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The Ice House Is Cool Again The Ice House in Great Yarmouth was once the most important building in the port, home to an immense herring fleet.  The Ice House enabled a voracious fishing fleet to operate.  It would have been the grease in the axle of a wheel of the industry, providing the ice for packing for fresh fish, enabling the catch to be transported to London and eastern Europe, where herring was much in demand.  Once a port serving close to a thousand boats, with all the ancillary work that thrived in its wake, Great Yarmouth was a prosperous town, employing all of its men, women and most of the able children in employment.  The critical importance of this ice house, prior to the invention of electric-powered freezers, must not be under-estimated.   Located on the seaward side of Haven Bridge, the Ice House was accessible to all boats, unrestricted by the ancient river crossing.  The building is just a brisk five-minute wa...

New Single Proper Job on the divided state of Creative Britain   When The Clash recorded Career Opportunities for their first album, (when I was a teenager), my mates and I all knew what they were shouting about.  Unemployment was on its way past the three million mark, thanks to the implementation of Thatcher’s neo-liberal Chicago School of Economics shock doctrine experiment.   Nearly fifty years later, (yes, fifty years) the career opportunities have been re-shaped following another ten years of Tory misguided and divisive austerity policies.  Career opportunities are still not knocking and jobs are definitely only being offered for no much better reason than to keep youngsters off the dole, as Job Seekers’ Allowance was previously known colloquially.  So, bravo  Micko and The Mellotronics who are drawing attention to the increasing gap between the haves and have nots in the music and arts world in their new single ‘Proper Job’ released ...