Massingham (other)
Massingham may refer to: * Great Massingham, a village in Norfolk, England ** RAF Great Massingham * Little Massingham, a village in Norfolk, England * Massingham railway station, a former station which served Great Massingham and Little Massingham People with the surname * H. J. Massingham (1888–1952), British writer * Henry William Massingham (1860–1924), British journalist, father of H. J. Massingham * Richard Massingham (1898–1953), British actor * Harold Massingham (1932-2011), British poet and crossword setter. Entertainment * ''The Massingham Affair'' a 1962 novel by Edward Grierson * ''The Massingham Affair'' (TV series), a 1964 BBC Television adaptation See also * Messingham (other) * Missingham Missingham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Hal Missingham (1906–1994), Australian artist, curator and photographer *Joanne Missingham (born 1994), Australian-born Taiwanese Go player *William Missingham William Thomas M ...

Great Massingham
Great Massingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It has a primary school (including a pre-school in the grounds), a village shop, a pub (Dabbling Duck), a village hall and a church (St Mary's). There is also a sports club, the Great Massingham Tennis and Multi-sports club. The village is notable for the number of ponds: two large ones in the village centre and more in the outskirts. The number of ducks has led for the logo of the school to show one. The village's name means "homestead/village of Maessa's people". See also * RAF Great Massingham * Little Massingham Little Massingham is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located on the northern boundary of Great Massingham. It covers an area of and had a population of 74 in 37 households at the 2001 census.

RAF Great Massingham
Royal Air Force Great Massingham or more simply RAF Great Massingham is a former Royal Air Force station located southwest of Fakenham, Norfolk and east of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. The airfield was built as a satellite airfield of RAF West Raynham in 1940. The airfield closed in 1945, although remained in use for storage until the 1950s. History The following units were posted here at some point: * No. 18 Squadron RAF 1940 - 41 * No. 90 Squadron RAF 1941 * No. 107 Squadron RAF 1941 * No. 342 Squadron RAF 1943 * No. 169 Squadron RAF 1944 - 45 * No. 16 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section * No. 1482 (Bombing) Gunnery Flight * No. 1692 (Bomber Support Training) Unit RAF * No. 1694 (Target Towing) Flight RAF became No. 1694 Bomber (Defence) Training Flight RAF * No. 4109 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment * No. 4303 Anti-Aircraft Flight RAF Regiment * Central Fighter Establishment Current use The airfield was sold in 1958 and returned to agricultural use. Although th ...
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Little Massingham
Little Massingham is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is located on the northern boundary of Great Massingham. It covers an area of and had a population of 74 in 37 households at the 2001 census.Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
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Massingham Railway Station
Massingham railway station is a now closed railway station in North Norfolk. It was situated at Little Massingham and was on the line between South Lynn and Great Yarmouth and served the villages of Little and Great Massingham and Harpley. History A driving force behind the building of the Lynn & Fakenham railway line was the Reverend Joseph Lloyd Brereton of Little Massingham. Supporters of the project used to meet at his rectory in the 1870s. As a result of their endeavours the line was built from Lynn to Massingham and the station and line was opened by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway on 16 August 1879. Later the line was extended and continued onto Fakenham opening on 16 August 1880. It later was managed by the London and North Eastern Railway until nationalisation in 1948 when it came under the control of British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail tra ...
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Henry William Massingham
Henry William Massingham (25 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English journalist, editor of ''The Nation and Athenaeum, The Nation'' from 1907 to 1923. In his time it was considered the leading British Radical weekly. Life He joined London paper ''The Star (1888), The Star'' in 1888, and was promoted to editor in 1890. In 1888 as deputy editor to T. P. O'Connor he had given George Bernard Shaw his break in journalism, appointing him deputy drama critic to Belfort Bax. He edited the ''Daily Chronicle'' 1897–1899, but in November 1899 was forced out because his editorial line on the Second Boer War was hostile to the government. His departure from ''The Nation'' was a matter of party politics: he had broken from the Liberal Party (UK), Liberals under David Lloyd George, in favour of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. A change of ownership was putting control in the hands of John Maynard Keynes, a Liberal. In July 1914, with the threat of war and refusal of th ...
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Richard Massingham
Richard Massingham (31 January 1898 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire – 1 April 1953 in Biddenden, Kent) was a British medical doctor who is principally known for starring in public information films made in the 1940s and early 1950s. Life After working in medicine and making amateur films, Massingham set up Public Relationship Films Ltd in 1938 when he noticed that there was no specialist agency making short educational films for the public. In the films he typically played a bumbling character who was slightly more stupid than average, and often explained the message of the film through demonstrating the risks if it was ignored. Films' topics included postal deliveries, how to cross the road, how to prevent the spread of diseases, how to swim and how to drive without causing the road to be unsafe for other users. Family Massingham's father was H. W. Massingham, H.W. Massingham (1860–1924) the journalist, and his siblings included writer Harold John Massingham (1888–1952), wr ...
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Harold Massingham
Harold W. Massingham (25 October 1932 Mexborough—13 March 2011) was an English poet. Life He was the son of H. W. Massingham (a collier from Mexborough). He attended the same Mexborough Grammar School as the Yorkshire poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes but in a class two years below. He taught at the University of Manchester; his students included Steven Waling, and Trevor Griffiths. Harold Massingham lived in Mexborough through his childhood, and then Manchester from his university days, until moving with his wife Pat to Spain in the 1990s. He published three volumes of poetry in 1965, 1972 and 1992. His work was published in ''The New Yorker,'' and ''Alhambra Poetry Calendar''. Under the pseudonym ‘Mass’ he set crosswords for national newspapers and magazines for more than 30 years. He also compiled chess puzzles. Awards * 1968 Cholmondeley Award The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honou ...
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The Massingham Affair
''The Massingham Affair'' is a 1962 crime novel, crime detective novel by the British writer Edward Grierson. Grierson based on the story on a real-life case that took place in Edlingham. in the late nineteenth century. Synopsis Many years before an elderly vicar and his daughter were the victims of a violent robbery. Two local men were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime. Now, Justin Derry, working as a solicitor in the village decides to reopen the case and exonerate the accused, despite the hostility that ensues from the villagers. TV adaptation In 1964 it was made into a The Massingham Affair (TV series), television series of the same title, broadcast on BBC Two. The cast included Lyndon Brook, Andrew Keir, Eileen Atkins and Renny Lister.Baskin p.69 References Bibliography

