Heacham, High House Heacham Hall??
A Memory of Heacham.
I have no personal memories of the Heacham, High House but I'm researching my Rolfe Family. I live in America and I am pretty sure the photo posted of the Heacham, High House c 1955 is actually Heacham Hall, the Family home of the Rolfe Family. I have found, on the internet, that Heacham Hall was destroyed by fire in 1941. Is this true? I am hoping that it is still extant and would like to visit it some day.
Any help with someones memories about Heacham Hall will be of great help to me. Thank you for your memories!
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Heacham Hall was about a three quarters of a mile away off the Hunstanton Road. The Hall was gutted by fire on the 6th November 1941. In 1973 I met somebody who was in the RAF and billeted at the hall at the time of the fire. The hall was cold and the airmen kept warm with an unauthorised brazier in the rooms. At night the brazier, still alight was hidden in a cupboard.
High House was used as a school in the first half of the twentieth century, The Ruskin School, an advanced socialist school. During the Second World War Polish troops were based there. After the war it became a hotel or guest house for the Workers Travel Association, closing in the sixties.