare from all valley stations and
Porthcawl Line. Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill RESERVE: £5
Lot 3
8 Page brochure in good condition. 4”x 8” Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Co Ltd. “The Popular Route to North Wales” 1954 Day Cruises to Llandudno & Menai Bridge by St Tudno & St Seirol. Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill.
RESERVE: £10
Lot 4
2 Bristol Channel brochures (1) (left) - White Funnel Coastal Cruises 1980 with MV Balmoral. Sailings from Ilfracombe & Lynmouth to Lundy Island, Exmoor Coastal Cruises, Mumbles, Swansea, Porthcawl, Portishead & Bristol 8 Pages 5”x8” Good Condition (2) (right) - Campbells Sailings Sept & Oct 1954 “Centenary Year from South Wales Ports 4” x 10” Reasonable Condition Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill.
RESERVE: £15 Lot 5
Very rare & collectable 4 page handbill in very good condition 5” x 8”
Red Funnel Steamers 22nd May to 27th Sept 1956 Balmoral Cruises in Southampton Waters to view the famous Liners, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary & United States & Castle Liners. Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill
RESERVE: £10
Lot 6 Set of 16 wonderful postcards
from the past - including:
Needles IOW PS Lorna Doon PS Glen Gower Balmoral Leaving Cowes PS Westonia at Cardiff Pier Head Cardiff Queen & Others at Cardiff
Pier Head. Cardiff Queen steaming through Cardiff Docks 1962 Cardiff Q at ‘Coombe mid 60’s Special Dunkirk Anv PS Princess
Elizabeth. Westward Ho Paddlers in Weymouth Queen Line Steamers
Travel to Ireland x 2
Cardiff Queen At Tenby Brighton Marina
Highly sort after and unique collection sold as one lot. Good condition. Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill.
RESERVE: £20 Lot 7
Balmoral Under Brunel Bridge 17” x 12” Canvas Picture. Condition: new MVB returns to Bristol from Sharpness May 2015 beore comencing her first season
under new operators White Funnel Ltd. Kindly donated by Ross & Gill Floyd.
RESERVE: £25
Lot 8
Framed limited edition print. 23” x 18” Excellent Condition. The Queen Mary, The Legend Begins. Pride of the Clyde. QM on launch day from John Browns Yard 24/3/36. Print 222/850 by famous maritime and Cunard artist Gordon Bauwens. Kindly donated by Mr Stephen Phillips.
RESERVE: £25 Lot 9
Framed limited edition print. 25” x 20” Excellent Condition. Queen Elizabeth 2 Returns to Home Waters Escourted by PS Waverely the QE2 returns to the Clyde for the celebration of Cunards 150th Anniverasary. By Gordon Bauwens. Kindly donated by Mr Stephen Phillips.
RESERVE: £25
Lot 10
Framed limited edition print 709/1250. Excellent Condition.
The Matthew in Bristol under St Mary Redcliffe 1497 – 1997 Taken from an original by Vernon Bartlett, Signed by Captain & Crew of the 500 Anniversary Voyage in 1997 – Certificate of Authenticity of rear. Kindly donated by Alec Lewis.
RESERVE: £25 Lot 11
Framed print 19” x 15” Excellent Condition
Fishing Boats Ashore – Sidmouth? Not signed by artist. Kindly donated by Mr Stephen Phillips.
RESERVE: £10
Lot 12
Set of 7 years’ of Ships Monthly magazine in binders 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996 & 1997 All complete & reasonable condition. A fantastic collection which shows just how ships and the sea have changed in just a few short years. Very special Nov 1989 Bristol Channel Edition below. With Article on Balmoral and her Captain Steve Michel by a certain Richard Clammer. Does anybody know what ever happened to him? Kindly donated by Mr Paul Doubler
RESERVE: £10 Lot 13
Atlantic Front by Basil Woon in dust jacket. Very rare. Good condition. Great Account of the Battle of the Atlantic published 1941. Kindly donated by Mr Paul Doubler
RESERVE: £5
Lot 14
Framed print by Alan Ward 17” x 24” Good Condition. PS Waverley in the Avon Gorge. Signed by artist and inscribed Purchased onboard PSW 16/6/1990, her 43rd Birthday Sailing. Kindly donated by Mr Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £25 Lot 15
Black Ink Painting of Cardiff Queen by Patrick Collins. 30” x 21”
In a stainless-steel frame, this is a dramatic and different view of this much loved and fondly remembered paddler. Kindly donated by Ross & Gill Floyd
RESERVE: £20
Lot 16
Framed limited edition print by Vic Bates. Excellent condition. SS Robin at Heron Quay 69/100. Certificate of authenticity on rear.
