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Billy Beckerton in 1912 would visit Eastgate....
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1912
Bev Easton
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Eastgate">Eastgate</a></span>
Dennys School Memories by Dennis Easton
Cawston old school stood at the top of Cook's Hill, that is why we said we went to a High School!....
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Dennis Easton
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/62" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="School/Education">School/Education</a></span>
D W Easton Coal Merchant
Notes from Denny's Memories:
At the Ratcatchers. there was a wall round the yard with a gate near the stables, and another one onto the Norwich Road. When cars got about the wall came down,...
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Bev Easton
Dennis Easton
<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>
Fond Memories of School 1940s
Great fun was had playing hopscotch, whip and top, skipping and rounders....
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1940s
Peggy and Pam Spooner
School Memories
Netball on the Homestead on Friday afternoons. Drill (P.E.) at the back of Dent's....
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1930 - 1937
Eileen Lawrence
Dennys Business Memories by Dennis W Easton
In 1897 my Grandfather and his family moved into The Rats,...
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1930s
Dennis W Easton
Memories 1914 – 1920s
<img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/ca8da0b7eecb64fced30649a6f264803.jpg" width="373" height="228" />
<p>In 1914 at the start of The War, soldiers on horseback went through the Street....</p>
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1914 to 1920's
O.N. Thrower. (Buster)
Denny Easton
June Hopper
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/72" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="WW1 Photos and Memorabilia">WW1 Photos and Memorabilia</a></span>
Cawston Primary School 1954 to 1960
The first years of one’s life are normally the years that one treasures most and for many children going to school is the first experience of being outside the care of their family....
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1954 to 1960
Michael Yaxley
Sunday School 1950s and 1960s
Wesleyan Reform Sunday School in Cawston in the 1950s and 1960s. What was it that made the Wesleyan Reform Sunday School in Cawston so appealing in the 1950s and 1960s....
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1950s -1960s
Michael Yaxley
Chaples
Looking Back into the past 1920s
Ivan Purdy: Living in Cawston in the late 1920’s was vastly different to the life and conditions we know today.
My first thoughts are about transport and how people moved around in those days....
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1920s
Ivan Purdy
Memories of Cawston 1930s
Alfred Easton: There were a number of real old characters in Cawston when I was a boy, and some kind benefactors too....
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1930's
Alfred Easton
Cawston Manor Memories by Frank Hannibal
<p>Cawston Manor:</p>
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/96fdff8ca167a59368a3581d0a39a7dc.jpg" width="390" height="264" /></p>
The year was 1952 I had just reached the all-knowing age of 11....
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1952
Frank Hannibal - Texas USA.
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/87" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Manor">Cawston Manor</a></span>
Down Memory Lane Early 1900's by Stanley Oakes
Written by the late Mr Stanley Oakes in 2002....
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1900's
Jane Fuller daughter of Stanley Oakes
<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>
Memories by Dennis Easton
Cawston old school stood at the top of Cook's Hill....
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1930's
Dennis W Easton
<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><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/60" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="School Memories"></a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/398" title="D W Easton Coal Merchant"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span>D W Easton Coal Merchant</span></span></a></p>
Mardle: More Memories Of Old Cawston
Our magazine finds its way into the homes of a number of readers far away from Cawston. Including a Ghostly Experience ....
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1990
John Kett
Paul Goodchild
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/14" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Memories of Cawston (Collection)">Memories of Cawston (Collection)</a></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/312" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="War Times including Zeppelin">War Times including Zeppelin</a></span></p>
WW11: Memories by Bill Sampson
Now the day war broke out, September 3rd, 1939, I remember it well....
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WW11
Bill Sampson
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bomber Plane Crash"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bomber Plane Crash</span></a> WW11 at Bluestone Plantation</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/311" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Remembered 1935 to 1944 by Bill Sampson">Cawston Remembered 1935 to 1944 by Bill Sampson</a></span></p>
Cawston Remembered 1940's by Peggy Payne
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/6464cd0c52a0588a3bc1f4fd5eacc02e.jpg" width="356" height="266" /></p>
<p>Peggy and Jimmy Payne 1987</p>
This is some history of Cawston from notes of a speech given by Peggy Payne as she remembered Cawston in the 1940's....
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1940's
Peggy Payne
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Jimmy Payne. Church Farm" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Payne</a></span> - Church Farm.</p>
<p><span><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></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)
Cawston 1946/47
<p>Mr Chapman - Village Store & Post Office. Mr Lloyd White Store Manager. Church repairs in progress at this time. The workforce of M.D Howard had carried out repairs up to....</p>
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1946/47
B.H. Davies
<p><a title="Memories of Cawston" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/61" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Memories of Cawston</a></p>
<p>Collection of - <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Collection of Cawston Memories" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/14" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Memories of Cawston</a></span></p>
Times in Cawston from the 1930s
Times in Cawston from the 1930s by Eileen Oakes. They are times I remember. Forgive me bringing personal events into this, but both they and I am part of those times....
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1930's
Mrs Eileen Oakes
Cawston Manor
<p>Cawston Manor South View</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/49b1524ca4aa470dc4f7a6d4885e417c.jpg" width="423" height="258" /></p>
This is a "Brief History" of the Royal Manor, Manor House and Cawston College to 2010....
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Mr Darren Black - Photo of Cawston Manor First World War.
Frank Hannibal (Texas USA) for Cawston Manor Memories.
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Manor WW1 History & Photos" href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/205" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manor - WW1 History & Photos</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Manor Water Tower" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manor Water Tower</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">George Cawston</a></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/447" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Boathouse"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boathouse</span></a></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>
<p></p>
<iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 477px; height: 280px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YcdwM3j89iI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<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>
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<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>
School Memories
<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>
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<p>Memories of School Life in Cawston:</p>
<p>Click on Files to read more...</p>
<p>1/Old School Photo 1914</p>
<p>2/Cawston Primary School 1954-60 by Michael Yaxley</p>
<p>3/Fond memoeries of school in the 1940s by Peggy & Pam Spooner</p>
<p>4/School memories 1930 - 1937 by Eileen Lawrence<br /><br />5/Dennys Memories by Dennis Easton (About 1930s?)</p>
<p>6/School child names around 1936<br /><br />Click on file to view full screen....</p>
<p>Michael Yaxley.</p>
<p>Peggy & Pam Spooner.</p>
<p>Eileen Lawrence.</p>
<p>Dennis Easton.</p>
<p>Jim & Linda Lucas.</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>
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>
<p></p>
<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>
Chapel - Wesleyan Reform. Chapel Street.
<p>Inside view 2006</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/0286938b591a8ad754aec91fd47276c0.jpg" width="361" height="270" /></p>
<p><strong>The Wesleyan Reform Chapel:</strong> Opened for place of worship at Chapel Street in 1829 and closed 18th April 2006....</p>
<p>For more information about the Wesleyan Reform church Click on this link: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://thewru.com/">http://thewru.com/</a></span><br /><br />Cick on files to view full screen....</p>
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Eileen Oakes. Mary Gurteen. Michael Yaxley. Ivan & May Purdy.
Bert Stone.
<span><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/98" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Harmonica Band"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cawston Harmonica Band</span></a> made up from members of the Cawston Wesleyan Reform Chapel.</span>