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Air Crash While Filming

During filming for "A Yank in the RAF"....

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Tags: air, Anson, Avro, crash, filming, Hurricane, plane, RAF, Yank

John Covell/Continental Wine Experts

Continental Wine Experts - A Working History at the Winery (CWE) Cawston by John Covell....

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Tags: Alan, Andrew, Andrews, Ann, Audrey, Barker, Bass, Betty, big, Briggs, Broome, Burdett, Chapman, Colin, Continental, Continental Wine Experts, Covell, Daniels, David, Dennis, Dennison, Derek, Dick, Doreen, Engelhards, Ethel, Evelyn, experts, Fenn, Gale, George, Gilbert, Glynis, Golden, Graham, Hall, history, Hurren, Jean, John, Joyce, Lucy, Marshall, McCarter, Meek, Michael, Moira, Norton, Overton, peter, Powles, Ray, Riseborough, Rose, Ruby, Secker, Sharpe, small, Southgate, Sue, Sydney, Tanya, Trudy, Valda, Wilkinson, wine, Wine Experts, working

Magazine History for Cawston Parish Group

Magazine History - January 1967 saw the first Magazine which was for the then Cawston group for....

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Tags: Blickling, Brandiston, Claude, Corke, Corpusty, Doug, Felthorpe, group, Haveringland, Ingworth, magazine, Oulton, Parish, Revd, Rutter, Saxthorpe, Stallard

Information about our village including the lunch club which started/monthly activity in 2015 at the village hall. the parish plan, defibrillators, andplaying field etc.... Click on files for more infomation & to view full screen....

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Telephone Lead

Lead as used at the Old Telephone Exchange at Back Lane....

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Tags: back, exchange, Lane, lead, Lily, Monro-Oakley, telephone

George Chapman

Employment letter 1904 for George Chapman....

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Tags: 1904, Chapman, employment, George, Ivy, Lake, letter

Cawston 1912 - 1920 Remembered by Ivy Lake

As remembered by Ivy Lake 1912 to 1920....

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Tags: 1912, 1920, Ivy, Lake, remembered

Ivy Lake

A few years ago Ivy wrote down a few of her memories....

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Tags: Ivy, Lake, Rayner, school, Swannington

Walter Frederick Carman

He joined the Royal Navy when he was 15 years old.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: Ajax, ashes, Carman, Frederick, HMS, scattered, sea, Walter

Dewing and Spooner by Peggy Dewing

Herbert John Spooner with horses/Imperial Service Medal presented to Arthur Dewing & School Memories by Peggy and Pam....

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Tags: Arthur, Dewing, Herbert, Imperial, John, medal, memories, Pam, Peggy, school, service, shreeve, Spooner, Thomas

Smugglers

Smuggling was very common in around the 1800's.
see file 1: Smugglers: An Affray at Cawston & Smugglers and file 2: An Unhappy Christmas and relation links below....

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Tags: Able, affray, Jeremiah, John, Kett, smuggler, smugglers, smuggling

Slate Board and Pencil

In the nineteenth century nearly every school were writing on slate ....

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Tags: board, cloth, frame, Ivan, pencils, Purdy, school, slate, sponge, wooden

Bicycle Lamps

Oil powered bicycle lamps started in the late 1800's.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: acetylene, bicycle, calcium, carbine, dynamo, gas, lamps, paraffin

Corke and Howard

Callander given details of business ....

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Tags: 1893, 1894, boots, callander, clothes, Corke, draper, Edward, Fanny, grocer, Harriet, Howard, provision, shoes, spirits, wines

Barclays Bank Ltd

Barclays Bank Ltd in the High Street - 1960's....

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Tags: 1960s, bank, Barclays

Rev Thomas Bowman

The Rev Thomas Bowman, the Vicar of Martham on his retirement in 1791 published a book called Caustoniana: or Twelve Discourses addressed to the inhabitants of the parish of Cawston which is not a easy read. Rev Bowman set up a mission in Cawston…

Tags: Addison, Baker, Bowman, Leonard, Rev, Richard, Thomas, Vicar

National Service Guide Book 1939

A guide to the ways in which a service could be given to our country....

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Tags: 1939, book, guide, national, service

Volunteers Recognitions

The Parish Council volunteers recognition evenings are normally held in May of each year and are organised by Mrs Theresa Carman andCouncillors. Click on File to view full screen....

Tags: Council, Parish, recognition, Stephanie Spencer, Theresa Carman, volunteers

Tour of Britain Cycle Race 2015

Twenty teams of riders from all over the world descended on Norfolk for the Norfolk-Suffolk stage for the tour of Britain Cycle Race, sponsored nationally by Aviva. This was stage 7 of the 8 stage tour starting at Fakenham racecourse to Ipswich,…

Tags: 2015, Britain, cycle, events, race, Tour

Manor Water Tower

The water tower was built to provide fresh water to the Manor in 1897.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: David, Forster, Manor, tower, water

Rations book.

Rations A Very Peculiar History With no added butter by David Arscott....

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Tags: book, percullia, Rations, ww11

Fly Spray

Pesticide Manual Spray mainly intented for fly killing.... Click on file to view full screen....

Tags: ESSO, Flit, fly, killing, pesticide, spray, sprayer

Cawston Remembered 1940's by Peggy Payne

This is some history of Cawston from notes of a speech given by Peggy Payne as she remembered Cawston in the 1940's....

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Tags: 1940s, memories, memory, Payne, Peggy, remembered, remembers

S.G.C. Lee - Builder and Undertaker.

The business was owned by Mr S.G.C. Lee, known as Seppe....

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Tags: builder, Lee, Oak House, Seppe, undertaker

Mincer

Kitchen appliance....

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Tags: appliance, kitchen, meat, Mincer

Gin Trap

A mechanical trap consisting of a pair of jaws....

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Tags: Gin, rabbits, rats, Trap

School Trip House to Commons 1954

House of Commons visit 1954....

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Tags: 1954, Alfred Easton, commons, house, Jimmy James, John Tuddenham, Monica Tubby, Pauline Lee, Peter Burgess, Peter Meaney, Ray Whall, Robin Cook, Rodney Neale, school, Sir Frank Medlicott mp, Taffy Jones, teachers, visit

19th Century Cawston

Many of the cottages and farm houses in Cawston during the late 19th century dated back to the 17th and 18th century when the housing construction was simple....

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Tags: 19th Century, Cawston, construction, cottages, housing, washing day