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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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Living in Coltishall since 2007. Formerly resident in Aylsham, so the footpath project is very interesting to me. I’d like to get involved in any way possible.
I have been living in Horstead since 2oo5 and have great interest in local history. I am also involved with the Documentation team of The Museum of the Broads and am helping to create an Archive for the Village News letter The Marlpit.
We have all seen the image of “Zulu” being man-handled around Buxton Lock, but it is never mentioned that Clifford Allen, the owner of Allens Boatyard at Coltishall, took his men up to Buxton and was instrumental in the portage of “Zulu” around the Lock. A great feat even by today standards.
Re my previous post.
It was Allens boatyardbut it was Clifford Allens family as he was only 4yrs old at the time, sorry for type error.
I think, although I stand to be corrected on this but they do get the credit in the newly published book Sail and Storm, the History of the Aylsham Navigation. You are of course right about this and their role was crucial. At the Coltishall event on the 26th somebody came up to the stall and had a photograph of the men involved and was able to point out his grandfather amongst the work gang hauling Zulu.
I also attended the event, i was with The Marlpit and The Museum of the Broads people.
It was indeed a well arranged and well supported event.
Thank you for your reply about Allens yard. I purchased the Wherry to Aylsham DVD and it does give credit to Allens Boatyard. Many Thanks.