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S. A. Wilson - Slaughter House and Butcher shop

Mr Wilson had the slaughter house and butcher shop in Chapel Street....

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Tags: Andrew, Batemen, bell, Bertie, Billy, butcher, Chapel, Clifford, Edger, funeral, Gaff, Horace, house, Percy, shop, Sidney, Slaughter, Street, Tuddenham, Turner, William, Wilson

Beerhouse Farm

In the old days there were "beer houses" at which home-brewed beer was sold, being advertised by a bush hanging at the entrance, the name "Beerhouse" at sygate is misleading, for in tudor times it was "Beerhouse", ....

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Tags: beer, Beerhouse, buildings, carrots, Clifford, drier, farm, grading, grain, houses, intake, preparation, Pye, Pyes Pit, storage, topping

Farming

A visitor to Cawston School in the 1950's remarked that he was pleased to hear the long summer vacation referred to as the Harvest Holiday. At that time it lasted five weeks; originally it was four, during the month of August....

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Tags: binder, birds, Clifford, combine, Dagless, dairy, farm, farming, Gaskin, Gibbons, harvest, horse, Howard, Jane, John, Kett, Lane, potato, Pye, self, sickle, storage, Sygate, tackle, threshing, tractor

Memorials and Remembrance

Memorial & Remembrance project is on going and will be updated as time permit....

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Tags: 1935, Arthur, Bramble, Cemetery, Clifford, Diana, Gaskin, Gaskin Peter John, Jaggard, Jubilee, Jubillee, May, memorial, pitcher, Purdy, remember, remembering, Remembrance, sam, seat, seats, Simon, Spanish Laurels, Thompson, Tot, war, Winne, Winston

Roll of Honour and War Memorials

Roll of Honour for those who gave their lives for our country & War Memorials.

File 1/Roll of Honour WW1
File 2/Roll of Honour WW2
File 3/Lieutenant Cecil Faulkner Cawston - Boer War 1899-1902
File 4/ War Horses and Dogs
File 5/ War…

Tags: 1914, 1918, 1939, 1945, Africa, Alfred, Anthony, Arthur, Barham, Barker, Bartle, Bellboddy, Betts, Boer, brain, Brownsell, Bryant, Burke, Carman, Carmichael, Casson, Cawston, Cecil, Chanin, Claude, Clifford, Davidson, Dennis, Dix, Douglas, Edward, Elijah, Enright, Eric, Ernest, Faulkner, first, Fred, Frederick, Frutiger, Gapp, Gaskin, George, Gordon, Hampson, Harold, Henry, Hewitt, Hill, Honour, John, Jones, Kevin, King, Lee, Leonard, Lewis, Lieutenant, Lilly, Mark, memorials, monsey, Oakley, of, office, Orgilvie, Percy, peter, Preston, Ralph, Riseborough, Robert, roll, Rump, Sampson, Samuel, Sapper, second, Sheeve, shreeve, Sidney, south, Stanley, Thomas, Tubby, Tuddenham, Victor, Walter, war, warmemorials, Wells, William, world, ww1, ww11, ww2

Aylsham Road:

The Road from Cawston to Aylsham, the B1145: Leaving Cawston. The first right is Cooks Hill and was originally known as Stocks Hill, the stocks were in this area, probably on the site of the new houses built in 2001 opposite the Post Office, joining…

Tags: artillery, Auxiliary, Aylsham, building, Cemetery, Clifford, close, Cooks, Fairfields, family, firemen, garage, Gayford, Goddess, Green, Hill, Howards, Janice, Janice Whittred, Lane, loke, Marshall, Perrys, Philip Easton, Pye, road, stocks, Tooke, training, way, Whittred

Home Guard

Home Guard:

Photo with Old Rectory in background.

Names reading from left:

Back Row: 4/ Don Radford. 5/ Jimmy Payne. 6/ Harrold Pratt. 7/ Tom Barker. 9/ Ernie Whall.
14/ Austin Clifford Roberts.
Second Row: 7/ John Long. 8/ Jack Delph.…

Tags: Austin, Barker, Carman, Clifford, defence, Delph, Don, Groom, guard, Harrold, Harry, home, Jack, jimmy, John, local, long, Neal, Payne, Pratt, Pye, Radford, Roberts, Tom, Tommy, Underwood, Whall, Wrnie

Cawston Village Sign and Name

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…

Tags: 1977, Andrews, Bailey, Beryl, Bob, Booton, Cawston, Cawston name, Church, Clifford, close, Deeley, Doe, Fred, Howard, John, Jubilee, Kett, Mary, name, names, Norman, notices, Payne, Peggy, Pye, rd, Richard, road, Rounce, Sheena, sign, station, Tim, Village, Wells, White, yard, year

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