Hales Towermill

Hales towermill was built of red brick in the early 1800s and was 5 storeys high, standing on a mound next to the mill house.The mill had 4 patent double shuttered sails that were struck by rack & pinion, one pair having 8 bays of 3 shutters and one pair having 9 bays of 3 shutters. The boat shaped cap had a petticoat, a gallery and an 8 bladed fan. The tower had 2 ground floor doors.


By 1981, all that remained was a single storey, partly ivy covered, brick base with no roof, containing fallen beams. A new housing estate was being constructed nearby.


By 2005, the single storey brick base still stood in the farmyard, which itself remained as an oasis within the new housing estate.

News from the past . . .

HALES
To be Sold by Auction
(Under a power of Sale to the Mortgagee)
By Mr. John Culley on Thursday 29 May 1834 at 4 o'c at the Kings Head, Bungay.
Lot 2.

Consists of an excellent Brick Tower Windmill, Miller's Cottage & Outbuidings & a Dwelling house occupied as a Beer House together with one Acre of Land situate at Hales in the county of Norfolk.

The Mill & Premises & part of the Land are under Lease to -- Fuller & another & the Beer House & remaining part of the Land are in the occupation of -- Crisp as Tenent from year to year.

All Freehold. Outgoings Land Tax 4s. per annum.

Apply to Mr. Steward, Solr. or the Auctioneer, St. Andrews, Norwich.
– Norfolk Chronicle - 24th May 1834

J. M. Goff
Sale 5 October 1863
Horses, Carts & other effects of James Hood, miller, deceased.
– Norfolk Chronicle - 3rd October 1863

Situations Vacant
TO JOURNEYMAN MILLERS
Wanted, a Man to work a Windmill. Must be steady.
Apply to James R. Hood, Hales Mill, Loddon, Norfolk.
– Norfolk News - 11th & 18th October 1873

For more history about this mill and many others, please visit - www.norfolkmills.co.uk

NHS Norfolk is urging people across the county to plan for their healthcare this bank holiday.

If you have a health concern that needs attention from your GP, make sure you book an appointment at your surgery before the bank holiday weekend, so that your condition is dealt with before the weekend break.

Remember also to pick up any prescription medication you may need before the weekend. Pharmacies can help with health queries you may have during the weekend, and can provide you with advice about over-the-counter medicines - such those to treat coughs and colds.

Ian Small, Deputy Head of Prescribing and Medicines Management at NHS Norfolk, said: "For minor health problems, it is advisable to contact your local pharmacist before your GP. They can offer advice and provide medicines to treat a wide range of conditions, and will refer you to your GP if necessary."

Dr Bryan Heap, Medical Director at NHS Norfolk, added: "If you need an appointment with your GP before the bank holiday, it is important to book it this week. The Out of Hours service is for urgent problems only."

Pharmacy opening times can be found on the NHS Choices website www.nhs.uk, or you can call NHS Direct for details of pharmacy services available in your area on 0845 46 47.

Several hundred people will take to the water this Sunday 9th May as the fifth East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival in aid of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) returns to Oulton Broad at Nicholas Everitt Park in Lowestoft. More than 30 crews will race the thirty foot brightly painted Chinese dragon boats three at a time over a 200m course alongside Nicholas Everitt Park, watched by several thousand spectators.

Crews representing businesses and organisations from all over East Anglia (see attached list) will be taking to the water to ‘race the dragon’ in an effort to win the coveted Festival trophy. Festival media partner, BBC Suffolk, will be one of the crews dipping their toes in the water for the first time this year with presenters, Rob Dunger, Mark Murphy, Lesley Dolphin and Steph Mack all swapping microphones for paddles! Trophies will be presented by East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices to the top three crews, the team that raises the most money for EACH, the best placed mixed crew and the ‘best dressed’ crew.

There is a fantastic incentive this year which should encourage the teams to raise even more money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices as the crew that raises the most will be awarded use of the gym and spa plus lunch at the Marriott Sprowston Manor in Norwich.

Carl Brooks, Corporate Fundraiser for EACH comments: “The majority of EACH’s costs are not for specialist equipment but for delivering the specialist one-to-one nursing care and support so vital to local children and their families. Such intensive, personal care does not come cheap so fundraising and the goodwill of the public are therefore vital. That is why we are delighted to be the Dragon Boat Festival’s official charity once again and that so many teams have signed up to take part”.

