Jimmy Payne - Church Farm
<p>Jimmy Payne with his Horse Team</p>
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ROBERT JAMES PAYNE, the seventh in a family of nine children, was born at Wood Dalling 82 years ago, and has been known in Cawston and the surrounding area as a friendly, quick-witted and efficient farmer....
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Peggy Payne.
Beryl Rounce
John Kett
Chris Barringer
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Beryl Rounce" href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/155" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beryl Rounce</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="howard Builders & Undertakers" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Howard Builders & Undertakers</a></span></p>
<p>Booton Road/Goose Pie Lane</p>
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<p>Church Farm</p>
<p>A walk along the road to Booton - "Booton Green Lane" as many of us know it is a sentimental journey, recalling the first time I passed. that way in April, 1952, when the banks were bright with primroses and violets and other flowers.</p>
<p>At that time you could see the "new school" being built across the fields; today its low roof is hidden by the buildings since erected along the Norwich Road. I went down the lane during the first week in March - the month came in like a rather gentle lion, by the way! It was early for wild flowers, but there was a great display of "ladder ferns" and the shiny dark leaves of cuckoo pint - "lords and ladies".</p>
<p>We would sometimes take a nature walk from the school through Goose pie and down the lane to Thirtle's Moat, an attractive long pond where we dipped our nets for sticklebacks, beetles and other water creatures. Sadly the dear old moat proved too useful as a dumping place when mains drainage came to Cawston, and artists are denied that striking view of the Church with water in the foreground. I was interested to find "Thirkell's Greene" on a map made about AD 1600; we do strange things with surnames in Norfolk!</p>
<p>I once spent a fascinating hour at the Castle Museum with the late Mr. R. Rainbird Clarke, curator and leading archeologist, who interpreted for me a set of aerial photos of Cawston. He quickly identified a number of bomb craters between the Booton road and Jerry's Lake to the west, where Roman pottery had been found. The late Mr.Tom Sayer believed there was a Roman settlement in that area, having seen interesting "crop marks" in one of his fields. Mr. Clarke also pointed out other circular marks in the field near the copse, where the power cables cross the road. These, he said, were probably Bronze Age barrows or burial mounds, levelled and ploughed up over centuries. The soil in that field is noticeable on account of its variations in colour. Another link with the Bronze Age was the finding of a burial urn containing human remains not far from the school entrance in 1960.</p>
<p>Just beyond the copse it is encouraging to see that the unsightly rubbish dump has been tidied and fenced off. Let us hope that this will put an end to the desecration of one of the more attractive and interesting parts of our village.</p>
<p>From the Parish Magazine around the 1980's by John Kett,</p>
<p>Note: Booton Road lead to Green Lane and Jerrys Loke named due the number of bombs dropped during WW11. (see map)</p>
<p>The Memorial for the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Lucky Strike Memorial" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/32" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lucky Strike</a></span> plane crash and the <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bomber Plane Crasah">Bomber Plane Crash</a></span> at Bluestone Plantation is by the Church Wall.</span><br /><br />Click on file to view....<br /><br /></p>
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<a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/133" title="John Rogers - Goose Pie Farm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">John Rogers - Goose Pie Farm</span></a>
Lucky Strike Plane Crash.
<p>Lucky Strike Plane Crash 1944. Unveiling of Plaque and Flower Festival 1996.</p>
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<p>Memorial at Booton Rd.</p>
<p><span class="C-11">In 1944, Cawston was the scene of a plane crash involving an American bomber....</span></p>
<p>In 1996 a memorial to the crew of the "Lucky Strike" was unveiled by its Flight Engineer, Jack Sasson....</p>
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1944
Plaque unveiling 1996
Sylvia & Jimmy Raven
Mrs Peggy Payne
Judith Snowling
Memorial built & materials given by Richard Howard & maintained by Parish Council.
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Lucky Strike Control Knob" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Control Knob from Lucky Strike</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Collection"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Collection</span></a>: War Times/ Forces including Roll of Honour. Memorials. Home Guard. Memories and Photos etc<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bomber Plane Crash">Bomber Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/231" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Air Crash While Filming"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Air Crash While Filming</span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/59" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Air Fields in Cawston Area">Air Fields in Cawston Area</a></span></p>
Booton Clay Pits.
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Formed here when men once dug clay at a penny a yard (cubic), earning a meagre 35 to 40 pence a week at a time when the local weaving industry was in decay. The Cawston Fishing Club use and look after Booton Clay Pits which is owned by the Parish of Cawston, the Cawston Heath Trust oversees the management.
CLAY LUMP: Clay lump building continued far into the 19th century. The clay was mixed with straw and made into blocks, which were well dried before they were used, the mortar usually consisting of wet clay and cow-dung. The clay diggers were paid one penny for every cubic yard of clay, and a week's work would only realise about 50 pence. Men who had been put out of work by the decay of the weaving industry in East Anglia were often glad to seek this employment.
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CHS
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Heath" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/81" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cawston Heath</a></span>
Cawston Village Sign and Name
Cawston Name:-
It is believed the Cawston Name probably originated in the Dark Ages in the 8th and 9th Centuries, the area was settled by Scandinavians who's leading family was called Kalf, hence Kalf Tun. In the Domesday survey of 1086 our village is called CAUPSTUNA and in later years it became CAUSTON then CAWSTON
In 1937 the Cawston Sign was carved and painted by Mr. H. Carter of Swaffham, it was unveiled as a memorial of the Coronation of King George V1, by H.M. Lieut, of the County, Mr Colman and given by the Parish Council, the centre panel shows a weaver at his loom, and 4 smaller panels depict St. Agnes, to whom our Church is dedicated, a Dualstone, the "brazen gauntlet" symbol of John of Gaunt, once Lord of the Manor and a Ploughman.
The B/W 1937 photo is of the sign located at the entrance of the railway station on the Reepham road, it is now located at Church Close, Booton Road. The sign was renovated by Mr Richard Howard on its 40th birthday in Jubilee year 1977 and erected in a new location at Church Close.
New Sign:- In 2001 the sign was removed and a new sign was erected made from aluminium by Soanes signs, Shortthorne Road, Stratton Strawless at a cost of £2.450.00.
The old original sign was repainted in 2003 by Soanes Signs at the cost of £500.00 and is now in Cawston Church....
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