Acle, Fishing at the Bridge c1929 (ref. A204037) | Acle Bridge, a mile from the village, crosses the Bure. Two years after this photograph was taken the fine stone bridge, built in about 1830, was replaced by a steel one. This has just been replaced as well. |  Add your own Memory
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Acle, view from Acle Bridge c1929 (ref. A204024) | Acle Bridge now has a thriving boatyard with leisure-boating facilities. The old Bridge Inn building has gone, but the pantiled outbuilding survives as a craft and gift shop. | Add your own Memory
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Acle, entrance to River Thurne c1926 (ref. A204049) | The River Thurne joins the Bure here, and both are excellent for sailing. The late 18th-century left-hand mill has lost its cap, but the 1820 Thurne Dyke mill on the right was beautifully restored in 1955. | Add your own Memory
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Acle, the Bridge Inn c1955 (ref. A204098) | The now much enlarged thatched house on the right is the only Bridge Inn building standing today; the left-hand one has been demolished. Apparently, it incorporates some flinty remains of a small 13th-century priory. | Add your own Memory
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Acle, the Windmill c1929 (ref. A204011) | Now long-disused, this is one of many 19th-century pump mills built to lift water from the drained marshes. The mill has now lost its sails, but not its inverted boat-style cap. | Add your own Memory
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Acle, the Green from the Post Office c1926 (ref. A204004) | Acle is a small market town, now really a village; it was granted its market charter in the 13th century. It became a major cattle-market, receiving a boost when the railway arrived. | Add your own Memory
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Acle, the Street c1955 (ref. A204080) | The Green is now tidied up, but it retains the signpost of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. This was the medieval market place of a town strategically situated where the River Bure cut gently through higher (for Norfolk) ground. | Add your own Memory
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Acle, the Village c1955 (ref. A204084) | The A47 overpass bridge now replaces the buildings in the foreground, but the church remains. Its characteristic East Anglian Norman round tower is topped by an octagonal 13th-century belfry. | Add your own Memory
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Aylsham, White Hart Street c1965 (ref. A220028) | Aylsham prospered with linen manufacture in the Middle Ages, then worsted weaving, before becoming an agricultural market town in the 18th century. The pub is now a house, but the street is relatively unchanged. | Add your own Memory
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Aylsham, Market Place c1955 (ref. A220023) | Thirteen miles from Norwich, Aylsham had a market by 1300, but really developed later when John of Gaunt held the manor. His square market place now has, on the left, a diminutive 19th-century town hall. | Add your own Memory
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Aylsham, Red Lion Street c1955 (ref. A220002) | Leading off the north-east corner of the market-place, Red Lion Lane emphasises the local market-town character of Aylsham. It is still a town serving an agricultural community, and does not depend upon tourism alone. | Add your own Memory
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Hoveton, the Village 1921 (ref. 70890) | Both the buildings in the foreground are now part of the Roy empire; the battlemented one, oddly named 'Miss Roy', sells clothes. The original store is now a food hall and restaurant.. | Add your own Memory
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Ludham, the Old Wind Pump c1931 (ref. L110082) | In this typical scene, a wherry sails past a disused early 19th-century drainage windmill, typical of the 200 that once turned to keep the marshes drained. | Add your own Memory
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Ludham, Post Office Corner 1931 (ref. L110075) | Ludham is a crossroads village set on higher ground between the rivers Thurne and Ant, both tributaries of the Bure. It is at the head of its own tributary channel to the Bure, Womack Water. | Add your own Memory
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Ludham, The Village 1931 (ref. L110076) | The thatched house north of the crossroads no longer has a village shop. The outbuilding on the right is now The Cat's Whiskers, a hairdresser's whose name wittily puns on the road name. | Add your own Memory
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Ludham, Main Street 1931 (ref. L110072) | This range of 18th- and 19th-century cottages, some thatched, look across to the parish church, whose churchyard wall can be seen on the left. The village hardware shop is now the Alfresco Restaurant. | Add your own Memory
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North Walsham, Market Place 1921 (ref. 70936) | North Walsham is only 15 miles from Norwich; it prospered when Flemish weavers settled in the area in the 14th century. The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600. | Add your own Memory
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North Walsham, Market Street c1955 (ref. N42024) | The fine, large town church is situated up an alley at the east end of Market Street and behind the market-place. Only remnants of its medieval tower survive. It collapsed in 1724, and was never rebuilt. | Add your own Memory
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North Walsham, Paston Grammar School c1955 (ref. N42015) | South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765. It was founded before 1600; one of Norfolk's most celebrated sons, Horatio Nelson, was a pupil in the new building. | Add your own Memory
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North Walsham, Bactonwood Mill, Spa Common c1955 (ref. N42007) | 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. | Add your own Memory
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