Carol Lester, Director of Festival organisers, Gable Events added “After the fantastic weather we had last year, we are expecting another large audience to come on the day to soak up the atmosphere and cheer on the teams. We have received great support this year from BBC Suffolk, The Lowestoft Journal and Waveney District Council and we are sure that the teams and spectators alike will enjoy a superb day out this Sunday”.


As well as races every 10 minutes throughout the day between 10am and 4pm, there will be plenty of family entertainment on the bank including an inflatable climbing wall, rodeo bull, human demolition and fun fair rides. In keeping with the Chinese history of dragon boat racing, the Wing Chun Kung Fu group will be performing a colourful lion dance at 12 noon and 2pm and students from the Lowestoft based Venue of Performing Arts will be performing three shows during the day at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain there will also be a Flypast at around lunchtime from a Dakota of the Memorial Flight.

You can also find out more about the work of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and meet the presenters and crew from BBC Suffolk. The Everitt Park café will be serving a wide range of food and refreshments and mobile caterers will be bringing a hog roast, crepes, coffee, smoothies, wraps and toasted sandwiches. Satalight Photography will be capturing all the memorable moments and making them available for purchase on the day.

Entrance to the Festival is free to spectators and there is plenty of parking available off Marsh Road (which will be clearly signposted), courtesy of Broadview Caravan Site with all proceeds going to EACH. ‘Pay and display’ parking is also available at Nicholas Everitt Park.

For more information on the Dragon Boat Festival contact Gable Events on 01780 470718 or visit the Festival website at www.dragonboatfestivals.co.uk/eastanglia.


Teams:

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NCN-Beccles Farmers Market

A Major Tyre safety group are alarmed at the number of drivers who are replacing the RUN FLAT tyres fitted to their vehicles, with standard type tyres...

Many motorists are finding it hard to reduce their maintenance costs, and are tempted to use this idea.

Run flat tyres have a special technology so by changing, drivers risk a big change in the handling of their vehicle, which leads to being involved in accidents.

It is recommended at all times to replace run flat with run flat, as they have much stiffer sidewalls and this is taken into account when manufacturers design suspensions and steering systems.

Changing to standard tyres away from run flat systems is very dangerous, plus run flat give drivers the ability to continue their journey for a limited time when there is no pressure in the tyre.

Standard tyres cannot do this and must be changed straight away when there is any sign of loss of pressure

Run flat tyres fitted as original equipment do not have a spare tyre, so to change to standard will create big problems as drivers become stranded without a spare wheel.

Safe Driving

NHS Norfolk has been awarded Fit for Business status in recognition of its efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of its staff. The award was received at an event held at Norwich City Football Club’s ground in the afternoon on April 22nd.

The endorsement by Fit for Business means NHS Norfolk’s work to encourage and facilitate staff to be more active, eat healthy food and take regular breaks has been noted as an exemplar for other organisations and businesses.

NHS Norfolk signed up to the Fit for Business workplace health programme as part of a Big Lottery funded Well-being in the East portfolio. Fit for Business is a workplace health & wellbeing programme which allows businesses to implement sustainable and measured initiatives for staff. Organisations which are seen to actively promote healthier opportunities to staff may then also be classed as ‘Fit for Business’.

Also receiving awards at the Fit for Business Network Event in Norwich were Justine Hottinger, NHS Norfolk’s Workplace Health Improvement Specialist, and Jill Stanley, a member of NHS Norfolk’s social committee, who were both given Workplace Health Champion awards for their efforts to promote initiatives to other NHS Norfolk staff members.


Health and wellbeing opportunities offered to NHS Norfolk staff have included a cycle to work scheme, a healthy vending machine, a ‘Fruity Friday’ initiative and out-of-hours staff events such as taster sessions for a number of sports (eg. ultimate frisbee, skiing) to promote an active lifestyle and team building.

The award was given by Dr Steve Boorman, who recently wrote a report about the benefits of a healthy NHS workforce, as he was guest speaker at the Fit For Business Network Event held at Carrow Road. He handed over the awards to Justine and Jill along with NHS Norfolk’s accreditation, during the meeting of other Fit for Business organisations.

Dr Boorman, NHS workforce health and wellbeing lead reviewer, said: “I was delighted to award NHS Norfolk their accreditation under this programme and I congratulate them on the hard work undertaken to achieve leading recognition of an excellent approach to health and well being. Workforce health and well being is an important contributor to organisational success and the work recognised by this award shows NHS Norfolk to be an inspiring example.”

