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Darren Vallence is Videographer, Cameraman and is very experienced for the commercial and corporate sector.
We can help film events, corporate events, team building events, conferences meetings, presentations, training videos anywhere in fact where you need filming. Of course we are not just Videographers we also edit and deliver the final video for you.
With over 25 years experience there is not much we have not filmed, from open heart surgery one day, to sewage works the next, filming in helicopters over London, filming in the middle of the ocean on dredgers to filming in Hong Kong, New York & Australia.
We can offer single cameramen or larger crews as well as video editing & aerial video.
We mainly work in the corporate sector with many famous brands employing us to help them with their video needs. Brands such as Vodafone, Bayer, Castrol, Tesco, Stryker, Pepsico, Grass Valley to name but a few.
Please see below to see some of the examples of what we have filmed and how we can hopefully help you. We look forward to working with you.
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We are often asked to film at Vodafone HQ in Newbury as well as their Paddington offices. We have filmed at Vodafone UK HQ for more than 15 years and have made many videos there as well as loads of highlight films of events they hold in the Pavilion.
We are a preferred supplier at Vodafone UK & Group.
Talking heads, Interviews and Piece to cameras are very popular these days.
With this project we were making over 33 x 40 second films for the content for an awards dinner for the Oxford Business Awards.
We also took on all the post production. T
We are ofter asked to film live events, conferences, presentations etc either the whole event or to make a highlights film.
If needed we can produced on site edits as well as live streaming too.
We are often on location. This time we were in Wales to make a film for a hotel called Craigy Nos. This was great fun to do, This hotel had been featured on Most Haunted TV Show so this kept us awake on the overnight stay.
The customer supplied the brief and story board and directed the shoot with the lovely dog Alfie ( from Newbury ) We filmed and edited the video. Its had nearly 9000 views on Youtube so far.
Here we were filming for our customer and very dearest friend Deb Lester George for her annual Oxford Business Awards live awards dinner.
We loved interviewing this man, he was so inspiring with his business. We also took B roll to help make his story.
Here we are doing some Video production in Newbury.
With this photo we were filming an update for the ever changing health and safety for Homebase.
Homebase take `health and safety' training very seriously and find video the perfect medium to cascade the messages down through the business. We really enjoy working with the Homebase team and Martin my customer. He's great and we often have a coffee and a chat before the shoot!
This was a 'still' taking from a film we were making for Vodafone in Newbury to help explain the journey of 2 of their graduates and how fast they can develop and be fast tracked through the business. Quite an incredible story.
A fast moving business with amazing career opportunity.
I was asked by a fellow producer and friend to help with the second camera for series of interviews across Hong Kong & Sydney. This was over a 2 week period. We really enjoyed this production and the customer loved the footage.
If you would like to get a talking head or piece to camera filmed and there is rather a lot to to say, we find our simple prompter service is worth its weight in gold. This can save hours of filming time and frustration from the talent who are already very busy.
Sometimes 3 minutes of dialogue sounds easy but we have learned it can be very difficult for the talent to remember. These prompters get the work done so much quicker and its "word perfect". All the pros on TV use them so why not you and your customer.
With the project below we were asked to make a promotional video for a 7 bedroom villa in Barbados to help promote and sell the property. My customer and I went over for a week to produce the film. We also offer aerial video should you require it. We really enjoyed this on location filming job.
Windsoris a historic market townand unparished areain the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenheadin Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family.
The town is situated 21.7 miles (34.9 km) west of Charing Cross, central London, 5.8 miles (9.3 km) southeast of Maidenhead, and 15.8 miles (25.4 km) east of the county townof Reading. It is immediately south of the River Thames, which forms its boundary with its smaller, ancient twin town of Eton. The village of Old Windsor, just over 2 miles (3 km) to the south, predates what is now called Windsor by around 300 years; in the past Windsor was formally referred to as New Windsorto distinguish the two.[a]
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Etymology
Windlesorais first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.(The settlement had an earlier name but this is unknown.) The name originates from old EnglishWindles-oreor winch by the riverside.[1][2][3]By 1110, meetings of the Great Council, which had previously taken place at Windlesora, were noted as taking place at the Castle – referred to as New Windsor, probably to indicate that it was a two-ward castle/borough complex, similar to other early castle designs, such as Denbigh. By the late 12th century the settlement at Windelsora had been renamed Old Windsor.
