A message from BAHS member Margaret Bird, including three portraits of the Hardy family. New website In November 2018 I said in these pages that I would be reshaping the website for the Letheringsett diarist Mary Hardy (1733-1809). I have amalgamated three existing websites into one, to make them smartphone friendly: www.burnham-press.co.uk The old Mary Hardy
Private 14156, 1st Bn, Norfolk RegimentDied 5th July 1916, aged 20Remembered at Blakeney (St. Nicholas) Churchyardand on both Blakeney War Memorials Reginald Cooper was born in Cromer and baptised there, 5th April, 1896. He was the son of Charles Thomas Cooper, a bricklayer, and his wife Marian Louisa Brooks. By 1901 the family were living
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 is Historian Chris Barringer’s (1931-2013) story of Norfolk history published posthumously in 2019. Chris Barringer played a fundamental part in the formation of this Society. In 1990 he was invited to give a series of lectures in Blakeney and two more series followed in 1991 and 1992. Chris was a leading member of historical
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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The future of the BAHS is now in serious doubt due to a lack of people willing to run it. The Society itself is solvent, and generally well regarded in its field: we hold seven lectures a year, produce an excellent Journal in the Glaven Historian every other year, and above all we have the
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The BAHS produces and sells directly and through local outlets a number of publications. Glaven Historian The Glaven Historian is the journal of the The Blakeney Area Historical Society (BAHS). All Issues except the most recent are now available online, although some of these are only accessible by members. Issues 6 to 9 are now