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East Dereham maps
Historic maps of East Dereham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all East Dereham maps
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East Dereham books
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Norfolk Broads Photographic Memories
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Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories
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Norfolk Photographic Memories
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Memories of East Dereham
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First school London Road Infants, a short time in Scotland and then the Church Infants, each school day walking from Theatre Street (two doors up from 'The Cherry Tree') through the market place and down Church Street. I moved on to the primary at the top of Theatre Street and eventually Crown Road. While at Theatre Street... [more]
Shared on 08 July 2008
I was born in 1928 at Woodhill, Gressenhall and moved to Dereham at the age of 6yrs and left when I married some 20 years later. It was a happy childhood in spite of the war years, in fact it added to the excitement of those years, dashing out to crashed planes, collecting shrapnel, army badges etc and of course the... [more]
Shared on 28 October 2006
Norfolk memories
At the age of 5yrs I started my education at Scarning School, I lived at Woodhill [see memory of Dereham] which meant about a 2 mile walk to school with my 10 yr old sister usually stopping to play in the stream at Podmore on the way.
School dinners! there was no such thing,it was sandwiches which,regardless of weather had to... [more]
Shared on 20 November 2006
The Bawdeswell Plane Crash, The Willows and The Rectory.
Although I was just a little lad I can remember seeing the smoking debris of All Saints Church after the Mosquito crashed on it.
I was staying in "The Willows" which is opposite the church with my mum, my sisters, my cousins and my aunts, who were all evacuees from London. It was a miracle that the plane never hit... [more]
Shared on 27 June 2008
Hello My name is Chris Dann I am a direct decendant of Frank Gilbert Bird of Honingham, England and I am looking for decendants of his brothers and sisters. Frank had an older brother named Charles Edward Bird born in 1893, a younger brother named Cyril Victor Bird born in 1900 and a younger sister named Olive born in 1892. Olive... [more]
Shared on 09 February 2008
In 1940 my dad James Smith and his brother William was evacuated in Great Dunham on Hill Farm with Mr and Mrs Everington and they wanted to adopt my dad and brother but my nan said no. My family were from Hackney in London. In 1941 my Aunt Joan was born in Hill Farm Cottages too while my nan was visiting.
Shared on 02 November 2008
My grandfather the village postman
My grandfather, Bert Sampson, was the postman in the late 40s/ 50s. My grandmother, Ivy, and he lived at Woodview. My father said he used to sell produce from his smallholding as he did his rounds. Anyone remember?
Then his son Ron and his wife moved in and had all my cousins. Eight of them. They all lived in this small... [more]
Shared on 18 April 2008
Occupations in Great Witchingham
I have found out that my great, great, great grandfather, William Brigham was a baker at Great Witchingham (1841 census). My other GGG grandfather, James Smith, was a miller.
James Smith's son, Frederick, was the grocer/draper/flower seller (1871 census).
William's grandson, Frederick, became the rate collector, coal and oil merchant by 1896.
Would love to find any pictures of the area.... [more]
Shared on 01 January 2008
Extracts From East Dereham & Norfolk books
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The town enjoys a prosperity founded on more than its market and agricultural traditions, for engineering works were established here in Victorian times; Dereham grew into one of the busiest centres of commerce in central Norfolk. This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and... [more]
This is an extract from East Anglia.
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East Anglia Photographic Memories
A solitary pony and trap head down the street. In the churchyard of St Nicholas's Church is the grave of the melancholic poet William Cowper, and St Withburga's Well, the site of the grave of one of the sainted daughters of the Saxon King Anna.
This is an extract from East Anglia Photographic Memories.
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This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and most pious bard', was laid to rest. On the left is Kerrison the butcher's ornamented shop front, with a refined iron balcony overhead.
This is an extract from Norfolk Photographic Memories.
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