The Blakeney Area Historical Society (BAHS) launches its 2024/25 season of events on 24 September with a talk by Nick Acheson, the Norfolk born naturalist, ambassador for the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and grandson of a Blakeney doctor. Nick spent Covid lockdowns observing Arctic geese as they overwintered in the county. Over seven months, he cycled
The Cley Connection – A Story of Tragedy, and DiscoveryBy Richard JeffersonCley Village Hall NR25 7RJ Click on image below for printable copy.
The National Trust are looking for volunteers to help the Heritage Archaeology Ranger Team (HART). The core function of HART is to locate and assess the condition of archaeological features. The NT has 29 sites and these are split into clusters including Stiffkey, Morston, Blakeney and Salthouse. Some examples of the sites that need recording
From BAHS member Margaret Bird, 20 March 2023:A 32-page booklet, Georgian Holt at Work and Play, will be published by the Holt Society on 3 April 2023. Written by Margaret Bird, it features social and commercial life in Holt and the surrounding area in the period 1780-1810 when Mary Hardy was writing her daily diary
From BAHS member Margaret Bird, 19 March 2023: In October 2022 a highly significant body of manuscripts, photographs and maps from the Cozens-Hardy Collection was lodged in the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) by Caroline Holland, née Cozens-Hardy. Caroline is a BAHS member and is descended from the Letheringsett diarist Mary Hardy. This news item is
After 174 years, the complete journals of one of the oldest archaeological Societies in the UK the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society (NNAS) are going on line, for anyone to access free of charge. Click here for access
The four-volume study Mary Hardy and her World 1773-1809 will be published in April 2020. Two of the covers are pictured here; also the set of four spines. Drawing on the testimony of the local diarist Mary Hardy (1733-1809), these volumes of commentary and analysis provide a detailed panorama of work and social life in
Endurance 1914 to 1916 “in my grandfather’s footsteps” a talk by Alan Wordie Wiveton Church Fundraiser on Thursday 28th November 2019 Held at 7pm in Cley Village Hall Read more…
Kurds, Kazakhs and other kind people, a talk by Charlie Blount Wiveton Church Fundraiser on Thursday 7th November 2019 Held at 7pm in Cley Village Hall Read more…