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Number 34 January 2013 BAHS Newsletter Number 34 www.history-blakeney-area.org.uk January 2013 The Time Team dig at Bran- and the Internet. Above is Time This is the blob of caster was broadcast on Sun- Team resident eccentric Phil shame: if you have day 6th January on Channel Harding explaining a geo-phys not yet renewed your 4. If you missed it there may readout using an,,, ice lolly. It membership there will still be time to catch it via 4oD was a hot day. be a mark in this box. News from the History Centre he summer exhibition Tidal Lands, held in collabora- Ttion with the National Trust, proved a huge success for both organisations. It was well attended with just over 300 people visiting on each of the four days, many making return visits. Even then, there was not enough time to take it all in. A sincere thank you to all those who prepared exhibits, vol- unteered as stewards and visited the exhibition. Four months later the exhibi- tion is still being talked about and numerous requests have been made to ‘see it again’ or even present it as a book. Now there’s an idea! Meanwhile a selection of boards featured at the exhibi- tion, will be on view in Blakeney Church throughout the year ahead. These will be found in the BAHS window bay located in the north aisle. Accessions We are now busy catching up with processing a backlog of acces- sions, all of which should have found their way onto the shelves in the Centre by the time it re- opens in February. New additions are: • Books including Captain Mar- ryat, Cley Marsh and its Birds, The origins of Norfolk, Victo- rian North Norfolk Sailing Ships (reviewed in this Newsletter), Maritime Norfolk, The Story of a Blacksmith’s Forge at Cley, The Smiths of Ryburgh (with Morston connections) and RAF Langham 1940-1958. • Photographs including the Yan- kee (1947), Binham Priory, Blak- eney and Morston (1934), develop- ment of Samphire Close, Blakeney (2010/11) and 5 Judges postcards of Blakeney and Cley. • Particulars and conditions of Sale for Estates in Blakeney and Wiveton that include a brewery and a pub (1839), Manor Farm House Blakeney (1929), The Mor- ston Estate (1936), Ship Inn Blak- eney (1968) and Friary House, The Tidal Lands exhibition held at Blakeney Village Hall was a re- also Blakeney (2012). sounding success. Many visitors stayed for hours – and some even • Memories of a holiday in Mor- returned – as there was just so much to see and take in. ston, with photographs (1939); A (Top): Pamela Peake and Diana Cooke at bay. Norfolk Childhood written by Ma- ens-Hardy family and is expected Starling, Samuel and Ann Eliza of bel Kay, daughter of local GP, Dr shortly. Cley Kay from the Manor Farm House The Centre has also ordered Temple of Wells and Morston in Blakeney; Fair Waved the Corn, the four volumes of Mary Hardy’s Thorn of Gunthorpe and Cley Weybourne remembered 1920- Diary by Margaret Bird. These 1940. are due to be published in April. Pamela Peake • Board of Trade records for Together with the Parish Records, selected Ship Transcripts and all the censuses and numerous Transfers 1826-1838 (BT 107) other documents and photographs Making use of our website and Crew Lists, mostly 1837-1838 held by the Centre, our coverage www.history-blakeney-area.org.uk but some much later (BT 98). The of Letheringsett has now grown latter are invaluable for locating enormously. Do come and enjoy copy of each newsletter elusive masters, mariners and looking through it. since June 2005 is held early apprentices while the Ship A on the website. Since July Transcripts and Transfers are reg- Roots and Branches 2011 the newsletters have been istrations for pre Victorian ships Several of the new folders pre- in colour – not something that and thus, extend Stammers list pared for the exhibition contain has found its way into the printed featured in Victorian North Nor- much that will be invaluable for edition. You might like to take a folk Sailing Ships. family history research: Blakeney look at Newsletter 31 to see the Also from the Board of Trade Pilots of the nineteenth cen- painted medieval panels at Ran- are the records of locally born tury together with their parents, worth Church in full colour. For sailors with their Register Ticket spouses and children and then an members, the website is a use- Numbers (BT 120, BT 113 and A to Z of nineteenth century north ful port of call particularly when BT 116). These Ticket Numbers Norfolk Coastguards. The latter you cannot lay your hands on the provide dates of birth for those also contains much information on society’s last newsletter. born before the advent of the GRO the Morston