Carbrooke Heritage News May 2015

 

Lovely sunny day today, and at this time of year I can’t help but notice all the seasonal smells there are, particularly plants. Wallflowers and wild currant, remind me of my RAF childhood, as most RAF gardens seemed to have the same plants – including lavender, mint, paeonies and privet hedges. I wonder if any of the ex RAF houses in Carbrooke  still have any of these original plants in their gardens.

Perhaps certain cooking smells remind you of home. The public buildings in our village have their own smells too - the school, the church or the village hall, and if we were blindfolded and taken into one of them, I expect we could tell which, by the smell. In the winter I love the smell of wood smoke on an open fire, but just as much I like the smell of a coal fire – and there is a difference.

Perfume, aftershave or a certain soap soap, may remind us of certain friends or family.

There are so many smells around us all the time, which we don’t usually notice, but when we catch a waft of them later, or in an unexpected place, they can bring back memories.

The Heritage Group will be putting on a display in the church during the Patronal Festival 27^th & 28^th June, to cover all aspects of Carbrooke life: - family, social, agricultural, educational and religious. If anyone has any items they would like to share, copy, lend, or donate, please let us know. We hope to have a number of parish Registers on display from the Norfolk Archives. The 1611 Carbrooke Bible will also be on display in the church. Come along for a chat or to share your reminiscences.

All welcome to our informal meetings, contact us for details of the next.