You may have seen this story on the national news recently. In early 2019, seven metal detectorists found a cache of 2,584 coins dating to the Norman Conquest in southern England. Now, the nearly 1,000-year-old silver pennies have sold for £4.3 million—making them the most expensive treasure ever found in the United Kingdom. To find out more, please select the following link:
Sunday, 27 October 2024
Sunday, 20 October 2024
Norfolk Village Signs
Here is an article to supplement Andrew Tullet's talk of two weeks ago. It outlines his quest to log and photograph all the Norfolk village signs - there are supposed to be 520 in all. Please select the following link:
Norwich Hidden Street Tour
Here are some pictures from the above which I did for the first time this week. It’s a worthwhile tour and you get to see an original medieval street sitting under the Shoe Box on Castle Meadow. This street was built in a time when London Street and the Back of the Inns was the castle ditch. You can see from the pictures how narrow the street was. The tour can be booked out of the Shoe Box.
Sunday, 6 October 2024
5th Duke of Portland
One of the characters that stuck in my mind from John Vigar’s talk is William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, the 5th Duke of Portland. He was a man who was a recluse who liked tunnelling, he even built a tunnel from his house, Welbeck Abbey, to the local railway station. By all accounts he oversaw the digging of over twelve miles of tunnels in and around his home. Here is an article if you would like to find out more about this strange man:
St Michael at Thorn
You may recall that St Michael at Thorn on Ber Street was badly damaged during the Baedeker Raids in 1942 and then taken down and replaced with a car park, well here are some pictures of what it would have looked like if it was still standing now:
https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/blitz-ghosts-st-michael-at-thorn/
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