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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now July 21, 2010
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum,Flixton, nr. Bungay Family Fun DayPaper planes contest,amateur radio,Simulator “Flights”,Jive sessions,nostalgia stalls,dressing up,live jazz,and more… Sunday 25th July 201010am – 4pm Contact: 01986 896644 Admission free but donations welcomed! Ian HancockN&SAM – Flixton See more on www.aviationmuseum.net
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Business Editorials / Then & Now / Waveney Valley July 21, 2010
Floods of East Anglia 1912 – 1953 Your Region on Film DVDs January 1953: the sea surges above the coast, flooding whole areas of East Anglia. It is the worst disaster in peacetime Britain. Freak weather has caused havoc in East Anglia, drowning hundreds of people and sweeping away homes and livelihoods. Using rare, original […]
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Secret Confessions?In the 1960s my friend Charlie and I lived and played in Bungay. One Hot Summer, Bungay was invaded by a sect of Hells Angels, loads of them, great big hairy guys on roaring loud motorbikes. They toured up and down the streets, some set up camp at the castle hills. They stayed for […]
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The new BFI restoration of Cavalcanti’s ‘Went the Day Well’ opens 9 July 2010. To book tickets, visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_sou… Cavalcanti’s wartime film, based on a story by Graham Greene, still unsettles, even shocks, with its subversive, almost surreal spectacle of a cosy English village under Nazi attack in the Second World War. Disguised as British […]
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Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk July 1, 2010
c.1925 Loddon PostmillStood in Mill Road and was known as Pye’s Mill. c.1885 Loddon SmockmillSometimes known as Chapman’s Mill stood in Mill Loke and was demolished c.1904 News from the past . . .To be SOLDA Very good WATER-MILL, WIND-MILL, DWELLING-HOUSE & about nine Acres of Land at Loddon in Norfolk. The situation of the […]
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Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith. Diss, St Nicholas Street c1955
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‘Nursery Island’ is a delightful nature documentary shot on the Farne Islands. Its director, Mary Field, faced a difficult task over half a century ago. Where now we have rich colour and stealthy, dextrous cameras, then, as quickly becomes apparent, much of the narrative had to be carried by the voiceover as the film switches […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now June 24, 2010
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum,Flixton, nr. BungayOpening of the Ken Wallis HallbyWing Commander Ken Wallis Who will then talk about the Wallbro Monoplane on the Centenary of its first flight. Sunday 4 July 20102.00pm Contact:01986 896644 Admission free but donations welcomed! Ian HancockN&SAM – Flixton See more on www.aviationmuseum.net
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Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith. Lowestoft, the Sands 1887
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / exhibitions / Then & Now June 19, 2010
Diss Museum picked up its third award this year at a ceremony in Swaffham. Last year’s Tom Paine Festival gained the East of England Market Towns Environment & Culture Award, previously won for Diss by the 2004 Skelton Festival. Each category winner was asked to give a presentation. Museum manager Basil Abbott and Diana Courtman […]
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This classic documentary about the British at leisure arose from director Humphrey Jennings’ work as one of the founders of the Mass Observation movement (still extant to this day). This clip has long been described as featuring a ‘kazoo band’, though their buzzing plastic horns seem to be closer to the modern vuvuzela, as controversially […]
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Arthur Melbourne Cooper’s silent animation showing a boy’s dream of his toys coming to life uses a live action framing device for the dream sequence which uses stop motion techniques to animate a child’s toys. For more information on this film visit http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/i… NCN-Cantors Theatre School
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Business Editorials / Then & Now / Waveney Valley June 16, 2010
Your Region on Film DVDs Norwich in the Fifties Norwich, 1950: there are bombsites, rationing, shops on every corner, red telephone boxes and Austin Sevens. The cattle market is still held at the Castle and the ring road does not exist. Take a journey back in time and discover the story of the decade that […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now June 6, 2010
What: Beccles & DistrictDiecast and Collectors’ Clubwith table-top displaysWhen:Sunday 13 June 201010.00 – 5.00Where:Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation MuseumFlixton Free admissionContact: 01986 896644 See more on www.aviationmuseum.net
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Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk June 3, 2010
c.1910 Harleston Jay’s Green Towermill Harleston towermill stood on the corner of Candlers Lane, Jay’s Green, Harleston. The five storey mill had 3 pairs of French burr stones that were powered by 4 double shuttered patent sails, each with 8 bays of 3 shutters and 1 bay of 4 shutters. The boat shaped cap held […]
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The Stresses of Modern Life. In these days of uncertainty it seems that almost every one of us, both young and old, suffer from some kind of stress. Care must be taken not to confuse it with the normal worries that are all part of life and without which there would be no incentive to […]