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CDs
AND DVDs OF LOCAL INTEREST
Here
are just a few CDs and DVDs that may be of interest to you,
and all are highly recommended (especially with Christmas
on the horizon!). It is hoped more will be added in the near
future, but if you know of anything you think would be of
interest, please let us know.
THINKUN
OUT LOUD: Tales of my past and a few poems
Tina
Chamberlain . Stewart Orr Sound Services 2007. Duration over
50 minutes.
SOSS CD 394. Price: £7.00.
If
you are a member of Friends of Norfolk Dialect you will, of
course, have heard of our Gal Tina who is a regular contributor
in The Merry Mawkin, FOND’s quarterly newsletter.
Swardeston-born
Tina, now living in Wymondham, Norfolk, has for many years
been writing poetry and this CD is a compilation of some of
her poems from days gone by, and as you listen to Tina reminiscing
about her past times, I bet you’ll recall many of the
same.
On
this CD she tells her tales and also reads a few of her poems
from her two books: I Sit Here Thinkun and Um Stilla
Thinkun.
Featuring:
1 Gitten ta know me. 2 Early days, Auntie Lil. 3 How ma fust
book got here, I Sit Here Thinkun. 4 Our old tin bath.
5 Tales of the outside toilet, Country life.; 6 I learnt ta
drive a tractor. 7 Mother’s home cookun. 8 Me, Joss &
the paperweights. 9 Homemade toys, The ole mole, Kids n conkers.
10 Embarrassing sports days. 11 On the bike seat, My nanny
an the shilluns. 12 The old Wymondham sale yard. 13 Mum and
Dad at Hemsby. 14 Winkles orf the market, Um stilla thinkun.
Available
from Geo R Reeve Ltd,
Wymondham, or direct from Tina
Chamberlain.
WYMONDHAM
BORN AND BRED: Personal recollections of the town and district
Produced
by John Nickalls and directed by Peter Stibbons. Poppyland
Publishing 2008. Price: £12.95.
The
development of interest in local history in the 21st century
is manifest in many specialist print productions. Digital
technology now adds the opportunity to record and deliver
living memory in may ways.
The
recollections presented on this disc are part of about 15
hours of recording made primarily in the summer of 2006. They
will be of great value to family and social historians in
the decades ahead but we can already enjoy them, looking back
to years before, through and subsequent to, the Second World
War.
Permanence
and change, true value and passing economic requirement, tradition
and technological development are reflected in the comments
and memories. What must we retain and treasure and what must
move on as part of the town evolution?
Wymondham’s
story over the centuries is well served by the publications
of the Wymondham Heritage Society. This disc is from people
who grew up in the town, but whether you’ve lived all
your life in Wymondham; grew up there and ‘emigrated’
or have arrived in recent times, we hope you’ll enjoy
hearing these stories, from some who are ‘Wymondham Born
and Bred’.
Featuring:
Michael Bloom, Jill Clarke, Hazel Everett, Dick Fryer, Michael
Marwood, Fred Squires, David Turner, Peter Wharton, and Philip
Yaxley.
Available
from Geo R Reeve Ltd,
Wymondham, John
Nickalls Publications or Poppyland
Productions.
MAWTHER
MABEL’S MEMOIRS: A story on CD in seven episodes
written and read by Mollie Bayfield
Molly
Bayfield. A Peter Kiely Production. Price:
£6.00.
Mollie
Bayfield was born in Cromer and has lived in Norfolk all her
life, mainly along the North Norfolk coast, until she and
her husband Albert moved to West Norfolk. She was a keen actress
and entertainer, and is also a published writer and local
broadcaster. Her love of Norfolk has prompted her to give
talks on our unique dialect – and she abhors the mess
actors make trying to speak it!
In
her stories she tries to give a flavour of Norfolk, with our
dry sense of humour, how we ‘dew diffrunt’ and what
rural life was like during the 1950s.
Featuring:
1
Job hunting. 2 Smitten. 3 Finding my feet. 4 Exciting times.
