Category Archives: Snapshots from the Archive

The Norfolk Punt

Posted on 19 August 2015 by emilysarah2012

This blog post shines a spotlight on the Norfolk Punt, as this weekend is the Norfolk Punt Championships.  The Norfolk Punt was originally a flat-bottomed boat used on the Broads in the nineteenth century for fishing and shooting wild fowl.  Hunters … Continue reading →

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Tunics for Goalposts

Posted on 13 August 2015 by emilysarah2012

East Anglia has played a pivotal role in the formation of modern football games, through the popular sport of Camping. In previous times, Camping, or Camp-Ball, was a popular, but violent, pastime.  The sport appears to have died out in … Continue reading →

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‘Take a field mouse, skin it, fry in butter and give to the child’: Folk Medicine in 1920s East Anglia

Posted on 27 July 2015 by emilysarah2012

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 →

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Norfolk’s Local Naturalist and Writer

Posted on 14 July 2015 by emilysarah2012

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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A Victorian Clergyman’s Diary: Capturing Norwich and Beyond

Posted on 7 July 2015 by emilysarah2012

The diaries  of a Victorian clergyman might not sound like a great read, but those of Revd William Pelham Burn have unusual appeal. Burn was born in London in 1859, the third son of Major-General Henry Pelham Burn. He studied at … Continue reading →

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Adding to Our Collection

Posted on 3 July 2015 by emilysarah2012

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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Campanology: ‘Once you learn you will get hooked.’

Posted on 26 June 2015 by emilysarah2012

The final of the National Twelve Bell Striking Contest will be held at St Peter Mancroft Church tomorrow, when 10 of the best teams of ringers from across the country, plus several hundred visiting ringers will visit the city. The … Continue reading →

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