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Swaffham History Group
One of the many pursuits and activities of the members
within our History Group is the ongoing research in all
things relating to Swaffham from a bygone age. Using
the search engine of Google is fantastic, but of course it
is limited to what other persons upload into the system.
Due to this we have a reliance on Swaffham Heritage,
the County Archives in Norwich, Libraries and also the
National Archives at Kew. Visiting these avenues of
research are now, of course, unavailable to us due to
the present situation during lock-down. Currently we
are ploughing on with our engrossing items of research
and if not having a finished article in writing there
will be plenty of notes to put together so to produce
a written work of interest at a later date. One of our
members Michael Medlar is currently in the final stages
of completing his new book entitled 'Aspects of Life in
Georgian Swaffham'. Michael, of course is the author of
two other successful books about Swaffham published
by the Swaffham History Group.
Due to the above comments, our meetings, like many
other groups are curtailed for the moment but we are
in touch with one another via email. We are hopeful
that this present situation will shortly come to an end
with things becoming more normalised sometime
soon. At the current time I notice more traffic on the
road and I am pleased to see the Swaffham Saturday
Market has now reopened, for fresh produce, etc. if
somewhat limited.
For further details of The History Group please phone
01842 879140 or Email jbaz@go-plus.net
Swaffham Counselling and Psychotherapy
Due to Covid 19, Barbara O'Hanlon MA is now offering
telephone & Skype sessions
For more details or an initial consultation contact Barbara on:
07516 917171 / barbarann688@gmail.com
www.swaffhamtherapy.co.uk
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Mayor's Parlour
Hello there People of
Swaffham.
Yes, it does feel as though
we’ve been shut away for a
long time and just starting to
emerge from our doorsteps.
The new “norm” still feels pretty restrictive,
but I suppose it’s just a case of getting used
to things.
Council wise we are still functioning
virtually but cannot wait to get back to face
to face meetings, it’s all very well working
from home but there’s nothing like people
for good communication. Let us hope we
can progress safely , get out and about
without too much stress that Covid19 has
put us under.
Moving on to happier things , we have the
market functioning well with the new rules,
I cannot wait to include a cup of coffee in
my visit.
Pleased to say the skate park and MUGA
at Haspalls Rd is now up and running, I am
so pleased about this ,our young people
on the whole have been so patient with
the lockdown. Thank you again to the
young people who sent letters to our older
generation who could not get out and
about, these were very much appreciated.
Kurt at the White Hart continues with his
food distribution although it will revert
to the community centre I should think by
early July.
As I have said before, without Kurt and
his volunteers we would have been in real
difficulties to provide this vital service and
as always, cannot thank him enough.
Rob Bartrum from the Red Lion has also
been busy providing PPE plus I know
many others who have given their time to
others really pulling together as a town ,
thank you, I’m sure we won’t forget this
community spirit as hopefully we move on
into better times.
Events at the moment are not happening but
maybe a bit of entertaining on the Buttercross
might be permissible, we will see.
Gardens are enjoying this welcome rain,
so I will be looking forward to pulling the
weeds easily.
Take care of yourselves and please contact
me if you need help.
Best wishes Jill