Wroxham Bridge - Backwards!

It may have been done before, but it has never been filmed. Watch the classic wooden Broads cruiser - Broad Ambition - as Charlie Griffin, her skipper takes us through Wroxham Bridge on the Norfolk Broads, backwards!





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