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HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 6-9 & 13-16 September 2018 DISCOVER ’S HIDDEN HISTORIES

NORWICH BROADLAND GREAT YARMOUTH NORTH NORFOLK BRECKLAND SOUTH NORFOLK

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#NorfolkHODs www.heritageopendays.org.uk VENUE INDEX Magistrates Court...... 16 2nd Air Division (USAAF) Strangers’ Hall Museum...... 29 GREAT YARMOUTH Pre-book Sheringham Museum Memorial Library...... 23 at The Mo ...... 38 NORWICH Pre-book Norwich Playhouse...... 16 The Strangers Club...... 29 Burgh Castle...... 34 Early Years Library...... 23 St Benet’s Abbey...... 38 …And She Was A Woman Norwich Puppet Theatre...... 16 Surrey House – Marble Hall...... 29 Great Yarmouth Library...... 34 Walk...... 8 Norwich Theatre Royal Vernon Castle Room, Trinity United Reformed Waxham Great Barn...... 38 Norfolk Heritage Centre...... 23 Heritage Guided Walk – A Pub For Every Day Walk...... 8 and Stage Two...... 16 Church...... 29 Medieval Town Wall...... 34 Norfolk Record Office...... 24 BRECKLAND Drop-in Assembly House...... 8 Old Lakenham Heritage Guided Walk – Rows, Community Centre...... 16 Museum Beating the Parish Bounds of THETFORD Pre-book Fishwives and Red Herrings...... 34 Attleborough Heritage Centre..... 39 and Art Gallery...... 24 Georgian Norwich Walk...... 8 OPEN Youth Trust...... 16 Former Atomic Weapons Attleborough Tourist ...... 24 Boardman House...... 8 Over the Water Tour...... 16 Bunker Tours...... 30 GREAT YARMOUTH Drop-in Information Centre ...... 39 Norwich Puppet Theatre...... 24 The Britons Arms...... 9 Passageways Through Hall...... 30 Burgh Castle...... 34 Attleborough Town Council – The Past Walk...... 17 Norwich Quaker Archive Office...... 39 Carrow Abbey...... 9 Thetford Library...... 30 Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Rosary Cemetery...... 17 Meeting House...... 24 Attleborough Town Hall...... 39 Carrow Hill and the Service Ltd Heritage Centre...... 34 Chapel...... 25 River Walk...... 9 Sainsbury Centre THETFORD Drop-in East Anglian Practical Gressenhall Farm and for Visual Arts...... 17 Norwich Synagogue...... 25 Classics Club...... 34 Workhouse...... 39 The Cathedral of Ancient House Museum...... 31 St John the Baptist...... 9 St James Mill...... 17 Octagon Chapel...... 25 Elizabethan House Museum...... 35 Narborough Bone Mill...... 39 British Trust for Ornithology.....30 Colin & Susan Ticktum The Stonemasons’ Lodge...... 17 Old Meeting House The Fishermen’s Hospital...... 35 St Mary’s Church, Congregational Church...... 25 Charles Burrell Centre...... 30 Attleborough...... 39 Charitable Trust...... 9 Strangers’ Hall Museum...... 17 Great Yarmouth Medieval Charles Burrell Museum...... 30 Curat House...... 9 Thorpe Hamlet WWI Plantation Garden...... 25 Town Wall Project...... 35 St Mary’s Church, Elsing and Elsing Village Hall...... 39 Dragon Hall...... 9 Commemoration Walk...... 17 Princes Street United The Coffee Mill Masonic Royal Reformed Church...... 25 Masonic Lodge...... 30 Dutch, Walloon and Huguenot Wherry Maud ...... 17 Assembly Rooms...... 35 Incomers to Norwich Walk...... 12 Pull’s Ferry Watergate Room.... 25 Dad’s Army Museum...... 30 Old Meeting Unitarian Church..... 35 SOUTH NORFOLK Pre-book Earlham Hall...... 12 NORWICH Drop-in St Andrew’s Church, Eaton...... 26 The Guildhall...... 30 Quaker Meeting House...... 35 Becket’s Chapel...... 40 St Andrew’s Church, King’s House...... 31 Eastern Daily Press...... 12 The Assembly House...... 18 Royal Naval Hospital...... 35 Diss Corn Hall...... 40 Norwich...... 26 Riversdale Centre...... 31 The Enterprise Centre, UEA...... 12 The Bear Shop Garden...... 18 St George’s Theatre...... 35 Raveningham Hall...... 40 St Augustine’s Church...... 26 St Cuthbert’s Church...... 31 F. J. Zelley Undercroft Bishop’s House Garden...... 18 Time & Tide Museum...... 35 and Amber Museum...... 12 St Catherine’s Church...... 26 Thetford Grammar School...... 31 SOUTH NORFOLK Drop-in Cathedral of St John Tolhouse Gaol...... 35 St Etheldreda’s Church...... 26 The Forum...... 10-11 the Baptist...... 19 Thetford’s Great Albright of Diss...... 40 St George Tombland ...... 26 Information Centre...... 31 The Great Hospital...... 12 Chapel Field Road NORTH NORFOLK Pre-book Becket’s Chapel...... 40 St Giles-on-the-Hill...... 26 Thetford Methodist Church...... 31 The Guildhall...... 13 Methodist Church...... 18 Museum...... 36 Caistor Roman Town...... 40 St Helen’s Church – Thomas Paine ...... 31 Historic King Street...... 13 The City Bookshop...... 18 Felmingham Old Station...... 36 Christadelphian Hall...... 40 The Great Hospital ...... 27 Inanna’s Festival...... 13 The City Club...... 20 Spark of Light...... 36 Designer Makers 21...... 40 St John de Sepulchre...... 27 BROADLAND Pre-book Jarrold Department Store...... 13 ...... 20 Diss Corn Hall...... 41 St Margaret’s Church...... 27 Catton Place...... 32 John Innes Centre: City Station Uncovered...... 20 NORTH NORFOLK Drop-in Diss Iron Works...... 41 Gardening for Butterflies...... 13 St Mark’s Church Lakenham...... 27 Former RAF Coltishall...... 32 Dragon Hall ...... 20 Congregational Church...... 36 Diss Museum...... 41 John Lewis...... 13 St Martin At Palace Centre ...... 27 Textile Conservation Studio...... 32 The East Anglian Cromer Museum...... 36 Doric Lodge ...... 41 Lazar House...... 13 Islamic Centre...... 20 St Mary Coslany Church...... 27 Thorpe Lodge...... 32 Cromer Signal Box...... 36 Francis Cupiss Ltd...... 41 Maids Head Hotel...... 13 Eaton Park Rooftop Tours...... 20 St Mary’s Works...... 27 Edwardian Wherry Yacht ...... 37 Forncett Industrial The Missing Kind...... 13 St Matthew’s Church ...... 27 BROADLAND Drop-in The Enterprise Centre, UEA...... 20 Felbrigg Hall, Gardens Steam Museum...... 41 St Michael’s and All Mousehold Heath Geology The Forum...... 21 All Saints Church and Estate...... 37 Forncett St Mary Church...... 41 and Landscape Walk...... 14 Angels Ruin...... 28 Hemblington...... 33 Talking Statues...... 21 Hathor Pleasure Wherry...... 37 St Mary’s Church, Yelverton...... 42 Mousehold Heath Past St Michael-at-Plea Church: Aylsham Parish Church...... 33 The Greenhouse Gallery...... 20 Revelation Christian Resource Horsey Windpump ...... 37 Wymondham Abbey...... 42 and Present Walk...... 14 Blickling Estate...... 33 Hellesdon Station...... 22 Centre & Café...... 28 Ingham Holy Trinity Church...... 37 Wymondham Vintage Day...... 42 Museum of Norwich Blofield Church...... 33 at the Bridewell...... 14 Hungate...... 22 St Peter Mancroft Lessingham All Saints Ringing Chamber...... 28 Catton Park...... 33 Parish Church...... 37 Norfolk Industrial John Jarrold Print Museum...... 22 FURTHER AFIELD Archaeology Society...... 14 Kett’s Heights...... 22 St Saviour Church...... 28 Girlguiding Norfolk Archive Lessingham Village Hall...... 37 Resource Centre...... 33 Change Minds: Archives Norfolk & Norwich Lazar House...... 22 St Stephen’s Church...... 28 Museum of the Broads...... 38 and Mental Health...... 42 Millennium Library...... 14 The Hindu Temple ...... 33 Museum of Norwich The Salvation Army, Old Honing Train Station Norfolk Record Office...... 14 at the Bridewell...... 22 Norwich Citadel...... 28 Oulton Chapel...... 33 at Briggate ...... 38 Norwich Cathedral...... 15 Norfolk Family History The South Asia Collection...... 28 Cover images with thanks to: EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN Society...... 22 The Stonemasons’ Brochure design: Norwich Dissenters Walk...... 14 Anne Reekie Cromer Museum (Norfolk Guild Procession...... 29 Museums Service), David WEIRD NORFOLK Norwich Heritage Photo Walk...... 14 Norfolk & Norwich Print partner: Millennium Library...... 23 The Stonemasons’ Lodge...... 29 Street, Paul Hurst and The Page Bros, Norwich National Portrait Gallery. FAMILY FRIENDLY 2 3 WELCOME to Heritage Open Days 2018 How to book tickets

A very warm welcome to the Norfolk Heritage Open Many HODs events are drop-in and you can Events within the brochure are listed in local Days (HODs) festival programme. We’re incredibly just turn up on the day. However, due to limited authority areas, in alphabetical order and proud to present this year’s programme which takes capacity, some events must be pre-booked split into pre-book and drop-in categories. place Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 & Thursday 13 – Sunday and booking instructions can be found in the The event summaries within this brochure 16 September… yes, this year it’s a double weekend! event listings. Please note addresses and are designed to give just a brief overview. meeting points for pre-book events will be Hundreds of participating Norfolk venues, For more detailed information on the confirmed with your booking. organisations, private homes and gardens are events and venue facilities please visit throwing open their doors to reveal and celebrate Tickets for some pre-book events go VERY quickly. www.heritageopendays.org.uk or contact the very best of our rich history and heritage. We know that this can be frustrating but please the venue directly. remember there is still plenty to see and do. Get ready for eight unmissable days of FREE tours, talks, walks, open days, exhibitions, performances and shows. Explore local neighbourhoods, enjoy a sneaky peek inside places that aren’t always open to WHEN DOES BOOKING OPEN? ARE TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM the public, meet new people and soak up the stories Booking opens on Monday 23 July at 9am. THE FORUM, NORWICH? about where we live and the places we visit. Tickets are allocated on a first come first No tickets are available from The Forum office served basis. either by telephone, in person or by email. We hope you have a wonderful festival and enjoy making plenty of fascinating If you do not have online access you can send HOW CAN I BOOK TICKETS? discoveries about Norfolk’s hidden us a postal ticket request to: HODs Bookings, heritage. Wells-next-the-Sea Some tickets can be booked online via The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF. Burnham www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods, The Norfolk HODs team Market Cromer Tell us your name, address, telephone number, Holt by post, or in some cases directly with the venue by phone or email. Please check your event choice, the date and time of the NORTH North event and how many tickets you would like Fakenham NORFOLK Walsham individual event listings for details. (4 maximum). Please provide a second choice Aylsham If the event says that booking is via King’s Lynn BROADLAND in case your first choice event is not available. Share your HODs & BROADS www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods, type Remember to include a stamped addressed this address into your web browser, go to experiences with Swaffham KING’S LYNN ‘Tickets’ and select the event you would like envelope with the correct postage to receive & WEST NORFOLK NORWICH your tickets (if requesting lots of tickets you will us on social media GREATER to go to. If successful in getting tickets, the YARMOUTH Watton tickets will be emailed to you. Please bring need a large envelope and sufficient postage). – we’d love to Downham Market Wymondham them with you on the day of the event. Ticket requests received via post will be opened hear your stories! Attleborough and processed from 9am on Monday 23 July. BRECKLAND & SOUTH NORFOLK & WAVENEY VALLEY The closing date for postal bookings is NorfolkHODs Wednesday 29 August. Thetford Harleston Norfolk Heritage Open Days Diss ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? If you need more information about an event please check the full event listing online @NorfolkHODs at www.heritageopendays.org.uk or contact the venue directly. @norfolkhods Map of Norfolk courtesy of www.visitnorfolk.co.uk

Heritage Open Days in Norwich and across much of Norfolk is coordinated by The Forum, Norwich. Please note event information within this brochure may change ahead of the festival. This brochure provides a brief summary of events across much of Norfolk. For more detailed information on the events and venue facilities please visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk. For information on Heritage Open Days in the west of Norfolk please visit www.kingslynncivicsociety.co.uk.

4 5 Heritage Open Days 2018 Festival highlights Norfolk’s HODs programme is jam-packed this Special themes year with around 300 free events to be enjoyed. and new events You’ll find a fantastic mix of events including many to look out for of the much-loved favourites, along with plenty of in 2018! brand new exciting and surprising events too. Extraordinary Women © Black Shuck illustration by Gemma Correll by © Black Shuck illustration

EXTRAORDINARY WEIRD NR OWN TALKING NORFOLK FAMILY FRIENDLY WOMEN NORFOLK WORDS STATUES REMEMBERS EVENTS To mark the centenary of Step into the strange Since May, The Forum If Norwich’s statues could 2018 marks the centenary of There are LOTS of fantastic the Act that granted some world of Norfolk’s weird and has been working with talk, what stories would they the end of WWI and this year, family friendly events to women the right to vote, wonderful folklore and spooky Norwich Girl Guides on tell? Well, now you can find many organisers have chosen enjoy – look out for the HODs 2018 celebrates supernatural tales with a a social history project out as statues across the city to include events which family friendly symbol ‘Extraordinary Women’. We’ve programme of walks, talks, called ‘NR Own Words: are about to talk back! Pass remember the contribution next to these events. asked Norfolk to uncover and storytelling and crafts. Don’t Lakenham Speaks!’ Don’t a Talking Statue, locate the made by Norfolk people both acknowledge the women – miss the special exhibition in miss this performance- nearby plaque to connect to at home and overseas during Norfolk HODs supports the workers, pioneers, mothers, The Forum’s Gallery where the based community heritage your smartphone and hey that time. Keep an eye out Norfolk Children’s University grandmothers, daughters spirit of a witch trapped in an exhibition where the young presto, receive a call from for these special events in the to provide memorable and friends – who have oak tree, a cursed goat and people relay voices of the statue to hear their story. brochure. Highlights include and high quality learning touched lives, have made curious beasts come together Lakenham from the past, The stories are written by the ‘There But Not There’ experiences designed to or are making a difference, for a collection of tales curated present and the future. well-known local writers. displays in Thetford (page 31) inspire and raise aspirations, brought about change, and by the Weird Norfolk team. Come and hear their stories. The trail launches at The Forum and the ‘Two Types of Heroes’ ambitions and achievements. left a legacy that should be See page 16 for details. on Sat 8 Sep. See page 21 talk at the Norfolk and If your children visit HODs cherished. Brought to you by The Forum for details. Norwich Millennium Library venues during the festival, in partnership with Archant, This project has been funded (page 14). you can get their Passport to Look out for the Extraordinary based on material from the by the Norfolk Community Learning stamped at the Early Women symbol next to Eastern Daily Press and Foundation’s Norwich Years Centre in the Millennium themed events. Evening News’ popular feature Heritage Fund. Library or at the HODs Info ‘Weird Norfolk’. Look out for Desk at The Forum. the Weird Norfolk symbol next to themed events. Did you know?* In 2017…

An amazing Norfolk was 99% of visitors 77% of survey respondents 74,500 visitors No.1 in the surveyed would said the festival would encourage attended HODs country with 289 recommend them to visit more heritage/ We can’t wait to see events in Norfolk. HODs events. HODs to a friend. cultural sites in the future. what 2018 brings. Have a great festival!

