Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup
The Norfolk Historic Building Group (NHBG) was founded in 2000 to bring together people who enjoy and appreciate old buildings and want to learn more about them nhbg.org.uk Norfolk Joined June 2019-
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Want to know how to access information on Norfolk's archaeology and historic buildings/landscapes? Join us for our next free talk, 'The Norfolk Historic Environment Record', with Heather Hamilton of @NorfolkHES. 📅Tues 1 August ⏰1pm Booking essential: eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-person-th…
Calling medieval twitter and buildings boffins! Has anyone encountered this sort of guilloche carved decoration on a late-medieval building? Twisted bands with diamonds in the centres. Revealed during re-rendering of an earlyC15(?) house in Maldon, Essex. Many thanks! @VArchGroup
Salthouse, Norfolk. norfolkchurches.co.uk/salthouse/salt… 'When we walked up the hill above Salthouse and saw, looking down where we’d been ourselves on the beach waving back – we were here and there and no-place coming and going at once, perceiving the speckled clouds as sleeping seals,…
Not long until #HeritageOpenDays. Plenty of historic Norfolk buildings to go and visit!
Not long until #HeritageOpenDays. Plenty of historic Norfolk buildings to go and visit!
Free sessions on researching house history at the Norfolk Heritage centre 👇
Free sessions on researching house history at the Norfolk Heritage centre 👇
Looks like there’s some spaces available on this Norfolk &Norwich Archaeological Society trip to Suffolk
Looks like there’s some spaces available on this Norfolk &Norwich Archaeological Society trip to Suffolk
A huge thank you to Hannah and Ben Nairn who kindly invited NHBG members to view their house for the most recent NHBG summer visit. We were also treated to some lovely refreshments too. A thatched, timber framed property. The main range is mid C16th with a later C17th cross wing.
Good evening house historians and welcome to #HouseHistoryHour. Tonight we welcome Alexandra Fairclough as our co-host and she will be introducing the topic of vernacular architecture and how it can be a fascinating tool on your local history/research journey.
Ooh get your self a book bargain!
Ooh get your self a book bargain!
Great to find this #norfolk #boultonandpaul chapel. Saved and relocated to @FoodMuseumUK just over the border in Suffolk
Missed some of our winter season of Zoom talks? You can catch up on our YouTube channel. Recent talks include the “The Craft Trade of Pargetting: an overview of history and techniques, including recent investigations” by Anna Kettle m.youtube.com/channel/UCOqBZ…
Today's the final day to apply for a free bursary place at the Vernacular Architecture Group's spring conference in Greater Manchester, 11-15 April 2023. If you know of anyone who might benefit, do let them know! vag.org.uk/conferences.htm @UoYArchaeology @IHBCtweet @cons_historian
Boulton&Paul, Norwich, built prefabricated buildings thru'out the country, from chicken coops to chapels.
Are you researching, or writing about, aspects of vernacular buildings? The VAG offers research and publication grants - find out more at vag.org.uk/grants.htm. Deadline of 28 February each year for research grant applications; no deadline for publication grant applications.
Our next NHBG online winter talk “The Craft Trade of Pargetting: an overview of history and techniques, including recent investigations” by Anna Kettle. We have some spaces available for non-NHBG members. Email [email protected] for a Zoom invite
A contingent of NHBG members attended the VAG winter conference this weekend. Some really fascinating and thought provoking talks. A huge thank to all involved. We’ll be providing a short overview to NHBG members in the next newsletter
A contingent of NHBG members attended the VAG winter conference this weekend. Some really fascinating and thought provoking talks. A huge thank to all involved. We’ll be providing a short overview to NHBG members in the next newsletter
Rare in flinty Norwich, this stone doorway in Colegate is thought to have come from the long-lost Duke of Norfolk's Palace #AdoorableThursday
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Sophie @smilner_123
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Andrew Burtenshaw @andy_burty
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Curious Spark @spark_curious
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SHARP @SedgefordArch
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Norwich Castle @NorwichCastle
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Reggie Unthank @ReggieUnthank
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Museum of Norwich @museumofnorwich
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HE Archive @HE_Archive
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Norwich Cathedral @Nrw_Cathedral
15K Followers 2K Following Welcome to Norwich Cathedral. A place of worship and a heritage site with over 900 years of history.
Strangers' Hall @StrangersHall
4K Followers 1K Following Mediaeval merchant house dating back to the 14th century. Now a historic house museum and part of @NorfolkMuseums.
Friendless Churches @friendschurches
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National Trust @nationaltrust
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VAG @VArchGroup
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Ancient House Museum .. @AncientHouseMus
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Churches Conservation.. @TheCCT
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Allan T Adams @allantadams
2K Followers 603 Following Semi retired architectural illustrator, sketcher, drawing old buildings and stuff rather than worry. FSA, FSAI. Husband, dad, ancient. Not interested in NFTs.
