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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'
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