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Cawston in 1916
An extract from Kelly's Directory of Norfolk....
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Trades in Village 1946
Driving into Cawston from Haveringland Aerodrome, at the first cross roads in Eastgate is situated the....
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Cawston Winter 1979
Cawston Winter 1979 photos....
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Pocket Money
Pocket money by Sid Dack. In the last 1920s and early 1930s was hard come by....
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Cawston in 1965
Cawston in 1965 by The Cawston W.I....
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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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Changes Over 50 Years 1948 - 1998
Fifty years ago, in 1948, Cawston was a self-contained village; everything you wanted or needed was here....
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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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Prince of Wales/Forge House
Prince of Wales/Forge House by Trudie Wilkinson. This building was built in 1843, and had a thatched roof. In 1877 it was burnt down in a tremendous fire....
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Photo Memories
Photo Memories of Cawston....
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Stackwood
Business in the High Street: Café, Fish & Chip Plus see Specimen Menus....
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Shopping in Cawston 1950s
In the 1950’s Cawston was quite a lively place. The soldiers who had fought in the Second World War had long returned home and many....
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Manor - WW1 History and Photos
Wounded in Battle during WW1, was shipped back to UK to Norwich hospital and then spent a month convalescing at Cawston Manor....
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Major Hubert Rodwell
Newspaper Piece regarding History and family information....
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St. Johns Ambulance Brigade
Formed in 1954, meetings were held at the old school.
Classes in First Aid and Home Nursing were taken regularly and members also attended....
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Classes in First Aid and Home Nursing were taken regularly and members also attended....
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Diamond Jubilee 1897
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations included a whole week's holiday for the school children....
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Victorian Bell
Victorian Door Bell/Servants/Shop Bell....
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Royal Dragoons Button
Found in Garden about 1998....
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Peck Measure
As would have been used at the mills....
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1 Peck: Unit of volume, equal to 2 gallons. Not much in use these days.
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1 Peck: Unit of volume, equal to 2 gallons. Not much in use these days.
Defibrillators
The first Defibrillator installed at Cawston was at the Village Hall in 2013, the second being installed at the Bowls Club in 2014 and the third in 2018 at Eastgate in the unused phone box on the crossroads of Back Lane/Perry's Lane....
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Cawston Weather 1987
Winter January 1987 Sygate Road.
and was also the year of the great storm of October 15th & 16th, a very violent storm with hurricane-force winds causing casualties, fallen trees and schools were closed....
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and was also the year of the great storm of October 15th & 16th, a very violent storm with hurricane-force winds causing casualties, fallen trees and schools were closed....
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Chain Measure
Chain Measure as used by Mr Walter Carman....
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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…
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…
Rationing WW11
Ration books and Buying Permit....
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General Memorabilia
National Insurance - Telegram etc....
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Control Knob and Wheel Part from Lucky Strike
Control Knob and wheel Part from Lucky Strike plane crash....
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Tommy and Grace Neale
Appreciation/Memoriam....
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Isabella Bumphrey
Cawston's Own Charity Champion....
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Hilda Dewing
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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Historical Society/Cawston Heritage
CHS - Cawston Historical Society:
The Society was formed following a meeting at Cawston Village Hall on Thursday 20th April 2006. The committee met for the first time on Thursday 4th May and thanked everyone for a well supported evening and for the…
Church Record and Choirs
28/11/1981: Cawston had its own carols "The Message & Noel Noel"to celebrate Christmas....
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Ottway
The Ottway family ran the Blacksmith business in the High Street....
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Cawston 1946/47
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....
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Church Kneelers
Stitch work session for Church Kneelers, Kneeling Boerds made by local builder....
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Air Crash While Filming
During filming for "A Yank in the RAF"....
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More info can be found at the Heritage Centre.
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More info can be found at the Heritage Centre.
John Covell/Continental Wine Experts
Continental Wine Experts - A Working History at the Winery (CWE) Cawston by John Covell....
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Magazine History for Cawston Parish Group
Magazine History - January 1967 saw the first Magazine which was for the then Cawston group for....
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Parish Matters
Information about our village including the lunch club which started/monthly activity in 2015 at the village hall. the parish plan, defibrillators, andplaying field etc....
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Telephone Lead
Lead as used at the Old Telephone Exchange at Back Lane....
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George Chapman
Employment letter 1904 for George Chapman....
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Cawston 1912 - 1920 Remembered by Ivy Lake
As remembered by Ivy Lake 1912 to 1920....
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Ivy Lake
A few years ago Ivy wrote down a few of her memories....
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Walter Frederick Carman
He joined the Royal Navy when he was 15 years old....
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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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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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see file 1: Smugglers: An Affray at Cawston & Smugglers and file 2: An Unhappy Christmas and relation links below....
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Slate Board and Pencil
In the nineteenth century nearly every school were writing on slate ....
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Bicycle Lamps
Oil powered bicycle lamps started in the late 1800's....
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Corke and Howard
Callander given details of business ....
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Barclays Bank Ltd
Barclays Bank Ltd in the High Street - 1960's....
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Rev Thomas Bowman
The Rev Thomas Bowman, the Vicar of Martham on his retirement in 1791 published a book called Caustoniana: or Twelve Discourses addressed to the inhabitants of the parish of Cawston which is not a easy read.
Rev Bowman set up a mission in Cawston…