Lynn Museum @Lynn_Museum
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Elizabethan House @elizabethanhous
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Time & Tide Museum @timetidemuseum
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3K Followers 2K Following Ignite conversations with your families & friends about the past. Connecting families, creating history. Inspiration, activity, learning. #HistoryBeginsAtHome.
Norfolk Gardens Trust @NorfolkGTrust
348 Followers 150 Following Protecting, educating and enjoying Norfolk's historic parks and gardens since 1988
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770 Followers 362 Following Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society is for all those who are fascinated by the history, archaeology, buildings and ancient sites of Norfolk.
George Skipper Archit.. @norwichgeorge
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711 Followers 899 Following Inspector of Ancient Monuments with Historic England (East of England) - archaeologist / historian, landscapes, routeways, aviation heritage. Views entirely own
Sneak preview of our restored Bells currently in Bridport! They will be home soon! #DioceseofNorwich
Salthouse, Norfolk. norfolkchurches.co.uk/salthouse/salt… 'When we walked up the hill above Salthouse and saw, looking down where we’d been ourselves on the beach waving back – we were here and there and no-place coming and going at once, perceiving the speckled clouds as sleeping seals,…
For research purposes of course I went to @TheGardenHouse5 yesterday. Great Norwich photos on the wall plus this iconic photo from 1988! Still remember the old chap with the cigarette standing nearby saying “thas a rumun” #heritage #norwich
Our new brochure is packed full of hundreds of amazing FREE events which take place across #Norfolk. Whether you're looking for unique stories, fascinating places, brilliant history, or an experience to remember forever, #HeritageOpenDays is for you! norfolkheritageopendays.co.uk/news/the-herit…
Congratulations to 3 of Norwich's public parks! 💚💚💚
Worthy winner of @GreenFlagAward & Green Heritage Award @NorwichCC @eatonparkfriend - imagine life without parks? Eaton Park #Norwich one of the finest parks in the UK @erposf @HistoricEngland @parks_forum @NorfolkGTrust
Call into our friendly, free drop-in event in Acle this Sunday 18th 'The Broads :Nature & People' - talks, film and displays. Refreshments available. @wisearchive @Wheatfen @Broads_LPS @BroadsSociety
Sounds of King Street by NRO archivist Jonathan Draper is our next lunchtime talk. Join us in person or online to listen to extracts of unique oral history recordings relating to King Street, Norwich and surrounding area. 14 June, 1pm. Booking essential - norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/events-spring-…
Our first summer excursion will take place on 20th June when we travel by coach from Norwich to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds (guided by Richard Hoggett) and to the Anglo-Saxon village of West Stow. Non-members are very welcome to join us. nnas.info/product/bury-s…
Just a week to go until @MedievalG and @jessikart come and introduce us to the graffiti in @Nrw_Cathedral prior to our guided tour in July. 17/06/23 2.00pm Needham Village Hall, all welcome. bit.ly/43CFslx
Good evening house historians and welcome to #HouseHistoryHour. Tonight we welcome Alexandra Fairclough as our co-host and she will be introducing the topic of vernacular architecture and how it can be a fascinating tool on your local history/research journey.
Stonemason's marks. It's widely assumed that they were the equivalent of a personal signature so that the craftsperson could be paid per stone, but the evidence doesn't stack up - what were these marks really for?? Read on... …iskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-myth…
@NatTrustArch @East_England_NT It is a little younger than the list description suggests. Dated by dendrochronology to 1238-62.
Boulton&Paul, Norwich, built prefabricated buildings thru'out the country, from chicken coops to chapels.
Are you researching, or writing about, aspects of vernacular buildings? The VAG offers research and publication grants - find out more at vag.org.uk/grants.htm. Deadline of 28 February each year for research grant applications; no deadline for publication grant applications.
A brief flying visit to St Margaret's church, Hales, Norfolk. The church dates back to the C12th, is now redundant, and in the tender loving care of the @TheCCT Of about 185 round towered churches in England 124 of them are in Norfolk! #CornersAreForSquares
Messing about with some low res drone imaging in churches. The Minster church of St Benet at Beccles on a rather gloomy January afternoon.
Many rural postmen stopped for their lunch in a Postman's Hut (a corrugated iron shed with a pot-bellied stove). Something once as common as a phone box is now almost lost from the British landscape. This one is at Asterton, Shropshire. Pic: Jeremy Bolwell.
Good talk by Duncan James at The Vernacular Architecture Group's Winter conference in Leicester yesterday, showing trusses with cusped king-posts at Stand Old Hall, Whitefield, Bury, dem. 1956 (top photos) & below, Hurst Hall, Glazebury, now a barn @VArchGroup @YorksVernacular
Opening the attic hatch leads to rarely seen mediaeval views. The arch-braced and cusped wind-bracing at Holme Pierrepont Hall (Notts), dated 1502-29, is now hidden by a later ceiling. Join us for an online talk on mediaeval roofs on 25 Jan: eventbrite.com/e/uncovering-m…
@DominicusJohann It was wonderful to be able to get up close to the angels in Cawston back in 2019.
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