Heath 1920s
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During the late twenties the Army had to move out to the range at Horsford,...
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1920s
Denny Easton
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/81" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Heath">Cawston Heath</a></span>
Hilda Dewing
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On the 4th April 1996, Hilda was privileged to be invited to receive the Maundy Money from the Queen in Norwich Cathedral....
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1996
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/93" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Womens Instsiute"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Women's Institute</span></span></a></p>
Pocket Money
Pocket money by Sid Dack. In the last 1920s and early 1930s was hard come by....
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1920's +
Sid Dack
Fairfields Light Spectaculars
2008
Women's Institute Cawston
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<p>Photo above: 90th Birthday, 2nd February 2011.</p>
<p>The Women's Institute started on the 23rd February 1921 with 52 members. Members marked their 90th birthday with a special celebration at the same venue as it did 90 years ago at the Cecil Cawston Memorial Institute (Village Hall Cawston).<br /><br />The WI was finally able to celebrate its 100th birthday with a garden party at The Bell in Cawston in the summer of 2022. The celebration had been delayed a year because of the Covid 19 pandemic.</p>
<p>Sadly in 2021 the WI ceased to exixt. However in 2022 a new group has risen from the ashes, the appropriately named Phoenix Ladies Circle (PLC) with plans to meet regularly at the village hall. The WI has donated a number of items to the Cawston Historical Society. Including two photograph albums.<span>.</span></p>
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Des Cooke & Naomi Horrocks
Des Cooke and Naomi Horrocks
1921 - 2021
Cawston WI
<p><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/439" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="WI Table Cloth Cover"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WI Table Cloth Cove</span>rs</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/85" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Milestone Project 2002-2003">Milestone Project 2002-2003</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/407" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Scrapbook">Scrapbook</a></span></p>
Cawston Heath (See File 2 for Heath Guide and Map inc History)
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<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>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>
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Decimal Currency Conversion Table
<p>In old money the pound was divided by 240, this was replaced with a new decimal currency in February 1971 with the pound being divided by 100, in the conversion table the old currency read as, ie s. d. s. d. 2. 5. this was also written as:</p>
<p>2/5:-- 12p new pence. 15. 9 this was also written as 15/9:-- 79 new pence 25. 3 this was written as £1.5s.3d:-- £1.26:-- £1 pound & 26 new pence.<br /><br />Click on file to view....</p>
Decimal Currency Conversion Table