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Events in this section of the brochure are ticketed and must be The Britons Arms Colin & Susan Ticktum Dragon Hall booked in advance. See individual event listings for information TOUR Charitable Trust TOUR on how to book tickets. Booking opens Monday 23 July. This remarkable building, now TOUR Explore historic Dragon Hall, Please note: addresses and meeting points for pre-booked a coffee shop and restaurant, See the Trust’s collection of 400 now home to the National events will be confirmed with your booking. dates back to the 14th century. early silver spoons (including Centre for Writing, on this 1 hour It is one of the last thatched 100 pre-1700 items) and its guided tour. Dragon Hall started Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more detailed event information on all of these listings. buildings in the city and is of collection of East Anglian silver. life as a 15th-century medieval national importance. Approx. Approx. 2 hours for talk and vault trading hall and has been a slum, 30 mins. visit, 1 hour for vault visit only. butcher’s shop, rectory and Thu 6, Fri 7, Thu 13 & Fri 14: Fri 7: 1400-1600 (talk and vault), more. Suitable for ages 12+. See 1000 & 1100 Sun 9: 1900-2100 (talk and vault), page 20 for drop-in activities. PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Fri 14 & Sun 16: 1400-1500 Sat 8: 1000 & 1430 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods (vault only) PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: TALK NEW! Mrs Ticktum on 01603 625143 or HARRIET MARTINEAU: Stuart Carrow Abbey email [email protected] Hobday, author of Encounters TOUR With Harriet Martineau, gives A rare chance to visit the Curat House an evening lecture on this 16th-century rooms and the extraordinary woman. Harriet TOUR 12th-century ruins of one of Martineau was a pioneering Norwich’s least known monastic This 15th-century merchant’s journalist, radical thinker and sites. Join guide Barbara Miller house, now the shop Fat Face, citizen of Norwich. Learn more for a tour of the site and learn is fondly remembered as Backs about her eventful life during

Assembly House Boardman House Baldwin © Richard about its fascinating past and Wine Merchants and Bar. this talk. A behind the scenes tour of rich history. Sat 8: 1900-2000 this hidden gem includes the Fri 7: 1000, 1130, 1400 & 1530 undercroft and upper rooms. PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: …And She Was A Woman Assembly House Beating the Parish Bounds PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Approx. 1 hour 15 mins. www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods of Georgian Norwich www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods WALK NEW! TOUR Thu 6, Fri 7 & Fri 14: 1000 & 1400 This walking tour is about the Brimming with personalities WALK PRE-BOOK ONLINE: PLEASE NOTE: women of Norwich and how from the past and tangible Local historian and author, Carrow Hill and the River www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods they made a difference to the architectural evidence, enjoy David A. Berwick, reveals the WALK Addresses and meeting unique historic parish boundary history of the city. Discover the histories of this remarkable A chance to see an impressive points for pre-booked markers still attached to many more about the lives of women building. Hear about the stretch of medieval city wall, events will be confirmed buildings. The spirit of the such as Elizabeth Fry, Amelia medieval college still visible in hear about Norwich Pleasure with your booking. ancient rites and customs of Opie, Elizabeth Gurney and the crypt, Tudor spoils, Georgian Gardens, encounter a site of ‘Beating the Bounds’ will be Lady Julian. arts, 19th-century dancing, wartime tragedy and discover explained with an opportunity Thu 13: 1400-1530 a school and top secret war a lost port. rooms. Approx. 90 mins. to discover some markers for PRE-BOOK ONLINE: yourself. Approx. 90 mins. Sat 8: 1100-1200 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Fri 14 & Sun 16: 0830 & 1030 Thu 6: 1300, Fri 7: 1400 PRE-BOOK ONLINE: WALK NEW! www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods A Pub For Every Day PRE-BOOK ONLINE: A WALK ON THE WEIRD SIDE: www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods WALK NEW! Join Richard Hughes from The Cathedral of Norwich once had over 300 The Assembly House and Siofra St John the Baptist Boardman House pubs and this walking tour takes Connor and Stacia Briggs TOUR NEW! from Weird Norfolk for a walk TOUR NEW! you around some of them to TWILIGHT TOWER TOUR: through the streets of Norwich. Hudson Architects lead tours explore their names, origins Visit the highest vantage point The Britons Arms Discover spellbinding tales of of three of Norwich University and history. overlooking Norwich at twilight. wild boys, phantoms, kings and of the Arts’ recently renovated Thu 6: 1400-1530 See lights and sights normally ghosts, and a tour of one of buildings; the Grade II listed PRE-BOOK ONLINE: only seen from the air. Approx. Norwich’s most atmospheric Boardman House, Guntons www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods 35 mins. crypts. Approx. 90 mins. Building and Cavendish House. Dragon Hall Age 14+. Approx. 1 hour. Fri 7 & Fri 14: 2030 & 2100 Sun 9 & Sun 16: 1830 Fri 14: 1100, 1300 & 1500 PRE-BOOK ONLINE: www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods

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HODs visitors can pre-book a wide Left, from top: Ethel Colman, first female Lord PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: selection of fascinating talks taking Mayor of Norwich, 1923, © Norfolk Record Office; Lord Mayor Mabel Clarkson in her younger years, www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods place at THE FORUM throughout 1928, © National Portrait Gallery. this year’s Heritage Open Days. TALK TALK TALK POWER TO THE PEOPLE: SUFFRAGETTE STORIES – THE STORY OF DRAGON ALL Norwich was at the forefront TRANSCRIBE HISTORY: HALL: Dragon Hall has of technical innovation with Talk and workshop revealing stood beside the River Yare THE FORUM NEW a gas supply from 1820 and the suffragette archives held for 1000 years and in that EVENTS! electricity from 1891. Join Philip at UEA. After the talk, help time it’s been everything Tolley of the Norfolk Industrial transcribe original letters from from a private residence to a TALK TALK Archaeology Society (NIAS) Christabel Pankhurst to add National Centre for Writing. BEHIND THE SCENES OF TV’S HATCHED, MATCHED AND for a talk and a range of archive to a digital exhibition. Join Richard Matthew to WHO DO YOU THINK YOU DISPATCHED: A talk by Rowena images. This talk also takes Sat 15: 1600-1730 discover the history of this ARE? Gill Blanchard presents Burgess, Lecturer at UEA’s place as an NIAS event, see enigmatically named site. a talk on the workings of the Interdisciplinary Institute for page 14. TALK Fri 7: 1000-1100 episode that featured cake the Humanities on rural life in Thu 6: 1400-1500 TELLING THE TIME IN maker extraordinaire Mary Berry. Norfolk between 1750 and 1900 NORWICH: An illustrated talk STORYTELLING This talk is given on behalf of using church and census records. TALK on Norwich’s clocks and TWO PILLARS UNDER ONE The Cathedral, Magdalen & Thu 6: 1000-1100 SAVING A HISTORIC NORFOLK sundials by John Trevelyan of ROOF: A storytelling session St Augustine’s Neighbourhood WHERRY FLEET… HOW A The Norwich Society. Learn for adults, looking at the mix Forum (CMSTA). TALK BROADS CHARITY IS how the Society has been of masculine and feminine Thu 13: 1400-1500 HATHOR – THE STORY OF KEEPING HISTORY SAILING: researching clocks and sundials within the setting of the home. AN EDWARDIAN PLEASURE Join Trustee John Ash as in the city and has found more How do the two genders live TALK WHERRY 1905–2018: Built TALK he describes the process of than 50 that can be viewed. together? Dave Tonge and Suzanne Arnold take a look EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN in 1905 for Helen and Ethel NURSES, LAUNDRESSES, restoring wherries and keeping Sat 15: 1400-1500 at folk tales throughout the AT THE TIME OF THE GREAT Colman, daughters of the MIDWIVES, WISE WOMEN: history afloat since the Wherry TALK ages to find out. WAR: Joy Evitt presents a talk founder of Colman’s Mustard. MEDIEVAL WOMEN AS Yacht Charter Charitable Trust about the lives of some of the Hathor has a great tale to tell. HEALERS: A talk about the was set up in 2005. THE ARCHITECTURE OF Sat 8: 1900-2030 extraordinary women who made Join Peter Bower as he recounts female healers and carers of Thu 13: 1000-1100 AND TALK their mark during WWI. The the story of one of Norfolk’s the medieval period. Unsung ITS IMPACT ON VICTORIAN women are a personal choice most historic boats. and often unseen, these TALK NORWICH: Join author David UNCOVERING FORGOTTEN and an unusual mixture of Thu 6: 1200-1300 extraordinary women saved lives SIGNS OF PAST TIMES: Bussey for an illustrated talk LIVES – REVEALING STORIES: individuals who have come to and cured the sick. This talk is Discover Norwich’s history on Edward Boardman and his Academics from UEA reveal light following recent research. STORYTELLING presented by Dr Joy Hawkins through plaques and other son, the architects responsible surprising stories about people Fri 7: 1400-1500 HERO TALES OF EAST ANGLIA: from UEA’s Interdisciplinary signs with this illustrated talk for many of Norwich’s great often hidden from official Join Dave Tonge in this adult Institute for the Humanities. by John Trevelyan of The buildings. This talk explores records and forgotten by FILM storytelling set about three Norwich Society. their work and their links with history. Find out how to Fri 7: 1200-1300 undertake research either FROM THE ARCHIVE: famous Saxon sons; Saint Sat 8: 1400-1500 Norwich’s leading citizens. MURIEL SPARK AT THE UEA Edmund, Hereward the Wake TALK Fri 14: 1200-1300 individually or as part of the Interdisciplinary Humanities LITERARY FESTIVAL: Muriel and Tom Hickathrift. Musical PERFORMERS AND TALK TALK Foundation Year at UEA. Spark, author of The Prime of accompaniment by Trevor James. PERFORMING IN STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE Miss Jean Brodie, is an iconic Sat 15: 1900-2030 RENAISSANCE NORWICH: IN NORWICH: Historical THE LADY LORD MAYORS OF Thu 13: 1200-1300, Fri 14: 20th-century writer. As part of A talk about civic drama in biographer, Gill Blanchard, NORWICH 1923-2017: Join 1000-1100 the celebrations marking the STORYTELLING Norwich between 1540 and presents a talk on the subject Norwich author and biographer centenary of her birth, her NORFOLK FOLK TALES 1642 and UEA’s new online of her upcoming book Struggle Phyllida Scrivens for a unique 2001 festival appearance is FROM OTHER LANDS: Family archive about life in Renaissance and Suffrage in Norwich: insight into the diverse lives, being rescreened. Introduced storytelling session from local Norwich. Dr Emily Mayne reveals Women’s Fight for Equality and both personal and civic, of The by Dr Nonia Williams of Lady Lord Mayors of Norwich PRE-BOOK THESE yarnsmith Dave Tonge with how the people of Renaissance Freedom. Learn how the women EVENTS ONLINE: UEA’s British Archive for magical tales of dark dangerous Norwich enjoyed a variety of of Norfolk shaped its past 1923-2017. Amongst others, Contemporary Writing. dogs and other local Norfolk dramatic entertainments and present in this talk given meet the Czech war refugee; www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Sat 8: 1600-1730 legends. All children must be and festivities. on behalf of The Cathedral, the ‘Ten Pound Pom’ and the Magdalen & St Augustine’s prison governor’s wife. accompanied by an adult Sat 8: 1000-1100 ticket holder. Neighbourhood Forum Fri 14: 1400-1500 BOOK YOUR (CMSTA). Sat 15: 1200-1300 TICKETS FROM Sat 8: 1200-1300 MON 23 JULY!

