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Property Deeds and Documents

A collection of old deeds and documents are at the Heritage Centre which are often a neglected historical source.... Click on file to view full screen....

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Chapels and Sunday School Anniversary

Mary Gurteen: It is more than 50 years since I first went to Sunday School, and continued to go almost every Sunday for the next twelve years....

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Sunday School Anniversary and Memories

Eileen Oakes Memories from 1929:
One of the highlights of the year, the great day was always the first Sunday in June, when June days were warm and sunny....

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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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In The Days Of Steam

Dennis W. Easton: Way back in the 30's we worked from the station yard so I saw several things happen there. I remember one day an engine coming off the track... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: 1930s, days, station, steam, train, trains, yard

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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Tags: 1920s, Cawston, Ivan Purdy, looking back, memories

Eastgate Fruit Farm.

COMING ASHORE - Captain Horatio Carter in Eastgate. He acquired a freehold at Eastgate in Cawston around 1909 and set about establishing a fruit farm there. Kelly’s Directory of 1912 listed him as a “fruit grower”.... Click on file to view full…

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Then and Now

Photo selection of Then and Now. Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: now, photos, sign, then, then and now, thenandnow, Village

Accumulator battery

The Accumulator Battery was taken to the locale garage or bicycle shop and was used for the wirelesses....

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Victoria One Penny Model.

These model coins were engraved and issued by Joseph Moore between 1844 and 1848....

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Railway Screw Spike

Also called a sleeper screw, rail screw or lag bolt....

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Holiday Task Summer 1936

As I spent my holiday in the country this year----We left home at 10.30 and after passing through Newmarket and Norwich, arrived in Cawston at 3pm....

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Tags: 1936, Bailey, holiday, peter, summer term

Sunday school Outings

The Sunday School Outings of the three Sunday schools in the village were real red letter days....

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Tags: Chapel, outings, reform, school, Wesleyan

A Stroll Through The Centuries

A GLIMPSE OF CAWSTON'S HISTORY:
In the not-too-distant past, when cars were few and television unthought of....

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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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Rose Tooke Interview

Audio Interview of 100 year old Rose Tooke by Vic and Sally Purdy....

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Tags: interview, Purdy, Rose, Sally, Tooke, Vic

Railway Spike/Nail

A large nail/spike with an offset head used to secure railway rails or base plate to wooden railroad ties/sleepers....

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Jeremiah Able

A Norfolk Smuggler: Jeremiah Abel was born in Morton-on-the-Hill, Norfolk on 7th December 1764. Supported his family by farming, and later running a butchery business, but he sought to supplement his income by a more risky venture:…

Tags: Abel, hole, Jeremiah, Judith Havens, Morton on the Hill, Norfolk, smuggler, smugglers

Wesleyan Reform Chapel Indenture

Chapel Indenture 1854....

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Within These Ancient Walls

Within These Ancient Walls. Discovering St. Agnes’ Church by Susie Timms....

A very detailed book with the objective being to produce a full-length analytical history on our church and lots more....

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Tags: ancient, book, Church, St. Agnes' Church, Susie, Timms, walls

Red Jungle

"Red Jungle" by John Cross, D.C.M which is a book about a tiny British party left behind in Malayato in 1942 to radio intellgence, they joined up with other British soldiers including Jim Wight....

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A Fearful Freedom

This book is about the amazing survival story which tells how Jim Wright, a Norfolk gamekeeper's son, aged 23, managed to evade capture by the Japanese in WW2....

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Wright, Ernest James.

Jim Wight: Private 5776863 6th Battalion. The Royal Norfolk Regiment.
Extraordinary survival behind the lines in Japanese occupied territory WW2.
Full story in the book "A Fearful Freedom" by Robert Hammond and is also in the book "Red Jungle" by…

Tags: Ernest, James, jim, survival, Wright, ww11, ww2

Haveringland

Haveringland and Parishes - Country Show 1910. A record attendance of upwards of 4000 were present at the seventh annual show of the North Norfolk Horticultural and Poultry Association, held in Haverland Park.... Click on file to view full…

Tags: 1910, Cheetham, country, Dewing, Fiske, Gaff, Gibbs Palmer, Haveringland, Haverland, long, Pull, Savage, Seed, Seeds, show, sign, stocks

Cricket Funday 2017

The grass was cut and the pitch all marked out, match not serious and played with tennis ball.

There was a BBQ and refreshments and a lovely afternoon was had by all.

See video to give flavour of the day and more on the DVD in the Heritage…

Tags: 2017, Cricket, events, funday, match

Yesterday's Children: Book by John Kett,

Yesterday’s Children: A somewhat unusual local history book written by John Kett in 1980 has been reprinted by the Historical Society by kind permission of the Kett Family.

The price of the book is £4.50 or £6.50 including post & package.

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Tags: book, Booklet, children, John Kett, Yesterday, Yesterdays

WW2 Gift to H.M. Forces.

Provide funds and to send gifts to our Prisoners of War....

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School History Project 1971.

Notes and Illustrations - Part of a Junior C.P.R.E project....

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Doctors Invoice 1944/45

The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK came on the 4th July 1948. It was the first time anywhere in the world healthcare was made available free of payment or insurance....

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Cawston Manor Memories by Frank Hannibal

The year was 1952 I had just reached the all-knowing age of 11....

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Pigeon Club

Club was ran from the Bell Inn Public House....

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Cubs

Photo of the Cubs 1914/15

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Douglas Bros

Douglas Brothers and Extracts from WW1 Diaries. Children of Henry a Carpenter & Emma Douglas & having one brother & sister all of New Street Cawston.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: Andrews, Bros, Brothers, Dennis, Diaries, Douglas, Douglass, extracts, George, Kevin, Steve

Fishing Club

Cawston Fishing Club use and look after Booton Clay Pits.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: Ben Lee, Brindley, Brownsell, Club, fishing, Harmer, Skipper, Snowling, Spencer

Court Pride of Cawston

On Whit Sunday the members of the Court “Pride of Cawston,” No. G 092, of the A.O.F. (Norwich and East Norfolk District), attended divine service during the evening, when appropriate sermon was preached the Rev. T. Brown of....

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Tags: bird, Burton, court, Dunn, Gymer, Kybird, Marsh, Ottway, pride, society, Tuddenham

Constables and Specials

Police Constables and Specials of Yesteryears....

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Tags: constable, Howard, Ocky Lee, Payne, Sampson, specials

Memories by Dennis Easton

Cawston old school stood at the top of Cook's Hill....

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R.C.A.F. Ration Book

Royal Canadian Air Force Airmen's Canteen Cigarette & Confectionery Ration Book.

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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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Tags: Anne Boleyn, ghost, magazine, mardle, memories, Sall

Hoes

Selection of Hoes in the Heritage Centre including a Mud Hoe used for releasing water when hoeing mud plus the same sort of hoe designed for mixing....

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Tags: hoe, mixing, mud, mud hoe, water