The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Award-winning Salcombe bartender
Hippy Hippy Shakes - Award-winning cocktail waiter in Salcombe
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Overview
Westward reporter Lawrie Quayle interviews Graham from Salcombe a bartender who has achieved a Topline award for professional bartending. Out of a possible 11,000 cocktails Graham has memorised over 250. Mixing up a marine special and marine after eight cocktail for Lawrie Quayle to sample.
The International Bartenders Association was founded in Torquay on 24 February 1951, have been at Britain’s forefront of standards, cocktail mixology and competition.
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