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Mary Hardy (diarist)
Mary Hardy (née Raven; 12 November 1733 – 23 March 1809) was an 18th-century English Diary, diarist. She depicted commercial and working life in the countryside, being actively engaged in her husband's farming and brewing business. Her 500,000-word record, compiled daily from 1773 to 1809, reveals the exacting, time-pressured nature of pre-mechanised work for the middle and labouring classes. Early life Mary Hardy spent nearly half her life in the small village of Whissonsett, in central Norfolk, where her father Robert Raven was a grocer, Malt house, maltster and later a farmer. She came from a long line of village shopkeepers, manufacturers and farmers in Norfolk, the county from which she never moved. Maltsters, like brewers, were monitored by the HM Customs and Excise#Excise, Excise and had to adhere strictly to procedures and timings set by legislation. Living beside her family's small malthouse may have trained the young Mary Raven in the time-awareness and methodical wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gabriel Huquier
James Gabriel Huquier, originally Jacques-Gabriel (1730–1805) was a portrait-painter and engraver. He was the son of the roccoco engraver Gabriel Huquier and his wife Marie-Ann (Desvignes). One of Huquier's subjects was Chevalier d'Eon, an early transvestite. Life Huquier was born in Paris in 1730.http://www.pastellists.com/articles/huquier.pdf His father was an engraver in the style of Watteau and Boucher. His father's work based on the style of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier, J. A. Meissonnier and Gilles-Marie Oppenord, Oppenord helped set styles in Louis XV's reign with regard to furniture, silver, and other decorative ornament. James Huquier assisted his father in many of his engravings. He married Anne Louise, the daughter of the engraver Jacques Chéreau, in 1758 in Paris. He collaborated as an engraver and printseller with his father-in-law. They created a shop that sold wallpapers and prints in 1764 and two years later they had a wallpaper factory. The business appears to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Record Society
The Norfolk Record Society (NRS) was established in 1930 as a scholarly text publication society to publish historical documents relating to the history of Norwich and the county of Norfolk, England. The Society's objectives were to encourage the study and preservation of historical records relating to Norfolk. The society is registered as a charity. Its membership is drawn mainly from East Anglia; however, individuals and institutions from around the world are also members. History The Society was founded in 1930. It has published annually a transcript of a significant and sometimes unusual manuscript or collection of manuscripts. In the 1950s consideration was given to broadening the scope of the society to encompass Suffolk as the Norfolk and Suffolk Records Society. However, concerns were felt that unless the publishing schedule of the body could be doubled, each county would have to wait for two years instead of one until the next book relating to their county was made av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keelboat
A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht. The boats in the first category have shallow structural keels, and are nearly flat-bottomed and often used leeboards if forced in open water, while modern recreational keelboats have prominent fixed fin keels, and considerable draft. The two terms may draw from cognate words with different final meaning. A keel boat, keelboat, or keel-boat is a type of usually long, narrow cigar-shaped riverboat, or unsheltered water barge A barge is typically a flat-bottomed boat, flat-bottomed vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. Original use was on inland waterways, while modern use is on both inland and ocean, marine water environments. The firs ... which is sometimes also called a poleboat—that is built about a slight keel and is designed as a boat built for the navigation of rivers, shallow lakes, and sometimes canals that were commonly used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth ( ), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside resort, seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ended. North Sea oil from the 1960s supplied an oil rig industry that services offshore natural gas rigs; more recently, offshore wind power and other renewable energy industries have ensued. Yarmouth has been a resort since 1760 and a gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea. Holidaymaking rose when a railway opened in 1844, bringing easier, cheaper access and some new settlement. Wellington Pier opened in 1854 and Britannia Pier in 1858. Through the 20th century, Yarmouth boomed as a resort, with a promenade, pubs, trams, fish-and-chip shops, theatres, the Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Pleasure Beach, the Sea Life Centres, Sea Life Centre, the Great Yarmouth Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Bure
The River Bure is a river in the county of Norfolk, England, most of it in the Broads.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. . The Bure rises near Melton Constable, upstream of Aylsham, which was the original head of navigation. Nowadays, the head of navigation is downstream at Coltishall Bridge. After Aylsham Lock and Burgh Bridge, the Bure passes through Buxton Lammas, Coltishall, Belaugh, Wroxham, Horning, past St. Benet's Abbey, through Oby, Acle, Stokesby, along the northern border of the Halvergate Marshes, through Runham and Great Yarmouth where it meets Breydon Water and flows into the sea at Gorleston. It has two major tributaries, the River Thurne and the River Ant. There is also Muck Fleet which connects the Trinity Broads (Ormesby, Rollesby and Filby Broad) to the main network. Other minor tributaries include the River Hor, which joins the Bure just upstream of Hoveton, The Mermaid which merges at Burgh-next-Aylsham and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coltishall
