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

A mail sent to the archivist on Wednesday 18 August afternoon/evening was lost: if you sent a mail on that day please re-send.

link to the Shrine's own Home page :: to see the Welcome collage again click here