Video and Film
In addition to links to ArchiveNow , our own video platform on youtube, this page also links to several other interesting local video or film clips that have been published elsewhere.
A Night at the Pictures: Fakenham Central Cinema - by Chris Richmond
Join Chris and cinema manager Andy Lawson for a unique behind-the-scenes tour of Fakenham’s Central Cinema. Included are historic archive images and film footage. January 2024 |
This is Fakenham and District Community Archive - Archiving and Reminiscing our Memories of Yesterday.
Our latest (2023) introduction video Video by Fakenham and District Community Archive Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. |
Fakenham Infant School - Thai Cooking Lesson 1992
Children who attended Fakenham Infant School during the 1980s and 90s will remember with fondness Mrs. Rosine Hunt, the school's head teacher and her staff.
Shot by budding young film maker Tom Coburn, this video shows a Thai cooking demonstration given at the school by the town’s Thai restaurant during 1992. Joining Mrs. Hunt, as she encourages her young class to try new food, are Mrs Cathy Dow, Mrs. Joyce Dewan, Miss Pauline Martin and Mrs. Margaret Simpson. Video kindly donated by Tom Coburn Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. |
Discovering Fakenham's Listed Buildings
Our third video in the series exploring Fakenham, takes a look at some of the town's listed buildings.
Buildings in our lovely old market town began to receive listed status during the early 1950s. However, further buildings of significant historic interest became vulnerable during the 1960s and 70s, as modernisation programs and social change gained momentum. While schemes to protect them were gradually introduced, it came too late for some, that today, sadly, are forever lost! Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. |
Exploring Fakenham - Past and Present - Episode 2
This 14 minute video takes us on a pictorial journey through a much changed part of the town, beginning at the east end of Norwich Street to Bridge Street via Whitehorse Street and Cattle Market Street.. During our journey we explore areas that have been transformed or have simply disappeared permanently into the past.
Pictures that feature in this presentation have been donated to Fakenham and district Community Archive over a number of years by our very supportive public. Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. |
Exploring Fakenham - Past and Present - Episode 1
This Ten-minute slide show takes us on a pictorial Journey from Hempton Road to Fakenham Market Place via, Mill Lane, Swan Street and Bridge Street. During our journey, we see areas that have been transformed or have simply disappeared permanently into the past.
Pictures that feature in this presentation have been donated to Fakenham and district Community Archive over a number of years, by our very supportive public. Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. |
Fakenham Ladies Shoe Factory Sit In - Wednesday, 26 July 1972
BBC journalist Phil Tibenham reports on the ladies from Fakenham who purchased the factory from where they were made redundant. They managed to raise the money to buy their old sewing machines and rent premises over a garage. Following a sit-in at Sexton Son and Everard the women start making leather goods from off-cuts and received nationwide support for their struggle. They relaunched as Fakenham Enterprises led by director Nancy McGrath.
BBC Archive |
In memory of Fakenham's Ancient and much-loved Wisteria .. May 2016 © Diana Shipp
Like many we were saddened by the demise of our beautiful and ancient wisteria which populated Newman's yard off Norwich Street, Fakenham for so many years.
Felled on September 29th 2020 after being battered by strong winds and rain. This well established shrub was thought to be around 200 years old. An expert from Kew gardens visited it some years ago and agreed the age and confirmed that it is one of the longest in the country. Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. |
Raynham Day 1962
Amateur filmmaker Mr A. W. Taberham, under the guise of ‘Crystal Ball Productions’, recorded the first Country Fayre, known as Raynham Day, held in September 1962. A parade of veteran engines and cars move through the Raynham Hall Estate, jokingly led by a replica “stone age motor car” as seen in the TV cartoon The Flintstones, which would have been popular at the time. Later, crowds are drawn to watch the ploughing and threshing and tractor demonstrations.
British Film Institute and the East Anglian Film Archive |
Hempton Sheep Fair 1969
Formerly the largest sheep fair in the country, Hempton Sheep Fair was held annually on Hempton Green on the first Wednesday in September. This footage is likely to show the very last sheep fair in 1969, where 1,026 sheep were offered for sale. Amongst the flocks of lambs, ewes, and rams are the villagers, auctioneers and buyers.
