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Wow, incredible, thank you so much for sharing your experiences. It's also heartwarming to hear that even after all you went through you still love the sea 👍

Great stories, and lovely to see the photos too. 👍

More great stories, thanks 👍

A great insight into a disappeared way of life. Thank you 👍

Thanks for sharing some fascinating stories gents, and what a great way to keep that history alive. 👍

Please get my Uncle Malcolm to do more of these. It is like watching my Grandad come alive again!❤

Kathleen Garnham was born in Essex and when her parents moved here they became involved in the Golf Club at The Naze. Kathleen Garnham was one of Britain’s leading amateur golfers prior to WW2. Her family were founding members of the Naze Golf Club where her father was Chairman and Mother Ladies Captain. She was born in 1904 and by the time she was 27 years old named golfer of the year in 1931 by fellow women English golfers. In that same year she featured as one of the country's leading Amateur Ladies Golfers in a special edition of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine. She played tournaments all over the country taking on other leading women golfers in singles matches and doubles. She was a member of the successful British team which toured the United States in 1933 where she won that year's Florida State Championship, the Sedgefield Medal Tournament and reached the final of the South Atlantic Tournament. Kathleen Garnham was a member of the English Ladies Golf Union team which won the International matches played at Ranelagh Golf Club, West London in 1934 and 1935. She also won the French Open in 1937. On Sunday 6th August 1939 Kathleen Garnham won the Belgium women’s championship beating Mme J de Meulemester (Belgium) by 5&4 in the 36-hole final. This would prove to be an auspicious occasion because a few weeks later World War Two began.