Memorial Slabs in Church
There are a number of remembrance Memorial Slabs set in the floor....
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Church">Church</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/442" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Wall Monuments in Church">Wall Monuments in Church</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/441" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Church Windows/Stained glass">Church Windows/Stained glass</a></span></p>
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<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>
George Cawston
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<p>In 1896 the manorial rights having passed from Augustine Earle to the Bulwer family were sold to George Cawston of London....</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Manor" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/87" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Manor</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Manor Water Tower" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manor Water Tower</a></span></p>
Oakes Family Playing Field
<p>The Oakes Family Playing Field is a community resource owned and managed by Cawston Parish Council for all the families living in the Cawston parish.</p>
<p>A joint Project Team was formed with the Oakes Memorial Trust and Cawston We Aim Higher Group to co-ordinate the planning and development of the field and a Master Plan was drawn up.</p>
<p>Several applications for funding was successful meaning that in total around £150,000 was raised to develop various 'play landscapes' for toddlers, primary age children, teenagers as well as a multi purpose games area and bmxl skateboard area, most of these was completed by the summer of 2008....<br /><br />Click on files to view full screen....</p>
Mrs Eileen Oakes
Mr David Oakes
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/29" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Time Line">Timeline</a></span>
<p>Memorials and Remembrance</p>
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Photos and details required for:-
1976 - Gift of wooden seat to the school by Cawston Brownies.
1976 - Special efforts and donation for a wooden seat at school in memory of Mrs Rose Douglas who died 1975 after serving on the school canteen staff for more then 25 years.
Memorial & Remembrance project is on going and will be updated as time permit....
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Richard Howard
Cawston Parish Council
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/63" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Roll of Honour and War Memorials">Roll of Honour and War Memorials</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/15" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="GGravestones - Memorial and Remembrance Project">Gravestones - Memorial and Remembrance Project</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/314" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Bluestone Plantation Bomber Plane Crash"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bluestone Plantation Bomber Plane Crash Memorial</span></a></p>
<p>and:</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 Strik Plane Crash Memorial</span></a><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></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>