*Baskin, Ellen. ''Serials on British Television, 1950-1994''. Scolar Press, 1996. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. * White, Terry ...
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The Massingham Affair (TV Series)
''The Massingham Affair'' is a British period crime television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in six episodes from 12 September to 17 October 1964.Baskin p.69 It is an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same title by Edward Grierson. Unlike many BBC series of this era, it is believed all six episodes survive intact, but remain unreleased since their original broadcast. Synopsis In the late nineteenth century, the violent robbery of a vicar and his daughter leads to two men being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, a young solicitor Justin Derry is unconvinced of the verdict and sets out to exonerate them. Cast * Lyndon Brook as Justin Derry * Andrew Keir as Superintendent Blair * Renny Lister as Jean Kelly * Eileen Atkins as Charlotte Verney * George Cormack as Reverend Verney * Geoffrey Bayldon as Mr. Lumley * Bernard Kay as Jim Longford * Robert Cawdron as PC Hugh * Patsy Rowlands as Georgina Deverel * Barry Wilsher as Mick Kelly * John Wentworth ...
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Messingham (other)
Messingham is a village in Lincolnshire, England. Messingham may also refer to: * Richard Massingham (1898–1953), British actor * Robert Messingham (born 1396), English politician * Thomas Messingham (17th century), Irish hagiologist See also * Massingham (other) * Missingham Missingham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Hal Missingham (1906–1994), Australian artist, curator and photographer *Joanne Missingham (born 1994), Australian-born Taiwanese Go player *William Missingham William Thomas M ...