Kindly Donated by Alex Lewis
RESERVE: £20
Lot 17
Original oil painting by Tony Horn. PS Bristol Queen. Good condition. PS Bristol Queen off Foreland Point, just past Lynmouth. Powerful painting of one
of the most famous paddlers, recapturing her great days of the 50’s & early 60’s. Kindly donated by Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £250
Lot 18
White Funnel Handbook (2s) estimated 1957. 5” x 7”. Fair condition. Fleet in this Handbook are: Cardiff Queen, Bristol Queen, Glen Gower, Glen Usk Britania (Marked withdraw 1957). 80 Pages plus pull out map of routes & milages. Kindly donated by Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £15 Lot 19
The Eagle Steamer Handbook 1933. 5.5” x 8.5” Through Londons Great Waterway / The Sunshine Route to The Coast. A little tired but at 84 years old it’s amazing to still exist. 68 pages with amazing black & white illustrations. A very rare and unusal historic record of times long gone.
Real Ale fans will be also amazed at the many long gone brewers advertising in this and all other handbooks. Anybody remember Cobb’s Margate Ales?
Kindly donated by Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £15
Lot 20
White Funnel Handbook Estimated 1968. Size 5” x 8” (30 pages, cost 3/6) Excellent Condition. Fleet: St Trillo, Westward Ho, Queen of the Isles (on Hire) An Auto Carrier? Plus SR N6 Hovercraft (gives date away?) Kindly donated by Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £10 Lot 21
White Funnel P & A 1939 Campbell Handbook. 5” x 7.5”. Fair condition. 112 pages Fleet: Britannia, Cambria, Devonia, Waverley, Glen Gower, Glen Usk, Glen Avon, Brighton Queen, Brighton Belle, Westward Ho, Ravenswood. BC & English Channel Route Maps & Mileages “Tamplin’s Prize Ales” The very cover used on “The Peoples Liners” BBC 4
Kindly donated by Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £20
Lot 22
The Bristol Channel District Guide 1934 Edition. 254 Pages, 5” x 7” Official Handbook of P&A Campbell Ltd & White Funnel Fleet
Fleet is the same as Lot 21. Marvellous images & full guides to every Bristol Channel destination. A complete social history even ships menus and wine lists. A bottle of Claret 4 Shillings and a Bottle of Bass 8d. Fair to a little tired condition. Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill RESERVE: £25 Lot 23
The White Funnel 1954 Handbook. 104 Pages, 5” x 7”. Excellent condition. Cost Two Shillings. Date unknown but fleet: Cardiff & Bristol Queens Britannia, Glen Usk, Glen Gower, Ravenswood. Remember Brains Pies of Bristol and Hancocks Five Five?
Kindly donated by Andrew Hartill
RESERVE: £25
Lot 24
A Small Box of Approx. 40 Colour Prints / Removal of Balmoral’s Old Sirron Diesel Engines. Date 7th April 2003 Location: Abel’s Yard Bristol, lots of great pictures and several old faces during
MVB’s last major engine change. A veritable Po Pourri of famous faces! Kindly donated by Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £10 Lot 25
PS Sandown Original Oil Painting by Tony Horn The famous PS Sandown is seen reversing out from South Parade Pier Southsea approx 1951 to 1953. Ferry Princess and a launch also in view. Suberb Condition & a wonderful painting. Kindly donated by Tony Horn
RESERVE: £100
Lot 26
Combined Tail / Steamer Tickets. All in excellent condition. Set of 9 very rare and unusual (normally collected) North Wales Combined Train & Steamer Tickets. LNW & CLC e.g. 3rd Menai Bridge to Lancaster Castle Fare 25/3 (One pre-grouping ticket alone in this set is worth the reserve!) Kindly donated by John Thomas
RESERVE: £25 Lot 27
Selection of 5 (B&W) Reprint 1830’s Admiralty Charts Tenby & Caldy Island Lundy 1833 Porlock, Lynmouth, Watchet & Minehead all four squared on one page. The River Parrett Barnstaple & Bideford Creeks. Would look nice framed
Kindly donated by Alec Lewis
RESERVE: £20
Lot 28
Classic Wooden Model of PS Crested Eagle. Excellent condition. 26” An unusual Wooden Model, date unknown but provenance was that it was given to Nigel by Mr Clifton Smith – Cox MD of P&A Campbell. Does not include stand. Kindly Donated by Nigel Coombes
RESERVE: £150
The mv Balmoral Fund Ltd. has been given by Mr John Bird a superb collection of sailings handbills from the 1960s, the era when the motor-vessel St. Trillo (originally built in 1936 for the Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Company) was taken over by Messrs. P. & A. Campbell Ltd., of Bristol.
