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GEORGE BAINES WATER FOLLIES GREAT YARMOUTH 1959

Aqua Belles-Rita Stone 1st left anymore names please.

Acrobats any names please.

Aqua Belles & Chelsea Pensioner- Rita Stone seated 1st right-anymore names please.

Rita Stone 2nd right anymore names please

Aqua Belles Rita Stone right -Heather ? 2nd right-More names please.

Aqua Belles Rita Stone any names please.

Aqua Belles-Perry Blake & Roy Walsh-Any names please

Aqua Belle Rita Stone 2nd right & Bob Bradbourne-Any names please.

Aqua Goon!- Les Jameson.

Peanuts The Clown.

High Board Diver Perry Blake & ? Name please

Stunt Diver Dennis Burnip

Aqua Belle Rita Stone

Aqua Belle Rita Stone & Les Jameson

Aqua Belle Rita Stone

Vera Baines Aqua Belle & married to George Baines.

The Aqua Goons! Dennis Burnip any names please

Aqua Belle Rita Burnip formerly Stone with Daniel Burnip

High Board Diver Perry Blake & Me Daniel Burnip 1959

High Board Diver Perry Blake from signed photo given to Aqua Belle Rita Stone

Stunt Diver Dennis Burnip & Aqua Belle Rita Stone soon tobe Rita Burnip & Acrobat ? at Marine Parade Great Yarmouth.

The Aqua Goons ! Perry Blake 2nd left- Dennis Burnip 3rd right , more names please.

Aqua Belle Rita Stone & Heather ? with actor Terry Thomas

Stunt Diver Dennis Burnip

Stunt Divers -Names please

Aqua Belle Avril ? Name please

By Daniel Burnip

These are photos belonging to my mum Rita Stone who was an aqua belle in the George Baines Water Follies Great Yarmouth. If you would like to view more of Rita's photos I have included some on Just Giving In Memory of Rita Burnip in aid of Born Free Foundation, including rare video footage of 1959 Great Yarmouth Water Follies featuring Rita and high board diver Perry Blake etc, if those of you who remember Rita may like to donate to this fund via Just Giving with a secure on line payment.

If you have any George Baines Water Follies photos from Great Yarmouth shows and you'd like me to add them to this collection please let me know, my email d.burnip@hotmail.com

All photos have copyright and at no means should be copied.

Many Thanks for your interest.

Daniel Burnip.

This page was added by Daniel Burnip on 04/06/2014.

Comments about this page

In the summer of 1959 I had a swimmers season ticket for Great Yarmouth Swimming Pool and remember in the afternoons the deep end would be roped off for the Water Follies. I saw the show every day. The synchronised swimmers, the man on the bike falling in and then being pulled along with a rope, the dives and of course Perry Blake's death defying dive into the pool. It's all in my mind like it was yesterday.

By Paul Godfrey
On 25/11/2014

i recognise 2 of the Goons - Teddy Northcott and Maurice Grover

By Jan burton
On 12/02/2015

These are amazing! Thank you!!!

By Emily - Brooklyn Synchro Club
On 29/04/2016

The acrobat in the pic with your mum and dad balancing on the deckchair is my dad Eric Smith, still around 90 yrs next yr! He is also the goon 3rd from the left. Will look and see if I have any pics these are amazing.

By michele smith
On 22/10/2020

Hello Michelle, Thanks for adding your comments to this page. It would be great to see any pictures you may have and also to hear any memories your dad may have to share via you of his times with the Water Follies.

By Colin Stott
On 22/10/2020

Hi Michele, Thank you for adding your comment to my page with the info of your dad Eric Smith Acrobat and Aqua Goon!! Just one more Aqua Goon name needed now. If you have any photos or memories of Great Yarmouth Aqua Shows please forward them to me @d.burnip@hotmail.com and i will gladly include them for you!! Many Thanks

By Daniel Burnip
On 07/01/2022

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