Anglesey Abbey was actually never an abbey in the religious sense, and hasn’t had any connection with religious orders since the Augustinian Priory on this site was dissolved during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1535.
In its current form, as looked after by the National Trust, it is an elegant party house surrounded by a [...]
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With Cambridgeshire basking in sunshine all this week, absolutely the perfect time to visit one particular feature at Anglesey Abbey – the birch grove.
The rest of the gardens there adhere to classical notions of garden design, with walks and vistas and all the urns and statuary a large garden requires, but this small grove owes [...]
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The BBC and the Norwich Writers Centre are collaborating on Friday for Blogging Norfolk – snapshot of a county. It’ll be a mix of ordinary people and professional writers recording their day through all the forms of social media, complete with workshops for those who aren’t quite sure what social media is and an interactive [...]
Tags: bbc · blogging · east anglia · flickr · norfolk · social media · twitter · writing
Cambridge Wordfest starts in earnest on Friday, with a whole roster of writers converging on the city for talks, workshops, interactive thingummies and more. Highlights include Andrew Motion in his last week as poet laureate reflecting on what he has learnt, Michael Morpurgo, David Starkey, Joanne Harris – the list goes on. There are practical [...]
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Small but perfectly formed, this one-room museum is a classic Victorian cabinet of scientific curiosities.
Glandford is a tiny Norfolk village not far from Holt that is filled with dutch gabled brick and flint houses, and the museum follows suit. It was built by local landowner Sir Alfred Jodrell and laid out inside by his sisters [...]
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And now for something completely different – Voltini, an electricity-based Victorian-style sideshow, is in North Norfolk this week until the 19th. Together with Russels International Circus, they are Cookies Car Boot Site in Beeston Regis, offering a ten minute show centred around Madame Electra, the voluptuous lady of lightning, who defies death in the Electric [...]
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Under the that wonderfully evocative URL, Life magazine has put its photo archive online. There are photos of everything both great and ordinary, from the early years of the twentieth century onwards.
It’s a great resource for anyone interested in local history, twentieth century fashion, architecture, design, and just how life was lived. There are also [...]
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Gary Breeze is based in Diss in Norfolk, and calls himself a Lettering Sculptor – it encompasses more than the carving of text on stone or wood. He cares a great deal about what the words say, and makes pieces of work that are both technically excellent and very resolved and thought through sculptures that [...]
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