History
Windsor Castle, viewed from the Long Walk
Norman period
The early history of the site is unknown, although it was almost certainly settled some years before 1070 when William the Conquerorhad a timber motte and bailey castle constructed.[3]The focus of royal interest at that time was not the castle, however, but a small riverside settlement about 3 miles (4.8 km) downstream, possibly established from the 7th century. From about the 8th century, high status people started to visit the site occasionally, and possibly this included royalty. From the 11th century the site's link with king Edward the Confessoris documented, but again, information about his use of the place is scant. After the Norman conquest of England, royal use of the site increased, probably because it offered good access to woodlands and opportunities for hunting – a sport which also practised military skills.
Windsor Castle is noted in the Domesday Bookunder the entry for Clewer, the neighbouring manor to Windsor. Although this might seem strange, it occurred because plans for the castle had changed since 1070, and more land had been acquired in Clewer on which to site a castle town. This plan was not actioned until the early 12th century. Henry I – according to one chronicle – had rebuilt it, and this followed the Norman kings' actions at other royal sites, such as Westminster, where larger and more magnificent accommodation was thought necessary for the new dynasty. King Henry married his second wife at Windsor Castle in 1121, after the White Shipdisaster.
Plantagenet period
The settlement at Old Windsor largely transferred to New Windsor during the 12th century, although substantial planning and setting out of the new town (including the parish church, marketplace, bridge, hermitage and leperhospital) did not take place until c. 1170, under Henry II, following the civil warof Stephen's reign. At about the same time, the present upper ward of the castle was rebuilt in stone. Windsor Bridge is the earliest bridge on the Thames between Staines and Reading, built at a time when bridge building was rare; it was first documented in 1191, but had probably been built, according to the Pipe rolls, in 1173. It played an important part in the national road system, linking London with Reading and Winchester, but also, by diverting traffic into the new town, it underpinned the success of its fledgling economy.
The town of New Windsor, as an ancient demesne of the Crown, was a privileged settlement from the start, apparently having the rights of a 'free borough', for which other towns had to pay substantial fees to the king. It had a merchant guild (known by the 14th century as the Fraternity or brotherhood of the Holy Trinity) from the early 13th century and, under royal patronage, was made the chief town of the county in 1277, as part of its grant of royal borough status by Edward I's charter. Somewhat unusually, this charter gave no new rights or privileges to Windsor but probably codified the rights which it had enjoyed for many years. Windsor's position as chief town of Berkshire was short-lived, however, as people found it difficult to reach. Wallingfordtook over this position in the early 14th century. As a self-governing town Windsor enjoyed a number of freedoms unavailable to other towns, including the right to hold its own borough court, the right of membership (or 'freedom') and some financial independence. The town accounts of the 16th century survive in part, although most of the once substantial borough archive dating back to the 12th century was destroyed, probably in the late 17th century.
The Last Supper by Franz de Cleyn in the West Gallery of Windsor parish church of St John The Baptist[4]
New Windsor was a nationally significant town in the Middle Ages, certainly one of the fifty wealthiest towns in the country by 1332. Its prosperity came from its close association with the royal household. The repeated investment in the castle brought London merchants (goldsmiths, vintners, spicersand mercers) to the town in the late 13th century and provided much employment for townsmen. The development of the castle under Edward III, between 1350–68, was the largest secular building project in England of the Middle Ages, and many Windsor people worked on this project, again bringing great wealth to the town. Although the Black Deathin 1348 had reduced some towns' populations by up to 50%, in Windsor the building projects of Edward III brought money to the town, and possibly its population doubled: this was a 'boom' time for the local economy. People came to the town from every part of the country, and from continental Europe. The poet Geoffrey Chaucerheld the honorific post of 'Clerk of the Works' at Windsor Castle in 1391.
