Cricket Club
A Great Club but ceased in about 2008....
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Tracey Hipperson
Michael Dennison
Judith & Barry Hipperson
Dave Brindley
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/7" title="Organisations/Clubs/Societies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organisations/Clubs/Societies</a></span>
Smugglers
Smuggling was very common in around the 1800's.
see file 1: Smugglers: An Affray at Cawston & Smugglers and file 2: An Unhappy Christmas and relation links below....
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John Kett
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/275" title="Smuggler Jeremiah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smuggler Jeremiah</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/354" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Jeremiah Able"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jeremiah Able</span></a></p>
Dewing and Spooner by Peggy Dewing
Herbert John Spooner with horses/Imperial Service Medal presented to Arthur Dewing & School Memories by Peggy and Pam....
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Peggy & Pam Spooner (Dewing & Shreeve)
John Covell/Continental Wine Experts
<p>A Working History</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/f3d39e213701635c419d356fbfc602ef.jpg" width="350" height="309" /></p>
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Continental Wine Experts - A Working History at the Winery (CWE) Cawston by John Covell....
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John Covell
Photo - John Gilbert
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Continental Wine Experts" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/130" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Continental Wine Experts</a></span>
Church Kneelers
Stitch work session for Church Kneelers, Kneeling Boerds made by local builder....
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1992 Stitch work File 1
1966 Kneeling Boards File 2
Dick Spencer
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Church" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Church</a></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/115" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Howard Builders"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Howard Builders</span></a></p>
Ottway
The Ottwell family ran the Blacksmith business in the High Street....
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Heather Cappleman
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Family History" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family History</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Church Gravestones" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Church Gravestones File15 Index O</a></span></p>
John Kett
Champion of Norfolk Dialect.
Mr John Kett retired in March 1978 after 26 years as Headmaster of Cawston School.
In a few words it is impossible to do justice to what Mr. Kett has meant and means, to the school, the village and the wider community in which he has lived and worked.
In the school, it is no exaggeration to say that he has been greatly loved and respected. Recent letters of appreciation include such words as "Dear Mr Kett", "unbounding help and encouragement", "the best Headmaster we have ever known", a wonderful Headmaster", "a very good friend to myself and family He is a schoolmaster of great kindliness, understanding and wisdom, who has shared his interests and, indeed, his life with his pupils.
How he has also found time for other things is amazing in itself. A Lay Reader for many years, his work in the parish and in the Cawston Group cannot be overestimated.
For many years too, his work for the St John Ambulance Brigade was unstinted and greatly appreciated.
He is rightly known to many, children and adults alike, as a great lover of the countryside, and all aspects of natural history, a love he has passed on to so many over the years.
And what an entertainer too! How many of us have enjoyed his feel for words, whether in his published books of dialect verse, or in his songs! Very much a man of Norfolk,
He has been an inspiration to all of us. There was in him an inner strength which is difficult to define but which, most certainly, owes much to his own family life and, of course, to Mary his wife. It is sometimes easy to forget that she has been the wife of the Headmaster for 26 years as well,
I am privileged to write for many.
John Asquith.
From the Parish Magazine April 1978
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Mr John Asquith
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/62" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Schools/Education">Schools/Education</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/207" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="St. Johns Ambulance Brigade">St. Johns Ambulance Brigade</a></span></p>
Changing Scenes
Changing Scenes 1950s - My word - hasn't the place changed!" This was the remark made recently by someone visiting....
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1950's
John Kett
Youth Club
Photos & History....
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Bellboddy
History/Photo Collection
Mr & Mrs Brain Brownsel
John Gilbert
A mid Norfolk Man has spoken of his pride at laying a wreath alongside one placed by the President....
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John Gilbert
John Randal Bradburne
Son of Cawston Rector: Thomas William Bradburne -
Joining the army in 1939, in 1940 he was commissioned into the 9th Gurkha Rifles, a regiment of the Indian Army and found himself in Malaya, facing....