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Dutch, Walloon and Huguenot The Guildhall Jarrold Department Store Lazar House Incomers to Norwich TOUR TOUR TOUR NEW! WALK Norwich Guildhall is the largest Learn about the history of the This former leper hospital dates This walk illustrates the effect surviving medieval civic building building and visit areas not back 900 years and has a varied of the ‘Strangers’ (incomers in the country outside usually seen by customers on history. It was an almshouse and from the Spanish Netherlands and central to civic and judicial this special tour. Jarrold opened more recently Norwich’s first and France from 1550-1750) on life for over 600 years. Visit the in 1823 and has seen many branch Library which closed in Norwich’s landscape. The walk 14th-century undercroft, the changes including the creation 1989. Now home to a learning is being led on behalf of the police cells, the Victorian court of the market place corner that disabilities charity, The Assist Norfolk Archives and Heritage room and the Mayor’s court room. makes it an iconic city landmark. Trust, visitors can learn more Development Foundation, Sun 9 & Fri 14: 1100 & 1400 Approx. 1 hour. with local author and historian partner charity of the Norfolk Thu 6 & Thu 13: 1000 & 1130 Trevor Nuthall. Suitable for Record Office. Approx. 90 mins. TALK ages 12+. Lazar House is also PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Sun 9: 1400, Sat 15: 1100, THE HISTORY OF THE 01603 660661, email custserv@ hosting an open day, see page Sun 16: 1400 Earlham Hall GUILDHALL: This illustrated jarrold.co.uk, or write to: 22 for details. PRE-BOOK ONLINE: The Great Hospital talk covers the building of The Jarrold Customer Services, Sun 16: 1130-1200 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Guildhall between 1407 and 1413, 1-11 London Street, NR2 1JF PRE-BOOK ONLINE: its role as the centre of civic and www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods judicial life until 1938, and some Earlham Hall John Innes Centre of the important events that The Enterprise Centre, UEA The Great Hospital TOUR have occurred there. TALK NEW! Maids Head Hotel TOUR TALK Tour of the Grade II 17th and NEW! Sat 15: 1100 GARDENING FOR TOUR 18th-century house with guide The Enterprise Centre is BUTTERFLIES: An illustrated HEALING BODIES AND CURING PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: A guided tour of the oldest Nigel Wimhurst. Learn about the gateway building to the talk by scientist Dr Ian Bedford, SOULS – THE GREAT HOSPITAL www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods hotel in , including the Elizabeth Fry and the Gurney University of East Anglia. IN THE : followed by a rare books display Maids Head Bar, in constant family, former residents of This multi-award winning The Great Hospital, known of butterfly and moth books use since 1287. Please note that this fascinating building. venue is built to the highest during the Middle Ages as the Historic King Street from the John Innes Historical there are many stairs. Collections. Learn how to attract Approx. 1 hour. sustainability standards, is one hospital of St Giles, is a place WALK Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1500-1630 of the greenest buildings in of real historical importance. butterflies to your garden and Sun 9 & Sun 16: 1000, 1130, King Street has a long and PRE-BOOK DIRECT VIA: 1400 & 1530 Europe and one of the largest Its archives are now so valuable chequered history from its the causes behind the decline in butterflies over the past 40 01603 272008 or email PRE-BOOK ONLINE: thatch-clad buildings in the that in 2012 they were accorded early days of wharves and years. Approx. 2 hours. [email protected] www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods world. The Centre is also open UNESCO Memory of the World wherries to medieval mansions for drop-in visits, see page 20. status. Join Professor Carole and Victorian industry. This Thu 6: 1000 Rawcliffe to learn what life there The Missing Kind Eastern Daily Press Thu 6: 1100 & 1500, Fri 7: 1 hour walk offers a glimpse PRE-BOOK ONLINE: 1100 & 1400 would have been like and how into the changing fortunes www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods TOUR TOUR PRE-BOOK ONLINE: it might have differed from of this fascinating street and Journey down two flights of Have you ever wanted to visit www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods the experience of institutional its characters. stairs, deep below the historic care today. John Lewis the EDP office, discover where Thu 6: 1100 Grade II listed Missing Kind the daily news stories are TOUR charity headquarters and F. J. Zelley Undercroft Sun 16: 1500 PRE-BOOK ONLINE: written or see some historic Learn about the history of the and Amber Museum www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods KindaKafe. Discover the hidden newspaper archives? Join TOUR shop, formerly Bonds, and enjoy history of the former Ponds Archant as they open their TOUR The Great Hospital was founded a behind the scenes tour of Shoefitters, see a prison cell, doors for a 1 hour exclusive An introduction to the 18th- in 1249 to care for retired clergy Inanna’s Festival the Georgian cottages. Further curious tunnels to hidden streets tour of the building. century Grade II* listed building and the poor. This special TALK information can be seen on the and brick-vaulted 15th-century Fri 7: 1100, 1300 & 1500 and visit to the 15th-century tour includes the Church of St A visit to the house above heritage wall in the Place to Eat undercrofts. Approx. 1 hour. undercroft. There is access to Helen and associated cloisters, restaurant. Approx. 1 hour. PRE-BOOK ONLINE: the Inanna’s Festival shop to Thu 6-Sat 8: 1100, 1330 & 1530 the Amber Room museum, a Eagle Ward and the medieval www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods discover the history of this 17th- Thu 6, Fri 7 & Sat 8: 0915 & 1615, PRE-BOOK ONLINE: short presentation about amber . Approx. 90 mins. Sun 9: 1030 & 1515, century weaver’s flint-walled www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods and the so called ‘Norfolk’ Thu 6: 1000, Fri 7: 1430, house with timbered beams. Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15: 0915 & 1615, amber. Approx. 40 mins. Thu 13: 1000 The talk includes a chapter on Sun 16: 1030 & 1515 Fri 7, Sat 8, Fri 14 & Sat 15: PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: the life of the weavers and their PRE-BOOK ONLINE: 1100 & 1430 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods place in the history of Norwich. www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Approx. 30 mins. BOOK YOUR www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Thu 6, Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1800 TICKETS FROM PRE-BOOK ONLINE: www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods MON 23 JULY!

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Mousehold Heath Geology Museum of Norwich Norfolk Record Office and Landscape Walk at the Bridewell WALK NEW! NORWICH PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: WALK TOUR ARCHIVAL AMBULATION – www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Join Tim Holt-Wilson and a Visitors can find out what is THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN CATHEDRAL Norwich City Council Mousehold hidden beneath the museum NORWICH: A guided stroll Heath warden for a guided by taking a 40 minute guided around Norwich using copies of tour of the Earth Heritage Trail. tour of the wonderful medieval documents and sound recordings Travel back in time to explore undercroft – one of the largest to discover the roles of both TOUR DISPLAY NEW! the unique and undulating in the city. The Museum is also ordinary and extraordinary BRODERERS’ GUILD: Take a CHAPELS AND CHANTRIES: landscape and discover how this open on a drop-in basis, see women in the history of the city. behind the scenes tour of the The small chapels of Norwich has been sculpted by natural page 22 for details. Thu 13: 1400-1600 Guild and find out how they Cathedral have a history of their processes and people. Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: care for and repair ecclesiastical own and contain wonderful Thu 13: 1030-1300 1100, 1200, 1330 & 1430 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods textiles, as well as design works of art. See examples of PRE-BOOK ONLINE: PRE-BOOK DIRECT VIA: and make new frontals and medieval painted panels and www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods 01603 629127 Norwich Dissenters Walk vestments. Approx. 1 hour. stained glass, and learn about Fri 7: 1000 & 1100 the history of the chapels and TOUR Norfolk Industrial chantries. Approx. 90 mins. Mousehold Heath Past Step back in time and discover TOUR | TALK and Present Walk Archaeology Society Fri 7: 1430, Sun 9: 1230, Fri 14: 1030 Cathedral Cloisters the tumultuous tales of CATHEDRAL BOSSES: The WALK TALK NEW! Norwich’s religious history, the decorative yet structural carved TOUR NEW! Hurst © Paul Join a local historian and a POWER TO THE PEOPLE: This dissent that gripped the city and stones known as bosses found THE CLOISTER OF NORWICH TOUR NEW! Norwich City Council Mousehold is an evening presentation of the the fascinating locations where in the vaulting of Norwich CATHEDRAL: A place of prayer, NORWICH CATHEDRAL AND Heath warden, to discover the same talk listed on page 11. it all took place. Guided tour for Cathedral are one of the meditation, work and recreation THE FIRST WORLD WAR: The stories behind the ruins of a ages 12+. Approx. 1.5-2 hours. wonders of this great building. Thu 6: 1930-2100 for the monks who lived in the tour invites visitors to learn chapel, social uprisings and how Discover the stories they have to Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000 Benedictine monastery. See the more about the women from historic land use has influenced WALK tell on this 90 minute tour and PRE-BOOK ONLINE: carved stone bosses depicting Norfolk who gave their lives in this unique and important area. NORWICH AT WORK: Until illustrated talk. www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods scenes from the Bible as well the Great War. Hear their stories Sun 9: 1400-1615 the 1980s Norwich was known Thu 13: 1100 as everyday life in the Middle as an industrial city. This walk whilst discovering how the PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Norwich Heritage Photo Walk Ages. Learn about the modern Cathedral has changed during gives an insight into the variety TOUR NEW! www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods WALK sculptures and monuments in the last century. Approx. 90 mins. and significance of the city’s CATHEDRAL CLOSE: One of the cloister. Approx. 90 mins. A photo walk along the River Sat 8: 1130, Sat 15: 1030, industrial history over the past the largest in England, Cathedral Wensum, looking at historical Thu 6: 1400, Thu 13: 1330, Sun 16: 1430 200 years. Close was originally the locations from a photographer’s Sat 15: 1000 Fri 7: 1030-1230 monastic enclosure where TOUR NEW! perspective. You will need your Sat 15: 1400-1600 the buildings and lands that TOUR NEW! own DSLR camera and relatively PERSONALITIES OF NORWICH PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: made up the Benedictine good fitness is required. MISERICORDS: Norwich CATHEDRAL: A famous sailor, a BOOK YOUR www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods monastery once stood. Today, Cathedral has a large collection famous knight, a famous nurse, Thu 6 & Thu 13: 1900 TICKETS FROM visitors can see elegant of 15th-century curiously carved bishops, clerics, musicians and PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Georgian and Victorian buildings seats, used by the Benedictine more. All celebrities in their day; MON 23 JULY! www.throughthelensworkshops. but what of their medieval past? monks during their long and come and learn more about co.uk/shop Approx. 90 mins. many services. Learn more about them in the wonderful setting Sat 8 & Fri 14: 1100 the seats and the images carved of Norwich Cathedral. Approx. Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library onto them. Approx. 90 mins. 90 mins. See page 24 for details Fri 14: 1100 Fri 7: 1030, Sun 9: 1400, TOUR NEW! TALK NEW! TALK NEW! Fri 14: 1330, Sat 15: 1430 NORFOLK IN CLOSE UP: TRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION TWO TYPES OF HEROES: of drop-in events at TOUR the Cathedral. Join archive specialist, Chris – WOMEN BEFORE THE BENCH A talk by local historian and MONASTIC LIFE: Norwich TOUR Tracy, for a behind the scenes 1600-1850: Local author, author Neil Storey on Norfolk’s Cathedral started life as a STAINED GLASS: Explore the tour of Norfolk Heritage Centre’s Elizabeth Walne, examines Victoria Cross heroes. Discover Benedictine monastery. Take remarkable range of stained photographic collections. the circumstances of women how the wounded were cared this tour and hear about the glass in the Cathedral from Don’t miss the chance to see who appeared before Norwich for during WWI. Part of Norwich life of these monks over the medieval times to the present a rare album of Norfolk scenes courts between 1600 and 1850. Disability Pride 2018. centuries up to the time day. Approx. 90 mins. by pioneering photographer Find out what the women were Fri 14: 1730-1830 of The Reformation. Fri 7: 1100, Sun 9: 1330, Walter Clutterbuck. accused of, their punishment, PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS DIRECT Approx. 90 mins. Thu 13: 1430, Sat 15: 1130 Sat 8: 1100-1200 and the final outcome. FROM 23 JUL VIA: Thu 6: 1130, Sat 8: 1400, PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: Sat 8: 1300-1400 Rachel Willis on 01603 774786 or Sun 16: 1230 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods email [email protected]

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Norwich Magistrates Court Old Lakenham Passageways St James Mill TOUR Community Centre Through the Past TOUR Visit Norwich Magistrates Court PERFORMANCE NEW! TOUR NEW! This Grade I listed former and see well-preserved ruins of NR OWN WORDS: LAKENHAM Explore some of the hidden yarn mill has been called a Norman house beneath the SPEAKS! Since May, The Forum alleys, courts and lanes of our ‘the noblest building of the undercroft of the Courthouse. has been working with Norwich medieval city on this unusual ’. It sits Please note there is no disabled Girl Guides on this social history walking tour. Norwich is a beside the River Wensum close access to the Norman ruins. project. It includes archive work wonderful place to explore to the centre of Norwich and Approx. 1 hour. collated by Richard Webb, on foot – uncover fascinating is a remarkable example of Thu 6 & Fri 7: 1830 & 1930 honorary centre manager of stories about the city’s historic Norwich’s industrial heritage. Old Lakenham Community nooks and crannies. Approx. 50 mins. PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Centre for 40 years. This is a www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Fri 7: 1400-1530 Sat 15: 1000, 1130 & 1300 performance-based exhibition PRE-BOOK ONLINE: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: where young people relay www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Norwich Theatre Royal Norwich Playhouse the voices of Lakenham from St James Mill TOUR the past, present and future.

Rosary Cemetery The Stonemasons’ Lodge Baldwin © Richard Norwich Explore rarely-seen sections of Approx. 1 hour. the theatre, see backstage and Sat 15: 1330 & 1530 TOUR TALK Theatre Royal learn more about the historical PRE-BOOK ONLINE: A guided tour of the first non- THE LIFE OF A STONEMASONS’ Thorpe Hamlet WWI Commemoration Walk context of Norwich Playhouse. www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods denominational burial ground GUILD: The Clerk of the Guild and Stage Two Originally a Georgian maltings, in the UK. Set in Grade II* presents a talk about their rich WALK PRE-BOOK THESE EVENTS ONLINE: the building has transformed listed grounds, the cemetery traditions, the Guild’s historical OPEN Youth Trust This walk visits the St Matthew’s www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods over the ages before becoming encapsulates the history of roots and wider European Church war memorial and TOUR a much-loved theatre. Approx. Victorian Norwich. Members of routes and connections. Approx. Rosary Cemetery, the oldest PERFORMANCE NEW! 45 mins. A short tour of the former the Colman, Jarrold and Ringer 1 hour. See page 29 for details of non-denominational cemetery ALL MOUTH, NO TROUSERS – Thu 13: 1130 & 1400, Fri 14: 1130 regional HQ of Barclays Bank. families are buried there along drop-in activities. in England. Visit a site used for This includes old bank vaults, with novelist R.H. Mottram and OPEN REHEARSAL AND Q&A: PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1100 trench training in WWI and a the former managers’ offices, artists from the Norwich School. Members of The Common Lot www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods & 1300 location used to send messages Theatre Company tell tales of dining room and banking hall. Sun 9 & Sun 16: 1400-1530 PRE-BOOK ONLINE: to London at a much earlier Norfolk’s radical women through Norwich Puppet Theatre Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000, 1100, 1200, PRE-BOOK ONLINE: www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods time of conflict. This walk story and song. See a rehearsal 1300 & 1400 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods complements the talk at the of the show drawing on the TOUR PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Strangers’ Hall Museum church on page 27. traditions of cabaret, music A wonderful opportunity to www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Sainsbury Centre Sat 8: 1100-1230 hall, dramatic monologue and explore the unique Norwich WALK NEW! for Visual Arts PRE-BOOK ONLINE: verbatim theatre. Puppet Theatre as both a NORWICH IN THE TIME OF Over the Water Tour TOUR www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Sat 15: 1500-1600 medieval church and operational NEW! ELIZABETH I: When Elizabeth theatre. Pre-book tours only on TOUR A special behind the scenes I visited Norwich in 1578, the TOUR these dates. See page 24 for Once one of the most populated tour of the Sainsbury Centre city put forward its best public Wherry Maud A backstage tour of Norwich drop-in open days, including areas of Norwich, it has seen with David Rees, Head of face in the shape of elaborate TOUR NEW! Theatre Royal looking at puppet-making workshops. flood, fire and plague. Learn Technical Services. A chance ceremony and spectacle. See Tour and talk about the history the stage and behind the about the people and industries to explore areas of the building where some of the events took and current use of the Wherry scenes from technical, Thu 6, Fri 7, Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1100-1145 that once flourished in this part not usually open to the public. place on this 90 minute walk. Maud, covering her life from her business, historical and social of the city, taking in buildings PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Approx. 45 mins. Thu 13: 1100 & 1300 build in 1899 to her rescue and perspectives. from medieval times to the Ian Woods on 01603 629921 or Sat 16: 1400 & 1500 PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: restoration by the Wherry Maud 18th and 19th centuries. Fri 7: Tour 1100-1200 email [email protected] PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Trust. Approx. 1 hour. Thu 6: 1430-1600, Sat 15: 1000-1130 TALK NEW! Gallery reception 01603 593199 Gallery on 01603 493625 or email Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1000, 1200, PRE-BOOK ONLINE: or tickets available on the door [email protected] SUFFRAGETTES ON STAGE 1400 & 1600 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods – TALK AND Q&A: Professor PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Katharine Cockin of the 01379 677666 or University of Essex discusses [email protected] the suffrage movement within theatre, focusing on Edith Craig, The Pioneer Players and Christopher St John. BOOK YOUR Fri 14: 1400-1500 TICKETS FROM MON 23 JULY!

