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| MADDY PRIOR & RED OKTOBER |
| St.Peters church is the venue for a concert on
28th October. Performing will be Maddy Prior and the girls who are currently touring the
UK and local trio Red Oktober. Maddy Prior singing with her daughter Rose Kemp who at 18
is already a talented singer and songwriter in her own right and Abbie Lathe a singer
songwriter and multi-instrumentalist form this fabulous acoustic trio. Maddy Prior who has
been performing for over 30 years and who is probably most famous for being the focal
point of Steeleye Span in the seventies whose most memorable hits include All Around My
Hat and Gaudete is complemented by her daughter and Abbie who put an emphasis on vocal
harmony. |
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| Red Oktober who are Tony, Paul and Brent have
been playing and singing together since 1999. Individually they have played the UK and
overseas in theatres, concert halls and other public arenas. One of the group has
performed in Beijing to a somewhat startled audience of non-English speakers, while
another has featured in a Singapore ceildh band. Recently Red Oktober hosted a concert
with Brian McNerny. The combination of the two trios performing promises to make this an
evening not to be missed. All proceeds from the concert are going to the RNLI. The concert
starts at 8pm and tickets are priced at £12 and can be obtained by calling the box office
on Sheringham 01263 823665 or 01865 241717. |
| MEMORIES OF SHERINGHAM Part 3 |
Shops? Well they were
excellent. Pages & Rusts and the Co-op were as good as any department stores of today,
selling everything from groceries, wines, spirits, clothes, house linen, materials by the
yard, shoes, etc. The Co-op even had a bakery, butchery, and dairy, coal merchents,
funeral directors and shoe repairing departments. Hunts, Knowles & Bradleys the
high-class and middle class gent's outfitters and The International Stores for more
groceries. Jarrolds, Rounce & Wortleys for printing and fancy goods.
There were six further butchers, family butchers all of whom the names I know, Dennis,
Dewhurst, Arthur's, Young's, Gowing and London Meat Co., three bakeries, Leeder, Lusher
and Lambert. Numerous other small shops were in and around the town, selling various
commodities to suit every ones daily requirement. Some of today's shop owners are
grandchildren of the original owners for example, Starlings, Hunts, Lushers (until
recently), Watts and the younger ones of Blyth & Wrights. (I can remember those
grandfathers).
The Town Clock housed a reservoir with running water filling troughs on the outside of the
walls, from which horses could drink from, there still being a certain amount of horse and
cart traffic in the thirties. The town's street lighting was by gas lamps and I often saw
the lighter man going from lamp to lamp lighting them up.
Fishermen used to stand in line leaning on the sea wall at the bottom of High Street, with
their 'ganzies' or smock and caps on, no doubt waiting for the tide to come in or out
whichever was right to do their jobs. One fisherman used to call at houses with a basket
on his arm containing 'dabs' (small plaice) which he sold at 4 for 1/-, all fresh,
straight from the sea I imagine and early enough to eat for breakfast, his name was Mr
Scotter.
A Sheringham Resident |
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