Each year the BAHS organises a number of events/lectures which are open to members of the BAHS and visitors. Typically attended by around 40 to 50 members and visitors. Click here for the events programme. If you are a member and we have your email address then you should receive an email about each event
Details of our events programme, past events and information on our normal venues, Cley Village Hall or The Harbour Room, Blakeney may be found in this area of the website. Speaker information and past lecture recordings may also be found in this area of the website. General Arrangements Each year the BAHS organises a number
Private 20771, 1st Bn, Essex RegmentDied 2nd January 1916, aged 18Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey& on both Blakeney War Memorials James was baptised 5th June 1898 Blakeney, son of single mum Louisa Moore. She was to marry John Thomas Betts of Blakeney (1903) and have three sons. After John died, she married Harry P H Elston
If you are not a member of the BAHS you may wish to receive our information emails. If so, click here. Tuesday 26th January 2021 7:30pm on Zoom The Norwich Castle: Royal Palace Reborn Project—Principles and Processes Dr Agata Gomolka, Project Assistant Curator, Norwich Castle Click here to view the recording of this lecture. The major
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
Tuesday 28th January 2025 at 2:30pm at Cley Village Hall Alterations to Blakeney church in the medieval period Chris Wheeler Chris is a retired Chartered Surveyor with a fascination for the history of buildings. He is a member of Blakeney’s Parochial Church Council and Fabric Officer for St Nicholas’s Church, Blakeney. He has become increasingly
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
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Spring Outing 2018 Monday, 30th April The 2018 Spring Outing took place in Norwich on Monday 30th April with a group of 21 members. Our morning session around the ‘French Borough’ was led by Jonathan Hooton, a Norwich blue guide and long-standing BAHS member. This was a follow up to the informative lecture which he
The BAHS publishes a regular journal, The Glaven Historian which is well received within the local history community. If you are a current member of the Society when a new issue is published then you will receive a complimentary copy as a membership benefit. The society discontinued the publication of our printed newsletter following the