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Grantchester

1959 , Grantchester (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 784

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Rupert Brooke's poem, 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' is illustrated by scenes and images around the village and surrounding countryside.

An illustrated reading of Rupert Brooke's poem, "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester". Village images include lilacs in bloom, gardens, the river, bathers running through a field and then swimming by moonlight, houses and the church. Ely is viewed from a train. The Cambridgeshire landscape is featured at different times of day. Other motifs include regimented lines of tulips, lovers embracing, vicars dancing on a lawn, a tramp waking up after sleeping rough, a falling hose, and a speeding train. A variety of grotesques are matched with the poem's descriptions of the inhabitants of Cambridge, Over, Ditton, Harston, Shelford, Barton, Madingley and Cherry Hinton. The "peace and holy quiet" of Grantchester is evoked by views of the village from the church tower, scenes of adults and children playing, river bathing, well-heeled people leaving church, hares in the corn, an aerial view of a sunset over fields, and the church clock.

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Grantchester Church

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Churches; Flowers; Performing Arts; Poetry; Rural scenes; Village life

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Grantchester

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