Aerofilms Ltd, 29 Old Bond St, London W1
About Anglia is a regional news magazine programme produced by Anglia Television in the east of England, broadcast for over thirty years from 2 June 1960 to 6 July 1990. Early regular features included gardening, Police Call and in-depth weather forecasts for the region provided by Anglia's in-house weather department.
Some early elements of About Anglia featured on the short-lived Midday Show, which aired during the first few months of the station, and featured Susan Hampshire among its cast.
Lemuel "Francis" Abbott was born in Leicestershire, probably the son of a clergyman. As a teenager, he studied under the painter Francis Hayman, and went on to become a respected portrait artist, most famous for his paintings of Horatio Nelson and other eighteenth-century notables. He developed a severe mental illness in 1798 and was admitted to Bethlem Hospital, where he was treated by Thomas Munro, who had previously worked with King George III. He died in December 1803.
Edwin Abbott was the son of teacher and theologian, Edwin Abbott Abbott, formerly a fellow of St. John's College. Edwin Abbott was born at Abbey Road, in London, and attended St. Paul's school. He matriculated at Gonville and Caius in 1886, winning the Chancellor's Medal for Classics in 1890. That same year, he became a Fellow at Jesus, becoming a Tutor from 1913 until his retirement in 1932. He died at Barnet, in Hertfordshire, in 1952.
Business label on the back of a painted shield reads:
'A. W. Crisp & Co. Heraldic Artists, ecclesiastical, civil, private, and school. Arms to order. Also naval and regimental badges'.
The last dated receipt is from 1927.