The film is set in and around Southwold, Suffolk, England, with key landmarks such as the Victorian water tower, Southwold Lighthouse and the River Blyth estuary clearly identifiable.

The Southwold Earthworks near St. Thomas, Ontario contains the remains of a pre-contact Neutral village and is a National Historic Site of Canada.

In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents ' house in Southwold, which was to remain his base for the next five years.

Blair was writing reviews for Adelphi and acting as a private tutor to a disabled child at Southwold.

Eleanor Jacques was now married and had gone to Singapore and Brenda Salkield had left for Ireland, so Blair was relatively isolated in Southwold — working on the allotments, walking alone and spending time with his father.

Later Blair was expelled from the crammer at Southwold for sending a dead rat as a birthday present to the town surveyor.

Brenda Salkield ( Southwold ) preferred friendship to any deeper relationship and maintained a correspondence with Blair for many years, particularly as a sounding board for his ideas.

It was in the home of Mabel Fierz, who had, with her husband, a London businessman named Francis, been for a number of years a visitor to Southwold in the summer, and who was on friendly terms with the Blairs, that Orwell discarded the typescript.

Public houses lost in the town since 1952 were The Marquis of Lorne, The Brickmakers Arms, The Queen Victoria ( now a restaurant but once notable for being the only non-Adnams pub in the town ), The Royal and The Southwold Arms.

From January to June 1922 he attended a cramming establishment in Southwold to prepare for his Indian Police Service exams and his career in Burma.

After Orwell returned from Paris in December 1929, he used his parents ' house in Southwold as his base for the next five years.

Salinger, in order to write for the fanzine with a degree of anonymity, but credited himself by this name on the very first MBA demo ( recorded in March 2000 at Fat Music Studios in Southwold ); the name then stuck for the duration of his time in MBA.

Southwold Township Opened for settlement in 1797, however the first colonist arrived in 1809.

Additionally, the inflated house prices in Southwold have led to a number of properties in Reydon being purchased for holiday homes and second homes.

Following the granting of an Act of Parliament on 1 April 1757, which included additional powers for the Southwold Harbour trustees, a new survey was carried out by Langley Edwards, who estimated the cost at £ 3, 000, which included the purchase of Wenhaston watermill.

Southwold harbour is used for moorings, and can accommodate 110 boats, while navigation is still possible to Blythburgh, although the Bailey bridge restricts access to smaller boats.

A planning application for a railway steam park in Southwold was approved in February 2009.

Note: Any references to St Nicholas, Newcastle on the IGI under Libbis are misattributions of records from St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth and the same applies for misattributions that say Earsdon by North Shields, but should say St Edmund's, Southwold.

He also wrote a large number of short stories, many of them under the Southwold name being for children.

* Listen Children: Stories for Spare Moments ( 1926 ) as Stephen Southwold

It is hoped that the Southwold Railway Trust will conserve a little piece of this historic and unique railway for current and future generations.

The village is noteworthy for its huge area of flooded marshes which lead to the estuary of the River Blyth, the river flows from west of Halesworth to the North Sea between Southwold and Walberswick.

On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold.

His father had retired to Southwold, Suffolk by this time ; Blair was enrolled at a crammer there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his classics, English and History.

In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner.

He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter who worked as a gym-teacher at St Felix Girls ' School, Southwold.

There is Blair leading a respectable, outwardly eventless life at his parents ' house in Southwold, writing ; then in contrast, there is Blair as Burton ( the name he used in his down-and-out episodes ) in search of experience in the kips and spikes, in the East End, on the road, and in the hop fields of Kent.

Blair ended the year by deliberately getting himself arrested, so he could experience Christmas in prison, but the authorities did not regard his " drunk and disorderly " behaviour as imprisonable, and he returned home to Southwold after two days in a police cell.

At the end of the summer term in 1932, Blair returned to Southwold, where his parents had used a legacy to buy their own home.

When he was discharged in January 1934, he returned to Southwold to convalesce and, supported by his parents, never returned to teaching.

Meanwhile, Blair started work on the novel A Clergyman's Daughter, drawing upon his life as a teacher and on life in Southwold.

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

Later in Southwold his sister Avril recalled him blowing up the garden.

When teaching he enthused his students with his nature-rambles both at Southwold and Hayes.

He had a girl in Southwold and another girl in London.

In Southwold he had the best cloth from the local tailor, but was equally happy in his tramping outfit.

Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.

In 1966 he married Helen Gibbins, whom he first met in 1959 on holiday in Southwold in Suffolk.

* King Henry VII gives a city charter to Southwold.

Adnams PLC is a British regional brewery company founded in 1872 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, by George and Ernest Adnams.

The Sole Bay Brewery in Southwold was purchased in 1872 by George and Ernest Adnams.

* Southwold Bitter, a 3. 7 % abv session bitter.