For the second of our Archive Film Shows, which was held on Saturday, 18th January in the Spixworth Village Hall, we entertained over 60 people who came along to share the experience. Professor N Riley of the UEA Film Archive Team presented the two films, covering about ¾ hour each, which included farming before and during World War 2, a GPO item showing the floods at Horsey in 1938 and how the postmen did their rounds in the terrible conditions and a Great Yarmouth travel film exhorting the facilities and pleasures of that seaside town in 1933.

An interval held a raffle and tea, coffee and biscuits were served free to all (who had paid to enter!). In the second part of the evening we saw a promotional film made for the Bond's family for their store in Norwich in 1922; a short coverage of the visit to Norwich by the then Princess Elizabeth and her visits to a silk mill and shoe shop; the Norvic Shoe Factory shortly before it's closure; visits to Nestle/Rowntree Macintosh chocolate factory with comments by factory employees; shots of the Norfolk Broads and the Albion wherry; more of the Broads in 1958 and the Horstead Mill before and after the disastrous fire in 1963.

The total nett profit for the evening, apart from the pleasure afforded to many, was £140.50.

With grateful thanks to all who support the Friends in so many ways. We are pleased to say that the purchases made for the year 2002 totalled £3304.14. These included such things as

Enuresis alarms, ultrasonic cleaners, service and repair of syringes, ear thermometers, a wheelchair and blood pressure monitors. All these items were divided between the surgeries in Coltishall and Spixworth.

Gisela Revill
Public Relations Officer