The Royal Burnham Yacht Club - The Club's sailing activities include inshore racing in the estuary of the river Crouch and offshore racing on the East Coast and the North Sea, as well as the South Coast and elsewhere around the world.
The Crouch Yacht Club - Includes newsletter, race and social programmes, Crouch Regatta and Burnham Week.
Mangapps Railway Museum - Working museum established on a 390 acre farm featuring a ¾ mile standard gauge passenger carrying line, with restored stations, signal boxes and ancillary equipment. Includes description of services and contact details
Corinthian Otters - Club for youth sailing. Includes sailing programmes and event information.
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-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports
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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
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Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
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- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
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