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North Elmham maps
Historic maps of North Elmham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all North Elmham maps
Historic map of North Elmham
Illustrated Victorian map of Norfolk
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North Elmham books
Displaying 3 of 10 books about North Elmham and the local area. View all North Elmham books
Norfolk Broads Photographic Memories
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£14
Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Norfolk Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of North Elmham
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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
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
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
Extracts From North Elmham & Norfolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about North Elmham, 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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Read more and see photos from this book.
