November meeting
The Christmas meeting was memorable. Firstly it was
good to see Spam at the meeting although he is very ill he had made a
tremendous effort to be at the meeting. He is very brave and an inspiration to
all of us.
The meeting was well attended and the Christmas
buffet was more than enough for all, the table was overflowing with good things
to enjoy. Our thanks go to Caroline and John for this superb effort.
Stuart Bowell our guest speaker for the
evening spoke about the Round Tower Churches of Norfolk
and Suffolk.
His research showed the development of these towers and the supporting churches,
the use of local materials, flint in particular, demonstrating the design of
building flint in the round. It is not possible to form a corner in flint without
the use of a Quorn stone to support the structure. Later Stuart
illustrated his talk with many superb slides of several interesting churches
and it was evident in many cases that most churches had originally thatched
nave roofs.
Our thanks to Stuart for a memorable evening.
The next meeting is on the Tuesday 31st January and
our Guest speaker is John Newman who is going to talk about new discoveries at
Sutton Hoo. This is not one to miss!
Find of the year awards
These are given out every year for the
highest voted items at the monthly find of the month competition. The most sought
after award is “The Albert Memorial Shield in memory of “Albert Grimwood”.
