Our Programme for the 2025 Festival is packed with a wide variety of exciting maritime events. We have a fantastic line up of Artists, with concerts large and small; there are pubs and clubs, boats and trains, a Napoleonic Fort, a Palmerston Fort, a Victorian Pier, Edwardian Cinema and Georgian Church in which to enjoy the entertainment. Artists performing at Harwich Museum (subject to change)
Whaler Man
Saturday 11th October 12pm
A brief talk in learning about life at sea in the Antarctic. an excellent engaging speaker with a unique insight into life at sea those many years ago.
58 Ships
Saturday 11th October 2pm
58 Ships is a long term history project sponsored by the Harwich Shanty Festival and is supported by Harwich Museum. The aim of the project is to research the 58 ships listed on a board outside Navyard Dockyard in Harwich.
I Do like to be beside the seaside
Saturday 11th October 3pm
On the cliffs of Dovercourt, facing the North Sea is the beautiful view of Dovercourt bay, which is about a mile from old Dovercourt, and the same distance from the port of Harwich, a fashionable and delightful seaside resort has grown, the sea and land views can be compared to that of the bay of Naples. What is it that attracts the holidaymaker, the seeker after health and happiness, to this tiny beauty spot tucked away in one of the many inlets of the East Coast.
Illustrated Talk by David Whittle