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CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST Unthank/Earlham Road, NR2 2PA The Bear Shop Garden Bishop’s House Garden Chapel Field Road TOUR TOUR EXHIBITION NEW! Methodist Church HIDDEN PLACES TOUR*: An THE LIGHTS OF HEAVEN: THEY SERVED, THEY SERVE: exclusive opportunity to visit Discover the five main stained Featuring military and civilian places not open to the public, glass windows in the Cathedral. men and women who served, The Assembly House Bishop’s House Garden The City Bookshop including the triforium and a These windows are considered and still serve, from 1914 to the hidden chapel. Approx. 1 hour. to be some of the finest OPEN DOORS GARDENS EXHIBITION NEW! present day. The exhibition also Fri 7 & Sat 8, Fri 14 & Sat 15: examples of Victorian stained includes a section dedicated to NEW! Bishop’s House, St Martin at 10 Davey Place, NR2 1PQ 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400 & 1500 glass art in Northern Europe. the Catholic Chaplaincy serving Theatre Street, NR2 1RQ Palace Plain, NR3 1SB WOMEN AND FASHION A Approx. 90 mins. during the Great War. TOUR GREAT WOMEN – NORWICH This historic private four-acre CENTURY AGO: A Costume Fri 7, Sat 8, Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1300 THE GREAT GOTHIC FANE: Fri 7 & Sat 8, Fri 14 & Sat 15: HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS formal city centre garden has and Textile Association 1000-1600 A ground floor tour explaining DISPLAY NEW! AT THE ASSEMBLY HOUSE: belonged to the Bishops of exhibition illustrating the Discover famous alumni from Norwich for over 900 years. See changes in women’s fashion the connection between REQUIEM: St Joseph’s Chapel, TOUR Norwich High School for Girls long herbaceous borders, roses, and their lives during the early architecture and spirituality in a also known as the Sunk Chapel, TOWER TOUR*: Visit the which was housed at the the hosta walk, the meadow 20th century. See garments, Gothic church. Approx. 1 hour. will in the spirit of mourning for highest vantage point Assembly House from 1901-33 labyrinth, a jungle walk, bamboos accessories and techniques Fri 7, Sat 8, Sat 14 & Sun 15: 1200 those who were lost in WWI, be overlooking Norwich, with and add to our alumni list. and extensive shrubberies. used to create the liberating A small number of steps may be laid out as though for a requiem views stretching as far as Great fashions of the 1920s. involved – those that cannot access mass. Themed vestments and Sun 16: 1300-1600 Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1000-1600 Yarmouth, Happisburgh and Thu 6 & Fri 7: 0930-1715, them can still be involved in the tour. decorations will be on display. Swaffham. Approx. 35 mins. Sat 8: 0900-1745, The Bear Shop Garden Chapel Field Road TALK Fri 7, Sat 8, Fri 14 & Sat 15: Fri 7 & Sat 8, Fri 14 & Sat 15: Sun 9: 1100-1630, 1000-1600 Methodist Church THE HIDDEN GEM: A talk and 1100, 1130, 1200, 1300, 1330, 1400, OPEN DOORS Thu 13 & Fri 14: 0930-1715, 1430, 1500 & 1530 TOUR Sat 15: 0900-1745, visual presentation on the CRAFT 18 Elm Hill, NR3 1HN history of St John’s Cathedral Chapel Field Road, NR2 1SD Sun 16: 1100-1630 Considered to be based on a as well as its conception and STAINED GLASS STORIES design by Gertrude Jekyll, this Guided tours of the church, construction. Question and AND SUNCATCHER CRAFT: Trail and simple suncatcher terraced garden behind a 15th- designed by Edward answer session to follow craft for over 5s who enjoy century house in the historic Boardman and opened in 1881. with light refreshments. sticking and colouring. Cathedral quarter of Norwich is Modifications have been made Approx. 1 hour 30 mins. since but the church retains its Fri 7, Sat 8, Fri 14 & Sat 15: a hidden treasure. Plants for sale. Fri 7: 1430 Victorian character, a fine organ, 1100-1500 Thu 6, Fri 7 & Sat 9: 1100-1630, and is a listed building. Sun 9: 1100-1600 *Minimum height restriction of 1.35m (4ft 5ins). Climbing narrow Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1000-1600 spiral stairs so sensible shoes and clothing are advised.

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The City Club Dragon Hall Eaton Park Rooftop Tours The Forum Gallery, OPEN DOORS 115-123 King Street, NR1 1QE TOUR NEW! THE FORUM GALLERY Millennium Plain, NR2 1TF Bacon House, OPEN DOORS Eaton Park, South Park Avenue, 33 Colegate, NR3 1BN Come and explore the historic NR4 7AZ Private gentlemens’ club Dragon Hall, now home to the Rooftop tour from one of the WEIRD NORFOLK founded 1897 in a building dating National Centre for Writing. Pavillions. Includes a display, a EXHIBITION The spirit of a witch trapped from around 1560. The club is From 15th-century trading short introduction to the history in an oak tree, a cursed goat, WEIRD NORFOLK – A ALL situated on the 1st floor up a hall, to slums, butcher’s shop, and development of the park magical stones and curious COLLECTION OF CURIOSITIES: NEW winding staircase. The property rectory, pub and now, a centre and a chance to admire the beasts all come together for Step into the strange world of was built for Henry Bacon, for writing! Pre-book tours amazing views. Meet at the a collection of tales carefully EVENTS! Norfolk’s weird and wonderful a merchant from the North are also available, see page 9 bandstand in the middle of the curated by the Weird Norfolk folklore and spooky supernatural Norfolk village of Worstead. for details. park. Approx. 20 mins. team. Enjoy photography, film tales in this special exhibition. He became Sheriff of Norwich Sat 8: 1000-1600 Sun 16: 1500, 1530, 1600 & 1630 and artefacts to bring some of Brought to you by The Forum in 1548 and Mayor in 1557 Norfolk’s weirdest folklore to life. in partnership with Archant, the and 1566. WORKSHOP NEW! Weird Norfolk is a celebration of The Enterprise Centre, UEA exhibition is based on material Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000-1600 PUT THE STORY IN HISTORY: our county’s myths and legends OPEN DOORS from the Eastern Daily Press and Drop-in sessions throughout and not for the faint hearted! Evening News’ popular feature City of Norwich School the day on writing your own University of East Anglia, Thu 6-Sun 16: 1000-1600 family history. Come and talk Norwich Research Park, ‘Weird Norfolk’. OPEN DAY to our Heritage Open Day Earlham Road, NR4 7TJ Eaton Road, NR4 6PP writer in residence about This iconic, thatch-clad building CRAFT CRAFT STORYTELLING Enjoy a tour of the school with researching and writing family is one of the greenest in our student guides and learn history. No experience or Europe and home to a vibrant WEIRD NORFOLK – LITTLE WEIRD NORFOLK – WITCH WEIRD FOLK TALES OF OLD more about the history of the advance preparation needed. community of students and LEGENDS: Keep your little STONE: Make a clay witch NORFOLK: Join yarnsmith, Dave building. Established in 1910, Approx. 45 mins. businesses. Its low-carbon legends entertained with our stone to hang by a door to Tonge, for a dip into some of the original school building Sat 8: 1000-1600 architecture makes use of activity sheet designed by protect your home, to see Norfolk’s weirdest and strangest is still in use today. Archive natural and local materials. world-renowned illustrator into the faerie realm or hang folk tales. From demon dogs photos, portraits and school TRAIL NEW! Pre-book tours are available, Gemma Correll to help near your bed to prevent bad and meddling sprites to magazines on display. NORWICH TALKING STATUES: see page 12 for details. younger visitors enjoy our dreams. Suitable for all ages. pitch-dark perilous pits and Weird Norfolk exhibition. All materials provided. flimflamming folk, the legends Sat 8: 1000-1500 Pick up your map and get on Thu 6 & Fri 7: 0900-1700 the trail! See main entry on page Thu 6-Sun 16: 1000-1600 Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000-1200 from this ancient county will 21 for details about the trail and keep audiences spellbound. City Station Uncovered The Greenhouse Gallery page 9 for other events taking Sat 8: 1200-1300 TOUR NEW! place at Dragon Hall that must EXHIBITION Weird Norfolk logo © Archant Train Statue, Barn Road be booked in advance. Trail 42-46 Bethel Street, NR2 1NR Roundabout, Marriott’s Way, maps available here and at THE LEGACY OF DOROTHY ALL NR2 4HJ The Forum. See separate entry JEWSON AND EVE BALFOUR: NEW See the old site of City Station, on page 21. Exhibition exploring the legacy EVENTS! now Train Wood. Led by railway Sat 8: 1000–1600 of Dorothy Jewson, first female TALKING heritage group, Friends of MP for Norwich, and Eve Balfour, the trail. Pass a Talking Statue, the statues. The statues will STATUES locate the nearby plaque to be talking for one year from Norwich City Station, learn The East Anglian founder of the Soil Association. about the site’s past and hear The exhibition and events reveal connect to your smartphone September and accompanied Islamic Centre TRAIL LAUNCH stories from when Train Wood the lives of these two pioneering and hey presto, receive a call by a wide range of activities OPEN DAY NEW! and Marriott’s Way were a women and seeks to inform and TALKING STATUES SWITCH ON! from writer and radical thinker including; an Arts Award for bustling railway. Approx. 1 hour. 72 Rose Lane, NR1 1PT inspire women of today. If statues could talk, what stories Thomas Browne, or from Peter young people, guided tours the Wild Boy, the feral child and talks. Find out more at MUSLIMS AND ISLAM IN would they tell? Come and Sat 8: 1330 Thu 6-Sat 8: 1100-1600, who made Norwich his home in NORWICH: Open day and find out! Join us at The Forum www.talkingstatues.co.uk Thu 13-Sat 15: 1100-1600 the 18th century. Maps can also displays about the history of for the official switch on of TRAIL MAP COLLECTION: be collected from The Writers’ Islam in Norfolk, the practices Norwich’s Talking Statues trail. From The Forum: Centre (see below for details). of Muslims’ day to day lives Sat 8: 1200-1300 Sat 8: 1200-1600, Sun 9: and the relationships between The Writers’ Centre has 1000-1600, Thu 13-Sun 16: different communities. TRAIL commissioned world-renowned, 1000-1600 local writers including Sarah Refreshments available. Statues across Norwich are From The Writers’ Centre Perry (The Essex Serpent) about to talk back! Come to at Dragon Hall, King St: Sun 9: 1000-1500 and Emma Healey (Elizabeth The Forum during the festival Sat 8: 1000-1600 is Missing) to give stories to to collect your map and get on

