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W.J. Gaskin
Saddler & Harness Maker etc....
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Royal Corps of Signals Badge
Badge found in Cawston....
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WW11: Memories by Bill Sampson
Now the day war broke out, September 3rd, 1939, I remember it well....
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ARP Helmet
ARP Wardens: An organisation set up for WW11....
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Water Hand Pump
Pump removed from kitchen in house at the high street about 2009....
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Map File
File which is in the Heritage Centre for the collection of Cawston Maps....
Map with history note
Old Map with history note: An incident connected with our parish boundary....
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Winter 2004
Photos of the winter 2004....
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Railway Souvenir Tickets
Special Jubilee Train 1977 & Souvenir railway ticket 1980....
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Railway Ticket
RAF Personnel railway ticket....
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Hammer - Railway hand tool.
Hand Track Tool - Railway Keying Sledge Hammer.
Chapel Street Building Development
Photo album of 10 photos which are in the Heritage Centre donated by Ivan Purdy....
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Sygate/Southgate Road Widening
Photo album of 38 photos which are in the Heritage Centre donated by Ivan Purdy which include Shuck & details of as it was etc....
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School from above
Photo....
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Church Roof Restoration 1875
Report of essential repairs....
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Finds File
File which is in the Heritage Centre for the collection of finds found in Cawston....
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Clay Pipe
Found at Sygate....
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Good Companions Club
The Club held meetings once a fortnight....
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Church Restoration 1908/1911-12
The ancient church at Cawston, Restorations in one of the finest in Norfolk....
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Roman Road
A Roman road passed through Cawston. In the 1950's this ancient way was clearly visible on Cawston Heath and the neighbouring fields opposite Botany Bay Farm, running westwards towards the Holt-Norwich road. Aerial photographs show the road nearer…
Woolen Industry
For centuries the woolen industry was important here. In the middle ages Flemish weavers came here, the gables ends on the houses in the High Street and the Rood Screen in the church remind us of this. This area was very prosperous until machines…
Burial Urn
A Bronze Age Burial Urn was found....
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Saxon Ring Brooch
A ring 6cm in diameter and 5mm thick was found....
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Lloyds Bank Savings Box.
Lloyds Bank 1920s Chromed Metal Recording Savings Box....
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Glow Baby.
Glow Baby 1950s - Bed/Clothing Warmer and Airer....
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Plough Guild - Guilds
The Plough Guild was very important in Cawston, the Guild Hall was the Old Plough at Sygate....
More history can be found in the Cawston Archiv.e
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More history can be found in the Cawston Archiv.e
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Jeremiah - The Smuggler
Long ago in Cawston so the tale was told. Lived a band of rough, tough, smugglers bold....
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Cricket Club
A Great Club but ceased in about 2008....
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Flower and Scarecrow Festival and Band Concert 2017
A great week for the Church and Village....
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A.H. Harris
The Corner Shop Stores. High Street/Church Lane....
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Eating in the UK in the fifties
Eating: How it was in the 1950's....
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Cawston New School 1953
New School Official Opening Programme....
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19th Century Cawston
Many of the cottages and farm houses in Cawston during the late 19th century dated back to the 17th and 18th century when the housing construction was simple....
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School Trip House to Commons 1954
House of Commons visit 1954....
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Gin Trap
A mechanical trap consisting of a pair of jaws....
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Mincer
Kitchen appliance....
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S.G.C. Lee - Builder and Undertaker.
The business was owned by Mr S.G.C. Lee, known as Seppe....
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Cawston Remembered 1940's by Peggy Payne
This is some history of Cawston from notes of a speech given by Peggy Payne as she remembered Cawston in the 1940's....
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Fly Spray
Pesticide Manual Spray mainly intented for fly killing....
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Rations book.
Rations A Very Peculiar History With no added butter by David Arscott....
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Manor Water Tower
The water tower was built to provide fresh water to the Manor in 1897....
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Tour of Britain Cycle Race 2015
Twenty teams of riders from all over the world descended on Norfolk for the Norfolk-Suffolk stage for the tour of Britain Cycle Race, sponsored nationally by Aviva. This was stage 7 of the 8 stage tour starting at Fakenham racecourse to Ipswich,…
Volunteers Recognitions
The Parish Council volunteers recognition evenings are normally held in May of each year and are organised by Mrs Theresa Carman andCouncillors.
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National Service Guide Book 1939
A guide to the ways in which a service could be given to our country....
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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.
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Barclays Bank Ltd
Barclays Bank Ltd in the High Street - 1960's....
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Corke and Howard
Callander given details of business ....
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Bicycle Lamps
Oil powered bicycle lamps started in the late 1800's....
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Slate Board and Pencil
In the nineteenth century nearly every school were writing on slate ....
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Smugglers
Smuggling was very common in around the 1800's.
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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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