Apprenticeship lineage
Thames boat-building
The teacher-to-student record of thames boat-building as the archive has identified it. 4 records in the register.
The line
Nodes that carry an archive ID link to their subject page. The tree reads top-down from the earliest teacher to the most recent apprentice.
- Horace Clarke's Boatyard
- Michael Dennett
- Stephen Dennett
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- Walton Yacht
- Michael Dennett
- Stephen Dennett
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- George Wilsons Yard
- Michael Dennett
- Stephen Dennett
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All records
Every apprenticeship record in this lineage, listed in sequence. Each carries a permanent AP-NNNN archive ID and is citable in its own right.
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AP-0006 age 15, 1960s Horace Clarke's Boatyard → Michael Dennett
Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey
Michael Dennett began in the trade at Horace Clarke's Boatyard in Sunbury at the age of 15, starting as a general assistant. Horace Clarke's was one of the long-established Surrey Thames yards; the beginning of the apprenticeship chain that would carry Michael through two further yards before he went self-employed in his early twenties.
Source: Dennett Boat Builders website (OUR STORY)
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AP-0007 mid 1960s Walton Yacht → Michael Dennett
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
Michael Dennett was offered an apprenticeship at Walton Yacht after his beginning at Horace Clarke's. The second stage of a three-yard apprenticeship chain that moved him through the principal Surrey Thames boat-building workshops of the period.
Source: Dennett Boat Builders website (OUR STORY)
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AP-0008 late 1960s George Wilsons Yard → Michael Dennett
Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey
Michael Dennett completed his apprenticeship at George Wilsons Yard in Sunbury, returning to the town where he had begun. By 22 he was self-employed, initially working from the back of a van; he later rented a shed and, in 1988, opened the Dennett Boat Builders yard at Laleham with his son Stephen.
Source: Dennett Boat Builders website (OUR STORY)
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AP-0009 informal from age 2; formal from 15; partner from 1988 Michael Dennett → Stephen Dennett
Dennett Boat Builders, Laleham, Chertsey
Michael Dennett has taught his son Stephen boat-building since Stephen was two years old (in Michael's own description, only mildly exaggerated). Stephen was obsessed with boats as a child and spent every available hour at his father's side. He left school at 15 to work full-time in the trade. Five years later, in 1988, the pair opened the Dennett yard at Laleham together, where the partnership has continued. The Dennett line is among the clearest documented two-generation English craft apprenticeships.
Source: Dennett Boat Builders website (FATHER & SON)