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Horsham St Faith photos
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Horsham St Faith maps
Historic maps of Horsham St Faith and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Horsham St Faith maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Norfolk
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Horsham St Faith books
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Norfolk Broads Photographic Memories
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£14
Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories
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£14
Norfolk Photographic Memories
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Memories of Horsham St Faith
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Looking at the picture I think you turned left and my nursery school was on the right hand side, was it St Christopher's? I can remember seeing the fighters at St Faiths, must have been swifts, hawks, hunters, this must have been about the 1950s.
Shared on 16 September 2009
Norfolk memories
A bungalow called Lynwood, at Costessey
My father bought this bungalow around 1926 - it was the place I was born. He was forced to sell it in 1929 when the place he worked at -J arrolds Publishing - went on strike and he lost his job. With my mother and two other children we had to leave and return to Kidderminster, to the home of my... [more]
Shared on 07 April 2009
Too much to say, so in brief: lived on Wolfe Road, played on Mousehold, fireworks night great and sledged on cardboard in the summer and sledge in the snow; watched the soldiers in Brittania Barracks and them lowering the flag just outside the main gates in a railed enclosure long gone; horses at Nelson Barracks at the bottom of Ketts Hill;... [more]
Shared on 13 August 2009
I was stationed at RAF Coltishall and earned money working weekends at the Heartsease Pub on the Heartsease Estate where the Norwich footballers drank!
I met a lovely girl called Joy Collings who lived in Portersfield Road, and fell madly in love and we became an item. Unfortunately, due to a posting to Berlin in 1968, absence did not make... [more]
Shared on 16 April 2009
Extracts From Horsham St Faith & Norfolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Horsham St Faith, inspired by Frith photos.
On the road leading to the priory gateway, this fine 14th-century, jettied, timber-frame building may have been built for visitors to the abbey. The period petrol pumps have now gone.
This is an extract from Norwich Photographic Memories.
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The spacious market-place was established by 1130, but the present timber-framed 'cross' building dates from 1617. It replaced the original after yet another Norfolk fire gutted the town centre.
This is an extract from Norwich Photographic Memories.
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This was the former water mill. Smartened up, with its brickwork painted, the mill is now a house. It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.
This is an extract from Norwich Photographic Memories.
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