Your Blicking memories

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Your Blicking memories

Web Team - Celia Sutton 20/11/2006, 3:29 PM

A big party is being planned to celebrate a Norfolk stately home’s 10 years of staging pop music concerts.

More than 250,000 people have flocked to Blickling Hall’s lakeside open air arena for summer gigs ranging from rock and reggae to boogie-woogie and popular opera.

The EDP is keen to hear from the untold tales from front of house too involving the public. Were you proposed to in the romantic setting? Did you go into labour? Meet a long-lost friend? Or maybe you just have memories of top gigs, awful gigs, and amusing anecdotes from Blickling?

Let us know here.

Re: Your Blicking memories

st.albans 27/11/2006, 11:46 AM

I ,with my friend and close family members have been to several "gigs"Cliff Richard to Westlife.I have met relatives and friends there who I had no idea were coming as I now live in St albans. We have always had a great time and met some really lovely people such as the the lovely young lady with her parents that we chatted to,only to find she had cancer. The Dad had offered to send some photos on to me, as he had a reall y good camera. Time went by ,then a small parcel arrived , inside was not only some super photos but a letter apologising for the delay in sending them.

Status Quo should have a warning when they are on stage, to say remember you were a few years younger last time you saw us, so take it a bit easy when dance around !!!

Great music , great place ,great people, come along with friends or on your own and make friends.

Re: Your Blicking memories

Gini 09/02/2007, 10:45 AM
I have some fantastic memories of Blickling I did my work placement their whilst at college and helped in creating the jazz festival than ran for two days the following year, so it was very popular. Being involved in the whole creation of these events, plus driving into work with the view of that beautiful hall and all the lovely people that I worked with made it one of the most memorable things I have ever had the honour to be involved in. Since then we have been to many concerts their Simply Red being one of my favs.

Re: Your Blicking memories

Jill 25/03/2008, 1:02 PM

I worked at Blickling Hall on one occasion as a casual waitress.

It was a lovely occasion when the people attending all dressed in period costume relevant to the time Blickling was first built.

It was something to see with the ladies and men in their beautiful clothes and wigs.

I saw someone I knew and he whispered to me if I told anyone he had been dressed in breeches and a wig, he would never speak to me again. ha ha.