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A message from BAHS member Margaret Bird, including three portraits of the Hardy family. New website In November 2018 I said in these pages that I would be reshaping the website for the Letheringsett diarist Mary Hardy (1733-1809). I have amalgamated three existing websites into one, to make them smartphone friendly: www.burnham-press.co.uk The old Mary Hardy
This is Historian Chris Barringer’s (1931-2013) story of Norfolk history published posthumously in 2019. Chris Barringer played a fundamental part in the formation of this Society. In 1990 he was invited to give a series of lectures in Blakeney and two more series followed in 1991 and 1992. Chris was a leading member of historical
You can click here to view or download the complete issue. Contents The Military Survey of 1522 John Wright Synopsis: The Military Survey of 1522 appeared to be a muster of all able-bodied males aged 16-60 but the government of the day had an ulterior motive: to prepare for a substantial tax in the form of a
Private 14156, 1st Bn, Norfolk RegimentDied 5th July 1916, aged 20Remembered at Blakeney (St. Nicholas) Churchyardand on both Blakeney War Memorials Reginald Cooper was born in Cromer and baptised there, 5th April, 1896. He was the son of Charles Thomas Cooper, a bricklayer, and his wife Marian Louisa Brooks. By 1901 the family were living
A/Sgt 16837, 7th Bn, Norfolk RegimentDied 13th October 1915, aged 30Remembered at Loos Memorialand on both Blakeney War Memorials Alfred was born in Blakeney 1886, the 4th of five sons born to Edward Clifford and Anna Turner nee Buck. His siblings were Clifford John, Ellis Capps, William Buck and Harry Page, all born in Blakeney
The four-volume study Mary Hardy and her World 1773-1809 will be published in April 2020. Two of the covers are pictured here; also the set of four spines. Drawing on the testimony of the local diarist Mary Hardy (1733-1809), these volumes of commentary and analysis provide a detailed panorama of work and social life in
The table below lists the contents of the issues 1 (1998) to 19 (2024), and can be filtered using the Search field, or sorted by clicking on the column headings in the table below.
From BAHS member Margaret Bird, 20 March 2023:A 32-page booklet, Georgian Holt at Work and Play, will be published by the Holt Society on 3 April 2023. Written by Margaret Bird, it features social and commercial life in Holt and the surrounding area in the period 1780-1810 when Mary Hardy was writing her daily diary
Created by BAHS member Richard Jefferson this walk takes you on a route through Cley to take in thirty of its heritage landmarks. Allow around an hour, possibly more if you plan to study the various buildings in depth. Click here for the leaflet. A digital version of the walk is available to download by