5 Tying the knot. 6 A precious gift. 7 What the future holds.
Available
from True’s
Yard Fisherfolk Museum, North Street, King’s Lynn,
Norfolk Telephone: 01553 770479. Price:
£6.00, plus £1.50 post and packing.
STORIES
FROM EAST ANGLIA: Read by David Woodward
Jay
Appleton. Stewart Orr Sound Services 2009. Two CD set, total
running time over 100 minutes.
SOSS CD 410a/b. Price: £15.00.
Although
born in Yorkshire in 1919, Jay Appleton moved to Stibbard,
near Fakenham, at the age of eighteen months, so the Norfolk
accent which he had learnt by the late 1920s was from the
north of the county.
In
1940 he moved south to Diss, but ten years later a university
appointment took him back to Yorkshire where he has lived
in exile ever since.
He
retired in 1985 as an Emeritus Professor of Geography at Hull
University.
During
the early 1950s, he began writing Norfolk dialect stories
and reading them from Birmingham on the Midland Region Programme
of the BBC. Most of the stories in the present collection,
however, were specially written to mark the opening of the
BBC studios at St Catherine’s Close in Norwich in 1958.
Jay recorded them to be broadcast at intervals for the first
few weeks in order to give a local flavour to the programmes
of the new East Anglian VHF Service initiated at the same
time. Other stories were added later, and some have been slightly
amended from their original versions.
The
2 CD set features:
DISC
1
1 Zachariah and the Settin’ Sow. 2 Macbeth. 3 Old Rope.
4 The Storm of Life. 5 Porker's Bush.
DISC
2
6 The Stargeon. 7 Hubbard’s Humiliation. 8 The Athanasia
Tree. 9 Abdullah and the Transmigration of Souls.
“Two
most entertaining CDs, filled with excellent stories written
by Jay Appleton and read by David Woodward, member of the
old Press Gang, and author of A
Garland of Waveney Valley Tales.
“A
veritable feast of Norfolk tales laced with good old home-spun
humour and told in the Norfolk dialect. Unforgettable! Once
heard, never forgotten; each tale has a twist in the end guaranteeing
the listeners go away with big smiles on their face!
“But,
don't just take my word for it – buy your copy now, and
judge for yourself!”
The
Boy Albie
Available
from Stewart Orr
Sound Services, Prior’s Croft Barn, Withersdale,
Harleston, Norfolk IP20 0JG.
OVERSTRAND:
Our Village, Past and Present
Derek
Paul and Ralph West. Poppyland Productions 2009. Duration
over 60 minutes.
An excellent production, Overstrand:
Our Village, Past & Present is a rare treat and is
guaranteed to hold the viewer’s attention from the titles
– rising up with the sun – to the ending credits
and aerial views of the village.
The hour-long DVD tells the story of
the village from its early days, using extracts from old manuscripts,
old photographs together with modern-day views, and is complemented
by a very informative narration by Eddie Anderson, well-known
presenter of Anglia TV’s Bygones programme. A fine musical
score provides a magical atmosphere where appropriate, though
never obtrusive.
Through words and pictures the viewer
is told all about the ‘millionaires’ village’,
the magnificent buildings, homes and hotels, the battle against
the sea and elements, sometimes losing out in the process,
and daily life through the eyes of its inhabitants.
There are interviews with local celebrities,
who tell, proudly – in their Norfolk way – of hard
times: losses at sea, visiting royalty, life in wartime –
it’s all there, and told with a degree of humour. It
made this reviewer laugh, at least! There’s the time
when a fisherman lost his best hat at sea, only to be spotted
by another fisherman the very next day. “Betta mearke
sure he en’t still wearin’ it,” he laughed.
That old hat, retrieved from the sea and returned to its rightful
owner, now hangs on a coathook by the door – life’s
work well done!
The DVD includes:
Geology and Pre-History; Early Documents;
The Belfry (School) 1830; Fishing; Building Boom; The World
Wars; At the Station; Back to the Belfry; More Memories.
Certainly
not to be missed and available direct from Overstrand
Parish Council priced £10, plus £1 post and
packing, or in local village shops. Also available in Jarrold
of Cromer and Norwich, or direct from Poppyland
Productions.
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