A Working History
Also see: Company Sgt Major W.J. Hutton
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]]>Mr Frederick George Hutton, father of Billy (Photo Left) had a Butcher Business at the Lamb Inn....
Also see: Company Sgt Major W.J. Hutton
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Jimmy Payne with his Horse Team
Binder Corn Harvesting for Threshing
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]]>A new seat of learning came to Cawston in 1964 when Cawston College, a Woodard School, was established at the Manor, with Mr. John Asquith as Headmaster....
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David & Jennifer Forster
Peter Walder
Part of the Cawston Remembers Project:
]]>Railways and Transport
Part of the Cawston Remembers Project:
Dennis W Easton: In The Days of Steam.
Ivan Purdy: Looking Back into the past 1920s.
Tim Briggs: Photos & Information.
Peggy Payne: Photos & Information.
Martin Sercombe Media Projects East
Neil Storey.
Ivan & Sally Purdy: Cawston Railway Sign photo.
Richard Howard.
David Pearson: photos.
Index of Files:
1/ Cawston Parish Church
2/ Rectors of Cawston
3/ Church Record and Choirs
For the record "Noel Noel" please Click Here
4/ Church Bells
5/ Church Organ & Organists
6/ Church Clock
7/ Rood Screen
8/ Chalice Case - Eagle Lectern & Poor Box
9/ Church Roof
10/ Church Photos & History
11/ Role of the Church
12/ Guilds
13/ Woolen Industry
14/ Church windows & Stained Glass
15/ Restoration at St. Agnes Church 1988
16/ A Wet Visit to Cawston 1889
17/ Portraits in Wood and Stone
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Church - St Agnes.
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Index of Files:
1/ Cawston Parish Church
2/ Rectors of Cawston
3/ Church Record and Choirs
For the record "Noel Noel" please Click Here
4/ Church Bells
5/ Church Organ & Organists
6/ Church Clock
7/ Rood Screen
8/ Chalice Case - Eagle Lectern & Poor Box
9/ Church Roof
10/ Church Photos & History
11/ Role of the Church
12/ Guilds
13/ Woolen Industry
14/ Church windows & Stained Glass
15/ Restoration at St. Agnes Church 1988
16/ A Wet Visit to Cawston 1889
17/ Portraits in Wood and Stone
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Mr & Mrs Rodney Franklin - 1818 engraving.
Mrs Gwen Riley - Drawing of Church by Anthony B Butler.
Mr John Kett.
Richard Howard - Photos
The first meeting was held on Tuesday 8th April 2007, attended by ten people. The group discussed different ways to approach people in Cawston to ascertain their views on what was required in Cawston. The meeting considered Parish Plans produced by other councils and the range and scope of the possible questions.
Ideas were also suggested for contacting people who might not normally participate in such an exercise.
It was agreed to ask the steering group to consider the range of questions for a questionnaire for discussion at the next meeting which was held on Tuesday April 29th at the Scout Hut.
The questions was developed by a group of Cawston residents and the questionnaires delivered by volunteers by hand and collected one week later.
The parish Plan was then produced and completed in 2010 by Andrew Cameron-Heffer. James Livingstone. Terry Simons. John Carrick. Rob Young and then distributed.
The Parish Plan was made possible with the assistance of Cawston Parish Council. Broadland District Council and Norfolk RCC.
Please click on the file to download the Parsh Plan, please wait to download as the file size is 3.83 mb
]]>After a public meeting attended by around twenty five people, it was agreed to proceed with a group that would assist with the organization of the work towards producing a village plan.
The first meeting was held on Tuesday 8th April 2007, attended by ten people. The group discussed different ways to approach people in Cawston to ascertain their views on what was required in Cawston. The meeting considered Parish Plans produced by other councils and the range and scope of the possible questions.
Ideas were also suggested for contacting people who might not normally participate in such an exercise.
It was agreed to ask the steering group to consider the range of questions for a questionnaire for discussion at the next meeting which was held on Tuesday April 29th at the Scout Hut.
The questions was developed by a group of Cawston residents and the questionnaires delivered by volunteers by hand and collected one week later.