British Film Institute and the East Anglian Film Archive |
A Year on a Mechanised Farm in Norfolk 1940
With a country at war and a blockade around our shores, food production at home was of paramount importance.
With East Anglia’s flat and featureless landscape, Norfolk farmers were relied upon to produce for a nation. And as labour was short because many farm workers had been enlisted, mechanised equipment was essential to produce on such a large-scale. Filmed almost exclusively at Wethered Manor Farm, Sedgeford. Other locations include Docking goods sidings and King's Lynn sugar beet factory. The final sequence shows a busy cattle market in Fakenham with tantalisingly brief glimpses in the background of the old Wharfedale Printing Works and the cottages which stood on the east side of White Horse Street. British Film Institute and the East Anglian Film Archive |
This is Fakenham Community Archive
A slideshow featuring information and pictures which have kindly been donated to the archive by many of our visitors.
Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. Music; 'Sunshine' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons. |
Bygone Fakenham (3.09)
A selection of old postcards and photographs from Fakenham’s past which have kindly been donated to the archive.
Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. Accompanying music; Gymnopedie No.1 by Kevin MacLeod. (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons. |
Children's Treasures, Fakenham 1962 (6.33)
Local Rail closures, Fakenham 1964 (1.51)
Anglia Television news report from Fakenham East Railway Station following the proposal put forward by Transport Minister Ernest Marples to close the station and discontinue the rail service from Dereham to Wells. East Anglian Film Archive |
Frying Pan Tennis’ Fakenham c.1939 (1.01)
Pea Threshing, East Raynham in 1962 (3.29)
Church fate at South Raynham 1974
A three-minute excerpt from a 1974 BBC production, A Passion for Churches, featuring John Betjeman.
The clip shows parishioners enjoying a garden fete at South Raynham in aid of the tower of St Martin’s church. The event took place in the garden of the old rectory, the home of Mrs. Le Strange. The Reverend Stephen Pritt is seen getting things under way, while Luke Skippon acts as auctioneer. © BBC TV View the complete 50-minute program ‘A Passion for Churches’ on YouTube |
Restoration of the Bells of St Mary’s East Raynham
This thirty-minute BBC programme ‘A Passion for Churches’, follows the lengthy planning and fundraising campaign to restore the existing 130-year-old bells of St. Mary’s and install a further three, extending the augmentation of five bells to eight, completing the original scheme set out by the 5th marquess Townsend
when the new church of St Mary’s was built in 1868. BBC 2003 |
Living in a former RAF Control Tower (9 Mins)
A British Army veteran and his wife are making a home for themselves inside a former heavy bomber control tower. RAF station West Raynham in Norfolk has been derelict for 25 years but is undergoing a transformation. As Kirstie Chambers discovered, part of the building will become a heritage centre open to the public.
Forces News - Aug 18, 2021 Click here > to find out more by Visiting West Raynham Control Tower on Facebook |
Wells-next-the-Sea (6.01)
Fakenham in Pictures (1.21)
USAF Air Base, Sculthorpe (9.23)
Wells-next-the-Sea in the 1970s (9.31)
Norfolk Rail Closures 1963 (0.40)
King's Lynn to Hunstanton 1961 (9.48)
Claxton's Mineral Waters - Wells-next-the-Sea
An Anglia Television broadcast from the 1960's interviewing John Claxton before Claxton's Mineral Water Works closes.
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The 2014 Fakenham Fire
Final performance at Fakenham's Central Cinema 1976.
A tantalisingly short piece of video reporting the closure of Fakenham's Central Cinema in 1976.
Click on the image to view or visit ArchiveNow - Fakenham Community Archive's YouTube channel. East Anglian Film Archive |
Cinema advertisements shown at the Fakenham Cinema, Norfolk, 1976.
A roll of local and national advertisements that was shown in its entirety at the Fakenham Cinema, in north Norfolk at the time of its closure in the autumn of 1976. Among those businesses featured are: M. English and Sons, Fakenham; G&M Tyres; Fakenham; R.C. Edmondson, Fakenham; Arrowline, Fakenham; Baxters Fakenham; Orchard Caravans, Wells; Parkside Garage, Thursford; Tricentrol Cars, Fakenham.
East Anglian Film Archive |
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