Binham Local History Group Binham Local History Group, Priory Cottage, Binham, Norfolk NR21 0DW 01328 830270

NEWSLETTER APRIL 2009

Wednesday & Thursday 10th and 11th June

For two days in June it is hoped that Binham will be buzzing with activity as up to 40 well supervised, GCSE students from local schools will be seriously involved digging Test Pits. This will be organised by HEFA – the Higher Education Field Academy of Cambridge University. HEFA was devised and is run by Carenza Lewis of the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University. Carenza is well known to many from Channel 4's Time Team. HEFA is similar in the activity it engages in to Time Team's Big Dig, broadcast in 2003, when people across Britain dug test pits in their gardens. The aim of the Field Academy is (without TV cameras present!) to involve young people, local people and the University in a programme of learning skills development, based around research into their local historic origins. The Test Pits will be just 1 metre square and thanks to kind landowners and garden owners we will be able to provide about 14 different sites throughout the village.

Thursday 25th June 10.30 a.m.

A private morning tour of Houghton Hall. Following the tour we can either have lunch in the restaurant or enjoy a picnic in the grounds and then visit the gardens, which should be almost at their best. £12.50 per person.

Booking essential (01328 830270 or cpwrightuk@aol.com)

The History Group is most grateful to the villagers who have submitted old photographs for copying but would still appreciate access to more, of local people or of the village in earlier times. For more information on the archive and contents contact Alan Eagle (01328 830031 or alane2004@btinternet.com).

01328 830270

cpwrightuk@aol.com