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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Lightships
The history of the lightship, including the recollections of retired mariner Charlie Moll, and archive footage of fisher girls at Yarmouth.
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Overview
Life on a modern lightship, in 1970; a film made by David Cleveland who later founded the first regional film archive, the East Anglian Film Archive. Includes the most interesting recollections from retired fisherman and lightshipman, Charlie Moll, who joined the employ of Trinity House in 1920 and remembers those days when life on a lightship was hard. There also features archive footage of the Scottish fisher girls gutting and packing herring at Great Yarmouth in 1935.
The idea for a light vessel was patented by Robert Hambling of Kings Lynn.
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