Many believe that Norfolk was always an untouched backwater, but in fact it was one of the most populated and prosperous parts of the country from the Norman Conquest until the Industrial Revolution. Focusing on North Norfolk, Adrian will show how the effective use of maps and written records makes it possible to reveal this...

This year is the 70th Anniversary of the 1953 Floods. Join historian and author Neil Storey at Sheringham Little Theatre for an evening of evocative photographs and moving stories of the people and places that experienced the worst natural disaster to affect our coastline in living memory. Tickets are available priced £9 for members and...

The annual Sheringham History Group winter social will be held in the Church Hall of St. Peter’s C of E on December 6th, between 2.00 and 4.00 pm. This will take the form of tea/coffee and cake, and the Minister has kindly offered to provide an accompanying short talk on the history of the site....

The story of Tom Bourdillon, Gresham School’s “nearly man”. Phil will describe to us how, just days before Hillary and Tensing reached the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953, Bourdillon and his companion Charles Evans reached the South Summit of the peak, just 100 M from their goal. They have gone down in mountaineering history...

Tim Groves from Sheringham Museum will probe the connections between famed Antarctic explorer Earnest Shackleton and our town of Sheringham. Tim will be expanding upon the themed museum collection which will be the highlight of their 2023 season. Meet at the Sheringham Museum at the Mo. The museum is on Lifeboat Plain. Please use the...

Sheila writes "Our site, at Woodgate Nursery in Aylsham, has a history that we are only gradually discovering. Our first dig was in 2016 and our presentation goes through what we have uncovered and been doing over the period since then. We are a community archaeology group for all ages and abilities, professional and non-professionals,...

England's prosperity in the centuries after the Norman Conquest was made from wool and later from cloth. But everywhere in the country was different and the story of wool and cloth manufacture in Norfolk is both hard to find and complicated. Roger Arguile has attempted to probe the complexities of wool manufacture hereabouts and thinks...

Rupert Eris, a Ranger at the National Trust’s Sheringham Park, will talk us through the fascinating archaeology of the Park from Neolithic burial mound to WW2 era defensive earthworks.
Meet at the Sheringham Museum at the Mo.
The museum is on Lifeboat Plain. Please use the School Entrance towards the rear of the building.

The RAF Air Defence Radar Museum is an award winning, volunteer run visitor attraction that offers a fascinating and informative day out. Housed in the original 1942 radar operations building, the museum provides a unique window into the history of radar covering the period of WW2, through the Cold War to the present day. Talks...

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Meet at the Sheringham Museum at the Mo.

The museum is on Lifeboat Plain. Please use the School Entrance towards the rear of the building.

In the eighteenth century Norwich was a major manufacturing centre of worsted and half-silk fabrics. Michael's talk will focus on the role of woolcombers, spinners, weavers, dyers, hot-pressers and others in the making of Norwich textiles, and the role of London and Great Yarmouth in the distribution of these highly desirable goods to consumers in...

Although medieval parish churches might appear to have been in place from the founding of a settlement, some were not: they may have been spawned from a mother church under the “system of Minster Parochiae.“ This lecture investigates how, why and where parish churches were established and built and how contemporary fashions and population growth...