Thorpe St Andrew
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Loves First Kiss
This is the park where Sam and I had our first kiss! xx
A memory of Norwich contributed by Jennifer Christie
Old John Barley Corn....
Known as the 'John Barley Corn' children because at the Staithe where they all used to play, there is an inlet. In the 1920s, when boats came past, the children would sing 'Old John Barley Corn if you throw us a penny we will sing you a song'. Sometimes handfuls of pennies would be thrown. The people on one boat 'Nelson' were always quite generous. It was quite a scramble to each get a couple of pennies.
A memory of Belaugh contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
A R Taylor
I left school at 15 in 1953, and like many others of my age went to work at A R Taylors timber merchants. I first worked at the Tunstead road site. It was hard work and unlike today there was no such thing as a contract of employment so you did whatever anyone who was older than you told you to do. I remember one of my jobs was to go around every morning to take orders from the workers for cigarettes, tobacco and sweets and such and then in all weathers cycle into the village and purchase the orders. I remember Alfie Ransom asking me to go to the Ironmongers and get him a left handed hammer and a bubble ...read more here
A memory of Hoveton contributed by Calvin Simper
Red House Inn, Cantley
Heresay says my boat was built in the 1880s for the then-owner of the Red House at Cantley, and was called "Lama" or possibly "Llama". Does anyone have any information on owners/landlords, or boating pictures of that period?
Thanks
A memory of Cantley contributed by Cliff Pope
Extracts From Thorpe St Andrew & Norfolk books
John Sell Cotman, who founded the Norwich School of artists with Crome, was born in this riverside village in 1782. The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich. Further down is the Rush Cutters pub.
An extract from from"East Anglia".
This view looks downstream to the Rush Cutters pub from the south bank. The boating business is still there; it is now called Hearts Cruises, and has a wider range of boats than in 1919.
An extract from from"Norwich Photographic Memories".
John Sell Cotman, who founded the Norwich School of Artists with Crome, was born in this riverside village in 1782. The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich. Further down is the Rush Cutters pub.
An extract from from"Norfolk Photographic Memories".
The river Wensum on the edge of Norwich was – and is to this day – a popular boating river. There is an elegant clinker-built yacht in the foreground, and assorted rowing boats all around. Boating in those far-off days was an altogether quieter pastime than it is today with thousands of mechanically driven craft around.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
The river Wensum on the edge of Norwich was - and is to this day - a popular boating water. There is an elegant clinker-built yacht in the foreground, and assorted rowing boats all around. Boating in those far-off days was an altogether quieter pastime than it is today with thousands of mechanically driven craft around.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".