‘Jack Cates – The Norfolk Wherryman’ – Dale Wiseman

Author and social historian, Dale Wiseman BA, returns to the Maltings to present the life story of the last professional wherryman, Jack Cates, who skippered his own wherry as a 15-year-old teenager with his younger brother. Jack left the water in 1935, and during the second world war enlisted in the Royal Navy, when as a coxswain he was involved in the Normandy landings. In 1949, Jack was invited to skipper the Albion, a wherry which was rescued and restored after a successful fundraising campaign by Lady Mayhew of Felthorpe Hall.

Non-members are welcome – tickets are £5.00 and are available from the Maltings Box Office.