Wymondham, Norfolk
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 books
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Memories of Wymondham
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Norfolk memories
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
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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.
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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!
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