Based in Ipswich, Suffolk, Old Pond naturally locks into a rich heritage of East Anglian writing and DVDs. The items include books of photographs, novels, personal accounts and DVDs.
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Acres of Change (DVD) - Technical Adviser Brian Bell
Ref: 804D
In 1939 Kent farmer Frederick Hynard recorded a year in the life of his farm on cine film...
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Becker: Harry Becker 1865-1928 (Hardback) - David Thompson
Ref: 500B
Harry Becker’s great passion was to paint the working life of rural Suffolk. In particular he captured farmworkers at their daily tasks ploughing, ditching, hoeing and leading horses in the first decades of the twentieth century...
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Bells Beneath the Sea: photographs of the Suffolk Heritage Coast (Paperback) - Carl White
Ref: 587B
Legend has it that if you put your ear to Dunwich cliff on a stormy day you can hear the long-submerged bells of the town’s churches ringing under the waves. Such is the rich, haunting quality of this coastline, whose past resonates strongly in its present.
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Bygones: Gone to Burton (DVD) - Dick Joice
Ref: 860D
Filmed and televised in 1974, this is the third of the ‘Bygones’ special features that re-created the experiences of East Anglian farm workers before the First World War...
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Bygones: The Harvest (DVD) - Dick Joice
Ref: 829D
The harvest has always been the climax of the farming year. When this programme was first made, men in their eighties and nineties were able to recall harvests from before the First World War...
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Bygones: The Horsemen (DVD) - Dick Joice
Ref: 830D
At the turn of the century the work of the farm revolved around the farm horse. In 1975 the Anglia Bygones team, led by Dick Joice, filmed some remarkable men in their eighties and nineties who had worked with farm horses from before the First World War...
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Bygones : 3 DVD set offer (DVD)
Ref: 906S
Special Offer: al three Bygones DVDs for £39.95
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Down in the Valley (Paperback) - H W Freeman
Ref: 552B
The death of his mother releases Everard Mulliver from a duty-bound life and enables him to follow his instincts. With a new sense of freedom, his focus shifts from an inherited grocery business in Bury St Edmunds to an idyllic Suffolk village, where he buys a cottage.
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Farm Fatale (Hardback) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 681B
In the early 1990s Paul Heiney set aside his broadcasting career and swapped it for a life on the land. He decided that he would start his own farm and it would be like no other farm you could find.
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Farmers' Films (DVD) - East Anglian Film Archive
Ref: 806D
A programme of six short films, mostly from the 1950s, shot by farmers on their own farms. The East Anglian Film Archive invited the farmers or their relatives to give a commentary on each film in the 1990s...
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Farming Diaries: a life on the land (DVD) - Presented by Stephen Richmond
Ref: 209D
68-year-old John Want shows how he runs a 350-acre arable and cattle farm single-handed. He has been on the farm all his life and first of all tells Stephen how his mechanisation has advanced over the years.
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Farming Legacy 1910-2010, A (Paperback) - Rosalind Thomas
Ref: 669B
Celebrating the Centenary of the Felix Thornley Cobbold Agricultural Trust.
Established in Suffolk after the death of wealthy philanthropist Felix Cobbold. A Farming Legacy describes how the trust has developed during the course of a remarkable hundred years.
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Feeding the Nation (DVD) - New Classics
Ref: 276D
Formerly called Yesterday’s Farm
Archive footage drawn from ‘ITN Source’ reflects work in farming from the First World War to the 1960s. Farmers lived through half a century of debts, economic slump and two world wars during which agriculture changed for ever.
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First Steps to the Furrow (DVD) - Cheryl & Roger Clark, Paul Heiney
Ref: 848D
This video follows the progress of 3-year-old Suffolk Punch Taffy as he is trained for work by Roger and Cheryl Clark on their East Anglian farm...
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From Buddy to The Beatles (Hardback) - Stephen Foster and David Kindred
Ref: 546B
From 1958 to the mid 1960s the Ipswich Gaumont (aka the Regent) played host to a wonderful array of stars, among them Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Little Richard, The Kinks, The Everly Brothers, Marty Wilde, Helen Shapiro, Dusty Springfield, Cliff Richard, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles...
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Good Living, A (Paperback) - Hugh Barrett
Ref: 522B
In his personal view of English farming from 1937 to 1949, Hugh Barrett takes us back to the assortment of farms with which he was involved from his late teens...
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Hadleigh: the Portrait of a Suffolk Town. The photographs of Peter Boulton (Paperback) - Selected by David Kindred
Ref: 586B
Commercial photographer and film-maker Peter Boulton recorded Hadleigh and its people in the 1940s and ’50s. This thriving country town, ten miles west of Ipswich, gave him scope to photograph the activities that were typical of so many towns at that time.
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Harnessed to the Plough (DVD) - Cheryl & Roger Clark, Paul Heiney
Ref: 832D
In this popular video we see Roger and Cheryl Clark using working horses to run their farm in Suffolk. They show broadcaster and heavy horse enthusiast Paul Heiney the cycle of work that made up the farming year.
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Harvest from Sickle to Satellite (DVD) - Brian Bell
Ref: 855D
The 'Sickle to Satellite' working event organised in 1998 by Suffolk farmer Oliver Cooper offered a unique opportunity to see a hundred years of cereal harvesting equipment in operation...
