Diary Dates 2025
Wednesday April 23 at 2pm
The first meeting of 2025 will be Wednesday April 23 2025 at 2pm. A Farm in Fincham. We will be looking at how we researched the history of Broadland Farm. (With slides)
Diary Dates 2024
Wednesday 20th November
The next meeting will be on 20th November at 1.30 pm in the Village Hall (Note the change in time for this meeting only) James Bagge will be talking about Four Generations of the Bagge Family.
Wednesday September 18th at 2 pm
The next meeting will be on 18th September at 2 pm in the Village Hall. John Vigar will be talking about the contents of Norfolk churches, picking out some of the rare, unusual and often overlooked (and often amusing) details.
As we have a speaker entry will be £3.00. We will provide tea, coffee and biscuits as usual.
Wednesday April 24th at 2 pm
The next meeting will be on 24th April at 2 pm in the village Hall. Our speaker will be Charlotte Paton talking about crime in Norfolk.
As we have a speaker entry will be £3.00. We will provide tea, coffee and biscuits as usual.
Law and Order through time with a local flavour
Beginning with the system of self rule within communities, during the Anglo Saxon Period, Charlotte traces the history of policing in the county through the recollections of policemen themselves, articles from archives, newspapers of court cases, and the punishments given out, including transportation and capital punishment. But it is not all gloom and doom, Charlotte tells of PC Bocking who in helping a local farmer find out who was stealing from his log pile, put a plug of dynamite in one of the pieces of wood. They soon found their man when the side of a workers cottage blew out!
Wednesday February 21st at 2 pm
The first meeting of the new year will be a talk , with slides by Peter Thorpe (a Fincham resident )
A Family’s legacy to Downham Market (R S Bennett)
Some of you may remember his talk on the Bagge family of Stradsett.
We hope the new afternoon slot will be easier for most people. We look forward to seeing you then.
Refreshments will be provided.
Diary Dates 2023
Talks to be finalised.
Wednesday 15th February
A History of Fincham through memorabilia. A “Show and Tell” of objects that tell us something about Fincham or the surrounding area.
Wednesday 19th April
Saturday 3rd June
The History Society stall at the Village Fete was well attended
Wednesday 21st June
Postponed
Wednesday 16th August
After some deliberation we thought it might be a good idea to have an evening where we look at the Fincham History website .
We will show you what topics are available on the site and how to find them. We’ll cover what kinds of photographs and information we are allowed to put on the site, what other information we have that we might like to have on the site and what we’d prefer to keep in our offline archives!
We’ll look at people who have contacted us through the website and how we can help them with information and how they helped us with photographs and information we didn’t know existed.
We’d also like to show you how you could help us with articles (see Dave Stringer’s excellent piece on Roy Claydon and the plane crash down Black Drove.
Wednesday 18th October
Unfortunately we have had to postpone this meeting
Wednesday 6th December
Shops Trades and Occupations in a Norfolk Village.
The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick Maker but what about The Fellmonger, the Breeches Maker and the Cordwainer We’ll have a look at some of the more obscure occupations and how villages needed to be self sufficient but also able to trade with surrounding villages.
Fincham Local History Society 