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This page lists information (images AND text) on the village of Blakeney in Norfolk. This information is provided to assist in deciding whether a visit to the History Centre may benefit your research. However, please do not assume that it is either complete or accurate.
Images (which may be clicked on to enlarge) are provided as they often convey more information than the text that follows . The images may also help with locating information within the History Centre.
Blakeney Galleries (photographs, postcards, …)
Report on ‘7 Year Report on Checking the Effect o Dredging in Blakeney New Cut, April 1984 – October 1991‘ by Morris J. Pye dated 25 January 1992 (21 pages). Also Blakeney Parish Council & National Trust report, Blakeney Siltation Study, draft report March 1986 (38 pages).
83-89 High Street
Eleanor Arthur (nee Long). Known as Nelly (Obituary) by Morris Arthur. Published in Glaven Valley Newsletter
Auction details of Residence and Gardens also Maltings, Brewery and Public House on the Quay, Accommodation Lands etc., 4 August 1915 (full size poster)_
BAHS Newsletter. Click here to see newsletters online
BAHS Journal, The Glaven Historian. Click here to see journal online.
Baker of Wells and Blakeney family history
Blakeney Census Returns
Blakeney Conservation Duck Pond
Blakeney Esker group and project
Blakeney Harbour Association
Blakeney Harbour Company
Blakeney Harbour Company Accounts
Blakeney Harbour Company certificate
Blakeney Hotel: Papers & Early History
Blakeney Methodist Church
Blakeney Methodist Church: Attendance Register June 1940-1955
Blakeney Methodist Register
Blakeney Monumental Inscriptions
Blakeney Parish Council Minutes
The original scanned images are on a CD in the History Centre (see the Public Register of Accessions). An improved version is held on the History Centre laptop. Subject matter indexes for each volume of the minutes are available below (and will open in a separate tab):
- Volume 1: 1894-1929 Subject Matter index
- Volume 2: 1929-1952 Subject Matter index
- Volume 3: 1952-1965 Subject Matter index (the minutes scanned only go to 12 August 1954)
Blakeney Parish Records: 1861 Men at Sea
Blakeney Parish Register Transcript
Blakeney Players
Blakeney Point in 1913
Blakeney Point: From the Point to Cley and Salthouse. A publication of the BAHS History Centre that may be bought at the History Centre.
Blakeney point of view newsletter
Blakeney Remembers: World War 1 Armistice Centenary 2018
Click here to view. The brochure lists the names of those who gave their lives in the Great War and those who came back.
Blakeney Sailing Club
Blakeney School Admissions Register 1864 – 1912
Blakeney, St Nicholas Church
Blakeney Wardrobe Society 1953-89
Blakeney, Wiveton, Cley and Weyborne (P Kay) Churchyard Papers
The Butts
The Calthorpe Norfolk Estates (Blakeney, Wiveton, Cley-next-the-Sea and Langham)
Colin ‘Cobo’ Cobon
An address given as the 2002 East Coast Wildfowling Conference whilst Chairman of the Blakeney and district Wildfowlers Association
Alexander Crundall
Abstract of the Title of Alexander Crundall to Freehold Hereditaments pt. Blakeney Est.
The K. Mary Ferrousatt Papers (BAHS Research Papers Volume 3)
Hill’s Supermarket: Images of the refurbishment
LINCOLN of Litcham and Blakeney family history
Magavelda, Langham Road
Manor Farm House, 1929 (later Manor Hotel)
Manor Hotel
Martha Whisker, embroidery sampler, Blakeney School, June 1879
Born in Salthouse, Buried in Blakeney Churchyard.
Pinchen of Cley & Blakeney family history
Plum/b & Pyman family history
Plan of an Estate at Blakeney, Wiveton and Langham, Auction 18 July 1906
Pond of Blakeney & Canada family history
Royal British Legion ‘Hut’ (A memory)
St. Nicholas’ Church, Blakeney
Temples (Blakeney) family history
The Ship Inn: Auction details 1968
The Ship Inn conversion
John Ware Wallace (Beacon Cottage)
Furniture Sale Catalogue, 20 June 1985
Sir Winston Churchill
on Blakeney Quay 1941, inspecting the Scottish Regiment stationed at WhiteFriars, patting Sandy, Air Commodore Brackley’s dog.
Tony Wright, Blakeney (Funeral Address, 5 January 2011)
Women’s Institute (WI) Village notebook, 1936-1959