The development of the castle continued in the late 15th century with the rebuilding of St George's Chapel. With this Windsor became a major pilgrimagedestination, particularly for Londoners. Pilgrimscame to touch the royal shrineof the murdered Henry VI, the fragment of the True Crossand other important relics. Visits to the chapel were probably combined with a visit to the important nearby Marian shrine and college at Eton, founded by Henry VI in 1440, and dedicated to the Assumption; which is now better known as Eton College. Pilgrims came with substantial sums to spend. From perhaps two or three named inns in the late 15th century, some 30 can be identified a century later. The town again grew in wealth. For Londonpilgrims, Windsor was probably – but briefly – of greater importance than Canterburyand the shrine of the City's patron Saint Thomas Becket.
Tudor and Stuart periods
The Market Place and Windsor Guildhall
With the closures of the Reformation, however, Windsor's pilgrim traffic died out, and the town began to stagnate about ten years afterwards. The castle was considered old-fashioned and shrines to the dead were thought to be superstitious. The early modern periodformed a stark contrast to the medieval history of the town. Henry VIIIwas buried in St George's Chapel in 1547, next to Jane Seymour, the mother of his only legitimate son, Edward (Edward VI). Henry, the founder of the Church of England, may have wanted to benefit from the stream of pilgrims coming to the town. His will gives that impression.
Most accounts of Windsor in the 16th and 17th centuries talk of its poverty, badly made streets and poor housing. Shakespeare'splay The Merry Wives of Windsoris set in Windsor and contains many references to parts of the town and the surrounding countryside. Shakespeare must have walked the town's streets, near the castle and river, much as people still do. The play may have been written in the Garter Inn, opposite the Castle, but this was destroyed by fire in the late 17th century. The long-standing – and famous – courtesan of king Charles II, Nell Gwyn, was given a house on St Albans Street: Burford House(now part of the Royal Mews). Her residence in this house, as far as it is possible to tell, was brief. Only one of her letters addressed from Burford House survives: it was probably intended as a legacy for her illegitimate son, the Earl of Burford, later the Duke of St Albans.
Windsor was garrisoned by Colonel Venn during the English Civil War. Later it became the home of the New Model Army when Venn had left the castle in 1645. Despite its royal dependence, like many commercial centres, Windsor was a Parliamentariantown. Charles Iwas buried without ceremony in St George's Chapel after his execution at Whitehallin 1649. The present Guildhall, built in 1680–91, replaced an earlier market house that had been built on the same site around 1580, as well as the old guildhall, which faced the castle and had been built around 1350. The contraction in the number of old public buildings speaks of a town 'clearing the decks', ready for a renewed period of prosperity with Charles II's return to the Castle. But his successors did not use the place, and as the town was short of money, the planned new civic buildings did not appear. The town continued in poverty until the mid 19th century.
In 1652 the largest house in Windsor Great Park was built on land which Oliver Cromwellhad appropriated from the Crown. Now known as Cumberland Lodgeafter the Duke of Cumberland's residence there in the mid-18th century, the house was variously known as Byfield House, New Lodge, Ranger's Lodge, Windsor Lodge and Great Lodge.[5]
Georgian and Victorian periods
Photochrom of Windsor and Windsor Castle looking across the Thames, 1895
In 1778, there was a resumption of the royal presence, with George IIIat the Queen's Lodge and, from 1804, at the castle. This started a period of new development in Windsor, with the building of two army barracks. However the associated large numbers of soldiers led to a major prostitution problem by 1830, in a town where the number of streets had little changed since 1530. In the 18th c. the town traded with London selling the Windsor Chairwhich was actually made in Buckinghamshire.
A number of fine houses were built in this period, including Hadleigh House on Sheet Street, which was built in 1793 by the then Mayor of Windsor, William Thomas. In 1811 it was the home of John O'Reilly, the apothecary-surgeon to George III.