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Lazar House OPEN DAY 219 Sprowston Road, NR3 4HX Visit this 900 year old former leper hospital which was also used as an almshouse and more recently Norwich’s first branch library. Now run by The Assist Trust, a learning disabilities charity. Cream teas, books and a plant sale too! A pre-book HODs walk and talk is also available, see page 13 for details. NORFOLK & NORWICH Lazar House Sun 16: 1100-1500 Sewell House - the birth MILLENNIUM LIBRARY place of Anna Sewell Hungate Museum of Norwich L-R: © Rahil Ahmad; Emma Curran-Sebastian L-R: The Forum, Millennium Plain, NR2 1AW at the Bridewell Norfolk © Picture MUSEUM DISPLAY NEW! 2nd Air Division (USAAF) Early Years Library 8 Bridewell Alley, NR2 1AQ Hellesdon Station John Jarrold Print Museum DISABILITY PRIDE – INCREASING Memorial Library WORKSHOP NEW! The story of the city from TOUR NEW! MUSEUM REPRESENTATION IN NORFOLK FILM HERITAGE SUNDAY – THE medieval to modern day. Ten HERITAGE CENTRE: Discover Meeting at Community St James Mill, Whitefriars, THE ‘FRIENDLY INVASION’ EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF galleries over 2 floors packed how Norfolk Heritage Centre ON FILM – AMERICAN AIRMEN ANNA SEWELL: Celebrate Gardens, Hellesdon Road, NR3 1SH with interactive displays has been working to improve Costessey, NR6 5ES IN NORFOLK: A selection the life of Norfolk-born Anna A working printing museum, showing how Norwich became the representation of disability of films from the Memorial Sewell, author of the 1877 HELLESDON STATION with a fascinating collection a thriving city made wealthy and the experiences of disabled Library’s collection. Between children’s novel Black Beauty, UNCOVERED: Tour the old of printing machines from on wool, shoes and chocolate. people in their archives with two 1942 and 1945 there were with creative activities inspired site of Hellesdon Station led the 19th and 20th centuries Pre-book tours of the undercroft new projects. Event is on the around 50,000 USAAF by rarely-seen items from the by the railway heritage group, and other equipment relating also available, see page 14 ground floor. personnel stationed within and Norfolk Heritage Centre. Part of Friends of Norwich City Station. to typesetting, printing and for details. Sun 16: 1030-1630 around Norwich introducing the Disability Pride celebrations. Learn about the site’s past binding. Friendly volunteers will Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1000-1600 locals to peanut butter, For accompanied children and be transported back to be on hand to answer questions. WORKSHOP NEW! jitterbugging and Coca Cola. aged 4-11 years. Approx. when Marriott’s Way was a Thu 6-Sun 9: 1400-1600 Norfolk Family History Society NORFOLK’S EXTRAORDINARY Event is on the ground floor. 1 hour 15 mins. Event is on the bustling railway. WOMEN – YOUR STORIES: Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1030-1230 & ground floor. OPEN DAY Share information and Sat 15: 1330 Kett’s Heights 1430-1630, Fri 14 & Sat 15: Sun 16: 1430 70 St Giles Street, NR2 1LS photographs of extraordinary 1030-1230 & 1430-1630 TOUR Open day for the library which women in your family to ensure Hungate Vernon Castle Room, provides facilities to assist their stories are kept alive for DISPLAY NEW! EXHIBITION NEW! Meet at St Matthews Church, Norfolk Heritage Centre Telegraph Lane West, NR1 4JA visitors with family history future generations. Event is on WOMEN IN WWII: Images from Princes St, NR3 1AE the ground floor. the 2nd Air Division archive OPEN DOORS One of Norwich’s best-kept research. We’re celebrating highlighting the contribution Activities, trails and fun as part secrets providing a fine view our 50th anniversary. Come and Sat 8: 1030-1600 NORWICH TIME TRAVELLERS: made by British and American of the Paston Footprints 600 overlooking Norwich. From visit our Hall and find out how A chance to get together to DISPLAY NEW! women during WWII here in project. Hungate is a centre for here, Robert Kett and his 10,000 we help people research their share stories of Norwich’s past East Anglia – the Donut Girls, medieval art based in the church followers besieged the city in family history. NORFOLK’S VICTORIA CROSS over a cup of tea, explore some GI Brides, Women’s Army Air of St Peter, Hungate, on historic 1549. Discover the history of the Thu 6, Sat 8, Fri 14 & HEROES: This display by local of our heritage collections and Corps personnel, Land Army Elm Hill. site. Approx. 1 hour. Sun 16: 1000-1600 historian and author Neil Storey, contribute to our community charts the moving and dramatic Girls, American Red Cross archive of local tales. Event is on Thu 6-Sun 9: 1000-1600, Sat 8 & Sun 16: 1500 Thu 13-Sun 16: 1000-1600 stories of the eight Norfolk men workers and volunteers. the second floor. who were awarded our nation’s Thu 6 & Fri 7: 1000-1700, Sat 8: Fri 7: 1030-1200 highest award for gallantry 0900-1700, Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1000- during WWI. 1700, Sat 15: 0900-1700 Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1000-1900, Sat 15: 0900-1700, Sun 16: 1030-1630

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Norfolk Record Office Norwich School Chapel DISPLAY NEW! OPEN DOORS Old Meeting House The Archive Centre, 69-71A The Close, NR1 4DD Congregational Martineau Lane, NR1 2DQ A rare chance to see inside STRANGE AND UNUSUAL the School Chapel. Originally Church ITEMS WITHIN THE ARCHIVES: the Chantry Chapel of St John Old Meeting House Yard, Have a look at some strange and the Evangelist, it was founded Colegate, NR3 1BW unusual items found in Norfolk’s in 1316, dissolved in 1547 archives, including Lord Nelson’s and is now the Chapel of OPEN DOORS hair, mustard seeds, a witch’s Norwich School. One of the oldest surviving spell and even the bone pen Sat 8: 1000-1600 separatist chapels in the UK that inspired Rider Haggard to open for visitors, built in 1693 write King Solomon’s Mines. Norwich Puppet Theatre Norwich Synagogue and of Dutch influence. Fri 14: 1200-1400 Enjoy the Victorian features OPEN DOORS Old Meeting House and organ music. Norwich Castle Museum Matron Edith Cavell 3A Earlham Road, NR2 3RA Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 16: and Art Gallery Hurst ©Paul and puppet Jack Learn about the Jewish religion 0945-1630 MUSEUM and its customs, history and traditions and meet members CONCERT Castle Hill, NR1 3JU Norwich Cathedral Norwich Puppet Theatre of the local Jewish community. Princes Street United Concert of light choral music Originally a royal palace built Hear talks given during the Reformed Church in this beautiful chapel with The Close, NR1 4DH OPEN DAY exceptional acoustics. by 900 years ago day and view displays about OPEN DOORS and soon to undergo a major TOUR NEW! St James, Whitefriars, NR3 1TN the history of Jewish people Approx. 1 hour. redevelopment. Discover what MEET MATRON EDITH CAVELL: Delve into the unique in Norwich. Princes Street, NR3 1AZ Thu 13: 1930 life was like in the Castle when Storytime, singing and craft combination of a medieval Sun 16: 1000-1600 Come and see the Victorian King Henry I visited in 1121. Drop- workshop for families with WWI church and a theatre dedicated ornate ceiling and ironwork PERFORMANCE in talks and demonstrations on Matron Edith Cavell and her to puppetry. Join us for a in the gallery of this award- History talk and demonstration arms, armour and Castle life. puppet dog Jack. Go on a journey drop-in family puppet making Octagon Chapel winning renovated church. of our organ by restorer Sat 15: 1000-1700 with Edith Cavell, then make workshop as part of our opening OPEN DOORS Visitors can see how the old John Plunkett. Various something to take home with you. days. Pre-book tours are also Colegate, NR3 1BN and new parts of the building professional organists will be TALK NEW! available, see page 16 for details. complement each other to form playing each day. Sat 8: 1100 & 1400 Built in 1756, the Chapel is a a wonderful space. NORWICH CASTLE – GATEWAY Sat 8: 1000-1600, place of worship as well as a Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13 & Fri 14: TOUR NEW! TO MEDIEVAL ENGLAND – Sun 9: 1200-1600 venue for concerts and other Thu 6: 1000-1600, Fri 7: 1000-1600 0945-1630, Sat 15: 0945-1500, Sun 16: 0945-1630 ACCESS FOR ALL: Norwich MONKS, MAIDS AND MORE! events. Learn more about with organ playing 1000-1200, Castle Keep is soon to undergo Meet Mistress Martha the Norwich Quaker the Chapel’s architecture and Sat 8: 0900-1700 with organ playing 1100-1200, Brundall Singers PERFORMANCE a major redevelopment. Join monastery maid. Take a story Meeting House history and the people who have one of our Castle Keep Project tour with her around the 1200-1245 and 1315-1400, SING ON SATURDAY: OPEN DOORS worshipped within its walls. Sun 9: 1200-1600 Team to hear how all forms Cathedral. Dress as a monk and We will be singing popular Thu 13: 1400-1600, Fri 14 & Sat 15: of access are integral to the find out what they got up to here Upper Goat Lane, NR2 1EW traditional hymns, each with 1000-1600, Sun 16: 1200-1600 a short introduction on how planning process. Part of the 900 years ago. Approx. 1 hour. Grade II listed neoclassical Pull’s Ferry Watergate Room it came to be written. The Disability Pride celebrations. building built in 1826 with OPEN DOORS Sat 8: 1300 & 1500 music will be played on one of connections to Joseph Gurney Plantation Garden Sat 15: 1400 The Watergate Room, the oldest organs in Norwich. TOUR NEW! and his sister Elizabeth Fry OPEN DAY The Close, NR1 4DZ Approx. 1 hour. NORWICH CATHEDRAL – both well-known social 4 Earlham Road, NR2 3DB reformers. Designed by architect Visit this well-known late Sat 15: 1500 LIBRARY CONSERVATION IN Come and visit the Plantation medieval building, now the Come and see our John Patience, it is still used ACTION: Garden with refreshments and headquarters of Girl Guiding TALK historic book cleaning project in by more than 50 community music throughout the day. in Norwich and enjoy views THE BARBAROUS MURDER action. Most people don’t think groups and for Quaker worship. Three acre site including Gothic of the Cathedral Close and OF A DISSENTING WEAVER: of vacuum cleaning as one of Sat 8: 1000-1700 fountain, Italianate terrace and River Wensum. See a display Talk by Stuart McLaren of the essentials of library work but woodland walkways. A haven of historic pictures and The Magdalen Walks Group. it’s a vital part of caring for our of peace and tranquillity and a information about Pull’s Ferry. The extraordinary history of historic collections. glimpse into a bygone age. Refreshments available. Mr Bryant Lewis, found Thu 6: 1400-1530 Sun 9: 1000-1600 Thu 6-Sun 9: 1100-1700, murdered on Thetford Heath See page 15 for details of Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1100-1700 in 1698. Approx. 1 hour. pre-book events at the Cathedral. Fri 14: 1930

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St Helen’s Church – St Mark’s Church Lakenham St Mary Coslany Church The Great Hospital OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS Bishopgate, NR1 4EL Hall Road, NR1 3HL St Marys Plain, NR3 3AF CONCERT NEW! Victorian church with early One of Norwich’s oldest Concert of light, tuneful music 20th-century artwork – a medieval churches, cared for by on the theme of ‘Women in striking rood screen and the Norwich Historic Churches Music and Song’ given by Anne sculpted Stations of the Cross. Trust and one of only three to May (Contralto) and David Featuring an exhibition to mark have a round tower. Highlights Berwick (piano and organ). Next the end of WWI. See recently include a decorative chancel to the church is perhaps the completed repair work to the roof and a 16th-century pictorial St Etheldreda’s Church finest small cloister in England. tower buttresses and gallery. memorial engraved in the Approx. 1 hour. Fri 7: 1000-1600, Sat 8: 0900-1700, chancel wall. Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1000-1600 Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1000-1600 St Etheldreda’s Church Sun 9: 1500 St Giles-on-the-Hill OPEN DOORS CONCERT NEW! St Martin At Palace Centre St Mary’s Works King Street, NR1 1QH Organ recital of light classical The Norwich Historic Churches OPEN DOORS St Etheldreda’s Church found a music by David Berwick, an Trust, 15 St Martin At Palace St Marys Plain, NR3 3AF St Andrew’s Church new life in 1981 when it opened associate organist at this church. Plain, NR3 1RW as an artists’ studios complex. Programme to feature some The two floors of the old Sexton St Andrew’s Church, Eaton St Augustine’s Church Restored in the Victorian period, items with local connections. OPEN DOORS and Son factory will be open OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS it still has medieval features. The characterful organ was built Visitor Centre and home to (currently being used as arts by Mark Noble of Norwich in the Centre for Parish Church venue The Shoe Factory Social 41 Church Lane, St Augustines Street, NR3 3BY Explore the building and meet the artists. 1850. Approx. 1 hour. Studies. Find out about walking Club). A small exhibition on the Eaton, NR4 6NW Rare chance to see inside the shoe industry in this part of Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1000-1700 Sun 16: 1500 tours for all ages, fun runs and Thirteenth-century thatched medieval brick church of St church and churchyard tours. Norwich will be on display. church with a 15th-century Augustine’s – the only one of its Thu 6-Sun 9: 1000-1600, Fri 14-Sun 16: 1100-1600 perpendicular styled tower. kind in Norwich. Owned by the St George Tombland St John de Sepulchre Thu 13-Sun 16: 1000-1600 There are medieval paintings Churches Conservation Trust, it OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS (c.1370) in the re-ordered church sits in a large churchyard next CRAFT NEW! St Matthew’s Church Princes Street, NR3 1AE Ber Street/Finkelgate, NR1 3HB and an award-winning modern to a long row of half-timbered Telegraph Lane West, A re-purposed medieval church FLINTS AT ST MARTIN’S: extension. See exhibitions about cottages. Includes a collection Thirteenth-century church in Hands-on children’s crafts with NR1 4JA which is now in the care of the aspects of the church and the of WWI commemorations. regular use. Features stained a medieval theme. Clay, paints, Norwich Historic Churches Trust TALK NEW! village of Eaton ‘Then and Now’. glass from the 16th to the 19th badge making, and papier- Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1100-1600 and is being prepared for a new THE HISTORY OF KETT’S century as well as monuments, mâché. Thu 6: 1100-1700, Fri 7 & Sat 8: use. It has a stunning medieval HEIGHTS AND THE WORK 0930-1700, Sun 9: 1200-1700, chancel roof angels and one City trails also available. St Catherine’s Church of the city dragons! See an font and a late Victorian reredo OF THE FRIENDS: This talk Thu 13: 1100-1700, Fri 14 & Sat 15: Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1100-1600 covers how the site’s fortunes 0930-1700, Sun 16: 1200-1700 OPEN DOORS ombrellino and monstrance by J. Oldrid. have waxed and waned and on display. Sat 8: 1000-1600 PERFORMANCE 298 Aylsham Road, NR3 2RJ how it’s become a much loved St Andrew’s Church, Norwich This Grade II listed church Thu 6: 1000-1200, Thu 13 & Fri 14: SHAKESPEARE AT ST community space thanks 1000-1600, Sat 15: 1000-1700, is an architectural fusion of St Margaret’s Church MARTIN’S: Members of Ye OPEN DOORS Sun 16: 1230-1600 to enthusiastic volunteers. Romanesque and modern styles EXHIBITION Palace Plaiers will meander Followed by optional tour. St Andrews St, NR2 1AQ through the audience enacting built in the 1930s as part of St Benedicts Street, NR2 4AQ Approx. 40 mins. Visit this fine late medieval the Mile Cross estate. Contains St Giles-on-the-Hill some of Shakespeare’s finest Sat 8 & Sun 16: 1400 church with memorials reflecting carved stone reredos and six OPEN DOORS THE NORWICH PRINT FAIR: works from plays such as: the history of church and nation. bells – the oldest made between The 23rd annual Norwich As You Like It, A Winter’s Tale TALK Note especially the Dance of 41-45 St Giles Street, NR2 1AB Print Fair, showcasing some 1425 and 1513. and Othello. TALK ON THORPE HAMLET Death window (believed to be See the tallest of the city’s of the best contemporary Sun 9 & Sun 16: 1400 & 1500 IN WWI: Thorpe Hamlet Sat 8: 0930-1530 church towers, the fine printmakers from across Norfolk the only one in the UK) and History Group will be giving an hammerbeam roof with carved and Suffolk in the setting of the elaborate tomb of Sir John illustrated talk about how the angels and the five mace stands the beautiful and historic and Martha Suckling using five war affected life and people with their coats of arms. Harvest St Margaret’s Church. languages. in this part of Norwich and Festival Sung Mass at 1030 on Sat 8: 1000-1630, drop-in tour 1430, Thu 6-Sat 8: 1000-1700, how it has subsequently been Sunday 16th September. Sun 9: 1200-1400, Thu 13: 1000- Sun 9: 1100-1600, commemorated. Approx. 45 1630, drop-in tour 1430, Fri 14: Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1000-1600, Sat 15: Thu 13-Sat 15: 1000-1700 mins. 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St Michael’s and St Saviour Church All Angels Ruin OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS Magdalen Street, NR3 1AA Church, Bowthorpe St Saviour’s Church is a small Hall Road, Bowthorpe, NR5 9AA church with a 14th and 15th- A variety of trails in and around century nave, chancel and the ruin, to suit all ages and shortened tower. The south abilities. Archive material and porch was rebuilt in 1723 displays showing the history and tower lowered in a large of the ruin along with news of restoration between 1852 and possible future developments 1853. The chancel was restored with an ideas board for in 1923. suggestions. Sat 15: 1030-1530 Sat 8: 1000-1600 St Stephen’s Church St Peter Mancroft bells The Salvation Army Surrey House - Marble Hall St Michael-at-Plea Church: LEARNING NEW! Stonemason’s Lodge Revelation Christian

