Taking a trip through Bolingbroke's Norfolk

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Bolingbroke presenting Strangers’ Hall and its contents as a museum to the City of Norwich.

In 1878 Leonard Bolingbroke started an illustrated journal recording his bicycle journeys across Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. For this afternoon we are taking a trip through Bolingbroke’s Norfolk.During this 90 minute session Cathy Terry from Strangers Hall will give a short talk about Leonard Bolingbroke’s life before staff from the Record Office will explain his experiences of biking, including learning to ride and bicycle care. Then spend time viewing snippets from Bolingbroke’s journal, along with documents from our collection showing what each area was like in the past. See the original journal and Bolingbroke’s paintings and sketches of the county.Find our Summer 2023 programme of events<a href="https://norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/events-summer-2023/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> here</a>If you are no longer able to attend, please let us know so that we can offer your place to someone on the waiting list.

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