Coastguards includ- The synopsis of each article of in 1837 and even more tellingly ing baptisms of children as well every Glaven Historian may be reveal their height, colour of hair as family profiles of the Kings and found on the website. If you are and eyes, complexion, marks, Eales families. looking for information on a par- whether they had ever been in the Other new Family Folders cover ticular subject an online search navy and for how long, age when the Lee/Porritt, Pashley and Fox to find potentially relevant ar- they first went to sea and whether and families of Cley. John Lee, ticles may be easier that browsing they could write – fabulous infor- merchant and miller, was the through each Glaven Historian. mation for family historians. father-in-law of James William How to do this is described on the • Masters and Mates Ticket Porritt, merchant, shipowner and website. Numbers (1850-1927) for those farmer. He in turn was the great Details of our events pro- born in Langham, Morston, Sal- grandfather of Patrick Kearney, gramme may be found on the web- thouse, Stiffkey, Blakeney, Cley artist, who left a wonderful legacy site. If there are changes to the and Wiveton together with their of ship paintings. Many of these programme these are published place and date of birth. paintings were subsequently on the website. • Sundry Papers that include photographed at full size by his If you are thinking of visiting Blakeney School Return of Staff daughter at which time a small the History Centre the website 1903 and a catalogue of the Blak- selection was presented to the provides information about the eney Festival 1951. History Centre, where they may be Centre including details of when • The Letheringsett Deposit a viewed. it is open for members and visi- parish archive researched and as- tors. To avoid a wasted trip please sembled over many years by David Current family research and en- check before making plans to visit. Mayes that he wishes to be kept quiries includes; The society is often contacted locally, easily accessible by all. It Bishop, Rev Hugh Arthur and his to help with finding information is being deposited in two batches son of Cley on local families, houses and with the first deposit consisting Cooke and Brook of Blakeney other matters. These requests are of WI records; Village Notes 1937, Cubitt of Blakeney and Salthouse placed in our guest book. Again, Jubilee Year Scrapbook 1965, Durrants of Holt and Cley please take a look at our guest Minute Book 1920-1925 and Gidney, Spooner, Holmes of book as you may well be able to Birthday photographs 1940. Blakeney, Bale and Cley help with one of the queries – or Also included here are the Diaries Hudson of Quarles, Blakeney and you may have a query of your own. of A B Woodhouse, a Lethering- Wiveton Finally, if you have any sugges- sett Hall and Estate gardener, an Mallett of Blakeney tions on how the website may be estate map of 1800, Letheringsett Manns of Blakeney improved or if you find a problem and Little Thornage Cricket Club Nurse Richard and Sarah, latterly with it then please contact me via 1922-1952 and four Ordnance of Cley email at info@history-blakeney- Survey Maps, 2nd edition 1907, Pinchen of Cley area.org.uk or speak to me at one covering the local area. The sec- Riseborough of Morston of our events. ond deposit will feature the Coz- Russell of Blakeney Richard Daley A Brief History of G-ADKL: an Aeroplane Once Owned by Hubert Blount of Cley his article started with an this time that the type A elliptical get back to Norfolk to collect it email from Peter Johnson wings were replaced with type B and fly it home to Tetbury. (from Twho is, with his wife, the square wings, as this corresponds a letter from Sarah Woodhouse current owner of this historic to the sequence of the undated en- (née Blount), Hubert Blount’s aeroplane. He wanted to be put try change in the CAA’s records. daughter, aged 4 in 1939) Sarah in touch with Sarah Woodhouse Charles Blount, Hubert Woodhouse continues: “The (née Blount), the daughter of the Blount’s son, although born after second vivid memory I have is of original owner. This I was able to the war, remembers cine films and the sadness and urgent hurrying do, and in return he provided me photographs of the Hornet being during those tense few days before with the above photo and a copy towed down the lane and flown my father left for France with his of a “non-technical” history of the from Byam’s Farm. regiment (13/18th Hussars). The plane which nevertheless runs to (Hornet) Moth was normally kept fourteen pages yet ends ten years 1939 in an open fronted shed in the ago.
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