The East Anglian Film Archive, the first and largest Regional Film Archive in England, was established in 1976. Since 1984, EAFA has been owned and operated by the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UEA), to support research and work to preserve our moving image heritage. More than 250 hours are freely available online as examples of the wide range of film which attracts interest the world over.
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Bluewater Holiday
The couples rendezvous at New Holland station on the Humber estuary, on their way to the Norfolk Broads in an Austin 12/4.
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Overview
The boat they hire is ‘Bluewater’ - a 4-berth cabin cruiser offering luxury accommodation for their Norfolk Broads holiday. Between 26th May and 4th June 1940, just seven years later and in very different times, the cruiser Bluewater would join around 850 other craft that crossed the Channel to Dunkirk in France to help rescue more than 336,000 British and French soldiers from the Normandy beaches. Sadly, Bluewater did not return.