Mundford, The Stores And King's Head c.1960
Photo ref:
M310013
Photo ref:
M310013
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The pub and shop go back hundreds of years. This is a large village with a number of neat houses. It is close to the River Wissey and the main road to London. The village church is an ancient building with no tower, which is unusual for Norfolk.
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A Selection of Memories from Mundford
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Mundford
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Stationed at RAF Lakenheath in the mid 1960's, friends and I would drive out to Lynford Hall to have a pint in the pub there. You always felt like you were stepping back into the WW II era. The pub had a roaring fire in a huge fireplace. You could wander around because the place was largely deserted. In the cavernous cellar a ceiling was hung with some sort of blue gauze material, because it had ...see more
My husband was enlisted in the US Air Force and was stationed at Lakenheath RAFB from 1975 - 1978. One of the requirements for permission to bring his family over to England was proof of a place to live. My husband rented #3 London Lane (now known as The Hannah House) in Mundford. The boys and I joined him there on March 30, 1976 and I fell in love with the village almost immediately. Dave and I were 23 ...see more
I was born in Mundford in 1955 - when I was 18 months old my family moved to the nearby hamlet of West Tofts. We had a small wooden bungalow, one of a pair, that was directly opposite an army camp.
My father worked for his father as a farm labourer at Lynford Home Farm, but following some sort of bust-up, my dad started working for the MOD on night shifts and during the day he gradually built up a smallholding, ...see more
I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford. My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general store. When other needs arose we hired a taxi or cycled the ten miles or so to Brandon, where there was then a train station that enabled us to get to Norwich or Kings Lynn. My Father ...see more
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