Scole, Norfolk

Old house next to the Waveney

There used to be an old house next to the River Waveney, which was demolished sometime in the 1970s to make way for a housing estate. I used to play in the gardens, and remember an old pond outside surrounded with tiles. Does anyone have any pictures of this house or information about it? I am now a singer/songwriter and have... [more]

SCOLE STORES

My parents Bernard (better known as Syd) and Margret (Peggy) Blunsom owned Scole stores in the main street of Scole. I rember the house well across the road was pretty"s garage. Old Mrs Johnsons cottage was sandwiched between us and the Scole Inn. On the other side was an antique shop where every mothers day I would go with the five... [more]

High House, Scole

I have very fond memories of Scole because I spent an awful lot of my childhood and adult years visiting and staying with my Great Uncle & Aunt Tom & Florrie Clark who lived in High House.  They initially had an antique shop at the front of the house, stables at the back and two orchards one at the side of... [more]

Scole Old Beams

My great-aunt lived in this house - we always knew it as 'Beam Ends'. She had a little antique shop in the single storey bit at the end (on the right).  I also remember the garage on the right in the picture which was run by a Mr Chapman. There is now a village by-pass but in the days when I... [more]

Norfolk Living Memories

Scole is on the old main road south from Norwich. The large coaching-inn is the White Hart, which once boasted perhaps the most famous inn sign in England, an enormous wooden structure stretching right across the street which included 25 life-size figures.

Norwich Photographic Memories

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.

Norwich Photographic Memories

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.