The parish Plan was then produced and completed in 2010 by Andrew Cameron-Heffer. James Livingstone. Terry Simons. John Carrick. Rob Young and then distributed.
The Parish Plan was made possible with the assistance of Cawston Parish Council. Broadland District Council and Norfolk RCC.
Please click on the file to download the Parsh Plan, please wait to download as the file size is 3.83 mb
The eastern extremity of the heath is a strip of land extending into Marsham, once known as Dead Man's Hill. Long ago a body was found here, and a dispute arose as to whether Cawston or Marsham should arrange the burial. Cawston accepted responsibility, and our present parish boundary includes this land. Not far away is Gallows Hill, where a gibbet once stood, an unhappy sight for travellers along the old heath road from Marsham. An even older road, possibly pre Roman, leading inland from the coast, passed near Botany Bay Farm, on through Eastgate to Booton, and all the way to Castleacre. This road can be traced on aerial photographs, and in favourable conditions appears as a light track across the fields on the south side of the road to Buxton.
Two local August anniversaries are connected with the heath. The last Duel in Norfolk was fought here on August 20th, 1698, and the story of how Oliver Le Neve killed Sir Henry Hobart is well known, and commemorated by the stone near the Woodrow Garage, a delightful little National Trust site adorned with masses of violets in spring. August too, saw the great Sheep Fair, held over several centuries on the last Wednesday in the month. It has been described as "the greatest sheep show in the country", and brought huge flocks to the surrounding roads, lambs from the west Norfolk breeders being sold to the graziers from the east.
Cawston Heath today, although diminished in size, is well worth a visit at all seasons - but if you go on a hot day in August keep an eye open for adders!
John Kett - 1989
Brief History: 1066: Forest to Heathland - Sheep & Pig grassing. 1400 to 1600: and Rabbit Warren. 1698: Duel on Heath. 1802: The Enclosure Act resulted in the "dividing, allotting, and enclosing of common fields" in Cawston. 1914 to 1918 WW1 and 1939 to 1945 WW2 used for rifle firing range. 1963:16 hectares ploughed up and cropped, turned back to heath in 1993. 1986: Designated a site of special scientific interest. Agreement with Natural England & Managed by Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
In 2014, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust began an ambitious project to restore about four hectares back to open heathland.
After removing the pine and scrub and grinding the stumps, the final process of striping the surface of humus and pine needles was completed to allow heather seeds to germinate.
Once established, this heather-dominated landscrape will again be good habitat for heathland specialities such as woodlarks, nightjars and adders.
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Questions and Answers regaring the Heath....
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This lovely area of heathland to the east of Cawston might be considered to have changed little over the centuries. This may be true in some respects, for the birch trees, gorse, and heather continue in their beauty, but our ancestors of the First Elizabethan days would be amazed that today the heath is almost unknown to many of our local inhabitants, and plays little part in their lives. In Tudor times it was of considerable importance, a place where farmers grazed their sheep under the fold-course system, where controlled rabbit warrens provided food, while the villagers had grazing rights for their livestock and relied on the area for their fuel supplies. These resources were jealously guarded by farmer and tenant, rich and poor, and from time to time there were lawsuits to settle problems.
The eastern extremity of the heath is a strip of land extending into Marsham, once known as Dead Man's Hill. Long ago a body was found here, and a dispute arose as to whether Cawston or Marsham should arrange the burial. Cawston accepted responsibility, and our present parish boundary includes this land. Not far away is Gallows Hill, where a gibbet once stood, an unhappy sight for travellers along the old heath road from Marsham. An even older road, possibly pre Roman, leading inland from the coast, passed near Botany Bay Farm, on through Eastgate to Booton, and all the way to Castleacre. This road can be traced on aerial photographs, and in favourable conditions appears as a light track across the fields on the south side of the road to Buxton.
