Volume 7 – Apr 2003 to Aug 2007

Volume 7 – Apr 2003 to Aug 2007ALHS Admin2023-04-18T16:57:25+01:00

Volume 7 of the ALHS Journal was edited by Mrs Betty Gee

Volume 7.1 – Apr 2003

Contents

– Editorial
– Britain’s Secret Army
– Jenny May Jenner, District Nurse
– Notes and Queries
– Society News: Course on “Railways in a Norfolk Landscape”
– Photograph – Staff at Aylsham South Railway Station 1919
– Octavia Hill
– Winter Party
– Derivations of Aylsham Road Names
– Titles in the Local History Section of Aylsham Library
– Society visits this summer
– Changes in Red Lion Street
– Food through the Ages

Volume 7.2 – Aug 2003

Contents

– The Annual School Treat
– The Railway Children
– Edith Cavell
– Derivations of Aylsham Road Names, part 2
– Visit to Thetford
– Photographs of Thetford visit
– Archaeological Excavation 8-12 Red Lion St
– George Sawyer of Cawston
– Expedition to see the Mills on the Aylsham Navigation
– Illustration of the Mills and River Bure
– The Aylsham Navigation 1779-1928

Volume 7.3 – Dec 2003

Contents

– Introduction and Winter Party 2004 announcement
– Hunt’s East Norfolk Directory 1850
– Mattishall’s Village Sign
– The Archive Centre at Norfolk Record Office
– List of Members as at November 2003
– Dates for your Diary
– Society News: Visit to Sedgeford
– Visit to Hickling
– Railways of Norfolk
– Annual General Meeting
– Impact of the Twentieth Century on Norwich
– ALHS Publications Account 2003

Volume 7.4 – Apr 2004

Contents

– Chairman’s Letter
– Recent Changes in Aylsham
– Memories of Sunday School in Aylsham
– Quiz on Aylsham
– Letter from Mr Proudfoot
– The Cromer Road
– Roman Landscape of East Anglia
– Norwich Industries
– Kett’s Rebellion
– Winter Party
– Visits and Secretary announcement
– ALHS Tenth Anniversary
– Solutions to Aylsham Quiz
– “What’s your name?”

Volume 7.5 – Aug 2004

Contents

– Aylsham Directories 1793-1937; Oxburgh visit
– Society News; Course on The Dark Ages
– Visit to Binham Priory and Beeston
– Talk on Thomas Paine
– Talk on Aldborough – the Story of a Village
– Visit to the Norwich Archive Centre
– 20th Anniversary – the first Saturday
– The Anniversary Garden Party
– The third Saturday Event at the Town Hall
– A little piece of Aylsham’s History
– Copy of Indenture and Apprenticeship Agreement
– Aylsham Navigation
– NNAS “Time Team’s Carenza Lewis” on September
– Visit to Bolwick Hall Gardens
– New season’s evening programme
– New museum at Yarmouth

Volume 7.6 – Dec 2004

Contents

– Introduction; Winter Party announcement
– Aylsham Directories 1793-1937
– Letter from Colin Ulph
– Visit to Oxburgh Hall and Gardens
– Mrs Girling and the Children of God
– Queries
– The Life & Works of George Skipper
– The Gospel Hall, Cawston Road
– Gravel Dispute between Aylsham RDC & Blickling Hall Estate Office
– Annual General Meeting
– Editor’s Note
– Members’ List
– Publications Account

Volume 7.9 – Dec 2005

Contents

– Editorial and Chairman’s letter
– Winter Party
– The Building of the Parish Church
– Society Reports: Visit to Yarmouth
– Course on Historic Gardens & Parks of Norfolk
– Dutch Formal Gardens by Charlotte Crawley: a talk and visit to Hunworth Hall
– Sheringham Park, Humphry Repton’s Work
– Corpusty Mill gardens
– SEVERE WEATHER PROCEDURE
– Annual General Meeting
– The Last Picture Show
– Members’ List
– ALHS Publications Account
– ALHS Account for the Year ended 31st August 2005

Volume 7.10 – Apr 2006

Contents

– Editorial; visits
– Mrs Joan Turville-Petre
– How our Present Countryside has developed
– The Evolution of the Norfolk Village
– Winter Party Report
– Norwich Cathedral
– Mannington Hall Gardens — a talk by Lady Walpole
– Wolterton Hall and Park — a talk by Lady Walpole
– Follies and Grottoes
– Reverend Benjamin John Armstrong, Vicar of East Dereham 1850-1888
– Aylsham and the Blickling Estate
– Restoration of Dragon Hall

Volume 7.11 – Aug 2006

Contents

– Editorial
– Mrs Joan Turville-Petre
– The Blickling Huts 1946
– Plantation Garden and Visit to Plantation
– Visit to Churches with wall-paintings
– Norwich Bridges Past and Present
– Kathleen Starling
– Aylsham Fair
– Aylsham Quiz
– Archives Exhibition (Aylsham Carnival)
– Life Expectancy
– Answers to Quiz
– Programme 2006-7; Annual General Meeting; Visit; Website

Volume 7.12 – Dec 2006

Contents

– Editorial; Where are Pond Hills
– The Scatters of Aylsham
– I Will of Simon Skottowe of Aylsham transcription
– Will of Simon Skottowe
– Severe Weather Procedure
– Visit to Great Hospital, Norwich
– Visit to Houghton Hall
– Annual General Meeting
– Oulton at War
– Looking for the Pastons
– Current List of Members
– Beeston Hall Gardeners’ Accounts from NRO Newsletter No 32
– ALHS Publications Account
– ALHS Account for the Year ended 31st August 2006

Volume 7.13 – Apr 2007

Contents

– Millgate; Spring Social Event; Visits
– The Great Farmworkers’ Strike
– Society News: Visit to the V & A Museum
– Norfolk in the First World War
– Radio Intervew on Millgate Aylsham
– Medieval Stained Glass at Salle Church
– Aylsham items on EBA
– Good Old Days in Norfolk
– Dates for your Diary
– Family History Society (The Ancestor)
– Family Books
– Useful Web Sites
– Editor’s Note
– Easter Events at Norwich Museum

Volume 7.14 – Aug 2007

Contents

– Editorial
– The Broads Society; Aylsham Hospital
– Society News
– Speakers for the 2007/8 session; news from the Archive Centre
– East Anglian Painters
– Spring Social
– Visit to Sudbury and Cogglesall
– Ballington Bridge, Sudbury
– Voewood House, Kelling
– Aylsham Boys’ School Register 1872-1911
– Roll of Honour Great War 1939-1945
– Village at War – Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse

A selection of images from Volume 7