4th Fete - Oakwood Lodge, North Tuddenham
Swanton Morley Carnival Day.
Summer Fair at Mattishall

5th Saddlery Boot sale - Dereham Leisure Centre.
Teddy Bears Picnic - Swanton Morley Church.
Family Dog Show - Swanton Morley Village Hall
North Elmham School fete
Dereham Band Concert Queen Mother's Gardens

11th Dereham Farmers Market
Millennium Male voice Choir - Trinity Methodist Church
Swanton Morley and US Air Force Talk All Saint Church
Mid Norfolk Railway Evening Jazz Train
Mattishall Family Fun Day

11-12 Art Exhibition Worthing Church

11,12,13 Sandringham Craft, Food and Gift Fair

12 Dereham Youth Fun Day Fleece Meadow
and Memorial Hall

17th Conducted walk Elmham Church and graveyard

18th Watercolour Painting Workshop Church House Dereham

18 - 19th Holkham Hall Country Fair

31st Deaf Association Bus Cowper Road Car Park

MAY 2009

1st-4th  30 bands and four days of music
Tracks of North Elmham
           
3rd Car Boot Memorial Hall Dereham

4th May Day Food Fair
Gressenhall Museum
Shipdham Drynkkings on the Green Festival

5th "Bombs at Teatime" Memorial Hall  

9th What's It Worth? Valuer at Church House Dereham
'Hits of the Blitz'  Memorial Hall

11th Town Quiz Memorial Hall

13th Lexham Hall Garden Open, also on17th      
Fashion Show Aldiss Park

16th Family Day Pensthorpe Nature Reserve

16-31st Artwork Green Door Studio Worthing

17th Spring Garden Fete Elmham House, North Elmham

22-25th Dereham Beer Festival at Memorial Hall

23-25th Art Exhibition Scarning Village Hall

23-31st Art and Family Activities Gressenhall Museum

25th Norfolk History Fair Gressenhall Museum

27th Ruby & Her Horses, story and song, Memorial Hall

April 09

4th Craft Market Memorial Hall Dereham

5th "Chocolate Bingo" Swanton Morley Village Hall

10th -13th "A Window on Norfolk" Foxley Village Hall

11th Farmers' Market in Dereham Market Place

11th &12th Mid-Norfolk Railway "Easter Specials''

11,12 & 13th Sandringham Food and Gift Fair

13th Easter Fair Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse

14th TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE IN CHURCH STREET BEGINS MORNING OPENING HOURS

15th -18th "Back to the 80s" Memorial Hall (01362 699899)

19th Bradenham Hall Gardens Open

23rd Flower Arranging Memorial Hall Dereham (692308)

25th Mid-Norfolk Railway Fish'n Chip Specials
Comedy Night Memorial Hall (Booking 693821)

25th Wartime Norfolk at County School North Elmham

October 08

3rd Scouts Ceilidh Memorial Hall Dereham

4th "Not so grand Opera Company" at tracks, North Elmham

11th Quiddenham Hospice charity evening - Aldiss park

18th British Legions's autumn bazaar dereham meeting point

11-18th Mack and Mabel Memorial hall
(Bookings 01362 851919)

21st Flower arranging jubilee hall - East Tuddenham (693727)

23rd Fakenham races

25th "Sun Dragon" Story telling memorial hall 01362 693821
Mid Norfolk Railway's Halloween Specials (01362 690633)

26th Apple Day Gressenhall Museum (01362 869263)
Lions' Boot sale - Memorial Hall Dereham

29th W>I> Traditional Toys - North Elmham institute

31st Halloween Music - Memorial Hall (01362 693277)
Spooky evening - Bylaugh Hall (01362 58709)

September 08

13th
Craft Fair, Memorial Hall, Dereham
Organ Recital, St Nicholas Church 01362 693143
Farmers' Market Dereham Station
Mid Norfolk Railway Jazz train 01362 851723
Fun Day Whinburg Village Green
Gardening sale, Sennowe Park, Guist

13-14th
Sandringham Game and Country Fair

14th
Open Garden, Beck Farm, Brisley
Ausie Day, The Animal Ark, Great Witchingham

