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Thorpe Market, The Tower Gunton Park c1955
Thorpe Market, Gunton Hall c1955
Thorpe Market, Pitt Cottage c1955
Historic maps of Thorpe Market and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Thorpe Market maps
Historic map of Thorpe Market
Illustrated Victorian map of Norfolk
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Norwich Photographic Memories
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My nan, Florence Watts, owned the hotel before I was born. I remember playing in the garden with my great gran, Emma Smith.
Shared on 20 January 2009
My great-grandfather owned the Lime Kiln in the village of Aldborough. When my grandfather Charles Earl was a young man he decided to leave the village with a friend and cycle to London to seek his fortune. They arrived in Pinner where my grandfather met his future wife (she was landlady of a pub). He went to work on the building of the London Underground. I have visited Aldborough on several occasions and I'm delighted to see the two pubs that my grandfather used to drink in as a boy are still there.
Shared on 13 May 2009
I worked at the convalescent home for 6 months, (my name was Lansdale then) as so-called 'nursing aide' - more like 'maid of everything' - cleaning baths, polishing old brass taps and scouring equally old claw-footed baths, while waiting to start nursing training in Norwich.
It was a lovely building in a lovely area (although with the war still on, barbed wire barricades were on beaches for fear of invasion). Matron was an old Tartar! - but it was a good introduction to nursing life as in those days the junior on the ward did the cleaning - and the ward sister made sure it was done properly before Matron did her round!
An account of my time at Cromer is included in my book "The Patchwork Years".
Shared on 03 July 2009
My great grandfatherwas lighthouse keeper at Cromer - Mr Hopkins
Shared on 15 October 2008
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Thorpe Market, inspired by Frith photos.
Norfolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
This old mansion was considerably improved and enlarged in 1785. It was the home of the Rt Hon Harbord Harbord, who was created Lord Suffield in 1786.
Traditional Norfolk cottages with thatched roofs and flint walls are built on the edge of a large village green: this kind of green-edge or common-edge settlement is characteristic of Norfolk. As its name suggests, this tiny village once had a market; although trading ceased centuries ago, it is still possible to make out the shape of the Market Place.
Norfolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
The whole of Gunton village is included in the park and grounds of Gunton Hall. There are lakes and extensive woodlands in the park, and also an old oak tree whose height is 42ft and whose girth is 21ft 6ins. The road from Thorpe passes under this stately tower: it is 120ft high, and commands a wonderful view over the surrounding area.
