Britain's First Big Wave Surfer Lewis Rosenberg With His Wooden Surfboard (PICTURES)

Pictures: Britain's First Big Wave Surfer With His Homemade Wooden Surfboard

Rare footage of Britain's first big wave surfer has been uncovered an 80-year-old film, which had been stashed in attic.

It is the earliest known image of British stand-up surfing and it shows Lewis Rosenberg hitting the beach in 1929 to catch some waves with his home-made solid wood eight foot surf board.

One of his friends filmed him on the beach at Newquay in Cornwall after he had traveled up their from London, lugging his board with him on the steam train.

Rosenberg's board was stolen from his London home, but his daughter had kept the film in her attic. She has now donated it to the Museum of British Surfing in Devon.

Founder of the Museum Peter Robinson explained how 'inventive' Rosenberg had been for creating the surfboard with no British references from which to draw:

"Lewis and his friends appear to have seen standing up surfing on a newsreel from Australia and just thought, 'we would like to have a go at that'".

The entire footage of Rosenberg's historic day out is two hours long and becomes increasingly risque. On the deserted beach, Rosenberg and his friends begin riding the waves naked and fashion some attractive hula costumes out of seaweed.

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