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FRI 13 – SUN 22 SEPTEMBER 2019 HERITAGE OPEN DAYS

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Norwich Magistrates Court...... 16 School Chapel...... 21 THE...... FORUM events 6-9 BROADLAND pre-book THETFORD pre-book GREAT YARMOUTH pre-book Norwich Playhouse...... 16 Norwich Synagogue...... 21 Blickling Estate...... 28 Former Atomic Gory Stories on a NORWICH pre-book Norwich Theatre Royal...... 16 Oak Circus Centre...... 21 Former RAF Coltishall...... 28 Weapons Bunker...... 32 Wicked Walk...... 38 OPEN Youth Trust...... 16 Octagon Chapel...... 21 Amelia Opie Walk...... 10 Marriott’s Way...... 28 Lynford Hall...... 32 The Great and the Good...... 38 Assembly House...... 10 Philippa Court, Boswells Yard.... 16 Old Meeting House The Story of Henry Cable...... 32 Great Yarmouth Ice House...... 38 Congregational Church...... 22 Polkey’s Mill and Reedham Beating the Bounds ...... 10 Rosary Cemetery...... 16 Marsh Steam Engine House...... 28 Thetford Heritage Run...... 32 St George’s Theatre...... 38 Plantation Garden...... 22 Boardman House...... 10 Sainsbury Centre for Thorpe Lodge...... 28 Thetford Library...... 32 Visual Arts...... 16 Princes Street United The Britons Arms...... 11 GREAT YARMOUTH drop-in Shardlake’s Journey Reformed Church...... 22 BROADLAND drop-in THETFORD drop-in Elizabethan House Museum...... 38 Colin & Susan Ticktum to Kett’s Heights...... 17 Pull’s Ferry Watergate Room..... 22 Charitable Trust...... 11 The Fisherman’s Hospital...... 38 Shardlake’s Norwich Quaker Meeting Room...... 22 All Saints Church, Ancient House...... 33 Curat House/Fat Face...... 11 Hemblington...... 28 Guided Tour...... 17 St Andrew’s Church, Eaton...... 23 Barnham Cross Common...... 32 Great Yarmouth Cemeteries...... 38 Dragon Hall...... 11 Aylsham Parish Church St James Mill...... 17 St Andrew’s Church, Norwich.... 23 British Trust for Ornithology..... 32 Hopton Ruined Church Dutch, Walloon and Huguenot (St Michael’s & All Angels)...... 29 and Millennium Garden...... 39 St Martin at Palace Centre...... 17 St Augustine’s Church...... 23 Charles Burrell Museum...... 32 Incomers to Norwich...... 11 Girlguiding Norfolk Archive Lydia Eva...... 39 St Peter Parmentergate Dad’s Army Museum...... 33 Earlham Hall...... 11 St Catherine’s Church...... 23 Resource Centre (ARC)...... 29 Church...... 17 Everything Thetford Masonic Royal Eastern Daily Press...... 11 St Clement Church...... 23 Haveringland Church...... 29 Assembly Rooms...... 39 Surrey House...... 17 Information Centre...... 34 St Edmund’s Church...... 23 Eaton Park...... 11 Hellesdon Parish Hall...... 29 King’s House...... 33 Old Meeting Unitarian Church.... 39 Voices of Dissent and Hope St Etheldreda’s Church...... 23 Elm Hill...... 11 in 19th century Norwich...... 17 Indian Summer Fair...... 29 Riversdale Centre...... 34 The Priory Centre...... 39 St George’s Church, Tombland.... 23 The Great Hospital...... 12 Oulton Chapel...... 29 St Cuthbert’s Church...... 34 Royal Naval Hospital...... 39 St Giles-on-the-Hill...... 23 The Guildhall...... 12 NORWICH drop-in Polkey’s Mill and Thetford Guildhall...... 34 Thurne Mill...... 39 St Gregory’s Antiques Reedham Marsh Steam The Halls (St Andrew’s & The Archive Centre...... 18 Thetford Methodist Church...... 34 Time and Tide Museum...... 39 Blackfriars’)...... 12 and Collectables...... 24 Engine House...... 29 The Bear Shop Garden...... 18 Thomas Paine Hotel...... 34 Tolhouse Gaol...... 39 Inanna’s Festival...... 12 St John Maddermarket Railway and River Walk...... 29 Bishop’s House Garden...... 18 Church...... 24 United Reformed Church...... 34 Wind Energy Museum...... 39 Jarrold Department Store...... 12 Stracey Arms Mill...... 29 Cathedral of St John St Margaret’s Church...... 24 John Innes Centre...... 12 St Swithin’s Church...... 29 SOUTH NORFOLK pre-book the Baptist...... 19 St Mark’s Church, Lakenham...... 24 NORTH NORFOLK pre-book John Lewis...... 12 Becket’s Chapel...... 40 The Chapel...... 18 St Martin at Palace Centre...... 24 BRECKLAND pre-book Felmingham Old Station...... 35 Kett’s Rebellion Tour...... 13 The City Club...... 18 St Martin at the Oak...... 25 St Benet’s Abbey...... 35 Dragons, Crowns and Queens.....40 Lazar House...... 13 Attleborough City of Norwich School...... 18 St Mary Coslany Church, Archive Office...... 30 St Seraphim’s Trust...... 35 Raveningham Hall...... 40 Maids Head Hotel...... 13 The Enterprise Centre, UEA...... 18 Norwich...... 25 Attleborough Town Hall...... 30 St Michael’s Church, Langley...... 40 Mousehold Heath Geology The Flint Room...... 19 St Mary’s Works...... 25 NORTH NORFOLK drop-in Wheatfen Nature Reserve...... 40 and Landscape Walk...... 13 Gressenhall Farm and The Greenhouse Gallery...... 19 St Michael and Workhouse...... 30 Congregational Church...... 35 Mousehold Heath Past All Angels Ruin...... 25 SOUTH NORFOLK drop-in and Present Walk...... 13 Hellesdon Train Station...... 19 Cromer Museum...... 35 St Michael-at-Plea Church: Lazar House...... 20 BRECKLAND drop-in Albright of Diss...... 40 Nooks and Crannies Revelation Resource Centre...... 25 Cromer Signal Box...... 36 Walking Tour...... 13 Maddermarket Theatre...... 20 Attleborough Heritage Becket’s Chapel...... 40 St Peter Hungate Church...... 25 Edwardian Wherry Norfolk & Norwich Morris Dancing...... 20 Group...... 31 Yacht Norada...... 36 Caistor Roman Town...... 41 Millennium Library...... 13 St Saviour Church...... 25 Museum of Norwich at Attleborough Tourist Felbrigg Hall, Gardens Christadelphian Hall...... 41 St Simon and St Jude Church..... 25 Information Centre...... 31 Norfolk Industrial the Bridewell...... 20 and Estate...... 36 Designer Makers 21...... 41 Archaeology Society...... 14 St Stephen’s Church...... 25 Attleborough Town Hall...... 31 Norfolk Family Hathor Pleasure Wherry...... 36 Diss Corn Hall...... 41 Norfolk Record Office...... 14 Strangers’ Hall Museum...... 26 Bishop Bonner’s History Society...... 20 Ingham Holy Trinity Church...... 36 Diss Heritage Cottage Museum...... 31 Norfolk Wherry Maud...... 14 Norfolk & Norwich Surrey House...... 26 Lessingham Village Hall...... 36 Transport Fayre...... 41 Gressenhall Farm and Norwich City Hall...... 14 Millennium Library...... 21 The Salvation Army, Museum of the Broads...... 37 Diss Museum...... 41 Norwich Citadel...... 26 Workhouse...... 31 ...... 15 Museum Old Honing Train Station Francis Cupiss Ltd...... 41 and Art Gallery...... 20 The South Asia Collection...... 26 Narborough Bone Mill...... 31 Norwich Dissenters Walk...... 16 at Briggate...... 37 Forncett Industrial St Mary’s Church, Norwich Cathedral...... 20 The Strangers Club...... 26 Steam Museum...... 42 Norwich Heritage Photo Walk..... 16 Attleborough...... 31 Paston College Nelson Room..... 37 Norwich in the Time of Norwich Masonic Association.....20 Train Wood...... 26 St Benet’s Abbey...... 37 Morris Dancing...... 42 Elizabeth I...... 16 Norwich Puppet Theatre...... 20 Waterloo Park...... 26 Waxham Great Barn...... 37 Wymondham Abbey...... 42 Wherry Albion...... 37 Wymondham Brochure design: Anne Reekie Heritage Museum...... 42 Print partner: Page Bros, Norwich Cover image: © Jonathan McMeekin 2 3 Welcome to Heritage Event and Booking Open Days 2019 Information

As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of This year’s theme of ‘People Power’ Many HODs events are drop-in, there’s Heritage Open Days (HODs), get ready for is celebrated across many events, always plenty to enjoy and experience. ten unmissable days of FREE tours, talks, demonstrating the influence groups and Make sure to look out for: walks, open days, exhibitions, performances individuals have had over history to evoke and shows across Norfolk. Explore local positive change in our communities. People Power themed events communities, enjoy a sneaky peek inside Family Friendly activities places that aren’t always open to the public, We hope you have a wonderful festival meet new people and soak up stories about and enjoy making plenty of fascinating Due to limited capacity, some events must where we live and the places we visit. discoveries about Norfolk’s hidden heritage. be pre-booked and tickets are allocated on a first come first served basis. Hundreds of participating Norfolk venues, The Norfolk HODs team organisations, private homes and gardens are throwing open their doors to reveal © Andrew Heptinstall © Andrew and celebrate the very best of our rich history and heritage.

THANKS WHEN DO BOOKINGS OPEN? CAN I BOOK TICKETS WITH Thank you to our longstanding funders and Last but not least, thank you to the thousands Monday 29 July at 10am. THE FORUM OFFICE? supporters; to Norwich Tourist Information of you who continue to visit, enjoy and Tickets are not available in person, by Centre and all the venues, event organisers, support Heritage Open Days across Norfolk. HOW CAN I BOOK TICKETS? telephone, post or email with The Forum office. community partners and the army of Some tickets can be booked online via The Heritage Open Days programme is volunteers who work so tirelessly to help theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods WHAT IF I CAN NO LONGER USE bring this festival to life. managed nationally by the National Trust TICKETS FOR AN EVENT? with support from players of People’s Tickets will be emailed to you, please bring We want to ensure our events are accessible to HODs in Norwich and across much of Postcode Lottery. these on the day of your selected event. as many visitors as possible. If you’re allocated Norfolk is made possible by The Forum In some cases you will be required to tickets you cannot use, please let us know by Trust and its Board, which champions and book directly with the venue by phone, emailing [email protected] funds the coordination and delivery of the email or online. Please check individual festival each year. COORDINATED BY event listings for details. If you need more information about an event Meeting points and venue addresses please check the full event listing online at will be confirmed with your booking. heritageopendays.org.uk or contact the venue directly.

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Talking Statues

TRAIL Fri 13–Sun 22: 1000–1600 If statues could talk, what stories would © Jack Roberts they tell? Come to The Forum during the Festival to find out and pick up your trail map. Ten of the city’s historic statues have been given the gift of the gab! Pass a Talking Statue, swipe your smartphone on a nearby plaque and hey presto, get a call back from Lord Nelson Portraits of Life (voiced by Stephen Fry), or Julian of

From left: © Jonathan Cherry / Craftivist Collective, Collective, Cherry / Craftivist left: © Jonathan From Collective / Craftivist Lewis Jenny Norwich (voiced by Sarah Perry and EXHIBITION NEW! Olivia Colman). Each statue has a story Fri 13-Sun 22: 1000-1600 to tell. Together, they tell Norwich’s story. Dare to Dream After WWII and the subsequent Originally commissioned by Creative redevelopment in the early 70s, Nation and National Centre for Writing. All these events take place at The Forum, Craftivism the streets of Norwich looked very Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF. different. Gone were rows and rows of You can also visit our HODs info point Workshop terraced houses and narrow shopping Voicing the inside The Forum, open daily during streets. Professional photographer Jack WORKSHOP NEW! Landscape the Festival 1000–1600. Roberts, who died in 2005, captured Sun 15: 1400. Approx 2 hours some of those areas. Now with the help FILM NEW! Each year HODs special initiative, of Derek James and Bill Smith, Jack’s Fri 13–Mon 16: 1000–1600 Unsung Stories, highlights our heritage Behind the Scenes photographs can be seen for the first A series of monologues written about stories through a creative arts project. time. Take a look at how Norwich once the Whitlingham Broad area by Award-winning activist and founder of at The Forum was and hear some of the stories from Lakenham 23rd Girl Guides. The short the global Craftivist Collective, Sarah those who lived and worked there. texts exploring what it is to be lake, tree, TOUR NEW! Corbett, is delivering #DareToDream sky or stone have been filmed by the Tue 17: 1000 & 1130 craftivism workshops exploring stories Supported by Archant and Wed 18: 1000, 1130 & 1300 The John Jarrold Trust guides on mobile phones and will be of those in history who made their screened at The Forum in a mini pop-up A wonderful opportunity to see behind dream for a better world a reality, cinema. The project forms part of the the scenes of this Millennium building, to inspire and empower us to be Water, Mills and Marshes Landscape including the Auditorium and Millennium changemakers for a better future. Library Stacks Room. A public building CALL OUT! Partnership Scheme, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. – people can visit seven days a week all Take this unique opportunity to join Visit The Forum between 12-17 year round – and the eclectic mix of free Sarah at this workshop, to stitch your August to see these photographs exhibitions, events, activities, catering, own dreams and aspirations on to and tell us your stories, which shopping and learning opportunities specially designed dream clouds to be could be part of the exhibition makes The Forum a unique building right displayed in your community. No craft during HODs in September. in the heart of Norwich. Age guidance 12+. skills needed, just an open heart and Check theforumnorwich/hods an open mind. Age guidance 14+. PRE-BOOK ONLINE: for more info and times. theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods PRE-BOOK ONLINE: See About The Forum on page 45 theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods

