Recordings by Jean Eaglen & Mike Coley

FOND Sound Archive

In 2003, FOND members recorded a number of local Norfolk people, preserving their unique perspective of their lives in Norfolk, in their own words. We are currently indexing and re-recording these original sound files which are held at the Norfolk Records Office in order to make them compatible with current web browsers.

In the interim, here are a small number of the archive recordings – many more will be added over the coming months, along with a search facility based upon the index being compiled.

Eric King of Hingham – recorded by Jean Eaglen, 11th August 2003

Hingham, early years, farming and lorries

RAF Watton, RAF Marham, 2nd World War

Living with brother, harvest time, thrashing

Wicklewood, farming life, tractor ploughing, Home Guard

Buillding, RJ Carter – 1950s, Airfields

FOND Archive Fearvruts

Randum Loada Squit

  • Harvest Time – 1948

    A nostalgic visit to Rookery Farm to see the wheat and barley being harvested the old-fashioned way with tractor and binder... Poetry too...

  • A Brief History of FOND

    A brief history of the Friends of Norfolk Dialect, (FOND), how, when and why we were formed and what we hope to achieve, I 'spose you'd call ut 'About Us'.

  • Norfolk Glossary

    A selection of Norfolk words, listed from A-Z, that have been around for a good many years, if you're a ‘local’ of course, you’ll know most of them already.