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Slate Board and Pencil
In the nineteenth century nearly every school were writing on slate ....
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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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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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Carnival 2007
Cawston Carnival-Hailed a success by all, room for improvement of course but....
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Howard Builders. Brickmakers and Undertaker.
Photos of staff and invoices etc.
Richard Bothway Howard's Father Norman (1904-1972) was a Master Builder trading as M.D. Howard & Son, Cawston, The business was started in 1886 by his great uncle W.A. Howard who lived at Church Farm,…
Harmonica Band
The Cawston Harmonica Band was made up from members of the Cawston Wesleyan Reform Chapel....
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Railways and Transport Part of the Cawston Remembers Project:
The railway/station opened in 1880 and was on the Great Eastern Line, which in 1923 became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. passenger trains ceased in 1952.... Click on file to view full screen....
Mills at Cawston
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…
Cawston Heath (See File 2 for Heath Guide and Map inc History)
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…
Back Lane
Photo: Back Lane, Norwich & Brandiston Road Early 1960’s
Photo taken from Church Tower.
Snippets from Cawston’s Past:
Back Lane, Cawston - There is an interesting theory concerning this stout name. It is that the back lane was the division…
Photo taken from Church Tower.
Snippets from Cawston’s Past:
Back Lane, Cawston - There is an interesting theory concerning this stout name. It is that the back lane was the division…
Chapel - Wesleyan Reform. Chapel Street.
The Wesleyan Reform Chapel: Opened for place of worship at Chapel Street in 1829 and closed 18th April 2006....
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