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Harwich & Dovercourt: the photographs of Alfred Smith (Paperback) - David Kindred and Peter Goodwin
Ref: 601B
Standing on a narrow peninsula in north-east Essex, Harwich has had a long maritime history. The old port of Harwich with its fishing boats, the more modern terminal at Parkeston Quay and the promenade at Dovercourt are all reflected in the many photographs in this book.
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Horseman's Tale, The (DVD) - Ray Hubbard
Ref: 849D
In this programme celebrating the Suffolk Punch, Ray Hubbard speaks with a lifetime’s experience...
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In a Long Day: the Titshall photographs of farm and village life (2nd edition) (Paperback) - David Kindred & Roger Smith
Ref: 526B
From 1925 to 1935 commercial photographers Leonard and Ralph Titshall toured Suffolk recording farm workers, tradesmen and villagers...
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Ipswich: Lost Inns, Taverns and Public Houses (Paperback) - David Kindred
Ref: 674B
David Kindred’s book is a remarkable record of some 400 public houses, inns and beerhouses that have been in Ipswich.
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Ipswich: the changing face of the town (Hardback) - David Kindred
Ref: 661B
Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, has hosted famous engineering companies and major insurance groups; it is a progressive town which has transformed itself over the past hundred years. Today, new buildings jostle alongside those which have managed to survive for centuries.
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I Walked by Night (Paperback) - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard
Ref: 592B
Subtitled ‘the philosophy of the King of the Norfolk poachers, written by Himself’, this pot-pourri of autobiography, rural verse and philosophising has long been recognised as a rural classic. The superb illustrations by Edward Seago bring the text to life and remain long in the reader’s memory.
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Joseph and His Brethren (Paperback) - H W Freeman
Ref: 527B
Joseph and his Brethren follows the story of a Suffolk farming family through two generations. When Benjamin Geaiter purchases the run down Crakenhill Farm his presence is soon felt in the neighbouring villages...
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Just a Moment (Paperback) - David Kindred and Roger Smith
Ref: 558B
The photographs in this collection were taken in Suffolk between 1925 and 1935. The majority of the shots are of workmen paused for a moment in the course of their normal days...
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The King of the Norfolk Poachers: his life and times (Hardback)- Charlotte Paton
Ref: 568B
"If I had my time to come over again I would still be what I have been a poacher. So I remain, Gentlemen, The Ex King of the Norfolk Poachers." The name of the poacher was Frederick Rolfe - Charlotte Paton has researched his life and written his biography.
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Land Girls at the Old Rectory (Paperback) - Irene Grimwood
Ref: 528B
It was 1942 and Britain was running out of food. Twenty-year-old Irene Gibbs had always fancied working on the land...
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Land Girl's War, A (Paperback) - Joan Snelling
Ref: 543B
In April 1941 eighteen-year-old Joan Snelling, or ‘Pop’ to her friends, volunteered for work in the Women’s Land Army. Within weeks she was duly employed as a land girl at Hoveton Fruit Farm, Norfolk...
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Power of the Past (DVD) - Brian Bell
Ref: 856D
Bill Kemball's 'Power of the Past' event has quickly established itself as one of the most remarkable field demonstrations of vintage agricultural and allied machinery in Britain...
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Rabbit Skin Cap, The (Paperback) - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard
Ref: 593B
The wearer of the rabbit skin cap was George Baldry, born in the middle of the nineteenth century near Beccles on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was a true country lad at a time when youngsters were flocking from the countryside to the town and the old simple ways were disappearing forever.
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Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs (Hardback) - Anthony Clare
Ref: 536B
Aimed at tractor and ploughing enthusiasts, this is the first book to classify, describe and show the wide range of ploughs produced by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies...
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Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies (Hardback) - Brian Bell
Ref: 535B
Ploughs and tillage machinery, steam engines, grass-cutting equipment, trolleybuses, threshers, tractors, combines, electric trucks...
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Steam at Strumpshaw (DVD) - Brian Bell
Ref: 861D
Norfolk’s Strumpshaw steam museum is the venue for a rally held in wooded parkland each spring...
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Suffolk Steam Railways (Paperback) - David Kindred
Ref: 588B
The 200 photographs in this book reflect the diversity and importance that steam once had in East Anglia. For a hundred years it was the main carrier of people and freight, and a major employer, even though Suffolk was a mainly agricultural county with relatively few lines.
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The Truth Behind 'I Walked by Night' (DVD) - Peter Hodges and Charlotte Paton
Ref: 261D
In her book The King of the Norfolk Poachers Charlotte Paton described the results of her search for Frederick Rolfe’s real life, comparing it with the account published in Lilias Rider Haggard's book I Walked by Night. In this companion DVD Charlotte shows how she went about her search and interviews people associated with Rolfe and his world.
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Victorian Summer, A (DVD) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 813D
This beautifully filmed Anglia television series presented by Paul Heiney takes you back to an era when farming methods revolved around the horse and the life of a village was dependent on its farms...
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Victorian Winter & Spring, A (DVD) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 803D
Victorian farming wasn’t all about making hay while the sun shone. There were tough winters and hectic springs to provide plenty of challenges for the hard-working farmer.
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A Wartime Winter & Summer (DVD) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 866D
When the Second World War broke out Britain faced much more than a military crisis. Two-thirds of our food was imported, but these imports were immediately halted by the German blockade. If Britain was not to starve, it had to do two things: reduce consumption of food in the home and increase production on the farm
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Yesterday’s Farm - East Anglia and beyond (DVD) - New Classics
Ref: not-available
Now called Feeding the Nation
link to Feeding the Nation
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