Sygate or Southgate?
The article from the Aylsham Local History Society talks about the derivation of the name 'Sygate' or 'Sea gatway'.
It is sometimes argued that the name Sygate is a corruption of the name Southgate but as the people of Cawston and Sygate know this cannot be the case since Sygate is actually north of Cawston. The name Sygate is thought to be taken from the Old English word 'sic' meaning a water course or runnel. Birds Lane is indeed a heavily ditched for an extended run and wet in places even in dry summer (page 252). For more detailed information about this click on the file.
Naomi Horrocks
<a href="http://aylshamhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Journal9.7.pdf">Sea gatway or Sygate<br /><br /></a>Aylsham Local History Society Journal and Newsletter Volume 9 No 7
Maggie and William Vaughan-Lewis
Auction sale of Nettleship Farm and The Malthouse Farm in June 1917
In June 1917 Nettleship Farm and Malthouse Farm were offered for sale as a result of the death of Thomas Williams. The auctioneers drew attention to the fact that they are both conveniently situated one mile from the railway station and would suit dealers, poultry farmers and market gardeners.
The resource includes the poster for the auction sale and the brochure detailing the farms, their buildings and land. Click on the files to view in full screen.
Naomi Horrocks
Resources for this item were kindly lent to the Cawston Historical Society by Mr and Mrs Michael Black.
Sale of land and property in Cawston by the Heydon Estate in 1910
On 30 May 1910 five farms with their accompanying farm houses and agricultural agricultural premises, a dwelling house with butcher's shop and other outbuildings, four new houses and eighteen cottages and gardens were auctioned at the School Room in Cawston.
The resource includes the brochure printed for the auction together with a map showing all the premises and land offered for sale. Click on the files to view in full screen.
Naomi Horrocks
The originals of these items were kindly lent to the Cawston Historical Society by Mr and Mrs Black.
Boathouse at Cawtson Manor
Cawston Manor in 1934 was sold to Lt Colonel Herbert McDougall who in 1936 had the Japanese-style boathouse built by the inspiration of the
distinguished Norfolk architect Cecil Upcher and built by the Cawston Builder Norman Howard, bricks used were made....
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Richard Howard
<a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/87" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Manor"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cawston</span> Manor</a>
A Walk at Chris'mas
<p><img src="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/769d0867c65b51399621734e411ae719.jpg" width="364" height="272" /></p>
A Poem by John Kett....
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John Kett
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/378" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Walks in Cawston">Walks in Cawston</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/410" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Poems">Poems</a></span></p>
Gift to Village Hall.
Plaque for Adrian Harrison who in 2016 left 1/4 of his estate to the Village hall....
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/35" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Village Hall">Village Hall</a></span>
Estate being sold near Woodrow 1766
Norwich Mercury news paper piece dated 1766....
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1766
Naomi Horrocks
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/56" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Holt Norwich Road">Holt Norwich Road</a></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/103" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Fairs and Markets"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fairs and Markets</span></a></p>
Bluestone
Bluestone Plantation and Railway....
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bomber Plane Crash WW11">Bomber Plane Crash WW11</a></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/96" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Railway and Transport"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Railway and Transport</span></a></p>
Wireless set - Radio and TV
First Radio in Cawston and TV in the 1950s....
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Property Auction poster 1854
Properties up for auction at the Kings Head....
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1854
Fullers: Market Place - Poster
Notice regarding Good Things For Nothing....
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About 1900
Clifford Harmer
Jumble Sale 1911 Notice
Jumble Sale held at the Manor in aid of Cawston Church heating fund....
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1911
Mary Gurteen
Charity Concert 1912 Notice
Concert in aid of Church restoration and Sunday School funds....
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1912
Mary Gurteen
Charity Concert 1908 Notice.
Concert held in the School Room 1908....
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1908
Mary Howard
Garden Fete 1911 Notice
Garden Fete including Sale of Work - Bulbs etc. Jumble sale. Morris Dancing and Amusements....
