Wonderful 8mm colour cine film of the market town of Diss in Norfolk from the late 1940s. This was filmed by my grandfather and features his original home-made captions!
The first section is entitled "Diss & it's picturesque surroundings" and features footage shot at various locations throughout the town - Mere Street, Market Hill, The Dolphin House and Church, Mount Street, Fair Green and includes some great film of a bustling market day.
"Mere Reflections" has various shots of the town across the Mere from various points around its perimeter.
"Shopping Week July 1949" is footage of that years carnival - was it known as shopping week back then? Great footage of the carnival queen and her assistants with the local dignitaries, the carnival float processions through Mere Street, the watching crowds and then children's fancy dress competition. Some of this was filmed at the Saracens Head Bowls Club - now a car park!
The final part of the film includes footage of the Lowes, Stuston Common and some fabulous shots of "Scole Inn and its Old World Gardens" .... the gardens are also now a car park!
This film is part of a collection of cine footage of Norfolk, shot by my grandfather Stanley Arthur Youngs between the 1930s and 1950s. Born and bred in South Norfolk and a baker by trade, my grandfather was also a keen amateur cine photographer with a passion for creating films of rural Norfolk life which he delighted in showing to people in a makeshift cinema in the bakehouse.
12 фев 2013
