PART ONE
A good audience in the Village Hall heard our speaker for the March 2012 meeting – Derek Edwards. He arrived with two screens and two projectors (Phil’s extension lead definitely was needed on this occasion!).
The talk was fascinating. We were guided through aerial photography from a hot air balloon, a gypsy moth plane, to a helicopter. The two pioneers of aerial photography were George Swain followed by Harry Lowe, both masters of their skill. Aerial photography, of course, was used as military reconnaissance but the first aerial archaeological photograph was of Stonehenge in 1904!
The audience was most interested in the aerial photographs taken over Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Potter Heigham and Horsey, showing many of the great changes:
The weekend in Great Yarmouth when the fishing boats were all lined up in dock because the girls, who gutted the fish, went on strike for a pay rise from 19s.6d. to one guinea a week. They got their rise!
The Britannia Pier, where steamers docked bringing day-trippers from Southend;
The flower gardens where the Pleasure Beach now is;
The floods of 1938 in Horsey.
Most interesting - so we have booked Derek to come again.
This is actually the first of a two part talk, so this report will be extended in due course.