Snettisham
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dersingham 1954 c
We lived in the village shop Virginia Stores owned by Peatling & Cawdron. My dad won the Vernons Football Pools in 1955 a great sum of £505.6s, my sister and I had new bikes, and mum and dad went for a holiday to Blackpool! with her new fur coat. We moved to Brancaster after that when they bought the pub there.
I remember going to Sandringham with the school to sing carols at Christmas and winning prizes at the flower show for handwriting and needlework,
walking through the woods picking chestnuts and ducking when the Royal family rode past on horseback, the Queen Mother coming to the school and watching out for her driving an old shooting break around the village ...read more here
A memory of Dersingham contributed by carolynn langley
Fun at Proudfoot's
I can remember walking up Sea Lane with my brothers, and visiting the little shop owned by Mrs Proudfoot, in the hope of getting some groceries for our parents (and sweets for us)! Everything about the shop was quaint, from the layout of the shop floor to the scales on the counter. It wasn't always the best stocked shop, so if ever Mrs Proudfoot had sold out of something, or we needed something she didn't sell, we had to gingerly walk passed her shop window and buy the goods from the Post Office shop instead. Then when we walked back down Sea Lane, we would have to hide the groceries from her view when passing the shop window again!
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A memory of Old Hunstanton contributed by Jenny Davies
Tiny Post Office.
Mr and Mrs Raines ran a postal service from this tiny shed at the bottom of their garden in 1908. The village was of course much smaller then: there were only four large families and no more than a dozen cottages. In the late 1940s the post office moved to a building in the main street. Later, the shed was used to house chickens before finally rotting away.
A memory of North Wootton contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Middleton Family
Hi - My family history research finds that my mother Isobella Stephenson was born in Houghton in 1917. Her family may have been in the pub buisness, but her father Harry John Middleton worked for the railways. They eventually ended up in Barnsley where I was born. Any information on this family would be of help to me,
Regards Allan Broadhead
A memory of Houghton contributed by allan broadhead
Extracts From Snettisham & Norfolk books
The bungalow was situated on the beach for the convenience of Her Majesty. She often visited on
summer days with her entourage of servants and guests. Sad to say, it became storm-damaged, fell
into disrepair and was eventually demolished.
An extract from from"Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories".
The hall dates from the early
16th century, when Wymond Cary
leased the estate from the Crown.
Remodelled with gables in c1625,
the hall passed to the Styleman
family in 1710, who made many
alterations. In 1877 the hall was sold
again, and then began a chequered
existence of rentals and military
occupation in wartime. The last
family to occupy the hall as their
home between the 1930s and
70s were the Stricklands, notably
General Sir Peter Strickland, the
longest serving colonel of the Royal
Norfolk Regiment. The Hall was sold
after his widow’s death in 1977 to
become a Sue Ryder Home.
An extract from from"Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories".
This is one of the largest keeps in the country, richly decorated inside with a well-preserved medieval kitchen.
The castle is built on a massive defensive earthwork, giving unrivalled views across the land and out to sea.
An extract from from"King's Lynn Photographic Memories".
This entrance lodge to
the house and gardens
was private until the
area was opened to the
public for the first time
in 1908. All moneys
from admission charges
go to a huge list of
charities, and garden
produce is given to
local hospitals.
An extract from from"King's Lynn Photographic Memories".
The owners of Gayton Flour Mill built all these properties to house their workers.
The mill had a bakery supplying bread for the whole village, which was displayed in
baskets and delivered by horse and cart. Depending on the strength of the wind,
the employees were called out day or night to work the mill.
An extract from from"King's Lynn Photographic Memories".