Transcribed from the 1901 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription. NORFOLK ANNALS CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF REMARKABLE EVENTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (_Compiled from the files of the_ “_Norfolk Chronicle_”) BY CHARLES MACKIE * * * * * VOLUME II. 1851–1900 * * * * * “It is beyond the capacity of the human intellect to discriminate beforehand between what is valuable and what is valueless in the pursuit of historical research. What would we give now for newspapers and trade circulars illustrating the social habits of many bygone times and peoples?”—_The Times_, May 4, 1900. * * * * * [_Entered at Stationers’ Hall_] 1901 Printed at the Office of the “Norfolk Chronicle” Market Place Norwich PREFACE. In the terms of the publishers’ announcement the two volumes of “Norfolk Annals” were to have contained 800 pages; the work has really exceeded that estimate by 255 pages. Although the period from 1851 to 1900 was marked by many incidents of great importance in the history of Norfolk and Norwich, the record thereof in Volume II. of “Norfolk Annals” lacks several of the features which made Volume I. acceptable to the lover of folk lore and to the student of local events in the earlier days of the Nineteenth Century. If, however, the present volume be less interesting than Volume I., it may yet be useful for the verification of the dates of occurrences regarding which the public memory is proverbially shortlived and unreliable. CORRIGENDA. Page 40, fourth line of fifth paragraph, _for_ “56 seconds” _read_ “2 minutes 56 seconds.” ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIBERS. George Cubitt, Tombland, Norwich. H. R. Ladell, Aylsham Road, North Walsham. Arnold H. Miller, The Guildhall, Norwich. H. Newhouse, Bella Vista, Thorpe Road, Norwich. Colonel H. T. S. Patteson, Beeston St. Andrew Hall. Simms Reeve, 29, Thorpe Road, Norwich. The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., K.T., 38, Berkley Square, London, W. T. O. Springfield, The Rookery, Swainsthorpe. F. Oddin Taylor, St. Ethelbert, Norwich. Arthur Wolton, 78, Borough High Street, London, S.E. NORFOLK ANNALS. VOLUME II. 1851–1900. [NOTE.—_Marginal dates distinguished by an asterisk are dates of publication_, _not of occurrence_.] 1851. JANUARY. 2.—Died at Shipdham, Mary, widow of Mr. Henry Tash, farmer, in the hundredth year of her age.