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‘Love has no borders’; High-flying romance
Not all stories you find in the archives are hundreds of years old. This story is from only 30 years ago so we have changed the names in order to keep those involved anonymous. In an article for a local … Continue reading
An Opening Performance
26th September, 1921. How much can we imagine what the opening performance of As You Like It might have looked like, at the brand new Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich? Could it be possible for a theatre built centuries after Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
‘Little more than a mass of fungus’: conserving the Salthouse Parish Register- Part 2: what’s inside
We have already looked into the burial of the Salthouse Parish Register and the work to conserve it. Now it is time to focus on some of the people included in it. Some of the entries give far more detail … Continue reading
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‘Little more than a mass of fungus’: conserving the Salthouse Parish Register. Part 1- the burial and conservation work
In 2005, Record Office staff began the task of conserving the first parish register for Salthouse, allowing people to see inside the register for the first time in over sixty years. The register contains a unique record of the baptisms, … Continue reading
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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
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