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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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Tag Archives: navigation
Red Lions and expensive little cats
Last Sunday Mrs W and I did a circular trip taking in the closing down sale at Comet in Norwich. You can have no idea how guilty I felt about going there – I don’t for one minute know why … Continue reading →
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Tagged aylsham, Brampton, George Plunkett, Mrs Potts, navigation, Red Lion Street, wherrymen
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A Norfolk Tornado?
My meanderings around the Broads took me once again last Saturday to the Museum at Stalham where Norada was the principle visitor and the Falcon was in steam. I like all things steam and this is a cute little launch, … Continue reading →
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Tagged navigation, Norfolk Keel, North Norfolk railway, Oxnead, Sheringham, Steam, Tornado
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Cargo to be carried on the Navigation for the first time in 100 years
As part of the wider event on August 26th 2012 (see earlier news items) to comemmorate the 100th anniversary of the Navigation’s closure due to the flood on that date in 1912 there will be a carriage of cargo along … Continue reading →
Cormorants, Boats, Bits and Bobs
This river lark that we set off on in the autumn of 2010 is reaching a fork in the road. The event in Coltishall on August 26th and the book launch in Aylsham on September 16th will mark the official … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albion, Coltishall, Cormorant, event, fishing, Heather, Houseboat, Houseboat Heather, Keel, navigation, teak
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Buses, Steam, Boats and fried onions :
Details on how to get to the Coltishall event appears below so if you don’t want to read all the old waffle please scroll down. As a small boy my ambitions were very modest as I wanted to be a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bedford, Bure Valley Railway, Buses, Coltishall, DMU, navigation, Onions, Salters Steamers, Trains
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1912
1912 has dominated our thoughts in recent months. It is, as you know, the year in which the Aylsham Navigation came to an end and Norfolk suffered an almost biblical flood after rain so heavy that its like has never … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1912, aylsham, Coltishall, event, I, navigation, Olympic Torch, Olympics, rain, Stockholm, Titanic
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PENSIONS, RAIN AND ALL THAT SQUIT
Apologies ….. the black dog is out of his kennel again ….. I am not Norfolk – neither born nor bred; I actually hail from rural Buckinghamshire although I am one quarter (a very important part to me) Yorkshire … Continue reading →
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Tagged black dog, churchill, Cradle Bridge, dialect, navigation, Norfolk, pensions, wherrymen, Whery
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Cruising Onward
(This is the second of three blogs that will follow on and be posted a few days apart. This blog follows on from “All Aboard”. Let me know what you think by feeding back through the website or alternatively … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albion, Allen's, aylsham, Barton Broad, Broadsman, Coltishall, navigation, Ranworth Broad, Richardsons, Wroxham
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We’ve had enough rain
I was going to make this the first of my three pre-prepared blogs but that is going to have to wait briefly. Sadness on Friday as I, along with others, attended Tony Jubb’s funeral and what a well attended event … Continue reading →
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Tagged Burgh, bus, car, Coltishall, embroidery, event, navigation, press release, public transport, Tony Jubb, WI
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Man flu
Now I work full time although some may say that I only attend full-time and one or two might intimate that I don’t even do that. My work can involve travel but is mostly sat either in a car with … Continue reading →
