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Welcome to the web pages for the Village of Filby, Norfolk.

2009 ended with a traditional winter coming to Filby just before Christmas. The Trinity Broads and the wildlife remain as photogenic as ever. Other pictures of the orchard, the clubroom, the church,

newwalkThe new walkway, Filby Broad, December 2009

mainrdMain Road, December 2009, picture: Joan Saul

The snow returned in January 2010.

broad1Ormesby Broad, January 2010

broad2Ormesby Broad, January 2010

broad3Ormesby Broad, January 2010

broad4Filby Broad, January 2010

broad5Filby Broad, January 2010

Of course we have been here before.

prev1Snow clearers, Ormesby Road, 1947

prev2Ormesby Broad

This website aims to show who we are and some of what we are doing.

References may also be included for the neighbouring parishes of Thrigby and Mautby as some activities overlap and people move around.

We also have a sister site for Filby in Bloom which covers our 'in bloom' activities.

Filby in Bloom will merit regular visits in the coming year as we go forward.

There will always be a lot of work to be done before this site is anyway near complete, in fact it will probably never be complete as we are generating material faster than I can put it up and the village continues to evolve, so you may find strange screens or links that have yet to be forged. Please visit regularly to see what has changed.

Some of the links are not yet in place and content for some of the pages is still awaited.

News and current events can be found on the Village Voice page and you can follow the links to see what happened, if I know of course, and, perhaps, what you missed.

Should you prefer a larger text size than that displayed you should be able to adjust the settings on your browser without upsetting the layout too much.

Using the menus you should be able to navigate the site using just about any web browser on any operating system.

Some of the older of the pages are still being rewritten to take advantage of the leaner code, flexibility and quicker download times offered by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). However, pages should still display reasonably, if not totally as intended, even if you are using an older browser (like Netscape 4.x which does not understand some CSS commands) or Internet Explorer 5.x for Windows (which does not always render CSS correctly).

If the page display is a real mess perhaps it is time to consider upgrading to the latest version of browser or try a newer, alternative browser. Most of the better ones are free to download and are being actively supported.

Should you experience any particular difficulty accessing any of these pages please send an email to the address below.

If you have any comments on the site or the efforts of the village please email to: webmaster@filbyvillage.org.uk

Praise is always welcome but criticism can help our continued development.

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Some are still being written or revised.

Additions and Revisions

New for 2010, we are trialling a page showing links to new pages and those most recently revised.

Filby Calendar 2010

Our 2010 calendar, continuing the "Filby Then & Now" theme, was launched as part of the Filby Playing Field, Bank Holiday Fun Weekend at the 'Local Roots' Exhibition in the Clubroom with profits again going to the new community centre fund.

Calendars are still on sale at Filby Post Office and via this website by sending an email to the address below.

The price has been held at £7.00. Any post and packing is extra.

There are still a few 2009 calendars available via this website.

Oh My! Ideas for the 2011 calendar are already being put together and we have started taking, and arranging to take, the 'now' pictures for it.

For enquiries and orders send an email to the address below.

Voices from the Past

New for 2010

On 20th October 2009, we started publishing a weekly "Filby News" bulletin on the Village Voice page.

Then we got to wondering what our forebears considered worthy of record and what they were doing one hundred and twenty years ago. This page is the result. From in January 2010 we are publishing, month by month, the Victorian equivalent of Village Voice starting with January 1890.

Our Church

More about All Saints, Filby.

The Church Hall, Church Lane.

Built in the 1930s, now requires substantial refurbishment.

The future of this building is uncertain and fund raising for a new community centre, to be sited on the Playing Field, is progressing despite our application for Lottery funding being rejected.

Clubroom

This building is a bit special as it is one of the last two 'clay lump' structures in the village.

Clubs & Groups

In more detail.

If you wish to publicise your club, or organisation, and it is based in Filby or relevant to our village please email the webmaster.