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1977 Presentation
of Banner at City Hall to Lord Mayor Rowe on the
occasion of Her
Majesty the Queen’s
Silver Jubilee.
The
banner was made by Society
Member, Penelope Knee.
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1977 &
1980 The Society took part
in the
Lord
Mayor’s Procession in Norwich
with a float bearing an heraldic display. The Queen's Jubilee Lord
Mayors Procession Float is shown here.
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1996 Sir
Thomas Erpingham Symposium at Norwich
Cathedral organised by the Society. Speakers included Mr Robert Hardy
CBE,
actor & long bow expert; Mr
Matthew
Bennett, Mr Matthew Strickland
and Miss
Anne Curry. The banner
now hanging in the Cathedral bears the arms of Sr Thomas Erpingham. It
was made by Penelope Knee.
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1998 The
Society has held many exhibitions of heraldry at many fairs and events. This was at
the History Fair at the Assembly House
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2001 The
Heraldry Society Conference held in Norwich.
Founder member of the Norfolk
Heraldry Society,
Mr John Dent was presented with an Honorary Fellowship of the Heraldry
Society.
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2002 A
specially produced book of the Heraldry in
the Saloon at Sandringham
House was
presented
to Her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee.
Shown here - Tony Sims presenting the book to Marcus O'Lone, the
Queen's Land Agent.
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2005 Bi-centenary
of the Battle
of Trafalgar. Andrew
Lambert, Professor of Naval History at King’s College, London
gave a lecture “The Battle
of
Trafalgar” in
Blackfriars Hall, Norwich
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Admiral Lord
Nelson |
2006 Chairman Andy Anderson
presented the Norfolk County Council with
an award from the national Heraldry Society(see
below). This was in recognition of
the Council ‘making effective
use of its Armorial Bearings’ with
the
new County boundary signs which now bore the arms of the Council along
with the
wording ‘Nelson’s County’
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2007 Society
stall held at Pensthorpe History Fair.
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2008
The Society advised on the re-painting of the heraldry
on the Gybson’s Conduit in Norwich. The conduit was originally
erected facing
Westwick Street and has the date 1578 clearly carved on the right hand
spandrel,
the City arms being in the left spandrel, and in the arch , above the
rose and
portcullis, are the words VIVAT REGINA.
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Queen Elizabeth
I visited Norwich in that year and processed through
the City, her route taking her past the church of St John Maddermarket,
close
to the conduit.
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2009 Society
visit to St George’s Chapel Windsor.
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2011 12
– 29 February: The Dragon Festival in
Norwich.
A display of
dragons and other fabulous
beasts used in past and present heraldry was
held in
the church of St Peter Hungate.
Norwich Castle Fee pavement
plaque =>
(click on the image to enlarge)
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Postcards showing the Queen's Beasts
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Banner showing arms of Perse School =>
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2011 May/June: Bergh
Apton Sculpture Trail
The
Society was invited to join with the village of Bergh Apton in their
‘Journey
celebrating the creation and building of a medieval church’.
At a
colourful display Philippa Sims and Ron Lovell demonstrated
the use of art and embroidery in heraldry.
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The
Anglian Heraldry Guiders Group researched and organised
painted banners of local armigerous families painted by the local
schoolchildren
and hung in the church.
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September: Members
helped with a request from BBC researchers for help in recognising
heraldry in
some glass and on a wooden
spandrel at a house at Saham Toney for the programme
“Restoration House”.
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