Justine Hottinger, who received a Fit for Business Workplace Health Champion award, added: “I am delighted to have been given this award, which validates the work which has gone into providing opportunities for NHS Norfolk’s staff to be healthier at work.”

“We will be promoting some of the initiatives we have implemented in our organisation to other local small and medium sized business next month at our Norfolk Working Well conference. In partnership with the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, NHS Norfolk will be speaking to a number of local businesses on May 11, to promote the benefits of actively improving staff health and wellbeing.”

At the conference, ideas for improving staff health and wellbeing will be discussed, along with the benefits in terms of productivity and the positive impact on product service and quality. Attendees will also be able to explore how healthy initiatives can potentially reduce sickness, absence, staff turnover, recruitment costs and stress.

For more information about the Norfolk Working Well event, go to: www.norfolk.nhs.uk/yourhealth/WorkingWellConference or www.workplacehealth.biz

Local charities Age Concern Norfolk and Age Concern Norwich are to change their name to Age UK, following the national merger of Age Concern England and Help the Aged.

The two major national charities merged in 2009 to form one organisation that aims to improve the lives of people in later life, both in the UK and abroad. From 19 April 2010 this new merged charity will be known as Age UK. A number of local, independent Age Concerns across the country will be forming a partnership with the national charity and changing their own name and brand identity.

Age Concern Norfolk and Age Concern Norwich will be among the first to do so and over the next few weeks will be changing their names to Age UK Norfolk and Age UK Norwich.

The development of Age UK has been driven by the belief that alongside climate change, population ageing is the greatest global transition to face society this century and that change is needed to meet this challenge. Building on its strong heritage, Age UK will celebrate ageing and work to create opportunity in later life. It will fight and challenge disadvantage and work with and for older people to help transform their lives for the better.

Hilary MacDonald Chief Executive of Age Concern Norfolk said: “Our change of name and logo signifies our partnership with Age UK but does not mean we’ll change who we are and what we do best. We will continue to work with and for older people in Norfolk as independent charities and will continue to operate the same range and breadth of support services as we do now.”

Services offered by Age Concerns in Norfolk include information, advice and advocacy, benefits outreach, bereavement support, mobile meals, residential respite, sheltered housing support, befriending, gardening and handyperson scheme, home domestic service and a range of day activities and support including intergenerational work, dementia and reminiscence based services.

The new logo depicting a loop of vitality and circle of life represents the continuous, seamless support that is offered by Age UK and its local partners - here for the long-term, reliable, consistent and lifelong.

Phil Wells, Chief Executive of Age Concern Norwich welcomed the new national organisation: “We have the best of both worlds: local organisations responding to local concerns and needs, together with a strong national charity to lobby government and carry out research. We expect Age UK to be more effective and better known.”

Both local charities will be working closely with Age UK to draw up a partnership agreement that they hope will bring even greater benefit to older people in Norfolk. Email addresses, websites and promotional materials will all be updated to reflect the new brand. Rebranding will take time and the charities are not intending to rush this process or to waste valuable resources.

Age Concerns have played a crucial role in helping to develop the new brand so that it works for their local activities and over the coming months, it is expected that others will also adopt the new name and brand. Age Concern North Norfolk is one of a large number of Age Concerns across the country that have also signalled their intention to work towards brand partnership with Age UK.

Star of stage and screen Bernard Hill comes to HighTide to perform in the one-off reading of Jesse Weaver's Famine Diary. Bernard will battle it out with HighTide's very own Sam Hodges in a bitter clash over a woman they share and a history they don't.

Performed in a Secret Location, somewhere in Halesworth.

One Performance Only: Saturday 1st May. 17:00

Book now to avoid disappointment. Location to be revealed by post.




Leading actress Diana Quick comes to HighTide to star in a reading of Adam Brace's monologue Midnight Your Time. Diana plays the role of Sheila, a retired lawyer desperately trying to reach her peace-keeping daughter by Skype.

Performed in a Secret Location, somewhere in Halesworth.

Two New Performances Added By Popular Demand: Sunday 2nd May. 13:00, 17:00 (Sold Out), 19:30

Book now to avoid disappointment. Location will be revealed by post.





Clive Stafford Smith: A man who has spent the last 25 years defending death row convicts in the US and more recently inmates at Guantanamo. Awarded an OBE for 'humanitarian services' in 2000, Clive is the founder and director of Reprieve, where he works to achieve due process for prisoners worldwide.

Clive opens the festival, in conversation with HighTide's Sam Hodges. Friday 30th April at 11.30.

Book here to see this very special guest.