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June Hopper
Mary Gurteen
Hutton, Gould inc Tuddenham Butchers
<p>Mr Frederick George Hutton, father of Billy (Photo Left) had a Butcher Business at the Lamb Inn....</p>
<p>Also see: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Company Sgt Major W.J. Hutton" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/161" target="_blank">Company Sgt Major W.J. Hutton </a></span></p>
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Mr & Mrs John Gould
Jimmy Payne - Church Farm
<p>Jimmy Payne with his Horse Team</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/1341c0a9f0fc9f80a3573db4150db3bb.jpg" /></p>
ROBERT JAMES PAYNE, the seventh in a family of nine children, was born at Wood Dalling 82 years ago, and has been known in Cawston and the surrounding area as a friendly, quick-witted and efficient farmer....
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Peggy Payne.
Beryl Rounce
John Kett
Chris Barringer
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Beryl Rounce" href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/155" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beryl Rounce</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="howard Builders & Undertakers" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Howard Builders & Undertakers</a></span></p>
John Rogers - Goose Pie Farm
In the early days fruit would go on over night train and be on London market....
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Mr John & Nurse Rogers
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/52" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Booton Road/Goose Pie Lane">Booton Road/Goose Pie Lane</a></span>
CWE- (Continental Wine Experts)
CWE was formed in 1962 by the Engelhard family, a German father and son traced their winemaking ancestry back to the 16th century in Germany. In about 1970 the businesses premises at Chapel Street was acquired which was the former Abattoir....
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Ivan Purdy
John Gilbert
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/139" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="S.A. Wilson - Slaughter House And butcher Shop">S.A. Wilson - Slaughter House And Butcher Shop</a></span></p>
<p><a href="S.%20A. Wilson - Slaughter House and Butcher shop" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="S.A. Wilson"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span></span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="John Covell/Continental Wine Experts" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/232" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John Covell/Continental Wine Experts</a></span></p>
Farming
<p>Binder Corn Harvesting for Threshing</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/3a179da137363b2084785cb680fef10e.jpg" /></p>
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A visitor to Cawston School in the 1950's remarked that he was pleased to hear the long summer vacation referred to as the Harvest Holiday. At that time it lasted five weeks; originally it was four, during the month of August....
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Mrs Jane Gaskin.
Mr John Katt.
Edward Pye.
Peggy Payne.
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/118" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Beerhouse Farm">Beerhouse Farm</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/135" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Jimmy Payne Church Farm">Jimmy Payne Church Farm</a></span></p>
Cawston College
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/019d961fca7639ff1f8dd7a9c5d00dc9.jpg" width="381" height="285" /></p>
<p>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....</p>
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1966 - 1999
<p>David & Jennifer Forster</p>
<p>Peter Walder</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Schools Education" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/62" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Schools Education</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Manor" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/87" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cawston Manor</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="George Cawston" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/142" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Cawston</a></span></p>
<p>Facebook web page:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/cawstoncollege/" title="I Went to Cawston College">I Went to Cawston College</a></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=cawston%20college" title="I Went to Cawston College" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><br /><br /><br /></a></p>
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<p>Railways and Transport</p>
<p>Part of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Remembers Project:</a></span></p>
<iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 479px; height: 286px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/npyyAaoFaV4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
The railway/station opened in 1880 and was on the Great Eastern Line, which in 1923 became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. passenger trains ceased in 1952.... <br /><br />Click on file to view full screen....
<p>Dennis W Easton: In The Days of Steam.</p>
<p>Ivan Purdy: Looking Back into the past 1920s.</p>
<p>Tim Briggs: Photos & Information.</p>
<p>Peggy Payne: Photos & Information.</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media Projects East</a></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span>Neil Storey.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p>
<p>Ivan & Sally Purdy: Cawston Railway Sign photo.<br /><br />Richard Howard.</p>
<p>David Pearson: photos.</p>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Marriott's Way" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/111" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marriott's Way</a></span>
<p>Church - St Agnes.</p>
<img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/c0f44f1c37d0bf44f0052384a6e36318.jpg" width="319" height="203" />
The Church of St. Agnes' with its tower (with the exception of the north aisle built by Robert Oxburgh) was built by Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and his wife Catherine the daughter of Hugh, Earl of Stafford....