Between 1963 and 1969, St. Trillo sailed along the north Wales coast, and around Anglesey, as a White Funnel Fleet ship and ran from Liverpool and Llandudno and Menai Bridge – just as our own mv Balmoral revived again in 2015, after she was saved : the old White Funnel Fleet was once just as celebrated in north Wales as well as south Wales and the west of England.
Our own Balmoral continued to visit north Wales in the seventies, and kept alive the White Funnel Fleet tradition after the older St. Trillo had passed into history, and the sailings that Balmoral carried out in the intervening decades followed in most seasons right until 2007, often in partnership with the paddle-steamer Waverley in the 1990s and 2000s, until Llandudno Pier was damaged and brought sailings from this supreme Welsh resort – with the longest pier in Wales – to an end. But Balmoral has been brought back to the north-west, and to north Wales, where she is much appreciated.
These old handbills give a wonderful picture of the White Funnel Fleet north Wales coast sailings back in the sixties, the era of the Beatles. They are eminently suitable for being framed, come in lots of varying sizes and odd sizes, and whilst many are in the established White Funnel Fleet format of blue type on cream-coloured paper, some are printed on a wide range of bold and pastel colours. All are in good or excellent condition, and describe sailing times and fares. Most are covering the sailings as from either Llandudno Pier, or as from Menai Bridge Pier, with some bills listing more occasional sailings (principally around Anglesey) as from Caernarvon Pier (as it was then spelt), and a few are for Liverpool.
NB For serious transport collectors each of the Lots of handbills (Lot’s 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 & 40 are believed to be complete, for each of the seasons 1963-1969 Inc.
Lot 29 All Season 1963 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel St. Trillo, north Wales Large handbill / Llandudno / June 1963 - Large handbill / Llandudno / July-September 1963 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / 01 July- 12 September 1963 Small handbill / Menai Bridge / June 1963 Small handbill / Caernarfon / Saturday excursions, July-August 1963 Pink handbill / Llandudno / Menai Straits and Anglesey excns, Thursday coach tours Pink handbill / Llandudno / St. Trillo Trio Musical Evenings, Sundays Small handbill / Llandudno / Round Anglesey, Saturdays 10, 24 August 1963 Other/1963 season Crosville / Coach+Steamer pamphlet / Prestatyn, Rhyl, Abergele to Llandudno + boat BR(LMR) / Rail+Steamer pamphlet / Local N.Wales coast stns to Llandudno+boat Reserve £25
Lots 30, 31 & 32
Lot 30 North Wales LARGE poster, White Funnel Fleet (Bristol Channel, “empty belly”), Overprinted with summarized day-by-day twin-screw MV St. Trillo sailings- Llandudno (whole season)
Lot 31 North Wales LARGE poster, White Funnel Fleet (Bristol Channel, “empty belly”), Overprinted with summarized day-by- day twin-screw MV St. Trillo sailings, Menai Bridge
Lot 32 North Wales LARGE poster, White Funnel Fleet (Bristol Channel, “empty belly”), Overprinted with summarized day-by- day twin-screw MV St. Trillo sailings Menai Bridge, with additional Saturday sailings added
NB these three lots are in impeccable mint condition, and very rare indeed Reserve £20 Each
Lot 33 All Season 1964 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel St. Trillo, north Wales Large handbill / Llandudno / 4 June-14 September 1964 Large handbill / Llandudno / 4 June-14 September 1964, Saturday excns. Added Large handbill / Llandudno / Whitsuntide 17-21 May 1964 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / Whitsuntide 17-21 May 1964 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / 4 June-14 September 1964 Small handbill / Llandudno / Mons & Thurs Coach Tour Anglesey Small handbill / Llandudno / Saturday cruises round Anglesey Small handbill / Caernarvon / Saturday cruises round Anglesey Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Evening Cruises (non-date specific) Small handbill / Llandudno / Live Music Cruises, Sunday Evenings Other/1964 season Crosville / Coach + Steamer pamphlet / via Llandudno + boat to IoM, Tues & Weds.
