1955 - Colonel ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill surfed the ‘Severn Bore’ in Gloucestershire on a homemade 14 foot surfboard

In 1955 a true British character Colonel ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill surfed the ‘Severn Bore’ in Gloucestershire on a homemade 14 foot surfboard – thought to be a world first riding a tidal ‘wave’ in a river.