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07766 754944
videographer for newbury Berkshire.
Darren Vallence is Videographer, Cameraman from Newbury 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.
Please contact us today for a quote darren@kingsbridgeav.co.uk 07766 754944
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.
There was a Mesolithicsettlement at Newbury. Artefacts were recovered from the Greenham Dairy Farm in 1963, and the Faraday Road site in 2002.[3]Additional material was found in excavations along the route of the Newbury Bypass.[4]
Part of the facade of Camp Hopson of Newbury, dating from 1663 with classical brick pilasters, in 2014.
Newbury was founded late in the 11th century following the Norman conquestas a new borough, hence its name. Although there are references to the borough that predate the Domesday Surveyit is not mentioned by name in the survey. However, its existence within the manor of Ulvritone is evident from the massive rise in value of that manor at a time when most manors were worth less than in Saxon times. In 1086 the Domesday Book[5]assesses the borough as having land for 12 ploughs, 2 mills, woodland for 25 pigs, 11 villeins(resident farmhands, unfree peasant who owed his lord labour services), 11 bordars (unfree peasants with less land than villans/villeins), and 51 enclosures (private parks) rendering 70s 7d.
Doubt has been cast over the existence of Newbury Castle,[6]but the town did have royal connections and was visited a number of times by King Johnand Henry IIIwhile hunting in the area.[7]
Historically, the town's economic foundation was the cloth trade. This is reflected in the person of the 16th century cloth magnate, Jack of Newbury,[8]the proprietor of what may well have been the first factory in England, and the later tale of the Newbury Coat. The latter was the outcome of a bet as to whether a gentleman's suit could be produced by the end of the day from wool taken from a sheep's back at the beginning. The local legend was later immortalized in a humorous novel by Elizabethan writer Thomas Deloney.
Newbury was the site of two battles during the English Civil War, the First Battle of Newbury[9](at Wash Common) in 1643, and the Second Battle of Newbury[10](at Speen) in 1644. The nearby Donnington Castle[11]was reduced to a ruin in the aftermath of the second battle.
The disruption of trade during the civil war, compounded by a collapse of the local cloth trade in the late 16th century, left Newbury impoverished. The local economy was boosted in the 18th century by the rise of Bathas a popular destination for the wealthy escaping London's summer heat and associated stench. Newbury was roughly halfway between London and Bath and an obvious stopping point in the two-day journey. Soon Newbury, and the Speenhamlandarea in particular, was filled with coaching inns of ever increasing grandeur and size. One inn, the George & Pelican, was reputed to have stabling for 300 horses. A theatre was built to provide the travellers with entertainment featuring the major stars of the age. In 1795 local magistrates, meeting at the George and Pelican Inn in Speenhamland, introduced the Speenhamland Systemwhich tied parish poor relief (welfare payments) to the cost of bread.[12]
The pedestrianised Northbrook Street
The opening of the Great Western Railwayto the north of Newbury effectively killed the coaching trade. Having been approximately midway on the BathRoad from London, Newbury became something of a backwater market town, with an economy based largely on agriculture and horse-racing. In the 1980s, British electronics firm Racaldecided to locate their newly formed telecommunications company Racal Vodafone(later Vodafone UK) in the town. In the subsequent decades Newbury became something of a regional centre for the high-tech industries, and the town has since enjoyed a return to general economic prosperity.
Greenham Common
Main article: RAF Greenham Common
Greenham Common in the late 80s
A large Royal Air Forcestation was established during the Second World Warat Greenham Commonon the edge of the town. In the 1950s, it became home to US Air Forcebombersand tankers, for which it was equipped with the longest military runwayin the United Kingdom. In the 1980s, it became one of only two USAF bases in the UK equipped with ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles, causing it to become the site of protests by up to 40,000 protesters and the establishment of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. With the end of the Cold War, the base was closed, the runway was broken up for use as fill material in building the Newbury bypass, and much of the area was restored to heathland.
1943 Bombing
On 10 February 1943 two German bombers (Dornier 217’s from ll/KG40 Bomber unit in Holland) on a nuisance raid, followed the Great Western Railway line running west from London. One of the bombers headed towards Reading while the other followed the line all the way to Newbury. At 4:43pm the bomber dropped eight high-explosive bombs over the town, there was no time for a warning siren.
The Senior Council School, St. Bartholomew's Almshouses, St. John's Church (just the altar was left standing) and Southampton Terrace were all destroyed, plus another 265 dwellings were damaged, many of which had to later be demolished. St John’s church was completely rebuilt after the war. 15 people were killed in the raid and a further 41 people were injured, 25 seriously.[13]
Government
Newbury is the administrative centre of the district administered by the unitary authorityof West Berkshire, which as of 2011 has a population of 153,822 (an approximately straight-line increase of 15,022 since 1991).[14]
Newbury is also a civil parish, with parish council responsibilities undertaken by Newbury Town Council since 1997. Newbury Town Council currently has 23 councillors, representing seven wardsof the town, currently: Brummel Grove, Clay Hill, Falkland, Northcroft, Pyle Hill, Victoria and St Johns. As of 2019, 19 of the councillors represent the Liberal Democrats, 2 represent the Conservative Partyand 2 represent the Greens.[15]
In Parliament, the town is in the Newbury constituency. Since the election of May 2005this constituency has been represented by Richard Benyon, a Conservative.
Newbury is twinned with Braunfelsin Germany (1963), Bagnols-sur-Cèzein France (1970),[16]Eekloin Belgium (1974) and Feltrein Italy (2003). As of 13th July 2019, Newbury is also officially twinned with Carcaixent in Spain. The twinning was held at The Corn Exchange Newbury.
Since 1999 Newbury has formed part of the South East EnglandEuropean Parliamentconstituency electing MEPs by proportional representation.
Geography
View of Newbury and surroundings from Donnington Castle
The Civil Parishof Newbury consists of the town and the suburbs of Wash Common, the City, West Fields, East Fields and Speenhamland. The modern conurbation of Newbury, however, with close bus and road links and almost contiguous development, may be taken to include the surrounding villages of Speen, Donnington, Shawand Greenham.[17]Speen, which is now a suburb of western Newbury, is roughly equidistant between Bristol[18]and London.[19]
Elevations vary from a minimum of 72m above mean sea levelto 122m at Wash Common. Elevations reach 150-200m in the directly adjoining hills.[17]
The River Kennetand the Kennet and Avon Canalflow east through the centre of the town to reach the Thamesat Reading, while the River Lambourn(beside which is the country's largest horse-training paddocks in the Valley of the Lambourn Downs) partly forms its northern boundary, ending in the town. A tributary that is smaller still, the River Enborne, forms the southern boundary (and also the county boundary with Hampshire). Adjoining the town's south-eastern border is Greenham Common and the famous Newbury Racecourse. Newbury is surrounded on three sides (north, west and south) by the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The downlandto the south rises steeply out of the river valley providing scenic views, including Watership Down(made famous by the novel of the same name), Beacon Hill, the southeast's highest point Walbury Hill, and Combe Gibbet.