The folksong Babes in the Wood sung by The Copper Family

A very old traditional folk song about the 'Babes in the Wood' that has spread around the world with settlers from England. This song and variations on it can be found in America and Australia.

Do You Want to Capture Our Local Oral History? Book Now for the Free BBC Workshop on April 20th

The COWH project is very pleased to have five places available on the BBC workshop 'Audio Interview Recording Skills' at the Forum Studios, Norwich on 20th April from 11.00 am - 13.00 pm.  Book now for two hours of training by BBC experts  in audio interviewing skills, with advice on operating recording equipment. This is your chance to aquire the skills to get out there and start recording the unique memories of local Wayland people, so they will not be lost forever.  Email sue@wayland.org.uk to book your place.

Bayeux Tapestry Video

I have added this video to the blogsite as a nice example of a different way of interpreting a well known part of our heritage.


The Bayeux Tapestry
Uploaded by dekku. -

Wood Rising Bell

Wood Rising Bell
Originally uploaded by suewhite

Short video of the ringing of the Wood Rising Bell on the church open day in 2009.

Wood Rising - Church Barrel Organ

The organ was built in 1862 by Flight & Robson; restored 1957; one barrel replaced 1960. Repertoire of 30 "hymns". It was filmed being played at the church open day in 2009.

Evening Sunshine at Merton Park , Wayland, Norfolk

A short film shot in the beautiful early evening sunshine at Merton.

Queens Hall - Souvenir Programme 1956

Following the Wayland Heritage Discovery Day at Queens Hall last Friday it seemed a good time to start looking at the history of the hall. We are lucky that a copy of the original 1956 souvenir programme has survived in Lesley Cowling's family collection of Wayland documents. The three pages that give a history of what was then called 'Watton Coronation Hall' have been added here. The full programme has been scanned and can now be read online (in the window above) and downloaded from Google Docs, if you click on the small icon top right in the window above you can see it in a larger window, click on File, top right, and you can download it free from there.

If anyone can give some of their time to help scan documents like this please, get in touch with the project heritage officer  sue@wayland.org.uk