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Wymondham photos

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Wymondham maps

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

Wymondham map

Historic map of Wymondham

Norfolk map

Illustrated Victorian map of Norfolk

Wymondham map

Historic Map of any Wymondham postcode

Wymondham maps
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Wymondham 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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Wymondham books
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Memories of Wymondham

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Norfolk memories

Bird Family

Hello My name is Chris Dann I am a direct decendant of Frank Gilbert Bird of Honingham, England and I am looking for decendants of his brothers and sisters. Frank had an older brother named Charles Edward Bird born in 1893, a younger brother named Cyril Victor Bird born in 1900  and a younger sister named Olive born in 1892. Olive... [more]

Shared on 09 February 2008 by Chris Dann.

For my dad

I am writing this for my dad. He is 81 now. He lived in Attleborough until he was 11 yreas old. His name is Colin Whybrow, his dad was Harold Whybrow. Dad also had a sister Janet, and brothers Brian, Trevor, and Ernest who was later killed in France in the Second World War. If any one remembers any of the... [more]

Shared on 08 June 2009 by Sandra West.

A bungalow called Lynwood, at Costessey

My father bought this bungalow around 1926 - it was the place I was born. He was forced to sell it in 1929 when the place he worked at -J arrolds Publishing - went on strike and he lost his job. With my mother and two other children we had to leave and return to Kidderminster, to the home of my... [more]

Shared on 07 April 2009

Faulkes Family

Hi, I'm Mel and I'm looking for information on my 4 x grandparents and family. According to church records James Faulkes (Forkes as it was then written) was born in Scoulton in 1819 and his father's name was Jonathan so I'm looking for information about them. For some reason the name was changed.

Shared on 03 August 2009 by Melanie Faulkes.

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.

Extracts From Wymondham & Norfolk books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Wymondham, inspired by Frith photos.

Norfolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends. The church was part of a Benedictine abbey, originally a priory, founded by William d'Abini, Earl of Arundel in 1107. The ruin on the south-east of the church was the abbey's chapter house. Never fully completed, the west tower... [more]

Norwich Photographic Memories

On the road leading to the priory gateway, this fine 14th-century, jettied, timber-frame building may have been built for visitors to the abbey. The period petrol pumps have now gone.

This is an extract from Norwich Photographic Memories.
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Norfolk Photographic Memories

This exquisite old timbered inn once belonged to the priory. Its jettied upper storey projects out over the latticed windows below. It is a tragedy of our century that the elevations of many of our finest buildings are defaced by the necessities of modern life. If only Mr Bird could have sited his garage elsewhere!

This is an extract from Norfolk Photographic Memories.
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