Resource Centre & Café 2 Rampant Horse St, NR2 1QY Baldwin © Richard OPEN DOORS ARTS AWARD DISCOVER IN A DAY: Family art activities The South Asia Collection The Stonemasons’ Guild Strangers’ Hall Museum Surrey House – Marble Hall Redwell Street, NR2 4SN exploring the interior of this OPEN DOORS PROCESSION MUSEUM OPEN DOORS Medieval church open to visitors 14th-century church. Discover of any faith or none. View different art forms, find out The Old Skating Rink Gallery, Meet outside the west front of 4 Charing Cross, NR2 4AL 8 Surrey St, NR1 3NG the original font and chancel about an artist and complete an 34-36 Bethel Street, NR2 1NR Norwich Cathedral, Cathedral Strangers’ Hall is an historic An opportunity to visit the memorials and take part in Arts Award Discover. Children’s A unique collection of objects Close, NR1 4EH house museum. Journey historic home of Aviva, a a competition to track down University Passport accredited and artworks from across South With drum beating and banners around this home of former spectacular piece of Edwardian unusual photographic views of activity. Age 6+. Asia, housed in a restored held high, the Guild of St wealthy merchants and feel architecture designed by Norwich. Book tokens to be won. Sat 15: 1000-1600, Victorian roller skating rink. Stephen and St George will be like you’re travelling through . Part of the Thu 6-Sat 8: 0900-1700, Sun 16: 1400-1700 Includes textiles, metalwork and processing through Norwich. time. Includes a garden, 14th- Norwich 12 set of iconic Sun 9: 1000-1530, Thu 13-Sat 15: wood-carved furniture from Passing London St, Norwich century undercroft and the buildings. The building boasts India, Pakistan, Burma, northern Castle, then Gentleman’s Walk Great Hall. Friday only: meet a a grand entrance hall decked 0900-1700, Sun 16: 1000-1530 The Salvation Army, Thailand and Indonesia. and around The Guildhall. costumed character. out in marble. Norwich Citadel St Peter Mancroft Thu 6-Sat 8: 0930-1700, Finishes by the river behind Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1000-1600, Thu 6: 0900-1700 Ringing Chamber 34 St Giles Street, NR2 1LL Thu 13-Sat 15: 0930-1700 Elm Hill for a short oration. Sun 16: 1300-1630 Fri 7: 12:00-12:45 OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS NEW! TALK Trinity United Reformed The Strangers Club Church Millennium Plain, NR2 1QZ Come and visit this Victorian Talk on the Collection and building by Gilbert Scott and The Stonemasons’ Lodge Come and see the new Mancroft current research projects OPEN DOORS OPEN DOORS see amazing documents and Ringing Discovery Centre being undertaken in India by OPEN DOORS 22-24 Elm Hill, NR3 1HG 1 Unthank Road, NR2 2PA artefacts from our earliest days celebrating the science and Dr Ben Cartwright. St Clement’s Church, in Norwich. This 16th-century building, home Grade II listed and built art of change-ringing and St Fri 7 & Fri 14: 1100 Colegate, NR3 1HZ to a private members club and in 1956, this church is an Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1000-1600 Peter Mancroft’s important THE LIFE OF A STONEMASONS’ not normally open to the public, outstanding example of role in that history. Try your TOUR TALK NEW! GUILD: The Lodge will be open was saved from demolition as post-war architectural design hand at ringing a bell with our Tours of the building and its part of the Elm Hill restoration by Sir Bernard Feilden. THE EXTRAORDINARY to visitors with a chance to meet computer-simulated teams of history dating from the late 19th of the 1920s. Many ‘Strangers’ Tours are available. PIONEERING WOMEN apprentices and Guild members ringers, allowing you to ring with century by Dr Philip Millward. have been entertained on this OF THE SALVATION ARMY and learn about the ancient craft Fri 7: 1000-1200, a perfect team! Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1100 & 1430 site over the years. Approx. 30 mins. of stonemasonry. Sat 8: 0900-1700, Thu 6 & Fri 7: 1400-1600, Sun 16: 1000-1600 Sun 9: 1000-1200 Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1130 Thu 6 & Sat 8: 1000-1600, Sat 8: 1000-1200 & 1400-1600, Sun 9: 1100-1600, Sun 9: 1130-1300, Thu 13 & Fri 14: TALK Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1000-1600, 1400-1600, Sat 15: 1000-1200 & Sun 16: 1100-1600 1400-1600, Sun 16: 1130-1300 WOMEN BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN THE SALVATION ARMY Approx. 30 mins. Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1400

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Welcome to HODs in Thetford King’s House Thetford Grammar School Thetford Town Council, OPEN DOORS King Street, IP24 2AT Ancient House www.thetfordtowncouncil.gov.uk 24 Bridge Street, IP24 3AF Museum Thetford Town Council @ThetfordCouncil DISPLAY NEW! Sixteenth-century schoolroom 21 White Hart Street, EXPLORING THETFORD’S built on the site of a 14th- IP24 1AD Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN: century Dominican Friary detailed event information on all of these listings. Find out about Thetford’s once occupied by a Norman EXHIBITION NEW! female civic pioneers and their Cathedral. Ruins of the Friary DULEEP SINGH EXHIBITION: legacy in this centenary year are visible and an exhibition Find out about the museum’s of the Act that granted some about the school’s most famous connections with the last pre-book events women the right to vote. pupil will be on view. Maharajah of the Punjab including a special display of Former Atomic Lynford Hall Sat 8: 1000-1500 Sat 8: 1000-1300 the Casualty of War portrait by Weapons Bunker Tours TOUR DISPLAY Thetford’s Great the Singh Twins from National TOUR Lynford Hall has a rich history Lynford Hall REGALIA DISPLAY: Thetford Information Centre Museums Scotland. Visit a scheduled monument to having been host to a number has 800 years of mayoralty Sat 8: 1000-1700 the Cold War, where the atom OPEN DOORS of owners, guests and uses over Thetford Library and the regalia will be exhibited bombs Blue Danube and Red the years, including film sets for upstairs in the council chamber, 20 King Street, IP24 2AP EXHIBITION NEW! Beard were maintained. Includes the TV series Dad’s Army and TOUR along with other civic items Thetford had its own mint in MILLENNIA OF MAKING: a voluntary climb up a 25ft ’Allo ’Allo. The hotel is free to A chance to view both the with new items not previously the 10th century and its coins A fascinating collection of watchtower! Approx. 3 hours. explore but the tour must be Duleep Singh and Thomas Paine displayed. have been found as far afield objects made from textiles, pre-booked. Collections and other materials. Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1030-1700; Tours Sat 8: 1000-1500 as Scandinavia. See how pottery, stone, metal and 1030 & 1430, Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1030- Sun 16: 1030-1700; Tours 1100, Max. two people per tour. money was made in medieval wood. All highlight the 1700; Tours 1030 & 1430 1200, 1400 & 1500 Sat 8: 0900-1300 times and make your own craftsmanship used from Riversdale Centre PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: (first tour 0915, last tour 1215) for a small charge. ancient to modern times. EXHIBITION 01842 753149 or email 01842 878351 or email PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: NEW! Sat 15: 1030-1400 Sat 8: 1000-1700 [email protected] [email protected] 01842 752048 Tanner Street, IP24 2BQ EXHIBITION NEW! A TIME OF RIGHTS: A suffrage Thetford Methodist Church exhibition marking 100 years PRIDE OF THE PEOPLE: DISPLAY NEW! drop-in events since The Representation of the HELPING HISTORY OUT People Act. Inspired by the likes Tanner Street, IP24 2BQ OF THE CLOSET: Exhibition British Trust for Ornithology Charles Burrell Museum Dad’s Army Museum launch. Our Teenage History of Thomas Paine and Nelson THETFORD 18-18: A TOWN Club researched stories and OPEN DOORS MUSEUM MUSEUM Mandela, the exhibition explores REMEMBERS: An emotive information about queer The Nunnery, IP24 2PU Minstergate, IP24 1BN The Old Fire Station, Thetford human rights issues of today. installation of seated perspex The Riversdale Centre is run by figures representing the people and queer experience Discover the architecture and A home to steam engines, Guildhall, Cage Lane, IP24 1DS the Keystone Development Trust. Thetford fallen of WWI. Part of in Thetford in the past. Benedictine history of the but also a munitions factory The museum tells the story the There But Not There project. The exhibition will tell their 12th-century BTO buildings in WWI staffed by women. of this classic television Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000-1500 stories through objects, and find out about the work Explore their history and programme, its links with Sat 8: 1000-1400 images and text. of the Trust. The gardens and experience the steam! Thetford, where the location St Cuthbert’s Church Sat 15: 1000-1700 the adjoining Nunnery Lakes shots were filmed and the Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000-1500 DISPLAY NEW! Thomas Paine Hotel Reserve are a haven to wildlife. history of the Home Guard. TRAIL NEW! Well Street, IP24 2AN DISPLAY Sat 15: 1000-1300; Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000-1600 MOVING STORIES: Join The Coffee Mill Masonic Lodge 33 White Hart Street, IP24 1AA Tours 1030 & 1130 THERE BUT NOT THERE: An costumed characters to OPEN DOORS emotive installation of seated An insight to the Rights of Man The Guildhall discover the stories of people Charles Burrell Centre The Coffee Mill, perspex figures representing the author Thomas Paine. Discover who made Thetford their Bridges Walk, IP24 2AG TALK | OPEN DOORS NEW! Thetford fallen of WWI. Part of what the famous brother home, including; Anglo-Saxon EXHIBITION NEW! the There But Not There project. of Thetford fought for. See The current building dates from Market Place, IP24 2DT Coiners, the first black mayor Musical recitals at various times interesting memorabilia and Staniforth Road, IP24 3LH the 19th century and ceased to TALES FROM THE TRENCHES: of Britain and Londoners from throughout the day. information on his life and times. WWI EXHIBITION AND grind corn in the 1920s. It was Stories from the WWI trenches 1960. Plus a family trail. MEMORABILIA: Features work then used as a coffee mill before and the grim realities of that Sat 15: 1000-1600 Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 16: Sat 8: 1000-1700 by children from The Polish being converted to a Masonic time told by retired Army soldier 1000-1400 Language School and members Lodge in the 1960s. and RAF Regiment Officer Peter of The Art Studio run by Face to Sat 15: 1000-1500 Hawtin. Approx. 25 mins. Face Educational Trust. Sat 15: 1030, 1200 & 1330 Sat 15: 0900-1400 Guildhall open 1000-1700