Steve Waters: author of the acclaimed double bill on climate change, The Contingency Plan.

Isabella Macpherson: founder and director of Arts Co and described by Wallpaper as 'the engine of London's art and design scene'.

Beth Steel: author of Ditch, soon to transfer into London in an unprecedented co-production with the Old Vic

Come and see these three guests speak to Judith Knight, who co-founded Artsadmin and has worked with artists including Mike Figgis, Forced Entertainment, DV8, Station House Opera and Bobby Baker.

Climate Change Art: Does it do any Good? Saturday 1st May. 11.30 am.

Click here to book tickets.




Owen Matthews: Moscow's chief correspondent at Newsweek and author of the much-acclaimed book Stalin's Children (nominated for Guardian First Book award), which documents the last 100 years of Russian history through the prism of his own family.

Owen flies over to England to speak to Suffolk audiences about his experiences as a journalist in Russia, and his thoughts on this fascinating, complex nation.

Russia versus the West. Sunday 2nd May. 11.30 am.

Click here to book.

Join Time to Change on May 4 and make a pledge to help stamp out mental health prejudice in Norwich

Time to Change is England’s most ambitious programme to end the stigma and discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. Time to Change and local project Stuff Stigma are asking people in Norwich to join celebrities like Frank Bruno, Trisha Goddard, Mel C, and Gok Wan in helping to end mental health prejudice by attending a special visual pledge event at The Forum, Millenium Plain on May 4 from 11am to 6pm.

So far, almost 5000 people across England have pledged to do their bit to help end mental health prejudice at www.time-to-change.org.uk and we’d love to take that number higher. The regional pledge event in Norwich, which will also take place in Leeds and Nottingham on 12th and 13th May, will be a great opportunity to show support for Time to Change and also someone you know with a mental health problem.

The fun-filled day will feature the chance to add your pledge and photo on the spot to a giant mosaic pledge board or make a video pledge, a ‘help us achieve our goal’ football activity, and great entertainment provided by Community Music East. Whether you pledge to support a friend or family member who has a mental health problem, speak out about your own experiences of mental health problems, or pledge to attend a Time to Get Moving event in October, just come down and get pledging!

So far, celebrity pledges have included:

Trisha Goddard:
“Almost 25 years ago I pledged I'd do the utmost to get rid of the shame surrounding my sister's mental illness. Then 16 years ago I pledged to refuse to be ashamed about my own mental health problems. I continue to pledge to shine bright light into dark corners of ignorance.”

Frank Bruno:
"As a boxer, you can always see the opponent you're fighting. Mental health problems, and people's narrow-mindedness about them, are not so easy to see. That's why I pledge to support Time to Change - to help make this issue visible and something we can all fight together."

Gok Wan:
“I’m pledging my support to Time to Change, because it’s time we all understood more about mental health problems and how we can support friends and family.”

Mel C:
“Mental health issues are just part of life and people can and do recover to lead full and successful lives. I’m pledging my support to help end mental health prejudice. When will you?”

By taking the campaign to the people of Norwich it creates opportunities for people with mental health problems, and those who have not been affected, to talk about the issues face to face. This will help those involved overcome the stigma and misunderstanding of a health issue that affects one in four people. The pledge is an important tool in the fight against mental health stigma and discrimination.

Oz Osborne, from Stuff Stigma, says:

“The Stuff Stigma project has many supporters throughout Norwich and Norfolk but the challenge of combating mental health prejudice and discrimination needs to be stepped up. This event will be another bold offering from the people of Norfolk to demand a change in public attitudes towards people who have experience of mental health difficulties. ”

Sue Baker, Portfolio Director at Time to Change, says:

“We know that face to face contact with someone who has experienced a mental health problem, who can talk openly and confidently about it, is key to transforming our understanding and attitudes. Today’s events are a critical step in our journey to make mental health less of a taboo – much like cancer was thirty years ago. Many famous faces are behind our campaign, but we need everyday people like us to speak out as well.”

Time to Change was launched in January 2009 with a national advertising campaign fronted by Stephen Fry, Ruby Wax and Alastair Campbell. This year, the campaign is fronted by Frank Bruno and Trisha Goddard and includes the cinema release of ‘Schizo:the Movie’, a spoof movie trailer, which shows that people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia can live full lives with the support of their friends and family. Schizo will be shown across England for four weeks from April 23rd 2010.

The Time to Change [1] campaign is England’s biggest and most ambitious programme to end mental health discrimination. The campaign is run by leading mental health charities Mind and Rethink, and backed by £16 million from the Big Lottery Fund [2] and £4 million from Comic Relief [3].

