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Welcome to the new Thorpe Hamlet History GroupFollowing the publication of 'Memories of Thorpe Hamlet Norwich' the group responsible for the book have passed on the torch to a new group which has been set up to look at various aspects of the history of Thorpe Hamlet. The group normally meets at the Plumstead Road library. If you are interested in any aspect of the recent or distant history of the Hamlet call Ken Lock on 702 734 for more information.
If you would like to know
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The group visit the Water tower |
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The group are starting an interesting new project to collect and publish the stories behind all the street names in the Hamlet. They have made a start with a new web page that's 'right up my street' Plumstead Road Library We are very grateful to the Plumstead Road Library who have generously offer the library for meetings of the new history group. Love your Library There are lots of events put on by your local library on Plumstead Rd throughout the year. Visit the Plumstead Library website
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On a brilliantly sunny day in June the group
visited the waterworks and water tower at the heart of the hamlet. Here are some photographs of the visit. Click on any thumbnail to enlarge it and click your back button to return to this page.
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In 1972 Geoffrey
Goreham wrote a description and
history of Click on this link to read the text of this interesting booklet that is now out of print
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Catch up with the news from the
local media.
Visit the Forum in Norwich, see Norwich live through the live BBC
webcams Find local accommodation and lots more interesting sites on our links page. If you know about a site we have missed please e-mail at the address at the bottom of the page |
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Factory Surprise At the end of October the group visited the Thompson and Joseph building on Plumstead Rd where they were surprised to find a thriving local business that has two distinct operations. One is an agricultural monitoring and treatment service that also imports specialist agrichemicals. The other is a jam and pickle factory that produces high quality (we know we tasted them) and prize winning produce under the name Norfolk Garden. you can buy their products in Jarrolds, Morrisons, The forum, Tunstead Barns amongst other outlets. They also make the Garden of Suffolk range for sale over the border. |
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e-mail from Eastern Evening NewsLocal Correspondent Jane Nock.
I am currently the Community Life Correspondent for EEN for Sprowston
and Heartsease areas, a small, very part-time job which has made me
aware that many of the very interesting events going on in Thorpe Hamlet
often fail to make these pages (Tuesday's EEN). I have spoken to
Caroline Jenkinson at the press who agreed that as the area does not
have official cover there would be no objection to my passing on
information from the area. The pages can be used for pre-publicity,
reporting events, special achievements, celebrations, in fact anything
of interest. |
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Send us your information about any aspect
of the history of
Thorpe Hamlet e-mail: * 
*Sadly we are plagued by e-mail spammers. To prevent them capturing e-mail addresses we have been forced to ask you to retype the e-mail address yourself rather than just click on it or copy and paste it. |
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