Reserve £25
Lot 34 Season 1965 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel St. Trillo, north Wales
Large handbill / Llandudno / 24 May-19 September 1965 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / 24 May-19 September 1965 Small handbill / Llandudno / Last Trips of Season 20-26 September 1965 Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Last Trips of Season 21-26 September 1965 Small handbill / Liverpool / Sailings to Menai Bridge (Tues) Anglesey coast (SuTho0) Small handbill / Caernarvon / Saturday excursions, 4 dates in 1965 Small handbill / Llandudno / Live Music Cruises, Sunday Evenings Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Evening Cruises (non-date specific) Small handbill / Llandudno / Mons & Thurs Coach Tour Menai Straits/Anglesey Small handbill / Llandudno / Saturday cruises round Anglesey, 4 dates in 1965 Other/1965 season IoM Steam Packet, Liverpool to Llandudno excursions. IoM Steam Packet, Llandudno to Douglas IoM excursions.
Reserve £25
Lot 35 Season 1966 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel St. Trillo, north Wales
Large handbill / Llandudno / Early season 5-22 May 1966 Large handbill / Llandudno / Season 24 May – 27 September 1966 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / Season 24 May-27 September 1966 Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Thursday Evenings cheap Cruises (non-date specific) Small handbill / Llandudno / Sea and Coach tours of Anglesey (MThO) Small handbill / Llandudno / Live Music Cruises, Sunday Evenings Small handbill / Llandudno / Saturday cruises Season 1966round Anglesey, 4 dates in 1966 Small handbill / Caernarvon / Saturday excursions, 4 dates in 1966 Small handbill / Liverpool / Sailings to Menai Bridge, 2 dates, 31 July, 16 Aug 1966. Small handbill / Liverpool / Sailings to Menai Bridge, 2 dates, early season 1966. Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Early season sailings 6-22 May 1966. Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Additional sailing 11 June 1966. Other/1966 season (all small/medium standard IoMSPCo. fairly old-fashioned handbills) IoM Steam Packet, Liverpool to Llandudno day-trip excursions (generic) IoM Steam Packet, Liverpool to Llandudno day-trip excursions all dates IoM Steam Packet, Llandudno to Douglas IoM excursions, all dates.
