During the period October 2022 to January 2024, the Breckland Society carried out the second of our lottery-funded projects under the auspices of the Brecks Fend Edge & Rivers landscape partnership.
The final report is being written at present (September 2024) and will be published in printed form and as a PDF in the coming months; a link to the PDF will be available here.
However, the report is just a short summary of all our volunteers’ research, both ‘desk-based’ and field-based. The purpose of this particular web page is to pull together all of project files, especially the photographs taken by our volunteers at all of the many sites along the rivers we investigated, as an enduring record of how those sites looked in 2023/24, for those who may be interested in the future in what we did.
This page, and those it links to below, are under active construction, and material will almost certainly be added after the formal end of the project.
Image Galleries
The following individual pages bring together, river by river and location by location, the photographs we took at many sites along our formerly industrious rivers. Click on each river’s name to access the associated photo galleries. Click on each individual image within a page to see its descriptive text. Some location galleries also include out-of-copyright historic images.
Topics
Material on the following topics MAY be added, but, obviously, only those with a clickable link are currently available.
- River Transport
- Locks and stanches
- Water transport – lighters etc.
- Bridges
- Mills
- Maltings
- Deports for coal etc.