A year or so ago, Neil Thompson pulled the remnants of a heaving post out from the side of the new cut in Blakeney as it was becoming a risk to boats using the cut. What was left of the heaving post was what had been sunk into the ground as the rest had rotted
Click here for an online version presented as a portable document format Contents The Military Survey of 1522 John Wright Synopsis: The Military Survey of 1522 appeared to be a muster of all able-bodied males aged 16-60 but the government of the day had an ulterior motive: to prepare for a substantial tax in the form of
This issue is online and the downloaded articles are searchable for specific words or phrases. You may click on an individual article or the complete issue. It will open in a separate tab or window. Contents Editorial W J J Bolding (1815-1899), Pioneer North Norfolk Photographer Richard Jefferson Synopsis: an introduction to work of a pioneer photographer
This issue is online. Please click on a title below to open the article in a separate tab or window. Contents Editorial Medieval Jettons discovered in Wiveton P Carnell Synopsis: Nearly 1,200 metal objects, half of them coins, tokens and jettons, have been recovered recently by metal detectorists in the Wiveton area. The author has
This issue is online. Please click on a title below to open the article in a separate tab or window. Contents Editorial The Bridges of Wiveton J Wright Synopsis: With an origin going back well into the 1300s the present bridge is almost the oldest building in Wiveton – as well as being one of
BlakeneyWW1 Casualties Pamela Peake 2020 Introduction Read more… Abbreviations Read more… Casualty List Of the 39 Casualties listed here, 31 are commemorated on the War Memorial in New Road, Blakeney. Click on ‘Read more…‘ to reveal relevant biographies and, in some instances, photographs. ADCOCK, Edward Abel Private 235978, 2nd/8th Bn, Lancashire FusiliersDied 21st March 1918,
Welcome to the website for the Blakeney Area Historical Society (BAHS) covering Local History in the Blakeney Haven (Blakeney, Cley, Morston, Salthouse, Wiveton) & Adjacent Hinterland in Norfolk. The website provides information on the activities of the BAHS including our events’ programme. A particular focus of the website is providing information on the History Centre collection
The Cooke Posts, either side of Blakeney Channel ‘Cut’, commemorate Nicholas Cooke. He was the youngest son of Dr Arthur Cooke, a Surgeon at Addenbroke’s, and his wife Viva. Nicholas loved sailing and, in 1934 just short of his 21stbirthday, he represented Britain as crew for Peter Scott in a 14 foot dinghy called Eastlight. Subsequently, Nicholas joined
Sergeant 270013, Northumberland Hussars YeomanryDied 23rd March 1918, aged 32Remembered at Chauny Communal Cemetery, British Extensionbut not in Blakeney Reginald was born in 1885, the son of John and Caroline Daniel. His parents were married in Cambridge and had most of their children in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire before moving to South Shields. This is where they
Private 161321, Eastern Command, Labour Centre (E.C.L.C.)Died 4th November 1918, aged 31Remembered on both Blakeney War Memorials James was born in Blakeney, 16th October 1887, the son of George Bennington and Catherine Charlotte Long nee Daniel. Both parents were born in 1857; George in Morston and Catherine in Blakeney. They married in October 1880, Blakeney,