Norwich Freemen

13/01/2025

A visit to City Hall this evening for the Norwich Freemen 'Common Hall' with Michael Quinton, the Right Worshipfull Lord Mayor of Norwich Cllr. Vivien Thomas, Nigel Back.

08/01/2025

Announcement: Common Hall of Freemen 2025

A COMMON HALL or GENERAL MEETING of the Freemen of the City of Norwich whose names are duly entered in the Roll of Freemen, will be held on Monday, 13th January 2025 at 7.00 p.m. in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, Norwich. The purpose of the meeting is to confirm the election of eight Representative Trustees of the Norwich Town Close Estate Charity and a Committee of twenty-five Members for a term of five years from the date of the election confirmation.

Only Norwich Freemen will be admitted.

Freedom Certificates should be produced.

Councillor Vivien Thomas.
LORD MAYOR OF NORWICH

City Hall
Norwich NR2 1NH

# # Please Inform the Secretary michael.quinton at hotmail.co.uk by midday Friday 10th January 2025 if you wish to attend. # #

19/07/2024

~~Norwich Freemen's Committee Election~~

An email has been sent to all Freemen this morning informing about the election process and inviting you to consider who to nominate to serve on the committee. Please check you email.

07/06/2024

About 70 Freemen of Norwich and family gathered today at Narflex rooms of the Roman Catholic Cathedral for the 'Social & Showcase' meeting. We learned about the new grants available to Freemen and about the forthcoming committee elections as well as some information about the websites and communication. Afterwards the 'social' continued with a buffet and drinks. If you attended, let us know what you thought about the event.

18/04/2024

All Freemen should receive an email about the forthcoming Social & Showcase event on 7th June. If you don't receive it please check your Junk Mail folder.

02/08/2023

Great to see Norwich Heritage being promoted by these great Norwich attractions we are happy to support!

21/05/2023

A reminder to Freemen who have already booked to attend... Tomorrow (22nd June) is the Annual Outing when we get a tour of the John Innes Centre. We look forward to seeing you from 1830 at Colney.

An independent, international centre of excellence in plant science, genetics and microbiology

08/06/2020

The Norwich Freemen are delighted to support this vital emergency service in the East, saving lives around the region and keeping both the crew and the patients safe from Covid-19.

Keep up your amazing work East Anglian Air Ambulance Charity

12/05/2020

Some sad news to share with you from Nigel Back.

I was so sad to hear of the untimely passing of Lizzie Griffiths, someone we got to know well whilst she joined with the Freemen to take charge of not only the update of Buxom to the Mayor but more prominently the digitisation of every single hand written entry in the Norwich Freemen’s Register kept in the Records Office and the City Hall. This is a complex project which required highly skilled academic involvement in the translation and transcription of the registers beginning in 1371. Lizzie with her characteristic enthusiasm and humour set in train the whole project. Whilst it became at times a logistical challenge, she secured the academic support she needed but in her own inimitable style and made it an interesting experience for us all. Without her involvement though, the project simply would never have happened.

Elizabeth Rutledge has worked with her over several years as well as on the Norwich Freemen’s Registers project and has written the piece on our website:

http://www.norwichfreemen.org.uk/news/

Nigel Back
Chairman of the Norwich Freemen’s Committee

http://www.norwichfreemen.org.uk/tracing-our-history/

13/01/2020

We look forward to seeing some of our membership at The Common Hall tonight. There will be a report from the event passed on to all via our emailer after the event.

Meanwhile we would like to share the incredible achievement of two outgoing trustees and committee members and thank them for their service over the last 3 decades.

We would like to share our thanks to Robert Self for his long term service award for serving 25 years on the committee and 20 years as a trustee of the charity. We would also like to recognise and thank the incredible 30 years that John Symonds has served on the Freemen committee, who was not at the...

08/10/2019

Find out about the project CreateNorwich supported by the Freemen of Norwich below-

More about the CreateNorwich project and portfolios of the student's work can be found at www.wecreatenorwich.co.uk