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Seagate or Sygate.pdf
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…

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Plough Sunday 2023.png
To see more photographs of the procession and blessing click on files to view full screenTo watch a short video in which Rev Andrew Whitehead talks about Plough Sunday/Monday click here

Sygate Southgate Road Widening  1993.pdf
Photo album of 38 photos which are in the Heritage Centre donated by Ivan Purdy which include Shuck & details of as it was etc....

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Cawston Weather 1987.pdf
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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Cawston Winter 1947.pdf
Cawston Winter 1947 photos....

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Farming.pdf
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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Photos from Above.pdf
Photos and Video from above including photos from church tower.

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Mills - Cawston.pdf
It was quite unique for 2 windmills to be built on the same site as the twin mills at Sygate being only about 50 yards apart and linked by railway lines, built possibly at the same time as the 4 Mill Cottages by the road in front of the mills and…

Sygate Southgate photo selection.pdf
Early last century some misguided surveyor working on the first 1-inch maps of this area decided to rename this hamlet "Southgate", and so it appears on Ordnance Survey maps to this day. However, the name by which we know it, and which is included in…

Life at Ratcatchers Row by Michael Yaxley.pdf
Memories of Cawston: Click on Files to view full screen.... 1/Life at Ratcatchers Row in the 1950s by Michael Yaxley. Related Link: Michael Yaxley 2/Days Gone By by John Kett 3/Denny's Memories by Dennis W. Easton 4/Shopingin Cawston1950's by…
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