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Easter Fair
Saturday 1st April 2023, New Victory Hall, Neatishead, 2-4pm. Displays and stalls from some of our villages’ groups and churches including NIBCHG. All welcome. Tea and cake available + children’s Easter activities. All welcome.
Looking Forward
Events for 2023 can be found on the Monthly Meetings page.
Ypres – visit, September 2022
During a trip to Ypres, four members of the group visited the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s cemeteries and memorials where six men from our villages who had served during WW1 are remembered: Robert Balls (Irstead), Donald Salmon, Thomas Preston, Horace Yaxley, Frederick Bailey (Barton Turf and Charles Plummer (Neatishead). More details about their service can be found at www.greatwar.nibchg.org.uk. The members also laid a wreath at the very moving and poignant ceremony at the Menin Gate, held their each evening at 8pm.
Annual General Meeting 2022
The AGM was held on 19th October 2022. The Chairman’s Report is available to read. There accounts covering 2021 and 2022 were accepted and the committee re-elected.
70 Years of Village Events – an Exhibition to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
June 2022
Annual General Meeting 2020
The AGM was held remotely via ‘Zoom’ on Thursday 12th November, 2020 which looked back on a challenging year. The Chairman’s Report is available. The accounts to 31st July 2020 were accepted and the Committee and Officers re-elected for a further year.
WW1 – The Norfolk Regiment Coming Home
Thank you to Steve Smith, Local Historian & Author, who gave us a fascinating insight into his research and approach to some of the myths surrounding the end of The Great War, at our November 2019 meeting.
Annual General Meeting 2019
The AGM was held on 16th October 2019. The Chairman Report October 2019 is available. The meeting was followed by a presentation on “St Peter’s Churchyard Research and Archive” and a short film “Looking forward after WW1.
St Benet’s Abbey 1000 years celebrations 1019-2019
Neatishead, Irstead and Barton Turf and their medieval connections with St Benet’s Abbey. Research undertaken by members of the group was on display at an exhibition in St Catherine’s Church at Ludham 3rd-11th August 2019 as part of the 1000 year celebrations of St Benet’s Abbey.
WW1 Commemoration November 2018
On 11th November 2018, the United Kingdom and its friends overseas marked the day 100 years ago when the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War. Our villages commemorated this too with a number of events.
Annual General Meeting 2018
The AGM was held on 17th October 2018. The Chairman’s Report Oct 18 is available. The meeting was followed by short presentations by Claire Penstone-Smith and Gareth Pritchard entitled “From the WW1 Battlefields to Blighty”.
Barton Black Shed Display
We have completed a display at The Black Shed about its history, together with that of Barton Staithe and the ‘Hole in the Wall’.
The Norfolk Punt Club: 90 years of sailing, fun and social change on Barton Broad
Neville Khambatta, a member of the Punt Club for over 30 years, illustrated his talk on Wednesday 18th January 2017, with photos of sailing on Barton Broad in days gone by and the changes in Norfolk Punts over the years. As they celebrated their 90th year in 2016 it showed the sailing, as well as tea and cake on the club’s pontoon, was enjoyed as much in its early days as it is today!
The History of How Hill and The Broads
A fascinating illustrated talk was given by Simon Partridge, Director of How Hill Trust on Monday 28th November. How Hill has recently been made a National Nature Reserve and is one of the treasures of The Norfolk Broads. How Hill House overlooks beautiful gardens, wetlands, historic windmills, woodlands and the river Ant. Schoolchildren stay in the house virtually every academic week of the year and make full use of the unique position of the house in the heart of the Norfolk Broads national park.
Annual General Meeting
The AGM took place on 24th October 2017. The Chairman’s Report is available to read, together with a further document presented at the meeting on “Looking forward” for the group. A “Friends of NIBCHG” has been formed and details will be available here.
Norfolk Historic Buildings Group (NHBG) On 21st September the group enjoyed a fascinating introduction on investigating the history of your house by Lynne Hodge of NHBG. She began with the basic medieval design of an oblong shape divided into three buttery/pantry, hall, parlour, with a fire in the centre of the hall and how this developed over the years. Lynne explained how brickwork, roof timber structure, shape and size of windows, roof shape and material, has changed over the years and what we should look for to discover those houses that are genuinely old, as opposed to those that are modern and made to look old!
Battle of the Somme Commemoration
We should like to thank the RAF Radar Museum at Neatishead for displaying our exhibition to remember the 12 men from our villages who paid the ultimate sacrifice at the Battle of the Somme which was on display there until the end of November 2016 together with maps and information relating to the battle itself and the Norfolk Regiments’ involvement in it.
Neatishead School Reunion
A very successful reunion took place on Sunday 28th February at the New Victory Hall, Neatishead of many people who attended Neatishead and Barton Schools over 50 years ago. If you have memories of the school to share please contact us via email or check out the Facebook page ‘We grew up in Neatishead”
“Living through World War One in three Norfolk Broadland Villages: Neatishead, Irstead and Barton Turf” 2014 – 2016
In March 2014 we were awarded a grant of £9,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for this two year project. More details can be found on the project’s NIBCHG Great War website and also on WW1 pages on this website.
Postcard Quiz. In December 2014 the group was represented at the Christmas Fair when a 25%-