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Mark Steeple Oral History Transcript
Transcription of an oral history recording of interviewee Mark Steeple
Mark Steeple: Beyond the White Breakers
A portrait of Mark Steeple off the Dymchurch coast, by Oliver Parkin
'You made sure you always drove your car around with the board on the roof': The surfing scene in Sandgate in the early 1980s.
In this excerpt, Mark describes his first (homemade!) wetsuit, the nascent surfing and windsurfing scene in the Folkestone area in the early 1980s, and the chauvinism around surfing and windsurfing at this time. (Transcript attached.)
Windsurfing off the east Kent coast, c. 1982
Photographs of Mark Steeple windsurfing off the east Kent coast (possibly Sandgate) in c. 1982.
Surfing in Folkestone, 2010
A photograph of Mark Steeple surfing in Folkestone in 2010
Eshe Canoe Club, Ashford
A 1977 Kentish Express article covering the rise of Eshe Canoe Club in Ashford. Club member Mark Steeple, then fourteen years old, is mentioned for his success in the 1977 Dover regatta.
Mark Steeple Oral History Summary
Summary of an Oral History Recording with interviewee Mark Steeple
Mark Steeple Oral History Recording
An oral history interview with Mark Steeple