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Wed 18: 1000. Approx 1 hour Thu 19: 1400. Approx 1 hour 30 mins Sat 21: 1600. Approx 1 hour WOMEN IN WORLD WAR I NORFOLK’S FIXED DEFENCES THE POWER OF Talks at The Forum Joy Evitt from the Norwich AGAINST INVASION IN THE PEOPLE IN PLACE All of these fascinating talks can be pre-booked online: theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Costume and Textile Association TWO WORLD WARS Dr Mark Hobbs, discusses what talks about the roles of women 75 years after the Normandy roles specific national sites play Fri 13: 1000. Approx 1 hour Sat 14: 1200. Approx 1 hour Mon 16: 1600. Approx 1 hour during WWI and how they Landings, author Christopher in public protest. Focussing on THE GRAND TOUR THE PHOTOGRAPHER CROWDSOURCING THE PAST: stepped up to the challenge. Bird brings the story of Norfolk’s Trafalgar Square, how it is used AND BEYOND TIME FORGOT DIGITAL COMMUNITIES defences against invasion and to present conflicting views Join Victoria Draper from the Join journalist Derek James AND DIGITAL HERITAGE Wed 18: 1200. Approx 1 hour touches on his extensive research of what the UK stands for about these enigmatic remains. and what this tells us about Norfolk Record Office on a and photographer Bill Smith Dr Lorna Richardson explores THE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY collective national identity trip across the continent using for an illustrated talk about the world of digital voluntary OF ORCHARDS IN THE See evening talk on page 14. and memory. diaries, journal and letters photographer Jack Roberts, ‘crowdsourcing’ in cultural EASTERN COUNTIES detailing Norfolk citizens’ highlighting ‘not seen before’ heritage. Using digital Tom Williamson, of ‘Orchards Fri 20: 1200. Approx 1 hour experiences on the Grand Tour. photographs Jack took of his technologies to harness East’ project, presents research MIRIAM PRATT: Sat 21: 1800. Approx 1 hour beloved Norwich. the ‘wisdom of the crowd’, into the history of orchards A NORWICH SUFFRAGETTE AMERICAN AIRMEN OF WWII Fri 13: 1200. Approx 1 hour volunteers help organisations in the east and the scale of Biographer Gill Blanchard talks Join Orla Kennelly, 2nd Air translate manuscripts and TREES IN ENGLAND: Sat 14: 1400. Approx 1 hour their destruction over the last about Miriam Pratt, a local Division USAAF Memorial Trust identify archaeological sites MANAGEMENT AND THE NORWICH five decades. teacher, whose Suffragette Librarian, in discovering some from satellite images. DISEASE SINCE 1600 TERRACED HOUSE activism led to her imprisonment of the fascinating stories in the This talk by Tom Williamson, An exploration by David Bussey Wed 18: 1400. Approx 1 hour under the Cat and Mouse Act. library, and get an insight into life in East Anglia for these GIs. currently leading the ‘Orchards of Norwich’s terraced houses Tue 17: 1200. Approx 1 hour THE PEOPLE POWER THAT IS East’ project at UEA, considers from the 18th century to the THE R34 ADVENTURE SAVING HISTORIC WHERRIES Fri 20: 1400. Approx 1 hour the true nature of rural tree present day. The illustrated In 1919 the airship R34 made the Join Peter Bower, from the Wherry NORWICH CASTLE GAOL: populations, discussing what talk shows how the reality and first double airborne Atlantic Yacht Charter Trust, and learn THE PEOPLE IN THE PRISON an understanding of their aspirations of a rapidly changing crossing. Basil Abbott, of Diss about how the last remaining For most of its long history history can contribute to population was reflected. Museum, recounts the voyage fleet of five Norfolk Wherries Norwich Castle served as the the development of future from Scotland to Long Island and has been saved by volunteers. prison for Norfolk. Join local conservation policy. Sat 14: 1600. Approx 1 hour back to Pulham, complete with historian Colin Howey as he talks storms, a cat and a stowaway. STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE IN Thu 19: 1000. Approx 1 hour about the development of the Fri 13: 1400. Approx 30 mins NORWICH – WOMEN’S FIGHT AMELIA OPIE gaol over time and the people NORFOLK’S NATIONAL TRAIL FOR EQUALITY AND FREEDOM Tue 17: 1400. Approx 1 hour Ann Farrant, biographer of who were confined there. AND ITS COASTAL TREASURES Historical biographer Gill ROBERT TOPPES Amelia Opie, talks about the There’s much more to Peddars Blanchard talks on the subject Richard Matthew talks about wife of John Opie RA and Sat 21: 1400. Approx 1 hour Way than a ‘Roman road’, and of her book with the same Robert Toppes, who is believed to best-selling novelist and poet, BUILDING NORWICH: more to the Norfolk Coast Path name. Learn how the women be the original builder and owner befriended by writers, artists, HOW THE CENTURIES HAVE than sand dunes and salty of Norfolk shaped both its of Dragon Hall as recorded in politicians, actresses and SHAPED OUR FINE CITY © Will Teather © Will air. National Trail Officer Jack past and its present. the city’s landgable records. aristocrats. Vanessa Trevelyan, of The Davidson takes a look at the rich Norwich Society, takes you INTERACTIVE TALK heritage of West Norfolk. Mon 16: 1400. Approx 1 hour Tue 17: 1600. Approx 1 hour Thu 19: 1200. Approx 1 hour on an illustrated whistle-stop Sat 21: 1000. Approx 50 mins SWING RIOTS IN NORFOLK MABEL CLARKSON HIDDEN HISTORIES OF tour of Norwich through the PUTTING ON A PAGEANT: Sat 14: 1000. Approx 1 hour Rowena Burgess looks at the Historical biographer Gill PSYCHOTHERAPY AND centuries, taking in major and THE GUILDHALL Swing Riots, a period of unrest Blanchard presents the story lesser known landmarks. NORWICH 1578 PSYCHIATRY IN NORFOLK Join us as we travel back Guide Richard Matthew talks in southern England in the 1830s, of Mabel Clarkson, one of the Using footage from the to 1578 and discover how about the history of the Guildhall, associated with protest against first women councillors in the East Anglian Film Archive, Tudor Norwich prepared from its building between 1407 newly introduced mechanisation country who went on to be the Georgia Walker Churchman, for Queen Elizabeth I’s and 1413, and its role as the centre and rural living conditions. Lady Lord Mayor of Norwich. with other UEA academics, visit. 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The Britons Arms Dragon Hall Eastern Daily Press Events in this section of the brochure are TOUR TOUR TOUR ticketed and must be booked in advance. Fri 13, Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1000 & 1100 Sat 21: 1000 & 1400 Fri 13: 1100, 1300 & 1500 Approx 30 mins Approx 2 hours Approx 1 hour See individual event listings for information on how to book tickets. This remarkable building, now A rare opportunity to see inside Have you ever wanted to visit Booking opens Mon 29 July. a coffee shop, dates back to this magnificent medieval the EDP office, see where the the 14th century. It is one of the trading hall, now home to the daily news stories are written last thatched buildings in the National Centre for Writing. or to take a look at some of the city, with one of the largest historic newspaper archives? used roof spaces, and is of TALK Join Archant as they open their national importance. Sat 21: 1230. Approx 1 hour doors and offer an exclusive tour of the building. PRE-BOOK ONLINE: THE HISTORY OF DRAGON theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods HALL: Dragon Hall Heritage PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Volunteer, Richard Matthews, theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Colin & Susan Ticktum gives his acclaimed talk on Charitable Trust Dragon Hall and its history. Eaton Park TOUR PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: TOUR Sat 14: 1430. Approx 2 hours theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Sun 15: 1400 & 1530. Approx 1 hour for talk and vault visit Explore the park with a guided See the Trust’s collection of Dutch, Walloon and tour, which will take you to the 400 early silver spoons, which Huguenot Incomers park’s main features, covering Assembly House includes 100 pre 1700 items to Norwich the work of Captain Arnold and its collection of East WALK Sandys-Winsch, who designed © EDP/Nick Butcher © EDP/Nick Anglian silver. Dragon Hall Mon 16: 1400, Sat 21: 1100 and built the park. A Walk on the Weird Side Approx 1 hour 30 mins PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Mrs Ticktum on 01603 625143 or This walk illustrates the effect theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Amelia Opie Walk TOUR Beating the Bounds email [email protected] of the ‘Strangers’, incomers WALK Fri 20, Sat 21 & Sun 22: 1000 WALK from the Spanish Netherlands Elm Hill Curat House/Fat Face and France 1550-1750, on Fri 13: 1800 & Sun 15: 14:30 Approx 90 mins Fri 13: 1400 & Wed 18: 1300 Norwich’s landscape. The walk TOUR Approx 2 hours TOURS OF THE HOUSE: Approx 1 hour 30 mins TOUR starts at The Guildhall and is on Wed 18: 1415. Approx 1 hour 30 mins The biographer of Amelia Opie Brimming with personalities This walk reveals the unique Fri 13: 1000 & 1400, Thu 19: 1000, from the past and tangible behalf of the Norfolk Archives Historic Elm Hill is one of the (1769-1853), Ann Farrant, guides historic parish boundary Fri 20: 1000 & 1400 and Heritage Development this walk to some of the places architectural evidence, markers still attached to many Approx 1 hour 15 mins most picturesque streets in the Foundation, partner charity of country and is surely Norwich’s in the city associated with the enjoy the histories of this buildings, and explains the spirit This 15th century merchant’s the Norfolk Record Office. most famous. Its charming celebrated Norwich citizen. remarkable building. of the ancient rites and customs house, now the shop Fat Face timber framed houses, many of ‘Beating the Bounds’. in Norwich, is perhaps most PRE-BOOK ONLINE: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: rebuilt after a devastating fire in WALK fondly remembered as Backs theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods PRE-BOOK ONLINE: 1507, overhang the cobbles. Sun 22: 1800. Approx 1 hour 30 mins Wine Merchants and Bar. theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods A behind the scenes tour of Earlham Hall PRE-BOOK ONLINE: The Assembly House A WALK ON THE WEIRD Join storyteller Richard this hidden gem includes the theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods SIDE: Boardman House TOUR TALK NEW! Hughes and the Weird Sisters undercroft and upper rooms. Sun 15 & Sun 22: 1000, 1130, TOUR Sun 22: 1400 from Weird Norfolk, Siofra PRE-BOOK ONLINE: 1400 & 1530. Approx 1 hour Approx 1 hour 30 mins Connor and Stacia Briggs, Fri 13: 1000 & Wed 18: 1400 theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Tour of the Grade II listed 17th on an adventure through the Approx 1 hour EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN: and 18th century house with STORIES FROM NORWICH streets of Norwich. Discover Join Norwich University of the spellbinding tales of wild tour guide Nigel Wimhurst. HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Arts and Hudson Architects on Learn about Elizabeth Fry 1877-1933: Come and share boys, phantoms, kings and a special tour. The renovated ghosts, and a tour of one of and the Gurney family, former in some extraordinary stories, Grade II listed building is now residents of the building. some never told before, about Norwich’s most atmospheric home to NUA Architecture and the women who attended crypts. Age guidance 14+. Interior Design students. 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Kett’s Rebellion Tour Mousehold Heath Geology NORFOLK & NORWICH and Landscape Walk TOUR NEW! MILLENNIUM LIBRARY WALK Sat 14 & Tue 17: 1000 Approx 1 hour 30 mins Thu 19: 1030 Children’s Library Approx 2 hours 30 mins Follow in the footsteps of WORKSHOP NEW! Robert Kett and his rebels as Join Tim Holt-Wilson and Fri 20: 1630. Approx 1 hour 30 mins they took on the might of the a Norwich City Council Tudor armies in 1549. Walk Mousehold Heath warden for BIG LEGO BUILD – REBUILD through the streets of Norwich a guided tour of the Earth THE LIBRARY: Join this group with our local guide to imagine Heritage Trail. Travel back in activity to help create from the ebb and flow of their battles time to explore this unique the ashes a NEW library. and the reprisals that followed. and undulating landscape and Age guidance 8+. discover how this has been PRE-BOOK ONLINE: sculpted by natural processes Norfolk Heritage Centre theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods and people.

