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The Botanical Diaries: A Victorian Teen’s Summer Adventures
The needles of a 500-year-old yew tree, a sprig of oak from Sherwood Forest, a piece of seaweed from the seaside resort of St Leonards. These are not typical artefacts you might expect to find in Norfolk Record Office. Yet, … Continue reading
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Christmas in a foreign country
We tend to think of Christmases as a time for having fun with friends and family. Often we forget about those who are unable to do so, particularly those who are working or stationed abroad. This was the case for … Continue reading
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Happiness is a school called Hapton
The story of Government Beeching-style plans to close schools, told through one village primary school 1985 saw Paul Hardcastle’s ‘19’ spend four weeks at number 1; Roger Moore’s last outing as James Bond; the first photographs of the wreck of … Continue reading
Poor Jack- Food for the Poor or How to Make a Fortune
My first independent foray into archival research at the Norfolk Record Office gave me a real headache in trying to understand the text but it was a fascinating and rewarding journey which lead to researching topics in many ways. Norfolk … Continue reading
Disaster on Prince of Wales Road, Norwich: September 1923
Prince of Wales Road was built in 1860s as a grand thoroughfare for visitors from Norwich’s new Thorpe Railway Station to travel into the city centre. Old photographs show it lined on one side mainly by grand houses with shops … Continue reading
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Heckingham Workhouse: Filling in the Gaps
When a workhouse governor’s report book was received by the Norfolk Record Office from private hands in 2009, it helped shed light on day-to-day events at Heckingham Workhouse, between 1771-2 and filled a gap in our series of report books. … Continue reading
Pauper emigration from the parish of Guestwick in the 1830s.
Researched and written by Christine Shackell The parish of Guestwick lies between Fakenham and Aylsham in north Norfolk. In 1831 the census recorded that there were 37 houses with 188 inhabitants.1 It comprised a scatter of cottages and farms with … Continue reading
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From workhouse, to prison, to asylum, what could the future hold for Harriet Kettle?
After spending her formative years in and out of the workhouse, the asylum and five periods of imprisonment in what sounds like a plot of a Dickensian novel, what were the chances that Harriet Kettle, could not only survive to … Continue reading
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