Cawston Rovers grab the glory in 1983
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<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/bf28b17dc5a622bb56151c631caa66e4.jpeg" width="379" height="283" /><br /><span><strong>Back Row: </strong>Pat Mills, Simon Garry, Martin Serrell RIP, Peter McCarter, Brian Gaskin, Alan Arthurton, David Watson, Nick Raven RIP. <strong>Front Row:</strong> Robert Rickwood, Stephen Waller, eil Harrison, Mark Osborn, Roy Harrison and mascot Jason Gaskin</span></p>
On 9 April 1983 Cawston Rovers played in the Norfolk Primary Cup Final at Carrow Road which they won 2-1 against Britannia Prison.
The other most significant thing about the game which caused a media frenzy both locally and nationally was that it was the first time in British history, that a team of serving prisoners and wardens were allowed out of prison for an away fixture.
Naomi Horrocks
9 April 1983
Players from the Cawston Rovers
Peck Measure
As would have been used at the mills....
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Info:
1 Peck: Unit of volume, equal to 2 gallons. Not much in use these days.
Des Cook
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Mills" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/84" target="_blank">Mills</a></span>
PM/HC
Photos and Video from above
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/cae9bd461dd41087b3ffcfbce4569aa8.png" width="315" height="211" /></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/dbc60d2fc9af041bbf41b501ffa0a38d.mp4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Video">Cawston Church and Village Drone Video by Mark Daniels</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Click on above link to see video:</span></p>
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Photos and Video from above including photos from church tower.
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<p>Ivan Purdy</p>
<p>Victor Purdy</p>
<p>Clifford Harmer</p>
<p>Peggy Payne</p>
<p>Frank Hannibal - USA</p>
<p>Tony Hilton</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/dbc60d2fc9af041bbf41b501ffa0a38d.mp4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Drone Video by Mark Daniels.">Drone Video by Mark Daniels</a></span></p>
Cawston Manor
<p>Cawston Manor South View</p>
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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>
Mills at 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></p>
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<p>It was quite unique for 2 windmills to be built on the same site as the twin mills at Sygate being only about 50 yards apart and linked by railway lines, built possibly at the same time as the 4 Mill Cottages by the road in front of the mills and bearing the date 1853-JSH.</p>
<p>One mill had a white cap and the other a black.</p>
<p>The grain for milling would come from local farmers and from Cawston railway station, it was transported from the station to the the mill by horse and cart, the horses being stabled at the mill. The black mill was on right of the white mill looking from the road and was bought by Mr Stanley Oakes from Mr Bamber Stackwood. (also coal merchant).</p>
<p>The Black Mill was taken down in 1955 and the brick rubble used for a private road way (Jerry's Loke) off the Booton road in Cawston, the Mill was partly pulled down by way of a girder being placed on the inside across a window, a rope was then attached and tied to a motorized timber drudge, (winch) demolition was carried out by Taylor Bros of Wroxham. the white mill would have had the same fate but was saved by the rope breaking.</p>
<p>In the 1970's, the 2 left cottages were made into one.</p>
<p>In 2003 the white mill was converted to holiday accommodation.<br /><br />Click on file to view full screen....</p>
<p>More information can be found at the Heritage Centre.</p>
<p>Ivan Purdy</p>
<p>Alan Lee</p>
<p>Vic and Sally Purdy</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><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span>Neil Storey<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p>
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Sygate/Southgate
<p>How it was 1992</p>
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<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>
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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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Chapel Street/Prince of Wales Road
<p class="Normal"><span class="C-12">How it was 1980s</span></p>
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<p>Chapel Street: History of Chapel St/Prince of Wales Rd from the Parish Magazine, January 1995 by Dennis W. Easton.</p>
<p>First of all there were the Mills at Sygate driven by the wind when my grandfather left school in the 1860's he went to work at the Mills. I've heard my father say he used to tell them when there was a wind they worked all night and day. a windmill was a slow machine. I don't remember them going by wind but in my younger days I used to go down there with my father and it was driven by a portable steam engine. Bamber Stackwood's wife was stoker.</p>
<p>Coming into Chapel Street the end of which was Prince of Wales Road. its not Chapel Street until you get to the Chapel; there was Wilson's Wholesale & Retail Butchers. He supplied a lot of butchers in Norwich and district by horse and cart in the 20's. He was one of the best horsemen in the area he would have the best. he also farmed a lot of land and employed a lot of people.</p>
<p>Next there was W A Bush Agricultural Engineer this yard always had something to be repaired. Round about May time farmers would be bringing the grass cutters in to he got ready for the haysel the odd wagon or two to be repaired. June and July in came the self-binders to be done up ready for harvest. Next door was Jack Gaskin he would he doing the harness and canvas for the binders. everything had to be ready as harvest was a big thing in those days. It was nice to see a field full of horses and wagons. shocks of corn and stacks going up. and about a dozen men. just a memory now! On the opposite side of the road was the old Workhouse.</p>
<p>The end of Prince of Wales Road was where William Dewing had his little bakery. I remember his mother helping in the bakery she was known locally as Mrs Penny Loaf. A well-known character called Ruff Carman lived the the yard. on the other side was Stanley Wilson's carpenters yard, somewhere in this street lived Ted Wells a Well - sinker. Tom Hammond kept the shop, he used to sell second hand furniture, he had it outside the shop in the street, this didn't suit Hopping Jack who lived on the other side, they used to get wrong about this. Hopping Jack had a horse and cart and he used to go round the district with fish. We always knew if he had been round you could smell the herring cooking on the gridle; he was a bit of a lad and would always have a tale. He would say "Special offer today Missus, a Herren and hawk for three ha'pence, if you buy a dozen you can have them for a shilling."</p>
<p>Down Hammond's Loke as we used to call it, lived Walter Tuddenham (uncle) he was what we used to call a Jobbing Bricklayer, you would see him with his handcart, few bricks, cement and tools somewhere each day, he was Michael's grandfather. My grandfather was born down that Loke in one of the cottages.</p>
<p>Now, we must not forget Mr Bellbody, always known as Bell, he was a retired bricklayer off the railway. There were a lot of horses in the village in those times, so he had a full time job with his barrow and shovel, every day us boys used to say "What have you on your barrow Mr Bell", this was only to hear him say "Hors-ma-tit-ma-ta-muck". The last for now was Tom pitcher's Cobblers on the Market Hill which is now two cottages.</p>
<p>And from the Parish Magazine March 1995 by Hilda Dewing.</p>
<p>As I was born in Chapel Street I was very interested in Mr Easton's recent Memories in the Magazine, but he have missed two people out. Mr Robert Jeary the tailor and Miss Lottie Carman the dressmaker, they both lived in the tall houses before Mr Pitcher's cobblers shop. I'd also like to say that Ted Wells lived in Church Lane, not Chapel Street.</p>
<p>Note: Paul Engelhard Way and Fred Tuddenham Drive are new roads named after the bussinesses operated from this area which is now a housing estate, build start date 2005.</p>
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Chapel Street history - Dennis W. Easton & Hilda Dewing
A Walk Down Chapel Street - (see file) by Ivan Purdy
Mary Gurteen - Photos.
Vic Purdy - Photos.
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Sygate/Southgate" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/66" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sygate/Southgate</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Mills" 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="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/139" title="S A Wilson">S A Wilson</a></span></p>