Monthly Archives: July 2015
‘Take a field mouse, skin it, fry in butter and give to the child’: Folk Medicine in 1920s East Anglia
Dr Mark R Taylor was the first full-time regional medical officer for Norwich from the years 1920-1927. He was a doctor at the forefront of the increasing spread of professionalised medicine. However, he was also a doctor with a keen … Continue reading
The Searchroom Team’s Top Ten Tips for Researching Family History
Working in the Searchroom at the Norfolk Record Office we regularly give advice to people researching their family history. A lot of the difficulties people come across are very similar, so we’ve put together our top ten tips which we hope will … Continue reading
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Tagged family history, Meet the Team, research, Top Tips
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Norfolk’s Local Naturalist and Writer
The eccentric, lovable character Arthur H. Patterson, was otherwise known as ‘John Knowlittle’, a typically self-deprecating pen-name for a distinguished local naturalist and prolific writer of books, poems and a nature diary for the Eastern Daily Press. The Norfolk Record … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur patterson, Breydon, cartoon, EDP, general election, illustration, nature, walter rye, Yarmouth
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Adding to Our Collection
What connects the Plantation Garden Preservation Trust with Taylors of Kings Lynn? Taylors was a seed merchant’s in King’s Lynn, so they both share a botanical theme. But they are also connected because records of both were donated to the … Continue reading
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Tagged donations, Gressenhall, Kings Lynn, merchants, plantation garden, Taylors
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