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All Saints Church WALK Girlguiding Norfolk Archive Welcome to HODs in Broadland Hemblington Visit the site of RAF Oulton, Resource Centre (ARC) www.visitbroadland.co.uk DISPLAY a bomber base created on the DISPLAY Blickling estate in 1939 whose Church Lane, In the grounds of Patteson operations were instrumental @VisitBroadland Hemblington, NR13 4EF Lodge, 14 Gt. Hautbois Road, to winning WWII. The walk Coltishall, NR12 7JN A display looking at the lives leaves from Malt House Farm, Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more detailed event information on all of these listings. and stories of local young men Oulton Street. An interactive display about who fought in WWI. some of the extraordinary Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1100-1230 Thu 6-Sat 8: 0900-1700, women who have made a Sun 9: 1100-1700, Thu 13-Sat 15: difference to the lives of girls pre-book events 0900-1700, Sun 16: 1100-1700 Blofield Church and young women in Girlguiding Church Road, over the past 100 years in Catton Place Aylsham Parish Church: Blofield, NR13 4NA Norfolk. TOUR St Michael & All Angels DISPLAY NEW! There will also be a chance Located on the outskirts of OPEN DOORS to explore and enjoy some Come and Norwich, enjoy a brief history LIVES OF SERVICE: of the treasures we have The Market Place, find out about the 32 men from of this Grade II* listed house uncovered since we brought Aylsham, NR11 6EH Blofield who lost their lives in and guided tour by the owners. our archive collection to its WWI as we celebrate their lives Event is not suitable for people This magnificent Parish Church new home two years ago. and acknowledge the sacrifices with mobility issues or children dates back to the 1300s. This In true Guiding tradition, made for their country. under 16 years. Approx. 1 hour. year we are commemorating coffee, tea and homemade Sat 15: 1130, 1400 & 1600 Catton Place the bicentenary of the death Sat 8: 1000-1600 cakes will be available! of Humphry Repton, probably PRE-BOOK ONLINE: Blickling Estate Britain’s finest landscape DISPLAY NEW! Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1000-1600 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods gardener. A celebration of the achievements Textile Conservation Studio Thorpe Lodge of Margaret Harker, an The Hindu Temple Former RAF Coltishall Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 13: TOUR TOUR 0900-1600 outstanding early 20th-century OPEN DAY TOUR A rare opportunity to see Thorpe Lodge acts as the offices local woman. Learn how she was commandant of a WWI The Temple (VCSEA), Celebrate the centenary year important and unique historic of Broadland Council and is a Blickling Estate New Road, Tunstall, NR13 3QE of the Royal Air Force by textiles. The National Trust historic Georgian building that hospital here. Blickling, NR11 6NF Join us for a prayer service exploring former RAF Coltishall Textile Conservation Studio was once the home of several Sat 8: 1000-1600 followed by devotional singing on a guided coach tour. See the is offering tours to see prominent families. Join us for a OPEN DAY and a communal authentic WWII and Cold War airfield and conservation work in progress. talk and tour, approx. 1 hour. Visit Blickling Hall and its Catton Park Indian lunch. A day to explore its buildings, heritage displays Approx. 90 mins. Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1400-1500 magnificent garden and see the Hindu way of living. and more. Approx. 2 hours. OPEN DAY NEW! Sat 8: 1000, 1130, 1400 & 1530 PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: something very different this Oak Lane, Old Catton, NR6 7DB Sun 9: 1200-1600 Thu 6 & Fri 7: 0930, 1215 & 1430 PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Nick Williams on 01603 438766 year. Inspired by this special PRE-BOOK ONLINE: 01263 735878 or email or email [email protected] place and in response to SHARING REPTON: Multi- www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods [email protected] threats to our library, award- cultural celebration of Humphry Oulton Chapel winning theatre company Les Repton’s first commissioned OPEN DAY NEW! park. Something for everyone – Enfants Terribles has created an Hall Road, Oulton, NR11 6NU immersive art installation using music, food, arts performance, A stunning 18th-century Grade II sound and theatrical design. bushcraft and the chance to paint the Repton landscape. listed chapel hidden in the Thu 6: 1000-1730 (last entry Norfolk countryside. An example Sun 16: 1100-1600 to house 1600) of non-conformist architecture WALK with many original features intact. Bring a picnic and enjoy Join us for a special behind the DID YOU KNOW? the peaceful atmosphere. scenes walk into the dappled shade of Hercules Wood, leaving 2018 is the bicentenary of Sat 8: 1000-1600, Sun 9: 1100- from the 4 acre field behind the death of landscape 1500, Sat 15: 1000-1600, Sun 16: Blickling’s main car park. Home gardener Humphry Repton 1100-1500 to wildflowers and the former who is buried at Aylsham site of the temple that gave the Parish Church. woodland its name. Visit www.norfolk. Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1100-1230 humphryrepton.org.uk for more info.

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Elizabethan House Museum Welcome to HODs in Great Yarmouth MUSEUM www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/heritageopendays 4 South Quay, NR30 2QH VisitGreaterYarmouth A 16th-century quayside merchant’s home showing life from Elizabethan to Victorian Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more detailed event information on all of these listings. times. This house also contains interesting collections from Norfolk Museums Service and is famous for its connections pre-book events drop-in events to Cromwell. Thu 6, Fri 7, Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1000-1600 Caister Lifeboat Centre Tolhouse Gaol Burgh Castle Heritage Guided Walk – Burgh Castle Medieval Town Wall WALK NEW! TOUR The Fishermen’s Hospital Old Meeting St George’s Theatre WALK WALK WITH INTENT AT BURGH Butt Lane, Burgh Castle, OPEN DOORS Unitarian Church PERFORMANCE NEW! Walk England’s second most CASTLE ROMAN FORT: Walk NR31 9QB OPEN DOORS in the company of members complete medieval town wall Great Yarmouth Market Place, King Street, NR30 2PG of Burgh Castle Almanac, an with trained guides and find out Discover the fascinating past NR30 1ND Yarmouth Way, NR30 2SW A tour of this fine example archaeology and mental health why and how it was built. of one of the best preserved Built in 1702 by the corporation Learn about the history of this of baroque architecture. This Roman monuments in Britain project for people who live in Sun 16: 1400 of Great Yarmouth for old or dissenting church in Great Grade I building is now a fully Great Yarmouth and Waveney. with one of our volunteer tour “decayed” fishermen. Talks on Yarmouth. Discover the historically operational theatre. Learn PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: guides. Approx. 45 mins. Meet This walk is an opportunity Great Yarmouth TIC on its history will be made twice famous men and women who the history and see a special to meet local people who your guide at the interpretation a day with an option to walk worshipped here and gain an performance celebrating the 01493 846346 or email shelter near the main car park. are using the site to explore [email protected] around the courtyard and see insight into the beliefs and lives of extraordinary women. history, nature and creativity to Sun 9: 1330 & 1430 inside a room. philosophy of the church. Approx. 45 mins. create an Almanac of the fort Sat 8, Sun 9, Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15: Thu 6 & Fri 7: 1000-1600, Sat 8: Sat 8: 1100, 1200, 1300 & 1400 Heritage Guided Walk – throughout the seasons. Caister Volunteer Lifeboat 1000-1600, Talks at 1100 & 1400 0900-1600, Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1100- Rows, Fishwives and Red Service Ltd Heritage Centre 1400, Sat 15: 0900-1600 Fri 14: 1100-1300 Herrings Time & Tide Museum PRE-BOOK ONLINE: TOUR Great Yarmouth Medieval WALK MUSEUM www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods Town Wall Project Quaker Meeting House The Great Yarmouth Rows are The Lifeboat Station, Tan Lane, Blackfriars Road, NR30 3BX WORKSHOP OPEN DOORS full of strange tales. This tour Caister-on-Sea, NR30 5DJ Great Yarmouth Library Housed in a converted Victorian tells stories of the wealthy Visit the Heritage Centre Ferrier’s Road, NR30 1DL Howard Street South, NR30 1LN herring curing works, Time TOUR merchants who lived at one detailing the history of this See first-hand the skilful work A Quaker Meeting House in a and Tide Museum allows you A unique opportunity to go end and the bars and brothels unique lifeboat station and see being carried out by Norfolk walled garden which was once to discover the history and underground and take part in a at the other! the fastest all-weather lifeboat Conservation to preserve the burial ground. Includes an heritage of Great Yarmouth, guided tour of Great Yarmouth Thu 13: 1400 in the country. Includes 2 boat Great Yarmouth’s town wall, opportunity to see the remains from the Ice Age to the sheds, 3 lifeboats, cinema, Library basement led by a local PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: the second most complete of a 14th-century cell beneath present day. expert. Approx. 45 mins. games and audio. this building. Great Yarmouth TIC on in the country. Have a go at Sun 9: 1000-1630 Sat 8: 1100 & Thu 13: 1400 01493 846346 or email Thu 6 & Sun 9: 1100 & 1430 conservation with guidance Sat 8 & Sat 15: 1000-1600 [email protected] from on-site experts. PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Tolhouse Gaol Great Yarmouth Library on East Anglian Practical Sat 8: 0900-1600, Sun 9: Royal Naval Hospital 01493 844551 or email Classics Club 0900-1400, Sat 15: 0900-1600, MUSEUM [email protected] Sun 16: 0900-1400 TOUR DISPLAY Tolhouse Street, NR30 2SH Queens Road, NR30 3JU Uncover the history of this Joyland Diner, Masonic Royal Assembly Built in 1811, this former Navy Marine Parade, NR30 2EH 12th-century medieval Rooms hospital was originally built for merchant’s house, that was A selection of historic and TOUR Nelson’s men. Come and learn transformed into one of the classic vehicles ranging from of its fascinating history as a town’s most important civic Albert Square, NR30 3JH pre-war, through post-war, to hospital, naval headquarters buildings and one of the oldest recent classics. Sports cars will Originally designed as assembly and residential apartments. prisons in the country. also be on view. and reading rooms by the Royal Includes tours of the original Norfolk Militia, this fascinating Thu 6, Fri 7, Sat 8 & Sun 9: BOOK YOUR Sun 9 & Sun 16: 1000-1600 Chapel and Nightingale ward. 1000-1600 building has been extensively Approx. 20 mins. TICKETS FROM refurbished by the Freemasons. Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15 & Sun 16: MON 23 JULY! Thu 8-Sun 11: 1100, 1200, 1400 & 1500 1100-1500

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Edwardian Wherry Yacht Welcome to HODs in North Norfolk OPEN DOORS www.visitnorthnorfolk.com The Museum of the Broads, visitnorthnorfolk @vstnorthnorfolk The Staithe, Stalham, NR12 9DA visitnorthnorfolk #NorthNorfolkNaturally Step aboard a century-old wherry yacht, to discover how Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more detailed event information on all of these listings. wealthy Edwardians spent their leisure time sailing on the Broads over a hundred years ago. pre-book events drop-in events Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1000-1630

Felmingham Old Station Congregational Church Felbrigg Hall, Cromer Signal Box Gardens and Estate Wherry Hathor

TOUR NEW! OPEN DOORS © Rahil Ahmad OPEN DOORS NEW! A rare chance to see inside this 18A Cromer Road, North National Trust, Felbrigg Hall, abandoned station building, Walsham, NR28 0HD Felbrigg, NR11 8PR Horsey Windpump Lessingham All Saints which has remained much the Erected in 1856 this church Parish Church Explore one of the most elegant OPEN DOORS way it was inside when the line boasts many interesting features country houses in East Anglia. OPEN DOORS NEW! closed in 1959. The old railway including knapped flint walls, Horsey, Great Yarmouth, Inside the Hall, see stained glass line and butterfly reserve are a clock built by local clock NR29 4EE Lessingham, NR12 0SG windows, nodding mandarins free to explore but tours of the maker G. Juler and a lighted See conservation in action as The 14th-century Grade II in the Chinese bedroom and station must be pre-booked. stained glass window of the we prepare Horsey Windpump’s listed thatched church of Queen Mary’s teapot. Outside, Tour approx. 30 mins. Good Shepherd from Bradfield sails for turning for the first time Lessingham All Saints will enjoy the decorative and Thu 6 & Fri 7: 1100-1500 Congregational Church. in 75 years. Discover her eventful be open to visitors and is a productive walled garden, the PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Sat 8: 1000-1700 story and speak to the team short walk from the Village Cromer Museum (Norfolk Museums Service) Museums Service) Museum (Norfolk Cromer rolling landscape park with a Mark Webster on 07843 069567 or involved with her restoration. Hall by a footpath. This email [email protected] lake, 520 acres of woods and event is supported by the Cromer Museum waymarked trails. Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 16: Olive Edis 1000-1630 Norfolk Archives and Heritage Spark of Light, MUSEUM NEW! Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1200-1700 Development Foundation. (last entry to the Hall is at 1600) Potter Heigham Rear of 7-9 East Cottage, Ingham Holy Trinity Church Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1000-1600 Cromer Museum TOUR Tucker Street, NR27 9HB Hathor Pleasure Wherry Mill Road, Ingham, NR12 9AB TALK NEW! Climb aboard the oldest hire Browse around our galleries and Lessingham Village Hall explore our amazing collection OPEN DOORS EXHIBITION THE LIFE OF OLIVE EDIS: cruiser afloat. Learn about her NEW! School Road, As part of the Extraordinary colourful history and recent of fossils including the famous How Hill Trust, , An exhibition on recent Lessingham, NR12 0DJ renovation from our skipper and West Runton mammoth. Step How Hill Road, Ludham, renovations to the church with Women theme we are EXHIBITION NEW! celebrating our favourite boat builder and enjoy a short inside a Victorian fisherman’s NR29 5PG a tour of the ruins of the former cottage and imagine what life An exhibition on research photographer Olive Edis. trip along the river. River trips Step aboard Hathor, a famous Priory, the 13th-century Priory was like in the 19th century. into parishioners’ wills held Explore her photographs and are approx. 20 mins and must Norfolk Pleasure Wherry, church and the remarkable by the Norfolk Record Office. hear a talk about her life by be pre-booked. Thu 13: 1000-1600 built in 1905, to learn about Crusader monuments it They provide vital links to curator Alistair Murphy. her Egyptian-themed interior contains. This event is supported Thu 6-Sat 8 1000-1600 understanding the origins of Approx. 1 hour. (river trips 1000, 1100, 1200, and experience the plush by the Norfolk Archives Cromer Signal Box Lessingham’s unique English 1400, 1500 & 1600) surroundings enjoyed by a and Heritage Development Thu 13: 1130 OPEN DOORS Renaissance rood screen. Sun 9: 1100-1600 (river trips 1100, wealthy Edwardian family Foundation. PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: 1200, 1400, 1500 & 1600) Holt Road, NR27 9ST Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1000-1600 Cromer Museum on sailing on the Broads. Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1000-1600 Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1000-1600 A Grade II signal box where 01263 513543 or email (river trips 1000, 1100, 1200, Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 16: TALK NEW! visitors can operate levers and TALK NEW! [email protected] 1400, 1500 & 1600) 1000-1700 see signals and points work LEGENDS OF INGHAM HOLY THE PRIORY & PARISH PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: just as in the 1960s. Railway TRINITY CHURCH AND CHURCH OF LESSINGHAM 0800 1444472 or email artefacts will be on display for PRIORY: An illustrated talk ALL SAINTS, NORFOLK: [email protected] visitors. Off Holt Road, between by local historian and the An illustrated talk by local Argos and Cromer old cemetery. Norfolk Archives & Heritage historian and Norfolk Archives & Heritage Development Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1030-1530 Development Foundation’s BOOK YOUR trustee David Stannard. Foundation trustee David TICKETS FROM Approx. 1 hour. Stannard. Approx. 1 hour. MON 23 JULY! Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1030, 1230 & 1430 Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1030, 1230 & 1430