Windsor Castle was the westernmost sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790), which measured the precise distance between the Royal Greenwich Observatoryand the Paris Observatoryby trigonometry. Windsor was used because of its relative proximity to the base-line of the survey at Hounslow Heath.
The substantial redevelopment of the castle in the subsequent decade and Queen Victoria's residence from 1840, as well as the coming of two railways in 1849, signalled the most dramatic changes in the town's history. These events catapulted the town from a sleepy medieval has-been to the centre of empire– many European crowned heads of state came to Windsor to visit the Queen throughout the rest of the 19th century. Unfortunately, excessive redevelopment and 'refurbishment' of Windsor's medieval fabric at this time resulted in widespread destruction of the old town, including the demolition of the old parish churchof St John the Baptistin 1820. The original had been built around 1135.
Later periods
Most of the current town's streets date from the mid to late 19th century.[6]However the main street, Peascod Street (/ˈpɛskɒd/) is very ancient, predating the castle by many years, and probably of Saxon origin. It formed part of the 10th-century parish structure in east Berkshire[citation needed]and is first referred to as Peascroftstret in c. 1170. The 1,000-year-old royal castle, although the largest and longest-occupied in Europe, is a recent development in comparison. "New Windsor" was officially renamed "Windsor" in 1974.
Religion
St John the Baptist's parish church
All Saints' parish church
The original parish church of Windsor is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and is situated adjacent to the High Street. The church is said to have dated from the time that King Henry Imoved the Royal Court from Old Windsor to ‘New Windsor’. The church was clearly established by the time of Henry IIin about 1110, as there are references to it by then.[7]
In 1543, Henry Filmer, Robert Testwoodand Anthony Pearson, the three Windsor Martyrs, were burnt at the stake in Deanery Gardens, near the church.[7]
The original church building had Saxonarches and Normanwork and by the 18th century it was described as ‘a vast building with 10 side altars and several chantries’ and perhaps eight gabled roofs. There was a small spire on top of the main central tower.[7]
In 1818 the high cost of repairs to the old building led to plans for a complete rebuild at a cost of £14,000. Charles Holliswas appointed architect and the new building was erected between 1820 and 1822 with cast iron columns that were floated down the Thames. The ribs that support the roof are also cast iron. The new church, Gothicin style with a pinnacle tower containing the bells, was officially consecrated by the Bishop of Salisburyon 22 June 1822.[7]
Samuel Sanders Teulonadded the chancel and the apse in 1880. The chancel screen was added in 1898 to mark the 60-year reign of Queen Victoria. In 1906 the Hunter Organ was installed. The north side gallery was reduced in length to make way for the organ.[7]
The more recent parish church of All Saints' is situated on Frances Road. The incumbent vicar is the Revd Ainsley Swift.[8]The author Thomas Hardytrained as an architect and joined Arthur Blomfield's practice as assistant architect in April 1862. Between 1862 and 1864 he worked with Blomfield on All Saints'.[9]A reredos, possibly designed by Hardy, was discovered behind panelling at All Saints' in August 2016.[10][11]
Tourism
Entrance to Legoland Windsor Resort
As a result of the castle, Windsor is a popular tourist destination and has facilities usually found in larger towns: two railway stations, a theatre and several substantial hotels. Various boat trips operate on the River Thames, with connections to Maidenheadand Staines-upon-Thames. In winter, Alexandra Gardens hosts a temporary ice rink.[12]
Near the town is Legoland Windsor, the only Legoland park in the United Kingdom and the largest Legoland park in the world in terms of area. Legoland Windsor was built on the site of the former Windsor Safari Park.
Shopping
Central Station refashioned as a shopping precinct
As a tourist town there are many gift shops around the castle, together with shops and restaurants in Windsor Royal Shopping[13]inside Windsor & Eton Central railway station. The main shopping street, Peascod Street, includes an independent department store, W J Daniel & Co., noted for its large toy department, as well as national chains such as Marks & Spencer, Bootsand TK Maxx. King Edward Court,[14]a pedestrian-only shopping centre, has a Waitrosesupermarket alongside other stores including H&M, Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe, New Lookand Zara.