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  • John Craske - fisherman and artist, 1881-1943
  • William Hyde Wollaston - Dereham's Forgotten Scientist b1766
  • Jean De Narde - 1799
  • 19th Century Dereham
    • DEREHAM IN IT’S SETTING
    • MITFORD POPULATION BETWEEN 1801 AND 1871.
    • LIFE IN DEREHAM IN THE EARLY 1800s
    • LIFE IN DEREHAM IN LATER 1800’S
    • THE LOCAL BOARD OF EAST DEREHAM
    • ROADS
    • THE RAILWAYS
    • BREWERS AND BREWING IN DEREHAM
    • COMMERCIAL ROAD AND ITS ENVIRONS.
    • A PICTURE OF ETLING GREEN
    • DEREHAM SNAPSHOT OF 1881
    • HEALTH IN DEREHAM
    • NORFOLK MILITIA
  • World War One - Dereham
    • Dereham in Peace & War 1914
    • WW1 Red Cross Hospital
    • 1914 - 80 Army Horses Stampede through Dereham at Night
    • Doctor's Duigan's War
    • The Milk Brothers
    • The Eglen Brothers
    • WW1 motorcycle despatch rider from Dereham 1914
    • Christoper Gapp a Wheelwright at War
    • 1915 - Zeppelin Raid on Dereham
    • Songs of WW1
  • World War Two - Dereham, the Le Paradis Massacre
  • Archive and Collections
    • The Alan Cambridge Hobbies Collection
    • Bishop Bonner's Cottage 125 years of photographs
    • Horse Brass Collection
  • Dr. Augustus Jessopp - Arcadian Club Newsletter Archive
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  • Duigan Family Archive
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Discover the story of Dereham's Past


This website is an archive of material from past exhibitions at Bishop Bonner's Museum, Dereham and articles and images relating to them. It includes contributions from community projects run by The Dereham Antiquarian Society, now renamed The Dereham Heritage Trust. 


"Pretty, quiet Dereham, thou pattern of an English town".
Quotation from Lavengro by George Borrow, one of Dereham's famous sons, born in 1803.

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