The cavalry regiment form up on Church Plain

They were camped down in the grounds on Langley Hall, during the First World War and spent time in Norfolk for training. The man on the gun carriage had written on the back of this postcard 'This is me on my new gun carriage'. The postcard was bought at a post card fair by a member of the Loddon History Group. The building in the background was at the time a bike shop and is now the Loddon doctors' surgery.

News
Graveyard Surveys
We have completed graveyard surveys of Loddon, Chedgrave, Hardley, Langley, Raveningham, Sisland and Mundham churches. The survey records the readable details on the headstones. This usually includes first name, family name, date of birth or age, date of death and sometimes relationships to others.

We hope to have this online as a searchable database soon, but in the meantime you can contact us via our email address (loddon.history@hotmail.co.uk) and we can look up the information for you.

New Booklet
A Guided Historical Walk of Loddon
Published before Christmas and dedicated to Richmal Ashbee, this book is a guided walk of the village of Loddon, beginning at the site of the Saxon manor and ending with the Victorian development along the riverbank. It's designed to either be read in your armchair or to be read as you walk around Loddon. Price £2.50 (plus p&p if you want it sent to you!) or available in local outlets.

About the website

This website contains excerpts from our series of booklets written about different aspects of life in Norfolk in the last century as told to us by local people.

You can look through a sample of our photograph archive which shows how the village and surrounding areas used to look.

There is a section on the Loddon Local History Group. Meetings are every third Wednesday of the month usually in the Loddon Branch Library from 1.30pm to 3.30pm and cost £2.

The Loddon Area Local Archive (LALA) archive was developed in conjunction with the national Comm@NET community archiving. An early version is online at www.comma.net and the most recent version is available in Loddon Branch Library.

Loddon Local History Group
Meetings Programme 2007

Click here to go straight to the History Group page.

Wed. 20th February
AGM followed by Val Sowerby on Mechanical Instruments

Wed. 19th March
Kate Smith on The Stones, Quarries and the Masons

Wed.16th April
Outing to Thetford (with guided walking tour) & Grimes Graves

Wed. 21st May
Janet Smith on The Drovers

Wed. 18th June
Brian Statham on Castle Rising and Isabella

Wed. 16th July
Jenny Hilling on Grandfather's Diaries

Wed. 20th August
Graveyard Survey at Carleton St Peter (possibly Claxton too)

Wed. 17th September
Joy Lodey on Smuggling in Norfolk

Wed. 15th October
Adrian Marsden on Portable Antiquities in Norfolk

Wed. 19th November
TBA

Wed.17th December
Neil Storey - Our Bigger and Better Christmas 'Do'