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Places to see in ( Diss - UK )
Places to see in ( Diss - UK )
Diss is a market town and electoral ward in Norfolk, England, close to the border with the neighbouring East Anglian county of Suffolk. Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, which runs from London to Norwich.
The town of Diss lies in the valley of the River Waveney, around a mere that covers 6 acres (2.4 ha). The mere is up to 18 feet (5.5 m) deep, although there is another 51 feet (16 m) of mud. Diss takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church, and a museum.
Four miles east of Diss is the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at the former RAF Thorpe Abbotts airfield. In March 2006, Diss became the third town in the UK to join Cittaslow, an international organisation promoting the concept of 'Slow Towns'. The rail journey from London to Diss is the subject of a famous poem by the late Sir John Betjeman,'A Mind's Journey to Diss'.
The town is home to several sporting organisations, including football club Diss Town FC, who won the FA Vase at Wembley in 1994, Diss RFC (based in nearby Roydon) who won the London 2 North league in 2009 earning promotion to the National leagues, Diss & District Cycling Club and Diss & District Bowls Club, Diss ladies netball club and Diss and District athletics club.
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Harleston Village, Charleston, SC (Downtown Series Episode 4)
Join Bob Brennaman and Carey Nikonchuk on a personal foot tour through the neighborhoods of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. In episode 4, they take you through historic Harleston Village. Then, get a glimpse at what life is like in the neighborhood when Carey interviews resident Marie Wolfe.
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British abstract sculptor
New British Sculpture
Sir Alfred James Munnings, KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy.
Alfred Munnings was born on 8 October 1878 at Mendham, Suffolk, across the River Waveney from Harleston in Norfolk. His father ran a water-mill on the river at Mendham. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a Norwich printer, designing and drawing advertising posters for the next six years, attending the Norwich School of Art in his spare time. When his apprenticeship ended, he became a full-time painter. The loss of sight in his right eye in an accident in 1898 did not deflect his determination to paint, and in 1899 two of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.[1] He painted rural scenes, frequently of subjects such as Gypsies[2] and horses. He was associated with the Newlyn School of painters, and while there met Florence Carter-Wood (1888–1914), a young horsewoman and painter. They married on 19 January 1912 but she tried to kill herself on their honeymoon and did so in 1914.[3] Munnings bought Castle House, Dedham, in 1919, describing it as 'the house of my dreams'.[4] He used the house and adjoining studio extensively throughout the rest of his career, and it was opened as the Munnings Art Museum in the early 1960s, after Munnings' death.[5] Munnings remarried in 1920; his second wife was another horsewoman, Violet McBride. There were no children from either marriage. Although his second wife encouraged him to accept commissions from society figures, Munnings became best known for his equine painting: he often depicted horses participating in hunting and racing.
Although he volunteered to join the Army, he was assessed as unfit to fight. In 1917, his participation in the war was limited to a civilian job outside Reading, processing tens of thousands of Canadian horses en route to France — and often to death. Later, he was assigned to one of the horse remount depots on the Western Front.[6] Munnings' talent was employed in his position as war artist to the Canadian Cavalry Brigade, under the patronage of Max Aitken in the latter part of the war. During the war he painted many scenes, including a mounted portrait of General Jack Seely Warrior in 1918 (now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).[7] Munnings worked on this canvas a few thousand yards from the German front lines. When General Seely's unit was forced into a hasty withdrawal, the artist discovered what it was like to come under shellfire.[8]
Munnings also painted Charge of Flowerdew's Squadron in 1918.[9] In what is known as "the last great cavalry charge" at the Battle of Moreuil Wood, Gordon Flowerdew was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for leading Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) in a successful engagement with entrenched German forces.[10]
The Canadian Forestry Corps invited Munnings to tour their work camps, and he produced drawings, watercolors and paintings, including Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in the Forest of Dreux in France in 1918.[11] This role of horses was critical and under-reported; and in fact, horse fodder was the single largest commodity shipped to the front by some countries.[12]
The Canadian War Records Exhibition at the Royal Academy after war's end included forty-five of Munnings' canvasses.
Munnings was elected president of the Royal Academy of Art in 1944. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1944,[14] and appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1947 New Year Honours.[15] His presidency is best known for the valedictory speech he gave in 1949, in which he attacked modernism. The broadcast was heard by millions of listeners to BBC radio. An evidently inebriated Munnings claimed that the work of Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso had corrupted art. He recalled that Winston Churchill had once said to him, "Alfred, if you met Picasso coming down the street would you join with me in kicking his ... something something?" to which Munnings said he replied, "Yes Sir, I would".
Munnings died at Castle House, Dedham, Essex, on 17 July 1959. After his death, his wife turned their home in Dedham into a museum of his work. The village pub in Mendham is named after him, as is a street there.
Munnings was portrayed by Dominic Cooper in the film Summer in February, which was released in Britain in 2013.[16] The film is adapted from a novel by Jonathan Smith.
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Alfred James Munnings (1878-1959) A collection of paintings 4K Ultra HD
Sir Alfred James Munnings, KCVO, PRA (1878-1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism.
Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy.
Alfred Munnings was born on 8 October 1878 at Mendham Mill, Mendham, Suffolk, across the River Waveney from Harleston in Norfolk to Christian parents. His father was the miller and Alfred grew up surrounded by the activity of a busy working mill with horses and horse-drawn carts arriving daily. After leaving Framlingham College at the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a Norwich printer, designing and drawing advertising posters for the next six years, attending the Norwich School of Art in his spare time. When his apprenticeship ended, he became a full-time painter.
The loss of sight in his right eye in an accident in 1898 did not deflect his determination to paint, and in 1899 two of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He painted rural scenes, frequently of subjects such as Gypsies and horses. He was associated with the Newlyn School of painters, and while there met Florence Carter-Wood (1888–1914), a young horsewoman and painter.
They married on 19 January 1912 but she tried to kill herself on their honeymoon and did so in 1914. Munnings bought Castle House, Dedham, in 1919, describing it as 'the house of my dreams'. He used the house and adjoining studio extensively throughout the rest of his career, and it was opened as the Munnings Art Museum in the early 1960s, after Munnings' death. Munnings remarried in 1920; his second wife was another horsewoman, Violet McBride. There were no children from either marriage.
War artists
Although he volunteered to join the Army, he was assessed as unfit to fight. In 1917, his participation in the war was limited to a civilian job outside Reading, processing tens of thousands of Canadian horses en route to France. Later, he was assigned to one of the horse remount depots on the Western Front. Munnings' talent was employed in his position as war artist to the Canadian Cavalry Brigade, under the patronage of Max Aitken in the latter part of the war. During the war he painted many scenes, including a portrait of General Jack Seely mounted on his horse Warrior in 1918 (now in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa). Munnings worked on this canvas a few thousand yards from the German front lines. When General Seely's unit was forced into a hasty withdrawal, the artist discovered what it was like to come under shellfire.
The Canadian Forestry Corps invited Munnings to tour their work camps, and he produced drawings, watercolors and paintings, including Draft Horses, Lumber Mill in the Forest of Dreux in France in 1918. This role of horses was critical and under-reported; and in fact, horse fodder was the single largest commodity shipped to the front by some countries.
The Canadian War Records Exhibition at the Royal Academy after war's end included forty-five of Munnings' canvasses.
After the war, Munnings began to establish himself as a sculptor, though he had no formal training in the discipline. His first public work was the equestrian statue of Edward Horner in Mells, Somerset, a collaboration with his friend Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed a plinth for the statue. This work led to a commission from the Jockey Club for a sculpture of Brown Jack.
Later career
Munnings was elected president of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1944. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1944, and appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1947 New Year Honours. His presidency is best known for the valedictory speech he gave in 1949, in which he attacked modernism. The broadcast was heard by millions of listeners to BBC radio. An evidently inebriated Munnings claimed that the work of Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso had corrupted art. He recalled that Winston Churchill had once said to him, Alfred, if you met Picasso coming down the street would you join with me in kicking his ... something something? to which Munnings said he replied, Yes Sir, I would.
Munnings died at Castle House, Dedham, Essex, on 17 July 1959. After his death, his wife turned their home in Dedham into a museum of his work. The village pub in Mendham is named after him, as is a street there.
Munnings was portrayed by Dominic Cooper in the film Summer in February, which was released in Britain in 2013. The film is adapted from a novel by Jonathan Smith.
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Pulham Market
Sunday evening, 6th July 2014
Dwile Flonking (1967)
Geldeston, Suffolk.
Various shots show the Waveney Valley Dwile Flonkers having a drink outside the Wherry Inn; mostly men, they are dressed in odd yokel clothing. The group make their way to a field where they jump up and down to test the ground before going through the age old ritual of Dwile Flonking.
This involves the group running in a circle around one man who tries to toss (flonk) a dishcloth (dwile) soaked in beer over one of their heads. The man fails which means he has to drink a pot of ale before the dwile is passed along the line of men. More silly business of the same vein; the referee gets sent off. A man falls backwards from his chair, supposedly drunk, at the end of this match between the teams from Beccles and Bungay.
Note: on file are various pieces of correspondence and notes on this custom. Cuts exist - see separate record.
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2/4 British Masters - 2. In Search of England
Episode 2/3 The inter-war years were a period of alarming national change. With a generation of youth lost to the trenches and the cracks in the Empire growing fast, the nation's confidence was in tatters. If we were no longer a mighty Imperial power, what were we? John Nash's mesmerising visions of rural arcadia, Stanley Spencer's glimpses of everyday divinity, Alfred Munnings' prelapsarian nostalgia, Paul Nash's timeless mysticism, John Piper's crumbling ruins, even William Coldstream's blunt celebration of working-class life - all, in their own way, were attempts to answer this question. And, as a reprise of war grew ever more likely, they struggled more urgently than ever to create an image of Britain we could fight for.