Reserve £25
Lot 36 Season 1967 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel St. Trillo, north Wales V. small handbill / Llandudno / Easter Holidays sailings 25-28 March 1967 Medium handbill / Llandudno / 5-20 May 1967 Large handbill / Llandudno / 20 May – 30 June 1967 Large handbill / Llandudno / July 1967 Large handbill / Llandudno / August 1967 Large handbill / Llandudno / 01 September- 01 October 1967 V. small handbill / Menai Bridge / Easter Holidays sailings 25-28 March 1967 Medium handbill / Menai Bridge / 7-19 May 1967 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / 22 May – 30 June 1967 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / July 1967 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / August 1967 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / 01 September- 01 October 1967 Medium handbill / Caernarvon / All sailing dates in 1967 Medium handbill / Liverpool / Liverpool to Llandudno by St. Trillo in 1967 Medium handbill / Aberystwyth coach tour to Anglesey + St. Trillo in 1967 Small handbill / Llandudno / Live Music Cruises, Sunday Evenings Other/1967 season (small/medium standard IoMSPCo. fairly old-fashioned handbills) IoM Steam Packet, Liverpool to Douglas IoM excursions, all dates. Reserve £25
Lot 37 Season 1968 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel St. Trillo, or Queen of the Isles, North Wales Medium handbill / Llandudno / Early season St. Trillo 5-24 May 1968 Large handbill / Llandudno / Queen of the Isles or St. Trillo Main season 1968 Medium handbill / Llandudno / Queen of the Isles 8-12 September 1968 Small handbill / Menai Bridge / St. Trillo 5-24 May 1968 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / Q. of the Isles or St. Trillo 30 May – 12 Sept. 1968 Medium handbill / Menai Bridge / Queen of the Isles last trips 8-12 September 1968 Medium handbill / Caernarvon / All sailing dates in 1968 Medium handbill / Cardiff to Menai Bridge by Q.of the Isles 29 May 1968 Medium handbill / Liverpool to Lancs Coast by Q.of the Isles 3 x Sats in 1968 Other/1968 season (small/medium standard IoMSPCo. fairly old-fashioned handbills) IoM Steam Packet, Llandudno to IoM day-trip excursions (all dates 1968) IoM Steam Packet, Llandudno to IoM day-trip excursions (reissue Jul-Sept 1968) IoM Steam Packet, Liverpool to Llandudno day-trips, all dates Jun-Sept 1968
Reserve £25 Lot 38 Not connected to north Wales / Very Special and unique for the South Coast!
A linked set of 3 medium-sized bills for Queen of the Isles “proving run” Bristol Channel around Lands’ End to South Coast, spanning 14-15 September 1968, all differently coloured Barry and Weymouth to Dover Bournemouth to Eastbourne Eastbourne to Hastings Reserve £25
Lot 39 Season 1969 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel St. Trillo, north Wales Large handbill / Llandudno / Whole season 15 June-16 September 1969 Large handbill / Menai Bridge / Whole season 15 June-16 September 1969 Medium handbill / Caernarvon / Whole season, and Round Anglesey sailings 1969 Small handbill / Llandudno/ to view Liner Kungsholm Sat. 17 May 1969 Other/1969 season (small/medium standard IoMSPCo. fairly old-fashioned handbills) IoM Steam Packet, Llandudno to IoM day-trip excursions (May-Sept 1969) IoM Steam Packet, Llandudno to IoM day-trip excursions, re-issue (Aug-Sept 1969)
Reserve £25
Lot 40 And from after the era of St. Trillo, which ran from 1963-1969, when Balmoral began to make very rare visits to north Wales: Seasons 1971/2 White Funnel Fleet sailings handbills by t/s motor-vessel Balmoral, north Wales Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Short cruise Anglesey Coast, towards Red Wharf Bay, Sunday 16 May 1971 Small handbill / Menai Bridge / Short cruise Anglesey Coast, towards Red Wharf Bay, Sunday 21 May 1972 Coastal Cruising Association charter sailing from Liverpool, Llandudno & Menai Bridge, Saturday 15 May 1971, folded descriptive leaflet, by Balmoral
Reserve £25
Lots 29 to 40 all very kindly donated by Mr John Bird and catalogued for this auction by Mike Tedstone.
Lot 41
Very rare and special group of five handbills.
(1) WF MVB Grand day Trip, Swansea, Mumbles &* Coombe to New Quay 3/6/1973 (2) WF MVB Mini Cruise To St Ives & Isles of Scilly 17/10/77 (3) PS Bristol Queen Grand Day Long Cruise Welsh Posrts to Tenby 10/9/1967 – did not happen as she had broken down! (4) Amendements to Sails Sept 67 After BQ had failed, (not pictured) (5) Save MVB restoration from Dundee Jon Holyoak appeal 1983
Donated by Alec Lewis
Reserve £25
Lot 42
Unique Money Cannot Buy MV Balmoral experience:
Courtesy of Captain David Howie. Visit to the bridge by two people on the trip of their choice*."The winner bidder will receive a guided tour of the Bridge from Captain Howie. A fully explanation will be given on the equipment used in the safe navigation and manoeuvring of the ship. The winner bidder will also learn how the ship is steered and will have the opportunity to sound the whistle." ** Subject to successful bidder purchasing tickets and prior bookings / confirmation made. Subject to sea & safety conditions and Captains / Officer of the Watch discretion on the day. Reserve £150