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Readers of the ‘Fakenham and District Sun free paper’ will be familiar with our regular ‘Local History Corner’ articles which have appeared each month since December 2011.
For those who may not receive a printed edition, there is an opportunity here to view the current article as well as those from previous editions. |
December 2021
Photo kindly donated by Zena Haws.
The cast includes; Jimmy Carroll, Zena Haws, Amanda Banham, -?-, John Tagg, Nick Beale, Robin Mahoney, James Beale, Robert Higgins, Derek Dewson, Debbie Spellar, Jeremy Tagg, Dan Sharp, Emma Tagg, Sarah Pearce, Kirsty Sumner, Natasha Burt, Darren Spellar, Sam Sharp, Melanie Woodhouse, Vanessa Carroll, Sarah Cobbin, Emma Higgins and Rebecca Smith.
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This photo is of actors taking their curtain-call after a performance of ‘Robin Hood’, a pantomime held at Sculthorpe Village Hall in 1983. We have nearly all the names of the Sculthorpe Panto Players in the photo, but if you can work out the missing one please let us know!
We have collected thousands of photos on our community archive, all donated by the public. The photos are of people, places and events over many years in Fakenham and the surrounding villages. You can see a good selection of them on our website or come along to one of our public archive sessions to look at the complete archive on our laptops. Join us over a cup of tea and a biscuit for a friendly chat! You can bring in your own photos for scanning, watch a slideshow, browse through our photo albums, scrapbooks and documents, listen to recordings of people talking about the past or search the whole archive. All we ask in return is a donation of £2 when you come in to help keep us going. Visit our LATEST NEWS page to check for details of our next public session. Chris Chalk, Secretary Fakenham & District Community Archive |
November 2021
This photo is of the celebrations and parade in Fakenham town centre on the 21st October 2005, when Trafalgar Day was celebrated across the nation. It marked 200 years since the important victory led by our locally-born national hero, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Nelson led the Royal Navy against the numerically greater forces of the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. He deliberately ignored orders from his superiors and used ingenious tactics to defeat the Franco-Spanish fleet and thereby halt Napoleon’s threatened invasion of England. Sadly, Nelson lost his life in the battle but became the nation’s greatest naval hero: more than 15,000 people lined the streets at his state funeral in St Paul’s Cathedral. It was the grandest state occasion of the era and lasted over five days. If you recognise any of the people in the photo we’d love to know their names. We have now amassed thousands of photos on our community archive, all donated by the public. The photos cover people, places and events over many years in Fakenham and the surrounding villages. You can see a good selection of them on our website or come along to one of our public archive sessions to look at the complete archive on our laptops. Our next session will be held on SATURDAY 4th DECEMBER from 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm in Fakenham Parish Church. (This change from our normal pattern is due to the church being used for the Christmas Tree Festival at the end of November.) Join us over a cup of tea and a biscuit for a friendly chat! You can bring in your own photos for scanning, watch a slideshow, browse through our photo albums, scrapbooks and documents, listen to recordings of people talking about the past or search the whole archive. All we ask in return is a small donation when you come in to help keep us going. Chris Chalk, Secretary Fakenham & District Community Archive |
October 2021
Here’s a photo from the early days of Fakenham Infant School. The teacher is Pauline Martin, and we think the photo is of her class in the 1981-2 academic year, just two years after the school opened.
In Jim Baldwin’s book ‘Hard Forms and Homework’, which covers the history of our local schools, he says: ‘The new school opened in September 1979, taking three year groups. Initially, some 268 pupils were on the roll. By 1989 it was necessary to build an extension and this was brought into use the following year. Yet further expansion took place in 1995 with the opening of the nursery annexe.’ If you recognise any of the children in the photo we’d love to know their names. We have now amassed thousands of photos on our community archive, all donated by the public. The photos cover people, places and events over many years in Fakenham and the surrounding villages. You can see a good selection of them on our website or come along to one of our public archive sessions to look at the complete archive on our laptops. The next session will be held on Tuesday 26th October from 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm in Fakenham Parish Church, where we meet on the last Tuesday of every month. Join us over a cup of tea and a biscuit for a friendly chat! You can bring in your own photos for scanning, watch a slideshow, browse through our photo albums, scrapbooks and documents, listen to recordings of people talking about the past or search the whole archive. All we ask in return is a small donation when you come in to help keep us going. You can contact us via our website, www.fakenhamcommunityarchive.weebly.com or on Facebook. Chris Chalk, Secretary Fakenham & District Community Archive |
September 2021
‘The Old Market House’
This is a photo from June 1907 of ‘The Old Market House’, on the corner between Bridge Street and the Market Place in Fakenham. It was a family drapery stores and carpet shop run by Henry Bowles, and the sign over the door reads: ‘gent’s mercer, hatter, complete outfitter, jackets, mantles, millinery and dressmaking’. The building was lavishly decorated with flowers, ribbons and flags in honour, we think, of the annual Norfolk Agricultural Association Show, which that year was held at Highfield in Fakenham. (The show in those days was rotated around the various market towns of Norfolk.) |
If you have any pictures, old or recent, that you would like to contribute to our community archive, please use the ‘Contact Us’ section
on this website - or phone us on 01328 863377.
