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Monthly Archives: January 2011
1930s Cine Film – Part 8
The family are now coming towards the end of their holiday on the Broads in June 1933 and this last post in the series covers the final days of that trip, accompanied by a few more stills which were taken … Continue reading
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1930s Cine Film – Part 7
Having spent a couple of days at Oulton Broad where they hired some rather nice wooden motor launches and visited the seafront at Lowestoft, the end of the previous post saw the family casting off from the Yacht Station to … Continue reading
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1930s Cine Film – Part 6
Part 5 in the series of posts on the 1930s cine films which I am currently working on covered the family travelling to Norfolk from Leeds, stopping off en-route for a roadside picnic, and then having afternoon tea at The … Continue reading
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1930s Cine Film – Part 5
I am starting to make my way through the second cine film from the early 1930s which follows a family holiday onboard the Herbert Woods motor cruiser “Countess Of Light” taken in early June 1933. The previous four posts featured … Continue reading
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1930s Cine Film – Part 4
Having covered a large part of the northern rivers during the week, the family are now reaching the end of their 1932 holiday onboard “Spark Of Light” and decide to head down the Bure to Great Yarmouth for a day … Continue reading
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1930s Cine Film – Part 3
In part one and part two of the series of posts on the 1930s cine film we saw our family travelling from Leeds to Herbert Woods Broads Haven yard at Potter Heigham to pick up “Spark Of Light” for a … Continue reading
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1930s Cine Film – Part 2
Following on from part one of the postings on the 1930s cine film which I am currently working on, we continue following the familys holiday on Herbert Woods “Spark Of Light” over Whitsun week 1932 which would have run from … Continue reading
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1930s Cine Film – Part 1
As I mentioned in a previous blog posting, the winter project I have lined up for myself is the editing of two reels of 16mm cine footage, totalling around 40 minutes in length, which feature two holidays taken by one … Continue reading
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More from the 1930s
With Christmas out of the way, and the website up and running in the new software, I have now turned my attention to getting through the last of the backlog of photographs which I have to add to Broadland Memories. … Continue reading
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Hathor’s Farewell Tour DVD
Amongst the goodies I received in my Christmas stocking was a copy of the “Hathor’s Farewell Tour” DVD. Filmed during the course of her tour around the Broads in 2009, there is some wonderful footage of the pleasure wherry along … Continue reading
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