Two local August anniversaries are connected with the heath. The last Duel in Norfolk was fought here on August 20th, 1698, and the story of how Oliver Le Neve killed Sir Henry Hobart is well known, and commemorated by the stone near the Woodrow Garage, a delightful little National Trust site adorned with masses of violets in spring. August too, saw the great Sheep Fair, held over several centuries on the last Wednesday in the month. It has been described as "the greatest sheep show in the country", and brought huge flocks to the surrounding roads, lambs from the west Norfolk breeders being sold to the graziers from the east.
Cawston Heath today, although diminished in size, is well worth a visit at all seasons - but if you go on a hot day in August keep an eye open for adders!
John Kett - 1989
Brief History: 1066: Forest to Heathland - Sheep & Pig grassing. 1400 to 1600: and Rabbit Warren. 1698: Duel on Heath. 1802: The Enclosure Act resulted in the "dividing, allotting, and enclosing of common fields" in Cawston. 1914 to 1918 WW1 and 1939 to 1945 WW2 used for rifle firing range. 1963:16 hectares ploughed up and cropped, turned back to heath in 1993. 1986: Designated a site of special scientific interest. Agreement with Natural England & Managed by Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
In 2014, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust began an ambitious project to restore about four hectares back to open heathland.
After removing the pine and scrub and grinding the stumps, the final process of striping the surface of humus and pine needles was completed to allow heather seeds to germinate.
Once established, this heather-dominated landscrape will again be good habitat for heathland specialities such as woodlarks, nightjars and adders.
David Nunn. John Kett. Ivan & Vic Purdy. Denny Easton. Mrs Fellows.
Jane Gaskin & The Gaskin Family - Seat Donated.
Martin Sercombe. Cawston Remembers Project
Neil Storey.
Duel on the Heath - part of the Cawston Remembers Project:
The suffix "gate" is no mystery, for we have "gates" on the outskirts of many villages and towns, their names dating from Viking times when the Danish invaders settled near earlier Saxon dwelling places. In most Scandinavian countries a street is called "gate" or "gata" ;
I have a Icelandic friend who lives in a street in Reykjavic called Sudagate - i.e. Southgate!
John Kett 1989
Note:
Also see Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road, the road from Cawston to Sygate/Southgate and the history page regarding the Mills.
We have a Birds Lane named after Mr Bird the farmer,
Heydon Lane leading to the Heydon road and Beerhouse road leading to Beerhouse Farm and Oulton.
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Early last century some misguided surveyor working on the first 1-inch maps of this area decided to rename this hamlet "Southgate", and so it appears on Ordnance Survey maps to this day. However, the name by which we know it, and which is included in the ancient inscription on the Plough Gallery in St. Agnes' Church, is Sygate. Some say it comes from Syk, a very old family name, while others find its origin in Sulh-geath, meaning a "Plough Lane" or rough track (Anglo Saxon).
The suffix "gate" is no mystery, for we have "gates" on the outskirts of many villages and towns, their names dating from Viking times when the Danish invaders settled near earlier Saxon dwelling places. In most Scandinavian countries a street is called "gate" or "gata" ;
I have a Icelandic friend who lives in a street in Reykjavic called Sudagate - i.e. Southgate!
John Kett 1989
Note:
Also see Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road, the road from Cawston to Sygate/Southgate and the history page regarding the Mills.
We have a Birds Lane named after Mr Bird the farmer,
Heydon Lane leading to the Heydon road and Beerhouse road leading to Beerhouse Farm and Oulton.
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Lest We Forget
Mr & Mrs Brain Brownsell - (See link Bellboddy)
Mark Carmichael - (bellboddy)
Kevin Douglas
Ron Beall
Peter Lee
Jacci Babich
Evan Hill
Steve Andrews.
1/Education/Schools
2/Moving to new School & Photos 1953
3/Old School Bell
4/Old School to the New - Last Concert.
5/Headmaster retires 1978 Mr Kett by John Asquith
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According to Mr Sam Hall of Peacock Cottages who told Mr Dennis W. Easton he went to the first school in Cawston which was in the the first house in Church Lane....
1/Education/Schools
2/Moving to new School & Photos 1953
3/Old School Bell
4/Old School to the New - Last Concert.