The Great Hospital The Halls John Innes Centre Hospital, Great left: © The From John Innes Foundation Norwich City Council, TOUR NEW! PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Lazar House Sat 14: 1100. Approx 1 hour theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods

The Great Hospital Inanna’s Festival John Innes Centre WALK & TALK BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR: Norfolk Heritage Centre holds Sun 22: 1130. Approx 30 mins Mousehold Heath Past TOUR TALK TALK TOUR the most comprehensive & NEW! and Present Walk This former Leper Hospital dates collection of published material Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1000 & 1300 Fri 13, Sat 14, Tue 17 & Weds 18: Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1000 back 900 years and has a varied Approx 1 hour 30 mins 1800. Approx 30 mins Approx 2 hours WALK telling the story of Norfolk and its history. It was an almshouse and people. Discover the treasures Founded in 1249 to care for the A visit to the house above MEDIEVAL ORIGINS OF Sun 15: 1400 more recently Norwich’s first kept behind the scenes with this poor and retired clergy. The tour the Inanna’s Festival shop to TODAY’S REMEDIES: A Approx 2 hours 30 mins branch Library which closed in guided tour – including items includes the Church of St Helen discover the history of this 17th LOOK INTO THE JOHN Join a local historian and 1989. Now home to a learning which survived the fire in 1994. and associated cloisters, Eagle century weaver’s flint-walled INNES HERBALS: Find out disabilities charity, The Assist Norwich City Council Ward and the medieval . house with timbered beams. why gardens and plants were Trust, visitors can learn more with Mousehold Heath warden, to The talk includes a chapter on so important to health and discover the stories behind WORKSHOP NEW! PRE-BOOK ONLINE: local author and historian Trevor the life of the weavers and their the ruins of a chapel, social Sat 14: 1730. Approx 1 hour theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods well-being in the past. We will Nuthall. Age guidance 12+. place in the history of Norwich. decode early modern herbals uprisings and how historic land ESCAPE FROM NORFOLK PRE-BOOK ONLINE: use has influenced this unique PRE-BOOK ONLINE: and explore how plants used HERITAGE CENTRE: Test your The Guildhall theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods and important area. theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods in ancient times are contributing puzzle-solving skills in our TOUR to modern medicines. Talks PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Norwich Central Library fire- and display of Rare Books. Maids Head Hotel themed Escape Game. Explore Fri 20 & Sun 22: 1100 & 1400 Jarrold Department Store theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Approx 45 mins Age guidance 11+. TOUR the Local Studies collection and TOUR see materials that survived the The largest surviving medieval PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1500 Nooks and Crannies fire in 1994. Age guidance 12+. civic building outside London Thu 19: 0930, 1130 & 1430 theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Approx 1 hour 30 mins Walking Tour and central to civic and judicial Approx 1 hour 30 mins A guided tour of the oldest TOUR life for over 600 years. Visit A tour around the Jarrold John Lewis hotel in England, including the Second Air Division Fri 13: 1100, Tues 17: 1400 the undercroft, police cells Department store looking at Maids Head Bar, in constant Memorial Library and Victorian court room. the history of the building and TOUR Approx 1 hour 30 mins use since 1287. TOUR NEW! visiting areas not usually seen Fri 13 & Sat 14, Mon 16-Sat 21: 1000 Norwich is a wonderful place PRE-BOOK ONLINE: by customers. Jarrold opened in & 1500, Sun 15 & Sun 22: 1100 & PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: to explore on foot, uncover Wed 18: 1715, Thu 19: 1100 theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Approx 1 hour 15 mins 1823 and has seen many changes 1400. Approx 1 hour eventbrite.co.uk (search Maids fascinating stories about and additions over the years. GEORGIAN COTTAGE TOUR: Head Hotel Norwich) the city’s historic nooks and BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR: The Halls Discover the history of the shop crannies. All just a stone’s throw Explore the collections of the TOUR PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: within the original Georgian from the bustling heart of 2nd Air Division Library not Jarrold Customer Services on cottages. Explore architectural Norwich. Explore some of the usually on view. Visit the library Mon 16: 1000, 1100, 1400 & 1500 01603 660661 or email Approx 1 hour features and learn from our many hidden alleys, courts and stored collections area and hear [email protected] Partners how the original Bonds lanes of our medieval city on how the collection was affected A chance to explore St Andrew’s shop became the John Lewis & this unusual walking tour. by the Norwich Central Library and Blackfriars’ Halls, the most Partners of today, with stories fire 25 years ago. complete medieval friary complex PRE-BOOK ONLINE: about our original founders. surviving in this country. theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods PRE-BOOK ONLINE: theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods

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Sat 14: 1300, Fri 20: 1500 Sat 14: 1400, Fri 20 & Sat 21: 1200 Sat 21: 1300 Approx 1 hour 30 mins Approx 1 hour 15 mins THE CLOISTER OF NORWICH CHAPELS AND CHANTRIES: CATHEDRAL: A place of prayer, The small chapels of Norwich meditation, work and recreation Hurst © Paul Cathedral have a history of their for the monks who lived in the Norfolk Wherry Maud own and contain wonderful Benedictine monastery. See the © Neil Thomas Hurst © Paul works of art. Learn about their carved stone bosses depicting Mon 16 & Fri 20: 1100 & 1300 Norwich City Hall Cathedral Cloisters history and see examples of scenes from the Bible as well as Approx 1 hour medieval painted panels and everyday life in the CATHEDRAL TREASURY: stained glass. and learn about the modern The Treasury was opened Norfolk Industrial Norfolk Record Office Norfolk Wherry Maud sculptures and monuments. in 1973 to display objects Archaeology Society DISPLAY NEW! TOUR Sat 14, Sun 15, Thurs 19: 1400 made of precious metals. See Approx 1 hour Sat 14: 1000, Sun 22: 1300 outstanding examples of the WALK Fri 20: 1400. Approx 2 hours Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1015, 1115, 1415, NEW! Approx 1 hour 30 mins skilled workmanship of both Sat 14: 1400-1600 OUTRAGE *US ARCHIVES: 1515, 1615. Approx 45 mins PERSONALITIES OF NORWICH goldsmiths and silversmiths Fri 20: 1000-1200 They can’t write that, can they? NORWICH CATHEDRAL TALK CATHEDRAL: A famous sailor, a from the 14th century right NORWICH AT WORK, OUR Our staff have been ploughing IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR: Sat 14: 1215 & 1830, Sun 15: 1215 famous knight, a famous nurse, through to recent times. INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE: through the archives to find This tour takes you through Approx 45 mins bishops, clerics, musicians and A guided walk around Norwich, distasteful names, insulting these turbulent times, when more. All celebrities in their day; Mon 16: 1300, Fri 20: 1100 with fascinating stories comments and shocking Come aboard, to learn more even the cathedral’s very come and learn more about Approx 1 hour illustrated by archive images. court cases containing about the history and current use survival was in doubt. There them in this wonderful setting. Discover historic buildings, centuries of outrageous of the Wherry Maud, covering was some Puritan “cleansing” NEW! her life from her build in 1899 to features and their surprising uses. wording and opinions. and the results are visible to EDITH CAVELL: A guided her rescue and restoration by this day. Not so well known is Sat 14: 1200, Thu 19: 1100, story of the brave Norfolk the Wherry Maud Trust. Sat 21: 1400 & Sun 22: 1300 TALK TOUR NEW! the suffering of the moderate nurse, who was executed for and mild-mannered bishop Approx 1 hour 30 mins Thu 19: 1930. Approx 2 hours Thu 19: 1000. Approx 2 hours PRE-BOOK ONLINE: treason against the Germans of that time. MONASTIC LIFE: Norwich on 12 October 1915. Edith was NORFOLK’S FIXED DEFENCES SECOND WORLD WAR theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Cathedral started life as a reburied at Norwich Cathedral AGAINST INVASION IN THE EXPERIENCES: See behind Benedictine monastery. Take this TWO WORLD WARS: A talk Norwich City Hall Fri 13: 1100, Sun 15: 1300, a hundred years ago, in 1919. the scenes, including the Mon 16: 1400, Thu 19: 1300 tour and hear about the life of by author Christopher Bird. In Strongrooms and the TOUR Approx 1 hour 15 mins these monks over the centuries up both World Wars, Norfolk was Conservation Studio, to uncover Mon 16: 1100, Fri 20: 1300 Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1000 & 1130 Explore the to the time of the Reformation. an invasion target. Hundreds how we store and repair STAINED GLASS: Approx 1 hour Approx 1 hour remarkable range of stained glass of structures were constructed documents. Marking the 80th NEW! A chance to explore one of the in the Cathedral from medieval Sat 14: 1100, Fri 20: 1400, Sat 21: to defend us, along the coast anniversary of the start of the TWO FIGHTING MEN: finest municipal buildings of times to the present day. 1300. Approx 1 hour 15 mins and along defence lines inland. war, this tour includes written Learn about the Cathedral the inter-war period, opened WRITING ON THE WALL: This 75 years after the Normandy and sound archives on connections of a soldier and by King George VI in 1938. tour will explore some of the Landings, the Norfolk Industrial Norfolk’s experiences. Fri 13: 1200, Thu 19: 1400, a fighting bishop of Norwich Sat 21: 1100. Approx 1 hour 30 mins thousands of graffiti within Archaeology Society brings PRE-BOOK ONLINE: the cathedral, together with in medieval Norfolk. the story of Norfolk’s defences PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS DIRECT theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods CATHEDRAL CLOSE: One against invasion. FROM 29 JUL VIA: of the largest in England, some unusual monumental Fri 20: 1000 & 1100. Approx 1 hour 01603 222599, archives.norfolk. and originally the monastic inscriptions. See daytime talk on page 9 gov.uk/events or email BRODERERS’ GUILD: Take a [email protected] enclosure where the buildings PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: and lands that made up the “behind the scenes” tour of theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Benedictine monastery once the Guild and find out about stood. Today, visitors can see how they care for and repair elegant Georgian and Victorian ecclesiastical textiles, as well buildings, but what of their as design and make new frontals and vestments. medieval past? See page 20 for drop-in events at Norwich Cathedral

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Norwich Dissenters Walk Norwich Magistrates Court Philippa Court, WALK TOUR Boswells Yard Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000 Wed 18 & Thu 19: 1800 & 1930 TOUR NEW! Approx 2 hours Approx 1 hour Wed 18: 1100, Fri 20: 1400 Step back in time and discover A fantastic chance to see Sun 22: 1200. Approx 1 hour the tumultuous tales of Norwich’s the well-preserved ruins of a You are invited into an 18th St Peter Parmentergate century textile warehouse religious history, the dissent Norman House beneath the Church that gripped the city and the undercroft of the courthouse, and former home of Harriet fascinating locations where it all discovered by archaeologists Martineau for a talk on the TOUR NEW! took place. Age guidance 12+. and now preserved beneath history of the building. Sun 15: 1100, 1300 & 1500 the building. Approx 1 hour PRE-BOOK ONLINE: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods PRE-BOOK ONLINE: theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Join Norwich Historic Churches theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Trust’s Conservation Manager to learn about the work that goes Norwich Heritage Rosary Cemetery into looking after churches like Photo Walk Norwich Playhouse TOUR St James Mill © Dibs McCallum St Peter Parmentergate. Climb WALK TOUR Heritage Photo Walk Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1400. Three tours Trevelyan © Vanessa the tower to see stunning views Thu 19: 1900. Approx 3 hours Tue 17 & Wed 18: 1130 & 1430 taking place concurrently: like no other. History, Military and Wildlife Walk along the River Wensum, Approx 45 mins PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: Approx 1 hour 30 mins looking at historical locations Explore rarely-seen sections Shardlake’s Journey St James Mill Rachel Kidd on 01603 611530 or from a photographer’s of the theatre, discover the Guided tours of the first non- email [email protected] to Kett’s Heights TOUR perspective. You will need workings of backstage, and denominational burial ground in the UK. Set in Grade II* TALK & TOUR NEW! Sat 14: 1000, 1130 & 1300 your own DSLR camera, and learn about its historical context. Surrey House a relatively good fitness level Originally a Georgian maltings, listed grounds, the cemetery Sat 14, Wed 18 & Sun 22: 1430 Approx 50 mins is required. the building has transformed encapsulates the history of Approx 1 hour 30 mins This Grade I listed former TOUR NEW! over the ages before becoming Victorian Norwich. Members of This illustrated talk will trace yarn mill has been called Thu 19 & Fri 20: 0930, 1100, PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: a much-loved theatre. the Colman, Jarrold and Ringer the route of C.J. Sansom’s ‘the noblest building of the 1300 & 1430. Approx 1 hour throughthelensworkshops.co.uk/ families are buried there along fictional lawyer, Matthew ’. It sits Visit the historic home of shop PRE-BOOK ONLINE: with novelist R.H. Mottram and Shardlake, from Norwich Castle beside the River Wensum close theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Aviva, a spectacular piece artists from the Norwich School. to Kett’s Heights, followed by to the centre of Norwich and of Edwardian architecture Norwich in the Time a guided tour of the Heights, is a remarkable example of PRE-BOOK ONLINE: designed by George Skipper. of Elizabeth I Norwich Theatre Royal Robert Kett’s HQ. Norwich’s industrial heritage. theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Ascend the processional WALK TOUR PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: staircase to the upper floors and board room, where the Sun 15: 1300. Approx 1 hour 30 mins Thu 19: 1030. Approx 1 hour Sainsbury Centre Eventbrite.co.uk theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods directors of the Norwich Union When Elizabeth I visited A backstage tour of the theatre, for Visual Arts (search Shardlake’s Norwich) Life Insurance Society first Norwich in 1578, the city put looking at the stage and behind St Martin at Palace Centre TOUR took residence in 1905. forward its best public face. the scenes, from a mixed point Shardlake’s Norwich Sun 22: 1400 & 1500 TOUR NEW! This walk, led by City of of view of technical, business, Guided Tour PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Approx 45 mins Sat 14: 1400. Approx 1 hour 30 mins Norwich Guide Shea Fiddes, historical and social perspectives. TOUR NEW! theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods looks at where some of the Join Head of Technical services HISTORIC CHURCHES OF PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Roger Bishop for a special Sat 21: 1030. Approx 2 hours See page 26 for Surrey House events took place during and NORWICH: SPACER Z drop-in events after her six day stay. theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods behind the scenes tour of A guided walking tour with POLSKIM PRZEWODNIKIEM!: this Norman Foster designed Norwich tour guide, Paul Norwich Historic Churches Trust PRE-BOOK ONLINE: OPEN Youth Trust building, exploring areas not Dickson, celebrating C.J. offer a Polish language guided Voices of Dissent and Hope theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods usually open to the public. Sansom’s best-selling novel in 19th century Norwich TOUR tour, exploring the medieval Tombland, and looking at the churches of St Martin at Palace, Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000, 1100, 1200, PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: WALK story of Kett’s Rebellion (1549). St Simon & St Jude and 1300 & 1400. Approx 30 mins The Sainsburys Centre on Sun 15: 1030 and Tue 17: 1330 01603 593199 PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: St Clement – all in the Magdalen Guided tour of the former Street area. Approx 1 hour 20 mins regional headquarters of eventbrite.co.uk Join a walk exploring some (search Shardlake Tour) Barclays Bank. Includes the old PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: radical voices from Jacobins bank vaults, managers’ offices, Rachel Kidd (English Speaking), to Chartists living in ‘Norwich dining room and banking hall. on 01603 611530 or email Over the Water’. [email protected] BOOK YOUR PRE-BOOK ONLINE: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: TICKETS FROM theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods MON 29 JULY! 16 17 NORWICH drop-in events drop-in events heritageopendays.org.uk

