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The vibrant animation of Halas and Batchelor is the vehicle for a rather unsavoury message from the War Office aimed at troops in the Far East. The antics of six sprightly soldiers stationed in the jungle illustrate with humour and clarity the pitfalls of poor personal hygiene. One collapses with dysentery after drinking unfiltered pond […]
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For quite some time we have become accustomed to reading reports about our young people suffering from alcohol, drug and tobacco addiction. More recently gambling can probably be added to that list and now, according to a recent poll, eight out of every ten children are addicted to their mobile phones.81% of those aged between […]
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Actress Jane Carr (used to live at Mendham Watermill) 1st August 1909 to 29th September 1957 picture supplied by Michael Hendry
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A recent survey of six thousand children is reported as saying that nearly nine out of ten of them are anxious about violence and street crime and called for extra policing in parks and places where children play on their way to and from school.It found 54% feared violence, 53% crime and 51% said they […]
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The Hints and Hobbies series was a bizarre and eclectic mix of handy hints shown to inter-war cinemagoers. The range of advice given in this edition varies from good, sensible and practical advice on how to treat a fracture from the capable Mrs Webb of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade, to the more obscure, yet […]
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In the enchanting ‘The Mystery of Marriage’ comparisons are drawn between the courtship and marriage rituals of animals and plants with that of humans. A bumblebee acts as a matchmaker between flowers; the hunting spider painstakingly wraps up a juicy fly ready to bestow upon the first attractive female he meets; the devoted earwig fends […]
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Produced by British film pioneer Cecil Hepworth, around 20 of the popular series of ‘Tilly’ films were made between 1910 and 1915. Surviving episodes are brimming with a sense of anarchic fun as they follow the adventures of naughty schoolgirls Tilly and Sally, played by Chrissie White and Alma Taylor, who went on to become […]
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Nowadays the media seems to be putting more and more emphasis on the last war with repeats of old films, newsreels and documentaries. Is that a fact or is it simply that it appears to be so because we are all getting older and fewer people can remember it! Even when we were in our […]
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Essential viewing for cooks everywhere – especially in times of austerity. The two cooks, Sally and Jane, are called upon to assist their forthright, no-nonsense northern Grandmother (Mrs Ingleton) in cooking dinner. The girls are sent to find a large cabbage from the wartime garden and cut it in half: a whole cabbage would be […]
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Did You Know? That in front of St Mary’s Church in Bungay there is a large rough stone sticking out of the ground, and that when we were children(in the 1960s), we were told that if you ran around the stone 3 times anti-clockwise, you would see the Devil! Play the movie!
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Woolworths has gone and Marks and Spencers like many other companies are in trouble as we sink deeper into the worst manufacturing slump experienced for nearly thirty years. As a result of the cut backs the number of people employed in manufacturing has fallen to a record low of 2.8 million. Every time we listen […]
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RIDER HAGGARD COUNTRY? The Rider Haggard Society is campaigning for a recognised ‘RIDER HAGGARD COUNTRY’ to be set up in Norfolk, the following is their correspondence that seems to be going unnoticed by Norfolk County Council: __ Norfolk County CouncilCounty HallMartineau LaneNorwichNorfolkNR1 2DH 26 January 2009 Dear Sir/Madam RIDER HAGGARD COUNTRY On 23 June 2008, […]
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RIDER HAGGARD COUNTRY? The Rider Haggard Society is campaigning for a recognised ‘RIDER HAGGARD COUNTRY’ to be set up in Norfolk, the following is their correspondence that seems to be going unnoticed by Norfolk County Council: __ Norfolk County CouncilCounty HallMartineau LaneNorwichNorfolkNR1 2DH 26 January 2009 Dear Sir/Madam RIDER HAGGARD COUNTRY On 23 June 2008, […]
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Norfolk Broads / Then & Now / Waveney Valley / Wildlife January 19, 2009
Do you remember the Waveney coypu? When I was a young journalist in East Anglia in England in the late 1950s, I was fascinated by a story I worked on from time to time – the environmental battles associated with the growth and spread of the coypu, a large, herbivorous, semi-aquatic South American rodent that […]
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THE FORUM TRUST PRESENTS FORUM FOOTPRINTS THE BBC LOCAL HISTORY EVENT Friday 23 – Sunday 25 January The Atrium: 10am – 4pm FREE Photo courtesy of Norfolk County Council Library and Information Service BBC Voices, in partnership with The Forum Trust presents a three day local history event at The Forum. Follow the Footprints of […]
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Trotting Match at Springfield Park Wigan. This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection – an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. For more information about the films of Mitchell and Kenyon see http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/mk