All Our Yesterdays: October Arts and entertainment in Downham Market, Gaywood, Hunstanton, King’s Lynn, South Wootton, Swaffham and Watlington
In our weekly All Our Yesterdays feature, we look back through the pages of the Lynn News…
October 2005: Cast members of King’s Lynn Operatic and Dramatic Society, preparing to tread the boards when staging Dad’s Army at Lynn Arts Centre, were put through their paces by the real Army. Warrant officer Paul Connell (left) and Sgt Dave Linley, of the 158 Transport Regiment, give instructions to Mark Gridwood, Alex Swan, Tobie Fysh and Alistair Quinn.
October 2005: Watlington Players launched their autumn production, Kindly Leave the Stage, with a brand new box office. Long-time member Ginny Robson-Hull took over running the group’s ticket sales from Bill Cameron – who had run the ticket office from his home for 13 years.
October 2005: An all-women cast provided a feminine touch for Downham Amateur Dramatics Society’s production of the bitter-sweet Steel Magnolias. Pictured in rehearsal before the three-day run are, from left, Sue Matthews, Kerry Smith, Faye Davenport, Elaine Johnson, Janet Rust and Cath Duhig.
October 2004: Members of Reffley Art Club each contributed towards a painting of David and Victoria Beckham for their latest project. Front from left are Jean Whitehead, Peter Clark and Val Hart; centre, Margaret Eynon and Christine Spooner; back, Bob Cloudesley and Peter Eyre.
October 2004: All smiles from South Wootton Junior School’s dance club before they gave a concert for old folk at St Katherine’s Court in Gaywood Road, Lynn. The show included solos and duets of popular songs, dances and musicals.
October 2004: Pupils from four West Norfolk high schools had the chance to celebrate the Bard at Lynn Corn Exchange, each giving their own 30-minute version of a Shakespeare play. Pictured here, a scene from The Tempest, performed by Lynn’s Park High School, with Dean Flanagan (left) as Arial and Gary Claxton as Trincalo in The Tempest.
October 2004: These are just some of the dazzling dancers of Wendy Nixon’s Swaffham Performa Academy pictured at the Princess Theatre in Hunstanton preparing for their roles in the festive panto Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood.
October 2004: Actor and television presenter Tony Robinson’s cunning plan to visit Ottakar’s Bookshop in Lynn paid off when scores of people queued round the shelves to meet the man behind the Blackadder character Baldrick. He was in town to sign copies of his book The Worst Jobs in History.
October 2004: Students from the Footlights Dance Centre in Lynn, beat 31 other schools from across the country in the finals of a Mardi Gras Challenge at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London – to win their chance to perform in a show on New York’s Broadway in 2005. It was the second year in a row the senior dancers under the direction of Tina Rodgers and Karen Darlington had triumphed in the competition.
October 2005: An art exhibition, Nelson in Norfolk, was held at Henderson Art and Framing in Gaywood to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. Shop owner Bill Henderson puts the finishing touches to the show.
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