The Walsingham Archives The Archives of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Welcome to the history of Walsingham in its archives

This website has been created to provide a way of accessing this history. We hope that it will particularly meet the needs of the later generations of pilgrims, and of those who never knew Walsingham in Fr Patten's lifetime and are curious to know how it all started. How has it changed from the days of these pilgrims arriving in the Common Place in 1926? To those who've been here before: the website is the same, but there's more of it, and it keeps growing. To first-time visitors: choose from the drop-down menus above to browse, or if looking for a specific subject, try starting in the INDEX which should point you in the right directions. Or go first to the overview of the Shrine's history in 'The Story So Far' on the Shrine's website - then come back and look at the menus. If you can't find what you're looking for, mail the archivist on olwarchives [at] btinternet.com The archivist is in Walsingham 22-29 May. link to the Shrine's own website to see the Welcome collage again click here Privacy and Cookies Policy

PHOTOGRAPHS: all photographs are © as below, or are reproduced with permission; in a very few cases where copyright has not been established, all reasonable steps have been taken to do so, without success, and new information will be welcomed; where a copyright holder's name is given, permission must be obtained before downloading the image.

© 2005-2013 WCTA Ltd and IMFS throughout unless otherwise stated: Fr Patten, Stanley Smith, Claude Fisher and Kenneth Faircloth provided most of the local photographs in Our Lady's Mirror: their copyright is acknowledged.

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