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Dereham museum finally reopens after two-year closure

Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum, in Dereham, has finally reopened after two years of closure

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Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum, in Dereham, has finally begun welcoming visitors again.

Charlie Robinson, chairman of the Mid-Norfolk Railway Trust

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Coal shortages lead to cuts in services on heritage rail line

Donna-Louise Bishop

Graham Curtis has been working on a replica First World War bomber in his garage, near Dereham, for several years

See the replica First World War plane built in a Norfolk garage

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Paul Tooth with some of the postcards sent by Frank Joseph Crossland to Lily May Ottaway

Fascinating postcards exchanged by wartime lovers are unearthed

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Tony Makcrow (left) and Tony Dunford working at the Mid-Norfolk Railway base in Dereham

Mid-Norfolk Railway reopening date confirmed

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A exhibition called Dereham in Peace and War 1914 opened at Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum during a

Dereham landmark set to reopen after lengthy closure

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Churchgoers have launched a £200,000 appeal for repairs at St Bart's in Brisley, near Dereham

Church launches ambitious £200,000 appeal for urgent repairs

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The Queen Mother visits the Sandringham Flower Show in Norfolk on July 28, 1982.

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IN PICTURES: Remembering the Queen Mother's trips to Norfolk

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Dereham Windmill. Picture: Ian Burt

Windmill's future secured as volunteers come forward in their droves

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Glen Clarke at Nobby's in Wellington Street in Dereham in 1977, from our archives.

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From Dereham to Cromer: High streets in Norfolk through the decades

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Dereham Windmill. Picture: Ian Burt

Volunteer exodus puts future of beloved windmill under threat

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The area which could be occupied by a solar farm, near Great Dunham.

Breckland Council

Huge solar farm proposed near Roman site

Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter

A portrait of author George Borrow by Henry Wyndham Phillips

Breckland Council

Birthplace of Norfolk literary legend could soon host holiday lets

Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter

signal box

Railway launches appeal to restore signal box

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When Linda McCartney visited Ross Youngs on February 10, 1994. Picture: Archant Library

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The day Linda McCartney flew into Fakenham

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How Norfolk market towns have changed over the decade - Diss in 2008 and 2018

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How have Norfolk's market towns changed over the last decade?

Owen Sennitt

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A meteor during the Perseid meteor shower seen over Happisburgh lighthouse, Norfolk.

First meteor shower of 2022 to light up the night sky in early January

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A police officer outside Woolworths in King's Lynn. Date: 24 March 1994Soucre: Library

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From pick 'n' mix to toys: Do you remember your town's Woolworths?

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Manufacturing machine and operator at Crane Fruehauf at Dereham in about 1970

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Revisit the industrial heritage in the heart of Norfolk

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green vintage bus

Heritage

Heritage bus event returns after year away

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Kathy Blake and her mum Jean Lincoln on Waxham beach in 1972

Norfolk Day

Poem written more than half a century ago discovered inside book

Donna-Louise Bishop

Norwich Castle Museum

When are Norfolk's museums reopening?

Donna-Louise Bishop

Decimalisation at a Norwich bakery in 1971

Remember Decimal Day? 50 years on from currency changing forever

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Two teachers retire at West Earlham First School, 7th April 1973. Picture: Archant Library

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Are you in our Norfolk school photos from the 1970s?

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Rev Canon Heather Butcher at St Andrews Church in East Lexham with the stained glass window which fe

Royal Mail’s Christmas stamps feature window at tiny Norfolk church

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The Church of All Saints in Walsoken. Pic: Historic England.

Ten Norfolk churches added to at risk list of heritage which could be lost

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Red Arrows fly over Norfolk near Dereham September 2020 Pictures: BRITTANY WOODMAN

Red Arrows complete spectacular flypast over Norfolk

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A mystery find has been made at the Mid Norfolk Railway’s County School Station. Pictured is 1915 cr

Is mystery find at heritage railway from 1915 crash?

Donna-Louise Bishop

The Melton Constable Trust, which manages the Norfolk Orbital Railway project, has received £20,000

Heritage trust receives £20,000 of lottery funding to fight coronavirus...

Donna-Louise Bishop

A platform at the Mid Norfolk Railway. Picture: Mid Norfolk Railway

Heritage railway remains closed as opening ‘unviable’

Donna-Louise Bishop