19th
Wack Races, Snetterton Circuit 01473 822837

19-21st
Mid-Norfolk Railway Diesel Gala 01362 851723

20th
Beeston Reunion, Longham Village Hall 01362 698 650

21st
Loins' Boot Sale, Dereham Memorial Hall

24th
Dereham Society, "Life as Private Investigators" Church House Dereham 01362 964654

26th
Breckland Jobs Fair 01632 656235

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August 08

1st -3rd   
Swanton Morley's Beer Festival
Flower Festival at Trinity Methodist Church, Dereham

2nd
Elmham Gardening Club Show
Scarning Village Show

2-3rd        
Fuchsia Show Memorial Hall Dereham

2-10th      
Wells Carnival Week

3rd           
Wayland Show, Watton (01953 882125)
Derham Town Band in Queen Mother's Garden
Car Boot Sale Yaxham Village Hall

9th         
Wendling Village Fete with Broadcaster Bob Flowerdew
Jazz By the River at Castle Farm Swanton Morley
(01362 638302)
Farmers' Market Dereham Station

10th          
Mid-Norfolk Railway's Large-scale Model Day. There are Steam Trains between Dereham and Wymondham every weekend

9-27th    
'Blacksmith Art' at Carlton Forehoe nr Barnham Broom

13th       
Farmers' Market Dereham Station                                       

16th            
Mid-Norfolk Railway's Evening Jazz Train

17th       
Fun Day and Tabletop Sale St Petere's Close Yaxham

18-25th  
Beer Festival and music at The Railway North Elmham

 .....AND FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND

23rd-25th   
Elmham Festival.  Full three-day programme 
(01362 668435)

Mediaeval Spectacular at Pensthorpe

Aug 31st  Police Gala Day Norfolk Showground 

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July 08

4th
Friday's Lunchtime Organ Recital St Nicholas Church    

5-6th  
Mid-Norfolk Railway's Mixed Traction Event
Art Exhibition Worthing Church

9th
Church House Meeting on Dereham Market Place Traffic

12th  
Farmers' Market Dereham Station
Mid-Norfolk Railway Jazz Train
Evening Jazz at Long House N Elmham

14th  
Crossfire Gig Tracks N. Elmham

15th  
East of England Dog Show Peterborogh Showground

15-27 
Flower Festival Trinity Methodist Church Dereham

17th  
BBC Antiques Road Show at Oxburgh Hall

18th  
Concert Swanton Morley Village Hall

18-20
Steam Rally and Show Weeting

21st 
4D Jones Rockability at Tracks N. Elmham

26th  
Mid-Norfolk Railway Fish and Chip Special

29th
Peter Pan at Holkham Hall

30th  
Sandringham Flower Show

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June 08

1st
Pensthorpe Gardening and Food Fair      

7 th
Woodland Garden and Fete Elmham House N. Elmham
Evening Jazz Train  Dereham Station

13-15th   
East of England Show Peterborough        

14th         
Swanton Morley Carnival Week begins (01362 638056)
'Mr Bus' at The Railway North Elmham
Nearly New Sale Church House Dereham

14-15th   
North Tuddenham Flower Show

15th         
Mid- Railway's Transport Through the Ages Dereham and County School Stations
Garden Open at Beck Farm Brisley Common
Lions' Boot Sale Memorial Hall Dereham

18-20th   
Weeting Steam Engine Rally

19th              
Dereham Town Band, Pimms and Strawberries at TRACKS, North Elmham

21st
Shakespeare's "Much Ado.."  Blickling Hall
Fete & BBQ School Farm Beeston
'Against the Grain' at TRACKS of N. Elmham  

21-22nd   
Tractor & Bygones Weekend  Swanton Morley Village Hall

22nd        
Gately Hall Gardens Open

26th              
Langham Street  Fayre

25-26th   
Royal Norfolk Show

27-30th   
East Harling Wedding Dress Festival

28th         
Dereham Hospital Fete

29th         
Hardingham Fete - trains will call

Other events in June include
lunchtime organ recitals every Friday
in St Nicholas Church Dereham

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