Stradbroke on the Big Screen

Friday February 15th  2019 at 7.30 p.m.. 

An illustrated talk  by Gerald Jenkins at the Community Centre.

With a new projector, sound equipment and a giant screen now installed in the Community Centre,  it is possible  to offer  a new high quality presentation of the history of  Stradbroke and to see how it has changed over the years,  The talk  will begin  with images taken from  the dawn of photography and the  very early glass plates which were  rescued by Geoffrey Smith and Alan Ward  and then  digitalised as part of  Stradbroke’s Millennium Project, now nearly twenty years ago.  Those pictures have been supplemented by many others that have come to light since  and with  yet more taken by other  photographers in recent times.  It  is a source of proper pride to say  that Stradbroke now finds itself to be one of the best recorded villages anywhere in Britain, with images covering the span of more than 150 years between about 1861 and the present day.  

If you have been to any of the presentations  in recent years called ‘Stradbroke Now and Then’ you may have seen many of these  pictures before.   However, it has never been  possible to display them to such a size and quality as it is now.  Of course it goes without saying that for those who  are new to the village, then this will  be a fine way to get to know  Stradbroke better and to understand how it has come to look as it does today.

Admission £3.  All proceeds to FOASS to be used towards repairs to the Church.