Newsletters

The south porch of St Nicholas’ Church. The railing in the middle distance encloses St Withburga’s Well.

Our quarterly newsletters are distributed free to members. They include summaries of our talks and articles on the history of our neighbourhood which are of permanent interest, as well as news about the Trust. While the most recent four issues are restricted to members, please feel free to consult previous editions via the links below.

Spring 2023
The museums in the three market towns around Dereham
The Skinner camera

Winter 2022
Dereham Clockmakers – Boyce
Dereham’s Guildhall
Holman’s Swallow Cycles of Dereham
Edward Peck – chemist of East Dereham (1857-1923)

Autumn 2022
Bishop Bonner’s Cottage Residents
Copy of Gifts and Benefactions to the Poor of E Dereham
Weathering Hobbies

Summer 2022
The Warcups of Dereham and Scarning
Kelly’s 1922 Directory of Norfolk for Yaxham

Spring 2022
Francis Wollaston and the Transit of Venus
‘Youth in the Making 1915-1940 – The History of Dereham Senior School’ by Walter Tebbutt
Snapshots of Local History – Historic Street Signs

Winter Extra 2021
100 years ago: Kelly’s Directory of Norfolk 1922
A History of Norfolk in 100 Places – Salle fifteenth-century church
You wouldn’t think that ventilation had a history, but…
Perhaps Dereham’s most celebrated artist? John Craske 1881-1943
John Fenn and his Archaeologia volumes

Autumn 2021
New insights into Bishop Bonner’s Cottages
Scoulton Gullery
A History of Norfolk in 100 Places – Norwich Central Library, Technopolis and The Forum
Where did Norfolk get its iron from? Part 2 – the North

Summer 2021
A History of Norfolk in 100 Places – The Site of the Anglo-Saxon cathedral and early Norman bishop’s chapel at North Elmham
Where did Norfolk get its iron from? Part 1 – The West
Mensa at Church of St Nicholas, East Dereham

Spring 2021
East Dereham High School for Girls
The Wreck of the Invincible, 220 years ago
George J Skipper – now that reminds me
A History of Norfolk in 100 Places – Warham Iron Age Fort

Winter 2020
From the Archive – Christmas then and now
Bill’s 1914 Christmas
Church of St Andrew, East Lexham
Lox

Late Autumn 2020
Sniffing out the tanneries
Shipdham in the Great War

Autumn 2020
Camden and Cox on Dereham
John Craske
Adelaide Anderson and her team of giants
Memories of Etling Green (continued)

Summer Extra 2020
Maps, walks and pubs
Memories of Etling Green
Hobbies kits
The East Dereham Brick Tile and Pottery Works
More on Etling Green
Mike Page’s photos
Why Bawdeswell

Summer 2020
Bishop Edmund Bonner (1500-1569)
Bishop Bonner’s Bones
St Withburga – Historia Eliensis
Evacuating Lyng in the Fist World War
The Black Lady of North Elmham

Spring Extra 2020
A new information panel for North Elmham’s Cathedral Meadows
Aches and Pains at North Elmham
The Norman font
The Tautmila incident

Spring 2020
William Wollaston’s mineral
From the Archive – Revd W Macnaughton Jones

Winter 2019
Excavations in Bishop Bonner’s Cottages
Bishop Bonner’s Palace
Skinner Camera
Metamec Works
Lighting up your Christmas tree, 1815 style
Betty’s Wartime Diary

Autumn 2019
Repairs to Bishop Bonner’s Cottages
From the Archive

Summer 2019
Book Review: A Passion for Records
Past Newsletters
Bishop Bonner’s Cottages: Then and Now

Spring 2019
News from the Museum
Dereham Obelisk

Winter 2018
Extracts from Dereham & Fakenham Times – January – March 1919
Local Recall Project
Dereham Windmill World War One Centenary Exhibition

Autumn 2018
Dereham and Fakenham Times – 28th February 1914 and 16th November 1918
Book Review: A Vicar in Victorian Norfolk, Dr Susanna Wade Martins

Summer 2018
Dereham and Fakenham Times – 16 April 1910: Death of a veteran engine driver
Dereham’s other Railway Station

Spring 2018
Book Review: A Life in Norfolk’s Archaeology, 1950-2016
From the Archive: DAS Minute Book 1953 to 2003
Maltsters 40 years ago

Winter 2017
From the Archive: Mr J J Wright

Autumn 2017
From the Archive: Our Friends in Paradise