Following the lifting of lockdown restrictions, we will be holding our first monthly public archive session for 18 months! As before, the sessions
will be held on the last Tuesday of every month, so we’ll be pleased to welcome you again on Tuesday 28th September from 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
in the Parish Church.
We look forward to seeing faces old and new – come in and browse the complete archive on laptops, watch a slideshow
or leaf through some old scrapbooks.
Coffee, tea and biscuits are provided, and we ask for a small donation to keep us going.
Chris Chalk
Secretary, Fakenham & District Community Archive
on this website - or phone us on 01328 863377.
Following the lifting of lockdown restrictions, we will be holding our first monthly public archive session for 18 months! As before, the sessions
will be held on the last Tuesday of every month, so we’ll be pleased to welcome you again on Tuesday 28th September from 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
in the Parish Church.
We look forward to seeing faces old and new – come in and browse the complete archive on laptops, watch a slideshow
or leaf through some old scrapbooks.
Coffee, tea and biscuits are provided, and we ask for a small donation to keep us going.
Chris Chalk
Secretary, Fakenham & District Community Archive
August 2021
A tribute to Lee Muston
This photo is a tribute to Lee Muston, former Headteacher at Fakenham High School, who died on 24th June 2021. Lee Muston was born in 1943 and grew up in Derby. Starting his career as a history teacher, he eventually became Headteacher at Fakenham High School in 1984, facing the huge challenge of uniting the staff and students of the grammar and secondary modern schools into one comprehensive school, even though the buildings still had to run on two separate sites. This task demanded a strong and determined leadership, which suited his personality admirably - he was a larger-than-life man with principled views and whose presence was felt wherever he went. His students and staff respected him for his fairness, discipline and huge sense of humour. He always insisted on honouring his teaching time in the classroom in order to keep his feet on the ground and know what was actually going on in the school. He also had a lifelong passion for cricket and rugby and became Chairman and President of the Fakenham Rugby Club. Before retiring to live in Syderstone, Lee and his wife Irene and their two children lived in Kettlestone, where they were deeply involved in village life. Lee Muston will be very much missed and remembered by all who knew him. |
If you have any pictures or memories you would like to contribute to the archive, please use the ‘Contact Us’ section on the website or phone us on 01328 863377. We look forward to being able to hold our monthly public sessions later this year, when government regulations allow.
Chris Chalk
Secretary, Fakenham & District Community Archive
Chris Chalk
Secretary, Fakenham & District Community Archive
July 2021
'Keep Young'
This photo, taken in 1990, is of the local fitness group ‘Keep Young’, which was led with great energy and enthusiasm by the late Val Barnes. It shows the group getting ready to join the annual carnival procession from Norwich Road, carrying home-made pompoms in red, white and blue. We don’t have all the names of the ladies in the photo, so if you can help us please do get in touch. And if you have any pictures or memories you would like to contribute to the archive, please use the ‘Contact Us’ section on the website or phone us on 01328 863377. We look forward to being able to hold our monthly public sessions later this year, when government regulations allow. Chris Chalk Secretary, Fakenham & and District Community Archive Photo kindly donated by Lyn Maple |
June 2021
Sculthorpe Football Club 1984
This photo should bring back some happy memories! It was taken in 1984, in the early days of Sculthorpe Football Club. We have most of the names of the team players, but if you can add the missing ones, please do get in touch. We look forward to being able to hold our monthly public sessions later this year, when government regulations allow. In the meantime If you have any pictures or memories you would like to contribute to the archive, please use the ‘Contact Us’ section of this website or phone us on 01328 863377. Chris Chalk Secretary, Fakenham & District Community Archive Photo kindly donated by Jeremy Bloss |
May 2021
Job Opportunity
Here's an interesting job advertisement from over a hundred years ago, when Fakenham came under the jurisdiction of Walsingham Rural District Council. Being a Scavenging Foreman was an important job, with many responsibilities for supervising the collection of rubbish and sewage as well as making sure the horses and carts were being properly maintained, also helping at the stables, sewage farm and pumping station at Hall Staithe. The reward for all this hard work was the princely sum of £1 . 2s per week! If you have any pictures or memories you would like to contribute to the archive, please use the ‘Contact Us’ section on the website or phone us on 01328 863377. We look forward to being able to hold our monthly public sessions later this year, when government regulations allow. Chris Chalk, Secretary, Fakenham & District Community Archive |
April 2021 |
With restrictions gradually easing we are delighted that the Fakenham and District Sun are once again able to produce and circulate their very popular free monthly paper. The April 2021 issue contains both recent items and few which were originally intended for the January edition including our regular Local History Corner article.
We look forward to being able to hold our monthly public sessions whenever we can in 2021. In the meantime, we send a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who has helped and supported us over the years. Local Sketches
These lovely paintings by M. Porter from the 1950s, which were recently donated to our community archive as postcards, show how some local views have changed remarkably little over the last seventy years. If you have any pictures or memories you would like to contribute to the archive, please use the ‘Contact Us’ section on this website or phone us on 01328 863377. Chris Chalk, Secretary, Fakenham & District Community Archive |
No copies of the Fakenham and District Sun were printed during January, February or March 2021
due to the Covid 3.0 lockdown
due to the Covid 3.0 lockdown
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