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Fun Day 2009
Fun for all the family - Hog roast. Bouncy Castle. Bar. Tea, Sandwiches. Cake. Tombola etc etc....
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Jubilee - Olympic Celebrations 2012
I would like to thank ALL the Cawston Jubilee Olympic committee members and their 'other halves', plus anyone else who put in a great deal of time, energy and effort over the last....
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Church Flower Festival 2008
The weekend exceeded my wildest dreams, I had said that if the Festival ....
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Millennium Party
The Cawston Millennium Celebration Group made up of ten people drawn from a wide range of backgrounds and....
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V.E. Festival 1995
Cawston Festival V.E. Week May 1995
Souvenir Programme and photographs
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Souvenir Programme and photographs
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Brass Band Contest in the 1930s
What a gala day it was in the village for the Brass Band Contests, when many Brass Bands were invited to take part....
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Cawston Band Contest 1931
1931 programme for Cawston Band Contest with adverts at the Homestead....
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Golden Jubilee 2002
On May 27th 2002 the Primary School had celebrations for ....
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Royal Wedding 1981
Wedding Presentations of Mugs July 1981....
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Coronation Celebrations 1937
Started 10.45am with a united service in Cawston Parish Church which was also attended by....
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Royal Visitors/Concert
The Prince of Wales was guest of honour....
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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
The Coronation was celebrated enthusiastically by the parish 2nd June 1953....
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Silver Jubilee 1977
1977 saw the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Villages, towns and cities all over the country....
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Cawston U.N.B. Society 1864 Ribbon
Details for this Society required....
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Cawston Winter 1947
Cawston Winter 1947 photos....
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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 Ottwell 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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