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<p>Index of Files:</p>
<p>1/ Cawston Parish Church</p>
<p>2/ Rectors of Cawston</p>
<p>3/ Church Record and Choirs </p>
<p> For the record "Noel Noel" please <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a title="Church Record & Choirs" href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/227" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click Here</a></strong></span></p>
<p>4/ Church Bells</p>
<p>5/ Church Organ & Organists</p>
<p>6/ Church Clock</p>
<p>7/ Rood Screen</p>
<p>8/ Chalice Case - Eagle Lectern & Poor Box</p>
<p>9/ Church Roof</p>
<p>10/ Church Photos & History</p>
<p>11/ Role of the Church</p>
<p>12/ Guilds</p>
<p>13/ Woolen Industry</p>
<p>14/ Church windows & Stained Glass</p>
<p>15/ Restoration at St. Agnes Church 1988</p>
<p>16/ A Wet Visit to Cawston 1889</p>
<p>17/ Portraits in Wood and Stone</p>
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<p>Mr & Mrs Rodney Franklin - 1818 engraving.</p>
<p>Mrs Gwen Riley - Drawing of Church by Anthony B Butler.</p>
<p>Mr John Kett.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/115" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Richard Howard">Richard Howard</a></span> - Photos</p>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/408" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Paintings and Drawings">Paintings and Drawings</a></span>
Parish Plan
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Ideas were also suggested for contacting people who might not normally participate in such an exercise.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The questions was developed by a group of Cawston residents and the questionnaires delivered by volunteers by hand and collected one week later.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Parish Plan was made possible with the assistance of Cawston Parish Council. Broadland District Council and Norfolk RCC.</p>
<p>Please click on the file to download the Parsh Plan, please wait to download as the file size is 3.83 mb</p>
Andrew Cameron-Heffer. James Livingstone.
Terry Simons. John Carrick. Rob Young.
Cawston Heath (See File 2 for Heath Guide and Map inc History)
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/16dee284d4123cab9a46d6aea7ced054.jpg" width="360" height="269" /></p>
<p>See file one for-</p>
<p>Questions and Answers regaring the Heath....</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>John Kett - 1989</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In 2014, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust began an ambitious project to restore about four hectares back to open heathland.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Once established, this heather-dominated landscrape will again be good habitat for heathland specialities such as woodlarks, nightjars and adders.</p>
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<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/01250b46a7a45a51f1bb9cc5f7e8d94a.jpg" width="380" height="251" /></p>
<p>David Nunn. John Kett. Ivan & Vic Purdy. Denny Easton. Mrs Fellows.</p>
<p>Jane Gaskin & The Gaskin Family - Seat Donated.</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Remembers Project</a></span></p>
<p>Neil Storey.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Booton Clay Pits" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/31" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Booton Clay Pits</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/336" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Fishing Club">Fishing Club</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Duel Stone" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/95" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Duel Stone</a></span></p>
<p>Duel on the Heath - part of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Remembers Project:</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/324" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Heath Fire 1958">Heath Fire 1958</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/317" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Heath Photo Album"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span>Heath Photo Album</span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/378" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Walks in Cawston">Walks in Cawston</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/104" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Photos & Video from Above">Photos & Video from Above</a></span></span></p>
<p><br /><iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 479px; height: 282px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4LRiKvMGlKw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
Sygate/Southgate
<p>How it was 1992</p>
<p><span>Click on files to view full screen....</span></p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/cd4ece1fb3ce569af5d22a6cec1ef50b.jpg" width="417" height="268" /></p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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" ;</p>
<p>I have a Icelandic friend who lives in a street in Reykjavic called Sudagate - i.e. Southgate!</p>
<p>John Kett 1989</p>
<p>Note:</p>
<p>Also see <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road</a></span>, the road from Cawston to Sygate/Southgate and the history page regarding the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Mills - Sygate - Southgate" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/84" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mills</a></span>.</p>
<p>We have a Birds Lane named after Mr Bird the farmer,</p>
<p>Heydon Lane leading to the Heydon road and Beerhouse road leading to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Beerhouse Farm" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beerhouse Farm</a></span> and Oulton.</p>
<p>Click on file to view....</p>
Mr John Katt
Ivan Purdy
Miranda Pointer
Vic Purdy
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Mills - Sygate - Southgate" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/84" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mills</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/290" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Sygate/Southgate Road Widening">Sygate/Southgate Road Widening</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Beerhouse Farm" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beerhouse Farm</a></span></p>
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Roll of Honour and War Memorials
<p><strong>Lest We Forget</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/16c121d6bf9f2bc173590edd5dc2a836.gif" width="312" height="195" /></p>
Roll of Honour for those who gave their lives for our country & War Memorials.
