One of the world’s oldest food processing skills, going back thousands of years, using techniques that took many months to learn. Mastery of water, wind and fire! There were once thousands of floor maltings, across England, there are now three! Ivor was the
The shipping forecast - simultaneously soothing and soporific yet sometimes scary and disconcerting. In this talk we will look at all aspects of the forecast, from its humble origins to its place as a staple of our broadcasting Please see November's On Watch
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Great Yarmouth drifters and the Herring Industry Distant Water Fishing, talk by Will Green with Fish and Chip Supper Over a hundred years ago Great Yarmouth was at the epicentre of the Herring Fishing Industry, with drifters bringing in vast catches of the
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The talk covers a brief history of early radar, the events leading up to the development of a viable system and the establishment of the world’s first operational radar station at Bawdsey. It focuses on the people involved with a very brief mention
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A story about the ill-fated Franklin Expedition which set out in 1845 to discover the Northwest Passage across the Arctic Circle, north of Canada. Two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, set out from Greenhithe in Kent. The wrecks of both ships were