The East Anglian Film Archive, the first and largest Regional Film Archive in England, was established in 1976. Since 1984, EAFA has been owned and operated by the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UEA), to support research and work to preserve our moving image heritage. More than 250 hours are freely available online as examples of the wide range of film which attracts interest the world over.
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An Old English Garden
The garden of Ivy Cottage, filmed in Kodachrome for the vibrancy of summer blooms, and sombre black-and-white for the winter, snowy scenes.
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Overview
Ivy Cottage, in the Bedfordshire village of Apsley Guise looks much the same today, with its traditional wrought iron gate and red brick garden wall separating the front garden from the traffic passing along West Hill. Apsley Guise boasts an unusually large amount of listed buildings with thirty or more examples, many of them early Georgian, including Aspley House – a small country house built in 1695 in the style of Sir Christopher Wren.
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