Event - All aboard heritage barge (Newark)

Newark’s heritage barge, the Leicester Trader, will be open to the public from 10am today ahead of an annual meeting, which will be held on board the boat at 1pm.

 

The barge is moored at the bottom of 24 The Weavers, Newark, the home of Mr Les Reid, who is behind the barge project.

 

From:  http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/articles/news/All-aboard-heritage-barge

Leicester Trader homepage: http://www.newarkheritagebarge.com/

News - Take a look at Newark as seen in 1942

A wartime propaganda documentary set in Newark has been published online as part of a project to make a national archive of films available to the public.

 

The 1942 documentary, called Market Town, was one of many films commissioned by the British Council.

It would have been sent all over the globe to showcase Britain to the outside world. The ten-minute film follows the events of a typical market day, highlighting Newark’s importance as a central hub for buying and selling activities between town and country.

 

Although the narrator makes a point of not naming Newark or its landmarks — there were wartime security restrictions and the plan was to focus on a typical, not specific, market town — there is no mistaking its identity as the film’s location.

The view of Newark Parish Church from the surrounding countryside as people walk, cycle or drive to the town for market day is the first give away.

Vehicles pass the former Midland Hotel, near the Castle Station railway crossing, heading over Beastmarket Hill into the town.

Farmers are filmed driving their animals through the streets to the cattle market, which, in 1942, was located at what is now the Riverside Arena on Tolney Lane, where it remained until 1990.

An auction at the cattle market is captured on film, along with buying and selling at the poultry market at The Wharf.

An aerial shot shows old-style market stalls in the largely unchanged surroundings of the Market Place.

The Town Hall and other historic buildings around the Market Place, including the Governor’s House (now Greggs) and the White Hart Inn, which was Bainbridge and Co at the time and is now The Nottingham, are featured.

The film also shows scenes of the old British Sugar factory and maltings along the River Trent.

The footage has been digitised and published online through the Time/Image project, which is inviting the public to explore and discuss the films of the British Council.

The Newark film has been held in the British Film Institute archives for decades without being seen by the public.

A member of the project, Sarah Cole, said they did not know why Newark was chosen.

She said it may be because a similar film, called Country Town, was filmed about the same time at Boston.

The film charts the development of Newark at the crossing of the River Trent, including the building of the Fosse Way, now the A46, and the Great North Road, now the A1.

Sarah Cole said there were some complaints at the time that it misrepresented Newark’s history, showing it growing up around the roads and market rather than the castle.

She said: “The differences between Newark today and Newark in 1942 are compelling — seeing how the main landmarks have remained the same while the scenery and people around them have changed is fascinating.”

She urged people to contact them with their opinions about the film and if it held any particular significance for them. Email the project team at info@timeimage.org.uk

 

From: http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/articles/news/Take-a-look-at-Newark-as-seen-in-1942

 

If you go to the Newark Advertiser website you can watch the 10 minute film

 

Canal exhibition in need of objects and pictures to show

Curators of an exhibition on the Chesterfield Canal are looking for owners of objects or photographs relating to the waterway who would be happy to have them go on public display.  The display will be part of the exhibition Life in North Nottinghamshire, to be held at Thoresby Hall, near Clumber Park, from February 18 to March 20.

A spokesman for the Chesterfield Canal Trust said: "We are keen to mount as varied a display as possible and so are appealing for contributions to supplement our own collection.  "Doubtless many people will have photographs of the canal. "Old ones are often the most interesting, but there may be documents, maps, leaflets or artefacts like signs or parts of boats or locks. "If you have anything that may be of interest, please email publicity@chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk or ring 01246 434762.  "The trust will take great care anything that it receives on loan."


The Chesterfield Canal runs for 46 miles from the River Trent to the middle of Chesterfield, linking Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.  The whole length of the canal can be walked on a towpath known as The Cuckoo Way.  Since 1989, more than 11 miles of the canal has been restored, along with 36 locks and 11 bridges, owing to work by the Chesterfield Canal Trust.

From: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Canal-exhibition-in-need-of.6685992.jp

Newark Torc Goes on Exhibition at British Museum

The British Museum has exhibited the Newark Torc alongside the museum's own Sedgeford Torc, both of which date back to the pre-Roman Iron Age. Composed of twisted gold wire strands attached to hollow terminals, both torcs are adorned with 'La Tene' decorations, Past Horizons reported.

Visitors can see the two relics at the museum's Britain and Europe (800BCE -43CE) gallery in an exhibition which clearly depicts the complex craftsmanship behind their construction.

The broken Sedgeford Torc was found near the village of Sedgeford in Norfolk is displayed in separate components.

The larger part of the torc has been slightly unwound which makes it easier to see the technique employed in braiding the gold wires.

The dislocated terminal, which was found separately during fieldwork by the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project in 2004, shows the way that the wires were joined together.

The Newark Torc is a complete torc found by a metal detector on the outskirts of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England in February 2005 and declared Treasure in May of that year.

The torc is made of electrum, an alloy of gold, silver and copper, weighs 700 grams and is 20 centimeters in diameter. It was purchased in 2006 for Newark's Millgate Museum, with significant grant aid from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

The body of the torc is composed of rolled gold alloy wires, plaited into eight thin ropes, which were then twisted together. The ring-shaped terminals bear floral designs.

The Newark Torc is closely similar to the Sedgeford torc and some experts suggest that they might have been made by the same craftsman.

 

From: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155631.html

 

Trent Vale Archaeology Blog

As part of the Community Archaeology project on the river Trent the Trent Vale Landscape Partnership runs a blog with regular updates on their projects of this historic landscape which still has remains from prehistory to medieval and beyond.  Their latest blog covers the work done around Knaith the other weekend, the new mosaics at Gainsborough and recent work at Littleborough:

The latest instalment is available at: http://trentvale.wordpress.com/

Community Archaeology - Knaith & Collingham Riverside Surveys

Community Archaeology will be doing two surveys along the river Trent this month:

The first is around Knaith on the 15th November and the second around Collingham on 30th November.  

For further details get in touch with them via e-mail at community.archaeology@nottscc.gov.uk, phone 0115 977 2160 or via the website at http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/environment/heritage/archaeology/communityarchaeology.htm