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- Norfolk County Council Norfolk County Council – responsible for education, highways and social services.
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- 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: July 2012
Raffle Prize
BNCT are running a raffle with tickets selling at £1 each which will be drawn at the Coltishall event on August 26th. Tickets can be obtained either for yourself or to sell from stu.wilson100@btinternet.com and a poster detailing the first … Continue reading
Wood good / Plastic bad
……..I think not (in every case) I was recently on Coltishall Common imagining our event in my minds eye and what will go where and all that sort of thing. I couldn’t fail to notice all the boats moored … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog
Tagged aylsham, Bure Valley Railway, Coltishall, event, Norwich, Richardsons, Roys of Wroxham
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Canoe runs
There are two charitable canoe or kayak events coming up on the Bure / Aylsham Navigation. The first is a run in a day from Aylsham to Wroxham sponsored for local childrens charitable causes on 11th August 2012 by local … Continue reading
Mary Hardy’s Diary
The diary of Mary Hardy, when published, will be an important eye witness commentry on late 18th and early 19th Century life in rural Norfolk. It is also important to the Navigation as she and her family were eye witnesses … Continue reading
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Footpath between Oxnead Bridge and Cradle Bridge
The footpath between Oxnead Bridge and Cradle Bridge is reported as being very difficult. The newly authorised 1 metre wide path through the “Island” has not been enforced and is utterly impossible to get through. The old path is rapidly … Continue reading
Journey’s End
(This is the third of three blogs that have followed on and have been posted a few days apart. The first was All Aboard and the second Cruising Onward. Let me know what you think by feeding back through this … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog
Tagged Acapulco, aylsham, Brampton, Broadsman, Buxton, event, Hilda, Horstead, Isaac Helsdon, Mayflower, Oxnead, Richardsons
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