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>
Airfields in the Cawston Area
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/7837934155703ff0c8273438b8cc487e.jpg" width="383" height="286" /></p>
<p>Painting by John Kett.</p>
<p>Haveringland/Swanington +: When the second World War broke out, Haveringland Hall and its surrounding parkland was taken over by the Air Ministry....</p>
<p>Oulton: RAF Museum can be found at Blickling Hall with stories of the people who served as part of Bomber Command squadrons who were billeted at the hall during WW11.</p>
<p>See files for some village history....</p>
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<p>Links to: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Swannington" href="http://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/swannington/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Swanningt</a></span><a title="Swannington" href="http://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/swannington/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">on</span></a> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Norfolk Airfields" href="http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/regional/Norfolk.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Norfolk Airfields</a></span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Raf Oulton Airfield" href="http://www.controltowers.co.uk/O/Oulton.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RAF Oulton Airfield</a></span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/raf-coltishall" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Coltishall">RAF Coltishall</a></span> </p>
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Harry Rudd
Richard Howard
John Kett
Mike Hillier
Des Cook
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/32" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Lucky Strike"><span>Lucky Strike</span></a></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="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/347" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Haveringland">Haveringland</a></span></p>
Red Cross
Cawston Red Cross WW2 photos.
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<span><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/71" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="WW2 photos and Memorabilia">WW2 photos and Memorabilia</a></span>
Radio Norfolk Broadcast
It was a great pleasure for me last week (11/05/1992) to listen to your Radio programme about the village of Cawston, I just happened to be here on holiday.
I have been living in Germany for the last 20 years but was born in Cawston in 1949 where I lived until 1968. It was delightful to listen to people's voices who I knew when I was a child....
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" title="Michael Yaxley" target="_blank">Michael Yaxley</a></span>
Community Awards
Pride in Norfolk 2011 Awards....
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2011
Theresa Carman
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Volunteers Recognition 2017" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/257" target="_blank">Volunteers Recognitions 2017</a></span>
John Rogers - Goose Pie Farm
In the early days fruit would go on over night train and be on London market....
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Mr John & Nurse Rogers
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/52" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Booton Road/Goose Pie Lane">Booton Road/Goose Pie Lane</a></span>
Beryl Rounce
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Beryl with her long service Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association award in 1998, the only female farmer.....
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Beryl Rounce
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Jimmy Payne. Church Farm" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Payne. Church Farm</a></span>
Cawston in 1916
An extract from Kelly's Directory of Norfolk....
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1916
John Kett
Champion of Norfolk Dialect.
Mr John Kett retired in March 1978 after 26 years as Headmaster of Cawston School.
In a few words it is impossible to do justice to what Mr. Kett has meant and means, to the school, the village and the wider community in which he has lived and worked.
In the school, it is no exaggeration to say that he has been greatly loved and respected. Recent letters of appreciation include such words as "Dear Mr Kett", "unbounding help and encouragement", "the best Headmaster we have ever known", a wonderful Headmaster", "a very good friend to myself and family He is a schoolmaster of great kindliness, understanding and wisdom, who has shared his interests and, indeed, his life with his pupils.
How he has also found time for other things is amazing in itself. A Lay Reader for many years, his work in the parish and in the Cawston Group cannot be overestimated.
For many years too, his work for the St John Ambulance Brigade was unstinted and greatly appreciated.
He is rightly known to many, children and adults alike, as a great lover of the countryside, and all aspects of natural history, a love he has passed on to so many over the years.
And what an entertainer too! How many of us have enjoyed his feel for words, whether in his published books of dialect verse, or in his songs! Very much a man of Norfolk,
He has been an inspiration to all of us. There was in him an inner strength which is difficult to define but which, most certainly, owes much to his own family life and, of course, to Mary his wife. It is sometimes easy to forget that she has been the wife of the Headmaster for 26 years as well,
I am privileged to write for many.
John Asquith.
From the Parish Magazine April 1978
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Mr John Asquith
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/62" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Schools/Education">Schools/Education</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/207" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="St. Johns Ambulance Brigade">St. Johns Ambulance Brigade</a></span></p>
Kelly's 1904 Directory
Kelly's Directory of Cambridge. Norfolk & Suffolk 1904 which can be viewed at the Cawston Heritage Centre....
1904
Vic & Sally Purdy
S-H/C
<p>Bomber Plane Crash WW11 at Bluestone Plantation.</p>
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<p>The crash is remembered (2018) by some Cawston parishioners:</p>
<p>See film below for: As remembered by Brian Turner....</p>
<p>Information about the crash was also sent to the Historical Society by Bill Sampson Son of the Cawston Policeman at that time which read....<br /><br />Click on files to view full screen....</p>
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Handley Page Hampden Bomber Plane 1941
WW11 Bomber Plane crash.
On February 10th 1941 a Handley Page Hampden bomber plane crashed into Bluestone plantation killing all the aircrew: Flight Lieutenant John Frutiger, Sergeant John Hill, Flight Sergeant Robert Gapp, and Sergeant Robert Chanin, it was his 21st birthday.
At a ceremony in Cawston on Sunday 2 September, a plaque was unveiled in memory of the four young airmen in their early twenties of 61 Squadron, set off from RAF Hemswell on a bombing mission to Wilhelmshaven in Germany. On their return, they crashed near Cawston while attempting an emergency landing.
The very moving unveiling of the memorial and laying of wreaths followed a service in St Agnes’ Church, Cawston. The service and ceremony were attended by a large contingent of Cawston residents, along with representatives of the Royal British Legion and relatives of the airmen. A bugler played the Last Post and there was a fly-past of 2 aircrafts one of which was a Tiger Moth.
The Historical Society were particularly delighted to welcome several of the airmen’s family members, from Norfolk, Devon, Hertfordshire and Humberside.”
Refreshment were provided after at the Village Hall.
The decision to honour the airman with a plaque originated when Bill Sampson who was about 10/11 years of age and son of the policeman in the village at that time told us about this in a history piece of Cawston and when they were putting together a DVD of the history of Cawston, Mr Brain Turner recalled this incident (See film above) and seemed appropriate time to do something.
The memorial already has a plaque on it in memory of the crew of the Lucky Strike , which was flying back from a raid on submarine pens at Kiel in January 1944 when it crashed at Church Farm, Cawston with the loss of two lives.
Handley Page Hampden was a twin-engine medium bomber of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and was used in the early stages of the war.
10th February 1941
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/301" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bill Sampson"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bill Sampson.</span></a> Brian Turner.</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Media Projects East">Media Projects East</a></span></p>
<p>Charlie Webster. David Steward.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>Catherine Sampson. Pat Taylor.</p>
<p>Vic & Sally Purdy. Kathleen Schuil.</p>
<p>Mike Hillier & Des Cook.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/32" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Lucky Strike"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Lucky Strike</span></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/231" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Air Crash While Filming">Air Crash While Filming</a></span></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>
<p><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Collection">Collection</a></span>: War Times/ Forces including Roll of Honour. Memorials. Home Guard. Memories and Photos etc.</span></p>
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>