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- Norfolk County Council Norfolk County Council – responsible for education, highways and social services.
Useful Links
- Aylsham Local History Society Taking the history lead in this project.
- Aylsham Town Council Giving full support to the project
- Aylsham Wildlife Trust The wildlife trust studies in and around Aylsham
- Brampton Parish Council The Parish Council for Brampton – email bopc@hotmail.co.uk
- Broads Authority Principal conservation agency for the Broads
- Broads Review website A great website reviewing locations around the Broads
- Bure Valley Railway Although not actively involved the BVR runs parallel to the navigation and great views of it are afforded from the train or footpath.
- Buxton Mill Brampton Mill Holiday Apartment
- Buxton Parish Council Buxton with Lammas PC – this site includes some Bure photographs.
- Captain Ahabs Watery Tales This is a blog site with some crackingly good photographs of the navigation.
- Coltishall Parish Council Website for Coltishall
- East Anglian Waterways Association An association with an interest in all navigable waterways in East Anglia past, present and future.
- Hautbois Activity Centre Hautbois Residential and Activity Centre offers the perfect venue for training, conferences, activity or residential breaks. Hautbois is owned by Girlguiding Anglia, and is open to bookings from Guide & Scout Groups, Schools, Businesses and private gr
- Horstead Parish Council Website for Horstead
- Inland Waterways Association The website for the local branch of the IWA
- Inland Waterways Association (local branch) Website for the Ipswich branch of the IWA
- Jim Shead Jim is a waterways historian and photographer with an interest in this and other waterways. He has a dedicated Aylsham Navigation page on his site.
- Mary Hardy's Diary The result of 25 years of transcribing and research by Margaret Bird – this is an important social history with direct relevance to the Navigation.
- Museum of the Broads The primary museum collating, conserving and displaying the history of the Broads. The Aylsham Navigation was part of the Broads network
- Norfolk Art Place Norfolk Art Place is a new business, specialising in the supply of art products from Norfolk-based artists, and services to artists. They say they are passionate about art, about Norfolk, and about the wonderful variety of art and artists in our county. I
- Norfolk Federation of Women’s Institutes Part of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, the largest voluntary organisation for women in the UK
- Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Based at Gressenhall this is the prime site and organisation for the industrial history of the County.
- Norfolk Mills A really good site with info about the navigation. This site has permitted use of some of its material by us and we are grateful. Thanks.
- Norfolk Wherry Trust Owners, preservers and operators of the Albion
- Postcards from the Broads A site full of interesting old photographs from all around the Broads.
- Richardsons Boating Holidays Richardsons have supported us – other boatyards are available
- The Canoe Man Organised trips by canoe throughout the Broads including the Aylsham Navigation.
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Happy New Year – the year ahead
Happy New Year to one and all. Tne Turkey is all eaten and the excess of Christmas is but, hopefully, a happy memory. We approach a new year with trepidation and good intention. I think that for most this is … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog, December 2010
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Seasons Greetings
MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS I’ve just finished doing some christmasy things which included paying a visit to England’s only malt whiskey distillery which, believe it or not, is in Norfolk and although a … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog, December 2010
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History – as a way to spend a morning
This morning I was honoured to spend my time attending a meeting of various and assorted local personae all linked by a love of history and an interest in the navigation. It was a meeting organised by the Aylsham local history … Continue reading
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Buxton Lock revisited
In an earlier blog from the beginning of November, now archived (see archives link at the right hand top of the page) I wrote about Buxton Lock. It was once such an imposing structure and its demise from the landscape … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog, December 2010
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It’s an interesting world
Since getting involved with this project I have found some really interesting waterways sites on the net and every so often I have interacted with them. One such site is http://wherrymansweb.blogspot.com/ which is essentially a blog site maintained by a man … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog, December 2010
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Snow
The north wind doth blow etc and we have had snow. More north easterly actually but I’m not going to nit-pick. The temperature today has hovered just above freezing but the wind chill has made it feel more like -4 … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog, December 2010
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