Financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Norfolk Heritage Explorations project assisted the five Norfolk communities of Breckles, Happisburgh, Harleston, Mulbarton and Reepham to research and record popular accounts of their local history and then publish them on a website.

 

Members of the Research and Innovation team provided the equipment and support to enable people from each community to research, collect and organise information and photographs relating to the heritage of their area. Such data was written up into themed accounts of, for example, the parish church, local schools, pubs or perhaps the war years.   

 

All material was then input onto a website especially designed to be user-friendly so that each community can constantly update and add material and pages as their research progresses.  The website can also be used as an online archive for the numerous digital and scanned photographs that the communities collected.

  

Together, the project aimed to help communities to undertake their own research and to allow the website visitors to create their own flexible 'Explorations’or web-based trails of these five Norfolk towns or villages. In addition, it is hoped that the website will encourage tourism by introducing some of the less well known places or aspects of Norfolk's rich heritage to a wider audience.  

 

The Norwich Heritage Explorations website can be found at http://www.norfolkheritage.org.uk/