Most of these are photographs that were found in a leather suitcase that had been under four feet of water for several days when my parent’s house was flooded in 1993. They were dried out but, needless to say, they are in not in their original state. I have put them together in small galleries for those who are interested in the history of the Westcountry trading ketches and also the history of Bude.
Some of my grandfather’s photographs had notes written on the back.
The last two of the photographs on this page are dated 10th September 1936. They show the entrance to Bude impassable because of the sea running. Two months later, on 24th November 1936, ‘Ceres’ foundered in Bideford Bay, somewhere off Baggy Point. She was there because a sea was running on the North Cornish coast and the entrance to Bude was impassable. According to the reports, the sea was comfortable in Bideford Bay. A report of the loss of ‘Ceres’ can be found here.
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Ceres leaving Appledore
Bude entrance – 10th September 1936. Ceres and Agnes unable to enter
Ceres, Agnes and Fireflash unable to enter Bude – 10th September 1936
WW Petherick & Sons’ prize carthorse, Bude Show
WW Petherick & Sons’ carthorse, Lower Wharf, Bude
WW Petherick & Sons’ carthorse, Lower Wharf, Bude
Beyond Steeple Point 
Lovely to have found this site. I think we must be related, as my father was last of his line of Pethericks of Bude, all of whom (including my father) were seafarers. I have a fabulous old sketch of the Ceres which belonged to him.