Everyone
trooped upstairs to watch the DVD. I
counted one hundred people and more in the audience.
Andy Attenburrow, one of the makers of the DVD, introduced the film
and he praised John Wolton
who had composed and recorded the musical score.
The film is a beauty, lovely to watch, full of incident, personal
testimony, and arresting scenes of both historic and present day Wivenhoe. It was received with delight, everybody enjoyed it, and it
was rewarded with enthusiastic applause. The
book Sea-change: Wivenhoe Remembered, published by Tempus, is an absolute
corker. It has been
beautifully produced, replete with sparky anecdotes, and it gives a
portrait of the changing scene: the farms, fishing and sailing, the
shipyards, the shops and pubs, the coming of the artists and the
university - and much else besides. All
the interviews are marvellously
evocative – all those stories and memories – and the photographic
record of Wivenhoe is just fantastic. A
roaring trade was done that evening, I understand 105 copies of Sea-change
were sold, and now - if you've not got one yet - it is available at
the Wivenhoe Bookshop. Peter Kennedy
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Then
Paul Thompson said "This is the culmination of two and a half year's
work ... we've had high quality professional help, and an outstanding
transcriber in Marion