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Winter Events 2007-08Winter lectures are free to members, non members welcome for a £2 fee. Thursday 11 October 2007 Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Wednesday 7 November 2007 Trevor Ashwin worked as a prehistorian with the Norfolk Archaeological Unit for more than ten years. It is this experience which has provided him with a vast experience of Norfolk’s prehistoric sites and finds. His talk will enlarge upon his article in NHBG Journal Three and, in line with the Group’s aims and objectives, consider the full significance and meaning of recent discoveries in the emergence of developing human concepts of the home, and of domesticity itself. Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Tuesday 4 December 2007 Christine Woods trained as a designer and worked in industry and art and design education before becoming Archivist of Sanderson’s collection of historic wallpapers and fabrics. Having organised the firm’s 125th anniversary exhibition and written the catalogue, she moved to The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester in 1987 to become the UK’s only full-time curator of wallpapers. She has organised numerous displays and exhibitions, has lectured and published widely on the subject and has represented the UK at conferences in Europe and elsewhere. She is a founder member and former Chair of the Wallpaper History Society and is editor of its triennial publication, The Wallpaper History Review. Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm
 A group on the south terrace of Wolterton Hall, where Lord Walpole relates the story of its building. Thursday 17 January 2008 Building for Small Holdings …S. Wade-Martins This is a great opportunity for members not only to find out what is happening on the Group’s research front but also to follow up on Journal Three articles. Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Wednesday 13 February 2008 Gerald Randall has taught many Continuing Education courses and has published on historic Churches; he remains an active researcher. He will be enlarging on the recent article in the NHBG Journal three and extending the story for a further hundred years or so. Among the topics not covered in the article, the grand south porch is particularly interesting. Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Tuesday 11 March 2008 Peter Hoare, John Potter, Peter Minter and Paul Rutledge have attempted to identify the wide range of construction materials in Great Yarmouth’s medieval wall, to relate these to its architecture and archaeology, and to its documented and unrecorded history of repair, reconstruction and strengthening. Peter Hoare, long retired from ‘proper’ employment, is probably the only Honorary Associate of The University of Sydney residing in Ely, Cambridgeshire! John Potter is Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading. Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30
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 A group on a visit to Methwold. Mary Ash tel: 01603 616285 e.mail: mary.ash@ntlworld.com |
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