A field seen on a walk near Plumstead, Norfolk, UK. Like many villages around here, it traces its history back to the Domesday Book of 1085. The name means "plum-tree place." I didn't see any of those, but there are a few sweet chestnuts!
#NorfolkHistory #UKHeritage #Norfolkcounty.
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A post box dating from the time of Queen Victoria embedded in a brewery wall. Older post boxes tend to be embedded into walls or buildings, and newer ones (anecdotally starting around George V, 1910-1936) tend to be stand-alone items. East Barsham, Norfolk, UK.
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Cannon set in the green in front of the church at Wiveton, Norfolk, UK. The story is it "fell off a wagon" on its way to the Napoleonic Wars. Not sure I buy that story. The locals tried to fire it and (somehow) blew a hole in the barrel and then set it up here. #NorfolkHistory #NapoleonicWars #VillageCanon
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Creake Abbey ruins, Norfolk, UK. These fell into ruins (1506) before the dissolution of the monasteries. Fire, then plague finished it off. They became farm buildings for a while. I hope the cows liked their lofty living quarters! Were they udderly amazed? #CreakeAbbey #NorfolkHistory #AbbeyRuins #FarmLife
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One time I started a blog that was going to be posts about what I style 'folk history': little essays on the stories I've uncovered in my (entirely hobbyist) researches into folk belief, local history, and the more interesting bits of my family history, against a background of social history of the times.
Typically of me, I set it all up, got one post in, and never wrote anymore. But since people seem to like that sort of thing on here, maybe I'll resurrect it?
For what it's worth, this is that one post, a story of my direct ancestor and the convict transports of the 1830s (which I optimistically styled 'part 1 of 2'): https://pastpathways.wordpress.com/2021/07/12/a-transportation-story-part-1-the-cattle-thief/
#ancestry #genealogy #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory #FolkHistory #EnglishHistory #AustralianHistory #ConvictTransports #CrimeHistory #CrimeAndPunishment #19thCentury #Geneadons #PatrickFamily #Norfolk #NorfolkHistory
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The Atterbury Plot (see @HistParl ) is of interesr to anyone who has seen that plaque in Aylsham market square & wondered what it's about. #NorfolkHistory #Norfolk