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Dersingham, Hawthorn Cottages c1965
Dersingham, Hawthorn Cottages c1965 Ref: D148038
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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 and running through the church yard at dusk frightened silly by the bats that swooped around but not daring to be scared in front of our friends. Last edited: 10/05/2007 09:37 by Carolynn Langley |
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Year: 1954
The railway at Heacham A memory of Heacham, Norfolk My father had holidays in Heacham in the 1920s. I visited as a young boy in the 1950s staying in an old railway carriage on the beach side of the station. My favourite activity was sitting by the station and watching the trains, rather than going to the beach. Mostly these were hauled by D16s - what a pity none have been preserved. What a pity the line to Hunstanton was closed in less enlightened times - it could have become a very popular railway today. Later we moved to caravans behind the beach. We now caravan at Mundesley but, try and go home via Hunstanton and Heacham. I have such fond memories. Last edited: 20/08/2008 09:07 by Alan Tanner |
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 North Wootton, the Post Office 1908 (ref: 60035) |
Tiny Post Office. A memory of North Wootton, Norfolk 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. Posted: 06/04/2006 16:20 by The Frith Memory Archivist |
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Year: 1910s
Middleton Family A memory of Houghton, Norfolk 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 Last edited: 03/09/2006 00:18 by Allan Broadhead |
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Year: 1955
Burt and Aunty May's Shellfish Stall A memory of Hunstanton, Norfolk My Uncle Burt and Aunty May had a shellfish stall in Hunstanton on the sea front by the old red sea mine. I would only have been a mere youngster then. I can remember going with my Uncle Burt Wells to Wells-Next-to-Sea to pick up the bags of cockles for the stall. I can remember the Kit Kat Club down Seagate Road. My Uncle Burt and Aunty May lived down Seagate Road. I lived in Waveney Road with my mum and dad. My dad used to work with Geoff Searle on the 'Ducks' and was also in the Fire Service at Hunstanton during the floods. Last edited: 28/07/2008 15:04 by David Burrows |
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