Posts by Author: Candida Wingate
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Personal Archives and the Joy of Collage
Last week, we invited Broadland residents to take part in a guided activity to create a personal archive. Limited to just four items – a thing, a smell, a sound […]
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Special Delivery Illustrated News
WOMEN WORKERS FOUND WORKING A photograph of nurses from Lowestoft Hospital, hand coloured by a resident at Broadlands. WASHING FOUND DRYING Wax resist techniques used by Eve to recreate a […]
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Special Delivery Archive Headlines
READ ALL ABOUT IT The Penguin Post brings you the latest news on visit to Suffolk Archives. Lily Silly News spills the beans on half term mayhem. Daily Jolly News […]
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Greetings from Lowestoft
During half term, Special Delivery ran a family workshop at Lowestoft library, inviting participants to create their own postcards. Inspired by examples of old postcards from collections in Suffolk Archives, […]
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A Memorable Visit to the Archives
From tracing the history of the Maconochie brothers (who knew they invented Pan Yan pickle?) to browsing newspaper headlines in the 1930’s and studying maps that predated the building at […]
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Punctuation and a Penguin Poem
Who knew that using upper case letters in a text meant you were shouting, and punctuation must mean you’re angry, because otherwise you wouldn’t write like that? Well, I didn’t, […]
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Early mornings and doily envelopes
We’ve got quite an exchange of information and artwork going between the children at Oulton Broad Primary and residents at Broadlands, including postcards, booklets and bunches of flowers. The other […]
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Say it with flowers
We’ve been looking at the letter written by Jessie Stockdale, and thinking about the hard life she led, as a ‘tweenie’ maid; her story is beautifully illustrated by Lynn and […]
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