Notes

1. Time to Change is England’s most ambitious programme to end the discrimination faced by people with mental health problems, and improve the nation’s wellbeing. Mind and Rethink are leading the programme, funded with £16m from the Big Lottery Fund and £4m from Comic Relief, and evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London. For further information go to www.time-to-change.org.uk

2. The Big Lottery Fund’s support for Time to Change comes from its £165m Well-being programme. The Big Lottery Fund has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004. It was established by Parliament on 1 December 2006. Full details of the work of the Big Lottery Fund, its programmes and awards are available on the website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk Big Lottery Fund Press Office: 020 7211 1888 / Out of hours: 07867 500 572 Public Enquiries Line: 08454 102030 /
Textphone: 08456 021 659

3. Comic Relief is committed to supporting people living with mental health problems. The projects Comic Relief funds ensure people with mental health problems get their voices heard in the decisions that affect their lives and
to get the help they need to recover. Comic Relief also helps people to promote their rights and reduce the stigma and discrimination they face so that they feel more included in society. The £4 million grant to Time to Change is part of Comic Relief's long standing commitment to this issue. For more information go to www.comicrelief.com

For further information visit www.nwmhft.nhs.uk or call 01603 421494.

An anti-free trade film from the Conservative and Unionist Film Association. The effects of free trade are seen on the steel industry - unemployment, idle factories - and on other industries such as coal mining, limestone quarrying and the railway industry. A policy of safeguarding is urged to protect British industry and trade. This film was part of the Britain Under National Government series. Other areas considered were the improvement in the general economy and empire trade as well as the improvement in the agricultural industry and further calls for safeguarding. (Simon Baker, BFI Screenonline)

"Hello,

I saw this page of yours:

The Price of Free Trade 1932 - BFI YouTube archive

There’s a whole section on Britain in my new book, Free Trade Doesn’t Work: What Should Replace It and Why.

You can find out more about the book here: www.freetradedoesntwork.com

Best Regards,
Ian Fletcher"

Unless you are lucky enough to have been on a desert island or locked away somewhere you cannot have failed to notice that very shortly we have to go to the polls and declare who we want to govern this country for the next four years.

How do we decide? – Can we rely on the promises now being made by all parties, many of which we have heard before or should we look back over past records to see what they actually did when they had the opportunity.

Most of the offers on the table are directed at individual groups who might be persuaded to vote for them and who, if I recall correctly, were the same people targeted at the last election. Near the top of the list are the pensioners whose numbers are increasing daily and who probably have as much as anyone to complain about.

Of course, the recent recession has to carry some of the blame for the shortfall in the promises made four years ago but excuses can always be found.

Did You Know?

After the end of the Second World War successive governments have had an easy task compared to those who had the responsibility for running the country before that time. Life was hard for most families with very few jobs to be had. Those lucky enough to be employed often found the pay barely covered the cost of feeding the family.

People today complain that they do not have enough time to do all that needs doing. Perhaps a comparison of a typical week for a wife and mother in the 1930’s with a similar role today might highlight where their time goes and what their priorities are.

At the same time we must bear in mind that in those days ordinary people had little or no expectation and consequently they were less stressed and more content. Very often their main worry was where the families’ next meal would come from.

People had the vote in those days just as they do today, but not many concerned themselves with what was going on in Parliament unless there was a particular proposal on the agenda that was likely to have a direct affect on their well being.

Often, they would only be aware of such a debate when their lives were suddenly subjected to a change in something they had always been used to. Any news they got was usually by word of mouth and might be several days old. Not many ordinary folk were affluent enough to have a wireless or the money for a newspaper.

The whole world was changed by the war. Not least of all people’s expectations. Those that had survived were determined to make up for the years they had lost and everyone continued to work together to rebuild their lives.

Our parents and grand-parents set about restoring our country, it’s infrastructure and a society without the strict class distinction many had previously been subjected to. We were soon able to boast that we had the best Health, Mail, Police and Railway Services etc. in the world.

There were plenty of jobs to be had with opportunities in almost every field. Wherever you looked improvements and progress were clearly visible and for the first time, many of those who had always wanted to, were able to go away for a holiday. – ‘We’d never had it so good!’

