At last St Nicholas' Ship weather vane is back
What was Going On here?
© Sarah Dawson
headless Egyptian goose
flying over
Photo©Marilyn Wigley

to see some quick shots of the Private View and opening by Sister Wendy Beckett

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The History

the Newspaper reports

The burying

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for 2007 EXHIBITIONS click here


2006 WORKSHOPS
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for Eric Smee and the June Exhibition
'IN SEARCH OF A THREAD' CLICK HERE

for pictures
of the May Exhibition by
Tony Bellars and Andrew Schumann
Click HERE


 

 

PLANNING Application IN CROSS STREET!! - Click Here to see all the details


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St Nicholas Church Salthouse

The South aisle with the Lady Chapel in the distanceSee the Lady Chapel refurbished
for private meditation and prayer


and the New Cross

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©Andrew Wigley of Salthouse

 

the lovely photo of the new Cross is by

For the state of the Shingle Bank
at present click
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CAROL SINGING PICTURES Click HERE

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  BIG DRAWCLICK HERE to have a look! SURGE at Salthouse
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      Bure Valley School 2007 project click here

Winnie's
Catriona Court garden

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Harvest Thanksgiving
Service & Supper
at the DUN COW

Harvest Thanksgiving in the Dun Cow

The Harvest Thanksgiving Supper was an enormous success and over £260 was raised for Water Aid

see pictures

 
Salthouse Can-do

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BAPTISM of Joshua and Spike Wright September 9th      click to See pictures!


FUNERAL Service and THANKSGIVING
for the life of DOROTHY THOMSON

 

 

Dorothy Thomson, well known and well loved, ex-Churchwarden of Salthouse, died at her home on the 3rd of September surrounded by her family. 
St Nicholas' church was filled on Monday 10th September for the Funeral and Celebratory service of Thanksgiving for the life of Dorothy.  Dorothy was remembered and celebrated by heart-warming accounts from her son-in-law Jay and her granddaughter Lucy. The service was taken by Father Phil and by Revd Martin Oram, a friend of the family, with Revd Angela Dugdale playing the organ and finally glorifying everything by singing the Nunc Dimittis.  The reception was held at Edenfield, the cottage of Birkin Haward, and the sun shone. see her page


for 2007 EXHIBITIONS click here

 


For the Latest NEWS on the 2nd SALTHOUSE REGISTER

The second Buried Register dating from 1713 - 1818

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The BURIED RECORDS on CD Rom

is available now from The Old Bakery, Salthouse
and from The Norfolk Family History Centre at St Giles, Norwich


The Cost is £10 (+50p postage and packing) and the proceeds go to 'the Friends of Salthouse Church'

Before you buy, have a look at one or two pages in the CD:

the Titles Page (just to show you what is in it, though of course the links won't work): click here

an example of the photographic quality of a full sized page: page o61 click here

the first few pages of the side-by-side arrangement for the transcriptions (but without explanatory notes) click here

preview the index of surnames click here

about the parish register click here

The two of us who made it (the last page in the disk) click here

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EXHIBITIONS in SALTHOUSE CHURCH 2007 see below

For SALLY LAWFORD's exhibition CLICK HERE       

To see some pictures taken during
THE BRITZ & McGOWAN EXHIBITION
click here

THE BURIED RECORDS EXHIBITION  ended April 30th '07      F or some pictures click HERE
Find out about the Salthouse 1538-1713 register at the 'Buried Records' page, or read Newspaper articles describing it,
or read about the burial of the register.        

SALTHOUSE EXHIBITION IN NORWICH    June '07 click here

 

for Salthouse o7 5 july to 5 august click here

Birkin Haward EXHIBITION 18 August - 6 September see pics of the opening

2006 WORKSHOPS click here

BURE VALLEY 2007 here


Salthouse History Home page click here to go to the home page

 

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For Church Services for September Click here
 

The Guinness Trust On Friday 7th April 2006, Julie Mogford and Tim Gray of the Guinness Trust came to Salthouse to view the new bit of garden that Winnie and Tracey of Catriona Court have been making to beautify the communal area with shrubs and plants. The Trust contributed money to buy more plants and brought delicious cakes for a gathering of village people.

Winnie, Julie Mogford, Henry Cordeaux
Tim Gray , Julie and Winnie
ceremonial planting
Winnie

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Chief watering can operator

 

 

 

Latest on the Buried Records

The NRO Newsletter issue 29 gives its whole back page to the Salthouse Parish Register Project.

 

To read it click on the pic

 

 

See the very latest pictures taken by Antoinette of her work at the moment - click here


On Wednesday 18th January 2006, a privileged group of Salthouse residents and Salthouse researchers were entertained at the NRO to a tremendously interesting and absorbing display, prepared for them by Archivist Jenny Watts and Conservator Antoinette Curtis.

   


One of the group is invited to have a feel
of the folio inside the humidifier
The first sight of the untreated register
(there was a gasp!)

 


The whole group


click here to read the EDP article for 22December 2005
click here to see the correspondence from Charles Swainson's son Peter

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THE RECTOR & CHURCHWARDEN WHO BURIED THE RECORDS


Above:
Reverend Charles Swainson Rector of Salthouse and Kelling 1930 - 1945

Churchwarden Frederick Champion de Crespigny
with Alec Morse, his bearer.

 

When Britain was under the threat of invasion during the second world war, the Rev'd Charles Swainson and his churchwarden Frederick Champion de Crespigny, took the precaution of hiding the oldest parish records away from possible harm somewhere underground in the churchyard. When the war ended the churchwarden had moved away and Charles Swainson was recovering from an illness in a nursing home. The 1538 parish register stayed where it was underground until 1959 when it was discovered in an unreadable state.

Now —having experienced the current excitement and delight connected with the gradual bringing back to life of the old document and its contents— I begin to wonder if Charles Swainson and his churchwarden's action might have been in the nature of one of those 'mysterious ways' in which God is known to work; creating challenges and surprises which stimulate far-reaching developments!

—The fascination of the dramatic story has attracted the local press and TV so that publicity has been drawn to what the Norfolk Record Office is so lovingly undertaking; their expert skill and the technology which has evolved for the purpose of repairing such damage.

There is such a community spirit about the whole venture which has drawn attention to the value and the contents of these rescued parchment pages and, had it not happened, a lot of people would have been the poorer.

How interested in all this those two might be if they could see it all !

 

See new photos of the Dack family, also Pigott family, -descendents of the famous Gabriel Pigott's elder brother John Pigott born 1841 see new article on SALT see new flood pics and stories, Kelling School groups, Salthouse Farming workers, Salthouse Hearth Tax, Salthouse Wills, 1841, 1861, 1871 and 1881 Censuses, Marriages in Salthouse Church - since 1839, 2 new Kelling School photos, Wedding photos, New site map, James Olley (who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade ) Accommodation at Salthouse and some October holiday pictures New pages on the early history of the village and the Heydon family, the cutting of 'flags' on the heath in the past, New pages of Charles High who worked on the railways in Australia, Graves newly revealed in the churchyard, small family trees, early marriages from 1755

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