WROXHAM CHURCH HALL is available for hire during the day. It has a modern kitchen, good facilities and good car parking. For more information ring Pat Mills, Tel: 01603 783682.
KIDS’ CINEMA CLUB Please note that the Kids’ Cinema Club at Hoveton Village Hall has been cancelled for the rest of the year.
AN AWARD TO BE PROUD OF and the helpful Wroxham resident who deserved it. Go to
www.wroxhamhistory.wordpress.com then click on From Barry’s Scrapbook.
THIS MONTH’S COVER ‘Viscount Nelson’ by Guy Head (1753-1800). A date that will be mostly overlooked again in all the current political madness is October 21st - Trafalgar Day - a day on which to celebrate Norfolk’s most celebrated son (no, not Stephen Fry ...). Born at Burnham Thorpe in 1758, Horatio Nelson attended the Paston School in North Walsham and Norwich School, learned to sail on the Norfolk Broads, and joined his first ship, the Agamemnon, aged 13. The Nelson of popular imagination was a humane commander who had the common touch and ignored the divisions of rank or faction, and whilst it is fashionable to try and demolish this image today, it is very likely true. In this portrait of 1798-9 he appears with one of his midshipmen at the moment of victory during the famous Battle of the Nile (1798). The lad - sadly anonymous, but probably one of Nelson’s hand-picked Norfolk-born ‘Band of Brothers’ - hands over the French admiral’s sword wrapped in a captured French flag. In the background two battle-scarred ships fly white ensigns hoisted over French tricolours under a dramatic stormy sky. The portrait, which commemorates one of the most decisive victories in English naval history, is based on life studies made by Guy Head, who met Nelson in Naples soon after the event. The portrait shows Nelson’s earlier loss of an arm but the artist has taken the licence of showing Nelson otherwise unscathed, though in truth his forehead would have been bandaged as a result of the serious wounds he received. By the end of battle, Nelson had been wounded above his right eye, was bandaged, bloodstained and exhausted and far from this polished officer at ease on his quarterdeck. Norwich Castle Museum is to host the return of another famous Nelson portrait, that by Sir William Beechey, from October 12th as part of the ‘Coming Home’ initiative of the National Portrait Gallery. National Portrait Gallery / Nick Walmsley
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