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1955

The Festival Returns

A four day music festival, as part of a run of triennial events.

The Festival was given a year’s reprieve in 1954 to ‘recover from the Festival of Britain’ celebrations, and so instead took place in 1955.

The Carlton Cinema provided the venue for the concerts, with St Andrew’s Hall now deemed not fully suitable or large enough for the visiting Hallé Orchestra.

With austerity still gripping much of society, tickets numbers were low even if the artistic talent on show was high.

In order to help secure the future of the institution, the Festival Trust was set up this year to support the activities of the festival and its members include Timothy Colman and Sir Edmund Bacon.

Programme front cover 1955. Image Courtesy of Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

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