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Aldeburgh was a Parliamentary Borough from 1571, and returned two Members of Parliament, the right to vote being vested in the Freemen of the town.
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Aldeburgh and was
By 1850, Newson was a prosperous businessman and was able to build Alde House, a mansion on a hill behind Aldeburgh.
There was no school in Aldeburgh so Elizabeth learned the three Rs from her mother.
On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.
She was born Millicent Garrett in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Millicent Garrett was born on 11 June 1847 in Aldeburgh to Newson Garrett, a warehouse owner, and his wife Louise Dunnell.
Britten was also responsible, together with Pears and the librettist / producer Eric Crozier, for the founding of the Aldeburgh Festival, and the creation of Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.
The Aldeburgh Festival was duly launched in June 1948, with Albert Herring playing at the Jubilee Hall and Britten ’ s new cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Saint Nicolas, in the Parish Church.
By the 1960s, the Aldeburgh Festival was outgrowing its customary venues, and plans to build a new concert hall in Aldeburgh were not progressing, when redundant Victorian maltings buildings in the village of Snape, down the road from where Britten used to live, became available to hire.
The converted 830-seat Snape Maltings Concert Hall was opened by HM The Queen on the opening of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival on 2 June 1967 and was immediately hailed as one of the best concert halls in the country.
The internationally renowned Aldeburgh Festival of arts, which takes place at nearby Snape Maltings, was created in 1948 by the resident and acclaimed composer Benjamin Britten.
In the 16th century, Aldeburgh was a leading port, and had a flourishing ship-building industry.
Aldeburgh was the first British town to elect a female mayor: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, in 1908.
The hall was restored and the external staircase and gable ends were rebuilt in 1854-5, under the direction of R. M. Phipson, the chief architect of the Diocese of Norwich, in which Aldeburgh then stood.
* The poet George Crabbe was born in Aldeburgh in 1754 and the town forms a loose basis for his poems The Village and The Borough.
* Annie Hall Cudlip the novelist was born in Aldeburgh in 1838.
* Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett ( 1847 – 1929 ), suffragist and feminist, was born in Aldeburgh.
Aldeburgh Carnival takes place annually in August, with a continuous history dating back to at least 1892 and possibly as far back as 1832 when " Ye Olde Marine Regatta " was mentioned.
Why not have an Aldeburgh Festival ?” The English Opera Group would provide a core programme of opera productions, but the vision was soon widened to include readings of poetry, literature, drama, lectures and exhibitions of art.
The first festival was held from the 5 June 1948 to the 13 June 1948 and used the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, a few doors away from Britten's house in Crabbe Street, as its main venue, with performances in other venues such as Aldeburgh's fifteenth-century church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
However, the lack of a large venue was holding back the further development of the Festival until one of the largest mid-nineteenth century maltings in East Anglia, at Snape, a village just outside Aldeburgh, became available.
Aldeburgh and Parliamentary
When he secured the Lordship of Aldeburgh for them in 1588 he also secured the Aldeburgh Parliamentary Constituency, which elected two Members of Parliament ( MPs ).
Aldeburgh and from
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The region has a wide range of small-scale holiday resorts ranging from the traditional coastal towns of Felixstowe and Lowestoft in Suffolk and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to small fishing villages like Aldeburgh and Southwold in Suffolk.
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The Red House in Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears lived and worked together from 1957 until Britten ’ s death in 1976, is now the home of the Britten-Pears Foundation, established to promote their musical legacy.
Just south of the beach at Aldeburgh is Orford Ness, which can be reached by a track leading from Aldeburgh, which is popular with people sea fishing.
Aldeburgh railway station opened in 1860 as the terminus of the Aldeburgh Branch Line from Saxmundham.
It is situated near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about from the North Sea coast and is northeast of Ipswich and northeast from London.
A rail branch spur from the Great Eastern Line, known as the Aldeburgh Branch Line, went from Saxmundham to Aldeburgh, with intermediate stations at Leiston and Thorpeness.
When its dedicatee, Rostropovich gave the first performance, at the 1970 Aldeburgh Festival, Britten, who conducted the performance, regarded it as a major work, and persuaded Bliss to change its title from " Concertino " to Concerto.
Cunt ( 1999 ) is a novel by Stewart Home written in the form of a journal kept by a novelist from Aldeburgh called David Kelso ( who also has a false passport in the name of Kevin Callan ).
Carter was also present at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival to hear the world premiere of his song-cycle On Conversing with Paradise, based on Ezra Pound's Canto 95 ( from the section Rock-Drill ) and one of Pound's ' Notes ' intended for later Cantos, and usually published at the end of the Cantos .< ref >
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Aldeburgh and returned
With their support, Coke was returned for Aldeburgh as an MP in February 1589.
Lord Douro was returned to parliament for Aldeburgh in 1829, a seat he held until 1832.
Aldeburgh and two
It is located on the East Anglian coast just north of the larger holiday villages of Thorpeness and Aldeburgh, and two miles from the town of Leiston.
Perhaps her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten.
The county was constantly represented in parliament by two knights from 1290, until the Reform Bill of 1832 gave four members to Suffolk, at the same time disfranchising the boroughs of Dunwich, Orford and Aldeburgh.
Officially opened in 1967 by HM Queen Elizabeth II, the Hall suffered serious fire damage two years later, re-opening in time for the Aldeburgh Festival the following year.
Aldeburgh and Parliament
* William Mason ( MP ) for Aldeburgh ( UK Parliament constituency )
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