Aldeburgh Music Club are going from strength to strenght under their new conductor, Edmond Fivet. Following two sell out concerts at Aldeburgh Church and Orford Church, they are now mounting their most ambitious and interesting programme; a weekend of music by William Walton to include

Belshazzar's Feast on Saturday 28 November at 7.30 pm at Snape Maltings Concert Hall once again supported by Suffolk's finest orchestra The Prometheus and the Phoenix singers and Prometheus singers with Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone.

“Who will come a-sailing,

Who will come with me,

Down the sunny Deben

To the distant sea?”

Framlingham is well known for its castle and its many attractive buildings. The villages surrounding Framlingham have large village greens, a long history of brewing and witchcraft (or at least witch trials) which will all be explained in another article.

But now to smuggling and an extract from Smuggling in the British Isles: a History by Richard Platt For more detail visit his website www.smuggling.co.uk

The ancient market town of Woodbridge was once a major ship building town providing ships for the English fleet fighting the Spanish Armada in 1588 and today there are still many boats in the river, some working but the majority leisure craft.

Just a few miles from the sea at Bawdsey smuggling boats would have travelled up the Deben Estuary to land their bounty in Woodbridge or beyond. Below is an extract from Smuggling in the British Isles: a History by Richard Platt For more detail visit his website www.smuggling.co.uk

SKETCHBOOKING COURSES ON THE SUFFOLK COAST FOR 2009
with artist Tessa Henderson

TESSA HENDERSON is a professional artist with an excellent reputation for portraits of buildings, sketching and painting.

Inspired by her father, architect Bill Henderson, Tessa has, from early childhood, kept sketchbook diaries of landscapes and buildings she has discovered during her travels.