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Thorpe St Andrew maps

Historic maps of Thorpe St Andrew and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Thorpe St Andrew maps

Thorpe St Andrew map

Historic map of Thorpe St Andrew

Norfolk map

Illustrated Victorian map of Norfolk

Thorpe St Andrew map

Historic Map of any Thorpe St Andrew postcode

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Thorpe St Andrew books

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Norfolk Broads Photographic Memories
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Norfolk Coast Photographic Memories
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Norfolk Photographic Memories
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Thorpe St Andrew books
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Memories of Thorpe St Andrew

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Hearts Cruisers

This boatyard belonged to my grandfather, Geoffrey John Hart (the gentleman standing at the back of the picture) and the young man in the front of the picture is Jack Ayton Hart, his son. The other son also worked there and his name was Dick. As children my mother, Yvonne, and my brother and myself all played here and learned to... [more]

Shared on 10 May 2009 by Judi Ingram.

Hearts Cruisers

This gentleman is my grandfather Geoffrey John Hart. He owned and worked the business, Hearts Cruisers, with his two sons, Dick and Jack, and we spent many a happy hour there. In those days you could swim in the river as pollution was almost non-existent. Uncle Dick's many descendants are now mainly living in New Zealand but pay regular visits to... [more]

Shared on 10 May 2009 by Judi Ingram.

Norfolk memories

Early Years

Too much to say, so in brief: lived on Wolfe Road, played on Mousehold, fireworks night great and sledged on cardboard in the summer and sledge in the snow; watched the soldiers in Brittania Barracks and them lowering the flag just outside the main gates in a railed enclosure long gone; horses at Nelson Barracks at the bottom of Ketts Hill;... [more]

Shared on 13 August 2009 by Gerald Wase.

Love of my Life

I was stationed at RAF Coltishall and earned money working weekends at the Heartsease Pub on the Heartsease Estate where the Norwich footballers drank!

I met a lovely girl called Joy Collings who lived in Portersfield Road, and fell madly in love and we became an item. Unfortunately, due to a posting to Berlin in 1968, absence did not make... [more]

Shared on 16 April 2009 by John Stroud.

Family memory

My father's grandfather used to own Brundall Gardens, he has some photographs of us standing on the steps with great-grandfather holding me when I was a baby, he also has photographs of my brother who is a year older than I in the gardens with the stone statues.  My father being the eldest son would have inherited the house and gardens.... [more]

Shared on 22 July 2008

Loves First Kiss

This is the park where Sam and I had our first kiss! xx

Shared on 31 October 2006 by Jennifer Christie.

Brundall

Peggy from the USA, who sent a memory of Brundall, is my cousin. Arthur Henry Brigham was my grandfather, and he was the Signalman at Brundall railway station. I knew Sydney (her father) very well, and also spent many happy days at Brooms boatyard. Get in touch Peggy - it's your long lost cousin calling!!!

Shared on 01 March 2009 by Peter Anderson-Edward.

Happy memories in Brundall

Imagine my surprise while sitting here in U.S.A. looking at pictures of the village Brundall, the village that I was born in. I saw a picture of my dad, Sidney A. Brigham, launching a sail boat at Brooms Boat Yard.  The year of the picture, number 11, is 1955.  He had worked at Brooms since he was about 15 and worked... [more]

Shared on 20 September 2008 by Peggy Miller.

Extracts From Thorpe St Andrew & Norfolk books

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East Anglia

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.

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East Anglia Photographic Memories

This is the River Yare. While Norwich has operated as a port for hundreds of years, it is only in more recent years that the recreational aspect has become more important, although it is known that Nelson almost certainly learned to sail here.

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Norwich Photographic Memories

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.

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