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Tuesday 31st January at 2:30pm – Cley Village Hall & Zoom
Details to follow
Talks by Members
Huguenot Connections
Diana Cooke
From Religious Persecution to Global Influence.
William Allen’s Ships: Work in Progress
Jonathan Hooton
What do we know about William Allen’s ships? Where did they go? Who was the master? What happened to them? Some answers will be provided for some of the ships though much is still unknown.
Venue: Cley Village Hall, The Fairstead, Cley-next-the-Sea
Tuesday 28th February at 2:30pm – Cley Village Hall & Zoom
The Archaeology of the Norfolk Coast
Norfolk’s coast holds a rich resource of archaeological sites. In this illustrated talk David Robertson will use over 20 years of research to explore the full range. He will start with the deep history of footprints and stone tools at Happisburgh, pass through Bronze Age timber circles, Roman forts, lost medieval villages and post medieval ports, to finish with 20th-century military remains.
David Robertson
Venue: Cley Village Hall, The Fairstead, Cley-next-the-Sea & Zoom
Tuesday 28th March at 7:30pm – Cley Village Hall & Zoom
Fransham: People and Land in a Central Norfolk Parish
The results presented here concern an intensive fieldwalking survey by the author of one civil parish, Fransham, formerly the two ecclesiastical parishes of Great and Little Fransham, lying near the western edge of the Boulder Clay plateau in rural Norfolk. To set the archaeological evidence for the medieval and post-medieval periods into their agrarian, manorial and tenurial contexts, exhaustive use was made of a fairly rich body of available documentary sources.
Andrew Rogerson (retired Senior Landscape Archaeologist, Norfolk CC)
Venue: Cley Village Hall, The Fairstead, Cley-next-the-Sea & Zoom
Tuesday 25th April at 7:30pm – Cley Village Hall & Zoom
Cley Heritage Walk
This has been initiated by Cley Parish Council. Since last June it has been possible to do the walk, starting at the village hall and ending at the church, on a mobile phone passing 30 highlighted features in the village. The BAHS talk introduces a flavour of the walk.
Note: Richard has offered to provide a guided visit around Cley following the heritage walk route. Details to be provided in due course.
Richard Jefferson
