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Scarning, Norfolk
Scarning maps
Historic maps of Scarning and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Scarning maps
Historic map of Scarning
Illustrated Victorian map of Norfolk
Historic Map of any Scarning postcode
Scarning books
Displaying 3 of 10 books about Scarning and the local area. View all Scarning books
Norfolk Broads Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Norfolk Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Scarning
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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
Norfolk memories
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
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
Extracts From Scarning & Norfolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Scarning, 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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