The Flint Room Events in this section of the brochure are drop-in. CATHEDRAL OF 173 Ber Street, NR1 3HB ST JOHN THE No need to book, simply turn up at the stated time. OPEN DOORS NEW! BAPTIST Sat 14: 1000-1600 For a map of Norwich city centre visit the HODs stand Unthank/ Visit this previous medieval Earlham Road, at The Forum during the festival. church and place of worship, NR2 2PA which is now deconsecrated and runs as a local business Bishop’s House Garden City of Norwich School which specialises in hosting non-religious ceremonies. Bishop’s House, St Martin at Eaton Road, NR4 6PP Palace Plain, NR3 1SB TOUR The Greenhouse Gallery GARDENS Sat 14: 1000-1500 Tue 17 & Wed 18: 1000-1600 Enjoy a tour of the school with 42-48 Bethel Street, NR2 1NR This historic private four-acre our student guides and learn EXHIBITION NEW! formal city centre garden has more about the history of the Fri 13, Sat 14, Thu 19–Sat 21: belonged to the Bishops of building. Established in 1910, the 1100-1600 Street © David Norwich for over 900 years. original school building is still in See long herbaceous borders, use today. Will include archive CLARE LEIGHTON – THE FARMER’S YEAR: roses, the hosta walk, the photos, portraits and school DISPLAY NEW! TOUR NEW! View this exhibition of the meadow labyrinth, a jungle magazines display. Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1400-1630 Fri 13, Sat 14, Fri 20, Sat 21: 1400

© Jonathan Walley © Jonathan 1933 ‘The Farmer’s Year’ book, Bishop’s House Garden walk, bamboos and extensive published to great acclaim. Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000-1630 Approx 1 hour shrubberies. CATHEDRAL VESTMENTS GROUND FLOOR TOUR: The Enterprise Centre, UEA The book includes 12 images The Archive Centre by Claire Leighton depicting a THROUGH THE AGES: View Find out about the spirituality Earlham Road, NR4 7TJ some strikingly intricate and and history of St John’s County Hall, The Chapel cycle of agricultural activities bold vestments worn by clergy through a walking tour of Martineau Lane, NR1 2DQ OPEN DOORS in rural England. Wessex Street, NR2 2TJ through the ages; find out when the main features of this DISPLAY NEW! Fri 13, Mon 16-Fri 20: 0900-1700 they are worn and why. stunning place of worship, and OPEN DOORS NEW! Fri 13: 1200 & 1400, Talk at 1300 This iconic, thatch-clad building Hellesdon Train Station have the chance to see the Approx 1 hour Sun 15 & Sun 22: 1300-1600 is one of the greenest in Europe TOUR Cathedral’s historic treasures. Marriott’s Way, Explore The Chapel, which dates and multi-award winning for its FOREVER A SCHOOL OF Hellesdon Road, Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1400 & 1500 back from 1879 and was part ground breaking showcase of FREEDOM: THE BURSTON Hellesdon, NR5 8XN Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1100, 1200, TOUR SCHOOL STRIKE (1914-1939): of the original Norwich and low-carbon architecture, which 1300, 1400 & 1500 Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1330, 1400, Explore people power in action Norfolk hospital. The building has made use of natural and PERFORMANCE NEW! Approx 1 hour 1430, 1500, 1530 & 1600 with archive film and sound remains largely the same, with local materials. Sun 22: 1500. Approx 2 hours HIDDEN PLACES TOUR: An Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1100, 1130, 1200, focusing on the Burston School its glorious Victorian stain glass Stories Down the Line. Marriott’s exclusive opportunity to visit 1330, 1400, 1430, 1500, 1530 Strike (1914-1939). Features a talk windows. It is now operated TOUR & 1600. Approx 1 hour Way Community Play: Watch places not open to the public, from Shaun Jeffery – Secretary as a community venue by Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1100 & 1500 this open-air production, including the triforium and a TOWER TOP TOUR: View the of the Trustees of the Burston St Stephen’s Church. Approx 1 hour staged amongst woodlands, hidden chapel. city from great heights on this Strike School and author of Take a tour of this hub for embankments and abandoned tower top tour, while learning ‘The Village in Revolt’ (2018). small businesses and leading OPEN DOORS NEW! more about the fascinating The City Club railway platforms, reimagining meeting and events venue. through stories and song the Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1400-1630 history and architecture of Bacon House, 150 year history of two historic Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000-1630 St John’s Cathedral. The Bear Shop Garden 33 Colegate, NR3 1BN former railway lines that make THE STORY OF ST JOHN’S: CRAFT 18 Elm Hill, NR3 1HN OPEN DOORS up the much-loved Marriott’s Experience the Cathedral of NEW! Way trail. Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000-1600 OPEN DOORS Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000-1600 St John the Baptist’s awe inspiring interior, and see its A PRAYER ANSWERED FOR Fri 13, Sat 14, Fri 20 & Sat 21: 1100– Private gentlemens’ club Gothic Revival architecture EVERYONE: Leave your mark 1630, Sun 15 & Sun 22: 1100-1600 founded 1897. Originally built and design, while learning at St John’s Cathedral by Visit this unique hidden terraced in the 16th century for Henry the stories of the people taking part in this community garden, considered to be based Bacon, a merchant from North who brought this place of art piece. Get crafty and make on a design by Gertrude Jekyll, Norfolk and Mayor of Norwich worship to life. your own addition for the behind a 15th century house in in 1557 and 1566. Situated on ‘A Prayer Answered for the historic Cathedral quarter. the first floor up a winding Everyone’ installation. Plants for sale. staircase.

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Lazar House Norfolk Family History Society NORFOLK & NORWICH 219 Sprowston Road, NR3 4HX MILLENNIUM LIBRARY 70 St Giles Street, NR2 1LS OPEN DAY The Forum, Millennium Plain, OPEN DAY Sun 22: 1100-1500 NR2 1AW Visit this 900 year old former Sat 14, Tue 17, Wed 18, Thu 19, Sun 22: 1000-1600 leper hospital which was also Children’s Library used as an almshouse and more Open day for the library which recently Norwich’s first branch provides facilities to assist CRAFT NEW! library, now run by The Assist visitors with family history Sun 15: 1430. Approx 1 hour Trust. A pre-book HODs walk research. We’re celebrating HERITAGE SUNDAY: PEOPLE and talk is also available, see our 50th anniversary. AND PROTEST: Visit to have page 13 for details. Come and visit our Hall and a go at creative family-friendly find out how we help people Norwich Puppet Theatre activities celebrating Norfolk’s © David Kirkham © David research their family history. long tradition of popular Maddermarket Theatre Museum of Norwich protest – From Kett’s Rebellion St John’s Alley, NR2 1DR to the Burston School strike Norwich Castle Museum Oak Circus Centre and beyond. TOUR and Art Gallery Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1000-1600 Castle Hill, NR1 3JU Approx 1 hour Norwich Masonic Association Norwich School Chapel Oak Circus Centre Vernon Castle Room, Join us on a backstage tour to MUSEUM Norfolk Heritage Centre see our impressive Elizabethan Sat 21: 1000-1700 Provincial Grand Lodge of 69-71A The Close, NR1 4DD Oak Street, NR3 3AE Norfolk, 47 St Giles Street, ACTIVITY style auditorium. Explore the One of the last remaining OPEN DOORS OPEN DAY NR2 1JR Fri 20: 1030. Approx 1 hour 30 mins workshop where our sets are opportunities to explore Norwich’s Sat 14: 1000-1600 Fri 20: 1500-2100 made, take a peek inside the iconic medieval Castle Keep TOUR Sat 21 & Sun 22: 0900-1800 TIME TRAVELLERS AT THE dressing rooms and even A rare chance to see inside MILLENNIUM LIBRARY: Our before the space is transformed Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1000, 1130, 1300 Enjoy St Michaels Coslany walk out to centre stage! the School Chapel. Originally reminiscence group for older as part of an exciting National Approx 50 mins Church, a Grade I listed the Chantry Chapel of St John people regularly meets to Lottery Heritage Fund Take a tour of the two Masonic building, famed for beautiful the Evangelist, it was founded explore shared memories of supported project. Temples, along with other rooms flintwork and hosting a working Morris Dancing in 1316, dissolved in 1547 Norfolk’s past over a cuppa – within the building. At the end set of bells. At the same time and is now the chapel of drop by for this special ‘People Norwich City Centre of each tour watch a short you will be able to witness the Norwich Cathedral Norwich School. and Protest’-themed session. presentation on Freemasonry Fly High convention, where PERFORMANCE NEW! Run by staff of the Norfolk Opposite the Refectory entitled “What’s it all about?” you will see the church at the Sat 14: 1100-1500 Heritage Centre. Norwich Synagogue height of its new life as the EXHIBITION NEW! Watch displays from locally- circus centre, with aerial and 3A Earlham Road, NR2 3RA EXHIBITION NEW! based Golden Star Morris, see Fri 13: 1400-1530 Norwich Puppet Theatre acrobatics artists teaching the colour, sound and spectacle PEOPLE WHO SHAPED OPEN DOORS their disciplines to workshop Sat 21: 1030-1530 of different types of traditional St James, Whitefriars, THE LIBRARY: Drop into the NR2 1TN Sun 22: 1000-1600 participants. FLAMES TO FORUM: THE Morris dancing from all over Library and learn some of Learn about the Jewish religion NORWICH LIBRARY FIRE England in one place. those stories through books, OPEN DAY Join us to and its customs, history and 25 YEARS ON: pictures and other material Octagon Chapel remember the Norwich Central Sat 21: 1000-1600 traditions and meet members from the collections. You can Library fire 25 years on, and also Museum of Norwich Sun 22: 1200-1600 of the local Jewish community. Colegate, NR3 1BN take the opportunity to see an to celebrate the Forum, which at the Bridewell Delve into the unique Hear talks given during the day exhibition on the history of OPEN DOORS rose from the ashes. Discover combination of a medieval and view displays about the 8 Bridewell Alley, NR2 1AQ St Benet’s Abbey. historic items from the Norfolk church and a theatre dedicated history of the Jewish people Thu 19: 1400-1600 Fri 20 & Sat 21: 1000-1600 Heritage Centre collections MUSEUM See page 15 for details of to puppetry – each has its own in Norwich. the pre-book events taking heritage and the combined Sun 22: 1200-1600 which tell the story of the library, Fri 13, Sat 14, Fri 20 & Sat 21: place at Norwich Cathedral. past and present. 1000-1630 effect is Norwich Puppet Built in 1756, the Chapel is Theatre. Also come along to a place of worship as well See page 13 for details of The story of the city from join in a crafty family workshop, as a venue for concerts and the pre-book events taking medieval to modern day. there’s no set timings, just other events. Learn more place at the library. Ten galleries packed with drop by and have a go! about the Chapel’s architecture interactive displays showing and history and the people how Norwich became a thriving who have worshipped within city made wealthy on wool, its walls. shoes and chocolate.