A days ride through Suffolk and Norfolk, May 3, 2014
Stopping at Washbrook Sevices, the Waterside Cafe, Bramford, Weatherleys Motorcycles, Harleston and Value Bike Centre, Wymondham, with Mick Souter, Joe Zammit, David Mead, Gary Alderson, Tim Woolener, Graham Taylor, Martin, Colin and Mark
The Waveney Valley - Halesworth
Halesworth is a charming market town, which prides itself on a cultural blend of the arts, locally produced food, wines and small independant shops.
Tracking Down Descendants of Slaves in the Family: The Evolution of American Racial Relations (1999)
Edward Ball (born October 8, 1959) is an American writer, a university instructor and the author of five books of non-fiction. About the book:
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures (Doubleday) tells the story of the partnership, during the 1870s, between California railroad magnate Leland Stanford and solitary photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who killed a man, and then went on to invent motion pictures.
Slaves in the Family is a book about the author's family, slaveowners in South Carolina for 170 years. It recounts the author's search for and meetings with African Americans whose ancestors his family once enslaved.[1] The book won the National Book Award, became a New York Times bestseller,[2] was featured on Oprah, and was translated into several languages.[3][4]
Ball's other books include a biography of a transsexual and scandal figure from the 1960s, Dawn Langley Simmons, and a history of a rich black family in the Jim Crow South, the Harlestons of South Carolina.
After graduation, Ball moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance art critic, writing about film, art, architecture, and books. For several years, he worked as a columnist for the weekly newspaper The Village Voice.[5]
In the 1990s, he began to research his father's family, which had enslaved some 4000 people on twenty-five rice plantations in South Carolina, between the years 1698 and 1865. The family legacy, documented in several archives, led to his first book, Slaves in the Family, a bestseller that won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.[6] He lived in Charleston, South Carolina at the time.
Ball lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.
Slaves in the Family (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998) — An investigation of 175 years of slave ownership by the author's family in South Carolina.
The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the South (Morrow, 2001) — The history of the Harlestons, a prosperous black family, progeny of a white Southern slaveholder and his enslaved black cook, who rose from the ashes of the Civil War to create a dynasty in art and music during the Jazz Age.
Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love (Simon & Schuster, 2004) — The life of English writer Gordon Hall, who, during the 1960s, became one of the first sex-reassignment patients, reinvented as Dawn Langley Simmons, a rich white woman, who married a black fisherman and produced a mixed-race daughter, whom she claimed was her biological child.
The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA (Simon & Schuster, 2007) — The author finds a 150-year-old collection of children’s hair kept by his family during the 1800s, and turns to DNA science as a tool of family history, testing the locks of hair to reveal their genetic secrets.[7][8]
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures (Doubleday, 2013) — The lives of 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge and railroad capitalist Leland Stanford, who came together to invent the technology of motion pictures, although not before Muybridge murdered a man who had seduced his wife.
Charleston's Historic Houses
In the heart of Charleston are two preserved homes that may a well be time machines!
The Waveney Valley - Beccles
Situated inland on the River Waveney, Beccles sits at the southern point of the Broads, offering visitors a peaceful haven to relax and unwind.
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Royal Academy Exhibition (1955)
Piccadilly, London.
GV Exterior of the Royal Academy, Piccadilly. SCU Portrait 'The Coronation' by Terence Cuneo, & CU. SCU Portrait 'Who's the Lady' by Sir Alfred Munnings. SCU 'Sunset at Roehampton' by Sir Winston Churchill. SCU Portrait 'The Right Honourable Lord Hailey' by James Gunn, & CU. SV Portrait 'Her Majesty the Queen' by Simon Elwes, & CU. SV Portrait 'Her Majesty the Queen' by Pietro Annigoni, & CU.
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Moonlight and Magnolias trailer
Hollywood, 1939: film producer David O. Selznick has just five days to produce a script for the most eagerly anticipated movie in history - Gone with the Wind. Engaging the reluctant services of ace script doctor Ben Hecht - possibly the only person in America who has not read the novel - and the movie's new director Victor Fleming, and with nothing but a stockpile of peanuts and bananas to sustain them, Selznick locks himself in his office with his two collaborators, and a marathon creative session begins.
Directed by Joe Edwards and featuring a brilliant cast (Barry Givens, Steve Askew, Roy Goodwin and Dawn Symonds), Moonlight and Magnolias is a frenetic, fast-paced comedy based on true events that is guaranteed to provide a hugely entertaining night out. Performances of will take place on 22nd, 23rd, 28th, 29th and 30th April at Archbishop Sancroft High School, Harleston. All performances are at 7.30pm, and we are using our popular ‘café-style’ seating plan, so why not get a party together? Tickets, priced £8.50 and £6.50 (concessions) are available from Harleston Pet Stores from 29th March. Telephone bookings from Val on 01379 852845. Tickets also available online from harlestonplayers.co.uk.
Westwood Park
Westwood Park is a beautiful grade II* listed Tudor Manor House set in 15 acres of stunning gardens and grounds in the Essex countryside, just minutes from Colchester.
Offering serviced and virtual offices, meeting and seminar rooms, business support services and special events - Westwood Park provides truly affordable luxury.
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