Morley St Peter Norfolk 1937 copyright EAFA
Morley St Peter Norfolk 1937 copyright EAFA

View Pastures Old in at Caley’s Cocoa Café, Monday 7 September

Caley’s Cocoa Café is to host its popular Monday Movies on Monday 7 September from 10am – 4pm.

The café, located in The Guildhall, Norwich, screens local archive film for free on the first Monday of the month and for this screening will show agricultural and war-time footage.  

On Monday, the café will screen a montage of silent archive films, including enduring images of agriculture and farming in East Anglia in a classic collection of amateur and professional films showing how the hard work was done on the land. It includes films from the 1920s to the 1960s of life on the farm to reflect the changing seasons in a farmworker’s year. The film also charts the changes from horse power to machine power to cultivate the land.

The screening will also feature footage from across the region during the Second World War. The film includes the Chairman of the ARP Committee appealing to the citizens of Norwich in 1939, King’s Lynn civilians signing up for the Home Guard in 1940 with training for the real ‘Dads Army’ and evacuation beginning in Clacton on Sea in 1940. The film also features the 1942 air raids on Norwich and the USAAF in Seething, Honington and Rackheath in 1942 – 1944.

Caley’s Cocoa Café is managed by Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART), showcasing this well-loved Norwich heritage brand, as well as the Colman’s Mustard Shop & Museum.

The archive film compilations are a worthwhile legacy from HEART’s successful Interreg IVA funded Digital Heritage Project, which was delivered as a partnership with Rouen based film agency Pôle Image and UEA’s East Anglian Film Archive.

For more information, see www.heritagecity.org or Caley’s Cocoa Café on Facebook.

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