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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now July 17, 2009
Waveney Valley & District Preservation Society Members EventWorking Engines, Agricultural Machineryand BygonesSunday 2nd August 200910.00am to 5.00pm held atNorfolk & Suffolk Aviation MuseumFlixton, Nr Bungay Contact: 01986 896644 Free Admission but donations encouraged See more onwww.wvdps.co.ukorwww.aviationmuseum.net
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Short of selling state secrets to the Hun, there are few crimes more treacherous than buying meat on the black market if this stern reprimand to wartime housewives is to be believed. After ‘preying on the body of a community at war’, greedy Mrs. Wilson (Irene Handl at her dour best) gets a shock when […]
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This fascinating film provides an authentic view of London’s East End from over a hundred years ago. A struggling tide of flat-capped men flow down Middlesex Street – better known by its unofficial name, Petticoat Lane – on a Sunday morning, as they have for generations. This most Cockney of London markets caters to the […]
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The Topical Budget newsreel here presents a novelty ‘story’ that would appear to have no greater purpose than to enable audiences to ogle the ‘brighter Blackpool beauties’ in their knitted swimming costumes. There’s quite a lot of sliding and diving, but mercifully little bombing or petting to worry the lifeguard. (Robin Baker) To find out […]
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We can date this footage of the Elephant and Castle in South East London precisely to 1926 from an advert for a whist drive at the Embassy Hall, Camberwell. The clip opens with a view of St. Paul’s over the river and the lights of Piccadilly at night before crossing over to south London where […]
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Claude Friese-Greene’s ‘The Open Road’ is available to buy on DVD at http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/… This extract comes from Claude Friese-Greene’s ‘The Open Road’ – originally filmed in 1925/6 and now re-edited and digitally restored by the BFI National Archive. Britain seen in colour for the first time was heralded as a great technical advance for the […]
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Archaeologists to revisit Beccles marshes this summer Archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and Suffolk County Council, will return to a 2,000-year-old site on Beccles marshes this summer, and will be undertaking the excavation from late July 2009. Three long rows of wooden posts inserted into the ground were unearthed while flood defence work was […]
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This film is showing as part of ‘The Big Smoke: Films from a Lost London 1896-1945’, a touring programme of films from the BFI National Archive. Visit http://www.independentcinemaoffice.or… for more information. Queen Alexandra ordered a miniature Cadillac car for Crown Prince Olav (later King) of Norway and – never ones to miss an advertising opportunity […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / exhibitions / Then & Now June 2, 2009
Funded by Awards For All Diss Museum is commemoratingthe bi-centenary of the death ofTom Paine (1737-1809) Who worked as a staymaker in Diss and wrotethe three best-selling works of the 18th century. Coming events include:The museum has a Tom Paine display and much more American actor Ralph Lister presentsTom Paine’s Crisis(Diss UR Church, Fri 5 […]
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now June 2, 2009
What: Beccles & DistrictDiecast and Collectors’ Clubwith table-top displays When:Sunday 7 June10.00 – 4.30 Where:Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation MuseumFlixtonContact: 01986 896644 See more on www.aviationmuseum.net
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charities / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now May 29, 2009
Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum,Flixton, nr. BungayAviation Fun Day “Fly” A Simulator, Aircraft Quiz, Tombola, Teddy Bear Hunt, Submarine Chase, Uniform Try-on Come and learn American Jive Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club W/C Ken Wallis with James Bond’s “Little Nellie” autogyro Sunday 31st May 200910am – 4.30pm Contact:01986 896644 Admission Free Ian HancockN&SAM – Flixton See more […]
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With the house market in it’s present state everyone has to think very carefully before they consider buying or moving. No matter if you are a first time buyer or you have some reason to search for a different property, there is a great deal to be taken into account. The first concern has to […]
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now / Waveney Valley May 14, 2009
A Tale of Bungay May Fairfrom The Sun in the East edited by Richard Barnes The Fairs they b’aint what they once wor,Fifty year an’ a bit ago;It wor a bit on a spree then,Now I’d a’most as leave not go. Why, I mind me o’ one May mornin’When me an’ Jimmy wor there,We’d a […]
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Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Then & Now / Waveney Valley May 14, 2009
Return to Bungay Fair May 14thfrom The Sun in the East edited by Richard Barnes “The sun was shining both sides of the hedges and Bungay May Fair was close at hand, which the celebrities were looking forward to, thinking they’d have some fun and see the Boss’s pony and cart sold, and take a […]
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Topical Budget (the great British newsreel that ran from 1911-31) here presents a light-hearted item on the Football Association’s proposed ban on women’s football. Women’s football was extremely popular in the 1920s. Indeed, on Boxing Day 1920, 53,000 fans packed into Goodison Park to watch the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies beat the St Helens Ladies 4-0. […]
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site unseen:The Council Chamber, Lowestoft Town Hall ANDREW JOHN DAVIES www.independent.co.uk/opinion The Victorians are famous for producing countless individuals with relentless energy and determination: Charles Dickens, William Gladstone, AWN Pugin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Anthony Trollope… Neither Queen Victoria nor Florence Nightingale were exactly shrinking violets. However, few could match the extraordinary drive of Morton Peto, […]