Fairhaven Singers at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk, including concerts at the Aldeburgh Festival and Britten's War Requiem at the Britten Festival; at major venues in London, including St Martin-in-the-Fields and St John's Smith Square; and at various concert venues in Europe. It has also been featured on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and Classic FM. Fairhaven Singers The Fairhaven Singers was founded in 1980, under the patronage of Lord Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey, and is conducted by Ralph Woodward. The choir, a mixed ensemble of approximately 48 amateur singers, performs choral repertoire from the 15th century to
Snape branch line the final years of operation the only traffic of any significance was coal and coke for the maltings and seasonal sugar beet traffic. The line closed in 1960 as a result of declining freight revenues. Another factor was the J15 locomotives were life expired (steam had largely disappeared from East Anglia by this time) and the route availability of the line was such that only low speed shunting locomotives would be able to realistically operate the line. The time that these locomotives would take to get to Snape would have affected the timetable on the East Suffolk Line so the