Welcome to the Stoke Ferry and District History Group
We are an innovative History Group.
We focus primarily on the social history of all who live and have lived in our district.
This website is our latest innovation.
We hope you will enjoy exploring the fascinating history of our area.
Feel free to send images and suggestions for further content,
but most of all, enjoy your visit.
Jim McNeill, Chair, September 2024
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- The Lives of Benjamin Benson and Elizabeth Doyle: A Meeting of Two Worlds
The historical narrative of Norfolk is a complex tapestry of conflicting legacies, where the immense wealth generated by the transatlantic slave trade existed alongside a pioneering and radical movement for human rights. While many local figures, such as Adam Thoroughgood of King’s Lynn, and Sir Hanson Berney of Barton Bendish, built fortunes upon the exploitation […]
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- Whittington in the 1950s and 60s: childhood recollections of Pat Bouse.
The video recounts Pat’s 1950s life in Whittington, detailing her father’s career at Whitbread Maltings, her schooling, and the essence of village life in Norfolk.
- Our next public event
Our next event…we hope to see you there! Harry Harold took numerous photographs of people and places in our area. If you have any in your family collections then do bring them along on the night.
- AGM 2025: Accounts for 2024/25
- 2025 AGM: Chair’s Report
Chair’s Report on Activities 2024-2025 2024-25 has been an especially enjoyable and action-packed year. Of striking importance to our Group was the involvement of our Committee and general members is research and community initiatives. Such initiatives included: Events & Talks 2024 2025 Jim McNeill delivered two talks: Wells-next-the-Sea (Norfolk’s Conscientious Objectors in WW1) and The […]
- 2025 AGM Minutes: SF&DHG
Minutes of Stoke Ferry & District History Group AGM, 13 October 2025 Community Room, All Saints Academy, Lynn Road, Stoke Ferry 1. Appoint a minute taker: Marion Clarke 2. Welcome and apologies: Jim McNeill welcomed everyone to the meeting and commenced proceedings. Committee members present: Jim McNeill, Roger Warner, Alexis Brand, Marion Clarke, Anne Ellis, […]
- AGENDA for our 2025 AGM – Monday 13 October
AGM Agenda 7:30 pm 8.15pm AGM will formally close. There will then be light refreshments. A short film featuring Roger Warner on beet harvesting where he compares 1950s harvesting with the present day. There will also be a display of the history of Whittington Village. Additionally, there will be a showing of recent acquisitions to […]
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