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The model of the Rapid has now been installed at the ‘Lines of Sight’ exhibition at Norwich Castle Museum. Our Chairman, Graham Denny, attended the opening of the exhibition. More infomation can be found at https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/norwich-castle/whats-on/exhibitions/lines-of-sight

The model of the punt ‘Rapid’, together with a number of other items mentioned in ‘Rings of Saturn’, has been loaned by the Reading Room to the Norwich Castle Museum for their exhibition ‘Lines of Sight: W. G. Sebald’s East Anglia’ which runs until January 2020. More infomation can be found at https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/norwich-castle/whats-on/exhibitions/lines-of-sight The model was collected in early May and will return next year.

The front room of the Reading Room underwent a major refurbishment during February 2018. A team of volunteers, under the watchful eye of Stephen Wells, removed all the exhibits and models from the walls and ledges, to enable a complete clean down and repaint. Then everything had to be put back – no mean task, but the result is stunning.  

To mark the end of the Great War, the Reading Room hosted a presentation by The Southwold Players “Lest we Forget, Southwold Remembers” – a moving performance of poems, prose, songs and recollection, in memory of men of Reydon and Southwold who fell in the Great War 1914-1918. It was a moving experience and the retiring collection of £303.24 was donated to the British Legion. photos by Graham Denny

In November 2018 the Reading Room hosted the filming of a video about Maria Perks, the winner of the Heritage Alliance Heritage Heroes outstanding contribution award for 2018. The video can be viewed here https://www.theheritagealliance.org.uk/heritage-heroes-award/ photos by Graham Denny and Tom Bright

On Monday 27th August there was a Tombola outside the Reading Room.

The Reading Room hosted a re-enactment of the Battle of Sole Bay on its 345th anniversary.  To read more about the background to the event in an article written by Simon MacDowall who was one of the gamers involved in the re-enactment Click Here.