So what went wrong?
Many will say it was due to the pressures put on us by other Countries or to the failings and mismanagement of successive Governments. Very few of the improvements introduced were left to flourish in the way they were planned. Bit by bit they have been chipped away until now, we have instances where situations have become worse than they were originally.
All Parties are offering what they refer to as the only way forward. The choice is down to the general Public. Some are lucky enough to know which way to vote. Not necessarily with confidence but because that is the Party they have always voted for or they like the promises they are making.

Wouldn’t it be great if we were voting for people of true character who could be trusted to do exactly what they said. Someone strong and brave enough to tell us to stop borrowing, ‘cut our cloth’ and buy only that which we can afford.

If everyone did that it would not be long before the greed and envy that seems to have taken such a firm grip on our Society today would soon be a thing of the past. Thus giving everyone freedom from the stress of modern day living. What a start that would be!

Now all you have to do is choose the Party, who not only knows what is wrong but has a long term solution worked out ready to be implemented.

“Good Luck!”

Pete ‘Kiwi’ Keegan, Norfolk-based skiffle exponent, and his band are playing in Wymondham Market Place on Saturday, May 1st 2010 from 10am to 12noon. The event marks the launch of Wymondham’s summer of music and the publication of Wymondham Music Festival’s 2010 programme, www.wymfestival.org.uk.


Copies of the festival booklet promoting the historic market town’s music events from May onwards, including the 15th annual Festival Fortnight, June 26 to July 11, can be picked up on the morning of May 1 while listening to an original from the late 1950s London skiffle scene.

Wymondham Music Festival celebrates professional Norfolk musicians, combined with a selection of national artists and showcases local talent. There’s everything from a Steely Dan tribute band, to Jane Austen’s Musical England, opera, Indian classical music, folk, jazz, classical recitals and concerts and a Teddy Bears’ Picnic, accompanied by Brolly Folk playing jolly tunes for all ages.

More than 50 events, many of them free, are programmed to take place in a range of venues across the town. The 12th century Wymondham Abbey hosts several concerts and recitals including Norwich Baroque with Michael Chance (countertenor) and The Amphion Consort (June 5), The Art of Sound (June 30), Duo Contra (July 1), Wymondham Symphony Orchestra (July 10), Wymondham Youth Orchestra (July 3), a special Wymondham Young Pianists’ concert (July 5) and Tonally Different (July 6), a lunchtime recital featuring traditional British songs.

Open-air venues are well used. There’s the annual Midsummer Jazz Picnic at Becketswell featuring the DixieMix Jazz Band and the Theatre of Adventure (June 28). King’s Head Meadow hosts the Teddy Bears’ Picnic (July 4) and Browick Road Recreation Ground has a selection of local youth bands and up-and-coming DJs in Live ‘N’ Gigging (June 26). Hear popular Norwich musicians, The Rum Brothers (July 3) in The Market Place along with Chameleon a 1940s tribute band (July 8) and Wymondham High School Jazz Band (June 26). Ketts Park is the place for Steely Dan fans - an evening with Steemy Dan (July 10).


Folk concerts are at The Baptist Church - Horse’s Brawl (July 2) and Stone Angel (July 3). Wymondham High School has Live Wire Opera Company (June 26) and Wymondham Youth Music Society (July 8). Fairland Church Centre hosts Sulekh Ruparell, Eastern Music Company, for an evening of classical Indian music (July 9).


The festival heads out of town for an evening at Kimberley Hall with Consort Royal, as they explore Jane Austen’s Musical England (June 27). There’s also music and poetry with singer-songwriter Caomhe at Becket’s Chapel (July 6), plus the opportunity to explore the town with Blue Badge Guide Judy Hawkins (July 11).

John Wood, Chair, Wymondham Music Festival said: "Wymondham is a real musical hot bed. Our festival provides a wide range of music experiences, which promote fine Norfolk musicians, along with our many local music societies and musicians. We also showcase our historic market town and look forward to welcoming music fans of all ages and tastes to this beautiful part of Norfolk."

Full festival programme details are at www.wymfestival.org.uk, tel. 01953 601939, or pick up a festival booklet from Wymondham Tourist Information Centre.
Wymondham Music Festival is supported by Wymondham Town Council, South Norfolk Council and Norfolk County Council.

Wymondham Music Festival (reg. charity no. 1081375) is run by a committee of volunteers who give their time to organise and administer the programme, and is supported by grants, advertising, sponsorship and the generosity of its patrons. The festival began in 1996 as a small series of concerts and was called Wymondham Music Week. It quickly expanded to become the festival that it is today, promoting the performance and appreciation of music, as well as offering music education for local people. The festival committee links up with many other local music organisations to promote events throughout the summer months.