Carbrooke Heritage Group News: October 2012

 

HERITAGE WEEKEND – I don’t think any of us can believe just how successful and popular this proved to be! We opened the door at 10am on Saturday, shut them at 5pm on Sunday and had a steady stream of visitors for the whole time. It was lovely to see old friends catching up with each other after many years, and to hear their reminiscences. One particularly lucky couple turned up from Bristol, in the hope of researching their Wyer ancestors!

There were heritage displays and photographs around the church, a time line to record memories, our Parish Registers from Norfolk Record Office, The Wayland Partnership copy of the Domesday Book and our 1611 Bible on display.

‘A moment in time’ photography by ‘Homercreative’ ‘Picture Yourself’ was great fun; we were invited to take a photograph of ourselves by clicking a button, and recording a memory. Some lovely pictures were taken - and also some very silly ones!

Outside we had Parachuting Teddies from the church tower, although it was a little breezy, and quite a few of them had to be rescued! with a BBQ in the churchyard.

The raffle included a lovely Teddy Bear cake baked by Valerie Crane, an enormous Norwich City Teddy, a much sought after miniature painting by Enid Clarke and jars of honey donated by Michael Pfiel. The refreshment table was groaning under the weight of a fantastic array of cakes.

The Church was packed for the Harvest Festival, which was a group service, ‘Carbrooke Young Believers’, entertained us as they explained the importance of Harvest to us. David Saunders read a passage from our copy of the ‘1611 Bible.

(On Saturday Rev. Philip Harrison returned for a visit, having seen a reference to the event in the EDP, it was he and David who discovered the Bible in an old cupboard in the church back in early 1980’s, and now kept in Norwich Cathedral Library).

The Harvest Festival was followed by the unveiling of the newly renovated and painted village sign, unveiled by Enid Clarke, who has lived in Carbrooke all of her life. Then the ‘Page Hunton’ Plough was unveiled by members of the Page family, who returned to Carbrooke for the occasion. The Plough was cast at the foundry (now East Coast Castings) around 1900, by the grandfather of John Page who did the unveiling.

This was followed by some Norfolk step dancing and traditional Norfolk music. We hope to invite the group ‘Rig a Jig Jig’, back, to a specific event to enjoy their talents later on. Organ music was played in the church during the whole weekend, and the Church bell ringers ended the service with a Quarter Peal.

We have had much positive feedback, and hopefully new members to join our group, and so much to follow up on. If you are interested, come along to our next informal meeting it will be held in the School on Wednesday 7^th November at 7pm. All welcome.