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To watch a short video in which Rev Andrew Whitehead talks about Plough Sunday/Monday click here
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]]>Photo selection of Then and Now.
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]]>Alvington: The Extinct Village near Cawston by Michael Yaxley....
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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.
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]]>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
Oulton: RAF Museum can be found at Blickling Hall with stories of the people who served as part of Bomber Command squadrons who were billeted at the hall during WW11.
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Links to: Swannington Norfolk Airfields RAF Oulton Airfield RAF Coltishall
]]>Painting by John Kett.
Haveringland/Swanington +: When the second World War broke out, Haveringland Hall and its surrounding parkland was taken over by the Air Ministry....
Oulton: RAF Museum can be found at Blickling Hall with stories of the people who served as part of Bomber Command squadrons who were billeted at the hall during WW11.
See files for some village history....
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Links to: Swannington Norfolk Airfields RAF Oulton Airfield RAF Coltishall
Cawston Toc H made contributions and held social events for the community, in 1954 a very kind offer was made to the Cawston Parish Council to help to build a Bus Shelter in Chapel Street which the Council received with great enthusiasm and gratitude by all members, plans were got out and the bus shelter was built as a permanent Memorial in memory of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11, sadly in about the late 1970s or early 1980s, the shelter was removed due to changers in bus journeys and misuse. Toc H meeting were normally held at Cawston School or the Village Hall, The Cawston Toc H branch ceased with great sadness in 1959.
Members Roll as at January 1955
Joseph Riley - Harold Ogden - Lloyd White - William Wright - Peter Meaney - Stanley White.
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The wonderful movement of the Cawston branch "Toc H" was formed in 1953 Coronation year of Queen Elizabeth 11, this was a branch of the Toc H organization set up in the first world war in Belgian in a house called Talbot House and was a rest, friendship and kindness house for first world war solders. The
Cawston Toc H made contributions and held social events for the community, in 1954 a very kind offer was made to the Cawston Parish Council to help to build a Bus Shelter in Chapel Street which the Council received with great enthusiasm and gratitude by all members, plans were got out and the bus shelter was built as a permanent Memorial in memory of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11, sadly in about the late 1970s or early 1980s, the shelter was removed due to changers in bus journeys and misuse. Toc H meeting were normally held at Cawston School or the Village Hall, The Cawston Toc H branch ceased with great sadness in 1959.
Members Roll as at January 1955
Joseph Riley - Harold Ogden - Lloyd White - William Wright - Peter Meaney - Stanley White.
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Location/Address: High Street. NR10 4BW
Emergency Heart Defibrillator installed outside the Village Hall.
Link To: Cawston Guide Map
The Cecil Cawston Memorial Institute: George Cawston of London in 1896 bought the manorial rights of our manor and he proceeded to build Cawston Manor....
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Mr Richard Madle: In 2013 organised the installation of the Emergency Heart Defibrillator at the Village Hall.
Mrs Peggy Payne about 1998 in recognition of donations made for her birthday party presented a wall clock for the main hall.
Mr Mike Gibbs presented 2 sketches by Cecil Falkner Cawston (1878 – 1901) to the Village Hall on behalf of the Jessal Group.