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St Andrew’s Church, Eaton St Catherine’s Church St Etheldreda’s Church 41 Church Lane, Eaton, 298 Aylsham Road, NR3 2RJ King Street, NR1 1QH NR4 6NW OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS Sat 14: 0900-1600 Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1000-1700 Pull’s Ferry Watergate Room Thu 19: 1100-1700, Fri 20 & Sat 21: This Grade II* listed church St Etheldreda’s Church found a 0930-1700, Sun 22: 1200-1700 is an architectural fusion of new life in 1981 when it opened The Watergate Room, The A 13th century thatched Romanesque and modern styles, as an artists’ studios complex. Close, NR1 4DZ church with a 15th century built in the 1930s as part of the Restored in the Victorian period OPEN DOORS perpendicular styled tower. Mile Cross estate. The building it still has medieval features. Sat 14, Sun 15, Thu 19, Fri 20, Sat 21, There are medieval paintings holds carved stone reredos Explore the building and meet Sun 22: 1100-1700 (c.1370) in the re-ordered and six bells – the oldest made the artists. church and an award-winning Visit this well-known late between 1425 and 1513. modern extension. View medieval building, now the exhibitions about aspects of St George’s Church, headquarters of Girl Guiding the church and the village of St Clement Church Tombland Plantation Garden in Norwich, and enjoy views of Eaton ‘Then and Now’. the Cathedral Close and River EXHIBITION NEW! Princes Street, NR3 1AE Old Meeting House Wensum. View a display of Colegate/Fye Bridge Street, OPEN DOORS historic pictures and information St Andrew’s Church, Norwich NR3 1HZ Fri 13: 1030-1600, Sat 14: 0930- Old Meeting House Plantation Garden about Pull’s Ferry. St Andrew’s Street, NR2 1AQ Fri 13-Thu 19: 1100-1600 1700, Sun 15: 1230-1600, Tue 17-Thu Congregational Church 19 & Sat 21: 1000-1200 4 Earlham Road, NR2 3DB CHANGING STATE: Visit the Old Meeting House Yard, OPEN DOORS OPEN DAY Quaker Meeting House church to see this series of This 13th century church, Colegate, NR3 1BW Sat 14, Thu 19-Sat 21: 1000-1630 casts and sculptural fragments still in regular use, features Sun 15: 1000-1600 Upper Goat Lane, Sun 15: 1200-1400, Tue 17: 1400-1630 stained glass from the OPEN DOORS Norwich, NR2 1EW created by Norwich-based Come and visit the Plantation Tue 17: Tour 1430, Thu 19: Talk 1305 artist Emily Gardiner. Emily’s 16th to the 19th century as Fri 20 & Sat 21: 0945-1630 Garden with refreshments and OPEN DOORS on John More, Fri 20: Tour 1130, work centres round the theme well as monuments, chancel Sun 22: 0945-1600 music throughout the day. A Sat 21: Talk 1130 on John Robinson Sat 21: 1000-1700 of transaction and exchange roof angels and one of the city One of the oldest surviving three acre site including Gothic Visit this fine late medieval dragons. See an ombrellino Grade II listed neoclassical between the sacred and the Separatist Chapels in the UK fountain, Italianate terrace and church building from which and monstrance on display. building built in 1826 with secular. Using traditional open for visitors. Built in 1693 woodland walkways. A haven people have influenced the city connections to Joseph Gurney sculptural processes these the Chapel is one of the most of peace and tranquillity and a and further afield. Join a guided and his sister Elizabeth Fry – objects have been re-developed, important examples of Free glimpse into a bygone age. tour and listen to talks on John St Giles-on-the-Hill both well-known social reimagined and re-cast in Church architecture in the UK. More, minister 1572-92 who was reformers. Designed by architect a variety of contemporary 41-45 St Giles Street, John Plunkett, who restored said to have “done much good John Patience, it is still used materials. NR2 1AB the church organ, will be Princes Street United in this city” and John Robinson, by more than 80 community providing history talks and Reformed Church assistant minister 1604-5, later OPEN DOORS groups and for Quaker worship. demonstrations about the organ. Princes Street, NR3 1AZ a church minister in Leiden and St Edmund’s Church Fri 13: 1000–1600, Sat 14: 0900– pastor to the Pilgrim Fathers. 1500, Sun 15: 1030–1400 (Harvest Fishergate Centre, SERVICE NEW! OPEN DOORS TALK Festival Sung Mass at 1030) Fishergate, NR3 1SE Sun 22: 1600 Fri 13: 1000-1600, Sat 14: 0900-1700 Sat 21: 1430. Approx 1 hour With a 15th century brass SPECIAL JOINT HERITAGE with organ playing 1200-1300 AMELIA OPIE: THE QUAKER St Augustine’s Church OPEN DOORS lectern and the tallest church Sun 15: 1200-1600, Fri 20: 1000-1600 Two of Norwich’s CELEBRITY: Hear author Ann Sat 14: 1000-1600 tower in Norwich this striking SERVICE: with organ playing 1100-1200 St Augustine’s Street, NR3 3BY most historic churches, Farrant tell the story of social Visit this small and unusual medieval building is not to be Sat 21: 1000-1600 with organ playing reformer Amelia Opie, in the OPEN DOORS St Stephen’s Church and 1100-1200, Sun 22: 1200-1600 medieval parish church, now missed. St Giles can be a little the Old Meeting House 250th anniversary of her birth. Sat 14, Sat 21 & Sun 22: 1000-1600 elusive, so take the opportunity Come and see the Victorian in the care of Norwich Historic Congregational Church, are The talk will take place in the while you can. ornate ceiling and ironwork in A rare chance to see inside the Churches Trust. This building joining together for a special Norwich Quaker Meeting House the gallery of this award-winning medieval brick church of St is now used as a Christian heritage service to remember where Amelia Opie worshipped. renovated church and hear the Augustine’s – the only one of its House of Prayer. the rich Christian history of A book signing will follow. Father Willis Organ being kind in Norwich. Owned by the Norwich. Join us in traditional played by local organists. Churches Conservation Trust, it hymn singing accompanied sits in a large churchyard next by our 17th century organ. to a long row of half-timbered cottages. Includes a collection of WWI commemorations.

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ST MARTIN AT St Martin at the Oak St Michael and All Angels Ruin St Saviour’s Church PALACE CENTRE Oak Street, NR3 3AQ Bowthorpe Church, Hall Road, Magdalen Street, NR3 1AA Bowthorpe, NR5 9AA The Historic Churches Trust, OPEN DOORS NEW! OPEN DOORS 1 St Martin at Palace Plain, Tue 17-Fri 20: 1000-1400 OPEN DAY NEW! Sun 15: 1030-1530 NR3 1RW Explore this Grade I listed Sat 21: 1000-1600 St Saviour’s Church is a small OPEN DOORS redundant parish St Martins Hall MEDIEVAL PAGEANTRY AND church with a 14th and 15th Church. Destroyed by bombing PRACTICES: Meet members century nave, chancel and Fri 13, Sat 14, Sun 15, Tue 17 & in January 1942, it was rebuilt of the Paston Heritage Society shortened tower. The south Thu 19: 1000-1600 in 1953 by the architect John dressed in their medieval porch was rebuilt in 1723, the Explore the former medieval Chaplin, and has since been costumes. Take part in workshops, tower lowered in a restoration church, now home to the transformed into Oak Studios, such as paper–making and between 1852 and 1853, and the Norwich Historic Churches a rehearsal space for theatre calligraphy. Follow trails around chancel was restored in 1923. Trust. Discover the impressive and music groups. the Ruin and neighbourhood. Visitors can view the interior Tudor monument to Elizabeth of the church. Calthorpe and find out about Norwich’s medieval churches St Mary Coslany Church, St Michael-at-Plea Church: through displays and trails. St Martin at Palace Centre Norwich Revelation Resource Centre St Simon and St Jude Church CRAFT St Mary’s Plain, NR3 3AF Redwell Street, NR2 4SN 49 Elm Hill, NR3 1HG Sat 14: 1100-1600 St Gregory’s Antiques St Margaret’s Church OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS and Collectables FLINTS! CHILDREN’S TUDOR St Benedict’s Street, Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1000-1600 Fri 13 & Sat 14, Mon 16–Sat 21: 0900– OPEN DOORS TREATS ACTIVITY: Drop-in Pottergate, NR2 1ER NR2 4AQ One of Norwich’s oldest 1700, Sun 15 & Sun 22: 1000-1600 Sat 14, Mon 16, Wed 18 & Fri 20: for fun children’s activities 1400-1700 OPEN DOORS NEW! EXHIBITION medieval churches, one of only Access to the beautiful medieval and trails exploring the history three to have a round tower. church with many original A rare chance to see St Simon Sat 14: 1000-1800, Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1000-1700, Sun 15: of the building, and create Highlights include a decorative features. Also a 48 seat cafe and St Jude church. Now Sun 15: 1100-1600 1100-1600, Mon 16-Sat 21: 1000- intricate sugar designs inspired and shop with a wide range of home to the theatre company 1700 chancel roof and a 16th century by Tudor monuments to This former medieval church pictorial memorial engraved in Christian and local resources, ‘Curious Directive’, the building Lady Calthorpe. on Pottergate is now home THE NORWICH PRINT FAIR: the chancel wall. Now used as including cards and gifts. is normally closed to the public. to St Gregory’s Antiques and Now celebrating its 24th year, artist studios and workshops. See if you can spot the spandrel PERFORMANCE Collectables. See the impressive the Norwich Print Fair brings carvings and the Pettus family 17th century tomb chest and together some of Norfolk and Sun 15: 1330 & 1530. St Peter Hungate Church monuments, and learn about monument to Sir Francis, and Suffolk’s finest printmakers, Approx 45 mins St Mary’s Works the church’s future. browse antiques, alongside wall displaying a wide variety of Princes Street, NR3 1AE SHAKESPEARE AT ST St Mary’s Plain, NR3 3AF paintings depicting St George contemporary, handmade print EXHIBITION MARTINS: Members of Ye and the Dragon. techniques in the setting of this OPEN DOORS Fri 13, Sat 14, Fri 20 & Sat 21: 1000– St Stephen’s Church Palace Plaiers will meander beautiful and historic church. through the audience enacting Fri 13-Thu 19: 1000-1600 1600, Sun 15 & Sun 22: 1300-1600 Rampant Horse Street, Fri 20: 1000-1400 some of Shakespeare’s St John Maddermarket SACRED AND/OR SECULAR: NR2 1QP finest works. Explore the two floors of the The 15th century former Church St Mark’s Church, OPEN DOORS old Sexton and Son Factory church hosts this exhibition See page 17 for details of the Pottergate, NR2 1DS Lakenham pre-book events taking place at (currently being used as arts exploring how the sacred and Fri 13 & Sat 14, Mon 16-Sat 21: Hall Road, NR1 3HL 1000-1530 St Martin at Palace Centre. OPEN DOORS venue The Shoe Factory Social the secular may co-exist when OPEN DOORS Club). An exhibition of the churches become recognised Visit St Stephen’s, a lively and Fri 13, Sat 14, Sun 15, Fri 20, Sat 21, as heritage buildings. bustling medieval church in the TOUR Sun 22: 1000-1400 Sat 14: 0900–1700, Thu 19, Fri building’s future development will also be on display. city centre. It houses a popular Sat 21: 1100. Approx 1 hour Visit this church which dates 20 & Sat 21: 1000–1600, Sun 22: 1100–1600 CRAFT NEW! and friendly cafe, as well as an COMMOTION TIME: WALKING back to Anglo-Saxon times active and dedicated Christian A Victorian church with early Sun 22: 1000-1600 KETT’S REBELLION AND IT’S and is associated with the worshipping community. RELIGIOUS CONNECTIONS: actor William Kemp, a friend of 20th century artwork: striking HUNGATE MEDIEVAL ART Join James Watts as he William Shakespeare, who in Rood Screen and sculpted FAMILY CRAFTS: Join in presents the fascinating history 1599 danced from London to Stations of the Cross. Featuring some collage and drawing of Kett’s Rebellion, followed by Norwich in 9 days. an exhibition to mark the 175th activities inspired by the a walking tour to visit some of Anniversary of St Mark’s Church ‘C C C C’, a sculptural exhibition the historic churches and sites on 21 and 22 September. from artists Laura Bygrave connected with the story. and Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer, as part of the ‘Sacred and/or Secular’ exhibition.

24 25 NORWICH drop-in events BEHIND THE SCENES tour of the Sainsbury Centre Sunday 22nd September, 2-2.45pm, & 3-3.45pm Strangers’ Hall Museum The South Asia Collection Booking: essential, call 01603 593199 4 Charing Cross, NR2 4AL The Old Skating Rink Gallery, 34-36 Bethel Street, NR2 1NR Join Head of Technical services Roger Bishop for a special tour MUSEUM of the Sainsbury Centre building, see behind the scenes and OPEN DOORS Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1000-1600 explore areas of the building not usually open to the public. Sun 15 & Sun 22: 1330-1630 Fri 13, Sat 14, Fri 20 & Sat 21: An historic house museum 0930–1700 located in one of the city’s most Join us as we celebrate 40 beguiling old buildings. Journey years of a unique collection around this home of former of artworks and objects from wealthy merchants and see South Asia, housed in a restored our beautiful garden and 14th Victorian roller skating rink. century Undercroft. Fridays only: Meet a costumed character. TALK Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1100 The South Asia Collection Surrey House Introducing the story of the Collection and current research Surrey Street, NR1 3GG projects being undertaken in OPEN DOORS India by Dr Ben Cartwright. Train Wood Thu 19 & Fri 20: 0900-1700 Marriott’s Way, TOUR An opportunity to visit the Barn Road, NR2 4HJ Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1100 & 1430 historic home of Aviva, a PERFORMANCE NEW! Tours of the building and its spectacular piece of Edwardian Sat 21: 1700. Approx 2 hours architecture designed by history dating from the late 19th George Skipper, and part century by Dr Philip Millward. STORIES DOWN THE LINE. of the Norwich 12 set of MARRIOTT’S WAY COMMUNITY iconic buildings. PLAY: Watch this open-air The Strangers Club production, reimagining through See page 17 for details of stories and song the 150 year 22-24 Elm Hill, NR3 1HG the pre-book events taking history of two historic former place at Surrey House. OPEN DOORS railway lines that make up the * Sun 15: 1000-1600 much-loved Marriott’s Way trail. Nominations DID YOU KNOW? The Salvation Army, Norwich Citadel Explore this 16th century building, now home to a private In 2018… Norfolk was Waterloo Park are now open 34 St Giles Street, NR2 1LL members club and not normally No.1 in the country OPEN DOORS open to the public. Part of the Angel Road, NR3 3HX for submissions Elm Hill restoration in the 1920s, with over 350 HODs events Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1000-1600 TOUR NEW! many ‘Strangers’ have been of the Broadland A hidden jewel in the city centre. entertained on the site over Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1000-1300 Visit our beautiful Victorian Blue Plaque Scheme! ? Visit this stunning 1930s park, 95% of survey respondents the years. 98% of visitors surveyed building and discover amazing with Pavillion balcony tours and said the festival would encourage artefacts and social history from would recommend exhibition. Take a guided trail them to visit more heritage/ 1882 when the Salvation Army If you have HODs to a friend through the park which boasts cultural sites in the future commenced in Norwich and one of the largest herbaceous information on a past people power ruled the day! borders in a UK public park. Broadland resident who had a significant TALK NEW! 98% ofAn visitors amazing surveyed local or national impact, we want Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1130 & 1400 80,000would visitors recommend attended Approx 30 mins to hear from you. HODsHODs events to a in friend Norfolk Tales from the early days of The deadline for submissions is The Salvation Army and how the early day Salvationists August 31st 2019. 98% of visitors surveyed shaped the organisation For information on eligibility criteria would recommend of today. and an application form visit HODs to a friend www.broadland.gov.uk/blueplaque …we can’t wait to see what 2019 brings!

