Bowling & 10-pin players needed. The annual match against Holt Farmers' Club takes place at Rossi's, North Walsham, on Friday, February 22. We need to field a total of 36 players - 18 for bowls and 18 for 10-pin. As many members and guests will remember from last year, the range of skills on both sides ensured a fun evening. It starts at 4pm for 4.30pm - and is followed by a three-course meal. The evening costs £25. To help the secretary, please email michaelbpollitt@btinternet.com or telephone 01603 486997 or book your place at the club's monthly meeting. Entry added: 09 Feb 2019 |
Dinner invitations. Our annual dinner and prize presentation with guest speaker, the Dean of Norwich Cathedral, the Very Rev Jane Hedges takes place on Wednesday, March 20 at The Boathouse, Ormesby, NR29 3LP, 7pm for 7.30pm. Early application would be appreciated and already two members have booked tables. As the former president of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, she has reinforced the close links with the farming industry since coming to Norwich in June 2014. Tickets for the three-course meal cost £40. Please let the secretary know if you'd like to attend or bring a guest. Payment in advance to Stalham Farmers' Club, please, to the secretary, Michael Pollitt, 60 Chamberlin Road, Norwich NR3 3LY or telephone 01603 486997. Electronic payment may also be made to the club's bank but include a reference and inform the secretary. Entry added: 09 Feb 2019 |
Congratulations - Top beet grower Robert Cook was presented with the Cantley Cup at the January meeting of Stalham Farmers' Club.There is a picture of Robert with Sarah Bebb on the club members page and in the minutes and reports section. It was standing room only as the chairman, Henry Alston, who was the previous winner in 2016, gave the trophy to Mr Cook, of North End Farm, Sea Palling, for the best overall performance in last season's beet campaign by a club member. As he noted because of the delay in the presentation, he would only have the cup, first awarded in 1928, for two months until the annual dinner on March 20. Mr Cook last won the trophy in 2012.
A full report of Sophie Bambridge's impressive presentation to about 70 members and guests, will follow. Entry added: 18 Jan 2019 |
Promote your own industry. The great success story of Britain's food producers must be heard loud and clear, a 70-strong meeting of Stalham Farmers' Club was told. Sophie Bambridge, of B & C Farming, said that farmers and growers should take every opportunity to promote their own industry. Speaking to the theme, "Meeting tomorrow's challenges . . . . today," she told her audience including more than a dozen members of North Walsham YFC, that there were great opportunities to feed a growing domestic market. But, the industry must make its voice heard and be prepared to use social media to get over positive messages.
(See full report in club reports).
Entry added: 17 Jan 2019 |
YFC thanks - A 13-strong group of members from North Walsham Young Farmers' Club were invited to the January meeting and joined the chairman Henry Alston as our guests to supper. A total of 32 members and guests enjoyed a hearty meal at Vera's Coffee Shop, Wayford Nursery. Sarah Norman, club leader, responded on behalf of the 70-strong gathering and in particular thanked the host inviting members to supper. Entry added: 17 Jan 2019 |
Top Norfolk farmer dies aged 88. A former champion Norfolk farmer, Tom Crane, who founded one of the country's top Haflinger studs, has died aged 88 at his Oxnead home. The long-standing club member was Norfolk NFU chairman in 1982 and was made OBE in the 1988 new year's honours. He took over the family's Marsham farm from his father as a young man and built up a formidable range of enterprises over the following years. Then he spent five decades building up the Oxnead Haflinger stud, which was highly regarded around the world.
Obituary - See left, Past Club Members.
Entry added: 09 Jan 2019 |
Warm welcome- For a brief summary of the December meeting, please see meeting reports (left) Entry added: 15 Dec 2018 |
A family affair - It was almost a family affair at Stalham Farmers’ Club’s December meeting when three new members joined. A former chairman, Alistair Wright, proposed that his wife, Junko should join the ranks and Andrew Spinks nominated his father Ian. Our former chairman, Jonathan Deane proposed Nick Collier too.
Almost 30 members and guests thoroughly enjoyed an informal and delightful presentation by award-winning bookbinder and successful local author, Judith Ellis. The retired Norfolk veterinary surgeon, who now lives in Aylsham, took up the technical challenge of book binding and has won several national awards. It led her into a second career as an author and her first volume, "Two Points East: A view of Maritime Norfolk," has just sold out and just been re-printed. She published a second, "Curlew Coast: Diversions on Maritime Suffolk, earlier this year.
She was thanked by John Grier, who recalled that they had first met when calving a calving a cow in the early 1970s.
Entry added: 13 Dec 2018 |
Radio star at our December meeting - Fresh from starring on Radio Suffolk, our December guest speaker Judith Ellis will be sharing some of her secrets as a "maritime" author. She had an hour-long appearance on BBC Radio Suffolk's Lesley Dolphin Show yesterday talking about her latest book, "Curlew Coast. Diversions on Maritime Suffolk." Judith will be at our meeting at Vera's Coffee Shop on Wednesday, December 12, 7.30pm. Members and guests welcome.
Entry added: 11 Dec 2018 |
Inspiring address - Six new members were welcomed at the opening indoor meeting of Stalham Farmers' Club at a new venue, Vera's Coffee Shop - Neil Punchard, Ben Catling, Harry Dustan, Charlotte Hovey, David Pickering, and Andrew Claydon. The guest speaker, Jake Fiennes, now general manager for conservation at the Holkham estate in north Norfolk, gave an inspiring address. A total of 34 members were briefed on the latest developments by Mr Fiennes, who had travelled from NFU headquarters at Stoneleigh that day having attended a meeting of the quarterly environment forum. Details - see minutes and reports (left). Entry added: 15 Nov 2018 |