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Business Editorials / Then & Now / Waveney Valley July 27, 2011
Your Region on Film DVDs Suffolk Past – The County our Parents Knew Suffolk, 1913: most people work on the farms. The school is in the village, the toilet is a bucket and there is no electricity or running water. Within sixty years, the County will change beyond recognition. Step back in time and discover […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now July 26, 2011
Waveney Valley and District Preservation Society with working engines, bygones, RMS Titanic models… Sunday 31st July 2011 10am – 5pm at Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, nr. Bungay Many of us are fascinated by how engines work, old and new. Graduate Schools Online is a resource with information about engineering programs of study. Refreshments, […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now July 22, 2011
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, nr. Bungay Family Fun Day Paper Plane competition; whacky science experiments; vintage military radio demos; simulator “flights”; stalls; Swing dance sessions; flypast by two Spitfires Sunday 24th July 2011 10am – 5pm Contact: 01986 896644 Free admission See more on www.aviationmuseum.net Kicking Man Taekwondo T-shirts and Hoodies
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now July 4, 2011
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, nr. Bungay SSAFA – Forces HelpSuffolk Branch 125 Anniversary event www.ssafa.org.uk Sunday 10 July 2011 10am – 5pm RAF participation, Ex-Military Land Rovers, Swing Dancers, Spitfire flypast Refreshments, bricabrac stalls, and usual museum attractions. Contact: 01986 896644 Admission free but donations welcomed! Ian Hancock N&SAM – Flixton See […]
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Travel back to an intrepid age of aviation with this early newsreel, as famous pilot H.J.D. Astley makes an ill-starred attempt to take off from the North Wales coast at Pwllheli. Astley takes it all in good spirit; the son of a millionaire, he had been a racing driver before taking up flying. The woman […]
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It is a long-established tradition that the Town Mayor and Councillors take a turn on one of the fairground rides after the opening of Trinity Fair where the Town Charter is read. In 1920s the roundabout was the preferred ride. Today it is the dodgems! Filmed by Barrett Jenkins in the late 1920s. For more […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now June 20, 2011
MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line ANOTHER “FIRST” FROM THE MNR MNR ANNOUNCES MIDWEEK STEAM SERVICES On :- Wednesday 22nd and Wednesday 29th June Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th July Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th July Ex Great Western Railway Steam Locomotive King Edward II, no. 6023, will haul 4 round passenger trips between […]
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Food and Drink / Then & Now June 18, 2011
1940’s Hangar Dance Ellough Airfield, Beccles, Suffolk 24th & 25th June 2011 8.00 till late (11.45) Sold out in five hours for the Saturday night in 2010!!! So be quick not to miss out on this must attend event, now in its 11th year and well established on the 40’s circuit. Music from the ‘Super […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now June 16, 2011
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, nr. Bungay Static display by East Anglia Fighting Vehicle Group www.eafvg.org.uk Sunday 26 June 2011 10am – 5pm Plus usual museum attractions, refreshments and bricabrac stalls. Contact: 01986 896644 Admission free but donations welcomed! Ian Hancock N&SAM – Flixton See more on www.aviationmuseum.net Can we DRAW you in? Logo […]
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This Topical Budget film shows women taking over men’s roles during WWI for the Women’s National Land Service Corps – the equivalent of the Land Army in WWII. For more information about Topical Budget newsreels, visit:www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/583128
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now June 8, 2011
MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line KING EDWARD II’s SUCCESSFUL FIRST WEEKEND For the first time since its withdrawal in 1962, King Edward II, No. 6023, the [ex] Great Western Railway’s most powerful passenger express 4-6-0 locomotive, has worked fare paying passenger trains over about 190 miles, without problem. Mid Norfolk Railway’s […]
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The LOFT at Bridge House – Detached apartment in Waveney Valley
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Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk / Waveney Valley June 6, 2011
Earsham Mill 1793 Earsham Mill Earsham Mill dates from Saxon times and adjoins ancient earthworks. It was a brick built mill with a pantile roof. Earsham and Elllingham are the only two mills on the Waveney that are officially in Norfolk. The mill was rebuilt by R.H. Clarke on the existing site in 1862. It […]
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Norfolk Broads / Then & Now / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk June 3, 2011
Polkey’s Mill at Reedham Ferry, next to the River Yare,
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now May 31, 2011
MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY PRESERVATION TRUST The Wymondham-Dereham-North Elmham-County School Line NEWS FROM THE MNR Co-incident with the visit of the ex-Great Western Railway’s most powerful 4-6-0 passenger express locomotive, King Edward II, to the MNR between 4th June and 17th July…….. MNR has arranged the loan of the historic London&North Eastern Railway’s Beavertail observation […]
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One of British Transport Films’ relatively early travelogues, ‘East Anglian Holiday’ was shot in Technicolor. Its narration combines clipped patrician received pronunciation with occasional interludes delivered in a strong local accent. In King’s Lynn, the region’s unique geology is commemorated in the architecture of the Guildhall, whose flints were originally sponges growing underwater. In Great […]