1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his
nephew
A
John Western watercolour living in Knodishall and depicting sail boats at
Slaughden Quay, Aldeburgh is
for sale on ebaY with a starting price of £800.
You
know how racks of those terribly fashionable Crocs always stop at size 8?
Well not in Alde River they don't, they go up to size 13; find the shop, not
surprisingly, in Aldeburgh High Street 01728
452476.
The odd little off license in Aldeburgh with the equally odd but
charming Adnams metalwork
has been shut certainly since last spring? It's now a Darcy B dress shop (there are other
Darcy Bs in Framlingham and Woodbridge) and the
metalwork
has gone, they could have painted it to match the wall and retained the little
oddity.
tu 11 mr 08
1810 Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria were married by
proxy in Vienna
Despite the recent weather Aldeburgh still appears to be
there but don't know what happened to the
bathing huts ...
1891 The first Cruft's Dog Show opened at
the Agricultural Hall, Islington
To
use the old joke some films seem to escape rather than be released. On
occasion undoubtedly it's because the film's rubbish, sometimes you suspect the
producers didn't get their sums right and there's nothing left for promotion, in
the case of Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute
it is in English (a new libretto by
Stephen Fry) but it's also a French production:) On at Aldeburgh Cinema until
Thursday.
sa 9 fe 08
1824 At the age of twelve Charles Dickens
started work in a blacking factory
Well that didn't take long, Paul Verhoeven's Black Bookis on
Film Four this month sometime (according to the tv trailers) though Film Four's
glossy website
makes it impossible to find out when.
fr 1 fe 08
1971 Wireless licenses abolished in the
UK
Perhaps
because we rather liked The Chronicles of Narnia film (always loved the novels)
the desire has been rising to see The Golden Compass but
Lady KRJ says it's rubbish ... and she liked Lord of the Rings!
Either way Golden C's on at Aldeburgh
for a week starting tonight.
tu 22 ja 08
1972 The UK became part of the
European Economic Community
Here's a bit of solid gold, a 1950s train journey on the
Saxmundham-Aldeburgh branch calling at
Thorpe Halt ... accompanied by Flanders and Swan... and
we've just worked out that the boy standing seemingly dangerously on the
track is holding up the single
track token for the driver.
One of the nice things about coastal Suffolk is when the new year
begins with the weather is at it's most miserable and you're still paying for
Christmas so do the Friday lunchtime
concerts at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh.
As we arrived somewhat early today the single remaining seat was
being sold so in the second week of the 2008 season the Heath Quartet played to an
absolutely full house. Violinist Oliver Heath
ironically introduced Frank Bridge's Three Idylls for String Quartet as
"an English piece for English weather" and we were off with the quartet revealing a lyrical, engaging and
confident
style that can be heard at the Halesworth
Cut at the end of October.
Even though it's out of season you stillcan't park in Aldeburgh because one side of the
High Street has been dug up.
th 13 de 07
1903 Italo Marcioni patented the ice cream
cone
As
you probably know it's the law in France that Gérard Depardieu has to be in all
films. He certainly knew how to hold a big gun in 36 (Quai Des Orfevres)
and despite another dodgy bi-lingual title we rather fancy The Singer (Quand J'Etais
Chanteur). It startstomorrow for a week at the
Aldeburgh Cinema (there'll be sub-titles).
The
garage in Aldeburgh on the High Street has been
knocked down, no doubt so designer flats can be built. Is our
memory at fault but didn't the garage still serve petrol at the roadside with
very long hoses?
sa 1 de 07
1822 Peter I was crowned Emperor of Brazil
As a war correspondent Sir Max Hastings is
the real thing, first man into Port Stanley in the recent Falklands
unpleasantness ... well actually it was a quarter of a century ago. It was
slightly disconcerting to hear Radio 4 coming out of the middle aged lady
introducing him at the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival
but then the middle aged lady was Libby Purves who presents Midweek.
fr 30 no 07
1931 Columbia and HMV merged to form
Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI)
The Aldeburgh Documentary Festival starts
tonight with John
Sweeney talking to Francis Wheen. It continues until Sunday.
th 8 no 07
1895 The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
discovered X rays
The
Environment Agency has issued a Severe
Flood Warning for the coast Lowestoft to Shingle Street including
Aldeburgh. The tv news is saying the risk is high tide tomorrow morning.
Floodline0845 988 1188
Lovely
weather for boulevardiers in Aldeburgh this afternoon. This
handsome fellow had clearly been enjoying a swim,
a display of Minis, and on the new piste
cunningly placed right outside the White Lion petanque
was being played. The match was a
friendly
between the
newly formed Aldeburgh Club and the Meadlands club from Stowmarket. The
action was certainly attracting interest from
passers by and it would seem part of petanque's point is sociability.
More pics here.
su 8 jl 07
1942 Cary Grant married the Woolworth
heiress Barbara Hutton
Aldeburgh
may be up itself but on a sunny summer's afternoon Crag Path can be a sort
of café society ...
fr 6 jl 07
1983 Failed Hackney councillor
Tony Blair made his maiden
parliamentary speech.
Though Paul Verhoeven's Hollywood films may be rather slight (RoboCop,
Fatal Instinct, Starship Troopers and no we can't help being
pretentious) but we rather like his glossy, ironic style and so were considering
the rather more serious Black Book,
but it's nearly two and half hours long! You don't so
much need popcorn as a survival bag and a whistle!! But then it's back for
a second time at Aldeburgh Cinema
next month by popular demand ... in the meantime its
La Vie en Rose (140mins) for seven days from tonight; and if you've
got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes and sunglasses
...
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