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1911
Mary Gurteen
Plane Crash 1990
Plane Crash by the Woodrow Cross Roads....
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1990
May Purdy
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/107" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Catastrophes">Catastrophes</a></span>
Bell Ringers
Bell Ringer photos...
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1952 & 1960's
Mary Gurteen
Highwaymen
Highwayman, well mounted, attacked Mr. Johnson, presented a pistol at his breast, and robbed him of fourteen shillings in silver and halfpence....
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1786
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/56" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Holt - Norwich Road">Holt - Norwich Road</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/249" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Smugglers">Smugglers</a></span></p>
Do You Remember the 1930s
Whilst looking through some old photographs I came across a picture....
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1930's
Sid Dack
Cawston 1864
Cawston is a considerable parish 2 miles East of Reepham and 4 miles W.S.W. of Aylsham comprising 1010 inhabitants....
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1864
Peter F. Kett
Days Gone By
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/4240ae320e052e7a7af6446cd967f578.jpg" width="337" height="252" /></p>
January also brought another special occasion, the blessing of the plough in the Church on the first Monday after Twelfth Night, before the year's work in the fields began....
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John Kett
Life at Ratcatchers Row
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/fc8b500ba523c608f7d3bae24dec0f31.jpg" width="266" height="355" /></p>
<p>Cottage at 1925</p>
The houses that once stood at the Ratcatchers Row (also called Rats Row) at Eastgate were demolished in the early 1960s....
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1950's
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Michael Yaxley">Michael Yaxley</a></span>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Eastgate">Eastgate</a></span>
Life in Cawston 1870-1900
Many of the cottages and farm houses in Cawston during the late 19th century dated back to the 17th and 18th century....
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1870-1900
Michael Yaxley
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Michael Yaxley">Michael Yaxley</a></span>
Christmas in Cawston 1950s and 1960s
Preparations for Christmas in Cawston in the 1950’s and 1960’s started just after Bonfire night. This was the time
when the small family-owned business in the village began to decorate their shop windows....
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1950's- 1960's
Michael Yaxley
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Michael Yaxley">Michael Yaxley</a></span>
<p>Property Deeds and Documents</p>
<p>If you are selling a property in the parish of Cawston could you please ask for the old deeds as they are not now required and could be destroyed.</p>
<p>The Historical Society would very much like to store them in the Heritage Centre or to copy for our records with any photos or information for the benefit of present and future generations. Thank you.</p>
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<p>A collection of old deeds and documents are at the Heritage Centre which are often a neglected historical source....</p>
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Diana Johnson
Christine Jackson
Roger Saunders
Then and Now
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/07e5f8371551bc2ca885ff1cd1bd63b0.jpg" width="325" height="243" /></p>
<p>Photo selection of Then and Now.</p>
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Jeremiah Able
<p>A Norfolk Smuggler: Jeremiah Abel was born in Morton-on-the-Hill, Norfolk on 7th December 1764.</p>
<p>Supported his family by farming, and later running a butchery business, but he sought to supplement his income by a more risky venture: smuggling....</p>
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Judith Havens
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/275" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Jeremiah - The Smuggler"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jeremiah - The Smuggler</span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/249" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Smugglers">Smugglers</a></span></p>
Yesterday's Children: Book by John Kett,
Yesterday’s Children: A somewhat unusual local history book written by John Kett in 1980 has been reprinted by the Historical Society by kind permission of the Kett Family.
The price of the book is £4.50 or £6.50 including post & package.
All profits from the sale of this book are for the funds of Cawston Village Hall.
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Reprint by the Cawston Historical Society
1980 First print.
2018 Reprinted.
John Kett
Doctors Invoice 1944/45
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK came on the 4th July 1948. It was the first time anywhere in the world healthcare was made available free of payment or insurance....
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1944 - 45 and 48
Ivy Lake
Heath Fire 1958
The fire on the heath in 1958 according to eye witness was very frightening....
