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Hall Marks: Meet the Team
Hall Marks: the Long Shadow of Norfolk’s Lost Country Houses is a project based at the Norfolk Record Office. Hear more about the team and what we’ll be getting up to in 2026 and 2027. Continue reading
What Made The Royal Aquarium Theatre What It Is Today?
I suppose the idea that a business’s life can be short and tumultuous is far from original. But there are also exceptions – ventures that succeed, come into trouble, and are reborn – and rather than blips that are replaced … Continue reading
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Poringland Children’s Home – a brief history
While visiting a house on The Street in Poringland a member of the local Archive Group noticed signs above two doors, one with “girls” and the other “boys”, indicating that at some point the building may have been used as … Continue reading
Reverend John Robert Crawford: The life and strife of a Parish Rector 1886 – 1912
Reverend John Crawford Crawford became the rector of 2 parishes, East Walton and Gayton Thorpe in 1886. A leaflet in St Mary’s Gayton Thorpe stated that these 2 churches had shared a rector since 1737. St. Mary’s is also the … Continue reading
That which was lost – is found
In early 2024 a memorial to the men of a small Norfolk parish, who had served in WW1, was discovered in a shed in Cleethorpes. A ‘phone call to the then Clerk of Poringland Parish Council followed, who consequently travelled … Continue reading
Battlefield Wills Soldiers’ Wills Proved at the Norwich Probate Court
Of the estimated 15,000 Norfolk men who died in the First World War (FWW) just 228 wills appear in the volumes of wills proved in the Norwich Probate Court. These wills have come to light whilst indexing wills at the … Continue reading
‘The raging of the sea and freshwaters’: The Marshland Floods of 1607
Searching up ‘flood 1607’ on google will bring up results about the dramatic Bristol Channel Flood, in which much of the West Country was inundated, which some theorise may have even been caused by a tsunami (although this is unlikely). … Continue reading
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