Introduction - Pilgrim Hostel opened by Bp Clark (15 November 1986); programme of work now complete - many benefits deriving from it
Pilgrim Club - not successful (Mr Warwick discussions) - discontinue serving alcohol - other licensed premises available
Visits - Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal D Eugenio de Araujo Sales, celebrated Mass on 11 January
Executive Meeting - delay re-roofing of amenity area
Walsingham Association - Hostel fund raising committee disbanded - raised £112,000
Shrive Archives - Fr Brian Ventham, SM has been putting archives in to good order - work well advanced - researcher (Fr W McLoughlin OSM) doing a doctorate on Our Lady of Walsingham
Ecumenical Relations - Fr Roy Fellows is new administrator of Anglican Shrine
Slipper Chapel & re-siting of Blessed Sacrament (C of R) - Tabernacle resiting not finished - discussing design with Architect, Mr Brian Salter
Amenities Area - going to tender shortly
Pilgrimage Programme - Pilgrim bookings up by 2,000 - cancellations at 1,500. This year marks 100th anniversary of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom. BBC video "A Year in Walsingham" to be shown on Good Friday

1. Shrine of Our Lady Walsingham - Document holdings - 1890 - 1968
2. Shrine of Our Lady Walsingham - Photographs - 1934 - 1972

Barbara Scrutton had contacted Mr Rossi to ask him to give a talk on the building history of St John the Baptist.
Having been ill earlier in the year he is slowly regaining strength and would appreciate being given a little more time - say next year - to organise himself and his presentation materials. Needs to do more research on Maddermarket and Willow Lane but is frustrated by the Archives being inaccessible.

Mrs M Osborne acknowledged safe receipt of Fr McCormick's material - to be placed in the bookcase in Archive Room 1.

Unsigned/undated covering letter. Fr McCormick being aware of his mortality has pulled together notes and images about his work on the Travelling Mission. These he will send to the Archives at East Anglia and Northampton. Also, a copy for those who might remember the olden days.

Fr McCormick's covering letter to the Archivist for the notes and images about his work on the Travelling Mission. He will also send a copy to the Archives at East Anglia.

Fr Fears has the old travelling mission altar in his garage at the Brandon Presbytery. Offering it to the RCDEA Archives.

Fr Fears has two of the old travelling mission altars. Plan to bring them to the Archives on 27th October 2010.

Mrs Dora Cowton writes. Have been given a travelling mission altar. Found in Brandon by Fr Fears. Plan to bring them to the Archives on 27th October 2010. Are there any contents that still exist and could be borrowed?

Mrs Dora Cowton writes. Probably not altar #3 - describes what is held in the Archives. There are not two altars but one altar and a stand. Will take a photograph.

Having spoken to Fr Fears, Fr McCormack thinks that the folding altar is his 3rd version. He wonders how it came to be in the Brandon garage. At one time he gave it to Mr Eric St John-Foti who had bought a farm, restored it ("Hermitage Hall") and opened a museum there. A while later it was all sold but Fr McCormack was not contacted about this at the time.
He is known as "Mac2" as Fr McBride is also known as "Mac".

Mrs Dora M Cowton acknowledged safe receipt of Fr McCormick's material about the Travelling Mission.

This is a reference list for researchers wishing to access material not held in RCDEA Archives

"The Duke of Norfolk's archives form one of the largest private collections in the country. Those kept at the Castle include all the family papers and the southern estate papers (Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex and London). The northern estate papers, except title deeds, are on loan-deposit at Sheffield Record Office and Hull University Library. The collections at Arundel comprise documents from the 12th century to the 20th century."

There are many documented connections by the Duke's family with the locale of what is now the RC Diocese of East Anglia and the Diocese of Northampton.

Documents relating to Roman Catholic Parishes, priests and parishioners have been deposited with the Cambrisgeshire Archives.
The listings are extracts from their catalogue.

This has the instruction "To be kept in the Archives of the Mission"
This document describes/retells the interchange, and decisions made, between the Bishops of England and the Vatican over the nature of masses designated "Pro Populo".