Posted by Peter Roche on October 06, 2013 at 23:08:39 user PRoche.
In Reply to: Re: Ransome on the East Coast? posted by Roger Wardale on October 05, 2013 at 00:34:47:
The foregoing observations by Roger, Peter and Owen should serve as a potent reminder to us all when criticising or attempting to correct other peoples accounts or memories.
This happened to me in June last year when an individual paid a visit to The Museum of Tbe Broads in Stalham. On their return home he/she felt obliged to put pen to paper to the Museum in an atempt to correct some of the details that I had placed alongside the Northern River Pirate's Flag, and to go further, to question its veracity, despite the details supplied to me by Brian Field and Philippa Wells. At no time did this person contact me.
When I was entrusted with the Flag by Brian Field in April 1997 with the instructions 'that it should not disappear into someone's private archive but be put into a place where as many people as possible could view it' I took that responsibility very seriously before deciding that The Museum of The Broads was the best place for it because it would probably have AR's approval, and when Philippa Wells later told me of the Flag's provenance, that she was present when AR gave the Flag to her parents, I obviously had no reason to doubt her word, but this individual suggested it was a copy.
The odd thing about this is this person never questioned the provenance of the pike in the glass case next to the Flag; the pike is a fraud!!!