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1958
Richard Howard
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/81" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Heath">Cawston Heath</a></span>
Winter 2018
<p>Norwich Road - Click on file to see more...</p>
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/ec10c1df31a85ed7b82d00d6e1cf78eb.jpg" width="331" height="262" /></p>
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Lots of snow and roads blocked....
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Feb/March 2018
Mark Lubbock
Map File
File which is in the Heritage Centre for the collection of Cawston Maps....
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/26" title="Cawston Old Maps" target="_blank">Cawston Old Maps</a></span>
Winter 2004
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/aa6f9e7350ea5639a7cf65f8cbb49228.jpg" width="351" height="263" /></p>
<p>Photos of the winter 2004....</p>
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2004
Eating in the UK in the fifties
Eating: How it was in the 1950's....
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1950's
19th Century Cawston
Many of the cottages and farm houses in Cawston during the late 19th century dated back to the 17th and 18th century when the housing construction was simple....
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19th Century
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank">Michael Yaxley</a></span>
Smugglers
Smuggling was very common in around the 1800's.
see file 1: Smugglers: An Affray at Cawston & Smugglers and file 2: An Unhappy Christmas and relation links below....
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John Kett
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/275" title="Smuggler Jeremiah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smuggler Jeremiah</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/354" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Jeremiah Able"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jeremiah Able</span></a></p>
Magazine History for Cawston Parish Group
Magazine History - January 1967 saw the first Magazine which was for the then Cawston group for....
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Mrs June Hopper
Mrs Fellows
Cawston Weather 1987
<p>Sygate Road</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/dbac60f44358ae9123cd1a433d8bdd04.jpg" /></p>
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Winter January 1987 Sygate Road.
and was also the year of the great storm of October 15th & 16th, a very violent storm with hurricane-force winds causing casualties, fallen trees and schools were closed....
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1987
Ivan Purdy
Prince of Wales/Forge House
Prince of Wales/Forge House by Trudie Wilkinson. This building was built in 1843, and had a thatched roof. In 1877 it was burnt down in a tremendous fire....
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Mrs Trudie Wilkinson
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/90" title="Public Houses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Public Houses</a></span>
Times in Cawston from the 1930s
Times in Cawston from the 1930s by Eileen Oakes. They are times I remember. Forgive me bringing personal events into this, but both they and I am part of those times....
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1930's
Mrs Eileen Oakes
Changes Over 50 Years 1948 - 1998
Fifty years ago, in 1948, Cawston was a self-contained village; everything you wanted or needed was here....
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1948/98
Mrs Trudie Wilkinson
Changing Scenes
Changing Scenes 1950s - My word - hasn't the place changed!" This was the remark made recently by someone visiting....
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1950's
John Kett
Cawston in 1965
Cawston in 1965 by The Cawston W.I....
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1965
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/93" title="WI" target="_blank">Cawston W.I.</a></span>
Pocket Money
Pocket money by Sid Dack. In the last 1920s and early 1930s was hard come by....
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1920's +
Sid Dack
Cawston Winter 1979
Cawston Winter 1979 photos....
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1979
Cawston in 1916
An extract from Kelly's Directory of Norfolk....
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1916
Cawston Winter 1947
<img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/681ee90ecdc7ac4fc38e7e2ac9af9d74.jpg" width="365" height="387" />
Cawston Winter 1947 photos....
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1947
Fiction Stories
Fiction Stories with Cawston in the story....
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" title="Michael Yaxley" target="_blank">Michael Yaxley </a></span></p>
<p>Angus Cook</p>
Yesteryears in Local Area
<img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/ec0481a932b43daf6947ed0de0818df2.jpg" width="360" height="252" />
Photos of Yesteryears in Local Area....
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/202" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Photo Memories">Photo Memories</a></span>
Catastrophes
History & Photos of Catastrophes....
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<a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/65" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="New Street"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">New Street</span></a>