Coltishall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Coltishall is located on the River Bure and within the Norfolk Broads, north-west of Wroxham and north-east of Norwich. Etymology Coltishall's name is of Old English origin and first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the forms ''Cokereshala'' and ''Coketeshala''. From 1200 onwards, it is attested in the contracted form ''Couteshal(e)'', in which form it has more or less remained to the present day (the ''l'' in the modern spelling is due to hypercorrection). The second part of the name is thought to derive from the Old English word ''halh'' ('nook') but the origin of the first part is uncertain; one guess is that it was an otherwise unattested personal name ''Coccede'' or ''Cohhede'', and thus meant 'Coccede's nook'. But ''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names'' concludes that "the recorded forms are too few and contradictory for satisfactory explanation". History In the Domesday Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy
Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy, (1838–1920) was a British politician and judge who served as Master of the Rolls from 1907 until 1918. Early life and career Cozens-Hardy was born in Letheringsett, Norfolk, in 1838, the second son of William Hardy Cozens-Hardy, a former Norwich solicitor, and Sarah, ''née'' Theobald, daughter of Thomas Theobald, textile manufacturer. His grandmother was the diarist Mary Hardy (diarist), Mary Hardy. His family were Methodists, a connection which proved to be useful in his career at the bar. Cozens-Hardy was educated at Amersham School and University College, London, where he matriculated in 1858 and gained the LLB in 1863, later becoming a fellow of University College. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1862, and read in the chambers of Thomas Lewin and James Dickinson. Cozens-Hardy acquired a large junior practice at the Chancery bar, and became Queen's Counsel in 1882. It was then the practice of Chancer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litcham
Litcham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Litcham is located north-east of Swaffham and west of Norwich, along the B1145. History Litcham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the enclosure homestead. In the Domesday Book, Litcham is listed as a settlement of 46 households in the hundred of Launditch. In 1086, the village was divided between the East Anglian estates of King William I and Hermer de Ferrers. From the Fourteenth Century, Litcham Priory stood in the village which served as a hermitage. Today, the medieval stonework has been incorporated into a farmhouse. In the Eighteenth Century, a windmill stood in Litcham. Geography According to the 2021 census, Litcham has a population of 593 people which shows a decrease from the 618 people recorded in the 2011 census. The B1145, between King's Lynn and Mundesley, passes through the village. All Saints' Church Litcham's parish church dates from the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider Norwich List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, built-up area had a population of 213,166 at the 2011 census. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of Norwich, the city has one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals. For much of the second millennium, from medieval to just before Industrial Revolution, industrial times, Norwich was one of the most prosperous and largest towns of England; at one point, it was List of towns and cities in England by historical population, second only to London. Today, it is the largest settlement in East Anglia. Heritage and status Norwich claims to be the most complete medie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprowston
Sprowston ( or ) is a town and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England. It is bounded by Heartsease to the east, Mousehold Heath and the suburb of New Sprowston to the south, Old Catton to the west, and by the open farmland of Beeston St Andrew to the north. It is close to Norwich. The 2021 census recorded a population of 17,126, making Sprowston the most populous civil parish in the Broadland district. History Sprowston was recorded as ''Sprowestuna'' in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name is Anglo-Saxon and means "the settlement belonging to Sprow"; it is derived from the OE ''Sprow'' and ''tun'' (enclosure, settlement or farm). By 1186, one Manor was held by the Mounteney family, on behalf of Sir Richard de Luci, who kept it for some 250 years; the other, held by the de Sproustons and then the Aslakes, was owned by the Bishop of Norwich. In 1545, the Jermy family granted Mounteney Manor to John Corbet. During Kett's rebellion in 1549, the house wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Riding Of Yorkshire
The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named County of York, West Riding. The Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, lieutenancy at that time included the city of York and as such was named "West Riding of the County of York and the County of the City of York". The riding ceased to be used for administrative purposes in 1974, when England's local government was reformed. Contemporary local government boundaries in Yorkshire largely do not follow those of the riding. All of South Yorkshire (except Finningley) and West Yorkshire were historically within its boundaries, as were the south-western areas of North Yorkshire (including Ripon), the Sedbergh area of Cumbria, the Barnoldswick and Slaidburn areas of Lancashire, the Saddleworth area of Greater Manchester and the part of the East Riding of Yorkshire around Goole and southwest of the River Ouse, Yorkshire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
