It happened at the Jeckells Chandlers marine supply shop in Bridge Road, Oulton Broad, sometime between 5pm on Tuesday and 6.30am on Wednesday. The store - which was established in 1832 and ...

But now Brian Saunders has finally called it a day on his incredible decades-long career at Hoveton-based Jeckells the Sailmakers. Mr Saunders, 70, was just 15 when he first walked through the firm’s ...

Brian Saunders has reached his 50th anniversary at Jeckells the Sailmakers. Picture: Jeckells the Sailmakers (Image: Jeckells the Sailmakers) Now, after rising up through the ranks to take on the role ...

A long-serving sailmaker who has only ever had one day off has retired after 55 years in the job. When foreman Brian Saunders, 70, first started working at Jeckells Sailmakers in Wroxham in ...

It happened at the Jeckells Chandlers marine supply shop in Bridge Road, Oulton Broad, sometime between 5pm on Tuesday and 6.30am on Wednesday.

He began his career as a fresh-faced 15-year-old on April 8 1968 when Cecil Jeckells, the grandfather of current managing director Chris Jeckells, was at the helm.

Jeckells has also recently taken on an employee on the South Coast. While Chris does get up at the crack of dawn still to travel around the country to measure sails, having someone based on the ...

Twice. Jeckells, brand management director within the Higher Education division of John Wiley and Sons, applied to do an Online MBA with the University of Birmingham; by the time the programme started ...