26 * Statistics taken from Norfolk HODs Impact Report 2018

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Aylsham Parish Church Hellesdon Parish Hall Welcome to HODs (St Michael’s & All Angels) Low Road, Norwich, NR6 5AE The Market Place, NR11 6EH in Broadland OPEN DOORS NEW! OPEN DOORS Sat 21: 1000-1400 visitbroadland.co.uk Fri 13-Sun 22: 0900-1600 MUGS MORNING: Join us @VisitBroadland Visit Aylsham Parish Church, for coffee and information which dates back to the 1300s. at our iconic Parish Hall, Our brilliant new interactive erected in 1924 to unite a guide app for smartphones community fractured by and tablets launched this year the events of WWI. pre-book events drop-in events – you can even play our organ online! Search Aylsham Parish Church on iphone or android. Indian Summer Fair Blickling Estate Marriott’s Way All Saints Church, Polkey’s Mill Hemblington The Temple (VCSEA), WALK NEW! WALK NEW! EXTRAS! New Road, Tunstall, NR13 3QE Church Lane, Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1100 & 1330 Sat 14: 1000. Approx 1 hour Mon 16: 0900-1200 Monday Sale Railway and River Walk Hemblington, NR13 4EF OPEN DAY Approx 1 hour 30 mins STANLEY’S STICK FAMILY Tue 17: 1930 Try your hand at bell ringing. Thu 19: 0900 Join the free WALK NEW! Join us as we launch Riverlands, STORY WALK: Join this fabulous DISPLAY Sun 15: 1200-1600 a national catchment-scale river Toddler group. Sun 22: 1630 Enjoy Indian street food and Sun 15: 1100 & Sat 21: 1400 fanta-stick family-friendly walk Fri 13 & Sat 14: 0900-1700, Harvest Festival Choral Evensong restoration project, on the River full of imagination and creativity. Sun 15: 1100-1700 (special Choral gastronomic delights. A day Approx 1 hour 30 mins Bure at Blickling. On a weekend Starting from Aylsham we’ll Evensong 1600), Mon 16-Sat 21: filled with lots of cultural Enjoy this 3.2 mile escorted walk of special walks we’ll be reading explore the Marriott’s Way 0900-1700, Sun 22: 1100-1700 Girlguiding Norfolk Archive experiences through various from Buxton via Mayton Bridge, the history and ecology of the walking trail allowing your 2019 marks the 50th anniversary Resource Centre (ARC) clothing, artefacts, henna stalls passing Hautbois Hall and the river as it meanders through young explorers to learn lots of the formation of Hemblington 14 Gt Hautbois Road, and Bollywood dancing. Buxton Watermill. The walk leaves the estate. about the natural world. Parish Council. See our Coltishall, NR12 7JN from Buxton station car park. PRE-BOOK ONLINE: exhibition reflecting the life of PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: OPEN DOORS Oulton Chapel theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods this small Broadland village. marriottsway.info or email Sat 21 & Sun 22: 1000-1600 Stracey Arms Mill marriottswayheritagetrail@ Hall Road, Oulton, NR11 6NU gmail.com TOUR Come and explore Girlguiding OPEN DAY Former RAF Coltishall EXHIBITION NEW! Sat 21: 1100 & 1400, Sun 22: 1400 Norfolk’s Archive Resource TOUR Centre and see how people, Sat 14: 0900-1700, Sun 15: Mill House, New Road, Polkey’s Mill and Reedham Join a tour of this round towered in particular girls and young 1100-1600, Sat 21: 1000-1600, Tunstall, NR13 3QE Fri 20 & Sat 21: 0930, 1215, 1430 Marsh Steam Engine House church, which has a very special women, have used their power Sun 22: 1100-1600 Sun 22: 1200-1600 Approx 2 hours restored wall painting of St WALK NEW! to make a difference over the OULTON CHAPEL AND ITS Join this guided coach tour Christopher surrounded by the Take this exciting opportunity past 100 years. PEOPLE: Come and discover around the former RAF Sun 15: 1040. Approx 30 mins story of his life, reputed to be to view the progress of the a stunning 18th century chapel Coltishall site and learn about Join us on a walking tour from the best in the country and also restoration of the mill, part of and its people from the past its heritage, viewing the Second Reedham Village along the a font of regional importance. a National Lottery Heritage World War and Cold War Wherryman’s Way to the mill. Haveringland Church and present through our Fund supported project called airfields and its buildings. Haveringland Road, NR10 4PW modest exhibition. The Mill and the Marsh Folk. PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Amanda Rix on 01362 869394 or OPEN DOORS NEW! theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods email [email protected] Sun 15, Sat 21, Sun 22: 1300-1600 Polkey’s Mill and Reedham St Swithin’s Church Marsh Steam Engine House 1,000 YEARS OF HISTORY, Church Lane, Thorpe Lodge CHARACTERS AND STORIES Reedham Marshes, Reedham Frettenham, NR12 7LF TOUR IN HAVERINGLAND: From OPEN DOORS NEW! OPEN DOORS Fri 13: 1400. Approx 1 hour St William to the upstairs/ downstairs world of Sun 15: 1130-1600 Sat 14: 1030-1600 Thorpe Lodge acts as the offices Haveringland Hall and the Visit this site comprising three of Broadland Council and is a THE PUNK BEHIND THE airfield which surrounded drainage mills, an old steam historic Georgian building that WINDOW: In the 1980s punk this church during WWII. engine house and diesel engine was once the home of several musician, Paul Greener, made Hear locals recall their wartime shed. Access via Wherryman’s prominent families. the stained glass east window. experiences and immerse Way footpath. Hear him tell the story of the BOOK YOUR PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: yourself in stories of heroism, unlikely events that led to the TICKETS FROM Nick Williams on 01603 438766 tragedy and wartime romance. creation of this striking piece MON 29 JULY! or email [email protected] of church art.

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Attleborough Attleborough Town Hall Gressenhall Farm Welcome to HODs Heritage Group Queens Square, NR17 2AF and Workhouse St Mary’s Church, Gressenhall, Dereham, in Breckland DISPLAY Church Street, NR17 2AH NEW! NR20 4DR Sat 14: 1300-1600 thehighstreet.org.uk DISPLAY MUSEUM VINTAGE FIRE VEHICLE BreckCouncil @BreckCouncil Sat 14: 1000-1630, Sun 15: 1130- AND SAFETY SHOW: Enjoy this Sun 15: 1000-1700 1430, Sat 21: 1000-1630 & fun filled family day and climb Join Norfolk Wildlife Trust Sun 22: 1130-1430 aboard vintage fire engines and and Norfolk Museums and Delve into resources to help vehicles displayed by Norfolk Archaeology Service as they with your family history and Fire Museum. Hear about their bring to life the history and pre-book events find out about the town, past work in raising awareness in natural history of Norfolk and present. Includes displays fire safety. Commons. Activities include of Attleborough residents who Attleborough Archive Office Gressenhall Farm storytelling, woodcraft, have made their mark in the FILM NEW! scything and demonstrations. and Workhouse town and photographs of the DISPLAY Sat 14: 1845 Join in the fun with minibeast town over the last 100 years. Fri 13-Sun 15: 1000-1500 TOURS NEW! Approx 3 hours 30 mins hunting and pond dipping. Come and look at a display Our TABOO TOUR programme, Screening of the film compiled by our Archivist, Bohemian Rhapsody. especially designed for Attleborough Tourist Narborough Bone Mill Barbara Waters, based around Heritage Open Days, seeks Information Centre the theme for this year, ‘People to explore the hidden, MARKET The Maltings, Main Road, Attleborough Town Council, Narborough, PE32 1TE Power’. Visitors can also access restricted and socially Thu 19: 0800-1400 the vast resources of the Town Hall, Queens Square, unacceptable topics. Visit the Heritage Open Market OPEN DOORS archive office. NR17 2AF Each tour includes free on The Green in Queens Square site entry for ticket holders Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1000-1600 PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: OPEN DOORS and the Craft and Maker’s from 1230. Gressenhall - Women Restored 16 foot waterwheel 01953 456549 or email Sat 14, Sun 15, Sat 21 & Sun 22: Market in the Town Hall. Listen and original brick floors [email protected] 1000-1400 to the chants of our Town Mon 16: 1430. Approx 45 mins from extensive Victorian mill Meet the knowledgeable Crier and enjoy all this, in the DEATH: We will explore Wed 18:1430. Approx 45 mins buildings. Take a guided tour Attleborough Town Hall volunteers at the Tourist picturesque surroundings of of the site and see the new Victorian attitudes to mortality LGBT+: Join us to discuss Information Centre. These our Market Town. MUSIC & DANCE NEW! and look more closely at how changing attitudes to and visitor centre which is a replica experienced ambassadors will of the original mill building. Sat 14: 2000 the workhouse experienced experiences of LGBT+ in the help you to make the most of Approx 3 hours 30 mins death in all circumstances. workhouse, exploring objects Attleborough’s historic town, Bishop Bonner’s Visit our mass grave and and stories relating to sexuality Vintage music and dance by surrounding area and services. Cottage Museum St Mary’s Church, The D C Wilson Band. Come explore objects and stories and gender. Discover individual relating to death. This tour will stories, as well as objects in our St Withburga Lane, Attleborough and dance the night away at a Dereham, NR29 1ED swinging night of old-fashioned, delve further into this subject collections that have LGBT+ Church Street, NR17 2AH than we ever have before, connections. Funk, Soul and old-school R’n’B. MUSEUM NEW! DISPLAY aiming to give voices back to There’ll be plenty of toe-taping, Fri 13: 1100-1400, Sat 21: 1330-1600 those people who died. Thu 19: 1430. Approx 45 mins Sat 14: 1000-1630, Sun 15: 1130- with outbreaks of frugging and A little gem! The oldest domestic 1430, Sat 21: 1000-1630 & Sun 22: WOMEN: Explore themes of occasional full-on jitterbugging. building in Dereham dates 1130-1430 Tue 17: 1430. Approx 45 mins women in power and protest Rugs will be cut and a bar will from the 1500s and is adorned MENTAL HEALTH: Focussing on at the workhouse, discovering Visit this beautiful church to be available. with delightful pargetting. See mental health and how different fascinating stories. Find out explore its history and the exhibitions and learn about local PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: conditions were addressed in about the women who had people who have influenced industries and characters such 01953 456194 or email the workhouse setting. The powerful roles within the its life over the last 500 years. as One-armed Jack. [email protected] museum holds a rich collection workhouse; how did the Organ Recital on Sun 22 at of these people’s stories, but schoolmistress, the matron and 1500 by the Director of Music due to their pauper status the nurse show their authority? at St Mary’s, Dr Ben Miller. their stories have been hidden And how did women protest in the past. The workhouse about their environment and often accommodated the most expected roles placed upon them. vulnerable in society and we will PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: BOOK YOUR consider how they were treated TICKETS FROM for their mental health. theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods MON 29 JULY!

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Dad’s Army Museum Welcome to HODs The Old Fire Station, Thetford in Thetford Guildhall, Cage Lane, IP24 1DS MUSEUM thetfordsgreat.org Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000-1600 Thetford Town Council @ThetfordCouncil The museum tells the story of this classic television programme. A new children’s trail is free to enter and all those taking part will receive pre-book events drop-in events a museum trail medal! Also enjoy musical entertainment The Story of Henry Cable Barnham Cross Common on Sat 14th. WALK & TALK NEW! Bury Road, IP24 2PU King’s House Fri 13 & Fri 20: 1745 WALK Approx 1 hour 30 mins Former Atomic Fri 13: 1300 & Sun 22: 1000 King Street, IP24 2AT Weapons Bunker Discover the fascinating story Approx 2 hours of Henry Cable, founding father OPEN DOORS NEW! DISCOVER THE COMMON’S TOUR of modern Australia. A story Sat 14: 1000-1500 ICE AGE FEATURES: The site Fri 13, Sat 14, Mon 16-Sun 22: 1030 unequalled in the history of is of special scientific interest CONSERVATORY Approx 3 hours the British Penal System and on the edge of Thetford. Take RESTORATION PROJECT: This with its roots firmly planted Ancient House Secrets Visit a scheduled monument to a guided walk and find out year the G.W. Staniforth Trust here in Thetford. the Cold War, where the atom about the special plants that has restored the exterior of the bombs Blue Danube and Red PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: can be found on this exceptional Victorian conservatory. Come

© Ancient House Museum and have a look inside and read Beard were maintained. Corinne Fulford on 07802701911 common, because of its varied ANCIENT HOUSE Includes a voluntary climb up or email [email protected] glacial geology. Meet in the car Duleep Singh all about how this was achieved. a 25ft watchtower! park next to the Jet garage. 21 White Hart Street, IP24 1AD DISPLAY NEW! PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: Thetford Heritage Run 01842 753149 or email EXHIBITION Sat 14: 1000-1500 ACTIVITY OPEN DOORS [email protected] NEW! British Trust For Ornithology ALLAN GLAISYER MINNS Sat 14: 1000-1700 Sat 21: 1000-1700 Sun 22: 1000 – BRITAIN’S FIRST BLACK The Nunnery, IP24 2PU CERAMICS: An exhibition of Thetford 5k and 10k Heritage The year is 1578 and an exciting MAYOR: We turn the spotlight Lynford Hall modern and contemporary Run (or walk!), a new and TOUR event is happening – Queen to another civic pioneer here in British studio ceramics from TOUR exciting event for everyone Sat 21: 1030 & 1100. Doors open Elizabeth’s East Anglian Thetford: Allan Glaisyer Minns the decorative art collections at Sun 15 and Sun 22: 1000-1700. to enjoy. Pick your route and 15 mins before each tour Progress! Meet the servants who became Britain’s first Norwich Castle Museum & Art Tours: 1100, 1230, 1400 & 1530 take in Thetford heritage sites who are preparing the house for black Mayor in 1904. Join us Discover the architecture and Gallery. Enjoy a behind the scenes tour on the way. Prizes on offer Benedictine history of the a royal visit and find out what in exploring his history. of this fascinating building. It and fancy dress encouraged! 12th century BTO buildings. food and drink was used to DISPLAY has hosted a number of owners, Heritage medal available at The gardens and the adjoining make a Tudor banquet. DISPLAY Sat 21: 1000-1700 guests and uses over the years, additional cost. Nunnery Lakes Reserve are a Sat 14: 1000-1500 including film sets for the TV haven for wildlife. EXHIBITION DULEEP SINGH: Discover PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: REGALIA DISPLAY: Thetford series ‘Dad’s Army’ and ‘Allo Sat 14: 1000-1700 the amazing story of the last [email protected] has 800 years of mayoralty and Maharajah of Punjab, his family Allo’. The hotel is free to explore OLIVE EDIS: Last chance to the regalia will be exhibited and their connections to Norfolk but tours must be pre-booked. Charles Burrell Museum see this exhibition of one of the upstairs in the council chamber, Thetford Library and The Ancient House. PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: Minstergate, IP24 1BN most important photographers along with other civic items. 01842 878351 or email TOUR of the early 20th century. MUSEUM TRAIL [email protected] Sat 14: 1015-1315. Approx 30 mins Sat 14 & Sat 21: 1000-1500 Fri 13-Sat 21: 1000-1700 A chance to explore both the Duleep Singh and Thomas Paine A home to steam engines. ANCIENT HOUSE SECRETS: Collections and other materials. Explore the history of the Burrell A free trail for all the family; BOOK YOUR Max. two people per tour. family and the museum with discover the secrets of the TICKETS FROM three full size engines and a Tudor merchant’s house and MON 29 JULY! PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: scale model on display. win a small prize. 01842 752048

