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Ketts Oak Tree

Permission given to plant an Oak Tree in Churchyard....

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Tags: churchyard, Council, David, Kett, Parish, permission, Stallard Reverend, tree

Poems by local writers

Tags: Kett, Look Yew Up, Norfolk dialect, poames, Poem, poems, poetry, Stackwood

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

Church Kneelers

Stitch work session for Church Kneelers, Kneeling Boerds made by local builder....

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Tags: Berge, Berry, Boag, boards, Carter, Church, Dorathy, Hopper, Jean, Jennifer, John, Joyce, June, Kett, King, kneelers, kneeling, Margaret, Mary, Michael, Mirian, Moorhouse, Nita, Rachel, Rounce, White

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…

Tags: Asquith, dialect, headmaster, John, Kett, Norfolk, school

Changes Over 50 Years 1948 - 1998

Fifty years ago, in 1948, Cawston was a self-contained village; everything you wanted or needed was here....

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Tags: 1948, 1998, 50years, Briggs, businesses, Carman, changes, Chris, Cook, cyclopaedia, houses, inns, Ivan, Kett, Knowles, pears, public, Purdy, shop, shops, Trudie, Wilkinson

Changing Scenes

Changing Scenes 1950s - My word - hasn't the place changed!" This was the remark made recently by someone visiting....

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Tags: 1950s, changing, John, Kett, scenes

Youth Club

Photos & History....

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Tags: 1950s, 1999, Allen, Arthurton, Audrey, ball, Banham, Barry, Black, Bob, Broadland, Carly, challenge, Club, Cook, Cousins, Daniel, Darren, Dewing, Fellows, Godfrey, Hayley, Jenny, Joe, John, Kett, Kevin, Lee, Luke, MacDonald, Mace, Mary, Mathrew, McCoan, Michaela, Molly, Neal, Oliver, Pamelas, Peggy, Phillip, pop, Rene, Robert, sayce, shreeve, Spooner, Steele, Sylvia, Tracey, Tubby, Waby, Walton, Whall, William, Wilson, Woodhouse, Wren, youth, Yvonne

Jimmy Payne - Church Farm

ROBERT JAMES PAYNE, the seventh in a family of nine children, was born at Wood Dalling 82 years ago, and has been known in Cawston and the surrounding area as a friendly, quick-witted and efficient farmer....

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Tags: arch, Beryl, Booton, Brian, Brown, Church, David, farm, field, Gaskin, hay, Homestead, Howard, James, jimmy, John, Kett, Lee, Marshall, Micky, Ocky, Payne, Peggy, photos, ploughing, Richard, road, Robert, Southgate, stacks, straw, tractor, weddings

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

Church - St Agnes.

The Church of St. Agnes' with its tower (with the exception of the north aisle built by Robert Oxburgh) was built by Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and his wife Catherine the daughter of Hugh, Earl of Stafford.... Click on files to view…

Tags: Addison, Agnes, Ames, Baker, bell, bells, box, Bradburne, Browne, Bulwer, case, Cawston, chalice, choir, choirs, Church, clock, Cook, de la Pole, eagle, Farnham, fumigating, fumigation, glass, guilds, hammerbeam, history, Howard, industry, John, Kett, Kevin, King, lectern, Marsh, Mary, Maude, Mayhew, Michael.Yaxley, Noel, organ, organists, Oxburgh, Parish, photos, poor, record, Rectors, rectory, Robert, role, rood, roof, Rutter, screen, st, St.Agnes, stained, Stallard, Sylvia, weaving, window, windows, woolen

Cawston Heath (See File 2 for Heath Guide and Map inc History)

This lovely area of heathland to the east of Cawston might be considered to have changed little over the centuries. This may be true in some respects, for the birch trees, gorse, and heather continue in their beauty, but our ancestors of the First…

Tags: allotment, David, Denny, Dew, Easton, guide, heath, Ivan, John, Kett, map, money, need, Nunn, pond, poor, Purdy, range, relief, rifle, trust, Vic

Sygate/Southgate

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…

Tags: Beerhouse, bird, birds, Chapman, farm, George, Gerald Chapman, hamlet, Heydon, John, Kett, Lane, map, mills, road, Southgate, Sygate, William

Schools/Education

According to Mr Sam Hall of Peacock Cottages who told Mr Dennis W. Easton he went to the first school in Cawston which was in the the first house in Church Lane.... Click on files to view full sceen for history for.... 1/Education/Schools 2/Moving…

Tags: Asquith, bell, Brownies, Colin, Desmond, Douglas, education, Fuller, guides, headmaster, Howard, John, Kett, Margaret, Marsham, new, Norman, old, Overton, peter, Ray, retire, school, schools, seat, Tuthill, Whall, Woodhouse

Memories of Cawston

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…

Tags: 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, Agnes, Alfred, Bill, brain, Brownsell, Buster, Christmas, Church, Dack, Dennis, Douglas, Eastgate, Easton, Froster, Hamley, heath, Holly, inn, Ivy, John, Kett, Lake, long, memories, Michael, mistletoe, Oakes, peter, plough, Ratcatchers, Ronnie, Sampson, Sid, st, Stanley, Sygate, Thrower, tree, Yaxley

War Times WW1/11 Memories/Diaries inc VE Day

War Times Memories and Diaries By: See Files on right and as following:- 1/Fifty Years On by John Kett 2/Thoughts of a Wartime childhood by Robert Sonny Dewing 3/School War Times Notes 4/Second World War by Bill Sampson 5/Another Place &…

Tags: 1945, army, atomic, Bill, Billy, bomb, boy, Carman, Churchill, Dennis, Dewing, Douglas, Douglass, Eric, Felicite, Gordon, Hamley, Harding, Hiroshima, Hutton, Jack, John, Kett, little, memories, monsey, mother, notes, Riley, Robert, Royal, Sampson, service, Sonny, thoughts, times, VE Day, Victory in Europe, Walter, war, wartimes, Wilkins, ww11

Tags: 1977, Andrews, Bailey, Beryl, Bob, Booton, Cawston, Cawston name, Church, Clifford, close, Deeley, Doe, Fred, Howard, Jean, John, Jones, 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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