Film Launch : A Fun History of Thetford’s Rivers 1880s to 2000s

Last month we had the launch of the Tales from the Riverbank film at Thetford Library, with over 50 people attending the first screening of the short film. The audience included under 10s to over 90 year olds – the young historians who created the film and donors of memories, images and historic material – along with project volunteers, supporters, and local residents.

Community filmmaker Lewis Wickwar worked with the young people doing animation and location filming during a week-long Riverbank summer club in August at Ancient House Museum. The young people’s imagination and enthusiasm brought to life to life oral history accounts, images and historic and new material gathered by Tales from the River project volunteers.