File 1/Roll of Honour WW1
File 2/Roll of Honour WW2
File 3/Lieutenant Cecil Faulkner Cawston - Boer War 1899-1902
File 4/ War Horses and Dogs
File 5/ War Memorials
File 6/War Memorial lighting damage
Click on file to view....
<p>Mr & Mrs Brain Brownsell - (<a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/158" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="See link Bellboddy"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">See link Bellboddy</span></a>)</p>
<p>Mark Carmichael - (bellboddy)</p>
<p>Kevin Douglas</p>
<p>Ron Beall</p>
<p>Peter Lee</p>
<p>Jacci Babich</p>
<p>Evan Hill</p>
<p>Steve Andrews.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Lucky Strike" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/32">Lucky Strike</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bombrer Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bomber Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation</span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Es Forces Personnel" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/88" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ex Forces Personnel</a></span></p>
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Schools/Education
<p>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....</p>
<p>1/Education/Schools</p>
<p>2/Moving to new School & Photos 1953</p>
<p>3/Old School Bell</p>
<p>4/Old School to the New - Last Concert.</p>
<p>5/Headmaster retires 1978 Mr Kett by John Asquith <br /><br />Click on file to view full screen....</p>
Jim & Linda Lucas
Brian Brownsell
Kyle Holmes - Father Headmaster 1947 - 1952
<p><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/13" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Browse Collection Education Schools"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Browse Collection Education Schools</span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston College" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/106" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cawston College</a></span></p>
Memories of Cawston
<p>Part of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Remembers Project:</a></span><br /><br /><iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 476px; height: 281px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/10CzLdcD1Eg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
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<p><strong>Memories of Cawston: Click on Files to view full screen....</strong></p>
<p>1/Life at Ratcatchers Row in the 1950s</p>
<p> by Michael Yaxley. Related Link: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>2/Days Gone By by John Kett</p>
<p>3/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/333" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Denny's Memories">Denny's Memories</a></span> by Dennis W. Easton</p>
<p>4/Shoping in Cawston 1950's by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>5/Life in Cawston 1870-1900 (Victorian Age)</p>
<p>by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>6/Christmas in Cawston 1950's and 1960's by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>7/Cawston Remembered 1935 to 1944 by Bill Sampson</p>
<p> Related Link: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Bill Sampson" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/58" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Second World War by Bill Sampson</a></span></p>
<p>8/Cawston 1864 supplied by Peter Kett</p>
<p>9/At the turn of the century by Douglas Hamley</p>
<p>10/A Stroll Through The Centuries by John Kett</p>
<p>11/Down Memory Lane Early 1900s Stanley Oakes</p>
<p>12/Cawston 1912 - 1920 as Remembered by Ivy Lake</p>
<p>13/Memories 1914 - 1920 by O.N.Thrower (Buster)</p>
<p>14/Memories of old Cawston 1930s by Alfred Easton</p>
<p>15/ Do you remember the 1930s by Sid Dack</p>
<p>16/Cawston in 1965 by the W.I.</p>
<p> Click on file to view full screen....</p>
<p>Michael Yaxley. John Kett. Dennis W Easton. Bill Sampson.</p>
<p>Peter Kett. Mr Douglas Hamley. Mr Stanley Oakes. Ivy Lake.<br /><br />O.N. Thrower ( Buster). Alfred Easton. Cawston W.I.</p>
<p>Mrs Jane Fuller.</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe</p>
<p><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Media Projects East</span></a></p>
<p>Neil Storey</p>
<p>For more memories see links under:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Wesleyan Reform Chapel" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/43" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wesleyan Reform Chapel</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="War Times Memories/Diaries" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/58" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">War Times Memories/Diaries</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Band" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/97" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cawston Band</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="School Memories" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/60" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">School Memories</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/14" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Memories of Cawston">Memories of Cawston</a></span> (Collection<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span>)</span></span></p>
War Times WW1/11 Memories/Diaries
Part of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Remembers Project:</a></span><br /><br /> <iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 482px; height: 284px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QCdf_8JToF8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
War Times Memories and Diaries By:
<p>See Files on right and as following:-</p>
<p>1/Fifty Years On by John Kett</p>
<p>2/Thoughts of a Wartime childhood by Robert Sonny Dewing</p>
<p>3/School War Times Notes</p>
<p>4/Second World War by Bill Sampson</p>
<p>5/Another Place & Christmas by D.W. Hamley</p>
<p>6/Extracts from WW1 Diaries by Steve Andrews</p>
<p>7/Walter Frederick Carman by G. Carman</p>
<p>8/Eric Monsey - He Died for His Country<br /><br />Click on file to view full screen....</p>
<p>the above as listed in discription</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media Projects East</a></span></p>
<p>Neil Storey</p>
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<p>Related Links:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Roll of Honour etc" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">War Times including Roll of Honour. Memorials. Home Guard. Memories & Photos etc</a>.</span> (Collection)</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Heath" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/81" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Heath</a></span> which was used for rifle practice in WW1 & WW2.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/61" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Memories of Cawston">Memories of Cawston</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/205" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Manor - WW1 History and Photos"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span>Manor - WW1 History and Photos</span></span></a></p>
Home Guard
War Times.