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EVERYTHING Riversdale Centre THETFORD Riversdale Centre, Welcome to HODs in North Norfolk INFORMATION Tanner Street, IP24 2BQ CENTRE OPEN DOORS visitnorthnorfolk.com 20 King Street, Sat 21: 1100-1500 visitnorthnorfolk @vstnorthnorfolk visitnorthnorfolk IP24 2AP Walk the history of a house #NorthNorfolkNaturally with an interesting tale to tell. DISPLAY Who knows what you will see or Fri 13: 1000-1700 who you will encounter. See the Sat 14: 0900-1500 history displayed in a timeline Mon 16-Thu 19: and a tour and talk is available pre-book events 1000-1500 on request. Fri 20: 1000-1700 Thomas Paine Sat 21: 0900-1500 Felmingham Old Station THOMAS PAINE: St Cuthbert’s Church TOUR Born and schooled in Well Street, IP24 2BL Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1100-1500. Tours Thetford, Paine was Thetford Methodist Church every 30 mins starting from 1100 the first champion of OPEN DOORS NEW! Tanner Street, IP24 2BQ Approx 30 mins the Rights of Man and Sat 21: 1000-1700 A rare chance to see inside this arguably Thetford’s OPEN DOORS NEW! This year the church is abandoned station building, most famous son. undergoing a very exciting Sat 21: 1000-1600 which has remained much the Revolutionary, Philosopher renovation project. Come and The Methodist church is an way it was inside when the Cromer Museum and Radical. Come along and see all the renovation works 1830 galleried Chapel. Come line closed in 1959. 2019 sees discover more about this and hear about all our fantastic in and see us to enjoy live the 60th anniversary since its true champion of the people. plans for the future. representation of music and closure. The old railway line characters of the period. and butterfly reserve are free drop-in events ACTIVITY to explore but the tours of the St Seraphim’s Trust © Nick Stone Sat 14: 1100-1400 Thetford Guildhall station must be pre-booked. Congregational Church MEDIEVAL COIN STRIKING: Thomas Paine Hotel 18A Cromer Road, North Market Place, IP24 2DT PRE-BOOK ONLINE: St Seraphim’s Trust Walsham, NR28 0HD Thetford had its own mint in 33 White Hart Street, theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods the 10th century and coins DISPLAY NEW! TOUR NEW! IP24 1AA OPEN DOORS have been found as far afield Sat 14: 1400-1600 Fri 13: 1100 & Sun 15: 1430 OPEN DOORS St Benet’s Abbey Sat 14: 1000-1700 as Scandinavia. Come and STONEMASONS: Meet Alan Approx 1 hour see how money was made in Lamb, master stonemason Fri 13 & Sat 14: 0900-1700, WALK Situated in the old railway Erected in 1856 this church medieval times and why not Sun 15: 1000-1600, Mon 16-Sat 21: boasts many interesting features to the Queen and discover Tue 17: 1000. Approx 2 hours station in Little Walsingham, 0900-1700, Sun 22: 1000-1600 have a go yourself? the fascinating techniques of St Seraphim’s is home to an including knapped flint walls, Come and see memorabilia and Join the Broads Authority for a clock built by local clock creating replica stone statues. a guided walk from Ludham to Orthodox Chapel, Museum of DISPLAY our new hand painted life-size Icon and Railway displays and maker G. Juler and a lighted St Benet’s Abbey in the iconic stained glass window of the Tue 17: 1100-1400 DISPLAY NEW! portrait of Thomas Paine himself. a Quiet Garden. Discover the Painted by local artist Lee Broads landscape alongside Good Shepherd from Bradfield PEACE COMES TO fascinating history of this Sat 21: 1000-1500 Stroble it is a fascinating piece the River Bure. Congregational Church. THETFORD – THE unique heritage site. SIKH ARMOUR AND of unique artwork only to be PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS: ARTEFACTS: Returning after seen at the Thomas Paine Hotel. Anna Collingbourne on 01603 PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: Exhibition/street display his popular appearance at the St Seraphim’s Trust on Cromer Museum telling the story of the men 610734 or email anna.collingbourne 2018 Thetford Sikh Festival, @broads-authority.gov.uk 01328 820610 or email Rear of 7-9 East Cottage, that survived WWI and Dr Dapinder Singh will bring United Reformed Church [email protected] Tucker Street, NR27 9HB returned home but later died his personal collection of Sikh Earls Street, IP24 3ER of their wounds or suffered artefacts and armour. Includes MUSEUM life-changing circumstances. morning and afternoon talk. OPEN DOORS Fri 13: 1000-1600 There is no record of what Explore the history of Cromer happened to them and they Sat 14: 1000-1600 town and the local area in these have not been recognised – The church is an Independent converted fisherman’s cottages. until now. Chapel built in 1817. Come and Galleries include collections also see an exhibition from a BOOK YOUR of geological important fossils local art group. TICKETS FROM MON 29 JULY! spanning from millions of years old to contemporary art pieces.

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Ingham Holy Trinity Church Museum of the Broads Paston College Nelson Room Waxham Great Barn Mill Road, Ingham, NR12 9AB Poors Staithe, The Staithe, Grammar School Road, Waxham Barn, Coast Road, Stalham, Norwich, NR12 9DA North Walsham, NR28 9JL Waxham, NR12 0DZ OPEN DOORS Sat 14: 1000-1600 EXHIBITION OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS Sun 15: 1100-1600 Sat 14, Sun 15, Sat 21 & Sun 22: Fri 13: 1700- 2000 Tue 17: 1030-1600 1000-1600 Sat 14: 0930-1230 Come and explore the history TALK THE LOST RAILWAY OF THE Visit the Nelson Room, an of the Waxham Great Barn, its Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1100 & 1400 BROADS: Discover how trains old school room linked to the landscape and people. Join us Approx 1 hour brought tourism to the Broads Paston School founded by Sir and spend a day at Waxham An illustrated talk by local and the impact of its closure William Paston in 1606, which and its Barn or join just for one historian and Norfolk Archives on local people. See models, was attended by their most of our drop-in events. & Heritage Development railway memorabilia, photos, famous pupil, Horatio Lord Hathor Pleasure Wherry Foundation (NORAH) trustee posters and a 1957 waiting Nelson. See a range of Nelson TALK NEW!

© John Mortimer room and ticket office. memorabilia and the former Felbrigg Hall David Stannard, tracing aspects Tue 17: 1100 & 1400 Assemble Hall, containing a of the legendary history of Discover the history of Waxham © National Trust Images Trust © National Ingham church and its MUSEUM large portrait of Nelson and a Roll of Honour. and the Great Barn, presented by former Priory. Sat 14, Sun 15, Sat 21 & local historian David Stannard. Cromer Signal Box Felbrigg Hall, Sun 22: 1000-1600 Gardens and Estate TOUR Discover the history and Holt Road, NR27 9ST St Benet’s Abbey FILM NEW! National Trust, Felbrigg Hall, heritage of the Broads at our Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1230 & 1500 Tue 17: 1200, 1330 & 1545 OPEN DOORS waterside museum, with a trail St Benet’s Abbey, St Benet’s Felbrigg, NR11 8PR Visitors will get an opportunity Fri 20 & Sat 21: 1030-1530 and activities for all ages. Road, Ludham, NR29 5NU ‘The Horsey Mail’ – screening of OPEN DOORS to tour the ruins of the former archive footage of the aftermath A Grade II listed signal box TOUR Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1200-1700 Priory, the magnificent Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1000-1600 of the 1938 Horsey floods. where visitors can operate levers 13th century Priory church and see signals and points work (last entry to the Hall is 1600) Wherry Yacht on display. Sat 14, Sun 15, Weds 18, and the remarkable Crusader Sat 21, Sun 22: 1500 just as in the 1960s. Railway Explore one of the most TOUR NEW! monuments it contains. Sat 21 & Sun 22: 1000-1600 Approx 1 hour (weather permitting) artefacts will be on display for elegant country houses in East Tue 17: 1030 & 1515 These events are supported Meet the “History Hildas” to Guided tour of St Benet’s visitors. Off Holt Road, between Anglia. Inside see stained glass Guided tour and insights into by NORAH. learn about living off the land Abbey where you will find out Argos and Cromer old cemetery. windows, nodding mandarins the Great Barn’s construction, during wartime. about the life of the medieval in the Chinese bedroom and working life and repair. monks, the dramatic rise and Queen Mary’s teapot. Outside Lessingham Village Hall Edwardian Wherry enjoy the decorative walled fall of the abbey, and its role in Old Honing Train Station EXHIBITION NEW! Yacht Norada garden, the rolling landscape School Road, Lessingham, making the Broads. Meet at the NR12 0DJ at Briggate interpretation panel near the Tue 17: 1030-1600 The Museum of the Broads, and waymarked trails. Station Road, Briggate, Honing, Mill/Gatehouse. Remembering the Floods: The The Staithe, Stalham, NR12 9DA EXHIBITION North Walsham, NR28 9QX 1938 Horsey floods and 1953 OPEN DOORS Hathor Pleasure Wherry Sat 21 & Sun 22: 1000-1600 Norwich Road (A1062), Ludham East Coast floods. OPEN DAY Fri 13-Sun 15: 1000-1600 An exhibition charting the Bridge, Ludham, NR29 5NX OPEN DOORS origins and development of Sat 21: 1100-1500 Step aboard a century-old WALK How Hill Trust, How Hill House, the village’s unique English Open day to explore the old Wherry Albion Wherry Yacht, to discover How Hill Road, Ludham, Renaissance rood screen. station buildings and the Sat 14: 1000 & 1400, Sat 21 & how wealthy Edwardians OPEN DAY NR29 5PG Made possible with research chance to talk to experts and Sun 22: 1400. Approx 3 hours spent their leisure time (weather permitting) into parishioners’ wills at the volunteers about the history of Norfolk Wherry Trust, sailing on the Broads over Fri 13-Sun 22: 1000-1600 Norfolk Record Office. the M&GN railway. Enjoy a guided walk from Forsythe Wherry Yard, a hundred years ago. Step aboard a famous Norfolk Ludham Bridge to St Benet’s Ludham, NR29 5QG Pleasure Wherry, built in 1905, TALK Abbey. Find out about the Thu 19: 1000-1600 to learn about her Egyptian medieval life of monks at the Sat 21 & Sun 22: 1030 & 1430 An opportunity to come aboard themed interior and experience abbey and how they changed Approx 1 hour this 121 year old ‘black-sailed’ the plush surroundings enjoyed the Broadland landscape. Meet trading wherry and be shown by a wealthy Edwardian family THE PRIORY AND PARISH at the layby next to the public round by experienced volunteer sailing on the Broads at CHURCH OF LESSINGHAM toilets. Four mile round trip. the beginning of the ALL SAINTS: An illustrated guides. Albion is one of only 20th century. talk by local historian and two of these vessels still sailing Norfolk Archives & Heritage – there were once about 300 of Development Foundation them plying the Broads’ rivers. trustee David Stannard.