5/Headmaster retires 1978 Mr Kett by John Asquith
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1/Life at Ratcatchers Row in the 1950s
by Michael Yaxley. Related Link: Michael Yaxley
2/Days Gone By by John Kett
3/Denny's Memories by Dennis W. Easton
4/Shoping in Cawston 1950's by Michael Yaxley
5/Life in Cawston 1870-1900 (Victorian Age)
6/Christmas in Cawston 1950's and 1960's by Michael Yaxley
7/Cawston Remembered 1935 to 1944 by Bill Sampson
Related Link: Second World War by Bill Sampson
8/Cawston 1864 supplied by Peter Kett
9/At the turn of the century by Douglas Hamley
10/A Stroll Through The Centuries by John Kett
11/Down Memory Lane Early 1900s Stanley Oakes
12/Cawston 1912 - 1920 as Remembered by Ivy Lake
13/Memories 1914 - 1920 by O.N.Thrower (Buster)
14/Memories of old Cawston 1930s by Alfred Easton
15/ Do you remember the 1930s by Sid Dack
16/Cawston in 1965 by the W.I.
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Memories of Cawston: Click on Files to view full screen....
1/Life at Ratcatchers Row in the 1950s
by Michael Yaxley. Related Link: Michael Yaxley
2/Days Gone By by John Kett
3/Denny's Memories by Dennis W. Easton
4/Shoping in Cawston 1950's by Michael Yaxley
5/Life in Cawston 1870-1900 (Victorian Age)
6/Christmas in Cawston 1950's and 1960's by Michael Yaxley
7/Cawston Remembered 1935 to 1944 by Bill Sampson
Related Link: Second World War by Bill Sampson
8/Cawston 1864 supplied by Peter Kett
9/At the turn of the century by Douglas Hamley
10/A Stroll Through The Centuries by John Kett
11/Down Memory Lane Early 1900s Stanley Oakes
12/Cawston 1912 - 1920 as Remembered by Ivy Lake
13/Memories 1914 - 1920 by O.N.Thrower (Buster)
14/Memories of old Cawston 1930s by Alfred Easton
15/ Do you remember the 1930s by Sid Dack
16/Cawston in 1965 by the W.I.
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Michael Yaxley. John Kett. Dennis W Easton. Bill Sampson.
Peter Kett. Mr Douglas Hamley. Mr Stanley Oakes. Ivy Lake.
O.N. Thrower ( Buster). Alfred Easton. Cawston W.I.
Mrs Jane Fuller.
Martin Sercombe
Neil Storey
For more memories see links under:
Memories of Cawston (Collection)
1/Fifty Years On by John Kett
2/Thoughts of a Wartime childhood by Robert Sonny Dewing
3/School War Times Notes
4/Second World War by Bill Sampson
5/Another Place & Christmas by D.W. Hamley
6/Extracts from WW1 Diaries by Steve Andrews
7/Walter Frederick Carman by G. Carman
8/Eric Monsey - He Died for His Country
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See Files on right and as following:-
1/Fifty Years On by John Kett
2/Thoughts of a Wartime childhood by Robert Sonny Dewing
3/School War Times Notes
4/Second World War by Bill Sampson
5/Another Place & Christmas by D.W. Hamley
6/Extracts from WW1 Diaries by Steve Andrews
7/Walter Frederick Carman by G. Carman
8/Eric Monsey - He Died for His Country
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Related Links:
War Times including Roll of Honour. Memorials. Home Guard. Memories & Photos etc. (Collection)
Heath which was used for rifle practice in WW1 & WW2.
In 1944, Cawston was the scene of a plane crash involving an American bomber....
In 1996 a memorial to the crew of the "Lucky Strike" was unveiled by its Flight Engineer, Jack Sasson....
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Lucky Strike Plane Crash 1944. Unveiling of Plaque and Flower Festival 1996.
Memorial at Booton Rd.
In 1944, Cawston was the scene of a plane crash involving an American bomber....
In 1996 a memorial to the crew of the "Lucky Strike" was unveiled by its Flight Engineer, Jack Sasson....
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Control Knob from Lucky Strike
Collection: War Times/ Forces including Roll of Honour. Memorials. Home Guard. Memories and Photos etc