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TALK NEW! Welcome to HODs in Breckland SPOYL’D BY THE RAGE OF THE SEA: Talk by David www.thehighstreet.org.uk Stannard, local historian and Norfolk Archives & Heritage Breckland Council @BreckCouncil Development Foundation trustee. David will be tracing the history of severe North Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more detailed event information on all of these listings. Sea storms which have devastated the Norfolk coast. Approx. 45 mins. drop-in events – no need to book Sun 16: 1230 Attleborough Heritage Centre Attleborough Town Hall Narborough Bone Mill St Benet’s Abbey DISPLAY NEW! Queens Square, NR17 2AF OPEN DOORS St Benet’s Abbey, St Benet’s Soma House, Station Road, FILM NEW! The Maltings, Main Road, Road, Ludham, NR29 5NU NR17 2AS Narborough, PE32 1TE St Benet’s Abbey Screening of the film Resources to help with your Suffragette. Restored 16 foot waterwheel TOUR family history and find out about and original brick floors Learn about the life of the the town, past and present. See Fri 7: 1900-2300 from extensive Victorian mill medieval monks, the dramatic displays about influential women MARKET NEW! buildings. Have a guided tour of rise and fall of the Abbey and who have made Attleborough a Heritage market in front of the the site and see the new visitor its role in shaping the Broads. better place to live. Town Hall and on the Green in centre which is a replica of the Start point is the interpretation Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15 & Sun 16: Queens Square. Local produce original mill building. panel near the Mill/Gatehouse. 1000-1600 and crafts amidst traditional Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1000-1600 Museum of the Broads Approx. 1 hour, weather market stalls. Listen out for the permitting. Attleborough Tourist Town Crier too! St Mary’s Church, Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1500, Information Centre Attleborough Museum of the Broads Old Honing Train Station Sat 15: 1100 & 1500, Sun 16: 1500 Thu 6 & Thu 13: 0800-1400 OPEN DOORS Poors Staithe, The Staithe, at Briggate NEW! DISPLAY NEW! WALK Stalham, Norwich, NR12 9DA OPEN DAY NEW! Attleborough Town Council, Town Gressenhall Farm and Church Street, Norwich Road (A1062), Ludham Hall, Queens Square, NR17 2AF Workhouse Attleborough, NR17 2AH MUSEUM Station Road, Briggate, Honing, North Walsham, NR28 9QX Bridge, Ludham, NR29 5NX Meet the knowledgeable MUSEUM Models of the church from Trail and activities for all ages Find out about the medieval volunteers at the Tourist Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse, 1100 to the present day and including book signing by local Presenting the unveiling of a life of monks at the Abbey Information Centre. Our heritage Gressenhall, Dereham, a display of photographs of author Chris Crowther. Wherry new interpretation trail and artwork by local schools along and how they changed the ambassadors will help you to make NR20 4DR the part played by the women yacht on display: 8th & 9th. Broadland landscape. This walk the most of Attleborough’s with the chance to talk to Discover all that the 50 acre of St Mary’s. Restored cruiser, Spark of Light, is a 4 mile round trip, approx. 3 historic town and surrounding experts about the history of the site has to offer including the Sat 8: 0930-1700, Sun 9: 1130-1700 on site: 15th & 16th. Dog friendly. hours, and weather permitting area. Audio guides available. M&GN Railway. traditional working farm with Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15 & Sun 16: due to the exposed nature of Thu 6 & Fri 7: 1000-1600, Sat 8 & its Suffolk Punch horses, an 1000-1600 Sat 15: 1100-1500 the site. Meet at the layby next St Mary’s Church, Elsing Sun 9: 1000-1300, Thu 13: 1000- adventure playground, art & Elsing Village Hall to the public toilets. 1600, Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1000-1300 EXHIBITION activities and meet the people Sheringham Museum Sat 15: 1000 & 1400 OPEN DAY NEW! BROADLAND DURING THE who preserve and record our at The Mo Church Street, Elsing, FIRST WORLD WAR: Discover Attleborough Town Council – ancient history. Lifeboat Plain, NR26 8BG Dereham, NR20 3EA how local people coped with Waxham Great Barn Archive Office Sun 9: 1000-1700 everyday life during the Great MUSEUM NEW! CRAFT NEW! DISPLAY NEW! IN CELEBRATION OF THE War. Enjoy the boats, stories and PLOUGH: A plough-themed See galleries, fishing boats Waxham Barn, Coast Road, Queens Close off Queens Road, mementos of people living in event in the centre of the and historic lifeboats. Visit the Waxham, NR12 0DZ NR17 2AF the Broads. village. A special church Windfarm Visitor Centre and Craft Weekend. Come and Display of Attleborough service, children’s fancy dress, Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15 & Sun 16: climb the viewing tower. Current join us at our magnificent history through the ages and open gardens and studios, a 1000-1600 exhibitions include the work thatched Tudor Barn. Local conversation with experienced, scarecrow trail and, for a small of Miss Olive Edis and touring craft demonstrations on knowledgeable archivist, fee, ploughman’s lunches! exhibition ‘Road to Ypres’. Barbara Waters, in the purpose- Saturday and Craft Fair on Sun 9: 1000-1700 Sun 16: 1200-1600 Sunday. Dog friendly. built Archive office behind the (Cont. on next column) Town Hall. Sat 8 & Sun 9: 1030-1600 Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1000-1500

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Welcome to HODs in South Norfolk Diss Corn Hall St Nicholas Street, IP22 4LB www.south-norfolk.gov.uk WORKSHOP southnorfolkcouncil | WymTrails @SNorfolkCouncil Free drop-in family workshop to create a cardboard version of Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more the David Kindersley sculpture detailed event information on all of these listings. which was once on the Aldrich Bros mat and brush factory on Shelfhanger Road. pre-book events drop-in events no need to book Sat 15: 1000-1400 FILM Becket’s Chapel Albright of Diss Christadelphian Hall In the Corn Hall’s Waveney Diss Museum TRAIL OPEN DOORS DISPLAY NEW! Room see archive footage of brush making and the films Visitors can take part in a history 23 St Nicholas Street, The Street, Bramerton, created by young people detection trail and unravel the Diss, IP22 4LB NR14 7DW involved in the Heritage Diss Corn Hall historical sequence from clues Known locally as Tudor House, EXHIBITION OF HISTORIC Lottery Fund supported in the building itself. Explore this is a 15th-century building BIBLES: This large collection project ‘A Brush with the Past’. graffiti carved by three centuries with excellent examples of includes facsimiles of very of school boys and work out decorative timber framing rare Bibles hundreds of years Sat 15: 1000-1200 Diss Museum Forncett Industrial what appears to be ‘wrong’ with including a carved dragon post. old and a copy of the Tyndale MUSEUM Steam Museum PERFORMANCE the building. Approx. 40 mins. Thu 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15: 0930-1300 pocket Bible of 1526. Children’s MUSEUM Oxblood Molly dancers will 4-5 Market Place, IP22 4AB & 1400-1700 activities available. Thu 6-Sat 8: 1000-1700, be performing broom dances Visit this award-winning gem Kingsmuir, Low Road, Forncett Sun 9: 1200-1700, Thu 13-Sat 15: Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1000-1700 throughout the morning outside of a museum in the centre of St Mary, Norwich, NR16 1JJ 1000-1700, Sun 16: 1200-1700 Becket’s Chapel the Corn Hall and in the Market Diss. It might look small, but it Experience the fascinating story PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: OPEN DOORS Designer Makers 21 Place in Diss. is like the Tardis inside, with a of steam power from the early 01953 202202 or email colourful range of displays and beginnings in 1698, through Wymondham Arts Centre, 21 St Nicholas Street, Sat 15: 1000-1200 [email protected] hours of fascination. the 250 years of the industrial 2 Church Street, NR18 0PH Diss, IP22 4LB TRAIL Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 16: revolution, right up to the steam Founded circa 1174 AD, Becket’s Diss Corn Hall OPEN DOORS Why not pick up a trail brochure 1100-1500 turbine used today. Chapel is the second oldest TALK This early 19th-century shop (available at the Corn Hall box Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 16: 1100-1500 foundation in Wymondham houses a unique retail outlet office) and explore Diss to A BRUSH WITH THE PAST: and featured in the lead up to Doric Lodge and showcases crafts. discover the remaining links to A celebration of South Norfolk’s Kett’s Rebellion in 1549. See an TOUR Forncett St Mary Church its brush making past? brush making past with Jess exhibition of modern textiles. Thu 13-Sat 15: 1000-1700 DISPLAY | OPEN DOORS NEW! Johnston. Join us in learning Sat 15: 1000-1600 The Masonic Hall, Chandlers Hill, Pattern discovery and drawing DEMONSTRATION more about the area’s ties to the Wymondham, NR18 0BE Low Road, Forncett St Mary, for children is also available. TOUR industry from the Local lads, Boz and Freddie Join us to explore this Grade II NR16 1JG Thu 6-Sat 8: 1000-1700, Willows, will be demonstrating Come and see the award- listed building as it celebrates See archive material on the through to the 1950s. Sun 9: 1200-1700, thatching techniques to winning reinvention of the its 150th year of existence. church and on John William Sat 15: 1200-1230 Thu 13-Sat 15: 1000-1700, the public. Victorian Corn Hall in Diss. Meet Escorted tours with Colenso, rector from 1846- PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Sun 16: 1200-1700 Sat 15: 1100-1500 at the Box Office 5 minutes presentations available. 1853, and then the first Bishop Corn Hall box office on before the tour. Approx. 45 mins. of Natal. On Fri 7, the church 01379 652241 Caistor Roman Town Thu 6-Sun 9: 1400-1600 Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1030 archivist is available for OPEN DAY NEW! questions 1000-1300. Raveningham Hall Francis Cupiss Ltd Caistor St Edmund, NR14 8QL Diss Iron Works Thu 6-Sun 9 & Thu 13-Sun 16: TOUR OPEN DOORS 1000-1700. Please note archive Delve deeper into Roman TOUR A short tour of the public rooms history on a tour of the site. The Entry, Diss, IP22 4NT display is on Fri 7 & Sat 8 only. at Raveningham Hall, given by Listen to our storyteller, 7 St Nicholas Street, IP22 4LB Presentation on the firm’s the owner Sir Nicholas Bacon. have a go at digging like an A good example of early history and the opportunity to The tour will include some of archaeologist or dress up as 17th-century timber framing. ink and print an event souvenir the art collection. a Roman and go to training Guide and building owner, Peter on our circa 1830 historic Fri 14 & Sat 15: 1100, 1400 & 1600 school. Hyde, will be taking visitors printing press. around the site. Approx. 1 hour. PRE-BOOK DIRECT FROM 23 JUL VIA: Sun 16: 1100-1600 Thu 6-Sat 8 & Thu 13-Sat 15: Sonya Roebuck on 01508 548480 Thu 13 & Fri 14: 1100-1400 1000-1600 or email [email protected]

40 Addresses and meeting points for pre-book events will be confirmed with your booking Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for further info on events and venue facilities 41 SOUTH NORFOLK events Two FREE interactive trails for all the family. Wymondham Vintage Day

© Linda Chapman and Anna Meek Take a ‘Walk Through Wymondham Time’ and explore Vintage Day Wymondham Abbey Wymondham’s St Mary’s Church, Yelverton Wymondham Vintage Day and discover vintage-themed medieval past. EXHIBITION NEW! OPEN DAY stalls and collections from the 1920s to 1980s. There’s plenty Church Road, Wymondham, NR18 0AG of fun for younger visitors too Yelverton, NR14 7PB Wymondham town steps back with vintage-style games on See characters and landscapes A joint exhibition of views of in time with its third annual offer throughout the day in the St Mary’s by local artist Ted Vintage Day! Baptist Church gardens. come to life through your smart Cullum and pupils from Alpington Primary School. Come and enjoy a display of New for this year: watch phone or tablet. classic cars and motorcycles, marching Suffragettes, take part Sat 15 & Sun 16: 1100-1700 take a ride on a vintage bus, in the tug-of-war competition join the guided walk around and visit the 1950s diner at the Wymondham Abbey the town or indulge in a proper Baptist Church. Or, follow Henry the Hare on a TOUR vintage tea. Listen to live music in the Market Place, travel by Lots to see and do for all the Church Street, NR18 0PH train with the Mid-Norfolk family at this day-long celebration virtual treasure hunt... This 900 year old parish church railway between Wymondham of Wymondham’s heritage. is a former abbey complete with and Dereham, bake a cake for Sun 9: 1000-1600 Norman nave and two Georgian our Cake Off competition, and organs. On Saturday and Sunday, watch local archive films at the interior tours take place on the Ex-Services Club. Download the Wym Trails app for hour and exterior tours on the half hour. Each take 20 mins. If you’re a fan of vintage free to your smart phone or tablet. fashions, why not dress to Thu 6, Fri 7 & Sat 8: 1000-1700, impress in your best retro outfits Sun 9: 1200-1700 Find Henry and start your adventures at the Market Cross, Wymondham, NR18 0AX Further Afield –King’s Lynn Facebook/WymTrails south-norfolk.gov.uk/wym-trails Change Minds: Archives Explore life with mental health problems 100 years ago and and Mental Health today, using the case records of patients at St Andrew’s Hospital (Norfolk County Asylum) in the 1880s. Run by WORKSHOP NEW! Change Minds, an archival adventure with people from Address for this pre-book Norfolk who live with mental health issues. event will be confirmed Sun 16: 1200-1400 with your booking PRE-BOOK ONLINE: www.theforumnorwich.co.uk/hods The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas 42 THERE CAN BE NO SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT

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There are many individuals, organisations and The iconic Forum building is managed community partners who help make Norfolk’s by The Forum Trust, an independent, Heritage Open Days festival possible. self-financing charitable organisation. The Forum’s project purpose encompasses Special acknowledgment must go to The Forum lifelong learning, and includes celebrating Trust and its Board for championing and funding the region’s history, heritage and culture. the coordination and delivery of HODs in Norwich In addition to HODs, it also delivers and and across much of Norfolk. supports Norfolk Makers’ Festival, Norwich We are very grateful to Norwich City Council Gaming Festival, Run Norwich, Norwich and Norwich Tourist Information Centre who are Science Festival and more. key supporters of HODs, along with Breckland Council, Broadland District Council, Great Yarmouth Borough Council, North Norfolk District Council, South Norfolk Council, Thetford Town COMING UP NORWICH MECHANICAL Council and Visit North Norfolk. SCIENCE CIRCUS Thank you to all the venues, event organisers and NEXT AT FESTIVAL 1 DEC 2018 – the army of volunteers who work so tirelessly to THE FORUM 19-27 OCTOBER 27 JAN 2019 help bring this eight day festival to life. Last but not least, thank you to the thousands of For more information visit www.theforumnorwich.co.uk you who visit, enjoy and support Heritage Open Days in Norfolk every year.

COORDINATED BY DONATE TO NORFOLK’S HODS FESTIVAL SUPPORTED BY Norfolk’s HODs events are free to attend and this year around 300 events have been programmed. It costs a significant amount to coordinate and promote the festival and this is funded by The Forum with financial support from Norwich City Council and contributions from local authorities across Norfolk. If you would like to make a donation, look out for the donation box on the HODs stand at The Forum. Every donation, whether large or small, helps. Thank you for your support.

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