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Old Meeting Time and Tide Museum Welcome to HODs Unitarian Church Blackfriars Road, NR30 3BX Greyfriars Way, NR30 2SW in Great Yarmouth MUSEUM OPEN DOORS Sun 22: 1000-1600 great-yarmouth.co.uk/whats-on/heritage-open-days Mon 16-Fri 20: 1000-1500 & Housed in a converted Victorian VisitGreatYarmouth Sat 21: 0900-1700 herring curing works, this One of only two Unitarian museum allows you to discover churches in Norfolk, come and the rich maritime heritage and see displays in the church that story of Great Yarmouth, from drop-in events tell something of the history the Ice Age to the present day. pre-book events of both Unitarianism and this Elizabethan House Museum church’s own history. Tolhouse Gaol Gory Stories on a Great Yarmouth Ice House MUSEUM The Fishermen’s Hospital Wicked Walk Tolhouse Street, NR30 2SH TOUR 4 South Quay, NR30 2QH The Priory Centre WALK MUSEUM Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1100 & 1400 Thu 19-Sun 22: 1000-1600 Hopton Ruined Church OPEN DOORS NEW! Sun 15: 1900. Approx 90 mins Thu 19-Sun 22: 1000-1600 Join local historian of Cobholm A charming 16th century and Millennium Garden Great Yarmouth Community From the strange and curious Miniatures, Roger Silver, to quayside merchants home Hopton-on-Sea, NR31 9BT Trust, Priory Plain, NR30 1NW Discover the history of this to the dark and murderous, explore this Grade II listed 12th century medieval showing life from Elizabethan Sat 14: 1200-1630 Great Yarmouth is home to building, originally used to to Victorian times, and is also TOUR NEW! merchant’s house, which was Founded in 1101 and now a many gruesome and macabre store ice for preserving herring, famous for its connections to Fri 13: 1400. Approx 2 hours transformed into one of the tales. Join us on this wicked and thought to be the last of Grade I listed building, The Oliver Cromwell. Join The Friends of Old St town’s most important civic walk to hear all the gory details. its kind in the country. Priory Centre has been serving Margaret’s for a guided tour to buildings and one of the oldest A wealth of terrible tales and the local community ever since. PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: discover the history of the site. prisons in the country. Yarmouth yarns will make this The Fishermen’s Hospital Our Noble Hall was rebuilt in Seachange Arts on 01493 745458 Parts of the old Church date a heritage walk to remember. 1260 and is the only surviving or email [email protected] Great Yarmouth Market Place, from 1087 and it is shrouded Age guidance 12+. building from the original Priory. NR30 1ND in a wealth of history. Wind Energy Museum PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: St George’s Theatre OPEN DOORS Staithe Road, Repps with Great Yarmouth TIC on Royal Naval Hospital Bastwick, NR29 5JU 01493 846346 or email PERFORMANCE NEW! Fri 13-Sun 15: 1000-1600 Lydia Eva [email protected] Sat 21: 1800 Visit this historic Almshouse Queens Road, NR30 1LN OPEN DOORS South Quay, NR30 2QF VOTERS, NOT BLOATERS: where 20 cottages were built in TOUR Fri 13, Sat 14, Fri 20 & Sat 21: 1702 for “Decayed Fishermen” by OPEN DOORS 1100-1600 The Great and the Good Join us for a magical, musical Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1030-1530 celebration of the women’s the Great Yarmouth Corporation Fri 13-Sun 22: 1000-1600 Approx 20 mins Home to the only historical WALK and are Grade I listed. collection of its kind, you can suffrage movement in Great (weather permitting) Built in 1811, this former Naval Tue 17: 1100. Approx 90 mins explore two hundred years of Yarmouth. Hear true stories of Great Yarmouth’s last working Hospital was commissioned by TALK our wind power history. There Join this fascinating walk to find local characters who fought for steam drifter acts as a reminder the Admiralty to care for the are guided tours, children’s out how a humble prison visitor women’s rights at the ballot-box Fri 13-Sun 15: 1100 & 1400 of the importance of the town’s sick and wounded of the Royal activities and Victorian left her indelible mark on the over a century ago, rewritten Discover the fascinating history herring industry in the early Navy’s North Sea Fleet in its Workshop demonstrations. town. Learn how Queen Victoria and interpreted by members of of the buildings built in the part of the last century. Moored battles with the Napoleonic and the son of a local brewer the community, in collaboration Dutch style having undergone by the Town Hall, see how the French Navy. are linked to the town’s hospital with Norfolk-based writer and restorations throughout the years. fishermen lived and worked. VINTAGE FETE and see the inn used by national performer Helen Vine. Sun 15: 1100-1600 hero Admiral Lord Nelson. PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: Thurne Mill Events for all the family to Great Yarmouth Cemeteries PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: stgeorgestheatre.com Masonic Royal The Staithe, Thurne, NR28 3BU enjoy including steam cars, Great Yarmouth TIC on or 01493 331484 WALK NEW! Assembly Rooms classic cars, games, delicious 01493 846346 or email Albert Square, NR30 3JH OPEN DOORS homemade cakes, displays, OPEN REHEARSAL! Kitchener Road, NR30 4HU [email protected] Thu 19 & Sun 22: 1100-1600 working demonstrations, a Wed 18: 1400 TOUR Drop–in Sat 14: 1000-1400 Thurne Mill is approaching her historical working organ (no booking required) Join this guided walk by Fri 13 – Fri 20 & Sun 22: 1000–1600 200th birthday and still works! and much more. specialists to explore biodiversity Originally designed as assembly The Marshman will tell you all BOOK YOUR and nature conservation issues rooms by the Royal Norfolk about the history of the mill and TICKETS FROM in the lovely 40 acre County Militia, 2019 celebrates 100 years why she was built. Look inside Wildlife site. Meet at the cemetery MON 29 JULY! of Freemasonry in the building. and watch her turning (wind gates on Kitchener Road. permitting).

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Welcome to HODs Diss Heritage Transport Fayre in South Norfolk Diss Market Place, IP22 4JZ OPEN DOORS NEW! Sun 15: 1000-1600 south-norfolk.gov.uk The historic marketplace of southnorfolkcouncil @SNorfolkCouncil Diss will play host to classic vehicles for a day of learning and fun. There will be an interesting collection of vintage cars, vans, motor cycles and pre-book events drop-in events other motoring vehicles parked Diss Museum around the old town centre, with Becket’s Chapel Raveningham Hall Albright of Diss brief histories on display. There will also be a BBQ and music! TRAIL TOUR 23 St Nicholas Street, Heritage Transport Fayre Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1000-1700, Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1100, 1400 & 1600 Diss, IP22 4LB Diss Museum Sun 15: 1100-1600, Tue 17-Sat 21: A short tour of the public rooms OPEN DOORS 1000-1700, Sun 22: 1100-1600 at Raveningham Hall, given by Caistor Roman Town Designer Makers 21 4-5 Market Place, IP22 4AB Approx 30 mins Fri 13 & Sat 14: 0930-1700, the owner Sir Nicholas Bacon. Caistor St Edmund, 21 St Nicholas Street, Sun 15: 1000-1600, MUSEUM Visitors can take part in a This will include some of the Fri 20 & Sat 21: 0930-1700 Norwich, NR14 8QL Diss, IP22 4LB history detection trail, find the Fri 13-Sun 22: 1100-1500 Art Collection. Known locally as Tudor House builder, unravel the historical OPEN DAY OPEN DOORS no. 23, this is a 15th century Visit this award-winning gem of sequence from clues in the PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: timber-framed building with Sun 15: 1000-1600. Tours at 1030, Fri 13 & Sat 14, Thu 19-Sat 21: a museum in the centre of Diss building itself, explore graffiti Sonya Roebuck on 01508 548480 1100, 1130, 1200, 1230, 1400, 1430, 1000-1700 excellent examples of decorative and see The R34 Adventure carved by three centuries of or email [email protected] 1500. Approx 1 hour timber framing including a An early 19th century shop, exhibition, a project marking the schoolboys and learn how carved dragon post. Enjoy a family-friendly day out with late 19th century shop centenary of the R34 airship’s the building fitted into the St Michael’s Church, Langley discovering who made Caistor front, now hosts craft studios first airborne double crossing 12th century Wymondham TOURS NEW! such an important town in and shop, with demonstrations over the Atlantic and return to Valley landscape. Becket’s Chapel Roman Norfolk and find out of traditional crafts. Pulham in 1919. Sat 21 & Sun 22: 1100, 1200, 1300, how its people lived and PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: 1400, 1500, 1600. Approx 45mins Wymondham Arts Centre, 07736 685363 or email worked. You can even join our A Grade I listed church with 2 Church Street, NR18 0PH resident archaeologist in Diss Corn Hall Francis Cupiss Ltd [email protected] many unique features, including OPEN DOORS digging up a skeleton! monuments to the Berney and St Nicholas Street, IP22 4LB The Entry, Diss, IP22 4NT Dragons, Crowns Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1000-1700, Beauchamp-Proctor families. TOUR OPEN DOORS and Queens The church is free to explore but Sun 15: 1100-1600, Tue 17-Sat 21: 1000-1700, Sun 22: 1100-1600 Christadelphian Hall Fri 13, Thu 19 & Fri 20: 1030 & 1115 Fri 13, Sat 14, Thu 19, Fri 20, TOUR tours need to be pre-booked. NEW! Founded c.1174 AD by the first The Street, Bramerton, Approx 45 mins Sat 21: 1000-1600 Approx 1 hour Sat 14: 1030 PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: Earl of Arundel. The building Norwich, NR14 7DW Experience behind the scenes of Approx 1 hour Mrs Greenwood on 01508 520210 the award-winning reinvention Presentation on the firm’s featured in the start of Kett’s DISPLAY The evolution of the historic Ext 213 or email hgreenwood@ Rebellion (1549) and was used of the Victorian Corn Hall in Diss history and traditional langleyschool.co.uk buildings of the Diss Heritage as a grammar school for the Fri 20: 1000-2000 and learn about the history of Letterpress printing, and its Sat 21: 1000-1700 Triangle. Join buildings historian wealthy of Norfolk for 290 years. the building. Meet at box office unique terminology is explained Jess Johnston on a walking tour Wheatfen Nature Reserve EXHIBITION OF HISTORIC 5 mins before tour begins. and demonstrated with of the area which highlights the BIBLES: Bramerton examples of how Letterpress WALK NEW! interesting features discovered Christadelphians have a large EXHIBITION printing is now used today. Fri 20 Sept: 1000. Approx 3 hours by the Heritage Triangle collection of historic Bibles Fri 13 & Sat 14, Mon 16-Sat 21: Get a hands-on opportunity research project. Join Suzie Hanna for a talk and facsimiles of very rare 1000-1600 to ink and print an event and guided walk around the Bibles many hundreds of years souvenir on our c.1830 historic THE ILLUSTRATED TRIANGLE PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: reserve, providing a unique old. Explore this fascinating printing press. EXHIBITION: This exhibition 01379 652241 insight into her father, Ted Ellis collection in an exhibition celebrates the cherished buildings and the Ted Ellis Trust. of how the Bible has been of Diss’ Heritage Triangle, show- preserved. Children’s activities PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 29 JUL VIA: casing their timeless facades BOOK YOUR available and video of William through artwork by Soodle TICKETS FROM Anna Collingbourne on 01603 Tyndale’s work in translating 610734 or email anna.collingbourne@ Street Illustration, the creative MON 29 JULY! the Bible into English shown broads-authority.gov.uk platform of artist Caitlín Law. on Fri 20 at 7pm.

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WYMONDHAM ABBEY Church Street, NR18 0PH OPEN DOORS Fri 13 & Sat 14: 1000-1700, Sun Hop 15: 1200-1700, Mon 16-Sat 21: 1000-1700, Sun 22: 1200-1700 One of England’s 100 finest in churches, this 900 year old Back Time parish church is a former abbey. See the Norman nave, flying angel roof, two Morris Dancing Two free augmented reality walking Georgian organs, medieval Wymondham Market Place, trails for all the family. graffiti and a glittering NR18 0YY golden altar screen designed by Sir Ninian Comper. PERFORMANCE NEW! Start your adventure at the Sun 15: 1200-1500 Market Cross, Wymondham, NR18 0AX TOUR Locally-based Golden Star Sat 14: 1000-1700 & Sun 15: Wymondham Abbey Morris are hosting visiting dance 1200-1700. Approx 20 mins teams from all over the country Take a guided tour around as part of their 40th anniversary this fascinating church. celebrations, providing a rare Interior tours take place on chance to see different regional Forncett Industrial variations of Morris and the hour and exterior tours Steam Museum on the half hour. traditional folk dance in one place. Kingsmuir, Low Road, Forncett EXTRAS! St Mary, Norwich, NR16 1JJ Wymondham Fri 13 & Sat 14: 100-1700, MUSEUM Heritage Museum Sun 15: 1200-1700 Sun 15, Tue 17, Sun 22: 1100-1600 Visit the pop up café and 10 The Bridewell, This private museum, 46 years in Norwich Road, NR18 0NS try some delicious sweet the making, tells the story of the Sat 21: 1000-1600 and savoury items on offer. development of steam power in Sun 14: 1100-1500 Great Britain from 1698 to the MUSEUM NEW! Try some local foods from present day. Sat 21: 1000-1600 vendors inside the Abbey Learn about the history of the TOUR and in the churchyard building from prison to police as part of the Harvest Sun 15, Tue 17, Sun 22: 1100 & 1400 station to courthouse. Discover Veggie Festival. Guided tours across a fantastic the history of Wymondham collection of engines and a Sun 15: 0915 and find out the story of Kett’s complete Victorian engineers’ Rebellion in 1549. Children’s Contemporary Communion workshop. activities include a trail and quiz. followed by Harvest Festival Eucharist. Also see our OPEN DAY TOUR NEW! Abbey Archive display and join in activities for all Wed 18: 1100-1600 Sat 21: 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500 the family. STEAM DAY! Demonstration Approx 15 mins Download the of 19 full sized examples Explore this fantastic building spanning the industrial steeped in history. First opened Wym Trails app for free revolution, which have been in 1785 as a model prison based rescued and restored to working on the ideas of prison reformer order, including one of the John Howard, see the recreated steam engines that was used to dungeon and handle the ankle open Tower Bridge in London. chains worn by the prisoners.

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The Forum is managed by The Forum Trust, an independent, self-financing charitable Sun 15: 1000-1600 organisation which manages the building. As part of your Norfolk HODs visit make sure you It has a wide-ranging project purpose, also head over to King’s Lynn, which has a designed to ensure The Forum remains a jam-packed programme of events taking place vibrant and inspiring place and an asset in this historic market town. which benefits the whole community. We have a broad brief which encompasses Visit over 50 sites across the town, including lifelong learning, and includes celebrating churches, museums, cemeteries, art centres, the region’s history, heritage and culture. private homes and even air raid shelters! Along with Heritage Open Days, we deliver Enjoy a variety of entertainment and and support a series of other free, year don’t miss the vintage buses available to round events including Norwich Science hop on and off throughout the day. King’s Lynn Town Hall Festival, Norfolk Makers’ Festival and Norwich Games Festival. For more information visit kingslynncivicsociety.co.uk Stay up to date by visiting theforumnorwich.co.uk

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AT HODS 2019! Parking at Event and Are you passionate about heritage, The Forum Venue Hire arts and culture? Would you like to gain new experiences, meet new people The Forum has an underground car park Need an inspiring and affordable and learn more about the histories and with 204 spaces, open seven days a week. location for exhibitions, performances, treasures on your doorstep? Then we Located in the centre of Norwich it is the conferences, business events, want to hear from you! perfect location for popping in to The Forum, promotions and effective public The Forum is looking for people shopping, eating out, visiting museums or engagement? to become this year’s Heritage catching a show at Norwich Theatre Royal. Open Days Ambassadors. Call 01603 727963 or 01603 727964 Income from our car park helps or visit theforumnorwich.co.uk/ Join us to champion our rich and support The Forum’s programme venue-hire to find out more. diverse heritage right here in Norfolk. of FREE events, including HODs. To find out more visit theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods

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