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Down Memory Lane Early 1900's by Stanley Oakes
Written by the late Mr Stanley Oakes in 2002....
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Telephone Lead
Lead as used at the Old Telephone Exchange at Back Lane....
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Business History: Jones - Eastgate
Jones had the Old Farm at the Friendship Lane, Eastgate, Cawston who must have had a dairy, file include photo of bottle tops....
The telephone No read Cawston 81.
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The telephone No read Cawston 81.
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Fred Airie, Eastgate - "Knackerman"
Dead, Dying, and Injured farm animals including horses were collected by the Knackerman, a Slaughter House which was used for this purpose was at the rear of Perrys Lane Farm. Eastgate....
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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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Photos and Video from above
Photos and Video from above including photos from church tower.
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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…
New Street.
New street leading to Church Lane and Ames Court - Named after the Rev Ames and famiy and Back Lane.
New Street From Memory Lane Early 1900’s by Stanley Oakes.
New Street - early 1900's: On the right coming from the Aylsham Road was Marshall…
Eastgate
For more info see Files:
File 1/ Eastgate Photos....
File 2/ Life at the Ratcatchers Row. Eastgate by Michael Yaxley....
File 3/ Rough Guide Map....
Roads Info:
Rodwell Corner:Major Hubert Rodwelllived here.
Easton Way: Alfred Eastonran Easton…
Back Lane
Photo: Back Lane, Norwich & Brandiston Road Early 1960’s
Photo taken from Church Tower.
Snippets from Cawston’s Past:
Back Lane, Cawston - There is an interesting theory concerning this stout name. It is that the back lane was the division…
Photo taken from Church Tower.
Snippets from Cawston’s Past:
Back Lane, Cawston - There is an interesting theory concerning this stout name. It is that the back lane was the division…
Booton Road/Goose Pie Lane
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.
At that time…
Aylsham Road:
The Road from Cawston to Aylsham, the B1145:
Leaving Cawston. The first right is Cooks Hill and was originally known as Stocks Hill, the stocks were in this area, probably on the site of the new houses built in 2001 opposite the Post Office, joining…