Home Guard:
Photo with Old Rectory in background.
Names reading from left:
Back Row: 4/ Don Radford. 5/ Jimmy Payne. 6/ Harrold Pratt. 7/ Tom Barker. 9/ Ernie Whall.
14/ Austin Clifford Roberts.
Second Row: 7/ John Long. 8/ Jack Delph. 9/ Tommy Neal. 11/ Clifford Pye.
12/ Mr J. Underwood.
Front Row: 9/ Mr Groom. 15/ Harry Carman.
Home Guard: The original name of the Home Guard was the Local Defence Volunteers and was changed to the Home Guard on instructions of Winston Churchill in July 1940....
The Home Guard was disbanded on 31st December 1945.
Click on files to view full screen....
1940
Peggy Payne
Iris Bramble
Paul Roberts
Sylvia Raven
Audrey Butler
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" title="War Times Collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">War Times Collection</a></span>
Lucky Strike Plane Crash.
<p>Lucky Strike Plane Crash 1944. Unveiling of Plaque and Flower Festival 1996.</p>
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<p>Memorial at Booton Rd.</p>
<p><span class="C-11">In 1944, Cawston was the scene of a plane crash involving an American bomber....</span></p>
<p>In 1996 a memorial to the crew of the "Lucky Strike" was unveiled by its Flight Engineer, Jack Sasson....</p>
<p><span class="C-11">Click on file to view full screen....<br /></span></p>
1944
Plaque unveiling 1996
Sylvia & Jimmy Raven
Mrs Peggy Payne
Judith Snowling
Memorial built & materials given by Richard Howard & maintained by Parish Council.
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Lucky Strike Control Knob" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Control Knob from Lucky Strike</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Collection"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Collection</span></a>: War Times/ Forces including Roll of Honour. Memorials. Home Guard. Memories and Photos etc<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bomber Plane Crash">Bomber Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/231" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Air Crash While Filming"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Air Crash While Filming</span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/59" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Air Fields in Cawston Area">Air Fields in Cawston Area</a></span></p>
Cawston Village Sign and Name
Cawston Name:-
It is believed the Cawston Name probably originated in the Dark Ages in the 8th and 9th Centuries, the area was settled by Scandinavians who's leading family was called Kalf, hence Kalf Tun. In the Domesday survey of 1086 our village is called CAUPSTUNA and in later years it became CAUSTON then CAWSTON
In 1937 the Cawston Sign was carved and painted by Mr. H. Carter of Swaffham, it was unveiled as a memorial of the Coronation of King George V1, by H.M. Lieut, of the County, Mr Colman and given by the Parish Council, the centre panel shows a weaver at his loom, and 4 smaller panels depict St. Agnes, to whom our Church is dedicated, a Dualstone, the "brazen gauntlet" symbol of John of Gaunt, once Lord of the Manor and a Ploughman.
The B/W 1937 photo is of the sign located at the entrance of the railway station on the Reepham road, it is now located at Church Close, Booton Road. The sign was renovated by Mr Richard Howard on its 40th birthday in Jubilee year 1977 and erected in a new location at Church Close.
New Sign:- In 2001 the sign was removed and a new sign was erected made from aluminium by Soanes signs, Shortthorne Road, Stratton Strawless at a cost of £2.450.00.
The old original sign was repainted in 2003 by Soanes Signs at the cost of £500.00 and is now in Cawston Church....
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