Summer Events are open to members only. Winter Lectures are open to everyone – members and non-members. Summaries of lectures and reports on visits are usually provided in the Newsletter; the archive of which you can access here.
Currently our winter meetings are free and held over Zoom in order to widen our audience and allow out-of-county members to attend. If the Group returns to in-person meetings there may be a small charge.
Membership – If you would be interested becoming a member, please go to membership page.
Lectures
Winter lectures 2026-27
By zoom or in person The Zoom lectures are at 7.30 pm. Members will receive a link automatically. Non-members should contact editor.nhbg@gmail.com from 4 weeks prior. The programme is as follows:- Wednesday 7 October - More changes to Norwich Cathedral - Owen Thompson...
Older lectures
Winter Lectures 2025-26
Zoom and in person The zoom programme is as follows: Thursday 16 October 2025:The French Borough of Norwich by Jonathan Hooton Thursday 20 November 2025: Crenels and Merlons by John Vigar Wednesday 14 January 2026: The First World War pillboxes of Norfolk by...
Winter Lectures 2024-25
All meetings will be held over ZOOM @ 7.20 for 7.30pm. The Eventbrite ticket-issuing process is set out below. It sounds complex, but once navigated, it is easy. If you register with Eventbrite, then when you Login afterwards for another event, the process is easier...
Winter lectures 2023-24
Tickets for winter lectures will be handled by Eventbrite. The link to obtain them will be emailed to members a couple of weeks before the date. Lectures include: In October Lynsey Mclaughlin on Castles - Fortress or Status symbol? November Nick Hill on Browne's...
Winter lectures 2022-23
These have been zoom sessions with some available more widely via youtube. The talks offer an opportunity to get close to some historic buildings even if you cannot meet up with others with a similar interest. Information about other 'historic buildings' talks are...
Winter lecture series 2021 – 2022
Lectures with a link are available on nhbg Youtube channel, you can also browse them on YouTube here. Mary Ash Burnt bricks: a different kind of building material. Available on YouTube Ian Hinton Three Surprising Houses in Hempnall. Available on YouTube Chris King The...
Winter lectures 2019 – 2020
Tim Howson. Georgian Cottages in the Maldon District, Essex Philip Venning. Old Buildings: Myths, Mistakes and Oddities Mark Gardiner. Before the earliest standing timber buildings: archaeological evidence for vernacular houses from the tenth to twelfth centuries....
Older events
Summer visits 2025
The Group will be holding seven site visits in the spring and summer of 2025. We will be visiting a wide variety of vernacular domestic buildngs in Norfolk and also examining several interesting churches - some of which contain Roman building materials. We will also...
Summer Visits 2024
We will be visiting 3 Norfolk Churches, The Old Rectory in Fritton, The Great Hospital, a house in Mount Street, Diss, The houses of North Lopham (and AGM), St Mary's Farm, Tacolneston and The Elizabethan House in...
Summer visits 2023
2023 Summer events are underway, as circulated to members in Spring 2023 Newsletter. Visits include: Cavick House, Wymondham The Thatch Attleborough Billington Mill Planned visits include Manor House, Litcham Wangford Hall, Suffolk Churches day in September. Winter...
May & June 2022 – South Norfolk
In May and June 2022 NHBG visited two houses in south Norfolk, in Bunwell and Fritton. Both were complex buildings with many changes and developments. This included the chimney stack. At both we were provided with excellent teas, special thanks to the owners of the...
NHBG churches day 2022
The annual NHBG Churches day in August visited the ruins of Tivetshall St Mary, the tower of which collapsed into the nave in 1949 (photo above), Tivetshall St Margaret with it's beautiful recently restored 16th century tympaneum on the chancel arch (below), Pulham St...
2022 AGM
The 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held in Mileham in July. Members were taken round Mileham Castle, houses in the village and farms, by an excellent local team. Mileham Castle is one of the largest motte and bailey castles in Norfolk. It straddles the B1145, a...
Events
Summer visits 2026
The Group will be holding sixsite visits in the spring and summer of 2026. We will be visiting a wide variety of vernacular domestic buildngs in Norfolk and also examining several interesting churches – some of which contain Roman building materials and Saxon...